California Entrepreneurship Educators Conference 2023
ReEngage
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After two years of being online, we are excited to announce that the Ninth Annual California Entrepreneurship Educators Conference is back in person! Join San Diego State University’s Lavin Entrepreneurship Center for three days of meaningful experiences that will transform your approach as professional educators and researchers.
The 2023 CEEC theme is ReEngage. In recent years, entrepreneurship educators and researchers have experienced unprecedented levels of change due to the Covid-19 pandemic, emerging industry 4.0 technologies, calls for a greater emphasis on sustainability and diversity, equity and inclusion. Our challenge has been to both define and adjust to a new normal environment brought on by these global trends. Such powerful forces require creative thinking and a willingness to adapt.
At 2023 CEEC: ReEngage we will bring together leading educators and researchers in our field to share best practices with our conference participants. Towards this end, we invite all interested educators, and researchers to consider submitting a proposal to participate on the conference agenda.
To Submit proposals by February 21st, 2023 click here. We are interested in sessions that will engage our conference participants to wrestle with these challenges as we think about new approaches to teaching and research in our field.
The Pre-Conference will take place on Thursday April 20th, 2023 in both Baja California and San Diego. The 2023 California Entrepreneurship Educators Conference: ReEngage will take place on Friday, April 21st and Saturday, April 22nd at San Diego State University. During the conference, participants will explore entrepreneurship education and research pedagogy methodologies and best practices.
Pre- Conference Option 1 - This year, we have organized a one of a kind innovation tour of Baja California’s Valle de Guadalupe, Mexico’s premiere wine region. During this tour, we will explore the emerging cross-border entrepreneurial community between Baja and San Diego which centers around the entertainment, IT, food, and wine industries. Participants will have a chance to meet and interact with local entrepreneurs and see how they are transforming the region into a world-class wine and craft beer destination. Registration for this tour is an extra cost and includes transportation on both sides of the border, lunch, and wine tasting. Passports will be required to cross the border. Click here to learn more about this option and register for this tour!
Pre-Conference Option 2 - Additional programming will be hosted at San Diego State University on Thursday April 20th for those not attending the Baja California tour.We are putting together programs related to our well-known ZIP Launchpad incubator facility and other pedagogical approaches used in our undergraduate and graduate programs. Click here to learn more about this option and register!
Why is this CEEC conference so special?
This is the last CEEC conference that will be hosted by Dr. Alex DeNoble. During his 40-year career at SDSU, Dr. DeNoble has taken on many roles, but he is most proud to be Executive Director of the Lavin Entrepreneurship Center. His years of dedication and service to entrepreneurship education has bolstered his reputation as an expert in the field. He has earned many awards for his leadership such as the Presidential Award and Lifetime Achievement Award from ICSB, the Justin G. Longenecker Fellow from USASBE and the Karl Vesper Entrepreneurship Pioneer Award from the Experiential Classroom Program.
Why Attend?
- Stats and Quotes from 2020 CEEC ReImagine:
- 124 out of 125 attendees would recommend
- 87.2% rated the conference as ‘very good’ or better
- “A tremendous journey of learning with renowned entrepreneurial leaders. I would love to do it again.”
- “Probably the best content of any entrepreneurship conference attended”
- “A MUST see event. Very glad that I attended this conference. So informative.”
Read more information on our website here, and for questions and interested sponsors, please email Sarah Ainsworth at [email protected] or Anna Skulteti at [email protected].
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Expert speakers on the CEEC core topics
Lois M. Shelton earned MBA and Ph.D. in Business Economics degrees from Harvard University. Her teaching experience spans the undergraduate, MBA, doctoral, and executive education levels, and includes courses in entrepreneurship, strategy, and international business. Her primary research interests include women’s, minority and immigrant entrepreneurship and firm growth. She has published in leading journals such as Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, Journal of Small Business Management, Small Business Economics, and the Strategic Management Journal. Her work has won Best Paper Awards from the Academy of Management (Entrepreneurship Division), the Diana International Research Conference, and the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE), and has garnered over 1600 Google Scholar citations.
A former business executive with nearly ten years of experience, Professor Shelton is active in the business and academic communities. She has been named a Justin G. Longenecker Fellow by USASBE. She was instrumental in the launch of the entrepreneurship program at the Nazarian College, and is a Co-Editor of the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research and a member of the Review Board for the Journal of Business Venturing. In addition to being interviewed by CBSN Los Angeles, she has served as a panelist and moderator for the Diversity and Inclusion Summitsponsored by Los Angeles Business Journal, and a guest speaker in Women’s Empowerment Speaker Seriessponsored by Green Hasson & Janks.
David Newton has consulted to over 300 emerging growth ventures since 1984. He continues to work with a wide range of blockchain, NFT, AI, and FinTech entrepreneurs while teaching innovative seminars through the Center for Executive Development at The Rady School of Management at UC-San Diego [since 2013], as well as The Oxford Management Centre, GLOMACS, alongside his own Newton Strategy and Exemplar Consulting to Collegiate Entrepreneurship programs.
Dr. Newton previously taught 6 years in the MBA program at Pepperdine, one year at UMass-Amherst, 22 years at Westmont - where he founded the entrepreneurship program in 1990 - and served as Strategic Provost for one year at King's College in New York City. He received the 2008 Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education. Formerly Contributing Editor on Growth Captial for Industry Week Growing Companies magazine [1998-2000] and Contributing Editor on Small Firm Finance for Entrepreneur magazine [2000-2005], he has published over 220 articles and authored/co-authored 12 books including the groundbreaking Entrepreneurial Ethics [1997], How To Be A Small Cap Investor [1998], Job Creation [2010], and Business Models for Entrepreneurial Ventures [2011 - Second Edition 2017].
The CEEC 2023 Podcast Series briefly shares the topics that attendees have to look forward to in this year’s California Entrepreneurship Educators Conference.
2023 California Entrepreneurship Educators Conference Call for Proposals
We are now welcoming submissions for the 2023 California Entrepreneurship Educators Conference: ReEngage! The five tracks below describe different activities that can be delivered as part of the conference program. A brief description of each track includes the expected run time and structure for activities.
As you consider your proposal(s), please review and select the submission category which is most appropriate. Duplicate submissions to multiple categories will not be considered. You may submit as many proposals as you like, however, each person is limited to a maximum of two presentation slots on the program.
Proposal submission policy: By submitting your proposal for consideration to be included in the conference program, you agree that, if accepted, at least one of the proposal authors will attend the conference in person. All proposal authors planning to attend the conference are expected to pay the conference registration fee and all other related travel expenses.
Please email Sarah Ainsworth at [email protected] or Anna Skulteti at [email protected] if you have any questions regarding submissions.
Categories for Proposals:
- Track 1 - Teaching Workshop
- A 50 minute interactive session which introduces a novel curriculum design, course design, experiential exercise, or case.
- Track 2 - Research Workshop
- A 50 minute guided discussion about a novel research methodology, designing a research agenda, or fruitful areas for future research.
- Track 3 - Teaching Lightning Round
- A 10 minute quick pitch presentation of a novel teaching topic. These submissions will be placed in a breakout session with roughly 2-3 other quick pitches.
- Track 4 - Research Lightning Round
- A 10 minute quick pitch presentation of a pre-publication developmental research project. These submissions will be placed in a breakout session with roughly 2-3 other quick pitches.
- Track 5 - Program Overview
- A 20 minute program overview presentation of a unique academic or co- curricular program. These submissions will be placed in a breakout session with other presentations.
Be a Sponsor for the California Entrepreneurship Educator Conference 2023
ReEngage with University Entrepreneurship Thought Leaders
As a leading entrepreneurship education and research conference, the 9th Annual California Entrepreneur Educators Conference is a hub for educators that are teaching and developing courses, conducting research, and building innovative co-curricular programs. 2023 CEEC: ReEngage will bring together a global network of today’s thought leaders in the field of entrepreneurship. As a sponsor, you will be able to communicate to entrepreneurship educators looking for content, software, simulators, and more.
As a sponsor, your organization could be featured on the CEEC section of our website, in our targeted email marketing, and social media campaigns depending on what sponsorship tier you select.
Join us in person for three days of sessions and tours led by thought leaders in our field. We are offering five levels of sponsorship: Platinum, Gold, Silver, Baja Experience and Bronze.
2023 California Entrepreneurship Educators Conference Hotel Accommodation
The recommended hotels with convenient access to the San Diego State Campus are Mission Valley Marriott, Courtyard San Diego Mission Valley and SpringHill Suites San Diego Mission Valley. We have prearranged a special rate for conference attendees. The hotels are offering this special rate to a limited number of conference attendees and is good until the rooms are booked at rate. The Courtyard is available to book until April 1st, 2023 and SpringHill Suites is available to book until April 5th, 2023. However, we encourage you to book your hotel rooms as early as possible.
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We hope you join us for one of our incredible pre-conference options for the 9th annual California Entrepreneurship Educators Conference, the Baja Experience. During this incredible day-long trip, we will explore the entrepreneurship scene in Mexico, hear the entrepreneurial journeys of several accomplished speakers, enjoy wine tastings/pairings at incredible family-owned wineries and eat amazing food on the waterfront as we enjoy a beautiful sunset.
We will start the day by meeting at San Diego State University (further details will be provided to attendees upon registration), where we will board a sprint van and head to cross the border (participants will need to have their passports with them).
Our first stop will be at the top of a beautiful highrise in Tijuana called “Club de Empresarios” (“Entrepreneur’s Club”) where we will have a light breakfast and hear from several accomplished entrepreneurs based in Mexico. From there, we will go to our first winery, “La Carodilla” where we will enjoy an amazing wine tasting in the beautiful wine country. Then, we will enjoy lunch and wine pairings at a second incredible winery, “Solar Fortun”, owned and operated by a successful husband and wife team of entrepreneurs. Finally, we will end the day at “Splash” a beautiful, beachfront restaurant where we will all watch the sunset and enjoy drinks and food until we board the bus and return back to San Diego later that evening.
We hope you join us for this amazing, cross-border experience followed up by two days of enriching conferencing on-campus on the beautiful San Diego State University Alumni Center.
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Showcase of Model University Accelerator Program
Join us for our 9th annual California Entrepreneurship Educators Conference, a pre-conference learning session. This event will take place on April 20th, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at San Diego State University’s Lavin Entrepreneurship Center and will include supplemental workshops to your conference experience.
One of the workshops will be hosted by Cathy Pucher, Executive Director and creative designer of SDSU's Zahn Innovation Platform Launchpad. The ZIP Launchpad is an award-winning on-campus incubator program that provides all SDSU students, staff, faculty, and researchers with the opportunity to launch a startup from an early-stage idea. In this workshop, she will give an overview of the ZIP Launchpad, hold a Q&A session, and offer a hands-on rapid prototyping exercise using TinkerCAD for the purpose of 3D modeling/printing.
There will also be a workshop on digital entrepreneurship, headed by Dr. Kaveh Abhari. Abari is an associate professor of information systems in the Fowler College of Business at San Diego State University. Digital entrepreneurship is creating, communicating, delivering, and capturing values with digital technology. This workshop will focus on defining and modeling digital entrepreneurship and digital education and then demonstrating how to design a digital entrepreneurship course. With hands-on learning and help from Professor Abhari, this will be an experience you don’t want to miss.
Following these programs there will be a reception in the courtyard that houses the entrepreneurship center. If you want to learn how to run an award-winning on-campus incubator program and more about digital entrepreneurship, please join us for a wonderful start to the conference and a great opening to the weekend.
To cover our costs of hosting this event, there is a $25 registration fee in addition to the $395 registration fee for the California Entrepreneurship Educators Conference.
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