Yale Innovation Summit 2023: Announcing our Tracks & Track Leaders
The 2023 Yale Innovation Summit, Yale's biggest entrepreneurship and innovation event, will explore innovation across five distinct tracks—arts, biotech, climate, health, and tech. This year's expanded approach and theme, “Expanding Impact,” aims to reflect both the interconnected nature of innovation and the momentum of our entrepreneurial ecosystem across these areas of impact within the Yale, New Haven, and Connecticut innovation communities.
This year we are pleased to collaborate with several Yale innovation leaders to help curate the programming for each track. Each track leader is producing track-specific experiences with keynotes, panels, and other programming such as pitch contests and special performances that explore each theme and reflect the interconnected nature of innovation across these five tracks.
Arts
Overview
Yale has world-renowned programs and professional schools in arts and entertainment; New Haven has a strong arts development history and burgeoning local arts scene that is gaining a national reputation. The Summit is partnering with Midnight Oil Collective, the New Haven arts and entertainment venture studio, to expand the Summit’s impact into the arts to showcase this extraordinary potential. The Arts track will preview new modes of equitable, sustainable investment and accessible, efficient commercialization pathways to capitalize on this potential and showcase New Haven a global hub for arts and entertainment.
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Biotech
Overview
The Biotech Track features 7 panels of nearly 50 leading venture investors and pharmaceutical industry executives discussing the venture investing environment in 2023, breakthrough technologies for drug discovery, and hottest new ideas for therapies to treat cancers, rare diseases, and other disorders. Entrepreneurs will benefit from panels on how to pitch to investors and how to partner early with pharma. Investors will benefit from connecting with 60 biotech investment opportunities that will be presenting, ranging from pre-seed and seed stage to established late A, B, or C companies in the Connecticut Biotech Showcase.
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Climate
Overview
The Climate track will feature some of the most creative, clever and thoughtful Yale alumni working in climate tech and environmental innovation. Hear pitches from current student teams, and get a chance to visit Climate Haven, the new climate tech incubator that is just launching in the Elm City.
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Health
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The U.S. healthcare system faces both enormous challenges and opportunities. The Summit's healthcare track will explore three of the most pressing themes the healthcare industry faces today: home health strategy, digital mental health, and innovation in point of care. The track will feature a series of panels, pitch contest, and a keynote exploring these themes, curated and led by subject matter experts with experience as healthcare system operators, payers, investors, and entrepreneurs.
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Tech
Overview
Are you interested in learning more about what’s happening at the cutting edge of technology? Whether you’re a developer looking to learn more, an entrepreneur hoping to connect with others, or an investor looking for your next breakthrough investment, the Yale Innovation Summit Tech Track is a must-attend event. You'll hear from the head of AI and Machine Learning for Amazon, (a Yale alum!), and engage with multiple panels with speakers from world-class organizations, funds, and startups. If you’re interested in learning more about early-stage tech startups, you won’t want to miss the Tech pitch track. You’ll also meet faculty recipients of the Roberts Innovation Fund Awards, Yale’s newest fund accelerator supporting Yale SEAS faculty, and gain a better understanding of their breakthrough developments across multiple domains.
