In-person Event Postponed to 2021; Join us for our Virtual Speaker Series
Duke I&E Transform
Duke Alumni Founders Event
Hosted by Duke I&E and DukeGEN
Engage. Share. Transform. Duke’s top alumni startup founders and executives come together in an interactive forum of bold discussion and transformative action. Through honest facilitated conversations and dynamic workshops, participants power their professional growth and forge meaningful relationships across industries and disciplines, creating an authentic and enduring community.
Duke I&E Transform is an invite-only event.
WHY ATTEND?
I&E Transform - not your average entrepreneurship event
Have a transformational experience
The 2019 Duke Transform event had a Net Promoter Score over 90!
Learning opportunities are tailored to your background, providing highest relevancy to your career. But they're also designed to facilitate evolution beyond your industry and interests, guiding you to shift your mindset and level up your skills.
Meet awesome people
Continue the conversation
Transformation doesn't stop once this event has ended. We'll lead your cohort in building upon your conversations to extend your collective growth.
THE COMMUNITY
Executives
of high-growth startups
Duke alumni executives who are actively part of the management teams of high-growth startups.
Founders
of high-growth startups
Duke alumni founders who are actively running their high-growth startups.
Innovators
for high-growth startups
Duke alumni innovators who are seeking the latest startups, tools, and technologies.
DUKE ENTREPRENEURSHIP AT-A-GLANCE
100+
Duke-founded companies we are tracking that have raised >$1M or have cumulative revenues of >$1M
$200M+
Funding raised by Duke alums in 2018
$2M+
Funding raised by Duke students and just-graduated founders in 2018
150+
Duke alumni venture capitalists and angel investors that are actively investing
400+
Alumni Entrepreneurial Mentors on the Duke I&E Alumni Advisory Network
500+
Alumni judges in the annual Duke Startup Challenge
300
Duke alumni entrepreneurship events since 2008, hosted by DukeGEN and Duke I&E.
3
New Duke unicorns ($1 Billion) in 2018 (Precision Biosciences, Airtable, Plaid)
ORGANIZERS
DukeGEN
Duke Global Entrepreneurship Network
Creating debate, dialogue, and productive connections through a network of 8,000+ Duke entrepreneurs and 30+ events per year.
Duke I&E
Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative
Changing the world through entrepreneurial action.
SOME OF LAST YEAR'S WORKSHOP LEADERS
Learn from fellow Duke alumni.
Transform is about workshops and active participation, not sitting in a lecture.
More workshop leaders are being added every week.
David Cummings
Entrepreneur
David is passionate about tech startups and entrepreneurship. He’s the co-founder of the Atlanta Tech Village (103,000 sq ft tech entrepreneurship center),
Pardot (Inc. 500, sold to ExactTarget/Salesforce.com), Hannon Hill (Inc. 500), Rigor (Inc.500), SalesLoft (raised over $75M in capital), Terminus (raised over $25M in capital), and several more. After selling Pardot, he was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year winner and one of the 100 Most Influential Atlantans by the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
David is a member of YPO Southern 7, Atlanta Rotary, on the board of the Metro Atlanta Chamber, and on the board of the Buckhead Coalition. A native of Tallahassee, Florida, David earned a bachelor of science degree in economics from Duke University and an honorary doctorate from Mercer University. David blogs regularly at DavidCummings.org and tweets at @davidcummings.
Ivonna Dumanyan
Co-founder of Fathom AI
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Suhani Jalota
Founder of Myna Mahila Foundation
Myna Mahila Foundation is a charity which empowers women in Mumbai’s urban slums, by providing them with a trusted network, where they are supported professionally and personally to help them grow as individuals and businesswomen. Myna offers women from these communities stable employment close to their homes, and breaks taboos around menstrual hygiene by offering women access to low cost sanitary pads and accurate information at their doorstep.
Providing mothers in the community with these products helps them equip their daughters to stay in school. The pads are manufactured and distributed by women from these communities. The charity also empowers its staff through training in women's health, English, Math, and life skills such as self-defense.
Jeff Muti
Co-founder and Board President, The Arthur Project
The Arthur Project builds economic and social mobility for at-risk youth through unprecedented levels of intensive, professional mentoring, project-based civic engagement, and critical life skills development.
The Arthur Project (TAP) envisions a world where every child has a caring adult engaged in their lives to champion their most critical needs. TAP takes a unique approach to mentoring, providing full-time, trained and supervised mentors to at-risk children for the entire duration of their middle school years. TAP’s approach to mentoring was born out of its co-founder, Liz Murray’s personal change in life trajectory from homeless to Harvard (a journey commemorated in Liz’s memoir and the original Lifetime Television film documenting her story).
PLANNING COMMITTEE
T. Reid Lewis
Planning Committee
DukeGEN Co-chair and Co-founder
Co-Founder & Senior Vice President at Proxidyne
Chris Wolfington
REGISTER
Transform is an invite-only event
To keep conversations personal and impactful, attendance is capped at 150
$440 - Registration
$390 - Early Bird Registration (Register before March 1, 2020)
LAST YEAR'S AGENDA
Tue, April 9, 2019
4:00PM TO 5:00PM
Registration and Networking Happy Hour (Room 350)
5:00PM TO 5:50PM
Welcome Remarks / Define Goals (Room 360)
Opening Speakers
5:50PM TO 7:15PM
Team Session #1 Facilitated by Duke Transform Coach Mia Wise (Room 360)
(This session is a technology-free zone*)
7:15PM TO 8:30PM
Networking Dinner and Share with Your Team (Room 350)
* Technology-free zone means no phones, laptops, or iPads. Pads of paper and pens are provided for note taking. If you have an emergency call or text, please step outside of the session to take it.
Wed, April 10, 2019
8:30AM TO 9:00AM
Continental Breakfast (Room 350)
9:00AM TO 10:45AM
Opening Comments (Room 360)
Team Session #2 Facilitated by Coaches
(Technology-free zone)
10:45AM TO 11:00AM
Break
11:00AM TO 11:50AM
Breakout Sessions #1
(Technology-free zone)
11:50AM TO 12:00PM
Break
12:00PM TO 1:00PM
Networking Lunch (open seating) and Give & Take Exercise
1:00PM TO 1:50PM
Breakout Sessions #2
(Technology-free zone)
1:50PM TO 2:00PM
Break
2:00PM TO 2:50PM
Breakout Sessions #3
(Technology-free zone)
2:50PM TO 3:00PM
Break
3:00PM TO 4:50PM
In the Boardroom: Open Thoughts From Accomplished CEO’s, VCs, and Executives.
(Technology-free zone; off the record and confidential)
4:50PM TO 5:00PM
Break
5:00PM TO 6:00PM
Team Session #3
(Technology-free zone; exceptions made for scheduling follow-up plans and exchanging contact info)
6:00PM TO 6:45PM
Networking Dinner (open seating)
6:45PM TO 8:00PM
Closing Workshop: Coach Cutcliffe
(Technology-free zone; exceptions made for snapping a photo of Coach Cut!)
8:00PM
Closing Remarks & End of Official Event
(Technology-free zone)
8:30PM
Informal Afterparty
6th Floor Rooftop Bar, The Durham Hotel
Thu, April 11, 2019
Optional Day
Walk around downtown Durham with us and see how the city has been transformed. We will visit three of the amazing startups and co-working spaces that have taken root. In addition, this is your chance to mentor a student and help the student transform. If you are available to join us, please do!
9:00AM TO 10:00AM
Student Mentor Matching Breakfast & Tour of Teamworks with Duke co-founders Zach Maurides and Mitch Heath
Stop #1 - Teamworks (122 East Parrish Street)
"Teamworks is the leading athlete engagement platform, built by athletes, for athletes. Our software and app make everything easier for elite athletic teams – from scheduling and communication, to sharing files and managing travel. We help more than 2,000 Division I and professional teams connect and collaborate so they can focus on winning."
Teamworks recently raised a $15.3 million series B round and was featured in March 2019 in Inc. Magazine.
10:00AM TO 10:30AM
Stop #2 - One City Center (110 Corcoran Street)
Continue the discussion with your student mentee while walking.
We will walk about half a block to see the brand new 27-story One City Center building, built by Duke alum Greg Hills (Austin Lawrence Partners). We'll head to the 3rd floor and see the WeWork offices.
This building was completed in late 2018.
Austin Lawrence Partners is also the refurbished Unscripted Hotel in partnership with Dream Hotels.
10:30AM TO 11:00AM
Stop #3 - American Tobacco Campus (300 Blackwell Street)
Continue the discussion with your student mentee while walking.
Join us to visit American Tobacco Campus which is a division of Capital Broadcasting Corporation. Capital Broadcasting Corporation deserves credit for transforming downtown Durham including the creation of Durham Bulls Athletic Park in 1995, the purchase of the American Tobacco Campus in 2001 and opening in 2004. Their co-working space, American Underground, launched in 2010 in the basement of American Tobacco Campus and quickly became the epicenter of startup activity in Durham. They've expanded and to multiple buildings including American Underground @ Main, which opened in 2013.
VENUES
The Bullpen
Events will take place at the Duke I&E offices known as the "Bullpen" in downtown Durham.
Note: There is also a restaurant known as "The Bullpen," so be sure to use the address below when putting the information into your GPS.
Imperial Building
215 Morris Street, Suite 300
Durham, NC 27701
Click here for a map.
Parking
Free parking is available at the Durham ID Parking Deck located directly across the Imperial Building at 325 Roney Street, Durham, NC 27701.
Click here for a map.
Please make sure to pick up your parking vouchers at the front desk.
Lodging
Participants are invited to stay at the downtown Durham boutique hotel, 21c Museum Hotel for a special rate of $179.
Call the hotel and ask for the DukeTransform rate. Available on a first come, first serve basis
CONTACT US
Let us know what questions you have!
Duke University Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative