Our signature event will look a little different this year! The Innovation Challenge will be an entrepreneurial game that challenges participants to develop a solution to a current societal problem such as sustainability or big data. Even better, teams will have a chance to pitch their idea to 3-4 expert judges. Students can sign up as a team of 4 or on their own and will get a chance to learn more about how to further your entrepreneurial career through our CFE Fellowship Programs (ELP, TechLab at Mcity, and TechLab Climate Change). 

We can’t promise it’ll be easy, but it’ll be one of the most fun recruitment events of the season!

Innovation Challenge | Virtual | 9/30 |4:30-7:30 p.m. | RSVP here to receive the Zoom link

This is your opportunity to ask TechLab staff and instructors anything and everything! During this info session, we’ll go deeper into program specifics and have you leave with a better understanding of how TechLab Climate Change and TechLab at Mcity can help you with your entrepreneurial career goals.

TechLab Programs Info Session | Virtual | 10/8 | 4:30 – 6 p.m. | RSVP here to receive the Zoom link

Join us for an event that features a panel of four or five of our many fierce and determined female fellowship students as they talk about their entrepreneurial paths at U-M and how the fellowship programs were the needed advantage for making them stand out among the crowd. Following the panel, we will have an interactive consulting session with fellowship women working on cool ventures/projects.

Women in ENTRepreneurship Panel | Virtual | 9/24 | 5-6:30 p.m. | RSVP here to receive the Zoom link

ADASTEC (San Francisco, USA and Istanbul, Turkey) – ADASTEC delivers the most advanced Level 4 automation platform for full-size buses and coaches, designed for large scale public transport along predefined routes on public roads. This project is working on the transit platforms that will deliver the future of widely available, autonomous, public transportation in the US.

Deepen AI (Santa Clara, USA) – Deepen AI provides tools and services for data curation, labeling, and validation. Deepen’s software suite leverages artificial intelligence to help autonomous systems reliably understand the world down to the pixel or point level, and safely interact with it. This cohort’s project will have students working to bridge the gap between real world vehicles’ sensor data and simulated scenarios.

DeepMap (Palo Alto, USA, Beijing and Guangzhou, China) – Founded by veterans of Google Maps and Apple Maps, DeepMap is the leading company building HD mapping capabilities for autonomous vehicles, developing maps within centimeter-level accuracy. The student team will lead the creation of HD maps of Mcity, Ann Arbor, and potentially other areas of Michigan. Tasks will include data collection, data processing, and localization and change detection.

Point One Navigation (San Francisco, USA) – Point One Navigation provides Precise Location as a Service, specifically tailored for autonomous systems including self driving vehicles, commercial drones and other robotic applications where robust and high integrity localization is required. This semester the student team will focus on development of a map database that can be queried in real-time by AVs in the field, particularly fleet services. These maps will include 3D features and will also be updated by vehicles on the road.

Seoul Robotics (Seoul, South Korea and Ann Arbor, USA) – Seoul Robotics builds advanced Lidar perception software powered by deep learning for CAV’s and smart infrastructure. Students will lead the development of an automated parking system utilizing Seoul Robotics core software and Lidar at Mcity and partnering with a parking infrastructure OEM.