Take advantage of the many business competitions and professional conferences available to you while you are a student at the Graduate School of Management, both hosted at Gallagher Hall and around the country.

Business Competitions:

• Tulane Business Plan Competition. Application Deadline Sunday, January 22, 2012
• UC Davis Interdisciplinary Graduate and Professional Symposium. Application Deadline Wednesday, February 1, 2012
• New Venture Championship. Intent to Compete/Qualifying Executive Summary Deadline February 13, 2012
• Dell Social Innovation Challenge. Project pages must be submitted by February 13, 2012
• The Graduate School of Management’s Big Bang! Business Plan Competition Team Registration by February 15, 2012. Awards Ceremony: May 24th, UC Davis.
• Rice Business Plan Competition. Application Deadline February 17, 2012
• Call For Papers: Reducing Urban Poverty. Paper Competition/Policy Workshop/Publication. Abstracts due February 20, 2012
• Innovate for Healthcare Challenge. Applications due February 24, 2012
• Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship. Applications due March 1, 2012

Professional Conferences:

• UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business’ Healthcare Conference. February 24, 2012
• 2012 Berkeley Finance Conference: Opportunities in Volatile Times. March 9, 2012
• Silicon Valley Manufacturing and Technology Summit. Wednesday, March 21, 2012
• 2012 Reaching Out Leadership Summit. Saturday, April 13-14, 2012 Chicago, IL
• Marketing 360 Exchange West Coast. March 4-6, 2012 San Francisco, CA
• Predictive Analytics World. March 4-10, 2012 San Francisco, CA
• Text Analytics World. March 6-7, 2012 San Francisco, CA
• Cleantech Forum. March 26-28, 2012 San Francisco, CA
• 2012 National Venture Capital Association Annual Meeting. April 24-25, 2012 Santa Clara, CA
• Being Globally Responsible Conference. July 2, 2012
• Silicon Valley Innovation Summit 2012. July 25-26, 2012 Santa Clara, CA
• Opportunity Green Business Conference. November 8-9, 2012 Los Angeles, CA