SISU: The Innovation Institute at NMU

PEAK25 Speakers, Programming Announced | Northern Today Innovate Marquette SmartZone and SISU: The Innovation Institute at Northern Michigan University have announced the keynote speakers and programming for PeakK25, a conference elevating breakthroughs in research, entrepreneurship and collaboration. The event is free and open to the public, and will ta...

Peak25 is co-hosted by Innovate Marquette SmartZone and SISU, the Innovation Institute at NMU. The conference is also conducted in partnership with the NMU College of Business, NMU College of Graduate Studies & Research, and the SHINE Institute.

Find more information on the speakers and events schedule at www.peakconference.org/

PEAK25 Speakers, Programming Announced | Northern Today Innovate Marquette SmartZone and SISU: The Innovation Institute at Northern Michigan University have announced the keynote speakers and programming for PeakK25, a conference elevating breakthroughs in research, entrepreneurship and collaboration. The event is free and open to the public, and will ta...

Innovate Marquette SmartZone and SISU: The Innovation Institute at NMU are hosting the Peak25 Conference, a rebranded version of Innovation Week. It’s a two-day professional development conference aimed at providing networking and learning opportunities to business professionals in the U.P.

New this year is the Mini Pitch contest, where students submit a three-minute video explaining their idea for a product or business. Innovate Marquette says ideas will be judged on innovation and imagination rather than feasibility.

High school and college Mini Pitch competition coming to Peak25 Students can submit a three-minute video explaining their idea for a product or business. Innovate Marquette says ideas will be judged on innovation and imagination rather than feasibility.

Announcing Peak25- a conference hosted this winter by Innovate Marquette and SISU: The Innovation Institute at NMU!

Peak25 provides a dynamic platform to celebrate research and scholarly activity, promote entrepreneurial ventures in outdoor innovation, creative technology, and sustainable solutions, as well as encourage collaboration.

Peak25 is free and open to the public. Save the date for February 20-21.

Stay tuned- we'll be announcing our keynotes soon! For now, learn more at peakconference.org.

So excited to share what SISU has been up to - https://news.nmu.edu/nmu-partners-vcus-shift-labs-network

SISU and NMU are so excited to partner with VCU's da Vinci Institute to support and enlarge our learning community. Its a great day to be a wildcat.

NMU Partners with VCU's Shift Labs Network | Northern Today Northern Michigan University has announced a new partnership with Shift Labs Network™, an initiative spearheaded by Virginia Commonwealth University's (VCU) da Vinci Center for Innovation. The Shift Labs Network™, a Fast Company 2023 Innovation by Design award winner, is dedicated to acceleratin...

Excited to kick off day 2 of the Design Core Detroit - Detroit Design Jam! SISU is so glad to be representing Northern Michigan University and SISU: The Innovation Institute at NMU for another year as a collaborative partner of this amazing event! We are working on accessibility and mobility in the outdoor recreation space!

We will have over 60+ people creating today and I couldn’t be more excited to work with all of them!

We are proud to welcome one of our Innovation Week 2024 Keynote Speakers, Jonathan Brown.

Jonathan Brown is the Chief Sales Officer for Trend Hunter, the world's most popular trend community with 20+ million monthly viewers. In the last decade, Dubai Future Foundation, Walmart, Coca-Cola, and many other brands have called on Jonathon to maximize their innovation potential. In his day-to-day, Jonathan guides the vision of Trend Hunter, utilizing the very best corporate innovation practices he has picked up through a long career of guiding global Fortune 500 companies.

With over 75 keynotes under his belt, the through-line of his keynote work derives from his decade-long research project interviewing hundreds of thought leaders globally to uncover methods for sparking systematic innovation.

Click the link below to learn more and secure your ticket to Innovation Week 2024!

innovation-week.org

We are proud to welcome one of our Innovation Week 2024 Keynote Speakers, Scott Kuzdzal, Ph.D.

Scott Kuzdzal received a Ph.D. from the University of California at Riverside and served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where he co-founded the Center for Biomarker Discovery and Translation. Dr. Kuzdzal also has a strong medicinal and clinical chemistry background, conducting research in biomarkers for pancreatic cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, and ovarian cancer.

Dr. Kuzdzal currently serves as the Vice President of New Strategy and the Lab Director of the Amyloid MS Service Lab at Shimadzu Scientific Instruments.

Click the link below to learn more and secure your ticket to Innovation Week 2024!

https://www.innovation-week.org/