Get ready for the biggest, baddest, most entrepreneurialist event EVER! 

The 2010 E* Society Kick-Off Event

When: Thursday, October 7th

Where: The Forum at Observatory Hill Dining Commons

Why: Meet the most passionate and exciting people in all of Charlottesville

Help us help you. We know what you need. Join us as Mark Crowell speaks to his constituents: the innovators, entrepreneurs, and business leaders of the University of Virginia. What's that? You don't know Mark? He is the newly appinted Czar of Everything You Want Your Life to Be. More officially, he is known as the Executive Director and Associate Vice President for Innovation Partnerships and Commercialization at the University of Virginia's Office of Research. You have all been making so many waves, that the University finally decided that they needed to appoint someone to help us turn this town into the next SIlicon Valley. Mark has helped over a hundred start-ups get off the ground. He knows how we can cross the chasm from a place where business students go to work on Wall Street and scientists and engineers burrow in laboratories to a place where business students stay in town and scientists and engineers burrow in mountains of greenbacks.

You'll also meet this year's E* Leaders (we've grown substantially) and hear what we have in store for this town. We are going to build bridges over every obstacle and doorways in front of every wall that prevents you from meeting your future business partner. Need ideas? Need expertise? It is all right in front of us. We just need to get together. We're even going to high schools to let our future leaders know what success really looks like: creating jobs and providing value to the people.

Immediately following the speakers, there will be food, there will be name tags, there will be opportunity. If ten new ventures aren't conceived on this night, then we will all have failed. Help us make this happen. Help us help you.