Andy Cornwell is a return guest on the show and he is the Associate Director of the Case-Coulter Translational Research Partnership (CCTRP) in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University. He is currently putting together the second Cleveland Neuro Design Entrepreneurs Workshop. The deadline to submit is June 30th.

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Top 3 Takeaways:

• "The application deadline is June 30th and applications are open now. The workshop itself is September 22nd to 25th in-person here in Cleveland and the workshop is free to students. We provide you with all of the lodging and meals while you're here. We ask you to cover travel costs, but if that's a burden and you could not attend because of that, we have some limited support for travel as well"

• "Ripple hired five people that they met at the workshop. They provided a lot of expertise and mentorship to the teams and through that process, we were able to basically conduct a three-day-long live action interview and made some offers to candidates. I think they ended up hiring five people out of that program. And some of our other sponsors also made hires out of the program as well."

• "Innovation is not a Eureka moment. It's not something that just happens to people. It's a discipline that can be learned. And the discipline of innovation is what the workshop is about."

0:45 Do you want to talk about the Entrepreneur Workshop?

2:30 "How's the second one gonna be different?"

4:45 "Were there any companies formed?"

5:30 Iris Biomedical ad sponsorship 

6:15 "Who should sign up?"

8:15 Did headhunters come to hire any participants?

9:30 "What's the intention of this workshop?"

12:30 Is this workshop something that can help even those not looking to found a company?

15:30 "What's the main thing that people should learn, even if they don't take go to the workshop?"

17:00 "Is there anything that we didn't talk about that you wanted to mention?"