There’s quite the smorgasbord of events this Thursday and Friday. I encourage you to take a look at them all and hopefully you’ll be able to make it to one.

Thursday, 6 p.m. – Make It Happen – Student Quick Pitch Competition

Memorial Stadium – West Stadium Club (Stadium Drive and T Street), Lincoln

Competitor sign-in is from 5 to 5:45 p.m. Pitches begin at 6 p.m.

Each presenter will have three minutes to engage and enlighten the judges. There will be an additional three minutes to answer one question from the judging panel. Following the selection of the winner from their track (there will be six tracks); the judges will spend a few minutes providing feedback to the group as a whole. Cash prizes will be awarded to the winner of each track.

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This is truly an opportunity to embrace and expand the entrepreneurial spirit that is alive and well in Nebraska. Entrepreneurship education can lay the ground work, but it is the interaction and the examples set by the community that will help to grow the next generation of entrepreneurs.

Find more information at cba.unl.edu/outreach/ent/quickpitch

Thursday, 6:30 p.m. – Cornstalks

Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce building (1301 Harney St), Omaha

Drinks and snacks will be served at 6:30 followed by the formal program at 7:30 p.m.

Matt Galligan, CEO and co-founder of SimpleGeo will be our guest speaker for the night. SimpleGeo is based out of Boulder, Colorado and provides comprehensive solutions to enable location-based services in mobile, web and desktop applications. Matt previously founded Socialthing, a company that was chosen to be part of the inaugural year of TechStars. Socialthing.com went into private beta in March, 2008 at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. The company was acquired five months later by AOL.

Friday, 7:30 a.m. – AIM Institute’s Technology Breakfast Seminars

Gallup Riverfront Campus (1001 Gallup Drive), Omaha

Topic: Mobile Application Development Trends & The Business Community

Matt Galligan, CEO and co-founder of SimpleGeo, will teach attendees how businesses can define efforts to reach the growing demographic of people using smart phones to not only communicate, but to shop, review products and more.

Find more information and registration at guest.cvent.com/EVENTS.

Friday, 8 a.m. – Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship

Holiday Inn Lincoln–Downtown (141 N. 9th Street)

Agenda:

• 8:00 a.m. – Registration, Refreshments and Networking
• 8:45 a.m. – Opening Session
• 9:15 a.m. – Session I: Family Business in Nebraska – Legacies of Success
• 10:45 a.m. – Session II: The Big Picture
• 11:30 a.m. – Session III: Entrepreneurship: A Student’s Perspective
• 12:30 p.m. – Luncheon and Recognition of Awards
• 2:00 p.m. – Breakout Sessions: Where do we go now?
• 3:30 p.m. – Adjourn – Have a great weekend!

The Summit is free to attend but pre-registration is required and seating is limited. Find more information and registration at NebraskaEntrepreneur.com (and look for a full launch of this website later this week).

Friday, 8 a.m. – Social Impact Forum Omaha

Creighton University‘s Harper Center (602 N. 20th St)

We are a consortium of change makers, passionate and forward thinking. Our mission is straight-forward—empower people to positively impact their world. Our steering committee features a broad base of talent with representatives from more than a dozen proactive organizations.

Find more information and registration at socialimpactomaha.org.