Upcoming events
Network with intent. Each event is curated for substance over scale.
Aug CTBN NetConnect
Cornell CTBN NetConnect - Network with Intent! Join fellow Cornellians for 60 minutes of professional networking in small groups. Come ready to introduce your "networking objective" and be ready to help others achieve their objectives. Professional networking is an on-going process. Whom have you helped lately?
Aug CTBN Forum Event
Weeds, Tech & Scale: Startup Field Playbook A Keynote Presentation from Dr. Lynn Sosnoskie, Associate Professor, CALS What if the toughest weeds held a masterclass in scaling technology for any founder? Join Cornell AgriTech’s Dr. Lynn Sosnoskie for Weeds, Tech & Scale: Startup Field Playbook. A nationally recognized innovator in precision weed science, she fuses AI, robotics, lasers, and on-farm reality to solve one of agriculture’s costliest challenges. In this high-energy keynote she reveals how next-generation systems are rewriting crop protection—while sharing the hard lessons most innovators learn too late across industries. You’ll discover why weeds account for billions of dollars in crop losses and management costs each year, how conventional tools are hitting their limits, and what autonomous, site-specific technologies actually deliver in the field. Lynn shares the unvarnished realities: why tech built for west coast crop production systems could struggle on the East Coast’s small, irregular farms; how weeds inevitably adapt; and why continuous overuse can accelerate failure, just like antibiotics. For entrepreneurs and product leaders across industries, this is pure transferable gold—frameworks for validating tech under messy conditions, designing for regional realities, building in failure modes, and quantifying the hidden human ROI of safer, more appealing work. For CALS alumni and food-system professionals, it’s a front-row look at the sustainable tools reshaping specialty crops, stewardship, and farming’s future. For all alumni—walk away with practical insights—whether scaling hardware, software, services, or your own next chapter.
Sep CTBN NetConnect
Cornell CTBN NetConnect - Network with Intent! Join fellow Cornellians for 60 minutes of professional networking in small groups. Come ready to introduce your "networking objective" and be ready to help others achieve their objectives. Professional networking is an on-going process. Whom have you helped lately? Register Now! ... via the new CTBN Portal (Use RED BUTTON below).
Sep 2026 CTBN Forum Event
Another great program is on its way! Pre-register now; mark your calendar.