Upcoming events
Network with intent. Each event is curated for substance over scale.
Nov 2026 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).
E@C's Eclectic Convergence 2026
LOCATION: CornellTech Campus / NYC Don't miss your chance to listen to amazing speakers, network with fellow Cornellians, students and business executives, and watch some of Cornell's awesome startups pitch their businesses! Participate in Entrepreneurship at Cornell's Eclectic Convergence '26 and you'll be inspired by conversations and have countless opportunities to meet and mingle with hundreds of enthusiastic attendees - many of whom are active entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and angels investors. 1) Register on CTBN.Portal for EASIER CONNECTIONS, using CTBN's Member-to-Member communications. + 2) Register and PAY to ATTEND (REQUIRED): cornell.events.alumniq.com/go/ec2026
Nov 2026 CTBN Forum Event
Startup Capital: Who Writes the First Check? A behind-the-curtain look at how startup founders find, understand, and reach the investors most likely to write the first check. The early-stage capital market is fragmented. Venture funds. Emerging managers. Family offices. Angel investors. High-net-worth individuals. There are thousands of potential sources of capital, but very little guidance for founders on who is actually investing, what they are looking for, and how to get in front of them. Haroon Chohan will provide an investor's view of how early-stage capital actually works and a practical roadmap for navigating it: when a company is ready to raise, how to identify investors who are genuinely active at your stage, how to understand an investor's thesis before making contact, how to earn the meeting, and what investors are evaluating when deciding whether to write the first check. He will also discuss common mistakes founders make when raising capital, why some companies get meetings while others don't, and how founders can build an investor pipeline with the same discipline they bring to customers and product. Along the way, Haroon will introduce ARC Access as one example of an emerging approach to making the early-stage ecosystem more transparent and helping founders and investors discover one another more efficiently. Whether you're raising capital, advising founders, hiring them, partnering with them, or simply want to understand how early-stage investing works, this session will offer a practical look at what happens on both sides of the table. This is an educational conversation. It is not a fundraise, not a securities offering, and not an invitation to invest. Our speaker Haroon Chohan is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of ARC Capital Management and a member of the Advisory Council at Cornell's Praxis Center for Venture Development. EMBA '26, Johnson; BS, UMass Lowell; MS, Boston University. A technology operator and venture investor with more than twenty years of experience building and scaling technology businesses, he works with early-stage, university-anchored founders on strategy, product-market fit, fundraising readiness, and building the operating foundation required to scale. DATE: Wednesday, November 18, 2026 TIME: 11:30 am PST | 12:30 pm MST | 1:30 pm CST | 2:30 pm EST PROGRAM: Alumni Lightning Intros | Keynote Presentation | Open Networking Register Now! ... via the new CTBN Portal (Use RED BUTTON below).
Dec 2026 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?
Dec 2026 CTBN Forum Event
Pre-register now. Another exciting and informative CTBN Forum is in the works! DATE: Wednesday, December 16, 2026 TIME: 11:30 am PST | 12:30 pm MST | 1:30 pm CST | 2:30 pm EST PROGRAM: Alumni Lightning Intros | Keynote Presentation | Open Networking