The CUNY Institute for Virtual Enterprise (IVE), the Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship, IBM and the City sponsored Sunshine Bronx Business Incubator announce an inaugural SmartPitch Challenge to celebrate New York City as a center for innovation and new business development. The Challenge kicks-off on February 3rd and is open to all CUNY as well as students from other New York City Colleges and Universities.

SmartPitch is the culmination of a Virtual Incubation process that invites student entrepreneurs to develop, pitch, validate and launch business ideas in a social networking environment by using IBM’s Smarter Cities as well as Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYCas organizing frameworks.

Please be sure to register for the Kick-off Challenge Event for February 3rd, 2012 at 9:00am at Baruch College, The William & Anita Newman Conference Center, 151 East 25th Street, Room 750 New York, NY 10010.

If you are unable to attend the kick-off but want further information about upcoming networking sessions and how to be part of the challenge, please register for the ticket listed as CANNOT ATTEND and someone from the CUNY IVE team will be in touch with you shortly.

Looking forward to an exciting SmartPitch Challenge!

~The CUNY IVE Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship Program