Grab a bite and a beer, meet other Rice alumni, and learn more about available alumni opportunities like the Alumni-only edition of the Napier Rice Launch Challenge and our ever successful Roundtable Program.

Watch Rice University alumni pitches and see which of the six finalists will walk away with equity-free funding for their startup!

Get inspired by Lilie’s special keynote speaker and meet with Lilie mentors who are excited to support students in growth in innovation.

Hear Rice faculty and students share the problem spaces that inspired their research and how their work is now changing the world.

Come chat with various entrepreneurial-minded student organizations that are open to new members and ideas!

Connect with alumni whose experiences within Rice and Lilie have supported their present-day successes.

This workshop is an introduction to Human-Centered Design that allows innovators to create excellent products that stand at the intersection of desirability, viability, and feasibility.

The art of the pitch is an essential skill that every changemaker needs, and practice make perfect. 1st Pitch is an opportunity to pitch your idea, project, or problem you want to solve or join your peers to forge relationships with potential co-founders and teammates.

This session is focused on how we ideate iteratively to identify an actionable problem space. You'll come out having worked through problem space identification on a manufactured idea, or one of your own that you've brought into the program.

Who is your customer? In this session, we'll learn how to identify what is arguably the most important player in your business: the paying customer.

In this session, we'll think about how we solve our customers' needs and how we find those who will be willing to pay for our product. We'll have to consider how much value we bring to the table, who our core customers actually are, and think about our competition.