Prepare to thrive at the intersection of technology and media in San Francisco. Spend Winter Quarter 2025 taking design and journalism classes, exploring Bay Area culture, expanding your network, and challenging your way of thinking.

This program is primarily intended for students in McCormick and Medill who will be sophomores and juniors in Winter Quarter 2025, though all are welcome to apply.

As part of our Corporate Innovation class, we will be having five guest speakers, who have all made waves as innovators in an established corporate setting. Because of the invaluable insight and guidance they can provide, we are opening these events to all of our students, even those not enrolled in ENTREP 395: Corporate Innovation.

Jeff Henshaw has spent more than 30 years leading teams and bringing their ideas into reality. He has worked at Microsoft, where he cofounded the Xbox project and developed the vision for the Xbox Live global online gaming service. He continues to innovate from within today, working at Envorso as managing director.

Prashanthi Raman is an established expert in government affairs with nearly 20 years of experience navigating public policy within the private sector. In the past, she shared her talents with Lyft and Cruise, two companies that innovate how we commute. Most recently, she has turned her focus to Chief, a private network focused on connecting and supporting executive women leaders.

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Join us at The Garage to hear from Dr. Yuan Lu, Chief AI Officer & Associate Professor at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, who will provide insight on the near future and the ideas pushing it forward.

Dr. Yuan Luo is an established researcher and thought leader in biomedical machine learning, natural language processing, time series analysis, computational phenotyping and integrative genomics. He has demonstrated records of leading and managing AI/ML R&D with multimillion dollar budget.

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As part of our Corporate Innovation class, we will be having five guest speakers, who have all made waves as innovators in an established corporate setting. Because of the invaluable insight and guidance they can provide, we are opening these events to all of our students, even those not enrolled in ENTREP 395: Corporate Innovation.

Anoop Prakash has more than 20 years of experience in innovating from within. He led Harley-Davidson’s entry into the Indian Market in addition to spearheading other initiatives that transformed the company. He currently serves as executive vice president at AriensCo, one of the world's leading manufacturers of snow blowers, zero-turn lawn mowers, and job-site equipment for commercial and high-end consumer markets.

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The Segal Iron Pour is an annual event that introduces students to a centuries-old manufacturing process. During the Iron Pour, students pour molten iron from a 2,700-degree furnace into 3D-printed and sand-casted molds.

The event is held as a culmination of DSGN 395-64: Leonardo, Geometry, and the Art of Manufacturing, a course taught by Segal faculty members Matthew Cummins and David Gatchell.

Join us for the 6th annual Segal Iron Pour, a one-of-a-kind experience that aims to stimulate curiosity in sand casting, forging, and other types of manufacturing. The Iron Pour features Segal students, faculty, and staff who will demonstrate the forging process by pouring hundreds of pounds of molten iron into creatively designed molds. The Segal Iron Pour is open to the McCormick community, including students, faculty, and staff.

As part of our Corporate Innovation class, we will be having five guest speakers, who have all made waves as innovators in an established corporate setting. Because of the invaluable insight and guidance they can provide, we are opening these events to all of our students, even those not enrolled in ENTREP 395: Corporate Innovation.

Swatee Surve is the founder and CEO of Litesprite, an award-winning digital healthcare firm that has built a therapeutic gaming platform that delivers data insights and improves clinical outcomes. Before founding Litesprite, she was the senior innovation strategist and senior product manager of healthcare at T-Mobile, where she led product development and launch efforts for new Android and iOS services in mobile health and communications products.

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The Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts is a collaboration between the Art Institute of Chicago and materials science-related departments at Northwestern University to pursue objects-based and objects-inspired scientific research. Materials research benefits ongoing work in conservation, archaeology, art history, and curatorial scholarship.

Learn how the Center uses materials research to care for art objects in sustainable, innovative ways with Maria Kokkori, Northwestern Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Senior Scientist in the Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts. She will be in conversation with Corey Byrnes, Northwestern Associate Professor of Chinese Culture and co-founder/co-director of the Environmental Humanities Workshop in Kaplan Humanities Center.

This event is presented by the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science in conjunction with exhibition Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology.

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Join us at The Garage to hear from Arjun Ravi Kannan, Director of Data Science Research at Discover, who will provide insight on the near future and the ideas pushing it forward.

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As part of our Corporate Innovation class, we will be having five guest speakers, who have all made waves as innovators in an established corporate setting. Because of the invaluable insight and guidance they can provide, we are opening these events to all of our students, even those not enrolled in ENTREP 395: Corporate Innovation.

Nick Renold was the seventh employee of Titan Aerospace, a startup that designed and built solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicles. He eventually took over as COO, and in 2014, Google purchased Titan Aerospace. He now works on Project Wing, Google’s drone delivery initiative.

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Join us at The Garage to hear from Alex Castrounis, Founder & CEO at Why of AI, who will provide insight on the near future and the ideas pushing it forward.

Castrounis is the founder and CEO of Why of AI, a book author on AI, and an adjunct professor of AI for Northwestern University's Kellogg & McCormick MBAi program. He has over two decades of experience advising startups to Fortune 100 companies on using data, analytics, and AI models to drive business growth and customer success.

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