Building on the successes of past WEPAN Accelerator Program Days and our partnership with the American Association of Colleges & Universities' (AAC&U) Convergence program, we are excited to share that we are hosting this year's WEPAN Accelerator Program Days in partnership with AAC&U, AISES: Advancing Indigenous People in STEM, and Graduate Fellowships for STEM Diversity. This partnership is called The Empowered STEM Entrepreneurship Collective and is supported by a stage one prize from the Small Business Administration's Growth Accelerator Fund Competition.
While we welcome all who are interested, the WEPAN Accelerator Program Days are structured to empower and support women and gender-nonconforming innovators of color in STEM in their entrepreneurship and commercialization journeys. Applying an intersectional framework, we center people with multiple marginalized identities, integrating contexts of systemic oppression and social stratification that influence access to support, resources, and critical knowledge.
Register Today!While we welcome all who are interested, the WEPAN Accelerator Program Days are structured to empower and support women and gender-nonconforming innovators of color in STEM in their entrepreneurship and commercialization journeys. Applying an intersectional framework, we center people with multiple marginalized identities, integrating contexts of systemic oppression and social stratification that influence access to support, resources, and critical knowledge.
2024 Agenda
Day 1: October 8, 2pm-4pm ET
- WEPAN and ARC Network Webinar: Equity in Academic Commercialization: Towards Systemic Change
- Community Mixer
Day 2: From Vision to Solution - October 9, 11am-3pm ET
- Welcome, Introductions, & Expectations
- Values, Vision, & Impact
- Problem, Customers, & Solution
Day 3: From Idea to Action - October 10, 1pm-3pm ET
- Value Proposition & Assumption Testing
- Business Model & Traction
- Pitch Prep
Day 4 - From Action to Impact - October 11, 11am-2pm ET
- Panel & Community Mixer: Lessons from Indigenous Womxn Entrepreneurs
- Optional Co-working/Office Hours
Day 5: October 15, 1pm-5pm ET
- Pitch Event
- Mentor Mixer
The WEPAN Accelerator is a 2024 winner of the Small Business Administration’s Growth Accelerator Fund Competition, stage one prize.
Accelerator Archive
View the agenda from prior years of the WEPAN Accelerator Program Days.
2023 WEPAN Accelerator Program Days Agenda
View agenda from the 2023 WEPAN Accelerator Program Days.
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