Wednesday, October 8, 2025 14:00to14:30
 DIY Headshots

Get LinkedIn-ready with a great photo-no fancy equipment needed! 

Need a professional-looking photo for your LinkedIn profile but don't have one yet? We've got you covered! Join us for a casual and supportive headshot session where we'll help you take a clean, well-lit photo using your own phone. 

 

Classified as: student services, career planning service, Caps, Career and Planning Serivce, workshop, linkedin, internship, job, networking
Wednesday, October 8, 2025 14:30to15:00
 Create a Profile

Ready to build a professional presence on LinkedIn? 
 Whether you're starting from scratch or polishing what you already have, Career Advisors will guide you through each section-headline, summary, experience, skills, and more-so you leave with a profile that reflects your strengths.  

Classified as: student services, career planning service, Caps, career and planning service, workshop, linkedin, internship, job, networking
Wednesday, October 8, 2025 16:00to17:00
Effective Presentation Visuals

In this workshop, participants learn how to avoid the pitfalls of building slides that have too much information, take too long to process, and compete for audience attention. By understanding the limits of human visual and auditory language processing, participants learn how to work within them.

Classified as: SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops, presentation skills
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 16:00to17:30

Led by a team of caseworkers from Compass Startup Legal Clinic, this workshop provides startup founders with a clear path through the legal landscape, offering insight on issues such as incorporation, governance, fundraising, and selecting the ideal legal structure.

Classified as: Graduate Students, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, McGill Engine Centre, SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops
Thursday, October 16, 2025 11:00to12:00
 How to Build an Impactful Profile and Grow Your Network
Boost your job or internship search with a polished LinkedIn profile. We will explain how to create a professional LinkedIn presence and explore how to leverage this platform to build your network.
Classified as: student services, career planning service, Caps, career and planning service, job, internship, linkedin, Career Networking
Thursday, October 23, 2025 17:30to18:30

The McGill Bieler School of Environment is excited to invite you to a free annual lecture, this year with Presidential and Distinguished Professor, Dr. Michael Mann from the University of Pennsylvania.

Classified as: environment, Bieler School of Environment, Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Science, mistrust in science, public lecture
Wednesday, October 29, 2025 16:00to17:30

This workshop will demystify and explain the various forms of intellectual property (IP), namely, patents, industrial designs, copyright, trademarks, and trade secrets, and when they are used. We will then do some actual patent searching using the DERWENT worldwide patent database.

Learning outcomes:

  • Describe the various forms of IP, their protection, and use.
  • Explain the patenting process.
  • Use DERWENT to do your own patent searching.


REGISTER HERE!

Classified as: Graduate Students, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, McGill Engine Centre, SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 16:00to17:30

This workshop will provide an overview on the customer discovery process and then delve deeper into how to conduct customer interviews and how to iterate on your business model canvas.

Classified as: Graduate Students, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, McGill Engine Centre, SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops
Wednesday, November 26, 2025 16:00to17:30

In this workshop, you'll learn how venture capitalists (VCs) typically value an early-stage innovation-driven venture. To do that we'll go through and give examples on how to forecast sales and how to set pricing, how to forecast expenses and how to figure out the amount of capital needed to finance your business. We'll also explore some of the more common sources of cash from both public institutions and private organisations.

Classified as: Graduate Students, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, McGill Engine Centre, SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops
Wednesday, December 10, 2025 16:00to17:30

Now that you have a grasp on how much money you need, this workshop will focus on the "deal". You'll learn what a venture capital fund is, its structure and how they operate, and what venture capitalists (VCs) look for in an early-stage innovation-driven venture. You'll also learn about the typical elements of a term sheet in connection with equity investments and simple agreements for future equity (SAFEs), and caveats when raising money. Finally, we'll explain how a capitalization table works and finish off with a brief overview of minority shareholder rights.

Classified as: Graduate Students, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, McGill Engine Centre, SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops
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