Come Celebrate with Us!

2024 HCC Business Plan Competition Awards Ceremony Thursday, June 06, 2024

Join us June 06 at 4:00 PM at the West Houston Institute at HCC Alief Hayes as we announce the winners of the 2024 HCC Business Plan Competition! Seed Capital Prizes will be awarded to the winners to start or grow their dream business.

Dr. Zachary Hodges, President of HCC Northwest, Dr. Maya Durnovo, Associate Vice Chancellor, Entrepreneurship, and David Regenbaum, Entrepreneur in Residence, will be speaking; followed by Sandra Louvier, Director, Entrepreneurial Initiatives & Community Relations, Glenda & David Regenbaum Center for Entrepreneurship. You will also hear from some past competition winners and alumni and from our 2024 finalists! Hors d’oeuvres will be served before and after the ceremony.

Program Agenda:

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm - Networking
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm - Competition Review, Contributors Acknowledged, Winners Announced & Prizes Awarded
5:30 pm - 5:45 pm - Pictures of Winners, Participants, Sponsors, etc., Informal Goodbyes, Congratulations

The 2024 HCC Business Plan Competition conducted by the Glenda & David Regenbaum Center for Entrepreneurship, HCC Northwest, has been a great success, with contestant teams advised by over 50 advisors. Our ceremony is to celebrate and congratulate the advisors and competition graduates. Twenty-six teams successfully graduated from the competition by moving through the rigorous competition milestones from January through May!

The five finalists present their business plans to our competition judges on Thursday, May 30th. On Thursday, June 06 at the Awards Ceremony, teams will learn how they placed and be presented with cash prizes.

All graduating teams will be celebrated along with competition advisors, judges, trainers, sponsors, competition alumni, organizers and key internal and external partners from HCC and Houston’s entrepreneurial eco-system.

HCC Thanks Our Sponsors:

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