About

The MIT Enterprise Forum, a non-profit, volunteer-run organization, promotes the formation and growth of innovative and technology-oriented businesses in communities worldwide. The MIT Enterprise Forum was founded in 1978 by the MIT Alumni Association, and the local chapter, the MIT Enterprise Forum of Dallas-Fort Worth, was created in 1986.

The Enterprise Forum, through a series of educational programs about entrepreneurship, provides networking, leadership opportunities, and connections to supporting communities. Participation in the Enterprise Forum is open to any one who is interested in technology entrepreneurship: executives, business leaders, venture capitalists, industry and technology experts, and emerging entrepreneurs, as well as to all MIT graduates.

Events feature local entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, business leaders, scientists and engineers – as well as video and satellite links to industry and technology visionaries presenting in other chapters around the world.

Networking connections developed among technology entrepreneurs in the local community are especially valuable. Through the Enterprise Forum, MIT is developing an entrepreneurial ecosystem that offers limitless mentoring and networking opportunities as well as a community that promotes commercialization of new technologies through entrepreneurial activity. The Enterprise Forum promotes the building of new technology businesses, whether in start-ups or in new business ventures within established companies.

There are 27 chapters of the Enterprise Forum around the world. The MIT Enterprise Forum collaborates with over 200 corporate and education organizations that connect technology entrepreneurs with resources which makes the commercialization of technology faster and easier.

• Operates through 27 official chapters globally and expanding.
• Non-profit, 2000 plus volunteer-driven organization.
• Community program that is open to all.
• Produces 300+ world-class networking and educational programs annually to inspire, connect and educate technology business executives.
• Goal to build a community, connect technology entrepreneurs with capital, resources, employees, and industry experts, and to ultimately make the commercialization of technology faster and easier.

We are driven to answer the challenge of the imagination and to support the passion and creativity in every entrepreneur. We are changing the world one enterprise at a time.