Veterans to Venture - Energy

Veterans to Venture – Energy is a four-hour engagement, innovation, and entrepreneurship event designed to connect Louisiana’s military and veteran community with opportunities across energy, technology, commercialization, entrepreneurship, and business development.

Veterans, National Guard members, Reserve members, veteran entrepreneurs, transitioning service members, and veteran students are strongly encouraged to attend.

This event is for those who:

Own or are building a veteran-led startup or small business

Serve in the Louisiana National Guard or Reserve

Are currently enrolled as a veteran student

Are transitioning from military service and exploring their next career or business opportunity

Work in the energy, manufacturing, infrastructure, technology, or industrial sectors

Want to learn how to license intellectual property and turn technology into a business

Are interested in starting or growing a company

Want to commercialize university, federal, or emerging technologies

Are looking for careers and opportunities within Louisiana’s energy economy

Want to connect with founders, researchers, industry leaders, investors, universities, and other veterans

Led by FUEL, Maven Scouts, LSU, and the Louisiana Veterans Energy Network (LVEN), the program will bring together veterans, service members, students, entrepreneurs, industry leaders, researchers, and ecosystem partners for networking, veteran success stories, startup exposure, technology commercialization, and practical pathways into entrepreneurship and business ownership.

Participants will learn more about opportunities in areas including energy, hydrogen, carbon capture, water technology, advanced energy materials, microgrids, petrochemicals, manufacturing, critical infrastructure, and emerging technologies.

Veterans will also be introduced to how university and government-developed intellectual property can move from the laboratory into the marketplace, how technologies can be licensed, and how those technologies can potentially become the foundation for new veteran-owned companies.

The goal is to identify and support members of Louisiana’s military and veteran community who want to start companies, grow businesses, license technology, commercialize innovation, enter the energy industry, or build stronger connections across Louisiana’s energy and innovation ecosystem.

Whether you are a National Guard member, Reservist, veteran entrepreneur, veteran student, transitioning service member, established business owner, or simply exploring what comes next, Veterans to Venture – Energy is designed to help you get connected and see where the opportunities are.

Info: Meet fellow veterans, industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and program partners while learning
more about the Louisiana Veterans in Energy Network.

Info: FUEL, Maven Scouts, and LSU, will introduce the program, its goals, and opportunities
available to veterans across energy, entrepreneurship, and innovation.

Info: Participant surveys and feedback, veteran alumni testimony, and a startup example highlighting the journey from idea to commercialization.

Info: An overview of the MavenWERX Accelerator program and the coaching, customer discovery,
commercialization, capital, and business-development support available to veterans.

Info: Hear from veteran, energy, business, and innovation leaders about leadership,
entrepreneurship, transition, and opportunities within Louisiana’s energy economy.

Info: Open networking, introductions, follow-up opportunities, and connections to LVEN, Maven
Scouts, FUEL, LSU, and future programming.

Info: Continue the conversation through an informal gathering at The Chimes and/or LSU pre-game
and tailgate activities. Connect Veterans. Build Ventures. Grow Louisiana Energy.

Event venue & nearby stays

888 S Stadium Dr, 888 South Stadium Drive, Baton Rouge, United States

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