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Overview
NOVEMBER 14-17, 2024
STANFORD, CA
Change student lives by helping them lead of real-world companies. Traditional student-run business organizations can employ hundreds of students across dozens of businesses, while student-owned business organizations support entrepreneurial startups.
Our alum are battle tested through the most difficult challenges of entrepreneurship and leave ready to thrive in the most elite startups, corporations and organizations in the world.
SURGE: Student-Run Global invites student-run and student-owned business leaders, founders, and faculty and staff supporters from around the world for 4 days of competition, showcasing, sharing, professional development. We’ve added a new Student-Run Venture Cup as we expand support to more student founders.
Hosted at Stanford University by Stanford Student Enterprises, the event will run from November 14-17, 2024.
Please contact SRBA Event Chair Alpha Hernandez with any questions or use the chat feature in our website footer:
alpha7@sse.stanford.edu
Experience the Birthplace of Silicon Valley
Events and Tours on Stanford’s Main Campus
Featuring Stanford’s Old Union - Home to SRBA Member Stanford Student Enterprises (SSE)
Featuring Stanford’s Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center
Event History
Photos from Prior SRBA Annual Conferences
Historic SRBA Conference Programs
- 2023 Event Program - Cambridge and Harvard
- 2022 Event Program (COVID Cancellation)
- 2021 Event Program (COVID Cancellation)
- 2020 Event Program (COVID Cancellation)
- 2019 Event Program - Harvard
See Member Resources
- 2018 Summit Program - Cornell
- 2018 Event Program - Chicago Loyola (Coming Soon)
- 2017 Event Program - Penn (Coming Soon)
- 2016 Event Program - Chicago Loyola (Coming Soon)
Andy Cunningham, famed for her work with Steve Jobs at Apple, NeXT and Pixar, sits with SRBA President Owen Raisch for a 1-on-1 interview at SRBA Conference 2019, Harvard.
Andy Cunningham shares her decades of experience innovating with Steve Jobs
Andy is known for helping Steve Jobs to launch the Apple Macintosh near the start of her career, for continued work with him at NeXT and Pixar, and for decades of experience consulting for top global firms.
Andy kindly joined our conference for 2 days, sat with SRBA President Owen Raisch for a 1-on-1 interview, shared key marketing tactics with SRBA students, and provided copies of her new book Get 2 Aha! Discover Your Positioning DNA and Dominate Your Competition with all conference attendees.
Testimony
“The SRBA Conference changed my vision for the upcoming school year, and I have become more ambitious for growth than ever. Sharing ideas with other students changed the way I see students run businesses and how PSA should be run. ”
“Many of the struggles faced by Student Run Businesses are very similar, and location, size, school etc. seems to have minimal impact on a program’s success.
We can all come together and help each other succeed by sharing strategies to overcome obstacles!”
“The conference fosters a sense of community, enabling the exchange of ideas, knowledge, and experiences . . . Engaging in conversations with peers who have faced similar challenges and achieved remarkable success was both empowering and enlightening!”