ITMO University Business Incubator Launches SumIT International Startup School

SumIT International Startup School will be held on August 10-29, 2015. Russian and international students, who are eager to start their own IT-business, have a great opportunity to join a promising startup team and turn their innovative ideas into reality.

The startup accelerator “SumIT” welcomes participants twice a year at ITMO University's business incubator. More than 80 startups have been launched by “SumIT” since 2012. About $3 million were invested in these projects.

SumIT International Startup School is a new project for those students who speak English well and who have entrepreneurial ambitions. The three-week program of the School includes:

IT-business classes, including Lean Startup, Customer Development, SPACE Model and other methods,
case studies,
teamwork in small groups.

Participants will also prepare their own projects and present them to competent experts at the “Demo Day”, the final meeting of the session “SumIT ”.

Students from University of California, Los Angeles and Aalto University, Finland have already joined the SumIT International Startup School.