Dedric Carter, Wash U.’s associate provost and associate vice chancellor for innovation and entrepreneurship is the keynote speaker at the Missouri Venture Forum Monthly Breakfast to be held at 7:15 a.m., Friday, April 3, at the Moto Museum. This event costs $49 for non-members.

Emre Toker, managing director of the Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship has been named as a national mentor for the 2015 Pipeline program, according to The St. Louis Business Journal. Pipeline is a self-described community of high-potential entrepreneurial leaders building high-growth companies throughout the Midwest.

Wash U. was one of several funders in collaboration with the Kauffman Foundation that helped bring the Pipeline program to St. Louis last fall.

Image: Left to right: Dedric Carter and Emre Toker. Photo by Whitney Curtis/WUSTL