| 1 | Big ideas | What's your big idea. Pitch it! |
| 2 | Development entrepreneurship, $100K and IDEAS competitions | 2007 MIT $100K spring kickoff speaker: Micah Rosenbloom, COO/Co-founder, Brontes Technologies |
| 3 | IDEAS competition, Deshpande Center for Innovation | IDEAS generator dinner |
| 4 | Team formation, meaning of "Development" and proposal outline | 1st spring deadline for initial IDEAS proposal due |
| 5 | Co-evolutionary design for development | |
| 6 | Case study — Muhammad Yunus: Banker to the poor | Submission deadline for $100K executive summary due one day after Ses #6 |
| 7 | Case study — Muhammad Yunus - continued discussion | Applications due — Deshpande IdeaStream Symposium |
| 8 | Case study — Dr. Paul Farmer and Dr. Venkataswamy (Ali Alhassani) | IGNITE clean energy executive summaries due one day before Ses #8 |
| 9 | Theory | |
| 10 | IDEAS proposals review workshop | |
| 11 | Case study — participatory development and patent basics and confidentiality (Tamira Gunzburg) | 2nd spring deadline for initial IDEAS proposal due |
| 12 | Case study — Ghana pottery and patents (cont.) (Jessica Lee) | $100K semi-finalists announced |
| 13 | Finance | |
| 14 | Case Study — making aid work (Angela Kilby), mixed income housing (Daniel Bergey) | |
| 15 | Finance (cont.) | |
| 16 | Case Study — rural energy in developing countries (Zehra Ali), eco-effectiveness (Tess Veuthey) | |
| 17 | IdeasStream conference and innovation showcase | IdeaStream conference |
| 18 | Monitoring and evaluation | IDEAS competition final entries due one day before Ses #18 |
| 19 | Case Study — total sanitation (Ibrahim Kanan) | |
| 20 | Technology for remediation of arsenic in drinking water | |
| 21 | Case study — human waste reuse (Xavier Gonzalez) | IDEAS displays and judging session due one day before Ses #21 |
| 22 | Social marketing | IDEAS awards ceremony due one day before Ses #22 |
| 23 | Case study — biogas in Nepal (Chris Tostado) | |
| 24 | Final presentations | |
| 25 | Final presentations (cont.) | $100K awards ceremony due one day after Ses #25 |