Learn practical lessons from Niklas Zennstrom, role model for Europe based entrepreneurs.Co-found and ran Skype, the London-based internet-phone start-up which eBay bought in 2005 for $3.1 billion — a venture more than two dozen venture capitalists turned down flat. He also co-created peer-to-peer software Kazaa, launched the online video-sharing service Joost, and now runs investment firm, Atomico, which recently raised $165 million.
On August 18, 2011, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Mabuhay I.T. Park, Ced Avenue, National Highway, General Santos City, you have a chance to listen, speak out and share your own views on how innovation, technology, entrepreneurship can grow and prosper in areas such as Region 12.
Dr. Greg Tangonan will talk about the COMSTE (Congressional Commission on Science & Technology and Engineering) vision and the multi-stakeholder work of the Ateneo Innovation Center (AIC) in facing the challenge of global competitiveness and how this practice can be replicated at best.
Denny Roja on PhilDev Forum
Sheila Marcelo on PhilDev Forum
After laying the groundwork in its previous forums, the Philippine Development Foundation continues the discussion on the pursuit of global competitiveness through scientific and technologic innovation and entrepreneurship. The current symposium will focus on education, which may be said to be the seedbed for the growth of future innovators and entrepreneurs. Invited speakers include top Cabinet officials, leading education advocates, renowned corporations and high profile philanthropists, who will touch on the latest advances in education designed to combat poverty and to stimulate economic growth.
STAC Silicon Valley Forges Stronger Ties with Academe, Private Sector and Tech Community
The Science and Technology Advisory Council, Silicon Valley (“STAC-Silicon Valley” or “STAC”) announced that the ON3 Nationals will become an annual forum for innovation serving the Filipino Tech Community.
From the outside, everything about Diosdado Banatao seems average: he wears no expensive designer suits, nor carry fancy, top-of-the-line gadgets. But to anyone with even a fraction of knowledge of Silicon Valley and computer technology history, nothing about Dado, who also considers himself with “just average” intelligence, is truly average. He, after all, pioneered the very first PC chip set when there was not yet a PC industry and he created the graphics acceleration technology that made Microsoft Windows a viable operating system. Dado has helped propel the computer industry into a global phenomenon.
Friends and Volunteers of the Brain Gain Network,
The Philippine Development Foundation (PhilDev) is inviting you to the PhilDev Forum: Innovation and Entrepreneurship for a Globally Competitive Philippines on June 14, 2011.
Registration on June 14 starts at 7:30 a.m. To participate, please head to the BGN Events page here or to the PhilDev site.
Leaders and professionals focused on building an ecosystem of science and technology-based entrepreneurship and innovation for social and economic development in the Philippines. They also generate resources from US-based donors for non-profit organizations in the Philippines as part of their commitment to diaspora philanthropy.
