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1 st Annual Global TIES* Conference: High-Tech Entrepreneurship & Cluster Development . December 2 – 3, 2004 @MIT *TIES = a Technology, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Series. Our Mission . Advance technology-based innovation and entrepreneurship around the world …
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1st Annual Global TIES* Conference: High-Tech Entrepreneurship & Cluster Development December 2 – 3, 2004 @MIT *TIES = a Technology, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Series
Our Mission Advance technology-based innovation and entrepreneurship around the world … … by promoting meaningful knowledge sharing and collaboration between global hi-tech clusters.
Vision • Create the best US student-run conference focused on Asian technology and entrepreneurship • Target audience size: 200-300 • Mix: • 45% Students & Alumni of Participating Universities • 25% Industry (managers, entrepreneurs) • 25% Investors and Service Providers (VC’s, law firms) • 5% Policy Makers
Why Global TIES? Constituent Benefit • Participating Schools • Speakers from Asia • US Professionals • Students and professors • Branding and relationship building. • Networking with investors, customers, partners, technologists, policy makers, and educators in the US. • Recruiting. • Networking with influential executives, investors, and government officials from Asia. • Learn success stories in Asia. • Networking with each other and other constituents. • Source projects, jobs. • Showcase student talent!
Preliminary Themes • Information Technology • Communications Technology • Biotechnology • Consumer Technology Management/ Policy Focus Industry Focus • Development Policy: • Management of Technology and Services: • Innovation & High-Tech Entrepreneurship:
Management/Policy Focus • Development Policy: • Share Best Practices on Development of University-Government-Industry Relations • Discuss Impact of FDI & Local Entrepreneurship in Fostering Cluster Innovative/Absorptive Capacities • Management of Technology & Services • Compare observations on migration/trends of global value/supply chains - in key sectors • Innovation & High-Tech Entrepreneurship: • Share Lessons on Innovation Cycle (from invention/patent, to innovation, commercialization, and high tech entrepreneurship) - in key sectors
Program Items • Keynotes • Panel discussions • Showcases of successful start-ups in India and China • Showcases of successful MIT spinoffs and of the MIT entrepreneurship ecosystem • Career fair • VIP Dinner
Contacted Target Speakers • Infosys Chairman Narayana Murthy • China Netcom President Edward Tian • AsiaInfo Chairman James Ding • Director of Department of Policy, Regulation and Reform in Ministry of Science and Technology, China Zhang Jin’an • CEOs of Leading IT outsourcing companies in China • Professors of top universities in China
Confirmed Board of Advisors & Team • Advisors - MIT Schools of Engineering (“SOE”) & Sciences: • Associate Dean Dick Yue • More to come from Lab Directors level • Advisors - MIT Sloan (“Sloan”): • Deputy Dean Don Lessard • Senior Associate Dean Alan White • Ken Morse, MIT Entrepreneurship Center • Advisors - MIT School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences & HST: • Professor Ed Steinfeld • Executive Director of HST • Other Advisors: • To come from Alumni office, Corporate Relations, ILP and Government Relations • Working Team (with Lead Student Organizers): • Assistant Dean (SOE) Anthony St. George • David Capodilupo, Director of Sloan MBA Program • David Weber, Director of Sloan MOT Program • Eleanor Chin, Sloan International Program Manager
Confirmed Alumni Support • Head of 4 MIT Alumni Associations in Asia • Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong & Taiwan • China: Chairman Robert Mao (Nortel China) • Taiwan: Chairman Miao Chi-guo (formerly with Chunghwa Telecom)
Participating Clubs/Student Organizations • MIT Sloan (“Sloan”): • Asian Business Club • South Asian Business Bluc • MIT Ventures and Private Equity Club • Other possible clubs: SEID, Supply Chain Management, LFM Committee & i-Club • MIT Main Campus • Graduate Student Council – Academic, Research & Career Committee • Sangam • Chinese Students and Scholars Association • MIT Talent Forum • Harvard Kennedy School of Government • Science & Technology Policy Club
MITInnovation Week In the week of the conference, • DeshpandeCenter Open House http://web.mit.edu/deshpandecenter/ • MIT 50K Business Competition 1K Award http://50k.mit.edu/ • MIT VC Conference http://www.mitvcpe.org/index.htm • VIP Dinner of Global TIES and VC Conference • MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge Case Studies http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/index.html
Any Questions? • Contact Lead Student Organizers: • Hans Tung, Founder (hanstung@mit.edu) • Alex Leung, Chair (leunga@mit.edu) • Executive Council: • Nina Chen, VCPE (yuechen@mit.edu) • Sumit Bhansali, Sangam (bhansali@mit.edu) • Yicong Li, ABC (yicong@mit.edu) • Miao Ye, CSSA (miaoye@mit.edu) • Vipin Gupta, SABC (vipin@mit.edu)