Singapore-MIT Alliance
Summer Conference 2002
The 2002 Summer Conference begins with a two–day Pre–Immersion session. See below for the Pre–Immersion agenda, and biographies of speakers for this event.
The Entrepreneurship Session (Pre-Immersion) was held at Wong Auditorium, Tang Center (E-51)
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Agenda
July 25th, Thursday
7:30 am Breakfast (Lobby / Foyer)
8:15 – 8:30 am Welcome Remarks
- Anthony T. Patera, SMA Co-Director, MIT
- Andrew Nee, SMA Co-Directory, Singapore
8:30 – 9:45 am "The Spirit of High Tech Entrepreneurship at MIT — What's Hot and What's Not"
- Chair: Mr. John Desforge
- Speaker: Mr. Kenneth P. Morse, Senior Lecturer and Managing Director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
9:45 – 10:45 am "Transitioning from New Graduate to Entrepreneur"
- Chair: Professor Carl V. Thompson II
- Speaker: Mayank T. Bulsara, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of AmberWave Systems Corporation
10:45 – 11:00 am Break (Lobby / Foyer)
11:00 – 12:00 pm "From Research to Release: The Tale of an Optimization Software Company"
- Chair: Professor Robert M. Freund
- Speaker: Dr. John Ruark, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Optiant
12:00 – 1:00 pm "Great Technology: Great Business?"
- Chair: Professor David Hardt
- Speaker: Richard Oedel, Managing Partner of Brookwood Partners
1:00 – 2:00 pm Lunch (Lobby / Foyer)
2:00 – 3:00 pm "Ideas, Invention, Innovation and Implementation — An academic paradigm"
- Chair: Professor Ken Smith
- Speaker: Professor Charles Cooney, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Director of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation
3:00 – 4:00 pm "Confessions of an Academic Entrepreneur"
- Chair: Professor Charles Leiserson
- Speaker: Professor Arvind, Johnson Professor in Electrical engineering and Computer Science
5:00 – 6:00 pm Duck Boat Tour
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July 26th, Friday
7:30 am Breakfast (Lobby / Foyer)
8:30 – 9:30 am "Organic Optoelectronics – Opportunities for 21st Century Entrepreneurs"
- Chair: Professor Carl V. Thompson II
- Speaker: Professor Vladimir Bulovic, Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and former head of Strategic technology Development of Universal Display Corporation
9:30 – 10:30 am "Start-up 101: Lessons from inside the Tornado"
- Chair: Professor Jacob K. White
- Speaker: Dr. Resve Saleh, Professor and the NSERC / PMC-Sierra Chair–holder in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of System-on-chip (SoC) Research Lab at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver
10:30 – 10:45 am Break (Lobby / Foyer)
10:45 – 11:45 am "Survivable Product Lines and Scalable Business Models Derived from Engineering Science"
- Chair: Professor David Hardt
- Speaker: Dr. Neil Goldfine, Founder and President of JENTEK Sensors, Inc.
11:45 – 12:45 pm "The Founding and Growth of U.S. Genomics for the developments of personal genomics"
- Chair: Professor Ken Smith
- Speaker: Dr. Eugene Chan, Chairman and Chief, U.S. Genomics
12:45 – 2:00 pm Lunch (Lobby / Foyer)
2:00 – 3:00 pm "Multi–disciplinary Approach to Engineering"
- Chair: Professor Charles Leiserson
- Speaker: Mr. Gururaj "Desh" Deshpande, Founder and CEO of Sycamore Networks
3:00 – 3:30 pm General Session
- Administrative Wrap–up / Sign–out
4:00 pm Museum of Science Tour (optional)
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