Vivek Wadhwa: Insiders Silicon Valley Summer series

Вивек Вадхва (Vivek Wadhwa) — технологический предприниматель, участвовал в развитии ряда стартапов в сфере программного обеспечения, один из которых в 1995 году вывел на IPO (Seer Technologies). По состоянию здоровья сместил фокус на научную деятельность, сейчас участвует в различных программах университетов мира для технических специалистов, предпринимателей, etc. Вивек регулярно пишет статьи для The Washington Post, Bloomberg BusinessWeek,  Prism Magazine, Foreign Policy,TechCrunch, The Wall Street Journal. Полный список публикаций Вивек можно посмотреть на его странице в Википедии. 

Так же, Вивек консультирует Малазийское и Российское сообщества предпринимателей, как развивать инновационную экосистему. В одной из своих статей он размышляет, может ли Россия построить Силиконовую долину. 

Вивек является со-автором идеи seed-акселератора в Чили Startup Chile, где консультирует стартапы, применяя полученный глобальный опыт и знания. 

Вэл Жердес (Val Jerdes) — партнер Innov8 Global Advisory / Ventures / Labs, ментор в Y-Combinator, 500 Startups, преподаватель Стендфордского Университета, Singularity University, SkyDeck labs и многих других в инновационных экосистем, инвестиции и предпринимательства.

Внимание! Мероприятияе платное, количество мест ограничено. Стоимость участия 500 рублей при оплате онлайн, 1000 рублей при оплате на месте в день мероприятия. 

7 ноября Вивек так же выслушает питчи стартапов. Это закрытое мероприятие, доступное для участников программы Инсайдеры Силиконовой Долины (www.accel.yellowdoor.ru)

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More about Vivek Wadhwa:
Vivek Wadhwa is a Distinguished Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering and a Director of Research at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering. He is a globally syndicated columnist for The Washington Post and author of The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent, which was named by The Economist as a Book of the Year of 2012, and of Innovating Women: The Changing Face of Technology, which documents the struggles and triumphs of women. Wadhwa has held appointments at Stanford Law School, Harvard Law School, and Emory University and is a faculty member at Singularity University.

Wadhwa is based in Silicon Valley and researches exponentially advancing technologies that are soon going to change our world. These advances–in fields such as robotics, artificial intelligence, computing, synthetic biology, 3D printing, medicine, and nanomaterials–are making it possible for small teams to do what was once possible only for governments and large corporations to do: solve the grand challenges in education, water, food, shelter, health, and security. They will also disrupt industries and create many new policy, law, and ethics issues.

In 2012, the U.S. Government awarded Wadhwa distinguished recognition as an “Outstanding American by Choice”, for his “commitment to this country and to the common civic values that unite us as Americans”. He was also named one of the world’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers” by Foreign Policy magazine in that year; in June 2013, he was on TIME magazine’s list of “Tech 40”, one of forty of the most influential minds in tech; and in September 2015, he was second on a list of “ten men worth emulating” in The Financial Times.

Wadhwa teaches subjects such as technology, industry disruption, entrepreneurship, and public policy; researches the policy, law, and ethics issues of exponential technologies; helps prepare students for the real world; and advises several governments. In addition to being a columnist for The Washington Post, he is a contributor to VentureBeat, The Huffington Post, LinkedIn Influencers blog, and the American Society of Engineering Education’s Prism magazine. Prior to joining academia in 2005, Wadhwa founded two software companies.