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STVP presents DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Seminar Series:

“The Role of Entrepreneurship in Solving World Problems”
Panel Discussion on Solving Problems in Environment and Sustainability
International Affairs, and Human Health

Date: Wednesday, February 28th
Time: 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
Location: William R. Hewlett Teaching Center, Room 200,
Stanford University

Research discoveries only become solutions with an entrepreneurial
approach that gets them out “out of the lab” and into the real world.
In an extraordinarily thought-provoking session, Professor Tom Byers
will engage some of Silicon Valley’s greatest minds in an informal,
impassioned discussion of how entrepreneurship is essential to
solving today’s world problems. The panel will consist of a leading
scholar and an esteemed entrepreneur for each of three critical areas:
the Environment and Sustainability, International Affairs, and Human
Health.

Enjoy free food and beverages afterward at a reception and showcase
featuring Stanford technology innovations that have had world impact.

Panelists:

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY
* KR Sridhar, CEO, Bloom Energy
* Jeff Koseff, William Alden and Martha Campbell Professor of Civil
and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Woods Institute
for the Environment, Stanford University

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
* Kavita Ramdas, CEO, Global Fund for Women
* Coit D. Blacker (Chip), Director and Senior Fellow of the Freeman
Spogli Institute for International Studies and Professor of
Political Science, Stanford University

HUMAN HEALTH
* Brook Byers, General Partner, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers
* Paul Yock, Director of the Stanford Biodesign Program, Stanford
University

MODERATOR
* Tom Byers, Professor in the School of Engineering and Faculty
Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program, Stanford University

This event is a combination of Stanford’s celebration of
EntrepreneurshipWeek USA (http://eweek.stanford.edu) and the popular
weekly Draper, Fisher, Jurvetson Entrepreneurial Thought Leader
seminar series (http://etl.stanford.edu).

The event will be broadcast on Stanford Online and archived for later
viewing and podcast downloads via the Stanford Technology Ventures
Program Educators Corner website. People around the globe will have
free access to this presentation.

This event is free and open to all students across campus, as well as
the general public.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/eweek/0228_etl.shtml

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