Topic: Our World in Transition
Societies worldwide are going through monumental social, technological and political changes, which impacts the way we think about and do business. “Our World in Transition” is a discussion about these changes and how we successfully navigate them in the future.
April 14th, 2012 1:00pm - 7:30pm (GMT - 7)
April 14th, 2012 1:00pm - 7:30pm (GMT - 7)
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Speakers
Lisa Katayama is a journalist who is best known online for the award-nominated blog TokyoMango and for founding the San Francisco-based design thinking boot camp The Tofu Project, which helps entrepreneurs from Japan bring their ideas more effectively to the rest of the world. She writes about Japanese culture for Wired, Boing Boing, The New York Times Magazine, and NPR and has spoken about Japanese culture and innovation at major conferences in Japan, Singapore, and the US. Her most recent project, We Are All Radioactive, is an online documentary film project about surfers who are helping to rebuild northern Japan.
Nikhil Arora is a co-founder of Back to the Roots, an urban mushroom farm in Oakland, California, growing gourmet mushrooms and mushroom kits sustainably on 100% recycled coffee grounds. Offers in hand, he and co-founder, Alejandro Velez, were headed into the corporate world during their last semester at UC Berkeley in 2009 when they came across this idea in class a few months before graduation, fell in love with the waste-to-food model and decided to forego careers in investment banking and consulting to become full-time urban mushroom farmers! Back to the Roots diverted 1 million pounds of coffee ground waste from Peet’s Coffee in 2011, has grown its team to 24 people, and now sells its Grow-Your-Own Mushroom Gardens at more than 1,500 retailers nationwide, including Whole Foods and Home Depot. Back to the Roots has been recognized in Forbes’ 30 Under 30, BusinessWeek’s Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25, and CNN’s 10 Next Gen Entrepreneurs. Alejandro and Nikhil are working to build a movement that can connect everyone with their food again—green thumb or not!
Richard Adler has been a leader in the field of aging for nearly two decades. He is principal of People & Technology, a research and consulting firm based in Silicon Valley. He is also a Research Affiliate at the Institute for the Future (IFTF) in Palo Alto, CA, where he recently co-led a project on Baby Boomers: The Next 20 Years. Richard’s primary areas of interest include aging and technology, the future of health care and new models of education and learning.
Scott Sambucci is a sales professional, entrepreneur, and data geek. He is currently the Chief Operating Officer with Altos Research and Co-Founder of SalesQualia, a company dedicated to improving sales performance with technology and analytics. Scott is an author on both the Altos Research "How's the Market?" blog and his personal blog - "A Free Market Voice." He recently published his first book - "Start-up Selling: How to Sell If You Really Really Have To But Don't Know How."
Scott headed to Silicon Valley in 2002 to work with Aplia - an educational software company which sold later to Cengage Learning. He then founded Economic Information Services, bridging investment capital and business opportunities in Central Asia. Scott is part-time faculty member at California State University-East Bay and Saint Leo University in the areas of Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management, and Economics. Scott has a craving for endurance events, completing two Ironman distance triathlons and several long distance running events.
Scott headed to Silicon Valley in 2002 to work with Aplia - an educational software company which sold later to Cengage Learning. He then founded Economic Information Services, bridging investment capital and business opportunities in Central Asia. Scott is part-time faculty member at California State University-East Bay and Saint Leo University in the areas of Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management, and Economics. Scott has a craving for endurance events, completing two Ironman distance triathlons and several long distance running events.
Dan Hou (Director of Strategy @ HUGE) guides the creation of compelling user experiences from concept through implementation, melding user needs, business objectives and technical constraints into a cohesive digital offering for clients such as CNN, Target and Four Seasons. Dan’s diverse prior experience at Microsoft and Motorola as a product manager ranged from building high end music devices to speech writing for Bill Gates. Dan holds degrees in economics and computer science from the University of Pennsylvania's Jerome Fisher Management & Technology program.
John Montgomery is a corporate attorney, entrepreneur, executive coach and writer. He is the founder of Montgomery & Hansen, LLP, a corporate law firm in Menlo Park, California He is also the co-founder of Startworks, a technology incubator (www.startworks.biz), and Chrysallis, a human development company. John recently received a California Lawyer of the Year award from California Lawyer magazine for his work as a co-chair of the legal working group behind California’s new benefit corporation law.
Noah Helman is a physicist and electrical engineer by training, but came to the field of synthetic biology because he wanted to do challenging science in a new field with the potential to change the world. When he made the transition from physics to biology, he had never even held a pipette and hadn’t taken a biology course since high school. Since then, he has been fascinated with the many ways in which Nature has “solved problems”, as well as how difficult it is for humans to engineer biology.
Mark Nelson is a founding member of Stanford’s Peace Innovation Lab, where he researches mass collaboration and mass interpersonal persuasion. Mark has described a functional, quantitative definition of peace, in terms of engagement quantity and quality across social difference lines; he has identified innovative, automated ways to measure peace, both at the neighborhood and global level; and he has developed a formal structural description for Peace Data. He leads the Social Energy Map project, and designs intervention systems to measurably increase positive, mutually beneficial engagement across conflict boundaries. Mark’s mission is to create an entire new, profitable industry, where positive peace is delivered as a service.
HULT Student Speakers
Alex Kane is a master of digital marketing candidate at the Hult International Business School as well as a musician, composer and producer in San Francisco. He has been playing music since he was eight, and producing since he was fourteen. Alex composes music for independent and action-sports films and recently completed his fourth CD. At TEDxHultBusinessSchoolSF he will be debuting a new type of performance art that integrates producing and performing on multiple mediums, while converging advanced technology with traditional styles of playing music.
Ganesh Vasudevan is an American trained scientist who has been leading research and business development at some of the most innovative biotechnology start-up companies in the U.S. He looks at his work from the perpsective of the molecule and has used that vantage point to conduct his research on AIDS, influenza, auto-immunity and stem cell biology. He is currently licensing the products of his patents and research to Life Technologies, an $8.8 billion company based in California that specializes in diagnostics, assays and instrumentation. A technology expert and naturalist, he uses his expertise to valuate companies in the tech sector and analyze emerging trends in science and technology.
M.B.A, Hult International Business School
M.S. in Cellular & Molecular Biology: University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.A. in Biology, minor in Environment & Technology Studies: Carleton College
M.B.A, Hult International Business School
M.S. in Cellular & Molecular Biology: University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.A. in Biology, minor in Environment & Technology Studies: Carleton College
Amy Patel has shown a passion for dancing since she could walk, and took up the North Indian classical dance form – Kathak – at the young age of 7. She became the first Kathak student to professionally graduate from the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan school in London in 2005; she completed her debut solo performance under the guidance of her teacher, Shri Abhay Shankar Mishra and in the presence of the legendary Kathak maestro, Pt. Birju Maharaj. Throughout her career Amy has performed across the UK and internationally numerous of prestigious events and dignitaries such as the British Royal Family, and has subsequently appeared in a variety of publications. Amy was raised in London as thus had the opportunity to meet people of all backgrounds who share her love for preserving culture and the performing arts, and uses this as a way to break the barrier between cultural differences. Following undergraduate studies in Mathematics and Economics, Amy chose to study International Business in the culturally rich San Francisco, in order to expand horizons and help bridge the gap between corporate and individual identity.
Venue and Details:
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