Kevin Wervenbos Keywords Urban Transport Forum for Livable Cities 2019 urban mobility urban transport sustainable mobility sustainable transport investment capital entrepreneurship Read more about Kevin Wervenbos
A Model for Sending Students to Work in USA Right After Graduating in Asia Read more about A Model for Sending Students to Work in USA Right After Graduating in Asia Stony Brook University, one of the flagships of the United States’ largest comprehensive university system (SUNY), opened a new Korea campus in 2012 that it now uniquely shares with 3 other world-class universities. SUNY Korea students spend three years at the Korea campus and one year at the New York campus, graduating with a Stony Brook degree and setting themselves up to work more easily in the West or Far East immediately upon graduation. This presentation addresses progress and growth of the campus, as well as potential for replication in other Asian countries.
Eleanor Rosa Pinugu Keywords 2019 skills forum speakers skills development entrepreneurship Read more about Eleanor Rosa Pinugu Eleanor Rosa Pinugu or Lynn is the co-founder and executive director of Mano Amiga Philippines. Her vision for the country is for all children to have access to quality education, no matter what their socio-economic background is. More than just an affordable high quality school for low-income communities, Mano Amiga serves as a development center providing the students and their families with sustainable livelihood, basic health services, and other necessary support to help them build a better life.
Stimulating Entrepreneurship Activity at SUNY Korea Read more about Stimulating Entrepreneurship Activity at SUNY Korea Learn how the State University of New York (SUNY) Korea is promoting entrepreneurship among its students.
Crossing the Valley of Death: Key Factors to Attract Impact and Venture Capital in Early Stage Clean Energy Businesses Read more about Crossing the Valley of Death: Key Factors to Attract Impact and Venture Capital in Early Stage Clean Energy Businesses Using real-life examples in the solar and energy efficiency space in South East Asia, this presentation highlighted key factors which make business attractive to impact and venture capital investors.
Mayukh Choudhury Keywords solar lighting product strategy financing partnerships entrepreneurship microfinance Read more about Mayukh Choudhury Mayukh leads Milaap’s vision and product strategy. In the early days of Milaap, Mayukh created Milaap’s intricate network of partners across the grassroots in India, to build Milaap into India’s largest micro-lending platform. He then led the development and growth of Milaap’s donations crowdfunding platform, which today is the largest platform for healthcare crowdfunding in India. Prior to Milaap, he was with Sohan Lal Commodity where he managed an initial fund-raising of USD 8M and a subsequent round of USD 25 M for capitalization of the company.
Promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Contemporary Debate Read more about Promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Contemporary Debate The World Employment Social Outlook 2017 reveals that considerable job contraction happens in non-innovative low-skilled firms, suggesting an adverse impact on low-skilled workers. This means workers need to be more innovative to remain relevant in the labor force. Learn why entrepreneurship is considered an innovation that workers might want to consider.
Aape Pohjavirta Keywords education entrepreneurship digital technology Read more about Aape Pohjavirta Aape Pohjavirta is the Founder and President of Funzi, a mobile learning service. Funzi gives the world’s billions of mobile users access to motivating and useful learning. An opportunity to develop skills to build a better tomorrow. High quality, relevant courses delivered with a combination of effective pedagogy and an engaging experience In his role at Funzi, Aape has become a recognized industry leader with a vision of how science, technology, and innovation will contribute to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Tata STRIVE: An Innovative Skills Development Program Read more about Tata STRIVE: An Innovative Skills Development Program Tata STRIVE, an initiative of Tata Community Initiatives Trust and the first Group CSR program of the Tata Group, addresses the pressing need of skilling India's youth for employment, entrepreneurship, and community enterprise. It reaches out to communities and develops skills of people from financially challenged backgrounds and acclimatizes them with the changing work environment.
B.V. Phani Keywords engineering industrial education innovation entrepreneurship Read more about B.V. Phani B. V. Phani is the head of the Department of Industrial & Management Engineering at IIT Kanpur. His research interests are financial intermediaries, credit risk modeling, entrepreneurial finance, innovation, entrepreneurial ecosystems, market micro-structure and valuation, and corporate governance.