Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Intellectual Property & Innovation Seminar 2012


INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & INNOVATION (IPI) SEMINAR 2012

Theme = ECOSYSTEM FOR INVENTORS

Date : 19 May 2012
Time : 8.15am to 1.00pm
Venue : KLCC Hospitality Lounge 1, Hall 1

Speaker 1:

Dr Ciesinski, VP of SRI (Stanford Research Institute) from Silicon Valley to talking on the Eco-system for Inventors.

SRI is one of the leaders in the world for innovation and invention. The computer mouse, and latest the I-phone apps SIRI ( a voice activated virtual personal assisitant using CALO (cognitive assistant that learns & organizes) are products developed there.

Ciesinski is the Commercial R&D Business Development Head of SRI and is an electrical engineer with an MBA from Stanford. He was the former CEO of Yahoo.

Speaker 2:

Linus Liang from Stanford Design School and a young technopreneur will talk on social invention & design for extreme affordability. He is a member from a group of post grad student at Stanford that invented and developed a product call Embrace for the poor in the world.

The product is a cheap portable 'incubator' that will help save millions of babies in the 3rd world like India from dying due to lack of warmth after birth as a result of not being able to get and afford incubators and hospital care.

The group is receiving financial support from Bill Gates's trust fund after their success and is now manufacturing the product in India.

For anyone who is interested to attend, pls PM me (Jun Yan) as soon as possible because it's first come first serve basis.

Thank you!

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