Dear Alumni and Friends,
The
Zhejiang University Alumni Association Boston Chapter will
launch its 2012 entrepreneurship forum this fall. The forum has a focus
on "Translate Innovation, Science and Technology to Future Start-up
Ventures". We have invited speakers from our successful alumni working
in business, industry and academia with multiple disciplines at Boston
area and in China. We aim to set up this platform for YOU to learn the
nitty-gritty of entrepreneurship, to build up network with
entrepreneurs, and to commit yourself to transforming your great ideas
to future enterprises. This event is also co-organized by our brother
club Weiming-Zijing venture club this year.
Forum Topic: Translate Innovation, Science and Technology to Future Start-up Ventures
---- Start with your Alumni around You
Time: Start from 2:00pm on 11/25/2012 (Sunday)
Place: MIT Sloan School of Management, Tang Center, room to be announced
Invited speakers:
Zhang, Shiwei, PhD
Dr.
Zhang is currently the CEO of The Research Institute for Innovation at
Insigma Group (浙大网新创新研究院), responsible for commercializing its
innovation achievements and fostering new business. He is also a guest
research professor at the College of Public Administration of Zhejiang
University and at the Top 500 Enterprise Research Center of Shanghai
University of Finance and Economics. He has been a visiting scholar and
research fellow at MIT Sloan School of Management since August 2009.
Previously he was working as a Research Director, CTO and VP at two MIT
technology-based companies respectively, and was also a visiting
assistant professor at Department of Chemistry of MIT. He is the author
or co-author of 35 peer-reviewed articles published in international
scientific journals, and the co-inventor of five patents, and two of them were respectively
licensed to a Japanese company and a US company for the practical
commercialization.
Guo, Jian, PhDDr.
Guo is currently an assistant professor at the Department of
Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health. His main research
interest covers computational online advertising, search techniques for
social media and location-based service, and large-scale machine
learning algorithms based on cloud computing. Before joining Harvard, he
had working experience at Yahoo! Lab while pursuing his PhD at
University of Michigan .He also co-founded start-ups for tutoring
college students while he was studying at Tsinghua University.
Guo, Lei
A doctoral student at the Department of
Statistics, Harvard University. Lei established one of the first social
network company in China
Moderator: Miao, Qing, PhD
Dr.
Miao is an associated professor at the College of Public Administration,
Zhejiang University. He is currently a visiting professor at MIT Sloan
School of Management. His research interests include leadership and
entrepreneurship, labor relationship and human resources management, and he has unique insights on mobile &Internet
industry development and venture opportunities. With experience and passion in both the theory and
practice of entrepreneurship, he has advised and supervised many start-up teams both at Boston and in
China. He is also serving as a
distinguished reviewer of 2012 MIT-CHIEF business plan contest.
Please register at the following link:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGNmMFJlZEg0VHFjMV9zWmtHaHFWOHc6MQ
Early registrants will have the chance to get a lottery award at the end. Also, light snack will be provided during the forum. Please come to join us to embrace this opportunity and to witness the first-year launch of this forum.
Best regards,
ZJU Alumni Entrepreneurship Club
Zhejiang University Alumni Association Boston Chapter
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The Boston ZJU Entrepreneurship club is affiliated
to the Zhejiang University Alumni Association Boston Chapter. The club is committed to provide a
platform for the young talents at the Great Boston Area to communicate
entrepreneurial ideas, to foster potential start-up collaborations, and
to connect the talent and advanced technology at US with the fast
growing resources and improving entrepreneurial environment in China.
The club organizes a serials of seminar events in flexible formats,
such as speeches given by invited speakers, sharing of personal
entrepreneurial experience by our fellow members, or interactive
"brainstorm" type of discussion.
In the fall of 2012, we start to collaborate with Weiming-Zijing
Venture Club at Great Boston which is affiliated to Peking University
Alumni Association at New England & Tsinghua Alumni Association in
Great Boston. Our fellow members work at Harvard, MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital, and etc,
and the organized events are gaining more and more popularity at Boston
area.