September 20, 2018, 17:00–18:00
Room MS001
All TSE/IAST students, faculty, staff are welcome!
Participation upon registration.
Off the coast of the islands of Galapagos, new life and new species are created there at a remarkable pace. It is Nature's platform for innovation. Where is its analog in the man-made world? What are the catalytic conditions that make entrepreneurship and innovation happen? Specifically, how does the Silicon Valley work? Did you know that nearly one third of Silicon Valley startups are founded by non-technical people – economists, history and literature majors, to name a few. What is the track record of their success, compared to engineers and scientists?
In our discussion, we will focus on these questions – and illustrate the concepts with real life examples.
About Ajit Singh
Dr. Ajit Singh is a mix of an academic, a large-company executive, a start-up founder, and a venture capitalist. He spent 20 years at Siemens – in the US and in Germany – in various global CEO roles. He left Siemens to do a startup in the area of Cancer diagnostics and successfully sold his company, BioImagene, to Hoffman la Roche. He has been a partner at Artiman Ventures, a silicon valley VC fund for the past ten years. He also teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford. His most interesting career highlight: he drove a taxi in New York for a year.
He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University.