Symposium on Innovation & Entrepreneurship Education (SIEE)

Symposium audience: Faculty members and university administrators who want to gain knowledge and new perspectives related to teaching innovation and entrepreneurship. The majority of attendees will be faculty members, with the remainder of the audience consisting of government and industry representatives.

Symposium Outline: The symposium will include a series of talks by Stanford faculty and Silicon Valley experts who have been teaching innovation and entrepreneurship to students and executives for many years. Speakers will describe the learnings that they’ve had over the years of teaching these topics, how their philosophy and approach has changed and evolved, and what they feel is most important in achieving success when teaching topics such as design thinking and creativity, scaling new businesses and ideas, lean startups, teams and an innovation culture, venture finance, strategy in growing companies, etc.

The lectures will include some experiential components that will model some of the teaching techniques used on the Stanford campus, and will hopefully inspire UAE faculty to adopt some of these methods and engage with the curriculum and coaching activities that will be part of the larger collaboration between Stanford and the UAE.

Program Agenda

Time	22 November, 2015
8:30 am – 10:00 am	Reception, Registration
10:00 am – 10:45 am	Official opening ceremony: Keynote Speech by HE Hussain J. Al Nowais, Chairman of Khalifa Fund
10:45 am – 11:15 am	Coffee Break
11:15 am – 12:00 pm	Speaker 1: Tom Byers, PhD Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Standford University Developing Educational Programs that Teach Innovation and Entrepreneurship
12:15 pm – 01:00 pm	Speaker 2: Pamela Hinds, PhD Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Standford University Learning to Innovate in a Global Context
01:00pm – 2:00 pm	Lunch
02:00 pm – 02:45 pm	Speaker 3: Ravi Belani Lecturer, Dept. of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University; Managing Partner at Alchemist Accelerator An Entrepreneur’s Journey: From Student to Teacher
02:45 pm – 03:15 pm	Coffee Break
3:15pm – 4:45 pm	Coaching/Workshop session 1: Entrepreneurship
	Coaching/Workshop session 2: Design thinking
	Coaching/Workshop session 3: Innovative teaching approaches

 

 

Time	23 November, 2015
10:00 am – 10:45 am	Speaker 4 & 5: Robert I. Sutton, PhD Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University Perry Klebahn Consulting Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University Teaching and Spreading Design Thinking- Part I
10:45 am – 11:30 am	Speaker 4 & 5: Robert I. Sutton and Perry Klebahn Teaching and Spreading Design Thinking - Part II
11:30am – 12:00 pm	Coffee Break
12:00 pm – 12:45 pm	Speaker 6: John Mitchell, PhD Vice Provost of Teaching and Learning, Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University How Stanford Ensures Continuous Innovation in Teaching and Learning
12:45 pm – 02:00 pm	Lunch
02:00 pm – 02:45 pm	Speaker 7: Trevor  Loy Lecturer, Dept. of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University; Managing Partner and Founder of Flywheel Ventures Teaching Operations as a Core Component of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
02:45 pm – 03:15 pm	Coffee Break
03:15 pm – 04:45 pm	Coaching/Workshop session 1: Entrepreneurship
	Coaching/Workshop session 2: Design thinking
	Coaching/Workshop session 3: Innovative teaching approaches