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May 10, 2012 | 
Author Silicon Valley-Based University ITU to Sponsor the 2012 Symposium of Ideas; an Event Presented by Infuse Entrepreneurship Foundation
San Jose, CA (PRWEB) May 09, 2012
ITU (International Technological University), a graduate university based in Silicon Valley, will be sponsoring the 2012 Symposium of Ideas presented by Infuse Entrepreneurship Foundation on Friday, May 11, 2012. The Event will be hosted at the Brocade Amphitheatre in San Jose from 6pm – 9pm. Tickets may be purchased at the door for $ 5 and it is expected that 120 attendees will be present. The event is open to the public.
The Infuse Entrepreneurship Foundation sponsors entrepreneurial projects for students of inner-city schools which provide students with hands-on experience developing product-based businesses that solve a social or economic problem. Students this year were challenged to develop their product solutions with a green or clean technology.
During the 2012 Symposium of Ideas, students will present their final projects to a panel of judges, including:
Treb Ryan, CEO of OpSource
Amie Gray of Data Key Consulting
Paul Whitney of Data Direct Networks
Ian MacDonald of Infinera Corporation
Kevin Stizes, Co-Founder and COO of Moonblink Communications
And Darlene Tennes, Founder of CassQ.
Students will be competing for the opportunity to win scholarships as well as coveted internships with Silicon Valley Green and Biotechnology Firms. Three of those internships will be with Silicon Valley based graduate university, ITU.
“I have been a guest speaker at ITU on prior occasions,” said Angele Jean Thomas, Founder of Infuse Entrepreneurship Foundation. “By offering internships to our high school students, students can witness firsthand, through ITU’s global business model, how they can create their very own companies.”
As a part of their commitment to innovative educational solutions, ITU supports entrepreneurial students in bringing their ideas and technologies to market. An in-house patent and ownership policy and process framework and leading industrial expertise helps students develop their research, patent their innovations, and build a successful business model.
About ITU
With seven strong departments providing high quality academic and practical training, ITU offers distinctive graduate level certificates, Master’s, and doctorate level programs in electrical engineering, computer/software engineering, engineering management, international business, interdisciplinary sciences, and digital arts. ITU degree programs aim to educate competent engineers, managers and administrators with a deep understanding of professional ethics, intellectual property law, environmental protection and other contemporary issues.
ITU has been granted candidacy status by the Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) and is also recognized by the Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education (BPPE),. WASC Candidacy status places ITU among the recognized list of institutions on the U.S. Department of Education’s database of recognized institutions of higher learning and the Council for Higher Education’s Listing of Accredited and Candidate Institutions (CHEA).
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Join Kevin McGovern and Chris Clarke as They Go over Social Entrepreneurship Reside from the Chopra Foundation Symposium Through Genuine-Time Streaming on Monday, March 4
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) March 05, 2012
It is okay to boost the planet although generating a profit. That is the crux of the concern entrepreneurs Kevin McGovern and Chris Clarke will address starting at eight am nowadays, Monday, March 5, 2012. This is the final day of the three-day Chopra Foundation Sages and Scientists Symposium.
At around eight am, Kevin McGovern will take the stage. This serial entrepreneur launched wrinkle-eliminating Alpha Hydroxy Acid (AHA)—which is now licensed to 50 organizations, such as cosmetic giants L’Oréal, Estée Lauder, Chanel and Avon SoBe Beverages—which established the new age nutraceutical beverage category and was later sold to PepsiCo and KX Industries—which created and supplied the very first home-based end-of-tap “Pur” filter for P&G, Brita, and the first refrigerator water filter for Electrolux.
McGovern also teaches a class titled “Global Innovation and Commercialism” at Cornell University. He says that in this class, he emphasizes that business owners need to “catch the existing and ride the wave” to be effective.
Right now, McGovern will speak about his function as Chairman of The Water Initiative (TWI), a venture created to clean up the world’s contaminated water by means of the use of customizable filter technology deployed at the home. This special device eliminates the require for pricey centralized water remedy plants and the risk of recontamination that usually happens between the remedy plant and the tap.
“Water is the lifeblood of the planet,” said Deepak Chopra, founder of the Chopra Foundation. “The function Kevin is performing in this location is very beneficial.”
Chris Clarke will speak at around 10 am. Clarke created the hugely profitable Blue M&M campaign with now Global CEO of Mars Inc. Paul Michaels. Clarke also founded his own highly productive marketing agency Pure Inventive and the socially-conscious Australian residential IT organization Virtual Communities.
Today, the social entrepreneur is operating with Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and Pure Growth Partners on an energy shot called Street King, which is now carried at the top international retailer of wellness and wellness merchandise, GNC. Clarke and 50 Cent have set a aim of feeding 1 billion Africans using some of the proceeds from Street King sales
Chopra recently co-starred in a Street King commercial with 50 Cent.
The press and public are invited to join the Chopra Foundation’s gathering of distinguished scientists, spiritual guides, political leaders and humanitarians via reside streaming at http://www.choprafoundation.org/events-initiatives/sages-scientists/live-broadcast/ or http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sages-scientists starting at eight am Pacific Time these days. Or, adhere to @ChopraFoundation or @DeepakChopra on Twitter and share comments employing hash tag #sas12.
The Chopra Foundation occasion is designed to discover concerns of the mind and mindfulness, responsible leadership, environmental sustainability, peace and justice, globe transformation, social and economic challenges. The extended weekend will finish on Monday with a recap of the problems and an exploration of creative solutions.
About the Chopra Foundation
The Chopra Foundation is a 501 (c) (three) organization devoted to enhancing well being and properly-getting, cultivating spiritual knowledge, expanding consciousness, and promoting planet peace to all members of the human family.
The organization’s mission is to participate with individuals and organizations in developing a essential mass for a peaceful, just, sustainable,and healthy world by way of scientifically and experientially exploring non-dual consciousness as the ground of existence and applying this understanding in the enhancement of health, company, leadership and conflict resolution.
To find out more about The Chopra Foundation, please pay a visit to the Foundation’s site: choprafoundation.org.
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