Third Annual University of California, Berkeley Conference to focus on Innovation in Emerging Economies will be held in India.

Sponsored by the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
 and Tata Consultancy Services.

Please join us at our third annual conference
 “Innovation in Emerging Economies: China, India, Russia”
To be held in Hyderabad, India on November 13, 2007.

Leading business executives, investors, policy makers and academics from China, India, Russia and the US will address issues relating to innovation and entrepreneurship in emerging economies.

Executives, policy makers, academics and investors will come from all three countries and the US to exchange views on innovation and its complexities: cross border issues in financing, successful development through international research and cooperation, analysis of global best practices, how policy affects the culture of innovation and entrepreneurship and trends on the immediate horizon.  

Speakers include:

  • Excellency A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, President of India, noted scientist, (tentatively confirmed)
  • Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, CEO, Biocon Ltd (largest biotech company)
  • Mr. S. Ramadorai, CEO, Tata Consultancy Services (largest IT company in India)
  • Tom Campbell, Bank of America Dean, Haas School of Business
  • Dr. Zhao Chen, Fudan University, Shanghai
  • Drew Clark, Director of Strategy, IBM Venture Capital Group
  • Tom Kilroy, Vice President & GM, Digital Enterprise Group, Intel
  • Jorge Freyer, Managing Director, Hultquist Capital

 

As well as speakers from Huawei (China), St. Petersburg and Moscow, (Russia) and academics, policy figures, venture capitalists and others.

Proposed panels:
1. The Culture of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
2. Financing and Innovation: Venture Capital in Emerging Economies
3. The Next Breakthrough Areas
4. Innovation and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Policy

Organized by: The Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, Tata Consultancy Services, Hyderabad, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

Press coverage arranged:
Television will broadcast the conference to a large audience in India and a video of the conference will be posted on a UC Berkeley Web site.

Venue:
We are holding rooms (at discounted prices) at the venue, the Taj Krishna hotel and at the neighboring Taj Banjara hotel. A pre-conference excursion around Hyderabad will be offered on November 12th.

Sponsorship opportunities available – please ask for our sponsorship package

For details and to register contact:

Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley:

Susanne Campbell
Institute of Management, Innovation and Organization
(510) 642-4041  (Fax (510) 642-2826) 
scampbel@haas.berkeley.edu

Professor Ashok Bardhan
bardhan@haas.berkeley.edu

In India:

Dr. M. Vidyasagar
Tata Consultancy Services
M.vidyasagar@tcs.com
            Tel: +91-40-6667-3001   Fax:- +91-40-6667-2222

Co-Sponsored by:

Eurasia Center
Eurasian Business Coalition
Center for South Asian Studies, UC Berkeley
Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley
Institute for Slavic and East European Studies
Berkeley-India Initiative