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Day 1 STE4D Workshop NUST, Islamabad Monday, June 2, 2014

Morning Session Chair: Chris De Veer ; Afternoon Session Chair: Joe Niemela

Time Subject Speaker

9:00 – 9:45 Registration

10:00

10:02‐10:05

10:05 – 10:15

10:15 – 10:30

10:30 – 10:45

10:45‐10:55

10:55: 11:00

All to be seated

Recitation from the Holy Quran

Welcome Remarks

Presentation on NUST

Brief on Workshop and its objectives

Opening Remarks

Presentation of Shield to Dr William Colglazier

NUST Rector/Pro‐Rector,

TBD

Dr. Amadei and Dr. Raghu

Dr William Colglazier Advisor on S&T to US

Secretary of State

11:15‐11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:30 Brief introduction of speakers, organizers and

participants ‐ self introduction (20 second each) (20

minutes)

Workshop Expectations “Speed‐Networking” Exercise

Franklin Carrero‐Martinez

Raghu

Richard Brooks/Joe Niemela

12:30‐1:00 The need for Social Entrepreneurship in Pakistan Bernard Amadei

1:00‐ 2:00 Lunch Break

2:00 – 3:00 Identifying needs of the bottom 70%

Any cool solutions/technologies looking for

problems?

Sheikh Noorullah, Tahir Masood, Syed Imam

3 presentations of 15 minutes each – Raghu

3:00 – 4:00 Identifying about 10 specific problems needing

technology solutions in various sectors and the

interconnection of these problems

Moderator: Alistair Brett

Group Activity

4:00 – 4:15 Coffee Break

4:15 – 5:15 Generate list of skills and resources needed to invent, innovate and implement solutions to about 10 of the selected problems from above areas?

Richard/Alistair Brett

Group Activity

5:15 – 6:15 Gathering the talent pool in the class for developing solutions to the problems Technical skills Non‐technical skills What are you willing to learn to get the job done? Example of a good team to execute a solution to a typical problem

Raghu/Franklin/Tahir/Joe Niemela/TBD

Participant‐intensive session

6:15 – 6:30 What to look for in the conference on Tuesday ‐Wrap‐up for the Day 1 and example video of group project

Raghu/Franklin


STE4D Conference Marriott Hotel, Islamabad Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Conveners

Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed, HEC Chairman Dr. Bernard Amadei, U.S. Science Envoy

Agenda Morning (8-13:30) 8:00 Registration 10:00 Recitation of Holy Quran Welcoming remarks (Dr. Amadei and Dr. Mukhtar) 10:00-10:30 Short speeches by guests of honor

Dr. W. Colglazier, S&T Advisor to the Secretary of State Planning Minister (TBC)

10:30-11:00 Keynote Lecture 1: Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed, HEC Chairman 11:00-11:30 Tea break 11:30-12:00 Keynote Lecture 2: Dr. Sohail Naqvi, Vice-Chancellor, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) 12:00-13:15 Entrepreneurship and Education in Pakistan – A Vision of Success

Co-Chair: Eng. Salman Absar, Director of Innovation and Commercialization, NUST Co-Chair: Dr. Alistair Brett, T2 Venture Capital Dr. Afaque R. Ahmed: Chair, Karachi Inst. Tech & Entrepreneurship (KITE) Dr. Abid Mahmood, Director General, Ayub Agriculture Research Institute, Faisalabad

Dr. Syed Azhar Afaq Rizvi, Chairman Standing Committee on Innovation Entrepreneurship, The Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI)

Mr. Baber Ali, Programs Manager, Virtual University, Lahore

13:15-14:15 Lunch and prayer Afternoon (14:15-19:00) 14:15-14:45 Keynote Lecture 3: Mr. Ali Raza, Pakistan Energy Solutions and Director of the Leads Entrepreneurship Center at UCEST, Lahore


14:45-16:30 Science and Technology in Development: Collaboration Projects between the U. S. and Pakistan

Co-Chair: Dr. Kendall E. Nygard, Senior Science Advisor and Jefferson Science Fellow, USAID, and Professor of Computer Science, North Dakota State University Co-Chair: Dr. Sajjad Ahmad Madani, Chairman, Department of Computer Science, COMSATS Institution of Information Technology U. S. and Pakistani S&T Cooperative Projects: Programs and Potential

- Dr. Samee Khan, North Dakota State University Development and Commercialization of a Blood Based TB Diagnostic Test

- Dr. Imran Khan, UC Davis - Dr. Natasha Anwar, Foreman Christian College

Ambient Air Quality Monitoring using Integrated Secure Wireless Sensor And Vehicular Networks

- Dr. Hafiz Malik, UMich-Dearborn - Dr. Muhammad Tahir, UET Lahore

New Approaches for Lower Cost, Longer Stability, and Higher Efficiency of Dye-sensitized Solar Cells

- Dr. Qiquan Qiao, South Dakota State University - Dr. Muhammad Hassan Sayyad, Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute

The Development, Optimization, and Application of a High-Performing Engineered Fertilizer

- Dr. Syed Imam, Flozyme Corp, Inc. 16:30 -17:00 Tea break

17:00-18:15 Successful Women in Science and Technology

Co-Chair: Mrs. Sabeen Mahmud President of T2F café, and Director of PeaceNiche Co-Chair: Ms. Sara Klucking, U.S. Department of State Anum Imtiaz: Co-founder of NAN-TECH Pakistan Dr. Rumina Hasan: Professor Pathology/Microbiology, Agha Khan University Dr. Farrukh Hassan: CEO, Niha Corporation - Fertilizers and biogas production Dr. Nagin Cox, NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratories

18:15-19:00 Concluding Remarks (Panel)

Moderator: Dr. Clare Muhoro, USAID Dr. Bernard Amadei, U.S. Science Envoy Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed, HEC Chairman TBD


Day 2 STE4D Workshop NUST, Islamabad Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Morning Session Chair: Clare Muhoro; Afternoon Session Chair: Tahir Masood


9:00

Sign-in

9:30 – 10:30

Tools for Technology Road Mapping and Opportunity Assessment

Surya Raghu

10:30 – 1:00

Down-selecting 6 high-impact projects and Resource Mapping and teaming the talent pool for working on specific ideas – team formations

All Speakers Group Activity

10:30-10:45

Coffee Break

1:00 – 2:30

Lunch Break, Group Photo

2:30-3:30

Tools for Financial Estimations

Richard Brooks

3:30-4:30

Tools for protecting Intellectual Property Copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, etc.

Yumiko Hamano

4:30 – 4:45 Coffee

4:45 – 5:30

Information for setting up a company in Pakistan

Ahmed Masud

5:30 – 6:15

Tools for Marketing and Sales Consumer behaviour studies, focus groups and customer satisfaction surveys

Ayesha Fahad

6:15 – 6:45

How to get to global markets

Syed Imam

6:45 – 7:00

Wrap-up for the Day 2

Raghu/Franklin


Day 3 STE4D Workshop NUST, Islamabad Thursday, June 5, 2014

Morning Session Chair: Gul-E Afshan; Afternoon Session Chair: Sara Klucking


9:00 Sign in

9:30 – 10:45

FDS App for financial estimate

Richard Brooks

10:45 – 11:00 Coffee

11:00 – 12:00 Taking the inventions to market –Evaluating

the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of an

invention for commercialization, processes

involved and estimates of time required to

develop a product from an invention.

Surya Raghu

12:00 – 1:00

Valuation of your invention and product at

various stages of development. Investor’s

expectation on funding your invention, due

diligence, share dilution

Soha Zulfiqar

1:00 – 2:00

Lunch Break

2:00 – 3:00

Start‐up and spin‐off options for University researchers

Alistair Brett

3:00 – 4:00

Venture investing trends & what VCs look for in Start‐ups

Faysal Sohail

4:00 – 4:15 Coffee Break

4:15 – 5:15

Legal Contracts and Agreements in Start‐ups

Yumiko Hamano

5:15 – 6:00

Communication and Presentation Skills

Surya Raghu

6:00 ‐ 6:45 Group Project Part 3 Competition Analysis Barriers to Entry Strategic Relationships Forecasting costs and cash requirement, time to market and breakeven, Return on Investment

All speakers and participants

6:45 – 7:00 Wrap‐up for the Day 3 Raghu/Franklin


Day 4 STE4D Workshop NUST, Islamabad Friday, June 6, 2014

Morning Session Chair: Sara Klucking Time Subject Speaker

9:00

Sign in

9:30 – 11:00

Success Stories ‐ Case Study 1 Case Study 2 Case Study 3 Case Study 4

Ali Raza

Imran Khan

Faysal Sohail

Anum Imtiaz

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 –12:30

Getting Started, Key Decisions and Learning from Failures

S. Raghu/Imran Khan

12:30 – 1:30

Lunch Break

1:30 – 6:45

Coffee

4:00‐4:15

Project trouble shooting Q&A for speakers Group Project Part 4 ‐ Complete the 10‐minute pitch and practice for the presentation using guidelines provided.

All Speaker available for consultation on projects

6:45 – 7:00 Wrap‐up for the Day 4 and announcements Franklin/Raghu


Day 5 STE4D Workshop NUST, Islamabad Friday, June 7, 2014

Time Subject

9:30‐10:00

Upload Final Presentations, Introduction to presentation rules and panel of Judges Official time keeping rules

All groups

Richard

Panel (Alistair, Yumiko, Richard, Tahir, Raghu, TBD)

Franklin

10:00 – 12:30

Business Plan Presentations 10 minutes + 10 minutes Q&A/group + 5 minutes judges time

6 Groups

12:30 – 1:30

Lunch

1:30 – 2:30

Feedback by panel of judges Feedback from participants Concluding remarks Issue of certificates

Richard, Raghu, Yumiko, Alistair, Tahir, TBD Moderated by Raghu Bernard Amadei


Speaker Bios

Prof. Bernard Amadei University of Colorado, Boulder [email protected]

Dr. Amadei is Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He received his PhD in 1982 from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Amadei holds the Mortenson Endowed Chair in Global Engineering and served as Faculty Director of the Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Communities from 2009‐2012. He is also the Founding President of Engineers Without Borders ‐ USA and the co‐founder of the Engineers Without Borders‐International network. Among other distinctions, Dr. Amadei is the 2007 co‐recipient of the Heinz Award for the Environment; the recipient of the 2008 ENR Award of Excellence; an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Construction; and an elected Senior Knight‐Ashoka Fellow. He holds four honorary doctoral degrees. In 2012, Dr. Amadei was appointed as a Science Envoy by the U.S. Department of State.

Dr. Alistair Brett T2 Venture Capital [email protected]

Alistair M. Brett is a Technology Commercialization Advisor to T2 Venture Capital. Alistair has over 25 years of international consulting experience in USA, UK, Russian Federation, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Croatia, Latvia, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, and Costa Rica. Alistair specializes in helping countries commercialize science and technology from universities and research institutes and developing support mechanisms for technology commercialization. Since 2002 Alistair has been a science, technology, innovation consultant to the World Bank Group where he has advised on and assessed technology development and commercialization strategies – with a focus always on practical implementation. He has developed policy recommendations and implementation plans for funding of technology development, foreign patenting strategies, conducting technology audits, creating regional technology transfer centers, incubators and science and technology parks, working with foreign companies, creating educational programs, improving university‐industry relations, and business project planning and management. Alistair was previously a senior consultant to Oxford Innovation Ltd, UK, and was Director of the Technology Transfer program at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute (USA). He also served on the Advisory Board of the (US) Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer for several years. Alistair holds a B.Sc. (1st Class Honors) in Physics from the University of London, and a Ph.D. in Physics, from the University of St. Andrews (Scotland), and Drexel University (USA).

Mr. Richard Brooks FD Solutions

Since co‐founding FD Solutions (www.fdsolutions.uk.com) in the early 1990s, Richard has been integral to FD Solutions becoming the leading provider of flexible Director services in the UK. In addition to Finance Directors the company also provides HR Directors and Sales Directors. Specialist sectors include technology start‐ups, food, retail, manufacturing and not‐for‐profit organisations. Richard, who qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young in 1984 is also:


•Vice‐chairman of PraxisUnico (http://www.praxisunico.org.uk/) the educational not‐for‐profit organisation supporting innovation and commercialisation of public sector and charity research for social and economic impact •Board member of the Bio Industry Association Finance and Taxation Committee, http://www.bioindustry.org/advisory‐committees/finance‐and‐tax‐advisory‐committee‐ftac/ •Presenter on IOP entrepreneurship workshops http://www.iop.org/about/international/development/entrepreneurship/page_44527.html •Member of the advisory board of the London Chamber Orchestra, http://www.lco.co.uk/about/trustees‐and‐advisers In addition to helping technology start‐ups with financial and business planning he also has invested in a few of them.

Prof. Franklin Carrero-Martínez (Workshop Co-Director) Office of the Science & Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State [email protected] Dr. Franklin Carrero‐Martínez is a senior policy advisor with the Office of the Science and Technology Adviser (STAS) to the Secretary of State. After completing his BS in Biology he enrolled in the Cell and Structural Biology program at the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign and upon completion of his Ph.D. thesis research, he joined the National Institute of Genetics in the Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan as a research fellow. Upon his return to Puerto Rico he joined the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez as an Assistant Professor of Biology. There he established a competitive basic and applied research program in Cell and Developmental Neurobiology and led efforts aimed at understanding the cellular and molecular dynamics that shape synapse formation. He later expanded his research program to include evidence‐based approaches on how to best develop talent among students with high potential, but lacking experience and exposure to research and engaged in large‐scale curricular reform using inquiry‐based teaching approaches. Last year, the American Association named Franklin the Roger Revelle Fellow in Global Stewardship for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). This distinction “provides a unique opportunity for an accomplished scientist to address global stewardship issues by applying his broad, multidisciplinary background toward solutions to important societal problems”. He served with a dual appointment between the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and STAS. Franklin joined the Department of State for a second year shaping the science diaspora effort, entrepreneurship and education and many other Science and Technology issues faced by developing, transitional, and advanced industrial societies. In addition, he is the grant officer representative for the U.S. ‐ Pakistan Science and Technology Cooperation Program.

Ms. Ayesha Fahad [email protected] Ayesha has started and managed a successful handbag brand called Ash L’amour since 2010. Her expertise lies in marketing and business development for start‐ups in Pakistan. She has worked as a trainer on topics involving marketing, business development and entrepreneurship. She has also been a motivational speaker, committed to the cause of women and youth in entrepreneurship. Ayesha has a Masters’ in Business Administration, with a marketing concentration, from the Institute of Business Administration. She is currently associated with the marketing department at the Karachi Institute of Technology and Entrepreneurship.


Ms. Yumiko Hamano ET Cube International [email protected]

IP and Business Consultant, ET Cube International Ms. Yumiko Hamano, a national of Japan, has extensive experience in the field of intellectual property in particular, patents, Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) System, university intellectual property management, university intellectual property policies, technology transfer, technology commercialization, entrepreneurship and technology based business strategies. Until April 2013, she had worked as a senior official for over 25 years at World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva based United Nations’ specialized agency, responsible for the promotion of intellectual property systems and protection of intellectual property rights worldwide. Together with two other partners, she has now founded a consulting and training company ET Cube International providing training and consulting services on intellectual property policies, intellectual property management, technology transfer and technology based entrepreneurship in collaboration with various international organizations including government institutions. She is a frequent speaker and lecturer in international conferences and professional training. In addition to her technical expertise she has solid diplomatic skills built over her long experience in working in the United Nations organization and organizing more than 140 international conferences and workshops through negotiation and coordination with governments and inter‐governmental organizations, in particular, major and middle size Intellectual Property Offices and Ministries in charge of Science, Technology, and Innovation. LLM Intellectual Property Law: University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom MBA specialized in Management in International Organizations: University of Geneva, Switzerland Languages: Fluent: Japanese, English and French (UN language proficiency certificate) Good command: Chinese (UN language proficiency certificate)

Dr. Syed Imam Flozyme Corporation

Dr. Syed Imam is a partner and Vice President of Research & Development at the Flozyme Corporation Inc. based in Dallas, Texas. Before joining the company, Dr. Imam served as a senior Research Chemist in the ARS/USDA‐ Bioproduct Chemistry & Engineering Research laboratory in Berkeley, CA. Dr. Imam received his Ph.D. from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez in 1984 specializing in chemistry & engineering of microbial/plant‐derived polymers and was a recipient of the Robert Welch Postdoctoral Fellow in Plant Biochemistry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas. Dr. Imam Joined USDA in January 1988 as a Research Chemist and served in various capacities which include Lead Scientist, Acting Research Leader and more recently as an Acting Assistant Director for the USDA Pacific West Area overseeing


research programs and activities for the entire Area. Dr. Imam is internationally recognized for his R&D efforts in the area of biodegradable polymers and products. He owns numerous patents to his credit and has published over 176 research articles in peer‐reviewed journals. He is an elected member of the ASTM and has served on the D‐20 Committee responsible for developing standards for ‘Biodegradable Polymers’. He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Polymers and the Environment and is an associate editor of the Journal of Biobased Materials and Bioenergy. His research activities led him to serve as a consultant/mission advisor to the United Nations Development Program. He is a U.S. representative on the ICS/UNIDO Expert Panel on Biodegradable Polymers/Materials. Over the years, Dr. Imam has successfully developed research cooperation with commercial partners that include Dow Chemicals, Owens Corning, ICI, Zeneca, Formica Inc., MGP Inc., and Clorox Services Company. He is organizer and Program Director of the ARS‐Mexico International Workshops on “Agricultural Biotechnology” in Monterrey, Mexico. He is a chief editor of ACS Book titled “biopolymers: Utilizing Natures’ Advanced Materials” published by the Oxford University Press (1999) and a co‐editor of the CRC Book titled “Produce Degradation: Reaction Pathways and their Prevention” published in May 2005. A third book titled “Starch‐Based Polymeric materials and nanocomposites: Chemistry, Processing and Applications” was published in 2012 by the CRC Press. Dr. Imam’s joint research with collaborators from Italy and Egypt was nominated for the Germany’s prestigious “Brunswig Prize” in the field of agricultural chemistry & engineering. He was the recipient of the Pak‐U.S. Cooperative Science & Technology research grant (2007‐2010).

Dr. Imran Khan University of California - Davis [email protected]

Dr. Tahir Masood [email protected]

Dr. Masood, after working for more than 20 years in USA universities and industry, came to Pakistan and currently is the head of the department of leadership and management studies at the National Defence University, Islamabad. Dr. Masood is the holder of two undergraduate degrees (Govt. College, Lahore and Military College of Engineering), two master degrees (USA) and two doctoral degrees (USA). He earned his first Ph.D., in Civil Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA, in 1987, and his second Ph.D., in Urban and Regional Planning from Texas A&M University, USA, in 1999. Dr. Masood started as a civil engineer and a city and regional planner, but later developed his expertise in management sciences field, project management, environmental planning, as an academician, and a researcher. Dr. Masood brings a wealth of knowledge and decades of professional work experience in Pakistan and USA. Before relocating to the US, Dr. Masood served as a Project Engineer at the United States Agency for International Development (Project Manager for two multi‐million Dollar rural road and water development projects in Sindh and Balochistan), and as Research Consultant for the Government of Pakistan’s National Transport Research Center in Islamabad (conducted research studies and planned traffic engineering seminars). In USA, Dr. Masood served as a faculty in the University of Southwestern Louisiana where he taught several undergraduate and graduate level courses‐Environmental Planning, City Planning, Transportation Planning, Public Policy Formulation and Analysis, and Data Collection and Analysis. Dr. Masood also worked as a Transportation Engineer/Planner for the Northwest Louisiana Council of Governments in Shreveport and as Senior Transportation Systems Analyst in the Planning Department of the Metropolitan Transit Authority (METRO) in Houston, Texas. He later got involved in Project Planning and Business Management and served for


14 years in US industry. He also served as Senior Analyst in the METRO’s Office of Budget and Management, and as Senior Project Manager in its Department of Police and Public Safety which was his last posting before returning to Pakistan in September 2008 to teach Project Management as well as MBA and EMBA courses at COMSATS and as a visiting faculty at UET Lahore, ZABIST Islamabad, and NUST Islamabad. Dr. Masood has a number of publications to his name and has been a member of several professional associations like PEC, PE Texas, ITE USA, ASCE, and APA.

Mr. Sayyed Ahmad Masud [email protected]

Mr. Masud is a Presidential Gold Medalist and MBA from the Quaid I Azam University Islamabad. He is the Managing Director of Channel 7 Communications Pvt. Ltd which he founded along with his partner in 1990. Channel 7 is now a leading advertising agency of Pakistan with offices in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi. The Channel 7 Group of Companies over the years has expanded to include Cinergy Productions, Events and Launchpad Interactive. Besides advertising, he is also passionate about education and has been teaching as adjunct faculty for the past 23 years at leading universities of Islamabad. He has successfully managed Pakistan’s biggest conference on Entrepreneurship TiECON Pakistan 2011 as Chair TiECON. He is also an active mentor for individuals and start ups and also routinely gives lectures on Entrepreneurship, Branding and Advertising.

Dr. Joe Niemela International Center for Theoretical Physics [email protected]

Dr. Niemela heads the Office of External Activities and a Senior Research Scientist at ICTP, which he joined in 2003, and is currently head of its Applied Physics Group. In addition to conducting research in areas of fluid turbulence and low temperature physics, he coordinates a number of research and training programs with external partners, including the Central European Initiative’s Science and Technology Network, the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), and the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE). He is a member of the teaching faculty of the University of Trieste Doctoral School in Environmental and Industrial Fluid Mechanics and besides teaching he serves on its Entrance Examination committee. Dr. Niemela also serves as a board editor for Papers in Physics and the African Review of Physics. He is a member of the European Physical Society’s Physics for Development Board, and represents the ICTP on the International Commission for Optics’ Education Committee. Dr. Niemela is currently Director of the UNESCO’s Active Learning in Optics and Photonics Program‐‐an undergraduate level teacher training program‐‐ and also serves as the ICTP liaison to UNESCO’s Division of Basic and Engineering Sciences. In addition, he represents ICTP at the SESAME Council and is a member of the SESAME Training and Advisory Committee (TrAC).

Mr. Sheikh Noorullah [email protected] Noor is a senior impact investment professional and is the Global Head for Agriculture at Acumen. He has been leading Acumen efforts in the agriculture investing space for the last 7 years. In addition, he also manages Acumen Pakistan’s energy, water and health portfolios. Before joining Acumen, Noor served as a consultant for the World Bank, where he studied the socio‐economic impact of environmental degradation in the


province of Punjab, Pakistan. Noor holds a Bachelor degree with Honors, in Economics and Computer Sciences from Lahore University of Management Sciences.

Dr. Surya Raghu (Workshop Co-Director) Advanced Fluidics [email protected]

Dr. Surya Raghu has been a co‐director and speaker in workshops on Entrepreneurship for Scientists and Engineers in Argentina, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Mexico, Philippines and South Africa, (Italy, Ghana and Kenya in 2014), a member of the missions to Morocco and Pakistan on Tech Transfer and Research Commercialization. His recently developed Entrepreneurship Course Module has been implemented in several universities in the developing countries for training university students in the basics of entrepreneurship. He received his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from Yale University in 1987 and is the founder‐president of Advanced Fluidics LLC since 2001. His earlier affiliations were with Yale University, Technical University of Berlin, SUNY Stony Brook, and Bowles Fluidics Corporation. He has also been a visiting scientist at NIST and AFOSR Laboratories and a guest lecturer at Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan. Dr. Raghu has inventions related to aerospace, automotive, consumer and biotechnology applications and has been awarded 12 US patents and has over 10 pending patents/invention disclosures as an inventor or co‐inventor. He has experience in the development of products from inventions related to physiological monitoring, DNA testing, wireless corrosion sensors, aerodynamic flow control and spray technology and has active research collaborations with many institutions in the US and Europe. Dr. Raghu is a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt award from Germany and an Associate Fellow of the AIAA. He has served as an invited member of the Special Emphasis Review Panels on Micro and Nanotechnology at the National Institutes of Health.

Mr. Faysal Sohail CMEA [email protected]

Faysal Sohail is a General Partner at CMEA Capital in San Francisco, California and Silicon Oasis Capital in Dubai. Since 2002, he has led venture capital funding to several key startups in both technology and energy sectors. Before joining CMEA, Faysal helped to build three companies in Silicon Valley – Cadabra Design Automation (merged with Numerical Technologies), Silicon Architects (merged with Synopsys; SNPS) and Actel Corporation (ACTL) – which all became successful via either IPO or through merger or acquisition. Faysal’s support of entrepreneurship is not only focused in Silicon Valley, but it extends globally. In the spring of 2010, Faysal was honored to serve as a delegate at President Barack Obama’s Summit on Entrepreneurship where 50 nations were represented by delegates chosen to promote global entrepreneurship. Faysal was a member of the Silicon Valley Trade Mission to Russia and spoke at the Entrepreneurship Summit in Turkey and Dubai. In his free time, Faysal is a guest lecturer of entrepreneurship at the Stanford Graduate School of Business as well as Haas School of Business and Islamic Finance at UC Berkeley. Faysal servers on several corporate board globally as well as Vice‐Chairman of Silicon Valley Education Foundation. Faysal holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois (Urbana‐Champaign), where he also served on the College of Engineering Advisory Board (CEAB).


Ms. Soha Zulfiqar [email protected]

Soha has six years of experience in strategy development and financial planning for Pakistani entrepreneurial ventures, including technology start‐ups, banks and oil marketing companies. Soha has a Masters’ in Business Administration, with a finance concentration, from the Institute of Business Administration(IBA). She is currently involved with the financial component of KITE’s Outreach department and also teaches introductory business and entrepreneurship courses at KITE’s business school.

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