It is less than a month until XSITE 2011—the Xconomy Summit on Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship, our annual full-day innovation extravaganza that will take place this year on June 16 at Babson College. We have already announced most of the keynoters and many other speakers, which you can find here, along with the registration information.
Now we’d like to share a brief note from one of the main keynoters, Desh Deshpande, about what he plans to talk about—both to you and with you, as he has let us know he plans to take a lot of question.
Desh, of course, is co-founder of Sycamore Networks, chairman of A123Systems, progenitor of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT, and one of New England’s most prominent super angels. He is active not just in the U.S., but also in his native India. And his interests go far beyond making money, into nurturing ecosystems, improving health and education, and mentoring new generations of entrepreneurs . He has created a social entrepreneurship center in northern Karnataka, India. And just in the past six months or so his foundation committed $5 million over the next five years to support the Merrimack Valley Sandbox, a new innovation center at the University of Massachusetts Lowell that, as Greg wrote earlier this year, “will work together with local colleges and nonprofits to boost entrepreneurship among students and professionals, and to develop local leadership through mentoring and seed funding programs.”
To read the full, original article click on this link: Desh Deshpande’s XSITE Keynote: Making an Impact Through Entrepreneurship Driven by Technological and Social Innovation | Xconomy
Author: Robert Buderi
