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The document summarizes resources for entrepreneurs in Africa and the Middle East, including a startup bus program in Southern Africa bringing together African and international entrepreneurs, programs in Ghana and East Africa from Stanford University, and various consulting firms and resources on intellectual property, business development, and entrepreneurship. It then provides details on a workshop on intellectual property and entrepreneurship in Africa and the Middle East being held at Stanford University, featuring experts from Silicon Valley and the region to provide methods for developing businesses.
Program handout
- 1. Resources Africa Entrepreneurship StartupBus is an annual entrepreneurial road trip, during which the 'buspreneurs' conceive, build, and launch their startup. This November, for the first time, it will run in Southern Africa, bringing together 15 African and 15 International entrepreneurs for a truly unforgettable journey. Participants will be designers, and business developers all focused on the areas Mobile, Healthcare and Energy. “How to Leverage their Intangible Assets and Build Practical Business Strategies” Africa & Middle East Regions AIntellectual Property (IP) and Entrepreneurship Workshop The goal is to support entrepreneurs in Africa, help international entrepreneurs understand the African market and create lasting ties between both – and finally, of course, the founding of new startups in the areas of interest.http://africa.startupbus.com/ Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies (SEED). The SEED Program for high potential businesses in Ghana West Africa Designed for businesses with revenues in the $150,000 to $5 millions range Spring 2014. Emmanuel Kitcher +233 (0)30 290 2888 In addition there is a maker lab with prototyping capability. Program launch in East Africa Summer 2014 https://seed.stanford.edu/seed-west-africa/programs Middle East Egyptian Legal Services since 1960, Legal Services and Consultants, http://www.middleeastip.com ” Palma Consultant since 1997 Palma Consulting provides business and IT services to grow and accomplish geographic expansionhttp://www.palma-consulting.com + 962 6 551 2274 The Berkeley Program is an Entrepreneur and Development program for the Middle East http://bped.berkeley.edu Tuesday, Oct 29, 2013, 6-8pm Stanford University CISAC Conference Room 2nd floor, Encina Hall Central 616 Serra Street, Stanford, California Fairrer Samani Group Strategic Management, training programs, and investment firm.www.fairrermgt.com Thank You to our sponsors Patent law--Global http://www.patentlens.net/daisy/patentlens/ip/around-the-world.html World Intellectual Property Organization http://www.wipo.int/index.html.en Disclosure: These resources are not recommendations only resources to assist your entrepreneurial venture. Dr. Laura Hubbard, Associate Director, Center for African Studies Stanford University Dr. Jeannice Fairrer Samani, Fairrer Samani Group
- 2. Silicon Valley experts in IP and Business Development will provide critical methods to develop businesses. Jeannice Fairrer Samani, CEO and Professor Integrated Technology and Business. As the founded of Fairrer Samani Group, the mission is to provide access to resources in strategic management and business development acceleration. The Launch of LD4Ex mobile application a Leadership Development for Excellence is a customized program reaching entrepreneurs in the Middle East and Africa. FSG offers entrepreneur education through Entrepreneur Enterprise pipeline program (E2) that has successful supported over 250 entrepreneurs in their start-ups. Jeannice attended University of California, Berkeley holding a BA in Political Economics, MBA in management and sustainability, Masters in transportation engineering and City and regional planning, PhD in Business Administration, with post-graduate courses in Business and green tech from Stanford. Follow Jeannice Fairrer Samani on @jeannice Meredith McKenzie Vice President and Deputy General Counsel Juniper Networks Meredith McKenzie joined Juniper Networks in 2012 as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel. She has over 18 years of Intellectual Property experience, with 15 years in-house. At Juniper Ms. McKenzie manages the group responsible for all aspects of Juniper’s Intellectual Property and product support, including patents, litigation, in-bound licensing, privacy, open source, standards, M&A IP due diligence, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. Prior to joining Juniper, she spent over 5 years at Symantec Corporation as the Senior Director of Intellectual Property and 5 years at Cypress Semiconductor as the Director of Litigation, Licensing and Intellectual Property. Meredith holds a BSEE from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. and a J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law, Magna Cum Laude, with an emphasis in Intellectual Property. Josephine Gordon, Independent Consultant Josephine Gordon is a lawyer educated in both in Kenya and the US. In Kenya, she graduated from the University of Nairobi with a bachelor of laws LL.B. degree and from Berkeley law with an LL.M master of laws degree. Josephine has specialized in law and technology for over a decade. She now works as an independent consultant for American technologists with start ups in Africa and for African technologists who want to partner with Americans. RumbidzayiMlambo, Tech Women Mentee RumbidzayiMlambo is an Intellectual Property Consultant with IPB Solutions in Zimbabwe, with a background in Biochemistry and Chemistry from the University of Zimbabwe and Intellectual Property from Africa University. She has worked for the University of Zimbabwe, The Ministry of Science and Technology Development and the Research Council of Zimbabwe. She is currently involved in various S&T projects in the Harare Province in an effort to ensure that S&T contributes to Socioeconomic Development including establishment of a National Center of Research Excellence which should see start ups and spin offs from publicly funded Research. She is also a volunteer with the Zimbabwe Association of Inventors. Her goal is to become a qualified Patent Jeremiah Gordon, Google Inc Jeremiah Gordon is a Harvard trained attorney with more than a decade of corporate law experience. He worked at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Rosati as a corporate lawyer on venture financings, corporate governance and mergers and acquisitions. He now works at Google Inc. focusing on investments in later stage companies. Laura Norris, founding director of the Entrepreneurs’ Law Clinic at Santa Clara University School of Law and an Assistant Clinical Professor Laura is the founding director of the Entrepreneurs’ Law Clinic at Santa Clara University School of Law and an Assistant Clinical Professor. Under Laura’s supervision, clinic students counsel entrepreneurs and start-ups on various legal issues and transactions. Laura is also the principal of General Counsel Services, a law firm established in 2006 to provide intellectual property, business, and general counseltype services to entrepreneurs, technology startups, and established companies. She is the chairman of the board of MC2IT, a nonprofit innovation center that provides students at Mission College with experiential learning opportunities in the high tech industry. Laura received her Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1992, and worked as a design engineer at Intel before going to law school. She is a member of the California Bar and registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. By innovating, providing jobs and creating wealth, the businesses that these entrepreneurs build play a huge role in the development of the economy. Attorney.