Global Entrepreneurship Forum “Entrepreneurship post Lehman” took place for the first time in Asia as a half-day event.  The focus was on opportunities presented to entrepreneurs by the current economic crisis.  Further details can be found here.

Speakers included:

• Alexandre Douzet (‘02D), Co-Founder and Executive VP & GM, TheLadders.com
• Chris Evdemon (‘05D), Managing Partner Eastern Bell Venture Capital
• Pierre Hennes, Co-Founder & Partner, Upstream Ventures
• William Klippgen (‘03D), Co-Founder and Executive Director, BAF Spectrum
• Sramana Mitra, Entrepreneur, Strategy Consultant and author of “Entrepreneur Journeys”
• Garett Wiley, Managing Director, 798 Group

  Moderator: Patrick Turner (’78), Affiliate Professor of Entrepreneurship

INSEAD 17th Business Venture Competition Final took place on the Singapore campus with three finalists from each campus participating.  Further details of the competition can be found here. Our congratulations go to: 

• First prize - Emergency RAT: Toby Wicks, Gautam Narasimhan, Olivier Thirion de Briel, Abhishek Bahl 
• Second prize – Wildfire: Christophe Zrenner, Benjamin Duvall, Martijn Jansen, Jeff Huang, Bharat Sandhu 
• Third prize – Single Point:  Rustam Sengupta, Anand Nevgi

We have tied-up with Freie University in Berlin to provide our students with a source of high quality technology projects to be commercialised.  The first six were presented to our students at the start of term in January 2009.  We are exploring similar opportunities with top research centres around the world. Omnis Mundi and Pole Sud77 have both come to campus to pitch technology businesses or projects to our MBAs.  Both events were a great success.