There are many opportunities to fail in education, technology innovation, creative capacity building and entrepreneurship, yet we often hear only about the success stories or, at best, the “challenges.” This pre-conference workshop is an opportunity to discuss, develop and disseminate stories about real failures.

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Roundtable discussion: International collaborators

This roundtable discussion brings together five international faculty and practitioners who will share best practices, identify issues in international collaborations, discuss opportunities for additional collaboration, identify trends in innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems in their countries, highlight incentive structures at their institutions, etc.

MODERATOR
Paul Hudnut, Colorado State Univeristy Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise (GSSE) MBA program

PANELISTS
Asokan Thondiyath, IIT-Madras: Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Design)
Daniel Quintero, TECHO Bogota, Colombia: Director of Community Projects
Kefah Njenga, USIU – Nairobi, Kenya: Faculty head of the Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise Program program in Kenya
Roland Fomundam, Christian University of Cameroon: Founder, The Greenhouse Center, Cameroon
Aelef Dafla, Ashesi University, Ghana: Senior Lecturer in Computer Science and the Head of the Department (tentative)

2:30 pm – 4:15 pm

Hindsight

US-based universities have an ever-increasing presence in countries across the globe. Faculty and students engage in designing and developing technologies for poverty alleviation at home and abroad. This session will highlight failures of technology innovation for poverty alleviation and will ask how we can capture and disseminate those failures to maximize learning in hindsight from these mistakes.

PRESENTERS
MIT International Development Innovation Network

4:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Paul Polak keynote

Keynote speaker Paul Polak will talk about salient topics from his latest book, The Business Solution to Poverty (followed by a book signing).

5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Join the opening reception for the NCIIA conference. A great chance to network, meet NCIIA staff, and ask questions to help get the most out of the conference.

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Dinner at at the Silicon Valley Capital Club