This was just posted to the Hawaii Venture Capital Association (HVCA) Mailing List:
HVCA Luncheon on How Entrepreneurship Is Changing In The 21st Century
Thursday, February 28, 2008
The Plaza Club 20th Floor
11:30am-1:30pm
$29 for HVCA, Hawaii Angels, DualUse Council, Bytemarks and HSTC Members, $39 non-members, $25 students.
Aloha attire is required by the Plaza Club.
Register at www.hvca.org or contact Gail at (808) 262-7329
How Entrepreneurship Is Changing In The 21st Century
The Hawaii Venture Capital Association (HVCA) presents a high-level panel on how doing business in the 21st century is changing the way entrepreneurs need to look at starting a world class business. It is all different now. Manufacturing is done off shore, markets are global, telecommunications and the devices we use to get and disseminate information and a host of other issues are changing business practice and creating new challenges for entrepreneurs. They are also creating challenges affecting how venture capitalists do business, what lawyers, landlords and other service providers need to offer to keep up. HVCA has assembled a panel of experts, all of whom run entrepreneurship programs at our local universities and are helping to create the next generation of 21st century entrepreneurs for its February 28, 2008 luncheon program at the Plaza Club.
Together to discuss these important issues are, Bee Leng Chua, Executive Director of the Entrepreneurship Program at Hawaii Pacific University, John Webster, Director of the Hogan Entrepreneurial Program at Chaminade University and Rob Robinson, Director of the Pacific Asia Ce nter for Entrepreneurship and e-Business.
Dr. Bee-Leng Chua is the Executive Director of HPU’s new Entrepreneurship Center at the College of Business Administration. She comes to HPU with a great deal of experience in entrepreneurship education and research having founded the Center for Entrepreneurship (CfE) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). She looks forward to building community links in Hawaii as she did in Hong Kong as Director of the CfE.
Dr. John Webster is Director of the Hogan Entrepreneurial Program at Chaminade University of Honolulu. He held executive positions at IBM in Washington, Brussels and Hong Kong. New programs to bridge the worlds of business, government and academia were among the highlights of his tenure as Director of Government Affairs for KPMG in Washington, DC. Before coming to Hawaii, he started and ran the Nanyang Fellows MBA Program, a special initiative of the Singapore government to help train Asia’s future lead ers.
Dr. Robert J. Robinson spent ten years on the faculty of Harvard Business School, and was recruited in 2002 to the University of Hawai`i, where he serves as the Barry and Virginia Weinman Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship and E-Business as well as the executive director of the Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship and E-Business (PACE2). Dr. Robinson is the founder of Hawaii’s angel investor network, the Hawai`i Angels. He is also one of the founders of Kolohala Ventures, one of Hawaii’s leading venture funds.
The Hawaii Venture Capital Association, founded in 1988, is one of Hawaii’s oldest private non-profit economic development organizations devoted to entrepreneurship and capital formation.