Kawasaki will discuss the art of innovation and join a panel discussion on social networks and how their power is being harnessed by community organizers, corporations, political parties and others.
Kawasaki is managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, a venture capital firm, as well as a columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine. He is the author of nine books, including “Reality Check,” “The Art of the Start,” “Rules for Revolutionaries” and “The Macintosh Way.
The EMTM program is a two-year executive program based in the Penn School of Engineering and Applied Science and co-sponsored by Penn’s Wharton School.
WHERE:
Claudia Cohen Hall, University of Pennsylvania
WHEN:
Friday, May 22, 2009, 2 p.m.
PANEL:
Steve Ennen, managing director of the Wharton Interactive Media Initiative; Jim Haughwout, chief information officer of technology at Neighborhood America; George Krautzel, co-founder and president of Toolbox.com; and Shawndra Hill, operations and information management at Wharton
Nanoparticle blueprints reveal path to smarter medicines
New research involving Penn Engineering shows detailed variation in lipid nanoparticle size, shape, and internal structure, and finds that such factors correlate with how well they deliver therapeutic cargo to a particular destination.
A generous gift from alumni Glenn and Amanda Fuhrman brings the work of internationally acclaimed artist Jaume Plensa to the University of Pennsylvania. The latest addition to the Penn Art Collection expands Philadelphia's public art.
A massive chunk of ice, a new laser, and new information on sea-level rise
For nearly a decade, Leigh Stearns and collaborators aimed a laser scanner system at Greenland’s Helheim Glacier. Their long-running survey reveals that Helheim’s massive calving events don’t behave the way scientists once thought, reframing how ice loss contributes to sea-level rise.
