The Global Entrepreneurship Education Initiative:

Global Entrepreneurship Leadership Symposium

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The Global Entrepreneurship Leadership Symposium, or “GELS,” is a part of the Intel+UC Berkeley Global Entrepreneurship Education Initiative – a set of programs building and supporting entrepreneurship worldwide. GELS is focused on training expert mentors who can support entrepreneurs in their regional ecosystems.

The 2011 Global Entrepreneurship Leadership Program will be held at UC Berkeley, November 7-11.

The application process is CLOSED for this year.

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Who Should Attend		Program Leadership and Faculty
Key Skills		Program Overview and Schedule
Participant Benefits		Contact Information
Program Design, Content and Structure

The Global Entrepreneurship Leadership Symposium provides concepts, processes and tools to enable qualified individuals to effectively mentor emerging entrepreneurs. Further, the program provides unique hands on experience of observing and practicing mentorship and facilitated leadership. The program is based on the strong principles and practices of the UC Berkeley Entrepreneurship and Innovation program lead by the Lester Center and its globally recognized faculty. The program presents these practices in the context of an intellectual framework suitable for government officials, program managers and public policy leaders, to enhance their ability to create a constructive environment conducive to entrepreneurial accomplishment.

Who Should Attend

University faculty who teach entrepreneurship and innovation
Leaders in education and other appropriate public institution administration
Business executives, entrepreneurs, lawyers, accountants and other accomplished individual who support and assist entrepreneurs and emerging companies
Government leaders, public policy professionals, and program managers who develop or supervise programs to support entrepreneurship, business growth and innovation

Participant Benefits

Attendees will enhance their ability to advise and support entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial teams. This goes well beyond the technical aspects of developing and refining a business plan to actually helping others succeed through mentorship and guided leadership development. Each module of the program will address the dual goals of enhancing individual goals and identifying public policy and management practices that help create environments to support entrepreneurial success. Attendees will return to their homes better prepared to support entrepreneurial success at the individual policy level and the national and regional policy and governance level.

Key Skills

Creation of environments and programs that support entrepreneurship, innovation and value added behavior
Ability to guide and constructively contribute to the venture creation process
Mentoring: Going beyond teaching to supportive development of the human resources as well as business strategy and practices
Evaluation of business opportunities
Assessment of teams abilities and development of action plans to enhance success
Government policy development and enhancement

Program Design, Content and Structure

The program is unique in its design, content and structure:

The setting for the program is the University of California at Berkeley, in the heart of the world’s exemplar cluster of innovation, the San Francisco Bay Area / Silicon Valley. The program is designed to take advantage of this unique setting, through company visits and networking, peer exchange opportunities.
The program is designed to integrate and run parallel with the Intel Global Challenge at UC Berkeley (formerly the Intel+UC Berkeley Technology Entrepreneurship Challenge, another component of the Global Entrepreneurship Education Initiative). It will in turn train mentors to train teams who will compete in future Challenges.
We create a mentorship laboratory which provides a live workshop setting to observe, explore and practice many of the mentorship and constructive business assessment and development skills taught in the symposium.
The content of the program will span many styles of entrepreneurship, including technology innovation and commercialization, business model innovation, services innovation, business-to-business as well as business-to-consumer businesses, social entrepreneurship, including business approaches to address markets and people at the bottom of the pyramid, and entrepreneurial business approaches to help alleviate global poverty.
Uniquely, the program will throughout identify and address how government policies and management practices can support the entrepreneurial and innovation process. This approach of engaging policy and governmental leaders in an integrated experiential learning process offers an unparalleled opportunity to learn and get exposed first hand to the power of the entrepreneurial process.
Optional fieldwork and networking extension: The program will include the opportunity for those that can invest an additional four days, the chance to immerse themselves in the Bay Area/ Silicon Valley entrepreneurship and innovation experience. We will visit leading and emerging companies, interview entrepreneurs, inventors, venture capitalists, networking and experiencing this unique setting.
Lastly, the program will provide structured and social opportunities for peer learning and exchanges with the very unique community that is the globally diverse and experienced attendees and faculty.

Program Leadership and Faculty

The Global Entrepreneurship Leadership Program is chaired by Lester Center Faculty Jerome S. Engel, Founding Executive Director Emeritus and Senior Fellow, and David Charron, Senior Fellow and Lecturer. Professors Engel and Charron will teach most of the sessions, calling upon other members of the faculty where appropriate. They have successfully led other Intel sponsored training programs at UC Berkeley and around the world.

Program Overview and Schedule

Program Overview – Tuition Includes:

Five days of instruction and materials
Six nights lodging in Berkeley; Sunday, November 6 (check-in) through Saturday, November 12 (check-out)
Meals during hosted events (November 7-11)
Travel costs (airfare, ground transportation, etc.) to and from Berkeley are not included in the program cost or scholarship.

Program Schedule*

Monday, November 7, 2011 – Haas School, UC Berkeley
08:30 – 10:00                      Welcome to Berkeley
10:30 – 12:00                     Entrepreneurship Education Curriculum + Experience
12:00 – 13:00                      Lunch
13:30 – 15:00                      Frameworks for Mentoring Entrepreneurs|
15:30 – 17:00                      Cultural and Regional Challenges to Effective Mentoring
18:00                                  Welcome Reception with Intel Global Challenge (IGC) Teams

Tuesday, November 8, 2011 – Intel Day, Santa Clara
08:00 – 10:00                      Breakfast and Travel to Intel Corporate Headquarters
10:00 – 11:30                      Session with IGC Teams–Creating Global Companies
12:00 – 13:00                      IGC Teams Poster Session
13:00 – 14:00                      Lunch
14:00 – 14:50                      Tour of Intel Museum
15:00 – 16:30                      Mentoring Exercise
17:00 – 18:00                      Dinner with guest speaker
18:00 – 18:15                      Depart for Berkeley

Wednesday, November 9, 2011 – IGC Semi Finals
08:30 – 10:00                      Judging and Screening Young Companies
10:00 – 12:00                     Shadow Judging IGC Semi-Finals
12:00 – 13:00                      Lunch
13:30 – 15:00                      Shadow Judging IGC Semi-Finals
15:30 – 17:00                      GELS Judging Session of IGC
18:00                                  Joint Celebration Dinner: GELS and IGC participants

Thursday, November 10, 2011 – Haas School, IGC Finals
08:30 – 10:00                      Helping Teams Overcome Problems
10:30 – 12:00                     Mentoring IGC Teams
12:00 – 13:00                      Lunch
13:30 – 17:00                      Split Session: GELS Innovation, IGC Finals
17:30 - 20:30                       Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum–IGC Finals, Keynote & Awards

Friday, November 11, 2011 – Haas School, UC Berkeley
08:30 – 10:00                      Global Opportunities and the Role of the Mentors
10:30 – 12:00                     Creating Successes, The Master Mentoring Program
12:00 – 14:00                      Final Lunch and Wrap Up

*Timing of some sessions/activities is subject to change.

Contact Information

For questions regarding GELS please contact the Lester Center or Intel staff:
E-mail: gels@haas.berkeley.edu
Phone: 510-642-4255

Manav Subodh
Global Manager
Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Corporate Affairs
Intel
Email: manav.subodh@intel.com

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