Synthesis
Professional and Social Community
Silicon Valley & Global Uplift
Professional & Social Community:
Tech leaders, entrepreneurial academics, and venture capital -- plus those interested in tech with an arts or human perspective.
Silicon Valley & Global Uplift:
From opportunity exchange to educational master classes
And, the possibility of venture creation and high-value talent sourcing.
Synthesis is the process of combining multiple elements, ideas, or components to form a new, complex, and unified whole
Organized as a free, continuous-learning technology leadership activity, but broader and more social.
Calendar:
May 13: Virtual Coffee and presentation with Alex Ojala, Head of AI for EQT Partners, on “AI Investing Insights from EQT Venture Capital.”
May 26: Virtual Coffee and presentation with Professors Francesco Pierangeli and Karen Elliott of the University of Birmingham on Responsible AI and Regulations - UK Viewpoint
June 2: Virtual coffee and presentation with Anoop Sinha, IEX Labs Professor, Research Director at Google, on Multimodal Agent Interfaces
Stay tuned for more ...
About Synthesis:
What is it:
Synthesis is an email list (listserve) with options for in-person and global online events and opportunity exchanges. There is no cost to be in it. This email group serves as a professional and social network for staying connected, continuing learning, and discovering new opportunities.
Who is there:
The original core is a mix of students and colleagues who may know me or each other from IE, Berkeley, Stanford, collaborating companies, venture capital, global exec ed programs, Illinois, Northwestern, and other places.
To be added, please send me a message with a line on how you are connected with me or others in the community. Updates are always helpful.
What Happens at Synthesis
Synthesis Coffee (or whatever you drink) with the Community, 45 min with a guest and topic
Synthesis Dinners - Small-group synthesis dinners and gatherings, held globally
Synthesis Live Events in Silicon Valley and other global in-person events - typically 2.5 hours
Content: Master classes, faculty lectures, presentation of industry, technology, and research briefs
Outcomes:
Uplift: From opportunity exchange to connection to educational sessions
Potential venture creation and high-value talent sourcing
Infusion that broadens tech dimensions, e.g., style, arts, culture, and ethics.
Overall, the goal is to make it social, insightful, and valuable at the same time.
Working Partners Through Colleagues (non-institutional)
Tech Firms including Google, Apple, Meta, Yahoo, Amazon, Applied Materials, VMWare, Samsung, Cisco, Microsoft, Ripple, and more
Global faculty from Berkeley, Stanford, IE, MIT, UCLA, Melbourne, DTU in Denmark, Oxford, Lund in Sweden, ETH in Zurich, more
Institutional connections from UC Berkeley International Co-Lab, Berkeley Institute of European Studies, Berkeley Engineering, Berkeley MSOL, CITRIS HQ at Berkeley, IE Science & Technology, Rise Europe, Qatar Foundation, and more.
Ventures in stealth mode.
Related Activities:
Open CTO: A program to collaboratively develop advanced open work (open architectures, standards, white papers, etc) while training the next generation of CTOs, CTO staff, and industry experts.
Think Tank Projects to understand and author emerging Industry Insights and Changemaker Tech Briefs