TEDxHarkerSchool - The Harker School

Nichols Hall
The Harker School
On Fostering Youth
Entrepreneurship
NeerajBaid and NeelBhoopalam, Curators
Welcome to TEDxHarkerSchool, and thank you for joining us at one of the few
TEDx events around the globe lead solely by high school students. You are truly a part
of something completely new, different, and unique.
TEDxHarkerSchool has, and will always be about entrepreneurship, an idea that
has been around for millennia and will continue to stay relevant for eons to come. We,
as humans, have always been addicted to invention and entrepreneurship, whether it
be due to profit motivation, a will to increase quality of life, or a need to send a
message. It is only in the past century, however, that we have seen the
Entrepreneurship Bug bite youth and adults alike.
Here at TEDxHarkerSchool we’ll have the chance to foster and promote dialogue
regarding Youth Entrepreneurship, not only in the short term, but also in the long term.
You will experience three modes of interaction: one way, hearing a talk, one way with
feedback, Q&A, and two-way, a discussion, leaving you with a complete experience
meeting and interacting with world-famous, successful entrepreneurs as well as youth
driven by entrepreneurship just like you.
TED is all about Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and entrepreneurship,
especially Youth entrepreneurship, is vital in all three of these categories. We see
technology giants, entertainment icons, and design magnates all existing today for one
sole reason: the entrepreneurship coursing through their blood.
We hope that during your experience today, whether it be during your interaction with
attendees and speakers alike, and in the future, the importance of entrepreneurship is
an ideal that you will not only come to respect, but come to believe.
Neel
Bhoopalam
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Neeraj
Baid
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Kiva
Kiva is a non-profit organization using microfinance, through the emerging
trend of social entrepreneurship, as a means of creating opportunities for
those in poverty.
TEDxHarkerSchool is centered around fostering entrepreneurship, and we
believe that loaning capital to third-world entrepreneurs around the world
is a great way for us to promote and support entrepreneurship around the
world. Annually, we choose a group of students to comprise the Kiva
Investor’s Circle that selects where we will allocate our funds.
This year, over
$
3,000
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loaned
Sector Distribution!
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TEDxHarkerSchool
Geographic Distribution
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Agenda
8:00 - 9:00
Registration and TEDTalks, Breakfast
9:00 - 9:15
Opening
9:15 - 9:45
Jeff Rothschild
9:50 - 10:20
Salim Ali
10:20 - 10:55
Break with Speakers
10:55 - 11:25
Charles Huang
11:30 - 12:00
Jeff Jordan
12:00 - 1:00
Lunch with Speakers and Mentors
1:10 - 1:40
Priyanka Jain
1:40 - 1:55
Closing
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Speakers
JeffJordan
Jeff Jordan is an extremely successful entrepreneur, having led
online restaurant reservations company OpenTable through an
extremely successful IPO in 2009 and continuing with venture
capital successes with viral startup Airbnb. Jordan sits on the
board of OpenTable, Zoosk, Pinterest, and Lookout, among many
others. In addition to his entrepreneurial successes, Jordan has
pledged to donate half his lifetime venture capital income to
charity. Jordan has an MBA from Stanford and a BA from Amherst
College.
JeffRothschild
Jeff Rothschild’s entrepreneurial successes largely started with his
cofounding of storage-management firm Veritas Software. Prior to
its acquisition by Symantec for $13.5 billion, Veritas Software’s
annual sales topped $1.5 billion. While at Veritas, Rothschild
managed everything from engineering and product management
to sales and strategy. He has since cofounded gaming company
Mpath Interactive and led venture capital campaigns for Accelfunded companies Walmart and Rhapsody Networks. Rothschild
has a masters in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University.
CharlesHuang
Charles Huang co-founded RedOctane, an electronic
entertainment company with his brother Kai Huang in
1999. RedOctane is best known for its multi-billion dollar
blockbusterGuitar Hero franchise, first released in 2005.
Since then, Charles Huang has continued his
entrepreneurship with Green Throttle Games, a company
aimed to revolutionize mobile gaming. Charles Huang is
an alumnus of UC Berkeley with majors in economics and
Asian Studies.
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Speakers
SalimAli
Salim has been actively building & orchestrating social media
products and programs for the past 7 years as Global Vice
President, Marketing at SAP. Salim has conceived, incubated and
scaled multiple new business including SAP Solution Extensions,
SAP Community Network, Social Expert Finder and SAP Enterprise
AppStore. He has more than 15 years of experience across
product management, strategy and engineering having held senior
positions at Symantec/Vertias and Tibco, and with startups
Openvision, FusionOne and DoDots. Salim has a graduate degree
in Computer Science from Louisiana State University, and an MBA from The Kellogg
School at Northwestern University. Salim can be reached at [email protected].
PriyankaJain
Priyanka is the founder and President of iCAREweCARE
(www.icarewecare.org), a student-run non-profit that leverages the
power of social media for social good. iCAREweCARE helps high
school and college students connect with friends who CARE about
the same causes, provides them with meaningful opportunities in
their local community, and makes social change a social effort.
Priyanka is a strong believer in women’s education. She serves as a
Youth Champion for the United Nation’s Foundation Girl Up
campaign to inspire other young girls to get involved in their communities. She was one
of two high school students working with QuestBridge to connect bright, low-income
girls to educational opportunities at the nation’s leading colleges. She is also the
founder of the Seattle chapter of Circle of Women, a student-run organization building
schools for girls in developing countries.
She served as an ambassador to the Singularity University Graduate Studies Program,
which brings together graduate students and business leaders to stimulate innovative
solutions using exponentially growing technologies for the world’s most pressing
challenges. She also serves as an official contributor to the Huffington Post.
Priyanka was named “Youth Philanthropist of 2012” by the Association of Fundraising
Professions and selected as one of the top 100 women entrepreneurs by Smart Girls’
Way. She frequently speaks at conferences around the world about engaging
teenagers in giving back to their communities.
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The Team
NeerajBaid
Curator
Neeraj Baid is currently a senior at The Harker School. He is
passionate in the field of entrepreneurship, having worked at and
attended entrepreneurship centered programs, such as the Wharton
School of Business’s Leadership in the Business World. He has also
attended other conferences focusing on youth and innovation, such
as TEDxYouthPaloAlto and TeensInTech 2011. He regularly competes
at DECA, events focused on business competitions. Neeraj currently mentors a FIRST
Lego League team, having won a regional championship in his earlier years, and is an
active Boy Scout in Troop 264 of San Jose, CA.
NeelBhoopalam
Curator
Neel Bhoopalam is currently a senior at The Harker School and is a
member of the Executive Committee of the Harker Business and
Entrepreneurship Club. He has participated at the Jerome Fisher
Management and Technology Institute at UPenn and worked as a staff
member in a business program held at Stanford and Santa Clara
University for three years. He works with with non-profit organizations
that deal with social work within local and international communities.
Following an interest in entrepreneurship by attending events like those
through TED, he hopes to continue to promote youth leadership and
innovative efforts in the future.
BrianTuan
Curator-in-training
Brian Tuan is a current junior at the Harker School. He is extremely
interested in combining his extensive scientific background with
business and entrepreneurship to develop real-world solutions. Outside
of TEDxHarkerSchool, Brian has entered and won in multiple research
science fairs and is an active member of the Harker's FIRST Robotics
team. Brian has competed in multiple DECA business competitions.
Outside of school, he regularly competes in state and national level
archery tournaments and coaches special-needs students in his spare
time.
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GlennReddy
Director of Marketing
Glenn Reddy is a current sophomore at The Harker School.
Wishing to go into business, he has jumped at the opportunity
to be a part of TEDxHarkerSchool. However, aside from TEDx,
Glenn has established and run a community service club
named Students For Charitable Causes that has donated
several thousand dollars to various charities over the past 5
years. Furthermore, Glenn is Chief Technical Advisor for the
mechanical division of Harker Robotics. Additionally, he is
working to become an Eagle Scout with Troop 33 and has
been the Assistant Senior Patrol Leader. Lastly, he enjoys competitively playing water
polo and being a part of the the Harker Conservatory. Within the conservatory, he is a
member of the show choir, "Downbeat", and has been in several productions.
SophiaShatas
Director of Logistics
Sophia is a currently a sophomore at the Harker School and is
excited to participate in her first year in Harker TEDx. Immersed in
an entrepreneurial environment while growing up, Sophia
appreciates the difficulties an entrepreneur experiences but
encourages aspiring young businesspeople to persevere and
persist. Her first foray into entrepreneurship was when she attended
Camp BizSmart in middle school, a program she encourages all
students to attend. Sophia's other interests include violin, piano,
Latin, and Robotics.
JoeRosenthal
Mentor
Joe Rosenthal is Harker’s Executive Director of Advancement. Mr.
Rosenthal joined Harker in 1982 and has been a member of the
school’s administration since 1992. He served as the Chairman of the
Western Boarding School Association for five years and was on the
board of the Silicon Valley Chapter of the Association of Fund Raising
Professionals. He currently serves on the advisory board of Essex &
Drake Fund Raising Counsel. Mr. Rosenthal was named a Certified
Fund Raising Executive in 2004 and 2007 from the Association of Fund
Raising Professionals. He received an award from St. Joseph’s Hospital
for his work with terminally ill children; the Hilton Award for his leadership of the
Western Boarding School Association; and an Honoree’s Medallion from the Golden
Gate Chapter of the National Society of Fund Raising Professionals.
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Lunch Mentors
ManishChandra: Manish Chandra is the founder and CEO of Poshmark, a simple
and fun way to buy fashion - straight from your iPhone. Poshmark was founded in early
2011. Prior to this Manish was the founder & CEO of the largest online social shopping
site Kaboodle which he started in 2005. Hearst Corporation acquired Kaboodle in 2007
and Manish served as the CEO of Kaboodle till 2010. Previously, Manish was the VP of
Worldwide Marketing at Versant Corporation. In March 2000, he helped take Versata
public as the VP of Marketing and Products. Manish has also held various positions at
Sybase and Intel. Manish serves on the board of GenWi and India Community Center.
NitinChandra: Nitin Chandra is the president of Infobahn Softworld LLC. Formed in
1996, Infobahn Softworld is a leading technology and professional services company.
For many years, Infobahn Softworld has successfully served the technology needs of
several customers from diverse industries and locations throughout North America.
Prior to Infobahn, Mr. Chandra worked as a Software Engineer at Adaptive Video. Mr.
Chandra received his Master’s degree in computer engineering from the University of
Massachusetts.
WinstonChen: Winston H. Chen Ph.D. has been Chairman of the Paramitas
Foundation since April 1994. Between 1978 and 1994, Dr. Chen held several positions,
including President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors, at
Solectron Corp., an electronics contract manufacturer. Dr. Chen served as a Director of
Megatest Corp. since 1994. Dr. Chen served as a Director of Intel Corporation from
1993 to May 2004 and served as the Chairman of the Audit Committee. Dr. Chen
served as a Director of Solectron until January 2002. Dr. Chen is a member of the
Board of Trustees of Santa Clara University and the Board of Trustees of Stanford
University.
MuraliChirala: Murali Chirala is the former Chief Solutions Officer of VuCast Media,
Inc. He has over 15 years of IT and product management experience with superb
communication skills. Mr. Chirala managed and led the delivery of industry-disruptive
solutions and scaled technology e-commerce platforms for growth. While at VuCast
Media, Inc. Mr. Chirala also led the design and development of a breakthrough digital
wallet Platform and Service that is capable of delivering unmatched transaction
security, flexibility and transparency for Banks, Consumers and Retailers.
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Lunch Mentors
AjayChopra: Ajay Chopra is a General Partner at Trinity Ventures. Ajay has over 20
years of operating experience at the senior management and board level with startups, private companies and public companies. Prior to joining Trinity Ventures in 2006,
Ajay co-founded Pinnacle Systems, a seminal media technology company that
pioneered consumer generated media creation. During his tenure at Pinnacle, the
company grew from start-up stage to a global $350M public company, won several
Emmy awards and completed over a dozen M&A transactions before being acquired
by Avid Technology. Previously, Ajay was with Mindset Corporation, a computer
graphics start-up. Before Mindset, he held various technical and management
positions at Atari Corporation, a video games company, and Unisys Corporation, an IT
services company. He is a charter member of The Indus Entrepreneurs, an active
group providing support for entrepreneurs.
SeanDoherty: Sean Doherty is the CEO at Wurl, Inc. Wurl helps video services
attract and retain online video viewers, and helps these companies connect their
viewers with online video that's personally relevant while making it effortless for viewers
to stay connected ... to become loyal fans. Prior to Wurl, Mr. Doherty founded Odyssey
in 2002 with the goal of acquiring technology and telecom businesses that, at that time,
most investors viewed as "out of favor." During 2003-2005, Odyssey completed the
acquisition and consolidation of a group of fiber and wireless telecom companies. In
2006, Odyssey sold this wholesale broadband fiber business, Progress Telecom, to
Level3 Communications. Odyssey retained the wireless businesses it developed
through this consolidation initiative. Sean is probably best known for his role as
founding COO of @Home - the giant broadband services company.
CarolineEva: Caroline Eva is an Associate at Hattery, where she is focused on
Hattery’s entrepreneur outreach and investments. She’s thrilled to be at Hattery helping
enthusiastic entrepreneurs thrive and create global change. She also manages
Hattery’s educational programming. Before landing at Hattery, Caroline worked in
advertising at Green America in Washington, D.C. and was first introduced to the world
of innovative, disruptive companies at health-food startup CORE Foods.
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Lunch Mentors
BorisGruzman: Boris Guzman leads operations at Golden Gate Technology.
Previously, he was Director of Operations at Synopsys, Inc. Mr. Gruzman co-founded
two successful EDA startups, Gambit Automated Design, Inc. and Descartes
Automation Systems. He has also held engineering positions at Fairchild and IBM. He
holds an M.S.M.E. from Georgian Polytechnical Institute and an M.S.C.S., from the
SUNY.
RajuIndukuri: Raju Indukuri is the Co-founder and Executive Chairman at Mtuity,
which develops intelligently designed, cross-platform enterprise mobile apps that are
integrated with back-end systems. Mr. Indukuri is also the Founder and President of
Reachnet International which provides Strategic consulting in cross-border business
development. Mr. Indukuri currently serves on the Board of Embrace Global, a social
enterprise that aims to help millions of vulnerable babies through a low cost infant
warmer.
JohnKeller: John Keller is the Owner and founder of Ranger Marketing & Vertriebs
GmbH, which was founded in Düsseldorf, Germany and initially developed with the
direct sales of goods such as books, toys, CDs, office and household goods. With the
liberalization of various European telecommunications markets in 1998, Ranger began
downsizing sales of goods. Using the same philosophy, it slowly transferred its
business into the sales of services. It became quickly clear that by ensuring a
consistently high level of quality, Ranger could develop a niche in an industry with
huge potential. Today, terms coined by Ranger such as "direct verification" have
become generic references to good quality direct sales.
WilburtLabio: Wilburt Labio, a former engineer at Google, currently runs his own
software engineer consultancy. Mr. Labio is also a co-founder of Gigabeat, which was
acquired by Napster. Mr. Labio received a PhD in computer science from Stanford
University, where he completed his thesis on Efficient Maintenance and Recovery of
Data Warehouses.
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Lunch Mentors
SundariMitra: Sundari Mitra brings more than 20 years of semiconductor experience
and engineering management to MoSys. She joined MoSys from Prism Circuits, Inc.
where she served as Chief Executive Officer from its inception in February 2006 until
the acquisition of Prism by MoSys on June 5, 2009. Prior to joining Prism, her
leadership and engineering management helped create the original 386SL/486SL
microprocessors at Intel and the UltraSPARC microprocessor family at Sun
Microsystems, Inc. Her innovations in analog/mixed signal design for Interface/IO
design, clock distribution, clock management and power management for highly
complex semiconductor designs lead to the initial ideas behind Prism Circuits.
AmitShah: Amit Shah focuses on early stage technology investments. As a Partner of
Artiman Ventures, he is currently on the boards of Auryn, Sierra Design Automation,
NetDevices, InvenSense, SiOptical and Zyme. Prior to founding Artiman Ventures, Amit
gained technology investment experience as a General Partner of Anthelion I & II, a
seed stage venture fund. He also worked as VP of New Markets and Technologies for
Cisco Systems' Business Development and Alliances Group. Prior to this he founded
and was CEO of PipeLinks, Inc., acquired by Cisco (1998). Preceding PipeLinks, he
founded ZeitNet, a networking systems company which was then acquired by
Cabletron (1996). Amit has taught numerous courses and seminars in networking at
UC Berkeley, InterOp, and other forums in the United States and abroad. He also
authored FDDI: A High Speed Network, published by Prentice-Hall.
JagdeepSingh: Jagdeep Singh is President, CEO and founder of Infinera. Mr.
Singh was President and General Manager of CIENA Corporation's Core Switching
Division (CSD) and served as a director of CIENA Corporation. Mr. Singh joined
CIENA, a leader in the optical communications equipment market, after its acquisition
of Lightera Networks. At Lightera, Mr. Singh served as President and CEO and led the
company from startup to a leadership position in the market for optical switching
equipment for telecommunications networks. Prior to founding Lightera, Mr. Singh was
a Venture Partner at the venture capital firm InterWest Partners, focusing on
investments in the data communications and telecommunications sectors.
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Lunch Mentors
RadhikaTandon: In 2004 Radhika Tandon and her sister-in-law Gauri Tandon
launched Isharya as a passion project when they decided to create a jewelry
assortment that would address the void they observed in the market for high quality,
Indian inspired fashion jewelry. Their unique product offering consisting of embellished
wood and resin jewelry, chandelier earrings and intricate cuffs and cocktail rings
quickly drew attention of editors, stylists, celebrities and retailers who wanted to
purchase their unique pieces. The name Isharya is inspired by their family and is a
combination of their children’s names – Ishaan, Armaan and Arya. In 2007, they
decided to focus on this hobby fulltime and moved forward with their dream of building
a global fashion brand. There has been no turning back since.
SanjivTaneja: Sanjiv Taneja is Vice President of the Encounter Test business unit at
Cadence Design Systems. Under his leadership for the last two-and-a-half years,
Cadence’s Test business has emerged in a stronger strategic, technological and
product positions through a holistic strategy for manufacturing Test and deep,
collaborative relationships with its customers and Test ecosystem partners. Mr. Taneja
started his career at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ where he spent over 13 years in EDA
software development and led the Custom/Analog Layout Automation group prior to
the acquisition of Bell Labs Design Automation group by Cadence in 1998. Mr. Taneja
holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, New
Delhi, a MS degree in Computer Science from Ohio State University, and MBA from
New York University
KavitaTankha: Kavita Tankha is a licensed Attorney, as well as a Democratic
fundraiser and analyst. Ms. Tankha is a Member of Democratic Women for Activists
Now (DAWN), Peninsula Democratic Coalition and has hosted several political
fundraisers for various candidates at her home. She is one of the top 4 Indian bundlers
for the 2012 Obama campaign and raised $50-100K for his campaign.
SriniUppugunduri: Srini Uppugunduri is the Senior Director of Product
Development at eBay, where he has been described as an experienced executive,
coach, and manager. Prior to joining eBay, Mr. Uppugunduri was a chief architect at
Amdocs and a Principal at RedStorm, Inc. He received his Master’s degree in
Computer Science from Syracuse University.
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Lunch Mentors
AndrewYang: Andrew T. Yang co-founded Apache in 2001, focusing on power
closure for advanced high-performance and low-power SoC designs, and has served
as chief executive officer and chairman of the board of directors since its inception.
Dr. Yang has been an active entrepreneur and investor in EDA since 1993, when he
founded Anagram, a high-capacity simulation solutions provider for deep submicron
ICs. Anagram merged with Avant! Product Division responsible for all extraction and
analysis products until 1998. Since 1998, Dr. Yang was a lead investor and a director
of a number of EDA start-ups including CADMOS (now Cadence), Ultima (now
Cadence), InnoLogic (now Synopsys) and Mogave (now Magma). Dr. Yang received
his Ph.D from the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign in 1989 and was a tenured
professor at the University of Washington from 1989 to 1996.
HuicanZhu: Huican Zhu is a Chief Architect at the Chinese internet giant, Tencent.
Prior to Tencent, Mr. Zhu worked at Google, where he developed Google Image Search
in his "20-percent time" (which allows Google employees to spend 20% of their efforts
on a self-developed project), and helped develop Google's PageRank indexing
system, as well as Chinese, Japanese and Korean language search. After joining
Google's China Research Institute, Zhu was responsible for Google China's core
infrastructure platform team.
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