Internet pioneer and Silicon Valley insider Gigi to hold top seminar on 8 Aug.

Internet pioneer and Silicon Valley insider Gigi Wang will have the full attention of decision makers, policy makers, technology professionals, university professors and students, bankers, entrepreneurs and women in business when she addresses an all day seminar on ‘Lessons from the Silicon Valley for Sri Lankan organisations – Success Drivers, Investment, Business and Venture Capital Opportunities’ on 8 August 2012 at the Cinnamon Lakeside, Colombo.

Interested organisations which register for 8 August seminar in Sri Lanka will have the opportunity to engage her for top management discussions following her seminar on 9 August.

ICTA is the strategic partner for the 8 August seminar. It is also being promoted by AMCHAM and the Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry in Sri Lanka.

Wang is a board member and Chair Emeritus of the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB), a chapter of the MIT Enterprise Forum, a prestigious organisation dedicated to promoting the growth and success of high-tech entrepreneurial ventures by bringing together ideas, technology and people.

Her connections with the top venture capitalists, super angels, and investors from Silicon Valley to the international stage makes her one of the world’s most important people for bankers, investors, technology heads and entrepreneurs. Wang will also give an overview of the current trends in investment and a forecast of what’s coming next from a US and Asian perspective.

Among the topics to be addressed in Colombo are the Silicon Valley Eco System, Fundraising and Incubation models, Selling and Pitching in the Silicon Valley, developing world class entrepreneurs and the technology outlook in the Silicon Valley.

Wang’s considerable experience in starting successful ICT and marketing companies, and her insights into business development, marketing, sales and strategy for mobile, web services and ICT organisations, will also become valuable lessons for Sri Lankan decision makers.

Last month, she led an all day workshop for the Amsterdam Centre for Entrepreneurship in Holland. Also this year, Wang was a keynote speaker at the Open Doors Conference in the Ukraine sponsored by the Malaysia Multimedia Development Corporation and the Kreative Asia Conference in Kuala Lumpur. In 2011, she took the stage at Digital Directions, Australia’s leading conference of international digital thought leaders.

In 2010, California Business Magazine featured Gigi Wang as one of three women alumni of UC Berkeley in a feature on women trail blazers, ‘How three women blazed their way to success’.

In addition to her MIT/StanfordVLAB board position, Wang is currently the managing partner at MG-Team, an international strategic marketing and business development firm, co-chair of the Location Based Services special interest group at Wireless Communications Alliance. In the 1990’s, she started Pacific Internet in Singapore (IPO on NASDAQ in 1999).

Her clients include Samsung and Lagardere, the second largest media company in Europe and several governments.

Gigi Wang lives in the Silicon Valley of California and while based in Singapore was Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at National University of Singapore.

For information, email the organiser of the event, Infotechs Ideas Private Ltd at: [email protected] or call 2580088/2581529.