Entrepreneurs Present Plans to Address Human Needs Through Technology

Business Wire, August 27, 2007

SANTA CLARA, Calif. --

WHAT:    Join Santa Clara University's Center for Science, Technology,
         and Society when social entrepreneurs from around the world
         present their business plans at the finale of the 2007 Global
         Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) workshop.

         Business Plan Presentations
         8 a.m.- 5:30 p.m.

         Includes: lunch, refreshments, and reception immediately
         following

         Free admission.

WHO:     -- Inventors from 12 countries who have partnered with
            Silicon Valley venture capitalists and business leaders,
            including:

         -- Regis McKenna, leader in technology marketing; advisory
            board chair for the Center of Science, Technology, and
            Society
         -- Jeff Miller, Redpoint Ventures
         -- Geoffrey Moore, Mohr, Davidow Ventures
         -- Sara Olsen, SVI Group
         -- Ted Moser, Mercer Management Consulting
         -- Radha Basu, SupportSoft

         SCU representatives:
         -- Al Bruno, GSBI Academic Dean, professor of marketing
         -- Jim Koch, GSBI Executive Director, professor of management
         -- Gordon Bloom, Lecturer, Hauser Center for Nonprofit
            Organizations, Harvard University

WHEN:    Aug. 30, 2007

WHERE:   California Mission Room, Benson Memorial Center

         Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara 95053

Background on the Global Social Benefit Incubator

The GSBI is an intensive two-week residential program at Santa Clara University that enables successful technology innovators to become sustainable in fulfilling their social missions and to scale their endeavors. It combines classroom instruction in finance, marketing, organizational development, and business planning with case studies, best practices, and most importantly, carefully matched mentoring support. The invited entrepreneurs have demonstrated proof of concept in applying technology to address urgent human needs in the most adverse of circumstances around the world.

Living and learning together, GSBI participants develop common conceptual skills and a true sense of community. Together these outcomes foster peer-to-peer collaboration and receptivity to expert mentoring from seasoned Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. At the August 30 business plan presentations you will see how the innovative adaptation of technology and models of social change, in combination with well-grounded business plans, can bring positive benefits to all of humanity.

About Santa Clara University

Santa Clara University, a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university located 40 miles south of San Francisco in California's Silicon Valley, offers its 8,377 students rigorous undergraduate curricula in arts and sciences, business, and engineering, plus master's and law degrees and engineering Ph.D.s. Distinguished nationally by one of the highest graduation rates among all U.S. master's universities, California's oldest operating higher-education institution demonstrates faith-inspired values of ethics and social justice. For more information, see www.scu.edu.