General Information
Program Schedule
Organizers
Travel Information

Registration

The Early Bird conference registration fee is $350 (USD). After May 2 2008, conference registration is $400.
Register for REE 2007

Hosts

Macquarie University's Graduate School of Management (MGSM):
http://www.mgsm.edu.au/

Stanford Technology Ventures Program:
stvp.stanford.edu

Sponsors

Accel Partners:
www.accel.com

ResMed:
http://www.resmed.com

DSRD:
http://www.business.nsw.gov.au

Contact Us

Sharen Page, Project Manager
sharen.page@mq.edu.au

Peter Bryant, Program Manager
peter.bryant@mgsm.edu.au

Wednesday, June 18th (at Macquarie University)



12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Registration & Lunch
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Welcome & Overview:
- Prof. Roy Green, Dean of the MGSM
- Dr Tina Seelig, Executive Director of STVP
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Opening keynote: "Entrepreneurship as Change Agent in Asia"
- Dr James Bradfield Moody, CSIRO
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Speed dating and ideas post-it wall
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Entrepreneurship and major global problems of the next 20 years.
- Prof. Tom Byers, Stanford University
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM Pre-dinner drinks
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Opening dinner
- Prof. Steven Schwartz, Vice-Chancellor of Macquarie University
- Mr Rob Douglas, COO of ResMed
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM Screening of "imagine it"


Thursday, June 19th (in Sydney's CBD overlooking the harbour)



8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Buses into Sydney's CBD
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM Welcome to Department of State and Regional Development
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM Keynote address
- Adjunct Prof. Hugh Morrow, Macquarie University
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Regional views on entrepreneurship and change.
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Coffee break
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Breakout sessions: biotech+health; green tech+sustainability.
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM Lunch
1:15 PM - 2:00 PM Re-Engineering Australia
- Mike Myers, CEO of Concentric P/L
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Teaching creativity and innovation
- Ed Rubesch, Thammasat University, Bangkok
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Next Steps for REE Workshops
- Dr Tina Seelig
4:00 - 4:30 PM Panel on technology commercialisation
4:30 - 5:30 PM Panel with VCs and technology entrepreneurs:
- Alison Deans, Netus
- David Landers, A&B Emerging Technology Fund
- Craig Mudge, Pacific Challenge
- Mike Quinn, Innovation Capital
- Chris Witt, Kalori Group and The University of NSW
6:00 - 8:00 PM Dinner
8:00 - 9:00 PM Travel back to hotels


Friday, June 20th (at Resmed near Macquarie University)



8:00 AM - 8:45 AM Buses to ResMed campus
8:45 AM - 9:30 AM Welcome and short walking tour of ResMed campus
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM Coffee Break
10:00 AM - 11:00 PM Teaching entrepreneurship and innovation to two different cultures - A Key of Integration of Science and Business.
- Vikram Lekhi, International & Business Projects, MBT Coordinator, University of Calgary
11:00 PM - 11:30 PM

Entrepreneurship education at ResMed

11:30 PM - 1:00 PM Exercises on teaching technology entrepreneurship
- Adjunct Prof Wendy Hutchins, Microbiology MBT Coordinator, University of Calgary
- Vikram Lekhi, International & Business Projects, MBT Coordinator, University of Calgary
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch and conference close
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM Buses return to hotels