Global Entrepreneurship Week

Yesterday I participated in International Seminar on Entrepreneurship Education and Entrepreneurial Schools Networking Workshop in President University. They had this big tag line on their banner , "Unleash your mind.. Innovate Our Entrepreneurial Learning" which pretty interests me.

So the whole day was really about Entrepreneurship education. It seeks to provide students with the knowledge, skills and motivation to encourage entrepreneurial success in a variety of settings.

So there were 3 Speakers from 3 different nation. The first Speaker was Ms. Judith Cone - VP of Emerging Strategies Kauffman Foundation , The second speaker was Mr. Jody Dharmawan - Founding member of the Entrepreneurs Organisation (EO) Network and he's also the President of Lee Cooper Indonesia , and the third Speaker was Mr. Cliff Southcombe from U.K he's a consultant/managing Director of Social Enterprise/Social Enterprise Europe Ltd.

Ms. Judith Cone was a lovely lady from U.S.A , has 5 children plus grandchild's and she's still working with her passion and still travelling around the world. I guess she's about 50 or so. But her amazing spirit doesn't reflect her in age. Which is great! We should have people like this more. So, at first she talks about Kauffman Fondation - Global Entrepreneurship Week and people who involve in it. What surprises me is Russel Simmon is one of them. You know, the Hip-Hop pioneer! Def Jam, Phat Farm, Baby Phat, Kimora Lee Simmon's Ex ? it's just very cool when you work with one of the people who influence the world's business in the past 20 years. But what really excites me was when she slide her presentation and talks about this young guy who is only 20, named Brendan Ciecko. He started at age 11 as a web master, designing webs for artist. At first he only do it for fun but he didn't know that he was so good at it. He didn't has a basic formal web-design education but one thing for sure, he loves what he's doing, and he's passionate about it. So, at age 20 (now) he's already working with The Rolling Stones, Rihanna, New Republic and other big artists. He also got the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards. Hoowww coool iss thaaat! WHAAAM!

The second speaker was even cooler! He has a log black hair , heart shaped face which I think makes him samurai-looked-a-like. He's Mr. Jody Dharmawan. Despite his disfluency in Bahasa Indonesia , he is still a truly Indonesian. Well, he left the country when he was only 3, grew up in Hongkong and completed his education in London. I just loovee his nature.
"So what is Entrepreneur?" he said. "Pushing the envelope, not the paper. It's how you think. Challenge the convention. Driven by passion. Unleash ideas to reality"..
"What Does it takes for you to be an entrepreneur ?" and then he came up with a big red word on the screen , it says "COOL" and then "WOW" he said it defines our approach , attitude and experience. Aah, a new definition. Mr.Jodi also expand about thirst of learning. It makes us to be more open minded and it will takes us to a Great Opportunities and at that point we got the process where Idea are transformed into enterprises that generate value for society. Isn't that just wonderful ?

and so , the third Speaker was a from U.K , Mr. Cliff Southcombe.
He discuss many aspects about entrepreneurship. Then Focus it on Social Enterprise.
Sociopreneurship is another shape of entrepreneurship. Therefore entrepreneurship has many implementations in our life , not only making profit. It might be something different from what appeared in our mind. It's more or less about how these social activities can create not only Money but also give the real value added for people's life..


So there you go.. That was my day. How's yours ?