A Guest Lecture by Professor Solomon Darwin on Open Business Models for Emerging Markets

The Nordic Centre for Internet and Society
Department of Communication and Culture
BI Norwegian Business School
Lecture Series on the Future of Work
Open Business Models for Emerging Markets

Date: May 2nd, 2018

Programme:
0745-0830: Event opening with pastries and refreshments
0830-0930: Guest Speaker: Professor Solomon Darwin

Room: A2-030

Guest speaker: Professor Solomon Darwin, Executive Director, Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

About the Speaker:
Professor Solomon Darwin comes with broad leadership experience in Corporate Management & Academia. He is an international speaker and has been recognized by peers and students with numerous awards for his innovative leadership, curriculum development and passion for teaching. At Berkeley, he is the Executive Director of the Center for Corporate Innovation. He inspires students from both business and engineering disciplines teaching courses in Open Innovation, Business Models, Building Smart Cities and IBM Watson.

For the past two years, Professor Darwin has been working with the Indian Government to prototype Smart Villages. His definition of a Smart Village, based on the concept of Open Innovation, is “a community empowered by digital technologies & open innovation platforms to access global markets”.

Contact:
The lecture is open to the public and free of charge.
To attend, please register in advance by email: rita.arnesen@bi. no