[E&E seminars] Sustainability@Sloan Speaker Event: 03/14/07 12-1PM

[Kara Penn]

Please join us for our next Sustainability @ Sloan Speaker Series event, and
please share this information with others who might have interest.

Topic: Accelerating Innovation: Can the Auto X Prize Get Us to Green?
WHo: Mark Goodstein, Executive Director, The Auto X-Prize
When: Wednesday, 03/14, 12-1PM
Where: E51-335, http://whereis.mit.edu

** LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED **

Goal of the Automotive X PRIZE:
To inspire a new generation of viable, super-efficient vehicles that help break
our addiction to oil and stem the effects of climate change.
http://auto.xprize.org

About Mark:
Mark has been starting companies for almost ten years. Most recently, he founded
X1 Technologies in 2002, helping to spark the desktop search revolution. Along
the way, X1 picked up awards and plaudits of all kinds, including the Technical
Excellence award from PC Magazine. Mark directed product and company strategy,
and was instrumental in Yahoo's licensing of X1 as its desktop search product.
In addition to X1, Mark was one of the first employees at Idealab and a founder
of GoTo.com (which became Overture Services and is now Yahoo Search
Marketplace), helping define and launch the company in 1996. He also started
Intranetics (now Intranets.com), XBeams, a structural prototyping technology
company, Blackdart, an office supplies e-commerce company, and served as the
general manager of a streaming media company called FasTV. Mark has a degree in
history from the University of Chicago. Mark has also helped found two
non-profit educational organizations.


About the Sustainability at Sloan Speaker Series:
http://sustainability.mit.edu/Sloan_Sustainability_Speaker_Series


Hope to see you there!

Sincerely,

Kara Penn
MBA Candidate, 2007
MIT Sloan School of Management
kpenn at sloan.mit.edu
(773) 415-2118