[Mitworld] Shai Agassi on New Car Innovation, TPP Panel on Leadership

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 8, Number 27 |  February 26, 2009

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>From IT to Cleantech: New Sources of Innovation
December 4, 2008

Shai Agassi presents an ambitious and dramatic plan to create a battery run car, a system of battery switching stations, and a subscription plan for drivers to buy miles the same way
we buy cell phone minutes.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/642

Speaker:
Shai Agassi
Founder and CEO, Better Place


Event Host:
Engineering Systems Division

"Imagine in the US, if for the cost of 2 months’ worth of oil, you could enable electricity to come to every single car in America, at which point we’ve gained an alternative to oil that allows us to be close to independent ... The question is, why wouldn’t you do it?"
-Shai Agassi

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Leadership Development
December 5, 2008

A trio of graduates from MIT’s Technology and Policy Program (TPP) discuss their career paths, bumps and all, and offer guidance to current students.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/644

Speakers:
Dava Newman Sm '89, PhD '92
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering SystemsDirector of Technology and Policy Program and MacVicar Faculty Fellow

Eric Amundsen ‘94, SM ‘99
Associate, Wolf Greenfield

Karina Funk CE ‘97
Equity Research, Winslow Management Company

Ajit Kambil  ‘85, SM ‘89, PhD ‘93
Global Research Director, CFO Deloitte


Event Host:
MIT Technology and Policy Program

"Leadership is not about having a title and making decisions, it’s about building a ‘followership’ that’s committed to you."
-Ajit Kambil

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In The Pipeline:

Providing Chips and Technology for a World with Four Billion Cellular Subscribers

Presented By:
School of Engineering
 Distinguished Lecture Series

Speakers:
Dr. Irwin Jacobs
Chairman, Qualcomm, Inc.

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