DUAL Event – Dinner Talk and Discussion with Ms. Luda Kopeikina on “Start-up Success – What Fuels it at MIT and around Boston Massachusetts”?

The MIT Club of Singapore, in partnership with the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)/Exploit Technologies, invites you to a dinner talk and discussion with Ms. Luda Kopeikina, CEO of Noventra Corporation, Director of MIT Enterprise Forum and Lead Catalyst at MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation. Ms. Kopeikina will discuss the factors underlying the high start-up success rate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and, more generally, around the Boston area. These parameters, which are the focus of the talk, define the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the Boston area and at MIT that fuels this success. The talk will draw on Ms. Kopeikina’s experiences in developing this ecosystem on several fronts. From a start-up investor’s perspective, she will describe her experience as a member of Common Angels – a group of 75 leading private investors that make up Boston’s leading venture capital network.

The opening address of the talk will be given by Mr. Boon Swan Foo, Executive Chairman of Exploit Technologies Pte Ltd (ETPL), the strategic marketing and commercialization arm of A*STAR. Mr. Boon will provide an overview of how Exploit Technologies bridges the R&D and business space here in Singapore, and the various success stories in the Biomedical, Science and Engineering fields so far.

Venue: Exploration Theatrette – 30 Biopolis Street, Level 4, Matrix, Singapore 138671
Dress code: Business Attire
Date: Monday, 12 May 2008
Time: 7.00pm – 9.30pm
Cost: $15 – MITCS member, member’s spouse & MIT staff
$20 – DUAL member
$30 – Others (including SMA) (free for A*STAR staff)

For further enquiries/RSVP, please contact Johnathan Goh at (65) 96509625 or johnathangoh@singaporepower.com.sg.

DUAL Drinks

Do come down and join us for DUAL Drinks every third Thursday of the Month! It will be a great time to relax, catch up with old friends, and meet new people!

Date: Thursday, May 15th
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Venue: Brewerkz Restaurant & Microbrewery
30 Merchant Road #01-05/06 Riverside Point
Singapore 058282
Tel: (65) 6438 7438
Cost: $5 for 2 soft drinks
$15 for 2 beer

Yale Club Speaker Series – “Managing the Dragon: How I’m Building a Billion Dollar Business in China” by Jack Perkowski

The Yale Club of Singapore is pleased to invite DUAL members to its Speaker Series – “Managing the Dragon: How I’m Building a Billion Dollar Business in China” by Jack Perkowski.

Speaker: Jack Perkowski (Yale BA, Harvard MBA)
Founder, Chairman and CEO of ASIMCO Technologies Ltd
Author, “Managing the Dragon: How I’m Building a Billion Dollar Business in China” (Crown Publishers, March 18, 2008; www.managingthedragon.com)

Date: May 5, 2008 (Monday)
Time: 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Venue: Brewerkz Restaurant & Microbrewery
30 Merchant Road #01-05/06, Riverside Point
Cost: $20 / person (Cash Only) – includes lunch and drinks

RSVP STRONGLY SUGGESTED: Due to a high level of interest and limited seating capacity, we urge interested participants to pre-register by emailing name and contact info to yaleclubsingapore@gmail.com.

Fulbright Association (Singapore) – 11th Annual Dinner

The Fulbright Association (Singapore) warmly invites DUAL Members to their 11th Annual Dinner to be held on Thursday 15th May, 2008. Following a nicely established tradition, they have a prominent Guest-of-Honour and Speaker to grace the occasion. Professor Kishore Mahbubani, Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS, has kindly agreed to speak on “The Asian Impact on the Global Order”. The talk will entail a lively Q&A session and they plan to give away 20 autographed copies of Professor Mahbubani’s latest book published in 2008.

The details of the dinner are as follows:

Date: Thursday, 15th May
Time: 7:15pm – 10:30pm
Venue: Churchill Room
The Tanglin Club
5 Stevens Road
Dress Code: Formal (Lounge Suit or national dress
Cost: (i) SGD$75 for F.A. (S) paid-up member,
or $750 for paid-up table (10pax, members & guests)
(ii) $85 for non-paid up member / F.A. (S) friend / guest,
or $850 for a table of 10 F.A. (S) friends

Please see attached to RSVP.

An Evening With Columbia Business School Professor William Duggan – “Stategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement”

The Columbia University Club (Singapore) is pleased to invite DUAL members to an evening with Columbia Business School Professor William Duggan. Professor Duggan will be speaking on “Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement” – his most recent book.

When do you get your best ideas? You probably answer “At night,” or “In the shower,” or “Stuck in traffic.” You get a flash of insight. Things come together in your mind. Your brain connects the dots. You say to yourself, “Aha! I see what to do.” Modern brain science now reveals how these flashes of insight happen. It’s a special form of intuition. We call it strategic intuition, because it gives you an idea for action – a strategy.

Modern science tells us there are three kinds of intuition. First, there’s ordinary intuition. That’s just a feeling. Your gut. Second, there’s expert intuition. That means snap judgments, where you instantly recognize something familiar, the way a tennis pro knows where the ball will go from the arc and speed of the opponent’s racket. Basically, practice makes perfect. You get faster at what you do. Malcolm Gladwell wrote about this second kind of intuition in Blink. Third, there’s strategic intuition. It’s not a vague feeling, like ordinary intuition. It’s a clear thought. And it’s not fast, like expert intuition. It’s slow. That flash of insight you had last night might solve a problem that’s been on of your mind for a month. And it doesn’t happen in familiar situations, like a tennis match. Strategic intuition works in new situations. That’s when you need it most. Everyone knows you need creative thinking, or entrepreneurial thinking, or innovative thinking, or strategic thinking, to succeed in the modern world. All these kinds of thinking happen through flashes of insight – strategic intuition. And now that we know how it works, you can learn to do it better.

Date: Tues 20th May
Time: 7:00pm – 9:30pm
Venue: The American Club
Colonial Room, 3rd Floor
10 Claymore Hill
Cost: TBD