Poland’s Top 500 Innovators visited The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM)
On October 21, 2015, Poland’s Top 500 Innovators visited the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) in San Francisco, almost one year after CIRM and the Medical University of Warsaw (MUW), a Polish state university, signed a collaboration agreement on joint Polish-Californian initiatives to advance stem cell research. USPTC was instrumental in forging the agreement, […]
Don’t fear to be wrong. Reflection on Poland’s Top 500 Innovators’ course in Design Thinking at Stanford University.
By Ela Kozera Don’t fear to be wrong. Fear not to have courage to try to be wrong, said Mr. Jeremy Sabol, lecturer at Stanford University. With this motivational punch line, Top 500 Innovators completed a five-week-course in Design Thinking at Stanford University. This class was a wonderful experience in hands-on work on multiple mind-blowing, […]
Poland’s Top 500 Innovators visited Cisco Systems, Inc.
On October 19, 2015, the Top 500 Innovators visited Cisco Systems, Inc., a global technology leader in networking for the Internet headquartered in San Jose, California. Currently, the company, which was founded in 1984, employs 70,000 people in 300 offices scattered in 90 countries. The visit was hosted by Cisco’s Mr. George Suwala, Senior Product […]
Polonia – a vast, still untapped resource for growth of Polish economy
By Marek Konopnicki, Ph.D., Board Advisor of US-Polish Trade Council I am a member of a sizable group of Polish professionals who left or were asked to leave Poland during the communist era. Fortunate to be equipped with a solid education (thank you Poland), decent command of foreign languages (thank you Poland and parents…), we […]
Top 500 Innovators visited Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA
On October 16, 2015, Top 500 Innovators visited the global headquarters of Google in Mountain View, California. The 40.11 Group experienced a creative atmosphere by touring unique places scattered around the Mountain View campus, also known as the Googleplex, listened to inspirational Googlers‘ stories, enjoyed great food in the company’s gourmet cafes, shopped at the […]
USPTC acknowledges Professor Lena Kolarska-Bobińska, Minister of Science and Higher Education in Poland
On October 14, 2015, Piotr Moncarz, Consulting Professor, Stanford University, and Chairman, US-Polish Trade Council, together with Mariusz Tomaka, President, Polsko-Amerykańska Rada Wpółpracy, presented Prof. dr hab. Lena Kolarska-Bobińska, Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland, with the signs of acknowledgement and gratitude for the successful completion of the Top 500 […]
Global Technology Symposium
Start March 23, 2011 End March 25, 2011 Location Silicon Valley, California The Global Technology Symposium is the leading investment conference on venture capital, technology, and entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Since 2004, the Symposium has brought more than 300 selected opinion leaders in business, finance, technology, and policymaking to Silicon Valley, where they share insights […]
Top 500 Innovators, the 40.11 Group, visited Exponent, Inc.
On October 9, 2015, Top 500 Innovators visited the Menlo Park-based Exponent, Inc.. The visit was hosted and moderated by prof. Piotr Moncarz, Exponent’s Principal Engineer. Exponent is a multidisciplinary consulting firm with over 700 consultants and technical personnel of which 60% hold doctoral (Ph.D.) and 27% master degrees. Exponent’s experts specialize in analyzing and […]
What does the future hold for Silicon Valley? Reflection on Poland’s Top 500 Innovators’ visit at the Institute of the Future.
By Ela Kozera One hundred years ago, there was no better place in the world to grow fruit than in the Santa Clara Valley, which, filled with over 100, 000 acres of fruit trees, was known as “The Valley of Heart’s Delight.” Aside from the fruit orchards, countless canneries and fruit processing plants shipping millions […]
Poland’s Top 500 Innovators visited Qualcomm
On October 8, 2015, Poland’s Top 500 Innovators visited Qualcomm offices based in Santa Clara, California. Qualcomm is a world leader in 3G and next-generation mobile technologies. As world’s largest fabless semiconductor company, it employs over 30,000 people worldwide. Mr. Mark Barycza, Ph.D., a staff engineer at Qualcomm, talked about the company’s products and the […]
Invitation to a special event with Guy Kawasaki
You are invited to a special event with the renowned entrepreneur and writer Guy Kawasaki, who will be presenting his new book The Art of the Start 2.0. In its original form, The Art of the Start was the de-facto standard for learning how to start a company. The new version is 64 percent longer […]
Invitation to a book promotion event of “The Talent Olympics in Silicon Valley”
You are invited to a special book promotion event! The US-Polish Trade Council kindly invites you to a book promotion event of The Talent Olympics in Silicon Valley presented by Marta Zucker and Magdalena Bryzek. ABOUT THE BOOK: This book was inspired by the compelling stories of this generation’s courageous entrepreneurs who seek more than business success […]
Why the company culture matters in Silicon Valley? Reflection on the Top 500 Innovators’ visit at GoDaddy.
By Ela Kozera Last week, together with Poland’s Top 500 Innovators, I had the benefit of visiting the new Sunnyvale offices of GoDaddy. GoDaddy is a high technology company that has created a unique, colorful, vibrant, and free-flowing workspace connected by circulating push pedal go-karts along many lively race-track-themed hallways and spaces such as cafes, […]
Poland’s Top 500 Innovators visited Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University
On September 2, 2015, Top 500 Innovators, the 40.11 group, visited Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University. The Institute was established in 2005 to advocate design thinking and to apply its principles to real-world problems. One of its mottos is: The only way to do it is to do it!
Poland’s Top 500 Innovators attended the San Francisco Giants versus Colorado Rockies finale at AT&T Park
