Progress Through Innovation Conference at the Legatum Center

10/07/08
9:00 am - 6:45 pm
The Walker Memorial Building, MIT 142 Memorial Drive Cambridge, MA 02142

The Legatum Center at MIT will bring together BBC World News Presenter, Nisha Pillai, entrepreneurs from Africa, India and Afghanistan, an unprecedented panel of 4 Nobel Laureates in Economics and a lunch keynote address by Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream to address the power of entrepreneurship to transform the developing world. The conference will look at how a new generation of entrepreneurs from emerging nations are developing the skills and technologies necessary to launch innovative businesses and raise their countries out of poverty.