About the Faculty Training for Technopreneurship Teaching
The ISIP Faculty Training on Ensuring Social Impact in Technopreneurship Teaching aims to develop the skills of Philippine engineering professors to teach Technopreneurship 101 (T101) and ensure that social impact is integrated in the course. At the end of the training, each university shall be able to develop an enhanced course outline with an integrated social impact/social entrepreneurship concept.
Training Objectives
Immerse participants to experience a startup founder’s entrepreneurship journey by going through the lean startup method;
Identify best practices in teaching Technopreneurship and evaluating student outputs;
Leverage available technology to effectively teach T101 through distance learning; and
Identify tools and methods in using the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as anchor to T101 projects.
Training Schedule
WHEN
April 26, 2021 - May 14, 2021
Synchronous sessions: 8:00AM - 12:00NN
WHERE
Synchronous sessions: Zoom
Asynchronous sessions: Microsoft Teams
Lead Trainers
Ken Singer
Ken Singer is the Managing Director of Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the Chairperson of the European Innovation Academy which is the premier summer innovation bootcamp for entrepreneurs and corporate innovators. Aside from these, Ken is also one of the Founding Board Members of the Applied Innovation Institute.
Ken Singer is a serial entrepreneur, technology executive, university lecturer, and director/advisor to numerous startups in the US and Europe. Ken’s experience spans all forms of mobile technology from mobile video advertising to downloadable mobile apps.
David Law
David Law is the CEO of Venture Dojo which brings the world-class Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship to universities worldwide through a hybrid of online and in-class instruction. Venture Dojo provides content for students and teaching tools for instructors tasked with launching technology entrepreneurship programs. Using a proven methodology and pedagogy, Venture Dojo courses and training provide universities access to the latest content and instruction methods at UC Berkeley and Silicon Valley.
David is also the Director of Global Academic Programs at the University of California, Berkeley where he manages multiple programs in entrepreneurship and innovation at UC Berkeley. Law manages programs, courses, projects, and challenges focused on student start up teams from ideation to prototype to pitching to investors. The core programs are Learn2Launch and Global Challenge Lab and Innovation Collider at the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET) which is part of Berkeley Engineering.
He is also the Principal at P-4 International, LLC where he consults with international universities, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), business incubators and government agencies to build and grow technology entrepreneurship ecosystems.
Frequently Asked Questions
The ISIP Faculty Training aims to develop the skills of Philippine engineering professors to teach T101 and ensure that social impact is at the forefront of all T101 outputs. At the end of the training, each university shall be able to develop an enhanced course outline with an integrated social impact/ social entrepreneurship concept.
The Faculty Training will happen from April 26, 2021 to May 14, 2021. There will be synchronous and asynchronous sessions which will be held via Zoom and Microsoft Teams respectively. Synchronous sessions will happen 8:00AM to 12:00NN.
Not yet. Instructions on how to access and navigate MS Teams will be sent once registration is confirmed.
Engineering faculty or any faculty who are handling or will be handling T101 classes are eligible to participate. However, only a maximum of three (3) faculty can be accommodated per HEI. HEIs who have previously participated in any of ISIP's Faculty Training will not be allowed to register. This is to increase the reach of the ISIP in building the capacity of T101 faculty from other HEIs.
None. The ISIP team will shoulder all the costs of the training.
The lead facilitators of the training are Mr. Ken Singer and Mr. David Law of the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (SCET) in the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2015, Ken and David have been visiting the Philippines to teach local engineering professors the Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship under the Innovative Development for Entrepreneurship Acceleration (IDEA) Project with USAID. Between 2015-2020, they have trained almost 300 professors from over 70 HEIs in the Philippines. Furthermore, Ken and David were part of the pool of international experts that were consulted during the development of T101.
The Social Entrepreneurship Integration Plan ensures that the participants will be able to integrate the lessons and best practices learned from the ISIP Faculty Training 6-12 months post-activity. To ensure that the activities and outputs listed in the SE Integration Plan are supported by your respective HEI administration, the ISIP Team will be asking for a signed copy of the plan upon registration. Only one SE Integration Plan should be submitted per HEI.
Innovation for Social Impact Partnership (ISIP) is a three-year project that aims to support promising innovative Social Enterprises (SEs) in the Philippines to collectively contribute to the acceleration, achievement, and sustainability of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is a project co-implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and PhilDev Foundation (PhilDev), supported by the Australian Embassy in the Philippines. ISIP is anchored on three key strategies: Entrepreneurship, Education, and Policy Agenda.
For more information or concerns, kindly contact Patricia Siriban at patricia@phildev.org or Angelo Dawa at angelo@phildev.org.
Previous ISIP Faculty Training
Faculty Training 2019
On September 2019, over 70 professors and educators from universities all over the Philippines participated in the ISIP Faculty Training for Technopreneurship Teaching. The Lead Trainers were Ken Singer and David Law from the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (SCET) at the University of California Berkeley. Check out the highlights of the training in this video.
Faculty Training Stories
Read stories about the previous faculty training highlighting the experiences of participants, lessons and insights from the lead trainers, and more about technopreneurship and social impact.
It has been a little over a year now since I joined the ISIP Project. I may have been working on a different project before, but still, I have always been drawn to the purpose of the ISIP project which is to create a sustainable pipeline of changemakers in the country through university interventions.