The International Entrepreneur (TiE) Ohio invites you to a

TiE Anniversary Celebration and Deioma Lecture featuring

“Desh” Deshpande
• Founder of billion dollar companies such as Sycamore Networks and Cascade Communications (sold for $3.7 B)
• Founder of Deshpande Center at MIT supporting leading-edge technologies, entrepreneurs, and young companies
• Charter Member of TiE Global

"Local Entrepreneurship: The Solution to Sustainable, Global Economic Growth?”

Innovation is the process of coming up with new ideas, entrepreneurship is all about making it
happen. To create a sustainable economic growth we need them both; ability to come with new
ideas and to make them happen. In the new connected world, ideas flow freely and innovation is
rampant. The opportunity to adopt the innovative ideas to local and global solutions is now open
to everyone in the world. The speaker will discuss how to create an eco system that fosters both
innovation and entrepreneurship using his personal experience from having founded several
companies and having set up the “Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation” at MIT.

October 15, 2009

5:00-6:15pm Lecture
6:15-7:30pm Reception
Ford Auditorium, Allen Memorial Medical Library, 11000 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44106

Lecture and Reception are free and open to the public but you must register online at
http://www.time.case.edu/lecture

TiE Ohio
The event is part of the celebration of TiE Ohio’s first anniversary. The International Entrepreneur (TiE)
Ohio is the 50th chapter of the global TiE network that works primarily with international and minority
entrepreneurs. Founded in Silicon Valley by immigrant tech entrepreneurs, TiE has 53 chapters around the
globe. TiE is now the world's largest organization for fostering entrepreneurship; its members include some
of the world's most well-known entrepreneurs. The Ohio chapter provides focused support to
entrepreneurs through mentoring, networking, and business education programming, and enables NE Ohio
entrepreneurs to access global resources and angel investment funding through its existing networks. To
find out more, visit www.ohio.tie.org.

The David Deioma Lecture

With the generous support of David Deioma, The Institute for Management and Engineering at Case
Western Reserve University is pleased to host the David Deioma Lecture. Its goal is to educate the broad
university community about aspects of technology-based new venture creation, entrepreneurship, and
innovation, including the role of intellectual property, characteristics of the entrepreneur, new venture
financing, and disciplined approaches for the transformation of technological advances into innovations of
significant societal impact. To find out more, visit www.time.case.edu