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 Silicon Valley-based university continues to expand global program offerings with new partnership with De Beers Group

 

STANFORD, Calif.-Thursday, August 17th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Stanford Graduate School of Business (Stanford GSB) today announced a USD $3 million, three-year partnership with De Beers Group to empower young, budding entrepreneurs and owners of established businesses in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa through two new educational programs launching in 2018.

Stanford is expanding two of its successful programs to Southern Africa: the Seed Transformation Program of the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies, known as Stanford Seed, and the Stanford Go-to-Market program for accelerating business ventures to market.

The two programs are:

    Seed Transformation Program, a one-year program of intensive sessions on topics such as leadership, strategy, business e ... Read more »

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DENVER-Thursday, August 17th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Professor Philip Diamond, Director General of the international Square Kilometer Array (SKA) project, will be the keynote speaker at SC17, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis in Denver, Nov. 12-17.

SKA is an international collaboration to build the world’s largest radio telescope that will change our understanding of space as we know it.

Professor Diamond, accompanied by Dr. Rosie Bolton, SKA Regional Centre Project Scientist, will take SC17 attendees around the globe and out into the deepest reaches of the observable universe as they describe the SKA’s international partnership that will map and study the entire sky in greater detail than ever before.

When completed, the SKA telescope will be at the forefront of scientific research, from looking at how the very first stars and galaxies formed just after the big bang ... Read more »

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