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Streaming Live at: www.KCSB.org
People, ideas, entrepreneurship & innovation.
Hosted by: Bill Grant, with co-hosts Christie McSweeney and Jenna Kyle.
On the Edge Radio Hosts Christie and Jenna
OnTheEdge@engineering.ucsb.edu
UCSB students and Bill Grant, Program Manager -- Technology Management Program -- University of California, Santa Barbara, in unfiltered conversation with innovative thinkers, entrepreneurs, and leaders from the national science & technology scene, UCSB science and engineering community, and our central coast new venture community stakeholders.
We will touch lives and ideas: creativity, science, the business of innovation, the role of technology management education, venture creation, understanding social capital, innovative capacity, strategic alliances, organizational development, leadership & ethics, and the building of high value products & services. How can students use their understanding of technology management tools to change the world? We are interested in the nature of the individual journey, the processes that drove the creative development of the individual. We will talk about the enabling moments, teamwork, skills acquired, life experiences to be shared and challenges met.
Bruce Altrock, Bio Research Management Consultant & Adjunct Professor, Biomolecular Science & Engineering, UCSB; Student Mentor, UCSB, Community Supporter. Topics: Bioscience research implications, building bio companies on the Central Coast, career planning for students.
Klaus Bechgaard, Member of the Danish & French Academies of Science, Materials & Nanotechnology Researcher, First in the world to synthesize organic superconductors. Distinguished International Scientist. Topics: interdisciplinary research, the people factor.
John Bowers, Entrepreneur & Professor, ECE; Student Mentor, UCSB Community Supporter. Topics: Venture creation, entrepreneurship origins at UCSB, and building companies in the Central Coast to provide quality jobs for our economy.
Betsy Brill, Founder, President, Strategic Philanthropy, Ltd., Chicago; An international 'mission based' philanthropy advisory firm that is committed to significant social change. Topics: New directions in philanthropy; what does the future hold?
Jesse Brumfiel, President, NeoTerra Group; A communications and public relations organization with a focus on new technology endeavors. Topics: Public Relations & Communications.
Anthony Cheetham, Executive Director, MRL; Professor, Materials, UCSB; Professor, Solid State Chemistry, Royal Institution, London; UCSB Community Supporter, Student Mentor, Entrepreneur. Topics: Third World Science, working collaborations spanning thirty years.
Steve Cooper, Chair, Inogen, Inc.; Skylar, Inc., UCSB Alum, Student Mentor, UCSB Community Supporter
Topics: People factor, teambuilding, ethics, perseverance, giving time by mentors to UCSB students.
Brad Chmelka, Professor, Chemical Engineering; Student Mentor in Third World Nations, Topics: Practical Science in the Third World; A visit to Paraguay –Today and Tomorrow.
Robert Cota, Director MESA Programs; Mentor, Academically at risk students
Topics: Building opportunity for academically at risk students, Hispanic Engineers Assoc.
Marie Dahleh, Associate Dean, Undergraduate Affairs, College of Engineering, Harvard University; Topics: Research vs Curricular Fundamentals – maintaining the balance; Innovation, Opportunity & Program flexibility.
Patrick Dietzen, President, Student Entrepreneurs Association;
Topics: Student innovation & entrepreneurship, working with business mentors.
James Eiting, Chair, Midmark, Inc.; Volunteer, Medical Devices to Third
World Nations, Student Mentor. Topics: Building a company that cares, Ethics & Leadership.
John Foster, CEO, Innovative Micro Technologies; UCSB Alum, Lecturer,
Student Mentor. Topics: Innovation, New MEMS Technology, Creating jobs on the Central Coast.
People, the most important asset.
John Galisky, Teacher, Career Advisor, Lompoc High School; Science & Mathematics opportunities. Topics: The ‘academy’ approach to student learning. Building collaborations with research universities for students.
Richard Gadbois, III, President, Vantis Capital Management; Los Angeles, New York; Student Mentor, Alum. Directs a $1.5B international boutique financial services firm. Topic: 'What are the elements of leadership? Focus, Vision, Teambuilding, Clarity, Ethics, and Desire.
Gary S. Hansen, Professor, Associate Dean, Technology Management Program, UCSB, Student Advisor and Mentor. Topics: Building a business education program in a UCSB context. Today and tomorrow, emerging business challenges and opportunities; the people factor, leadership fundamentals, communications and ethics.
Kathryn McKee, President, Human Resources Consortia; Volunteer, Santa Barbara; Expert on Professional Career Options for Women, Community Leader, Student Mentor. Topics: Career path planning, Ethics, the people factor.
Martin Moskovits, Dean of Sciences, College of Letters & Science, MLPS, UCSB; Topics: The launch of the $55M Institute for Collaborative Biology at UCSB –opportunities and implications-, current research highlights of MLPS, interdisciplinary research approaches and opportunities for students, the promise of the future for the UCSB community.
Alison Perry, Co-Founder, Inogen, Inc.; Past President, Student Entrepreneurs Association. Topics: Getting started as a student in an emerging enterprise. Time, people and resource challenges.
Michael Pfau, Partner, Reicker, Pfau - Attorneys at Law -; Community Volunteer, Student Mentor, UCSB Community; Intellectual Property Expert. Topics: From idea to enterprise, giving young people important roles in new technology startups; leadership, the people factor.
David Pine, Professor of Materials and Chemical Engineering; Chair, Chemical Engineering UCSB; Topics: Keeping scientific curiosity fresh; Elegant structures in materials & nanotechnology research.
C.N.R.(Ram) Rao, Distinguished International Visiting Professor, Materials, UCSB; Linus Pauling Professor, Hon. President, Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Research, President, Third World Academy of Sciences, Chairman, Science Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India; Topics: using the language of science to build bridges with developing nations.
Shauna Axton & Will Regan, Chapter Presidents, AIESEC; International Student exchange group;
Topic: Student international business exchanges; preparation and execution..
Iain Somerville, Founder & Managing Partner, Somerville and Associates, Malibu, CA; Executive Coach, Strategy Consultant, Business Builder. Topics: Accelerating Company Growth
Matthew Tirrell, Richard A. Auhll Professor and Dean, College of Engineering, UCSB; Topics: Research implications for community growth; People, leadership, ideas and collaborations. What does the future hold?
Srinidhi Varadarajan, Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, One of America's Leading Supercomputer Architects. Topics: How to challenge and engage students, Building ‘Big Mac’ on pizza and coke, - one of the world’s fastest supercomputer clusters.
Juan Vidaurrazaga, Managing Director, Ventis Group; Strategic Advisors,
Organizational Development. Topics: Strategic planning and technology innovation.
Phil Weilerstein, Executive Director, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance; Topics: Why student innovation matters, connecting with communities, how entrepreneurs can help build communities.
"On The Edge" Two major interviews weekly, 10-20 minutes each; one‘roundtable’ session with hosts. ‘OnTheEdge’ succeeds as a public affairs program when we engage UCSB students, guests and our community in unfiltered conversation. We seek to challenge pre-conceived notions about technology management in engineering, science, emerging enterprise, and innovation. Our goal is to provide a forum for thoughtful leaders to tell us how their ideas affect our world and to enable our UCSB community to engage those ideas.
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