Vinod Khosla to deliver keynote at TiEcon 2011
By siliconindia   |   Tuesday, 10 May 2011, 00:22 IST   |    1 Comments
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Vinod Khosla to deliver keynote at TiEcon 2011
Fremont: TiESilicon Valley has announced that the well-knownSilicon Valley investor and veteran entrepreneur VinodKhosla will deliver keynote address on energy transformation at TiEcon 2011 to be held on May 13-14 at Santa Clara convention center. So what could be the next bet in energy space? When experts rush to answer such a question with predictions and facts, Khosla advises everyone to keep predictions aside and invest in the one which has high probability to fail. Khosla, Founder & Managing Partner, KhoslaVentures has spent the past six years investing in a broad array of clean energy-related companies and technologies. He readily admits that many are science experiments with a high probability of failure. But he may be getting closer to success with a few of them. He defies conventional wisdom of energy reduction, and instead encourages entrepreneurs to solve environmental problems via cost-effective, innovative, and scalable engineering.Khoslabelieves that technology change in energy will happen faster than most expect because energy has now become a focus on technical innovation. Khosla is a charter member of TiE and is ranked number 380 on the 2010 Forbes 400 list of Richest Americans with a net worth of $1.3 billion.A graduate in in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, he did his master's in biomedical engineering at Carnegie-Mellon University. His start-up dreams attracted him to Silicon Valley, where he got an MBA at Stanford University in 1980. To know more click here.

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