Stanford Ignite: Certificate Program on Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Stanford Graduate School of Business2014-04-21

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Stanford Ignite is a global entrepreneurship program by Stanford University, teaching financing, design thinking, and pitch development through immersive video technology. Students engage with faculty and industry leaders to foster diverse ideas and create a supportive community. The program inspires innovation and aims to drive impact and change globally.

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Stanford Ignite program overview.

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The program has been offered by Stanford University since 2006, providing entrepreneurship and innovation education through immersive video technology.

Students worldwide engage with Stanford faculty, covering topics such as financing, design thinking, and pitch development.

Participants interact with experienced professors and industry leaders, fostering diverse ideas and creating a supportive community.

The program inspires individuals to innovate, make a difference globally, and apply their learnings immediately to drive impact and change lives and organizations.

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00:01We're looking for people who have star qualities.

00:04So in the field, there are people who are essentially the best.

00:10With people that everybody recognizes as potential leaders in the field.

00:14But we also pay attention to people who will benefit the most from the program.

00:19Stanford Ignite is an entrepreneurship and innovation program.

00:23It's been running on campus at Stanford since 2006,

00:26and now we are taking it all over the world.

00:30>> By using highly immersive video conference technology,

00:34we're able to bring Standford to our international locations.

00:37Our students in Bangalore,

00:38in Paris, in Santiago, in other locations around the world feel as if they are in

00:43the same room with our world class Stanford faculty.

00:46>> Everything from financing and

00:48funding through communication skills, presentation skills.

00:53>> Gives us this framework that helps us with design thinking,

00:56making a business model much more robust.

00:59>> Just the practical element of trying to take an idea and

01:04nurturing it along and really flushing it out and

01:06building a real pitch around it with a team, that's the most valuable thing.

01:11>> This is kind of like a fusion of learning and

01:14applying was to me phenomenal.

01:17Very, very new experience.

01:18>> The professor that teaches Stanford Ignite are most experienced professors.

01:23>> The students are really exposed to, to some of the greatest minds of our time.

01:28Sharing with them what they've learned about entrepreneurship and

01:32innovation at Stanford and how it applies elsewhere in the world.

01:36>> And they were able to accommodate all the questions and

01:39give really personal attention to every student.

01:41The classroom is filled with diverse personalities.

01:45>> Students in engineering, the life sciences, education, other fields who have

01:49ideas from those fields, that they want to advance either through startups,

01:54or the growth of existing companies.

01:57>> Stanford Ignite is not only about individuals.

01:59It's about creating a community.

02:02>> It is a core of a global Stanford innovatives network.

02:07>> This, this program has been very transformative for me.

02:09>> I already started applying what I learned right away.

02:13>> When you give them those business skills,

02:15when you give them those tools, it not only opens up a new world for them.

02:20But, you know, with their huge talent they can actually go out and create an impact.

02:25>> [UNKNOWN] program give us this desire to go there and change the world.

02:31>> Change lives.

02:32>> Change organizations.

02:34>> Change the world.

02:35>> [APPLAUSE]

02:38[MUSIC]

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