What to Expect from the Webinar:
IEEE: Entrepreneurship – the world’s largest technical professional organization, with over 460,000 members across 190+ countries.
Purpose: Connect climate tech entrepreneurs with a global engineering-driven innovation network, advancing technology solutions for humanity.
Key Features:
Global Programs:
Women Entrepreneurs Support Network: Virtual global support for women entrepreneurs.
IEEE Entrepreneurship Impact Award: $10,000 award recognizing significant contributions to the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Educational Resources: Focused on deep tech and manufacturing, with tech transfer workshops.
Mentorship Program: Access to a global network of virtual mentors for entrepreneurs.
Regional Initiatives:
North America: Manufacturing curriculum and Hard Tech Venture Summit.
Europe, Middle East, and Africa: Pitch competitions and events in Dubai and Morocco.
Latin America: Tech transfer workshops with investors.
Asia Pacific: Agtech and robotics collaborations, with social entrepreneurship hackathons.
Upcoming Events:
Singapore Clean Energy and Smart Cities Investment Forum (Nov 28, 2024)
San Diego Grid Edge Startup Showcase (Jan 21-23, 2025)
San Francisco Hard Tech Venture Summit (June 2025)
Networking Benefits: Connect with vetted investors, high-net-worth individuals, and family offices focused on clean energy, smart cities, and deep tech.
Our Speaker:
Joanne Wong is the Chair of IEEE Entrepreneurship - Connecting tech entrepreneurs to an engineering-driven global Innovation network.
Joanne is General Partner of REDDS Capital, a Californian VC firm investing in global early-stage IT startups. She has worked with IBM, HP, SAP, and Cisco in multiple technical, market development, and strategic investments positions.
Joanne was the Executive Director of a healthcare charity start-up, providing free green access to high performance computational resources for biomedical researchers. She has co-founded startups in 3D simulation for learning, and a startup of a multi-modal research data management platform for longitudinal clinical studies.
She is a mentor/advisor for multiple startups. Joanne has served on several boards including the Government of Canada ICT sector council setting research and advising ICT policy for the country.
Find Joanne Wong on LinkedIn!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joannewongreddscapital/
About IEEE:
IEEE is the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. IEEE has over 430,000+ members in 190+ countries. IEEE publishes nearly a third of the world’s technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics.
Learn more about IEEE:
https://entrepreneurship.ieee.org/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/ieee/