Courses & Events
Social Entrepreneurship and Tech Innovation Advancing SDGs in South Asia
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
04:30 pm - 05:50 pm
Rikin Gandhi Co-founder & Executive Director, Digital Green
Radhika Shah Co-President, Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs
Details
Open to the Public – No RSVP Required
Venue:
Stanford University, Skilling Auditorium,
494 Lomita Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
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Parking:
- Via Ortega Garage, 498 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA 94305 [Google Map]
- Roble Field Garage, Cross street is Via Ortega and Santa Teresa (Entrance is on Via Ortega), Stanford, CA 94305 [Google Map]
- Please check parking signs carefully to ensure that permitted parking and metered spaces are free after 4:00 pm.
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Speakers
Rikin Gandhi
Co-founder & Executive Director, Digital Green
Rikin Gandhi is co-founder and executive director of Digital Green, a global development organization that empowers smallholder farmers to lift themselves out of poverty by harnessing the collective power of technology and grassroots-level partnerships. He began his career at Oracle, where he received patents for linguistic search algorithms that he helped develop. Later, he joined Microsoft Research India’s Technology for Emerging Markets team, where he researched ways to amplify the effectiveness of agricultural development globally. While traveling around India’s rural communities, Gandhi developed a passion for helping the country’s rural farmers. That passion then became his career: in 2006, he co-founded what is now Digital Green. Gandhi holds a master’s in aeronautical and astronautical space engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a bachelor’s in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.
Radhika Shah
Co-President, Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs
Radhika Shah is Co-President of Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs. She is an angel/impact tech investor also passionate about civic engagement, community building & transformative social change. She is an advisor to the Sustainable Development Goals Philanthropy Platform and Founding Chair of the Tech Advisory Group for Stanford Handa Center for Human Rights. She also sits on the International Advisory Network for Business and Human Rights Resource Centre.
She has been an advisor, mentor and judge at student Accelerators Startx (Stanford) & Skydeck Labs (Berkeley), Impact Experience and Illumen Capital a Fund of Impact Funds reducing Implicit Biases.
She is passionate about women’s rights, education, social justice, environment since her childhood, growing up under the influence of the Gandhi Ashram in India. Radhika co-founded former Ashoka SV chapter, is on SV Leadership Council for Action for India, an advisor/mentor to CGNetSwara.org, Samasource.org.
Radhika has been a speaker at Stanford and Berkeley, the National Academy of Sciences, United Nations SDG MediaZone on topics including entrepreneurship and investment, the role of tech innovation in helping society and 2 sides of technology. She has been a judge, co-convener of UN Solutions summit and is member of a tech focused study group at the Center for Global Development.
She holds a Masters in Computer Science from Stanford and an MBA from Berkeley.
