The Silicon Valley Project - Restarting Our Impulse to Build in Silicon Valley - Aug 2020
The Silicon Valley Project speaker series present:
Restarting Our Impulse to Build in Silicon Valley
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Date: Tuesday, August 4, 2020 | 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Location: Virtual
Speaker: Hong Nguyen-Phuong
Event Description
Nine years after tech investor Marc Andreesen celebrated the market dominance of Silicon Valley “software eating the world,” he laments that now, amid COVID-19, we couldn’t make cotton swabs and respirators to save our lives. As a result, this mecca of innovation has lost lives and jobs. The cause? Inertia. He points to a lost will to build.
Our journey back to the prosperity of the American dream requires the adoption of best practices—some that Silicon Valley has widely adopted in recent years and other trusty practices that few remember. There’s plenty that’s new, unexpected, and yet unknown in the work that humans must do. That work needs to be started, and done enthusiastically and well.
In this presentation we’ll explore how we can be part of the solution.
Topics
- Know and practice best practices.
- Is impossible really?
- Trust and collaboration are not empty words.
- Intelligence is not only AI.
- People still quit because of their boss.
- Nurture internal resilience.
Speaker
Hong Nguyen-Phuong
Amazon International Best Selling Author and Instructor at UCSC Silicon Valley and UC Berkeley Extensions
Registration (virtual access details to be distributed upon registration)
- PMISV Members: $5.00
- Non-members: $5.00
- UCSC Active Students: $5.00
- Veterans: Free (Request a veteran code to attend all PMISV events for free.)
Additional Information
Meeting Leader: Contact Rich Condon, PMP, PMI-ACP
The Silicon Valley Project
Thought leadership for project management professionals
The Silicon Valley Project provides monthly virtual forums to expand our understanding of the evolving field of project management. A supportive network of seasoned practitioners and aspiring professionals, we share best practices and new ideas. We are a collaboration between PMI Silicon Valley Chapter and UCSC Silicon Valley Extension, organizations that provide exceptional opportunities for professional instruction, professional development units, and, in some cases accredited University of California credits.
Event Properties
| Event Date | 08-04-2020 6:00 pm |
| Event End Date | 08-04-2020 8:30 pm |
| Cut off date | 08-04-2020 8:00 pm |
| Individual Price | US$ 5.00 |
| No. of Business Acumen PDUs | 1.0 |
| No. of Power Skills PDUs | 1.0 |
| PMI Event Number | Event code to be shared at the end of presentation |
| Location | Zoom |
Speakers
Hong Nguyen-Phuong
Amazon International Best-Selling Author and Instructor at UCSC Silicon Valley and UC Berkeley Extensions
Hong Nguyen-Phuong, an Amazon International best-selling author, teaches enterprise agility at UCSC Silicon Valley Extension. As an organizational performance consultant and member of the Silicon Valley Alliances, he has been actively experimenting, learning, and mastering the richness of virtual engagement in the time of COVID-19. In recent months, Hong and friends founded TraceBear, a health tech startup created specifically to empower employers to bring employees back to the workplace and enable them to be productive, profitable, and above all, SAFE. Hong studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University, and the Harvard Business School.