Young Founders School: Educating Youth Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship
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Synopsis
In this Venture Creation in Asia Fireside Chat, we bring together Founders | Entrepreneurs and Investors | Angels | Mentors | Venture Builders in a moderated fireside chat session to share stories of venture building - highlighting the fact that venture building is a sustained and team-based effort.
In this fireside chat, Yen-Lu Chow, AIM’s founding executive chairman, will moderate the session with Billy Naveed the founder and Chris Geary the CEO at YFS, whose mission is to make entrepreneurship education and internship experiences accessible to secondary school students (ages 11-18) globally. Since launching in 2018, over 7000 students across the world have gone through YFS entrepreneurship programs with significant impact created.
Join us to hear firsthand about the YFS journey, and their big plans ahead!
About Young Founders School (YFS)
The mission at YFS is to make entrepreneurship education and internship experiences accessible to secondary school students (ages 11-18) globally. We believe that students are never too young to make a difference in the world. We equip students with cutting-edge startup knowledge through hands-on learning and direct mentorship from real-world entrepreneurs.
With all the buzz going around with startups and being your own boss, we want to teach students that being an entrepreneur is much more than that. Entrepreneurship is not an occupation, not a title. It is a mindset where we are constantly looking for ways to solve problems in innovative ways. It is a combination of the use of technical and soft-skills to create value and make an impact.
Billy Naveed
Chairman and Founder of Young Founders School
Chris Geary
CEO of BSD Education and Young Founders School
Chris Geary is a social entrepreneur focused on developing initiatives that reduce inequalities by lowering barriers to accessing the opportunities of the Future of Work. Chris is the CEO of BSD Education and Young Founders School, an MIT LEAP Social Entrepreneurship Fellow and Chairman of the Kennedy School in Hong Kong.
Yen-Lu Chow
Founding Executive Chairman WholeTree Foundation / Over-The-Rainbow; Asia Institute of Mentoring | Founding Partner Fatfish MediaLab | Executive Mentor YSI SEA | Founder of the Deep Human Movement
A former Apple Distinguished Technologist, Yen-Lu is an award-winning entrepreneur, technologist, venture catalyst & angel investor, mentor & advisor turned author and keynote speaker, mental wellbeing champion, social innovator & change-maker, ecosystem builder, philanthropist and humanist.
As an angel investor and venture catalyst in the tech ecosystem, Yen-Lu has mentored young entrepreneurs and businesses for many years. He has made significant contributions to the Singapore tech and entrepreneurship ecosystem, serving on countless startup business plan competitions internationally, government panels on innovation and entrepreneurship, and as mentor and advisor to the major universities. He co-founded a business angel fund in partnership with the Singapore government, served as a director of Business Angel Network SEA, executive mentor and adjunct professor to NUS Enterprise, mentor to INSEAD, plus numerous panels on entrepreneurship and innovation internationally. As an expert and practitioner in speech recognition and language processing (with 6 international patents and having worked in the field for over 20 years since early 1980’s while leading Apple’s initiative in this area in the early 1990’s), he was an early pioneer in the application of AI with a strong base in the tech space.
He is on a life mission to help bring about a kinder, gentler, more inclusive, more just and sustainable world.
About Asia Institute of Mentoring
Asia Institute of Mentoring (AIM) is a non-profit volunteer based organization with a mission to bring mentoring to the spotlight in Asia, raise the quality of mentors and the standard of mentoring, bringing mentoring to all facets of society to impact millions of lives.
We are committed to create an Asia-based people-powered mentoring movement to move people … to learn, to share, to give forward, to transform, to harness the deep human potential, and create social impact – bringing about a kinder, gentler, more inclusive, just and sustainable world for all.
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