Prez at 2001 NCIIA- REE Open 2011 conference -- the very best at entrep education & student-centric technology commercialization (especially sustainable tech) Also the Open Minds 2011 competition (the very best student teams with world-saving techs -whoa!) key links: Conf sked = http://open2011.sched.org/ Hosts: http://www.nciia.org/ & http://stvp.stanford.edu My modest contribution was an overview of the lean startup model prefaced with WHY it works -- how action changes thought. .and thought patterns, making lean practitioners better entrepreneurial thinkers. (And why events like Startup Weekend are such brain-changers!)