Silicon Valley Start seminars present an overview covering the essentials you need to know to make your carreer in academia and start up your business successfully in Silicon Valley. Workshop speakers are experienced executives, venture capitalists and pioneering researchers.

1. Silicon Valley Start
Alar Kolk
Vice Rector, Innovation & Internationalisation
Open Growth & Internationalisation!

2. Tallinn Tech =
international + innovation

3. Europe's hottest start-up
capitals: Tallinn*
*Titled by Wired Magazine, August 2011

4. International Tallinn Tech!
Ca 700 international students from more then 65
countries study in TUT today.
Ca 400 new student started their studies in Tallinn Tech
Fall 2011.
Tallinn Tech is the most international university as well
the most international organisation in Estonia.

5. 13 Master's level study
programmes in English
• International Business Administration (MBA)
• International Relations and European Studies
• Law
• Technology Governance
• Cyber Security
• Software Engineering
• Computer and Systems Engineering
• Communicative Electronics
• Industrial Engineering and Management
• Environmental Management and Cleaner Production
• Materials and Processes of Sustainable Energetics
• Health Care Technology
• Design and Engineering

6. Tallinn Tech: Health Care Technology

7. Tallinn Tech: Technology Law

8. Tallinn Tech: Computer Systems & Engineering

9. Tech:
Tallinn Tech: Design & Engineering

10. INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
SAY ESTONIA IS THE BEST
COUNTRY FOR STAY!!!
*Estonia ranked 1st in the ESN Survey 2010 regarding the average satisfaction level
for stay in the hosting country institution.
** ESN Survey is one of the biggest international student surveys in Europe.

11. Tallinn Tech =
international + innovation

12. Tallinn Tech key topics:
How to recruit talented professors?
How to recruit smart students?
How to make money from innovation?
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
– Albert Einstein

14. Shifting to the
21 st century
Learning

15. vision connecting implementation

16. building bridges

17. Integration & Balance!
Science
Teaching
Innovation

18. Tallinn Tech in Action
internationalisation in the market
Silicon Valley Corps Shanghai
Stanford, Berkeley Growth Universities
Enterprise Estonia,
Aalto cooperation

19. We believe that this university
should commit itself to achieving
the goal, before this decade is out,
of installing our technologies and
science in the companies of the
Silicon Valley and benefiting from
the investments to the Estonia.

20. We choose to go to the
Silicon Valley!

21. We choose to go to the Silicon
Valley, not because this is easy, but
because this is hard, because that
goal will serve to organise and
measure the best of our professors
and skills, because that challenge is
one that we are willing to accept, one
we are unwilling to postpone, and
one which we intend to win.

22. Tallinn Tech (TUT) in
Silicon Valley
Plug and Play TechCenter
440 N.Wolfe Rd. Sunnyvale
California 94085, USA

23. Journey to Silicon Valley!

24. Why to Grow in
Silicon Valley

25. Nerds

28. Rich
People

29. Do we really need
Rich People?
No, but they make things go much faster!

30. Super Agile Innovation!

31. Market Value $ 352,062,807,250

32. Its not only R&D, but also
entreprenurship and market/ing

40. Downtown San Jose

41. Silicon Valley Professors in
Tallinn Tech 2011
• Open Lectures and Teaching (June – Dec):
– Dr. Burton Lee, Stanford
– Prof. Oussama Khatib, Stanford
– Prof. Glenn Ballard, UC Berkeley
– Dr. Keith Devlin, Stanford

42. Tallinn Tech
Silicon Valley Office 2012
• Tallinn Tech Students’ Internship in Silicon Valley
– Nokia Silicon Valley Office, Guzik Instruments
• Best Students will Get Training in Silicon Valley
– April 2012 first students will get full week training in SV
• Joint Operations with Stanford and Berkeley
– Porfessors and Students mobility
– US and Silicon Valley Week, March 2012
• Long Term Research Cooperation with Companies
– Nokia, Microsoft, Google, Cisco
– Health Care companies
– IBM, Intel

43. What do you need
to start tonight?
…vision?
…money, time?
…bravery?
2nd Dec 06:45 Tallinn - San Francisco