Entrepreneurship, counter-terrorism and ending child slavery

Entrepreneurship, counter-terrorism and ending child slavery

May 13, 2016 By Shastri Leave a Comment

Last weekend, I attended the TIE Conference where over 4,000 people gathered to get an annual intravenous knowledge infusion about entrepreneurship. I was there because NewzSocial powered the social media large screen for the conference and amplified content about the conference through scores of social media ambassadors. I was impressed by how the organizers of this conference took a much broader view of entrepreneurship than just the stereotypical “starting a small business in a garage”, and instead looked at the entrepreneurial mindset which is applicable across many broad domains. Two keynote speakers that really stood out for me in this regard were Brian Michael Jenkins, who has spent his career at RAND corporation working on counter-terrorism, and Kailash Satyarthi, who won the Nobel Peace prize in 2014 for his work in preventing child-slavery.

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