Guest lecture by Reid Hoffman: Empowering humanity through AI
Event information
Time
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Venue location
Agora, Linnanmaa campus
Location
The seminar starts with coffee at 9.30 and ends at 11.30. The discussion is moderated by professor Harri Oinas-Kukkonen from Oulu Advanced Research on Service and Information Systems research unit.
Reid Hoffman is an American internet entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author, and Honorary Doctorate of the University of Oulu, Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering. He co-founded LinkedIn and is a partner at Greylock, a leading venture capital firm in Silicon Valley. He has authored four best-selling books and hosts the podcast Masters of Scale. Hoffman reflects on essential questions related to humanity and focuses on investing in businesses that bring something fundamentally new to human life and society globally. Airbnb is one such business that Hoffman believed in from the very beginning.
Please sign up for the seminar here by Wednesday, May 22nd.
Get inspired before the event by watching to Hoffman's Honorary Doctorate interview here.