The document summarizes resources for entrepreneurs in Africa and the Middle East, including a startup bus program in Southern Africa bringing together African and international entrepreneurs, programs in Ghana and East Africa from Stanford University, and various consulting firms and resources on intellectual property, business development, and entrepreneurship. It then provides details on a workshop on intellectual property and entrepreneurship in Africa and the Middle East being held at Stanford University, featuring experts from Silicon Valley and the region to provide methods for developing businesses.

1. Resources
Africa Entrepreneurship
StartupBus is an annual entrepreneurial road trip, during which
the 'buspreneurs' conceive, build, and launch their startup.
This November, for the first time, it will run in Southern Africa,
bringing together 15 African and 15 International entrepreneurs
for a truly unforgettable journey.
Participants will be designers, and business developers all focused
on the areas Mobile, Healthcare and Energy.
“How to Leverage their Intangible Assets and Build Practical Business Strategies”
Africa & Middle East Regions
AIntellectual Property (IP) and Entrepreneurship Workshop
The goal is to support entrepreneurs in Africa, help international
entrepreneurs understand the African market and create lasting
ties between both – and finally, of course, the founding of new
startups in the areas of interest.http://africa.startupbus.com/
Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies
(SEED). The SEED Program for high potential businesses in
Ghana West Africa Designed for businesses with revenues in the
$150,000 to $5 millions range Spring 2014. Emmanuel Kitcher
+233 (0)30 290 2888 In addition there is a maker lab with
prototyping capability. Program launch in East Africa Summer
2014 https://seed.stanford.edu/seed-west-africa/programs
Middle East
Egyptian Legal Services since 1960, Legal Services and Consultants,
http://www.middleeastip.com
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Palma Consultant since 1997 Palma Consulting provides business
and IT services to grow and accomplish geographic
expansionhttp://www.palma-consulting.com + 962 6 551 2274
The Berkeley Program is an Entrepreneur and Development program for
the Middle East http://bped.berkeley.edu
Tuesday, Oct 29, 2013, 6-8pm
Stanford University
CISAC Conference Room 2nd floor, Encina Hall Central
616 Serra Street, Stanford, California
Fairrer Samani Group Strategic Management, training programs, and
investment firm.www.fairrermgt.com
Thank You to our sponsors
Patent law--Global
http://www.patentlens.net/daisy/patentlens/ip/around-the-world.html
World Intellectual Property Organization
http://www.wipo.int/index.html.en
Disclosure: These resources are not recommendations only resources to
assist your entrepreneurial venture.
Dr. Laura Hubbard, Associate Director, Center for African Studies Stanford
University
Dr. Jeannice Fairrer Samani, Fairrer Samani Group

2. Silicon Valley experts in IP and Business Development will provide
critical methods to develop businesses.
Jeannice Fairrer Samani, CEO and Professor
Integrated Technology and Business.
As the founded of Fairrer Samani Group, the mission is
to provide access to resources in strategic management
and business development acceleration. The Launch of
LD4Ex mobile application a Leadership Development
for Excellence is a customized program reaching
entrepreneurs in the Middle East and Africa. FSG offers
entrepreneur education through Entrepreneur Enterprise
pipeline program (E2) that has successful supported over
250 entrepreneurs in their start-ups. Jeannice attended
University of California, Berkeley holding a BA in
Political Economics, MBA in management and
sustainability, Masters in transportation engineering and
City and regional planning, PhD in Business
Administration, with post-graduate courses in Business
and green tech from Stanford. Follow Jeannice Fairrer
Samani on @jeannice
Meredith McKenzie Vice President and Deputy
General Counsel Juniper Networks
Meredith McKenzie joined Juniper Networks in 2012 as
Vice President and Deputy General Counsel. She has
over 18 years of Intellectual Property experience, with
15 years in-house. At Juniper Ms. McKenzie manages
the group responsible for all aspects of Juniper’s
Intellectual Property and product support, including
patents, litigation, in-bound licensing, privacy, open
source, standards, M&A IP due diligence, trademarks,
copyrights and trade secrets. Prior to joining Juniper, she
spent over 5 years at Symantec Corporation as the
Senior Director of Intellectual Property and 5 years at
Cypress Semiconductor as the Director of Litigation,
Licensing and Intellectual Property. Meredith holds a
BSEE from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. and
a J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law,
Magna Cum Laude, with an emphasis in Intellectual
Property.
Josephine Gordon, Independent Consultant
Josephine Gordon is a lawyer educated in both in
Kenya and the US. In Kenya, she graduated from
the University of Nairobi with a bachelor of laws
LL.B. degree and from Berkeley law with an
LL.M master of laws degree. Josephine has
specialized in law and technology for over a
decade. She now works as an independent
consultant for American technologists with start
ups in Africa and for African technologists who
want to partner with Americans.
RumbidzayiMlambo, Tech Women Mentee
RumbidzayiMlambo is an Intellectual Property
Consultant with IPB Solutions in Zimbabwe,
with a background in Biochemistry and
Chemistry from the University of Zimbabwe and
Intellectual Property from Africa University. She
has worked for the University of Zimbabwe, The
Ministry
of
Science
and
Technology
Development and the Research Council of
Zimbabwe. She is currently involved in various
S&T projects in the Harare Province in an effort
to ensure that S&T contributes to Socioeconomic Development including establishment
of a National Center of Research Excellence
which should see start ups and spin offs from
publicly funded Research. She is also a volunteer
with the Zimbabwe Association of Inventors.
Her goal is to become a qualified Patent
Jeremiah Gordon, Google Inc
Jeremiah Gordon is a Harvard trained attorney with
more than a decade of corporate law experience. He
worked at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Rosati as a
corporate lawyer on venture financings, corporate
governance and mergers and acquisitions. He now
works at Google Inc. focusing on investments in later
stage companies.
Laura Norris, founding director of the
Entrepreneurs’ Law Clinic at Santa Clara
University School of Law and an Assistant
Clinical Professor
Laura is the founding director of the Entrepreneurs’
Law Clinic at Santa Clara University School of Law
and an Assistant Clinical Professor. Under Laura’s
supervision, clinic students counsel entrepreneurs
and start-ups on various legal issues and transactions.
Laura is also the principal of General Counsel
Services, a law firm established in 2006 to provide
intellectual property, business, and general counseltype services to entrepreneurs, technology startups,
and established companies. She is the chairman of
the board of MC2IT, a nonprofit innovation center
that provides students at Mission College with
experiential learning opportunities in the high tech
industry. Laura received her Bachelors of Science in
Electrical Engineering from the University of
Michigan in 1992, and worked as a design engineer
at Intel before going to law school. She is a member
of the California Bar and registered to practice
before the United States Patent and Trademark
Office.
By innovating,
providing jobs and
creating wealth, the
businesses that
these entrepreneurs
build play a huge
role in the
development of the
economy.
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