Neumann Society #Hunnovators presentation @HHF
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This document discusses the #Hunnovators community, which aims to connect Hungarian and Hungarian-affiliated professionals working in innovation fields. It outlines the community's goals of promoting talent, creativity, and entrepreneurship among Hungarian individuals. The document provides examples of notable Hungarian scientists and inventors. It also summarizes the inaugural #Hunnovators15 event, which brought together 150 people to discuss collaboration opportunities. Finally, it proposes several programmatic areas and seed projects the community hopes to pursue, such as scholarships, mentorship programs, and a physical innovation hub.
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Neumann Society #Hunnovators presentation @HHF
- 1. #Hunnovators from Silicon Valley
- 2. #Hunnovators15 - The movie
- 3. Image: John von Neumann and Marina von Neumann Whitman A glorious past to build on
- 4. Hungarian-American Nobel Prize Winner Scientists Physiology, stimulation of the cochlea George von Bekesy, 1961 Atomic nucleus symmetry principles Eugene Wigner, 1963 Discovered super-acids George Olah, 1994 Economic game theory John Harsanyi, 1994
- 5. Meet The Martians behind Project Manhattan Szilard Teller Wigner Neumann A-bomb H-bomb
- 6. You are surrounded by Hungarian inventions Matches Dynamo Ford Model T Supersonic airplane Ballpoint Pen Hologram Color TV Seat Belt Contact lenses Stress "The scientist describes what is; the engineer creates what never was."
- 7. Silicon Hungarians Father of the Computer John (von) Neumann Intel Founder, Man of the Year Andrew Grove BASIC language, e-mail John Kemeny Microsoft Word, Excel Charles Simonyi Who’s next?
- 8. Image: The community’s first group photo at Fort Mason Birth of the #Hunnovators community
- 9. The need identified • Thousands of high-level Hungary-affiliated professionals in the Bay Area and a lot more across the US • Success stories Prezi, Ustream, LogMeIn and an influx of startups • A distributed pool of scientists, fledgling communities • Fertile ground in SV: the world’s innovation capital and the mindset to succeed here • Nextgen values and cross-cultural communication ability connect us • Help local nextgen talent to network and newcomers to land safely • Promote Hungarian talent, creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship
- 10. Our approach • We want a strong, 21st century community of the best Hungarian minds in the US and globally • We want Hungarian talent to learn, cooperate, succeed and be recognized as exceptional • We want to share our knowledge, nurture talent and give back • We want to create practical community solutions with strong, measurable impact • We see this embedded in the transatlantic knowledge transfer imperative, set up the right platform and infrastructure
- 11. About Neumann Society • A nonprofit transatlantic innovation community • A California 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit • Silicon Valley/US/Global • “The Hungarian voice of Silicon Valley” • Following the footsteps of John von Neumann, probably the most widely admired Hungarian-American mind and gifted innovator of the 20th century • Promotes the advancement of socially responsible innovation in the fields of education, science, technology and entrepreneurship with the aim of empowering the next generation of excellence with talent, creativity, mindset and skills.
- 12. The #Hunnovators15 event Please click here for the multimedia event report!
- 13. What happened at #Hunnovators15? • 150 participants, 1000+ watching • VIP Keynote speeches: von Neumann Whitman, Zimbardo, Kounalakis, Koltai, Sabharwal, Arvai, Fellegi, Horwitch • Audience raised 5k for Heroic Imagination Project • 10 project workgroups • Networking Evening • Great PR, KTVU morning news announcement
- 14. Programmatic Areas • #Hunnovators program: to organize innovation cooperation and act as a nextgen talent network for global Hungarians and their friends. – We create, enable and scale a mindful, creative, cooperative, socially responsible 21st century Hungarian community. • Transatlantic Innovation: to strengthen knowledge transfer and innovation cooperation between the EU and the US. – Convene all EU Innovators in Silicon Valley and foster a platform for new transatlantic joint projects. • Mindful Innovation: to harmonize a rising tide of Silicon Valley and global thought leaders with the aim of putting innovation back on track with what we believe it was meant to serve: the challenges all humanity faces. – Create a forum and platform for replicable next practices to local problems in need of innovative solutions.
- 15. Partnerships – We4Startups • Visegrad 4 countries, 12 startups, 3 days in Silicon Valley • Rebranding Central Europe as an Innovative Region • Neumann Society is project partner • It needs to be taken to the next level
- 16. Image: Presentation of #Hunnovators seed projects The future we build together
- 17. Academic and Startup Scholarships Connect next generation excellence and mindfulness with the best opportunities at the best institutions for talent to learn, thrive and scale.
- 18. Comprehensive Innovation Assistance Program Establish, validate and manage a network of subject matter experts (Mentors and Advisors) in the Valley and globally who are generously giving time and knowledge back to less experienced innovators in need.
- 19. #Hunnovators Global Community Network Congregate and empower a unique next generation community of 21st century global Hungarian and hungarophile innovators around the collaborative power of entrepreneurial spirit, talent and creativity.
- 20. Mindful Innovation Movement Foster and reward innovation next practices spreading mindfulness and social responsibility through social innovation projects, awards & a dedicated speaker series. Refocus on 21st century values (such as Everyday Heroism), cross-pollinate with luminaries, transform mindsets and create positive change on a planetary scope.
- 21. Neumann House of Innovation Create and run a physical innovation hub in Silicon Valley: a co-working, co- living, meeting and education space as well as a living museum.
- 22. Transatlantic Innovation Platform Build a digital solution for scale to aggregate all components that work in the innovation ecosystem for supercharged cross- fertilization of ideas, solutions, stakeholders and resources between the US and Europe.
- 23. The future…is bright! • 3 prior projects under development • Donated HQ at White Summers in Redwood city, Silicon Valley • Currently 35-strong volunteer workforce • Chapters to open in DC, Boston, LA, NY…and global
- 24. Neumann Society in 5 years Community 2015 Network 2016 Platform 2017 Influencer 2019
- 25. We need your help! We need: • Skilled Volunteers • Corporate Members • Infrastructural and Project Funders Join us at: http://neumannsociety.org/
Editor's Notes
- Bekesy: Hungarians like good living; they have discovered that research is a joy; thus they become enthusiastic researcher who spend nights in the lab without even asking for an increase in salary. In the U.S. this goes a different way: there people work for dollars. There are exceptions but they don't make a majority. A quick outcome is the most important thing. - This may explain why he moved to Hawaii for his later years (1966): - There are so many cultures with their own histories and own ways of evaluating life. It is in Hawaii where I first realized how complicated the world really is and how difficult it is to understand another person's opinion, even if I do my best to understand it. Wigner: a very polite man. Teller’s anecdote. Laying in the grass, a colleague points out that there are ants on his legs. Don’t they bite. Yes. Why don’t you kill them? I don’t know which one did it. Olah, Californian at USC Harsanyi: pharmacist, philosopher and accidental economist
- All from the same district (8) In Hungary + Neumann and Kemeny Martians move around, speak a simple and logical but totally isolated language; have superhuman intellect. When Fermi left the room, the conversation automatically switched to Hungarian.
- Neumann: 1946 I am thinking about something much more important than the bomb. I am thinking about computers. 101-page. Most influential scientist of the Eisenhower era Henry Ford had ordered a dynamo for one of his plants. The dynamo didn't work, and not even the manufacturers could figure out why. A Ford employee told his boss that von Neumann was "the smartest man in America," so Ford called von Neumann and asked him to come out and take a look at the dynamo. Von Neumann came, looked at the schematics, walked around the dynamo, then took out a pencil. He marked a line on the outside casing and said, "If you'll go in and cut the coil here, the dynamo will work fine." They cut the coil, and the dynamo did work fine. Ford then told von Neumann to send him a bill for the work. Von Neumann sent Ford a bill for $5,000. Ford was astounded - $5,000 was a lot in the 1950s - and asked von Neumann for an itemised account. Here's what he submitted: Drawing a line with the pencil: $ 1 Knowing where to draw the line with the pencil: $4,999 Ford paid the bill. Andy Grove; only the paranoid survive Kemeny: Doctorate from Logis, but alos philosopher and mathematician. It is do much essier to learn to read and write in Hungarian that they have more time to learn mathematics Einstein’s assistant at Princeton 1964 BASIC Simonyi. Employee Nr. 3 at Microsoft Citizen nr.5 in space