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SUMMARY:Innovation Seminar Talk: The Entrepreneurial journey from deep sci
 ence to a billion market product - Dr Giorgia Longobardi
DTSTART:20211027T150000Z
DTEND:20211027T163000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Alexandra Huener
DESCRIPTION:Dr Giorgia Longobardi\, founder & CEO of Cambridge GaN Devices
  Ltd will speak about "The Entrepreneurial journey from deep science to a 
 billion market product: how to embrace risks and failures while aiming for
  success. ” on Wed 27 Oct 2021\, 4:00pm -5:30pm\n \nGiorgia has a PhD in
  power devices from Cambridge University. Since 2009 she has been working 
 on GaN power devices design and characterisation gaining extensive and in-
 dept knowledge of GaN reliability. She has more than 5 years of experience
  in managing and budgeting multi-partner projects and prior to that she ha
 s led the GaN power devices team at the engineering department at Cambridg
 e University. In 2019 she received the RAEng Engineers Trust Young Enginee
 r of the Year by Royal Academy of Engineering.\n\nShe now leads a team of 
 more than 30 people including several consultants. In recognition for her 
 contribution to the business she has been recently awarded the 2021 Busine
 ss Woman of the year award from Business weekly and Talented Young Italian
  award in the category research and innovation from the Italian Chamber of
  Commerce and Industry for the UK. Cambridge GaN devices (CGD) has also re
 ceived the UKBAA Deep tech investment of the year and the Business Weekly 
 scale-up of the year. Giorgia has a strong passion for green technologies\
 , which has been driving her along her entrepreneurial journey. \n\nCome a
 nd join this informal talk and get inspired by Giorgia.\nRegister for the 
 online event here http://bit.ly/3G05vb5
LOCATION:Online via zoom
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