Singapore-MIT Alliance
Summer Conference 2001
The two-day Programme was held in the Wong Auditorium in the Tang Center (E-51)
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Speaker
Prem Premkumar President & CEO, Altra Broadband
Abstract Mind over Matter: The Intellectual Capital Revolution in Communication Systems Design
Altra Broadband subscribes to a unique business philosophy founded in the concept of Intellectual Capital. In the past, a company's value was based on its financial assets: real estate, equipment, cash and investments. More recently, technology companies have been valued based on their intellectual property: patents, schematics, computer source code, designs, and design methods. Though improved, such valuation still ignores a significant part of the true value...
Intellectual Capital is the combination of intellectual property and intellectual potential. This potential is the combined knowledge and creativity of the company's scientists and engineers. Technology companies in the new millennium will be valued based on their intellectual capital, for it is this capital that ensures current and future revenue.
This talk will describe what it takes to build a company based on this philosophy, and analyze its impact on the creation of the next generation of optical and wireless communications technology and products. Industry trends including out-sourced manufacturing, design automation, and technology trends that enable the intellectual capital revolution will be discussed.
Biography Prem Premkumar is President & CEO of Altra Broadband, a developer of critical intellectual property, technology, and products for broadband fiber optic and wireless communications. For over 10 years Prem has been involved in the development and marketing of tools and technologies for high frequency wireless and optical communications, as well as high performance computing systems. Prior to founding Altra in July 2000, Prem was Vice President of Marketing at Ansoft for 5 years and prior to that Vice President of Product Development at Ansoft. Ansoft is a leading developer of high performance EDA software used by engineers to design state–of–the–art wireless devices, networking equipment, satellites, and integrated circuits. Prem is a 1985 graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and enjoys golf, crosswords, and running.
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