How Systems Engineers Can Save Entrepreneurship - INCOSE Webinar
This webinar presented was part of an INCOSE webinar series on May 7, 2025, featuring Erik Simanis, Patrick Donohue and Mark Yde, with over 200 live attendees.
INCOSE Webinar 181 - May 7, 2025
INCOSE is a not-for-profit membership organization founded to develop and disseminate the transdisciplinary principles and practices that enable the realization of successful systems, with more than 26,000 members and 65+ chapters worldwide.
INCOSE is also the home of the Integrative Venture Engineering working group which focuses on the application of systems engineering to building ventures.
Video recording
Presenters
Erik Simanis, PhD
Co-Director, Built to Hold Venture Design Lab · Cornell University, Half-Solved
30 years experience leading and guiding over two dozen ventures across a wide range of industries, including health, financial services, education, energy and mobility. Dr. Simanis’ work is published in Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and Wall Street Journal.
Patrick Donohue
Co-Director, Built to Hold Venture Design Lab · Half-Solved
Product and innovation leader with 20+ years at Facebook, Automattic, Rockwell, and mission-driven startups. A 0-to-1 venture builder, he’s led both corporate innovation and startups and coaches product and engineering leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, Gusto, and beyond.
Mark Yde
Senior Associate, Investor, Ajinomoto Group Ventures
Directs and supports investments across therapeutics, food, greentech and other segments of Ajinomoto’s innovation frontier. Mark has extensive experience as a venture builder and investor, with a deep background in biotech and neuroscience innovations and technologies.
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