Visiting Professor, KAUST
Dr. Bülent Erbilgin has over 20 years of industry executive leadership. He also has several years of teaching experience at the graduate level.
As an executive of seven startups and several public companies he successfully released products ranging from Cyber-security, Network Security, Web applications, SaaS, Complex high-availability software, Highly-distributed systems, Analytics, Big data, IOT, Machine Learning to Network Intelligence products.
His teaching experience includes Leadership, Teaming, Ethics, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Design Thinking, Product Development as well as Engineering Management at UC Berkeley, Northeastern University and KAUST.
In addition, Dr. Erbilgin has mentored founders and students in various entrepreneurship classes to identify startup opportunities, develop business plans, and VC presentations. He spent significant time with number of teams guiding them through all stages of forming a startup. Served on panels together with VCs to evaluate and score various startup teams as part of the classes.
Most recently Dr. Erbilgin led the Security Software Development effort at Workday. Prior to that Dr. Erbilgin was a VP Engineering at Telesense, VP Engineering at Cryptography Research/Rambus, VP Engineering at SS8, and several other companies.
Dr. Erbilgin holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Computer Architecture) and M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
B19 MOSTI Room
You will first learn about the design thinking framework. Then,You will play the role of the General Manager of a 500-room, 4-star city-center hotel with the goal of reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Your goal will be to reduce its emissions by 50% over the next 7 years and at the same time optimize its financial performance of the hotel. You will select initiatives from a wide-ranging and evolving list that impact the hotel's emissions and business performance.Choosing the right emission reduction strategies will require you to think through all the consequences of your decisions and to prioritize. Not all initiatives that look "green" have a significant impact on emissions.
Visiting Professor, KAUST
Education Programs Lead, KAUST EC