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DESIGN THINKING ACROSS BORDERS AND INDUSTRIES 15:00 – 17:00 Crystal Room Practiced at Stanford University's Design School, Germany's Hasso-Plattner Institute Design and IDEO, Design Thinking is a creative and collaborative problem-solving method for complex issues. This interactive workshop will be led by SAP's Design Thinking experts (flown in from Germany) and highlight findings from SAP's Design Thinking work with Endeavor Entrepreneurs on managing big, diverse customer data, especially in healthcare, education and base-of-the-pyramid services. Summit attendees and Endeavor Entrepreneurs from all industries are invited to join this interactive session! DANIEL MARKWIG is a Senior Design Strategist at SAP's Design & Co-Innovation Center. In this role he coaches teams to develop a product vision that is rooted in user needs and business requirements. He supports the teams in expressing their vision in a product that is built using agile software development methodologies. He has also worked at SAP as a product designer and scrum mentor and before joining the company he was a designer, marketing consultant and a mechanical engineer. Daniel holds degrees in Integral Design and Mechanical Engineering. BEATE RIEFER is a Strategic Design Consultant at SAP. In the last two years she worked as a User Experience Designer in the cloud area and started her development as Design Thinking Coach. Beate is responsible for team building and people development. Before working for SAP, Beate did her Bachelor in Media Design at Media University. ENDEAVOR PRESIDENT FERNANDO FABRE ON HIGH-IMPACT FOUNDERS 17:00 – 17:30 Gold Room Endeavor President Fernando Fabre commences the final session of the fifth biennial Summit with a reflection on high-impact founders. FERNANDO FABRE assumed the role of President of Endeavor Global in 2011. Immediately prior, he was the Managing Director of Endeavor Mexico since 2004 and a part-time faculty Professor of Entrepreneurship at Anahuac University. In 2002 he and his mentor and professor Dr. Richard L. Smith were appointed by Mexico President Vicente Fox under the Partnership for Prosperity Program to develop a set of guidelines to build an entrepreneurial culture in Mexico. Among these guidelines were recommendations that helped shape the creation of the Mexican association of venture capital funds; the creation of Fondo Pyme (a US$600 million-per-year government program to support SMEs); and more recently the creation of a US$50 million-per-year program to launch SME IPOs in the Mexican Bolsa (stock market). In 2009 he became a Kauffman Fellow through the Center for Venture Education in Silicon Valley, CA. He lives in New York City with his wife and daughter. 24