Zoom CEO and founder Eric Yuan to speak at Rice’s Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

MEDIA ADVISORY

Jeff Falk
jfalk@rice.edu
713-348-6775

Zoom CEO and founder Eric Yuan to speak at Rice’s Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

HOUSTON — (Oct. 29, 2020) – Eric Yuan, CEO and founder of Zoom, will participate in a virtual discussion hosted by Rice University’s Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Lilie) Nov. 10 as a part of the university’s President’s Lecture Series. Yuan will share his entrepreneurial journey since 2011 leading the video communications company from startup to industry leader and discuss what’s next for Zoom’s role in education.

ERIC YUAN

Rice is recognized as a hub for innovation in entrepreneurship education and has the No. 1 graduate entrepreneurship program in the U.S.

Registration for this free event is required at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-zoom-ceo-and-founder-eric-yuan-tickets-124340613121.

What: Webinar with Zoom CEO and founder Eric Yuan.

Who: Yael Hochberg, head of the Rice Entrepreneurship Initiative and Lilie and the Ralph S. O’Connor Professor in Entrepreneurship and Professor of Finance at Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business, will lead the discussion with Yuan.

David Leebron, president of Rice, will give welcoming remarks.

When: 4 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10.

Where: Via Zoom. Registrants will receive the Zoom link when they register via Eventbrite.

The event is presented in partnership with Rice’s Chao Center for Asian Studies.

The President’s Lecture Series, which is sponsored by the Office of the President and supported by the J. Newton Rayzor Lecture Fund, was created to enrich the intellectual life of the Houston community by bringing to the Rice campus “celebrities of substance,” speakers of both high intellectual distinction and broad public appeal.

For additional information, contact Jeff Falk, director of national media relations at Rice, at jfalk@rice.edu or 713-348-6775.

-30-

Follow Rice News and Media Relations via Twitter @RiceUNews.

Follow the Jones Graduate School of Business via Twitter @Rice_Biz.

The Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Lilie) is the home of entrepreneurship and innovation at Rice University. Our mission is to equip Rice students with both entrepreneurial skills and the entrepreneurial mindset to prepare them to be entrepreneurs and innovators in whatever industry they choose, be it a technology startup, government, civic group, nonprofit, small business or large corporation. Lilie is comprised of experiential courses, co-curricular opportunities, a state-of-the-art on-campus lab space and an array of resources to support student learning. Follow Rice Entrepreneurship and the Lilie program via Instagram @LiuIdeaLab and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/liuidealab.

Located on a 300-acre forested campus in Houston, Rice University is consistently ranked among the nation’s top 20 universities by U.S. News & World Report. Rice has highly respected schools of Architecture, Business, Continuing Studies, Engineering, Humanities, Music, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences and is home to the Baker Institute for Public Policy. With 3,978 undergraduates and 3,192 graduate students, Rice’s undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio is just under 6-to-1. Its residential college system builds close-knit communities and lifelong friendships, just one reason why Rice is ranked No. 1 for lots of race/class interaction and No. 1 for quality of life by the Princeton Review. Rice is also rated as a best value among private universities by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance.