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MITEI on the Road: What MIT Is Doing about Changing the World of Energy
2009-11-04 18:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Silicon Valley Bank, 3005 Tasman Drive, Santa Clara, CA, 95054, United States
MITEI on the Road: What MIT Is Doing about Changing the World of Energy
When

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

6:00pm – 7:00pm – Networking and Refreshment

7:00pm – 9:00pm – Panel Discussion and Q/A

Where

Silicon Valley Bank, 3005 Tasman Drive, Santa Clara, CA 95054

Event Description:

Please join us for a very special opportunity to learn all about the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI). The topic includes the research being conducted at MIT in the area of solar photovoltaic and other renewable technologies. The featured speakers are Tonio Buonassisi, professor of Materials Science and Engineering, one of the foremost MIT faculty members in his field and Daniel Enderton, the Executive Director of the Sustainable Energy Revolution Program (SERP). This is a rare opportunity to get the inside scoop on MIT innovative technologies and cutting edge research and programs in the field of energy.

MIT President Susan Hockfield announced energy as one of the three strategic initiatives for MIT.
MITEI pairs the Institute’s world-class research teams with key players across the innovation spectrum to help accomplish two important goals: improving today’s energy systems and creating tomorrow’s global energy marketplace.
Learn more at
http://web.mit.edu/mitei/

Space is limited and the event is expected to sell out. VLAB members can register as MITCNC members to get the $30.00 rate! Please register now! (link)

Speakers
Tonio Buonassisi – Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering

Research Interests: adoption of renewable energy technologies, and photovoltaics in particular, via breakthroughs in efficiency, cost reduction, de-bottlenecking, and increased materials utilization. http://pv.mit.edu

Daniel Enderton, Executive Director of the Sustainable Energy Revolution Program (SERP)

SERP is the network of renewable energy research activities at MIT developed through the MIT Energy Initiative. The flagship program is in solar energy technologies, with growing programs in bioenergy, wind, geothermal and waves/tidal as well as the complementary areas of storage, grid and materials. Responsibilities include program and resource development focused on growing new research programs as well as coordination of existing programs.

About CNC:

The MIT Club of Northern California is run entirely by volunteer MIT alumni. The club organizes hundreds of events every year, serving approximately 8300 alumni in the Northern California area. Each year, the club publishes three newsletters; club members are also notified of upcoming events through a weekly email announcement. Since the Club does not receive funding from MIT, it is funded primarily from event fees, alumni donations and corporate sponsorships. Organization is led by a leadership team of over 20 alumni officers with a distinguished board of directors overseeing club operations.

This Event is kindly sponsored by Silicon Valley Bank www.svb.com

Entrepreneurs: Uncensored 4
2009-10-27 18:00 - 20:30 | Silicon Valley, CA, United States
Draper Fisher Jurvetson and VLAB present Entrepreneurs – Uncensored!
A six part speaker series highlighting the valley’s boldest entrepreneurs.
Event Description:
Each event in the series will be a case study providing meaningful advice on how to get to a meaningful startup milestone, like first paying customer or product launch. The event series will be a sequential progression of milestones in the trajectory of a startup, from product launch to exit.
Speaker Series 1 – “How I got to my first paying customer” with Max Levchin and Mike Cassidy
When
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
6:00PM to 6:30PM – Registration and Networking
6:30PM to 7:45PM – Main Event
7:45PM to 8:30PM – Networking

There is a nominal fee of $35 to attend.
Where
Silicon Valley/Bay Area (location disclosed to invitees)
Come and join us for the series and listen to Max Levchin and Mike Cassidy who have changed the industry and in the process have set a gold standard as role models for the next generation of entrepreneurs. Listen to how they managed to get their first paying customer.
This event is by invitation only.

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Moderator
Ravi Belani, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Speakers
Max Levchin, Founder, CEO & Chairman, Slide
Mike Cassidy, Former CEO, Ruba, Xfire, Direct Hit

Bios
Max Levchin, Founder, CEO & Chairman
Max is the CEO and visionary behind Slide, the largest social entertainment company in the world and developer of the most engaging applications on social networks. Max is also renowned as the co-founder of PayPal, an expert in combating online fraud and one of the hardest working entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. Before starting Slide, he incubated several other start-ups, including Yelp, where he currently sits as Chairman of the Board. Max started PayPal in 1998, took the company public in 2002 and then sold it to eBay for more than $1.5 billion at the age of 26. Originally from Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union), Max moved to Chicago at the age of 16 and later received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Max sits on the board of several other companies and trains for triathlons when he’s not obsessing over Slide’s business.
Mike Cassidy, Former CEO, Ruba, Xfire, Direct Hit
Mike Cassidy has been the Co-Founder and CEO of four start-ups: Ruba, Xfire, Direct Hit, and Stylus Innovation. Visual travel guide and tour site Ruba helps travelers all over the world share their favorite places and experiences. Xfire helps gamers play online with their friends much more easily. Xfire is also an instant messenger and peer-to-peer file download system designed just for gamers. Xfire has over 10 million registered gamers in over 100 countries. Viacom/MTV acquired Xfire for $110 million. Direct Hit was a revolutionary Internet search engine whose customers included MSN, Lycos, AOL, and dozens of others. Ask Jeeves acquired Direct Hit for $500 million. Stylus Innovation’s flagship product was the award winning computer telephony software Visual Voice. Mike is on the Board of Advisors of Jazz at Lincoln Center and is on the Visiting Committee Board of the MIT Media Lab. Mike studied jazz piano at the Berklee College of Music. Mike has a BS and MS in Aerospace Engineering from MIT. He graduated from Harvard Business School.
Ravi Belani
Ravi Belani is an Associate at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, where he serves on the boards of DesiHits, Redux, LiveMedia, TinyPictures, Yield Software, and Vizu. Ravi also led the firm’s investments in Komli and Pubmatic.
Ravi is a Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi graduate of Stanford University, holding a BS with Distinction and MS in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management. Ravi also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. As a Board Fellow at Harvard, Ravi served the Global Board of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs). Ravi is also a graduate of the Kauffman Fellows Program.

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Mobile Wallet: Can Your Phone Replace Your Wallet?
2009-10-20 18:00 - 20:30 | Arbuckle Lounge and Bishop Auditorium at Stanford Business School, Stanford, CA, United States
Mobile Wallet: Can your phone replace your wallet? *SOLD OUT*

* THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT! *

When

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

6:00pm – 7:00pm – Networking and Refreshment
7:00pm – 8:30pm – Panel Discussion and Q/A

Where
Arbuckle Lounge and Bishop Auditorium at Stanford Business School
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Event Description:
Whether scanning a cell phone to purchase a bullet train ticket in Japan or buying cattle in sub-Saharan Africa, the ubiquity of mobile phones is revolutionizing traditional banking and commerce. Gartner estimates by the end of 2009, 74.4 million people will use mobile devices to purchase goods and services worldwide, and will double by the end of 2012 . DoCoMo’s Japanese consumers have been buying mass transit tickets and vending machine goods via cell phones for ten years. Over 5 years ago, the m-Pesa project brought mobile phone micro-payments to the un-banked regions of Kenya. The proliferation of mobile phones brings new business models and opportunities to third world countries, and provides a chance to break cycles of poverty. The cell phone also creates opportunities for new business models, and new revenue streams for established players in finance and telecom.
Adoption of mobile technologies varies region to region. The race is on for who will control – and ultimately profit, from mobile banking. Banks, mobile carriers, security and technology providers have a lot to win, or lose, depending on technology advancements, partnerships, security and user adoption. There are nearly 4 billion mobile phone users, but only about 1.6 billion bank accounts.
This program will examine the emerging and existing business models enabling the mobile wallet in the US and abroad, plus the underlying trends which are driving growth opportunities. Technologies such as SMS based transactions, Near Field Communication and Direct Mobile Billing will be explored, along with security and the role of mobile carriers.
Come join us to find out about how entrepreneurs will change the way we pay, when we’re on the go.

How the mobile payment markets are evolving?

What are the opportunities for entrepreneurs?…in traditional and non-traditional businesses?
Would social networks and virtual goods catalyze mass adoption of mobile money? What are the roadblocks?
What are the complexities and differences between the markets in US and Asia?
Who would be the “big cheese” in the mobile payment transactions, financial institutions or carriers?

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Moderator
Scott Ellison – Vice President/Mobile and Wireless, IDC
Panelists
Wenceslao Casares – Founder, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Director, BlingNation
Eric Duprat – General Manager Mobile, Paypal
Dev Khare – Vice President, Venrock
Margaret Mackenzie – SVP Operations and Chief Financial Officer, Boku
Tyler Sloat – CFO, Obopay
Bios
Scott Ellison – Vice President/Mobile and Wireless, IDC
Scott Ellison leads IDC’s analysis efforts on the mobile consumer digital marketplace including the mobile Internet; mobile content and entertainment; mobile app stores; mobile advertising; location-based services; the competitive dynamics among mobile operators, Internet-based companies, and content providers; and the rapidly evolving competitive landscape among major mobile ecosystems including Android, Apple, Blackberry, BREW, Symbian, webOS, and Windows. A 20 year mobile industry veteran, Mr. Ellison’s mobile career includes the Personal Communications Industry Association (PCIA), MCI, Destia (where his work lead to Destia’s IPO and subsequent sale to Viatel), Viatel, and since 2001, IDC. At IDC he founded three analysis programs including Mobile & Wireless Entertainment, Wireless Business Network Services, and Mobile Data Services Qview. Mr. Ellison has won IDC’s Research Quality Award twice for individually authored research, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Mobile Giving Foundation. His media quotes and appearances include BusinessWeek, CTIA, Forbes, Mobile World Congress, NBC Nightly News, The New York Times, NPR MarketWatch, Reuters TV, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal.
Wenceslao Casares – Founder, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Director, BlingNation
Wenceslao Casares is a founder, co-Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors of Bling Nation. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing the long-term direction and growth of Bling Nation. He also is a cofounder of MECK, Ltd, a private investment firm based in Santiago, Chile.
Prior to Bling Nation, Casares, as a global entrepreneur had founded multiple ventures: Patagon, Latin America’s first comprehensive financial service portal, which was sold to Banco Satandar. He was also a cofounder of Banco Lemon that serves the unbanked population in Brazil; Wanako Games and Fundación Síntesis, a non-profit foundation based in Chile.
Casares is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization and an elected member of the World Economic Forum’s “Global Leaders of Tomorrow” Class of 2001. Casares studied business administration at the Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires, Argentina and completed the Owner/President Management program at Harvard University.
Eric Duprat – General Manager Mobile, Paypal
Eric Duprat is a global executive who specializes in the strategic development of mobile payment systems. In his current position as General Manager of Mobile at PayPal, he has worked with such industry leaders as RIM, Apple, Sprint Nextel and Chase to develop and launch mobile payments systems.
During the past two decades, he has established a reputation as a results-oriented marketing and business development executive with a track record of directing global organizations to exceed corporate market penetration objectives by means of innovative strategies and gaining high customer satisfaction for Fortune 500 companies and customers in wireless, security and payment systems.
A raconteur with a gift for explaining how complex technologies drive changes in consumer products and behaviors, Mr. Duprat is a graduate of Columbia Business School and INSEAD (Institut supérieur d’Electronique de Paris).
Dev Khare – Vice President, Venrock
Dev Khare is Vice President at Venrock, a premier venture capital firm with offices in Palo Alto, New York, Cambridge, MA, and Israel. Dev sits on the board at Aha Mobile and SlideShare and is actively involved with Asoka, FutureDial, INRIX and Lavante. Dev previously co-founded Covigo, a mobile software company, which was acquired by Symbol Technologies (now part of Motorola). Venrock has a history of investments in payments- and billing-related ventures, including Qpass (mobile premium SMS payments), AthenaHealth (billing management), Aria (on-demand billing platform), IPCommerce (payment integration) and Semtek (credit card payments security). Dev blogs at http://www.NextWala.com and is on Twitter @dkhare.
Margaret Mackenzie – SVP Operations and Chief Financial Officer, Boku
Margaret brings over 20 years of venture andcorporate finance and operational management to the BOKU team. Mostrecently, Margaret co-founded Paymo and as CFO/COO, she was responsiblefor financial management of the company’s growth as well as for globaloperations. Prior to co-founding Paymo, Margaret was the CFO for mBlox,Inc, where she helped build the company into a leading mobiletransaction network. Before her success in international mobilepayments companies, Margaret was a Managing Director of SVB Securities,where she raised debt and equity capital, provided acquisition anddivestiture advice, and underwrote structured financings forventure-backed clients. She began her career at Itel Corporation, a SanFrancisco-based equipment leasing company.
Tyler Sloat – CFO, Obopay
As Chief Financial Officer for Obopay, Tyler is responsible for all of the company’s finance and accounting matters. His professional career spans various executive and leadership roles in finance and operations for several software and hardware technology companies varying in size from start-up to Fortune 500.
Most recently, Tyler was the Controller of the Emerging Products Group at Network Appliance, Inc, a position he was promoted into after the successful acquisition of Decru by Network Appliance in 2005. Earlier in his career, Tyler was the head of finance for the OnDemand business unit of Siebel Systems and prior to that was the Controller for POET Software Corporation, for which he played an integral role in their IPO.
Tyler is a registered C.P.A. in the State of California, has an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and has a B.A. from Boston College.
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Rise of the Machines: The Business of AI
2009-09-15 18:00 - 20:30 | Arbuckle Lounge and Bishop Auditorium at Stanford Business School, Stanford, CA, United States
Rise of the Machines: The Business of AI
When

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

6:00pm – 7:00pm – Networking and Refreshment
7:00pm – 8:30pm – Panel Discussion and Q/A

Where
Arbuckle Lounge and Bishop Auditorium at Stanford Business School
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Event Description:
The state of AI today is thriving. Google is one of the best examples of how it applies AI to data mining and text processing for its search engine. Businesses are increasingly adopting AI-based applications to replace human labor as evidenced by self-checkout counters and EZPass toll booths that can essentially do these tasks faster, cheaper and more effectively.
Recently “Adam” became the first automated robot to complete a science project in its entirety from hypothesis, to experiment, to reformulated hypothesis — with virtually no human intervention (link). The U.S. military went from using 0 robots in 2003 to now almost 20,000 ground and air robots. DARPA announced plans for an intelligent, long-distance flying drone that refuels itself by consuming biological matter in its path (link).
Software is being modeled on the idiosyncrasies of the human brain and has reached a point where it can learn our preferences and anticipate needs. How far are we from realizing self aware, self-sustaining technologies? Today we use computers for entertaining, information, socially connecting and communicating. AI systems, however, are on track to evolve from applications to co-collaborators that provide us with automated feedback and advanced correction capabilities.
This month’s event hosts leading companies and thought leaders in AI to discuss the current state of artificial intelligence, including autonomous robotics, learning systems and machine/human fusion and asks:
• What are the business opportunities in AI?
• Who’s investing in the space?
• What applications are most needed?
• What are the opportunities for entrepreneurs?
• How is AI being used to drive competitive advantage?
• What business models are likely to work?
• What’s next?
Check out this cool video of replanning and perception from one of our panelist companies, Willow Garage!
Come join us to find out about the next wave of AI-driven companies and learn how entrepreneurs are leveraging AI to drive business opportunities.
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Last-minute tickets are available, first-come first-serve, at the door.

Moderator
Sven Strohband – Partner, MDV
Panelists

Dag Kittlaus – Co-founder and CEO, Siri
Paul Rhodes – CEO, Evolved Machines
Steve Cousins – President and CEO, Willow Garage
George John – CEO, Rocket Fuel, Inc.
Rob Haitani – Chief Product Officer, VitaminD
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Sven Strohband – Partner, MDV
Sven Strohband brings engineering and operationalexperience to the MDV team and supports the partnership in sourcing andevaluating investments in the areas of software, systems and materials.
Prior to MDV, Sven spent three years at the Volkswagen ElectronicsResearch Laboratory (ERL) in Palo Alto where he was responsible fordiscovering new materials and electronics technologies for automotiveapplications. He was also the Stanford Racing team’s lead engineer. Theteam developed a robot that successfully navigated132 miles of unknownterrain fully autonomously in the fastest time, winning the 2005 DARPAGrand Challenge.
Sven has authored numerous papers on the simulation of materialssystems and authored various patents for novel automotive electronicsapplications.Sven received a doctorate and master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. He also earned a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University.
Dag Kittlaus – Co-founder and CEO, Siri
Siri’s CEO is Dag Kittlaus, who founded the company as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at SRI.
A serial innovator and consumer wireless internet veteran of 10 years in Scandinavia and the US, Dag is working on creating his third consecutive mobile internet product with over a million users.
Dag has held leadership roles as VP of Consumer Internet Services at Scandinavian telecom giant Telenor Mobile, and several consumer product groups at Motorola including GM of xProducts and founder and GM of Motorola’s Interactive Media Group. He conceived and launched Screen3, a breakthrough consumer mobile application currently used by millions of users and adopted by Cingular, China Mobile, and Telefonica.
Paul Rhodes – CEO, Evolved Machines
Dr. Rhodes has been a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and is the founder of Evolved Machines, Inc., a research organization pioneering the synthesis of artificial neural circuits and their application to olfaction and visual object recognition. The group is developing the first synthetic neural arrays which wire themselves by simulating neural circuit growth in 3-dimensions, and is the first company to harness the power of programmable GPU’s for the simulation of neural computation, now achieving > 100-fold acceleration of the computing power of conventional cores. The company’s goal is the development of the first generation of devices truly based on brain circuitry, pioneering the fusion of neuroscience and engineering to develop new categories of machines which embed some of the capacities of biological neural systems.
Dr. Rhodes received a Ph.D. and M.S. in Neuroscience under Dr. Rodolfo Llinas at NYU Medical School, and received an M.S. in Physics from Stanford University after graduating with an A.B. in Physics, Magna cum Laude, from Harvard University.
Steve Cousins – President and CEO, Willow Garage
Steve Cousins is a seasoned executive, entrepreneur and innovator with a strong track record for managing research and development organizations and realizing a significant return on investment. Prior to joining Willow Garage, Steve was the senior manager of the User-Focused Systems Research Group at the IBM Almaden Research Center, one of the top human-computer interaction research groups in the world. Earlier, Steve managed the Advanced Systems Development Laboratory at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and a researcher at Interval Research Corporation. Steve holds a PhD in CS from Stanford University, and Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Washington University.
George John – CEO, Rocket Fuel, Inc.
George H. John is CEO of Rocket Fuel Inc., www.rocketfuelinc.com, a company full of rocket scientists who are building the world’s best technology for predicting consumer response to online advertising. Rocket Fuel was founded in 2008 by industry veterans from Yahoo! and DoubleClick. Rocket Fuel’s advertiser-focused ad network has run campaigns for major brands like Microsoft, Adobe, Nintendo, and many more.
Prior to Rocket Fuel, George led groups at IBM, E.piphany, salesforce.com, and most recently Yahoo!, where he managed behavioral targeting, recommendations, and click fraud. As a kid, George was overly influenced by “Star Trek,” which led to a short-lived interest in model rocketry (eyebrows grew back) and a lifelong interest in Artificial Intelligence. George earned BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Computer Science from Stanford, specializing in AI and statistics. During his graduate studies, he won a National Science Foundation fellowship and worked at NASA, earning his “rocket scientist” credentials.
Rob Haitani – Chief Product Officer, VitaminD
Rob Haitani co-founded Vitamin D in 2007 to develop solutions for the next generation of intelligent computing. Prior to Vitamin D, Rob was the Product Design Architect at Palm and part of the founding team at Handspring. He has been awarded 35 patents for designing the user interface of the original Palm OS, the PalmPilot and the Treo smartphone. Rob began his career in the computer video and display divisions of Sony in Tokyo, Japan. He holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Yale.
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Exploring the Mobile Apps Opportunity: How to Get to Ca-Ching!
2009-06-16 18:00 - 20:30 | Arbuckle Lounge and Bishop Auditorium at Stanford Business School, Stanford, CA, United States
Exploring the Mobile Apps Opportunity: How to Get to Ca-Ching!

6:00pm – 7:00pm – Networking and Refreshment
7:00pm – 8:30pm – Panel Discussion and Q/A

Location
Arbuckle Lounge and Bishop Auditorium at Stanford Business School
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Event Description:
For several years now, consumers have download and installed a broad range of mobile apps onto their mobile devices. According to Frost & Sullivan, in 2008, U.S. premium mobile content grew 30%, with consumers embracing and downloading mobile apps like never before.
2009 is indeed shaping up to be “the year of mobile app stores” – as device manufacturers, carriers, software companies are all rushing to tap into the sizeable potential that online mobile application stores have to drive content sales.

Join us as a panel of experts explore opportunities in this dynamic, rapidly evolving mobile application eco-system. The event will bring together developers, carriers, device manufactures and VCs to collectively present a broad perspective on the mobile app eco-system. Attendees will hear from mobile app developer Steve Demeter and his highly successful experience with his “Trism” app that earned him $250,000 — in just 2 months (ca-ching!). The panel will also answer key questions in every mobile entrepreneur’s mind, namely: how do they get to ca-ching and build a viable mobile app development business.

What are the challenges that application developers face as they set out to build a viable business?
What should developers be focusing on in this highly fragmented eco-system?
Which comes first, the application or the platform?
Should developers first develop a killer mobile app and then try to figure out which platform to run it on, or should they first pick a device/platform and then optimize their app for that specific platform?

Moderator
Tom Krazit, CNET News
Panelists
Steve Demeter, Developer of the famous “Trism”, iPhone app
Adam Blum, CEO, Rhomobile
Matt Murphy, Partner and iFund Manager, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Pam Deziel, VP of Developer Marketing, Palm, Inc.
Tyler Lessard, Director, BlackBerry Alliances & Developer Relations
Detailed Bios
Tom Krazit, CNET
Tom Krazit writes about the ever-expanding world of Internet search, including Google, Yahoo, online advertising, and portals, as well as the evolution of mobile computing. He has written about traditional PC companies, chip manufacturers, and mobile computers, spending the last three years covering Apple.
Prior to joining CNET, Tom worked for IDG News Service covering the chip and PC industries. He lives and works in San Francisco.
Steve Demeter, Developer of the famous “Trism”, iPhone app
Steve Demeter is at the forefront of the indie community on the iPhone. After releasing his game Trism on the AppStore at launch, Steve went on to reveal how he had gained success on a shoesting budget, inspiring a flood of developers to the AppStore. Steve speaks at conferences regularly, and has appeared as a focus of a documentary in the Apple iPhone OS 3.0 keynote speech.
Adam Blum, CEO, Rhomobile
Adam Blum is the CEO of Rhomobile. He has been VP of Engineering/CTO of several successful startups including Commerce One, Systinet, and Good Technology. He is an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University, the author of several technical books, and an advisor to several other software companies.
Matt Murphy, Partner and iFund Manager, Kleiner Perkins Caufield &Byers
Matt Murphy is a Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; he joined in 1999. Matt manages the iFund at KPCB, a collaborative initiative with Apple and the iPhone platform, which focuses on defining applications for the mobile internet. His expertise is in network communications, compute infrastructure, and mobile applications. Matt is either a Director or works closely with the management teams of AutoNavi, Booyah!, Dash, GOGII, Pelago, Movius, Kodiak Networks, RGB Networks, Stoke, Aerohive Networks, Ocarina, and eASIC. Previously Matt was a board observer at Google (from initial investment to IPO) and director at Peakstream (acquired by Google).
Prior to KPCB, Matt led product management at a semiconductor start-up (Netboost acquired by Intel), worked at Sun Microsystems where he led business development for the Network Systems Group and was a Product Line Manager for networking platforms. He also worked in strategic and technical consulting for a number of years at Booz, Allen, & Hamilton and Accenture. Matt holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Tufts UniversityStanford Graduate School of Business. and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Pam Deziel, VP of Developer Marketing, Palm, Inc.

Pam Deziel leads Palm’s efforts to engage and inspire a vibrant and thriving developer community. She joined Palm in 2007 as vice president of software product management focused on the new webOS platform. She came to Palm after nearly ten years at Adobe Systems, where her roles included product marketing and management for Flash Player, AIR, Adobe Reader and developer tools, corporate development, and product marketing for Acrobat. Prior to Adobe, Pam was vice president of product management at Pumatech, which was later acquired by Nokia. Earlier in her career, Pam held positions at PalmSource (senior director, product marketing,) Apple Computer, and Sun Microsystems.
Pam holds a bachelor’s degree in Applied Earth Sciences from Stanford University.
Tyler Lessard, Director, BlackBerry Alliances & Developer Relations
Tyler Lessard is the Director of the BlackBerry ISV Alliances and Developer Relations programs within Research In Motion’s (RIM) Global Alliances team. Since joining RIM in 2001, he has helped to build a community of over 1,000 wireless solution providers delivering custom applications and services for BlackBerry to large enterprises, government agencies, industry professionals and mobile consumers. Tyler is currently focused on initiatives to expand the scope and success of the BlackBerry Developer Program and to deliver new products and services to drive the success of consumer-focused applications for BlackBerry including Games, Multi-media, Content Syndication, Location-Based Services and more.

News in the 21st Century: Who Reads Print Anymore?
2009-05-19 18:00 - 20:30 | Arbuckle Lounge and Bishop Auditorium at Stanford Business School, Stanford, CA, United States
News in the 21st Century: Who Reads Print Anymore?

6:00pm – 7:00pm – Networking and Refreshments
7:00pm – 8:30pm – Panel Discussion and Q/A

Location
Arbuckle Lounge and Bishop Auditorium at Stanford Business School
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Event Description:
Reputable national newspapers such as the Tribune Company and New York Times are in financial crisis, and many local newspapers have stopped publishing. How will journalism and the news business evolve with technology? What are the new opportunities for entrepreneurs? How can high-tech innovators build new business models around news and the barrage of newly unemployed journalists?
Join us and explore opportunities presented by the turmoil in the news industry and the business models being tried out by incumbents and new entrants. This event will bring together both old and new media companies, journalists and investors trying to reshape the news industry.

Moderator
Heather Harde, CEO, TechCrunch
Panelists
Guy Kawasaki, Founder, AllTop
Rob Curley, President and Executive Editor of Greenspun Interactive, Las Vegas Sun
Ann Grimes, Acting Director, Graduate Program in Journalism, Stanford University
Norman A. Fogelsong, General Partner, Institutional Venture Partners
Larry Magid, Tech Analyst, CBS News & CNET and Columnist, San Jose Mercury News & Palo Alto Daily News

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Heather Harde, CEO, TechCrunch
Heather Harde is the CEO of TechCrunch. She spent the last ten years working within News Corporation. She held a variety of corporate development, strategy and operating roles both in Los Angeles and New York. Most recently, she was part of the founding team at Fox Interactive Media and their SVP Mergers & Acquisitions.

Prior to Fox Interactive Media, she held a variety of posts at News America Marketing, TVGuide and ASkyB. Before News Corporation, she also worked for Viacom at Showtime Networks. The common theme in her media life has been working on assignments that focus on the impact of technology on media. This theme continues, of course, with TechCrunch.
Heather is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and Harvard Business School.
Guy Kawasaki, Founder, AllTop
Guy Kawasaki is the co-founder of Alltop.com, an “online magazine rack” of popular topics on the web. He is also a founding partner and entrepreneur-in-residence at Garage Technology Ventures.
Previously, Mr. Kawasaki was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. He is the author of eight books including The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way.
Guy Kawasaki has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.
Rob Curley, President and Executive Editor of Greenspun Interactive, Las Vegas Sun
Rob Curley is the President and Executive Editor of Greenspun Interactive, the new-media division of the Las Vegas Sun and Greenspun Media Group. He joined Greenspun in June of 2008.
Rob began his career in 1996 as an education reporter and online editor at a small daily newspaper in Kansas. Prior to heading to Las Vegas, Curley was Vice President of Product Development at Washington Post Newsweek Interactive for two years. Before joining WPNI, Curley was director of new media and convergencefor the Naples Daily News and its sister publications along Florida’s Gulf Coast.
Rob earned a Bachelor’s of Integrated Studies degree from Emporia (Kansas) State University in 2001.
Ann Grimes, Acting Director of Graduate Program in Journalism, Stanford University
Ann Grimes is a former staff writer and editor for The Wall Street Journal where she covered technology and business. As Deputy Bureau Chief in San Francisco, she oversaw the newspaper’s coverage of Silicon Valley during the 1990’s dot-com boom and bust. While at Dow Jones & Co., she also worked on developing new-media strategy. Earlier, Grimes was on the editorial staff of The Washington Post. She is the recipient of several journalism awards including the Society of Professional Journalist’s Peter Lisagor award for Exemplary Journalism, the Education Writers Association National Award, and two Chicago Newspaper Guild Awards. She was a 1997-1998 John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford.

A former teaching fellow at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Grimes teaches classes in public issues reporting, business, technology and new media. She has a B.A. in English Literature from Georgetown University and an M.A. in Humanities from the University of Chicago.
Norman A. Fogelsong, General Partner, Institutional Venture Partners
Norm Fogelsong joined Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) in March 1989. IVP recently led Twitter’s Series C funding with Benchmark. With more than 29 years of high-technology venture capital experience, Norm currently emphasizes investments in private later-stage companies and in select public market opportunities. Norm began his career as a computer programmer and systems analyst at Hewlett-Packard. He then worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company where he specialized in product/market strategy. Prior to joining IVP, Norm was a General Partner with Mayfield Fund. He has served the local community as the Treasurer of the Children’s Health Council, the Secretary of the Churchill Club and as a member of the Major Gifts Committees at Menlo School and Stanford University.
Norm earned a B.S. in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University (Phi Beta Kappa), an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and a J.D. from the Harvard Law School.
Larry Magid, Tech Analyst, CBS News & CNET and Columnist, San Jose Mercury News & Palo Alto Daily News
Larry Magid is a technology journalist and an Internet safety advocate. He presently serves as Technology Analyst for CBS News & CNET News and he has a daily tech segment for KCBS radio in San Francisco. He is also a weekly columnist for the San Jose Mercury News and the Palo Alto Daily News and an occasional contributor to the New York Times. He’s written for Fortune, Family Circle, PC World, Information Week, ComputerWorld and numerous other publications. He’s been a guest several national and local broadcast shows throughout the country including The Larry King Show, CBS’ Early Show, NBC’s Today Show, NPR’s Talk of the Nation, and National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. In addition to traditional media, Larry has been an early adopter of new media including CBS podcasts, several news Websites, and blogging. He’s a board member of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and a member of the advisory boards of both GetNetWise.org and Family Online Safety Institute and served on the Internet Safety Technical Task Force. Magid has a doctorate of education from the University of Massachusetts and a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley. He resides in Palo Alto, California where he helped raise two digital natives.
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Emerging Life Sciences Business Clinic: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times
2009-05-15 08:30 - 12:30 | Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Terrace 2C&D, 950 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, United States
VLAB Emerging Life Sciences Business Clinic
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times
Location
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Terrace 2C&D, 950 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304
Event Description:
To use a Dickensian cliché, this is indeed a time of great upheaval in the life sciences industry. Words like “unsustainable trend”, “nothing like it in 50 years”, and “unprecedented change”, are routinely used in connection with healthcare in the US . As many of the old rules no longer apply, the time is ripe for new business models to emerge.
Join us is in an interactive ½ day session of discussion and ideas from representatives of life sciences businesses, entrepreneurs, VC’s, clinical research labs, universities, and government programs about the trends, challenges, and investment opportunities in this space. Pre-register online for $40 for general public, $20 for students, and on-site registration for $50. Deadline for registration is May 14 at noon.
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Agenda

8:30 Registration and Networking
9:00 Welcome and Introduction
9:10 Keynote Speaker: New Dimensions for Healthcare in the Future by David Ewing Duncan, author, journalist, Director of Center for Life Science Policy at UC Berkeley and host, Biotech Nation, National Public Radio
9:40 Interactive Panel Discussion: Our esteemed panel will explore the major factors that will influence life sciences ventures in the coming years.

The squeeze in funding from traditional sources (institutional venture funding, corporate investments, public markets, etc.)
New funding options in government grants and innovative revenue models
The reduction in traditional reimbursement for therapeutic drugs and device
The increased interest in diagnostics and personalized medicine
The lack of adequate regulatory structures and standard of care processes for novel technologies
The renewed focus on cost-effective health care delivery
The challenge of demonstrating clinical utility & proof of market in capital efficient way
The changing landscape of strategic partnerships and collaborations

Our panel includes representatives from venture capital, government grant programs, insurance and managed care, regulatory law, and clinical research. Our moderator and panelists will include
:

Facilitator – Dr. Geetha Rao, CEO, Springborne Life Sciences
Kathy Conte, Managing Director, Hercules Technology Growth Capital
David Ewing Duncan, author, journalist, Director of Center for Life Science Policy at UC Berkeley and host, Biotech Nation, National Public Radio
Boris Iossel, President, OSMOS Clinical Research
Michael O’Donnell, Partner, Wilson Sonsini
Susan Weininger, CEO, The Gene Pool, Inc.

10:45 Morning Break
11:00 Life Science Mash-up
For this interactive part of the workshop, entrepreneurs will be invited to present a 1minute fast-pitch with 2 minutes of questions. After the presentations the entrepreneurs will be positioned at designated tables, inviting attendees to find out more about their business, and provide input and feedback. During this networking session, each attendee will have two votes to award their entrepreneurs of choice – one for best potential investment and one for most novel or interesting idea.
11:45 Entrepreneur Awards: Entrepreneurs with the most votes will be announced
12:00 Adjourn and Additional Networking

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David Ewing Duncan, Keynote Speaker
David Ewing Duncan is an award-winning, best-selling author of seven books and numerous other writings. David’s previous books include Masterminds: Genius, DNA and the Quest to Rewrite Life (Harper Perennial) and Calendar: Humanity’s Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year (Harper-Collins/Avon), the latter published in 19 languages, and a bestseller in 14 countries. He is a Contributing Editor and Columnist for CondeNast Portfolio, and Chief Correspondent of NPR Talk’s “Biotech Nation”. He has also been a Contributing Editor to Wired, Discover, and MIT Technology Review, a regular contributor to National Geographic, Life and numerous other publications, as well as a producer for numerous television shows including NOVA and Discovery. At UC Berkeley, David is the Director of the Center for Life Science Policy and a Visiting Researcher at the Graduate School of Journalism

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Emerging Technology Lab Event: Capitol Hill and Wall Street Come to the Valley
2009-05-14 18:00 - 20:30 | Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, 1530 Page Mill Road, Suite 200, Palo Alto, CA, 94304-1125, United States
Emerging Technology Lab Event: Capitol Hill and Wall Street Come to the Valley
Venture Connection Roundtable: How to Grab a Piece of the Stimulus Bill’s $50 Billion Cleantech Pie
This Venture Connection Roundtable event is supported by VLAB’s Emerging Technology Lab.

Date: Thursday, May 14, 2009

Time: 8:00 — 10:00 am 7:00 pm

Venue: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, 1530 Page Mill Road, Suite 200, Palo Alto, CA 94304

Moderator: Victor H. Boyajian, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, National Chair of Sonnenschein Venture Technology Group

Speakers:
Tom Jensen, Partner, Public Law & Policy Strategies, Washington D.C., Sonnenschein
David Ethridge, Managing Director, Head of Alternative Energy Group, Cowen & Company
Shez Bandukwala, Co-Chair, Greentech Investment Banking, ThinkEquity Partners
John Bergwell, Director of Project Finance, Chevron Energy Solutions

David Thelander, Director and Senior Advisor National Cleantech Practice, Deloitte & Touche

Registration: Email Maria DeLuca at mdeluca@sonnenschein.com or 973.912.7184

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The New Stimulus Package: What Does It Mean for the Valley?
2009-04-21 18:00 - 20:30 | Stanford Business School, Stanford, CA, United States
The New Stimulus Package: What Does It Mean for the Valley?
Event Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 6:00pm
Location: Stanford Business School
Billions of dollars are being made available to stimulate the economy. How will this infusion of capital impact innovation in Silicon Valley? Who is eligible to receive stimulus package money, what is the process for applying for grants and are there “strings” attached to those who receive money?
This month’s event will provide an overview of the stimulus package and share how several key funding segments – Health Care IT, Technology, and Energy – plan to use the stimulus package.
Each panelist, and the segment they represent, has an unique perspective on how they will leverage this infusion of cash. HealthCare/IT companies are looking to upgrade their computer systems, enable digital medical records and improve operational efficiencies. Our national laboratories see this as an opportunity to commercialize research projects/technology and bring new products to market. In the energy space, new and existing companies are addressing the challenges of energy use and energy efficiency.
Join us in learning how the largest stimulus package in history will impact innovation in Silicon Valley and gain a better understanding of the new business opportunities emerging out of this large influx of resources.
Moderator
Josh Becker, Founder and General Partner, New Cycle Capital

Panelists
David Katz, Director, Center for Technology Integration, El Camino Hospital
Eric Stenehjem, Director of Industrial Partnerships Office, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Donny Foster, CEO & Founder, Power Assure
Chris Wright, Vice President for Public Policy, Critical Connections

Emerging Business Forum: Integrating the Clean Tech Value Chain
2009-04-17 08:30 - 12:30 | Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, 3175 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, United States
VLAB Emerging Business Forum: Integrating the Clean Tech Value Chain
Linking Research, Businesses, Venture Capitalists, Service Providers and Government Stimulus
Location
Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, 3175 Hanover Street, Palo Alto
Event Description:
Today’s Clean Tech environment is top of mind in the world and especially the USA. Every address given by federal and local officials have “clean energy” as a pillar. Our traditional energy providers have been large utilities and corporate entities that have primarily based their economic models on oil and fossil fuel. Now the factors of oil price and scarcity, global climate impact, and energy independence set the stage for diversification. An entrepreneurial approach to solving this problem creates and enables diversification. The challenge is not a lack of ideas or exuberance but constructing and connecting a value chain that will accelerate the formulation, funding, adoption, and wide spread implementation of technologies and methods to build the “clean energy” pillar we need.
Join us is in an interactive ½ day session of discussion and ideas from representatives of clean tech emerging businesses, VC’s, labs, universities, and service providers about building the value chain from all sources to enter the clean energy market. Pre-register online for $40 and on-site registration for $50. Deadline for registration is April 16 at noon.
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Agenda

8:30 Registration, Continental Breakfast and Networking
9:00 Welcome and Thank You
9:10 Keynote Speaker: Winston Hickox, Chair of the California Market Advisory Committee
9:30 Panel One: Market and Offering, Current Position and Background, Challenges

Moderator – Dan Lankford – WavePoint Ventures
Chuck Horrell – VP of Engineering – Advanced Transit Dynamics
Dennis Murphy, VP Business Development – GroundSource Geo – CTO Winner 2008
Mohit Singh, Founder – Seeo Inc.
PR Yu, CEO – Solar for Life 3
Fraser Murison Smith, CEO – ElectraDrive – CTO Winner 2008

10:30 Morning Break
10:45 Panel Two: Clean Tech Value Collaborations: Investments & Trends, Collaborations & Advice for Start Ups

Moderator – Douglas Park, DYP Advisors, Inc.
Elias Blawie, Partner – Cooley Godward
Lee Cooper – PG&E Emerging Technologies
Stefan Heuser, CEO – Siemens Technology to Business (TTB)
TBD – Stanford University Professor
TBD – Lawrence Berkeley Labs

11:45 Thank Yous, Close and Additional Networking Until 12:30

EBF Clean Energy Forum Directions
Facilitating Clean Tech Value Chain Integration

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Winston Hickox, Keynote Speaker
Winston Hickox is Chair of the California Market Advisory Committee, which supports the implementation of the state’s first-in-the-nation comprehensive greenhouse gas reduction program. Hickox is former secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency, instrumental in the enactment of legislation requiring new greenhouse gas emission standards for cars. He also established the Environmental Protection Indicators for California and led the implementation of Environmental Justice legislation in the state.
Since July 2004, he has been employed by the California Public Employees’ Retirement System as a senior portfolio manager and has assisted with the design and implementation of a series of environmental investment initiatives, including investments in clean technology and other investment initiatives focused on the impacts of climate change. Hickox currently serves on the Sacramento County Employees’ Retirement System Board, as well as on the boards of the California League of Conservation Voters, Audubon California and the Sustainable Conservation Board. He received a bachelor’s degree in business administration at Cal State University, Sacramento, and an MBA from Golden Gate University.
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New Music Models: New Paths to Revenue and New Opportunities - Featuring MC Hammer!
2009-03-06 18:00 - 20:30 | Arbuckle Lounge and Bishop Auditorium at Stanford Business School, Stanford, CA, United States
New Music Models: New Paths to Revenue and New Opportunities.
Featuring MC Hammer!

March 6, 2009
6:00pm – 7:00pm – Networking and Hors D’oeuvres
7:00pm – 9:00pm – Panel Discussion and Q/A

Location
Arbuckle Lounge and Bishop Auditorium at Stanford Business School
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Event Description:
A variety of new models have cropped up in the past 18 months around monetizing music. What are these models and how viable are they? Come discover perspectives from a Pop Star, artist management, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists and hear their latest thinking around innovative ideas using technology — ranging from discovery engines to gaming to others — that have been leading the way toward new music models.
Moderator
Paul Bonanos – Music, Technology & Finance Journalist
Panelists
MC Hammer – Hip-Hop Pioneer & Multi-Platinum Recording Artist
Jordan Kurland – Artist Manager, Death Cab for Cutie and Partner, NoisePop
Jessica Kahn – Director of Engineering, Tapulous
Dorrian Porter – CEO & Founder, Mozes
Larry Marcus – Venture Capitalist, Walden Partners
Jeff Yasuda – CEO & Founder, Blip Inc.

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Paul Bonanos – Music, Technology & Finance Journalist
Paul Bonanos is a journalist, blogger and author. He covered technology, media, venture capital and private equity as a senior writer and West Coast correspondent for The Deal, and maintained a blog about startups in the digital music industry. He was a writer, columnist and editorial researcher for The Industry Standard magazine during the dot-com boom era, and served as a music editor for Spin magazine as it launched its first Web site in the mid-1990s. His writings about music have also been published by the Huffington Post, No Depression magazine, and VH1.com. Paul is also a co-author of Baseball Prospectus’s forthcoming book, I Don’t Believe What I Just Saw, about baseball in the 1980s. He plays about a dozen musical instruments, and performs onstage and in recording studios around the
Bay Area.
MC Hammer – Hip-Hop Pioneer & Multi-Platinum Recording Artist
MC Hammer is a rapper, dancer, actor and entrepreneur. Best known for his multimillion-selling early-90s hits including “U Can’t Touch This” and “Too Legit To Quit,” Hammer launched the Oaktown Records label early in his career, and has created several labels since then, including WorldHit and FullBlast. More recently, he co-founded DanceJam.com, a Web site featuring dance videos, contests and lessons. He has a thriving reality television career, including stints on a pair of VH-1 programs (The Surreal Life and I Married MC Hammer) and A&E’s upcoming Hammertime series. In addition, Hammer became a minister in the late 1990s, and records devotional music. The one-time Oakland Athletics batboy is now among the most prolific users of microblogging service Twitter, with more than 200,000 followers.
Jordan Kurland– Artist Manager, Death Cab for Cutie and Partner, NoisePop
Jordan Kurland is the owner of Zeitgeist Artist Management, LTD. Formed in 1999, with offices in San Francisco and Manhattan; Zeitgeist focuses on cultivating long-term careers for independently minded artists. The company’s roster includes Death Cab for Cutie, the Postal Service, Bob Mould, Matt Nathanson, She & Him, Rogue Wave, Grizzly Bear, Sondre Lerche, and producer Jimmy Tamborello and his projects DNTEL and James Figurine. Jordan is a partner in one of the nation’s longest standing independent music festivals, Noise Pop. The event runs throughout the city of San Francisco each year and garners bands and attendees from around the world. He also co-owns and co-produces the Treasure Island Music Festival.
Jessica Kahn – Director of Engineering, Tapulous
Jessica Kahn is Director of Engineering at Tapulous, a Palo Alto maker of applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. Amongst Tapulous’ products is the wildly popular Tap Tap Revenge, the #1 game on the iTunes App Store in 2008, with over 6M users. Other music-related offerings in Tapulous’ lineup are custom games made for specific music artists and genres; three of these are shipping today, and more are currently in development. Prior to joining Tapulous, Ms. Kahn held various positions in Software Engineering at Apple, Inc., from 1999-2008, in engineering and management, with a focus on user-visible Internet-savvy features of Mac OS X. Most recently, she was a senior software engineer on the Safari Mac Platform team. Ms. Kahn received her bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College.
Dorrian Porter – CEO & Founder, Mozes
Dorrian Porter is the founder and CEO of Mozes. Mozes is the best way to connect with the bands, sports teams, clubs and brands that you love from your mobile phone. Dorrian is an entrepreneur who co-founded HigherMarkets, an on-demand software company in March 2000. He later became CEO and led it to its acquisition by a Nasdaq listed company in 2002. Dorrian worked with the combined company until July 2005, where he helped significantly grow the business and shape the company’s product offerings. Previously, Dorrian practiced law at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto, California where he represented a wide range of tech companies. Prior to joining WSGR, he worked in Canada as an associate at McCarthy Tetrault, an analyst at Harrowston, Inc. (now TD Capital) and at the Canadian Parliament, including the Prime Minister’s Office. Dorrian received his law degree and MBA from the University of Toronto and a bachelor’s degree in Public Policy and Administration from the University of Ottawa.
Larry Marcus – Venture Capitalist, Walden Partner
Larry Marcus is a Managing Director at Walden Venture Capital, which is based in San Francisco, CA and was founded in 1974. Walden specializes in early stage institutional rounds in the digital media, consumer and enterprise technology enabled services and eCommerce sectors. Prior to Walden, Larry was a leading equity research analyst at Alex. Brown / Deutsche Bank and prior to that Robertson Stephens & company, both in San Francisco. Larry was among the first equity analysts to cover PC and video games, followed by internet media and enhanced TV (e.g. Scientific Atlanta, General Instrument, Gemstar, Wink). Through a hands on, product oriented approach, he developed a successful methodology and track record of backing products/companies at early stages of adoption that would eventually achieve mass market success, including Terayon, Edmark, Women.com, Netflix, CBS Marketwatch, Maxis, Activision and Spectrum HoloByte. Prior operating experience includes consulting for both Digidesign and Maxis, media planning at a major New York ad agency and general management in computer services retail. Larry received both his Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Business Administration from University of California, Berkeley. Larry is an avid drummer and a green tech enthusiast.
Jeff Yasuda– CEO & Founder, Blip Inc.
Jeff is the Chief Executive Officer of Blip Inc. which has developed Blip.fm. Call it “Twitter for Music,” Blip.fm is a social music DJ service powered by people. DJ your favorite songs to your friends or just kick back and listen to what your friends are playing. Previously, Yasuda was the Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer of Redwood Ventures where he held board directorships and managed investments in their technology portfolio. Prior to joining Redwood, he worked in Investment Banking at Lehman Brothers, concentrating on technology financings within Equity Capital Markets, where he was involved in initial public and follow-on offerings for software, hardware, computer services, semiconductor, semiconductor equipment, and telecommunications equipment companies. Before Lehman Brothers, he worked at Arthur Andersen, focusing on strategic consulting, mergers and acquisitions, and financial valuation within the Corporate Finance Group. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants. He graduated with a BA in History from Dartmouth College and received his MBA from New York University Stern School of Business in Accounting and Finance. Jeff also is a co-founding Director of the board of Little Kids Rock, a non-profit established to teach contemporary music to children in public schools. He considers himself to be a true hack guitarist and has recently played in two San Francisco bands. Jeff is currently negotiating with his wife to start his third band.

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Young Entrepreneurs: The Next Wave of Innovation
2009-02-17 18:00 - 20:30 | Arbuckle Lounge and Bishop Auditorium at Stanford Business School, Stanford, CA, United States
Young Entrepreneurs: The Next Wave of Innovation

6:00pm – 7:00pm – Networking and Hors D’oeuvres

7:00pm – 8:30pm – Panel Discussion and Q/A

Location
Arbuckle Lounge and Bishop Auditorium at Stanford Business School
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Event Description:
Each iteration of the Silicon Valley cycle begets a new generation of ideas and challenges. How are today’s youngest entrepreneurs thinking about the current environment and where are they focusing their talents? Join us for a discussion with some of the youngest and most promising minds to reveal their perspectives on the latest technology trends, building startups in the economic downturn, and the challenges and opportunities associated with being a young entrepreneur. Other questions we’ll explore include:

What are the next big opportunities and where are they?
How has growing up through the last boom affected their attitude on entrepreneurship?
How can youth and “inexperience” be turned from a liability into an asset?

Moderator
Christine Comaford, CEO, Mighty Ventures
Panelists
Aaron Patzer – CEO, Mint.com
Drew Houston – Founder, Dropbox
Matt Brezina – Co-founder, Xobni
John Bicket – CTO and Co-founder, Meraki

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Christine Comaford, CEO, Mighty Ventures
Bill Gates calls her “super high bandwidth.” Bill Clinton has thanked her for “fostering American entrepreneurship.” Newsweek says “by reputation, Christine is the person you want to partner with.”
New York Times bestselling author Christine Comaford is CEO of Mighty Ventures, an innovation accelerator which helps businesses to massively increase sales, product offerings, and company value. She has built and sold 5 of her own businesses with an average 700% return on investment, served as a board director or in-the-trenches advisor to 36 startups, and has invested in over 200 startups (including Google) as a venture capitalist or angel investor. Christine has consulted to the White House (Clinton and Bush), 700 of the Fortune 1000, and over 300 small businesses. She has repeatedly identified and championed key trends and technologies years before market acceptance.
Christine has led many lives: Buddhist monk, Microsoft engineer, geisha trainee, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. Her triumphs and disasters are revealed in her New York Times (and USA Today, Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and Amazon.com ) bestselling business book: Rules for Renegades: How to Make More Money, Rock Your Career, and Revel in Your Individuality. The book is available at all major retailers or via www.RulesForRenegades.com.
Christine has appeared on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, FOX Business Network, PBS, CNET and is frequently quoted in the business, technology and general press at large. Stanford Graduate School of Business has done two case studies on her and PBS has featured her in three specials (Triumph of the Nerds, Nerds 2.0.1, and Nerd TV ). CNET has broadcast two specials covering her unconventional rise to success as a woman with neither a high school diploma nor college degree. Christine believes we can do well and do good, using business as a path for personal development, wealth creation, and philanthropy.
Aaron Patzer – CEO, Mint.com
Aaron is both the visionary and technical mind behind Mint.com, now the leading free, online money management in the US. He designed Mint.com to meet the needs of people who value the immediacy of the web, simplicity and their free time. Prior to founding Mint, Aaron was an architect and technical lead for the San Jose division of Nascentric. Before Nascentric, Aaron worked for IBM and founded two web development and online marketing companies: PWeb and International. Aaron holds an MSEE from Princeton University and a BS in computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering from Duke University. He has 10 patents filed or pending. Aaron’s innovation leadership has been recognized by national and international organizations. CNNMoney identified him as one of six Money Heroes in the US in 2008, and Inc. magazine included him in a list of the Top 30 US Entrepreneurs under 30. He was named one of just 34 worldwide Tech Pioneers by the World Economic Forum of Davos, Switzerland in 2008.
Drew Houston – CEO & Co-founder, Dropbox
Drew is the cofounder and CEO of Dropbox, the easiest way to store and share files online. Dropbox lets you get to your important files from any of your computers or the web. The company launched at the TechCrunch50 conference in 2008 and is backed by Sequoia Capital and Y Combinator.
Drew was named one of the top “Twentysomething Entrepreneurs” by BusinessWeek in April 2008. Before founding Dropbox, he was a lead software engineer at Bit9, a venture-backed network security company, cofounded a profitable online SAT prep company called Accolade, and held engineering roles in various startups since the age of 14. He received his S.B. in computer science from MIT.
Matt Brezina – Co-founder, Xobni
Matt Brezina co-founded Xobni, a San Francisco, CA based email software company, in 2006. Xobni raised over $11 million in capital from venture investors including Khosla Ventures, Cisco Systems, First Round Capital, Baseline Ventures, Atomico Investments, and Y Combinator.
Matt received his B.S. EE with honors from Pennsylvania State University. Matt did his M.S. work in electrical engineering at the University of Maryland where he was an Institute for Systems Research fellow. Matt published his M.S. thesis research, which was a result of his work in space construction robotics at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Matt has worked as consultant to the Naval Research Lab.
Matt was the 2007 Bishoff Entrepreneur in Residence at Penn State University. Matt also sits on the advisory board of Genesis Interactive. His daily responsibilities at Xobni are focused on product and marketing.

John Bicket – CTO and Co-founder, Meraki

John Bicket is responsible for the technical direction and development of Meraki, an awarding-winning provider of Wi-Fi network solutions. He was most recently a Ph.D. student in the Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems group at MIT, where he co-led the research project that won several academic awards and later became Meraki. John holds a
B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University, and an S.M. degree in Computer Science from MIT.
Meraki’s networking systems and cloud-based management services are fundamentally improving the quality, speed of deployment, and economics of providing high-speed wireless Internet access. Today there are thousands of Meraki-based networks in more than 125 countries throughout the world. Meraki is located in San Francisco, California, and is funded in part by Sequoia Capital and Google.
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Upside of the Downturn: What Business Models and Ideas Work in Today's Economic Environment?
2009-01-20 18:00 - 20:30 | Stanford Business School, Stanford, CA, United States
Upside of the Downturn: What Business Models and Ideas Work in Today’s Economic Environment?

6:00pm – 7:00pm – Networking and Hors D’oeuvres
7:00pm – 8:30pm – Panel Discussion and Q/A

Location
Stanford Business School

This event is SOLD OUT!

Moderator
Drake Mosier, Serial Entrepreneur & Investor
Panelists
John Hagel III, Director & Co-Chair, Center for Edge Innovation, Deloitte
Renaud Laplanche, Founder & CEO, Lending Club
Carol Sands, Co-Managing Member of The Halo Funds, and Founder of The Angels’ Forum
John Squire, Chief Strategy Officer & SVP, CoreMetrics
Rich Wong, Partner, Accel Partners
Event Description
Opening VLAB’s 2009 panel series, January’s event will highlight business models and business ideas positioned to succeed because of the downturn.
How has the downturn changed consumer and business behavior and how are business models being adjusted in order to meet those new needs? How can you think differently about the product or service your company offers in order to better meet shifting consumer and business requirements?
Despite a worsening economic environment, start ups continue to receive funding and companies previously struggling are experiencing unforeseen opportunities as a result of the downturn. Companies are succeeding by targeting their models, operations and financing strategies and are positioning themselves to emerge from the downturn in a stronger position.
Come learn about the opportunities the downturn presents for entrepreneurs. This panel will bring together start ups from the last downturn and this downturn, leading edge investors and pundits in identifying new business opportunities and models for a spirited discussion on how entrepreneurs can thrive in this downturn.
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Drake Mosier, Serial Entrepreneur & Investor
Drake Mosier is an entrepreneur and pioneer in the online investment industry. In 1995, he founded mPower, the first online investment advisory firm, serving as Chairman and CEO until 2000, at which point the company had 14 million clients. In 2000, Drake became an Entrepreneur-in-Residence with Capital Z Partners in London, a $4 billion private equity and venture capital partnership. While at Capital Z, Drake purchased Sort Ltd and was Chairman and CEO of the semi-to-fully-automated pan-European investment advisory platform until it was sold to a US investor group. He has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Forbes, Fortune, BusinessWeek, the Economist, The Financial Times, The London Times and more. He previously served as a member of both the American Savings and Education Council and the Association of Private Pensions and Welfare Plans and received the prestigious “In Five” Award for being an “on-line pioneer for bringing on-line advice to the masses” by the Plan Sponsor Magazine. Drake has sat on numerous boards including Individual Investor Inc (NASDAQ: INDI), Decision Analytics, LLC., the Gaslamp Foundation and several advisory boards and is an angel investor.
John Hagel III, Director & Co-Chair, Center for Edge Innovation, Deloitte
John Hagel III is co-chairman of the Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation, which conducts original research and develops substantive points of view for new corporate growth.. In nearly 30 years of experience as a management consultant, author, speaker and entrepreneur, he has helped companies improve their performance by effectively applying information technology to reshape business strategies. Prior to Deloitte, John was principal at McKinsey & Co., where he was a leader of the Strategy Practice and founded and led McKinsey’s Electronic Commerce Practice; chief strategy officer of 12 Entrepreneuring, Inc.; and senior vice president of strategic planning at Atari, Inc.
John is the author of a series of best-selling business books, including Net Gain, Net Worth, Out of the Box and The Only Sustainable Edge. He holds a BA from Wesleyan University, a B.Phil. from Oxford University, and a JD and MBA from Harvard University.
Renaud Laplanche, Founder & CEO, Lending Club
Renaud Laplanche is founder and CEO of Lending Club. Prior to founding Lending Club, he was the Founder & CEO of TripleHop Technologies, a VC-backed enterprise software company he founded in New York in 1999 and led to a market leadership position that resulted in its acquisition by Oracle Corporation in June 2005. Prior to founding TripleHop, Renaud was a Senior Associate at New York law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, where he specialized in technology and finance transactions. Renaud earned a Master of Business Administration from HEC and London Business School and was honored with the HEC “Entrepreneur of the Year” award in 2002. He won the French sailing championship twice, in 1988 and 1990.
Carol Sands, Co-Managing Member of The Halo Funds, and Founder of The Angels’ Forum
Since 2000, Carol Sands has co-founded and managed 4 venture funds that invest in early-stage, Silicon Valley based start-ups. Carol and her partners’ latest fund, Halo Fund III, was founded in 2007. She is also the founder of the Angels’ Forum, a revolutionary angel investing company that organizes individual investors with previous entrepreneurial experience to invest, as a single entity, using a venture capital model for due diligence, mentoring, and board management.Carol has 36 years of experience in investing, entrepreneurial and/or large corporate institutions. She has held marketing and sales positions with Motorola and Xerox Computer Services, as well as being an executive at Arthur Young (now Ernst & Young) and Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers). She also founded Sands MarketingPlus, an international sales management and marketing consulting firm with advertising & PR agencies. In addition to her investment-based responsibilities, Carol is the Chair of the Global Women’s Leadership Network, and a board advisor to Facing History and Ourselves. She is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), an Advisory Board Member for Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs (SVASE) and the ANZA Technology Network, as well as a member of The Forum for Women Entrepreneurs & Executives (FWE&E) and the Women’s Forum West. She is also a Director of the Sands Family Foundation. ‘
John Squire, Chief Strategy Officer & SVP, CoreMetrics
John Squire is a recognized online marketing optimization thought leader. He is frequently asked to speak at noteworthy regional, national and worldwide events, such as Shop.org, eTail, WITI, Web Guild, Online Marketing World, and NCDM. Also known as an accomplished writer, his timely and most recently published article addresses “How analytics can protect your budget” in iMedia Connection. He also leads the Company’s vision of the market and technical strategy for Coremetrics solutions.
John has held various positions at Chemdex culminating into his role as Senior Director of Product Management and membership on the Executive Team. John also worked for 3Com in Market Development where he developed and managed partnerships with Siemens, Fuji Medical Systems, Acuson, GE Medical, and other medical application providers. Prior to 3Com, John spent five years with Chevron Products, USA as a Process Engineer. John holds an M.B.A. with High Distinction from the University of Michigan and a B.S. from the University of California, Davis.
Rich Wong, Partner, Accel Partners
Rich joined Accel in 2006, with a focus on mobile infrastructure and services. Rich currently serves on the boards of AdMob, the largest mobile advertising player, and Parature, a leader in SaaS based customer support. Rich works closely with the management team of Getjar Networks, the largest mobile development community and free mobile apps download portal. Rich also serves as a board advisor to Plaxo (acquired by Comcast), Sana Security, and Simplicita (acquired by Sandvine). Prior to Accel, Rich served as SVP/GM of Products, GM of Messaging Products, and Chief Marketing Officer at Openwave where he founded and chaired the Messaging Anti Abuse Working Group. He also was Chief Marketing Officer and EVP/GM of Value-Added Services at Covad Communications, and a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.

At the CTIA Wireless Internet Caucus 2008, Rich was awarded a “Mobile Six” award as one of the 6 most influential individuals shaping the wireless industry by executives in the InMobile.org community. Rich holds a B.S. and an MBA from MIT.

The Electric Vehicle Infrastructure: What's It Going to Take to Go Electric?
2008-11-18 18:00 - 20:30 | Stanford Business School, Stanford, CA, United States
The Electric Vehicle Infrastructure: What’s It Going to Take to Go Electric?
This event is SOLD OUT!!!

6:00pm – 7:00pm – Networking and Hors D’oeuvres

7:00pm – 8:30pm – Panel Discussion and Q/A

Location
Stanford Business School
Moderator
Wendy Tanaka, Forbes Senior Technology Writer
Panelists
Richard Lowenthal, Coulomb Technologies, Founder and CEO
Jason Wolf, Better Place, North America
Gerd Goette, Siemens Venture Capital, Managing Partner
Byron Shaw, General Motors, Managing Director – GM Advanced Technology Silicon Valley
Event Description
Electric vehicles seem to offer a promising value — they go nearly twice as far as bio-fuel powered vehicles on the same unit of bio-mass, and nearly three times as far as a fuel cell powered vehicles for the same unit of electricity. What innovation is needed for a sustainable Electric Vehicle (EV) transportation model? This panel brings together leaders in EV investing, auto manufacturing, battery technology and charging station infrastructure for an insightful discussion of the necessary new business models, software and services and technological advancements needed to obtain transportation energy independence through electric vehicles. Key topics include:

Battery charging vs battery exchange services
Vehicle owner or charging network ownership of batteries
Charging network revenue models and ownership
Longer battery life vs. more charging locations
Software and hardware requirements for battery charging, vehicle use optimization and battery life

Spend an evening with leaders in the EV industry and discover what it’s going to take to go electric.

Bios

Wendy Tanaka, Forbes Senior Technology Writer
Wendy Tanaka is a Senior Technology Writer at Forbes.com. Wendy has covered technnology and business for 15 years at Forbes.com, Philadelphia Inquirer and other publications. Wendy has a B.A. in history from the University of California, Berkeley
Richard Lowenthal, Coulomb Technologies, Founder and CEO
From 1998 – 2006 Richard Lowenthal provided business formation consulting services for high-tech startup firms as sole proprietor of Berteleda Consulting. Through his consulting firm, he has been involved in starting several companies, including Lightera, Pipal Systems and Procket Networks. From 1996 to 1997, Mr. Lowenthal was vice president and general manager of Cisco’s WAN Access Products Division. From 1990 through 1995, Mr. Lowenthal was vice president of Research and Development for StrataCom, a telecommunications product development and manufacturing company. Prior to StrataCom, Mr. Lowenthal was co-founder and vice president of Engineering for Stardent Computers, a high-performance computer company in Sunnyvale, California. Mr. Lowenthal was also vice president of Engineering for Convergent Technologies in San Jose.
Mr. Lowenthal is also a former Mayor of Cupertino, California. He has chaired the boards of several organizations, including the Rotary Club of Cupertino, West Valley Community Services, Fremont Union High Schools Foundation and the Santa Clara County Libraries Joint Powers Authority. He is currently Chair of the Board of the YMCA’s of Santa Clara Valley. Mr. Lowenthal has a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley.
Jason Wolf, Better Place, North America
Jason Wolf is responsible for business development in North America for Better Place. In this role, he strives to form strategic partnerships with energy companies, automobile manufacturers, investors, governments and other key parties in an effort to create infrastructure for the mass adoption of electric vehicles.
Wolf brings more than 11 years of management experience in the IT industry, having held various positions in strategic planning, product rollouts, sales and professional services. In his last role, Wolf served as president of Sterna Technologies USA, the pioneer of Business Positioning Systems software. Prior to joining Sterna, he held a number of positions during a 10-year career at SAP AG, including senior vice president of Strategic Initiatives and senior vice president of New Product Introductions.
Wolf holds a B.A. in Economics and Psychology from the University of Tel-Aviv, and an MBA from San Jose State University. From 1986 to 1993, he served as an officer in the Israeli military.
Gerd Goette, Siemens Venture Capital, Managing Partner
Gerd is Managing Partner, based in Palo Alto , CA . He specializes in investments in energy, communications and industrial solutions. His investments include Broadlight, Dune Networks, IP-Unity Glenayre, Kagoor Networks (acquired by Juniper Networks), Myrio (acquired by Siemens), Reactive NanoTechnologies and Verimatrix. In addition he manages SVC’s investments in G2 Microsystems, Prenova and SmartSynch.
With more than 20 years of worldwide industry experience, he combines a strong technical background with wide-ranging operational skills. Prior to joining Siemens Venture Capital in September 2000, Gerd held the position of Vice President and Head of CableTV Solutions in Siemens Information and Communication Networks. Additionally, Gerd’s managerial and operating expertise stems from earlier focus on R&D, system integration, product line management, technical sales support, project management and general management in the fields of telecommunication equipment and solutions.
Gerd received a master’s degree in electrical engineering (Dipl. Ing.) from Technical University Darmstadt, Germany.
Byron Shaw, General Motors, Managing Director – GM Advanced Technology Silicon Valley
Byron is currently responsible for building and developing GM’s advanced technology efforts in Silicon Valley. He began his career in the automotive industry as a GM Scholar with GM’s Harrison Division (Delphi) where he worked on advanced product development and integration, primarily within GM’s Opel vehicle division. He continued his career with Daimler Benz research labs in Stuttgart, Germany as a visiting scientist in Daimler’s combustion flow visualization lab. Byron was instrumental in developing the charter of BMW’s Technology Office in Palo Alto, CA, where he was the Manager of Advanced Technology and technical director of a 30-person engineering and marketing team and a $4 million budget where he oversaw the discovery and implementation of new and advanced technologies into BMW’s vehicle development process. After leaving BMW, Byron was the co-founder and CTO of a Photovoltaic Solar startup where he led the development team in releasing its first product launch and participated in venture fundraising. Byron has consulted for several high-tech Silicon Valley companies in the electronics and software industries and is a founding board member of SmallTech LLC, an IP consultancy focused on MEMS and nanotechnology.
Byron holds BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and a BS in German Language and Literature from MIT. His PhD was completed at the University of California at Berkeley in the Vehicle Dynamics and Control Laboratory where his areas of focus were engine emissions modeling and control, high-speed embedded electronics and digital signal processing. His doctoral research centered on reduction of cold-start emissions of automotive engines using real-time in-cylinder monitoring and feedback.
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Global Mobile: Where in the World Are the Opportunities?
2008-10-21 18:00 - 21:00 | Stanford Business School, Stanford, CA, United States
Global Mobile: Where in the World Are the Opportunities?

6:00pm – 7:30pm – Networking and Hors D’oeuvres

7:30pm – 9:00pm – Panel Discussion and Q/A
(Please note a slight schedule change)

Location
Stanford Business School
6:00pm – 7:30pm – Arbuckle Lounge (extended reception with more food and drink)
7:30pm – 9:00pm – Bishop Auditorium (delayed program due to GSB class)
Presenter
Faraz Syed, CEO & Co-Founder, Device Anywhere
Moderator
Ashok Narasimhan, CEO & Founder, Cinch (Founding CEO, Wipro IT)
Panelists
Connie Wong, CEO & Founder, Vidiator Technology, President, Hutchison Whampoa Americas
Kevin Leong, CEO & Founder, MoBlast
Cyriac Roeding, EIR at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Rob Trice, Senior Managing Director, SK Telecom Ventures

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Event Description:
With the huge growth of overseas markets and resources, mobile start-ups need to shift away from a “local” only focus and go “global.” There are dozens of novel ways that mobile devices and services are being used globally thus creating a plethora of revenue opportunities. However, going global in the mobile world offers many more challenges than going global on the Internet such as wireless carriers operating “closed” networks (aka “walled gardens”), lack of device/applications standardization, stricter local regulations, and diverse user behavior. Companies need to possess the right combination of management capabilities, innovation, market savvy, infrastructure and an overseas footprint to compete on a worldwide scale. In today’s competitive mobile markets, what are the challenges facing mobile start-ups to compete on the global stage? What go-to-market strategies and operational capabilities must they have in place to succeed? What are the tools and technologies which help mobile companies to globally expand?
See link to article on Cyriac’s (panelist) global travels for a sampling of global mobile usage.
The presenting company, DeviceAnywhere, not only has a variety of customers around the world, but they also provide tools for other mobile companies to locally develop and test mobile applications across hundreds of handsets across live networks around the world. Faraz Syed, CEO & Co-founder of DeviceAnywhere, will share his experience of expanding his company globally, while helping other companies also go global. A global mobile panel including the founding CEO of Wipro, President of Hutchison Whampoa (owner of operator “3), an EIR at Kleiner Perkins, and more provides insightful analysis of the challenges of going “Global Mobile”.
Bios:
Faraz Syed, CEO & Co-Founder, Device Anywhere
Recognizing a need in the fast growing mobile industry to provide the first truly affordable handset testing service, Faraz founded Mobile Complete in April 2003. Faraz spearheaded Mobile Complete’s evolution from being a technology provider for testing to its role today as a comprehensive mobile development environment. Clients throughout the world can access real mobile phones linked to live operator networks, through the Internet on their desktops. Being one of the fastest growing mobile start-up companies in Silicon Valley, the company provides service to many of the largest Internet and mobile companies in the world with more than 650 clients using the service.
Prior to launching Mobile Complete, Faraz was the Director of Solutions at Brience, a mobile WAP applications company, and a Technical Architect at KPMG Consulting. While employed with Brience, he experienced the difficulty and expense required to develop new mobile applications when teams often had to travel abroad to set up testing labs and independently purchase new handsets. The challenge facing the industry presented Faraz with the vision for founding Mobile Complete. Faraz has also held technical positions at Oracle, KLA Tencor and AMD. He holds a MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He is also the lead singer for a local rock band, Kaif.

Ashok Narasimhan, CEO & Founder, Cinch, Founding CEO, Wipro IT

Ashok Narasimhan is the CEO and Founder of Cinch, a consumer-branded, cross-merchant program focused on increasing conversion to sales at e-tailer sites. He was previously CEO and Co-Founder of July Systems, which provided direct-to-consumer mobile services globally. Before that, he was CEO & Founder of Prio, a Web and credit card based promotion service which was acquired by InfoSpace for $1B+ in 2000. Ashok subsequently served on the board of Infospace. Prior to Prio, Ashok was Head of Worldwide Marketing, Business Development, and Engineering for VeriFone from its early days thru the IPO. Before coming to the US, Ashok was a key pioneer in India’s early IT industry and was the founding CEO of Wipro’s IT organizations and led its expansion into global markets. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Physics from Madras University and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata.

Connie Wong, CEO & Founder, Vidiator Technology, President, Hutchison Whampoa Americas
Connie Wong has more than 30 years of experience in wireless and IT technology. She is currently CEO/Founder of Vidiator Technology, Inc. and also the President of Hutchison Whampoa Americas. Vidiator is a leading mobile multimedia company and has customers in over 20 countries worldwide and offices in 10 countries. Connie was formerly VP of AOL Mobile Asia and prior to that, Connie was VP of BizDev for Nextel International where she served on the boards of Nextel Japan, Philippines and a JV with China Unicom in Shanghai. In Hong Kong, Connie worked for Hutchison Telecom International where she bid on global wireless licenses and set up new operation e.g. Orange India. She was a founding member of SmarTone Communications in Hong Kong, the first GSM operator in Asia. Connie began her career in the computer industry in Asia for DEC, Wang Labs, and Data General. She is on the Washington State Attorney General’s Technology Advisory Board and Co-Chairs Women in Wireless for the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA). She also serves on the boards of The International Youth Foundation, Bahiastreet in Brazil, and Cocoon House in Washington State (for homeless teenagers).
Kevin Leong, CEO & Founder, MoBlast
Kevin Leong is the founder and CEO of the mobile web company (Mo’Blast) where he and his team of engineers in Europe, Asia and Silicon Valley have developed a flexible platform that enables the creation of location-based and mobile apps quickly. Prior to Mo’Blast, Kevin involved in two other startups ProxiNet and Zhanra, and held various technical leadership positions at IBM. Kevin appearances included recent JavaOne, Ars Electronica Festival (Linz) and S60 Summit (Barcelona). He has MBA from Haas, UC Berkeley, and a technical degree from University of Texas.
Cyriac Roeding, EIR at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Cyriac Roeding joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 2008 as Entrepreneur-in-Residence, to focus on next-generation cross-platform mobile and online venture concepts. Previously, Cyriac was EVP of CBS Mobile, CBS Interactive. He launched CBS Corporation’s (NYSE: CBS) mobile businesses across CBS Entertainment, CBS Sports, CBS News and The CW. In partnerships with technology start-ups, he created U.S. industry firsts such as location-based mobile advertising, mobile video breaking news and sports alerts, and avatar-based mobile games tied to major TV shows. He grew CBS Sports Mobile into one of the Top Ten highest traffic ad-supported mobile websites in the U.S.; created the first virtual reality video gaming experience across TV, online and mobile with “CSI: NY”; and launched the first Alternate Reality Game with full primetime TV drama episode (Numb3rs) and outdoor billboard integration. Prior to CBS, Cyriac was the Co-Founder of 12snap, a European mobile marketing and entertainment company with clients such as Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, L’Oreal, adidas and MTV Europe. Before that, he developed growth strategies at McKinsey & Company for global media, software and high-tech players in Europe and in Silicon Valley. Cyriac has received several industry honors, including the first Lion Awards for mobile concepts at the Cannes Lion Festival in France (in 2003 and 2004). In 2007, Cyriac and his CBS Mobile team received the only Emmy Award nomination for Mobile. He was also elected Global and North American Chairman of the MMA, with 600 member companies worldwide. He currently serves as Chairman Emeritus. Cyriac received a master’s degree summa cum laude in engineering and business administration from Germany’s Technical University of Karlsruhe, and studied Japanese management at Sophia University in Tokyo.
Rob Trice, Senior Managing Director, SK Telecom Ventures
Rob Trice brings a variety of domestic and international investing and business experience to SK Telecom Ventures. Prior to joining SK Telecom Ventures, he was a co-founding Partner of Nokia Growth Partners, the global growth-stage venture capital arm of Nokia with US$350m under management for direct and fund-to-fund investing. From late 2000 until the end of 2004, he worked at Nokia Venture Partners (now BlueRun Ventures) on early-stage venture investments in the US and overseas. Previously, he worked at DIRECTV in Los Angeles and Tokyo in a variety of operational and business planning roles. Rob also worked as an international policy analyst at a Washington, D.C. based think tank, the Center for Strategic & International Studies. He holds a Master of Arts from George Mason University and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia. Rob is based in Menlo Park, California.
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Finding the Green in Clean
2008-08-19 18:00 - 20:30 | Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, 3175 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, United States
VLAB Emerging Business Track: Finding the Green in Clean

Finding the Green in Clean
3175 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA 94304
The VLAB Emerging Business Track Clean Green Team would cordially invite you to
Finding the Green in Clean
Scheduled for
Tuesday, August 19, from 5:30 – 8:00 p.m., at
Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, 3175 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA 94304 (map).

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The VLAB Emerging Business Track, Clean Green Team is pleased to produce its first SIG, a panel of clean energy CEOs speaking on ‘Finding the Green in Clean’. In this VLAB Clean Green SIG event, successful clean energy executives will share their advice and stories about finding revenue models for their clean green companies.

Our panel will feature:
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Moderator
Dan Lankford, Wavepoint Ventures

· Larsh M. Johnson, Founder, President and CTO, eMeter Corporation

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Gary Conley, CEO and Chairman, Solfocus

· Kevin Surace, CEO, Serious Materials

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Jonathan Wolfson, President and Founder, Solazyme

For additional information on:
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The Emerging Business Track, visit
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The May 30 event meeting notes on clean green investment trends, visit
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Sponsorship opportunities, visit
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Volunteer opportunities, visit
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Linda Holroyd
Chair, VLAB Emerging Business Track
Linda.Holroyd@vlab.org
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Cloud Computing: Creating Value for Web 2.0 Apps
2008-06-17 18:00 - 20:30 | Stanford Business School, Stanford, CA, United States
Cloud Computing: Creating Value for Web 2.0 Apps
The opportunities and challenges of cloud computing

6:00pm – 7:00pm – Networking and Hors D’oeuvres

7:00pm – 8:30pm – Panel Discussion and Q/A

Location
Stanford Business School
Moderator
Ross Mayfield, Chairman, President and Co-founder, Socialtext
Speaker
Jonathan Bryce, Co-founder, Mosso, a Rackspace‘s company
Panelists
Paul McNamara, CEO, Coghead
Ping Li, Partner, Accel Partners
Michael Crandell, CEO & Founder, RightScale
Lydia Leong, Research Director, Gartner
Event Description:
Cloud computing increases capacity and expands computing capabilities without heavy investment in infrastructure, training or software licensing. Most importantly though it democratizes Web 2.0 application development. With the removal of two significant barriers to entry – cost and capacity access – suddenly even small, lesser-funded entrepreneurs can dream big and bring their grand Web 2.0 applications to market.
What are the ramifications of democratization? How are entrepreneurs exploiting cloud computing and leveraging Web 2.0? What challenges do these entrepreneurs face? Are they making money? What are the hot areas of development today and what will the next areas be? Will offerings from these new, small, nimble, creative thinking entrepreneurs change the Web 2.0 user experience? Will cloud computing live up to expectations?
On June 17th, Mosso co-founder Jonathan Bryce and a panel of industry experts, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists will discuss these issues and more. Come hear what the Rainmakers of Cloud Computing predict.
Bios:
Ross Mayfield, Chairman, President and Co-founder, Socialtext
Ross Mayfield is the Chairman, President and co-founder of Socialtext, the first wiki company and leading provider of Enterprise 2.0 solutions. A noted blogger and industry expert, he is a serial and social entrepreneur. Mayfield has grown Socialtext to over 4,000 customers and served as CEO from 2002-2007. Socialtext is backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, SAP Ventures, Intel Capital and Omidyar Network and prominent Silicon Valley angels.
Previously, Mayfield served as VP of Marketing for a Fujitsu spinout and CEO of an enterprise risk management software company. Mayfield co-founded and served as president of RateXchange (AMEX:RTX), the leading B2B commodity exchange for telecom. Mayfield served as the marketing director of the largest privately held telecommunications group in Eastern Europe and was the internal lead manager of their Initial Public Offering. He also founded an ISP, a web-design company, and has served on a number of Advisory Boards of high tech startups.
Mayfield is a former advisor to the Office of the President of Estonia and began his career in the non-profit sector. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California at Los Angeles and completed the Management Development for Entrepreneurs (MDE) program of the Anderson School of Business. He resides in his hometown of Palo Alto with his wife and two children.
Jonathan Bryce, Co-founder, Mosso
Jonathan Bryce started his career working as a web developer for the managed hosting giant, Rackspace. During his tenure at Rackspace, Bryce and co-worker Todd Morey had a vision to build a sophisticated web hosting environment where users and businesses alike could turn to design, develop and deploy their ideal web site – all without being responsible for procuring the technology, installing it or making sure it is built to be always available. This vision, along with help from Rackspace, was turned into Mosso. Currently, Bryce oversees all operations and customer service for over 45,000 managed websites served by Mosso.
Paul McNamara, CEO, Coghead
McNamara first encountered the business concept that was to become Coghead while he was an Entrepreneur in Residence at El Dorado Ventures. So enamored was he with the potential that he not only invested in the company but joined it as CEO.
Under McNamara’s direction, Coghead set the industry abuzz with its innovative application platform and its disruptive business model. Business 2.0 Magazine declared: “Coghead’s DIY approach could trample the software giants.” PC World noted that Coghead could bring about “the end of installed software.” And the Wall Street Journal declared Coghead’s DIY approach a “turning point in corporate computing.”
No stranger to disruptive business models, McNamara was the first executive hired at Red Hat and a key figure in its meteoric rise to prominence. He structured the company’s industry-shaping relationships with Intel, IBM, Dell, Compaq, Oracle and others; developed Red Hat’s unique business model; and helped guide the company through its successful IPO.
McNamara’s 20+ years of experience have also included management and executive roles at SGI and IBM. Paul received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University.
Ping Li, Partner, Accel Partners
Ping joined Accel in 2004 and focuses primarily on information technology infrastructure (compute, networking, security and storage), as well as digital media solutions. He currently serves on the Board of Directors at BitTorrent, Mochi Media, Mu Security, and YuMe, and he is actively involved in Consentry, Imperva, and Oak Pacific Interactive. Ping was also responsible for Accel’s investment in Reactivity (acquired by Cisco).
Prior to Accel, Ping was a Senior Product Line Manager and Director of Corporate Development at Juniper Networks. He managed Juniper’s M-series router product portfolio that generated revenues over $50 mm/quarter. In addition, Ping worked on Juniper’s acquisition of Netscreen Technologies ($3.5 billion transaction) and led all subsequent security and routing product and R&D integration activities. He also worked as a strategy consultant for Mckinsey & Company, advising technology clients in their growth strategies.
Ping has extensive international experience as well. At Singapore Telecom, he served directly for the executive management team in assessing and investing in Asian growth opportunities. Prior to SingTel, Ping worked at Goldman Sachs Asia, transacting large PTT privatizations and advising telecom clients on complex restructuring and asset divestitures. Ping continues to be active in China investing by working with IDG-Accel China Fund.
Ping holds an A.B. from Harvard University, with honors, and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
Michael Crandell, CEO and Founder, RightScale
Michael has worked as CEO or EVP for 10 years in Internet-based, software-as-a-service companies, including eFax (Internet fax) and Celebros (e-commerce search). Earlier, he founded and ran two software companies in document creation and communications. Michael is equally comfortable with the business and technology sides of a company, and has experience taking a company from early stage to IPO.
Michael received his B.A. from Stanford University with graduate studies at Harvard University.
Lydia Leong, Research Director, Gartner
Lydia Leong is a research director in Enterprise Network Services at Gartner, where she covers Internet infrastructure services, including Internet access, data centers and colocation, Web hosting, cloud computing, content networking, and other emerging Internet-based services. Prior to joining Gartner, she held various technical and management positions in the Internet industry, including director of server engineering at Excite@Home, and director of product engineering and operations at DIGEX/Intermedia Communications. Her prior roles have included product management, systems architecture, operations, deployment and product development.
Lydia studied computer science engineering at the University of Pennsylvania , and computer systems management at the University of Maryland Graduate School of Management and Technology.

Clean Green Investment Trends: The Opportunities and the Challenges
2008-05-30 09:00 - 12:00 | Silicon Valley Bank, 3005 Tasman Drive, Santa Clara, CA, 95054, United States
Emerging Business Track: Clean Green Investment Trends
The VLAB Emerging Business Track, Clean Green Team, is pleased to invite you to attend a panel discuss on Clean Green Investment Trends: The Opportunities and the Challenges.
9:00am – 12:00pm – Networking, Panel Discussion and Q/A
Note the Different Location!
Silicon Valley Bank’s Kellog Auditorium, 3005 Tasman Drive, Santa Clara, CA
Event Details:
In response to the requests of VLAB community members, the VLAB Emerging Business, Clean Green Track first convened an April invitation-only clean energy VC roundtable to:

Share thoughts between industry leaders on an emerging technology market
Build and strengthen connections between investors and
Plan for a larger community event to delve into clean energy investment trends

Based on the feedback and discussions from this clean energy VC audience, the VLAB Emerging Business Clean Green Track is pleased to feature two panels of investors:

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Panel 1 – Clean Energy success stories, featuring stories on successful clean green investments in markets with high potential
Panel 2 – Breaking Into the Clean Green Markets, featuring established venture firms leveraging established connections, technologies and markets for new clean green investment opportunities.

Agenda
9:00am Registration and Networking
9:30am Welcome
9:45am Panel 1 – Successful Clean Green Investments
10:30am Break
10:45am Panel 2 – Breaking Into the Clean Green Markets
11:30am Meeting Adjourn and Additional Networking until noon
Panel 1 Details – Successful Clean Green Investments

Moderator: Dan Lankford, Wavepoint Ventures
Will Coleman, Mohr Davidow Ventures
Rob Koch, NGEN Partners
Ullas Naik, Globespan Venture Partners

Panel 2 Details – Breaking Into the Clean Green Markets

Moderator: Mike Goguen, Sequoia Capital Partners
Craig Lawrence, Accel Partners
Chris Sun, Storm Ventures
Andrew Chung, Lightspeed Venture Partners

For More Information
Please contact our team if you are interested in volunteering for our Emerging Business Clean Energy Track. We plan to have an annual community event, but are open to conducting quarterly SIGs if there is an interest in the area. Please contact us if you would like to promote this event to your network or association and would like to offer your members and contacts the partnership rate. We hope that you will join us as we investigate and explore clean energy opportunities ahead.

The Rise of Crowdsourcing: Creative Wisdom of the Crowd
2008-05-20 18:00 - 20:30 | Stanford Business School, Stanford, CA, United States
The Rise of Crowdsourcing: Creative Wisdom of the Crowd

6:00pm – 7:00pm – Networking and Hors D’oeuvres

7:00pm – 8:30pm – Panel Discussion and Q/A

Location
Stanford Business School
Moderator
Jeff Howe, Contributing Editor, Wired Magazine
Panelists
Michael Sikorsky, CEO & Founder, Cambrian House
Mike Agnich, Co-Founder & CTO, Predictify
Bill Reichert, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures
Mitchell B. Fox, President & CEO, 8020publishing
Saar Gur, Venture Capitalist, Charles River Ventures
Event Description:
Peer production is about more than sitting down and having a nice conversation… It’s about “harnessing a new mode of production to take innovation and wealth creation to new levels.” — Eric Schmidt, CEO Google.
Wikipedia does it. So does Yelp, Amazon and Digg. Millions of customers have eagerly helped to build up reviews, ratings and other content for the most popular sites on the web. CEOs, founders and VCs talk up the growing number of opportunities in crowdsourcing and answer questions such as: How can you get your customers to work for you? What rewards do they need? How do you deal with the issue of accuracy and reliability of the information? What are the trials and tribulations of crowdsourcing? Who’s making money and what are the business models?
Come join us to find out about the next wave of customer driven companies and see how entrepreneurs are letting customers take charge in order to help change the world.
Predictify has created a custom market for our Crowdsourcing event. Share your predictions on what you think the future holds for hot topics in technology, business and politics and find out results at the May 20th event. Start predicting now for free and experience the wisdom of the crowd!
Bios:
Jeff Howe, Contributing Editor, Wired Magazine
Jeff Howe is a contributing editor at Wired Magazine, where he covers the media and entertainment industry, among other subjects. In June of 2006 he published “The Rise of Crowdsourcing” in Wired. He has continued to cover the phenomenon in his blog, crowdsourcing.com, and is currently writing a book on the subject for Crown Books to be published in July 2008. Before coming to Wired he was a senior editor at Inside.com and a writer at the Village Voice. In his fifteen years as a journalist he has traveled around the world working on stories ranging from the impending water crisis in Central Asia to the implications of gene patenting. He has written for U.S. News & World Report, The Washington Post, Mother Jones and numerous other publications. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Alysia Abbott, their daughter Annabel Rose and son Phineas and a miniature black lab named Clementine.
Michael Sikorsky, CEO & Founder, Cambrian House
Michael loves startups, software and people. Since the age of 14, he has been involved in community-based software development and entrepreneurship.
His fifth and most recent startup, Cambrian House, launched in 2006. Since then, it has become an internationally-recognized leader in crowdsourcing (leveraging the wisdom and participation of online crowds for commerce). As CEO, Michael has been invited to speak about Web 2.0, entrepreneurship and crowdsourcing at Cyberport Hong Kong, Harvard Business School, MIT, Community 2.0 Las Vegas, VidFest, and WebGuild’s Web 2.0 Expo.
In 2007 he was named “Canada’s Internet Revolutionary” by Profit magazine and a “CEO to Watch” by CNNmoney.com. Michael sold his last software company, Servidium, to ThoughtWorks, received a Computer Engineering degree from the University of Alberta, and holds a software patent related to innovative rendering techniques.
Mike Agnich, Co-Founder & CTO, Predictify
Mike Agnich is Co-Founder and CTO of Predictify.com. Predictify is an internet platform which allows users to predict and “go on record” with everything from pop culture to current events. Monetizing through a combination of market research and brand engagement, Predictify allows users to generate expert (or not so expert) reputations over time and to compete against friends. In early 2008, Predictify closed its series A financing lead by Sierra Ventures.
Mike has a 4 month old daughter and has been happily married for four years. He has a BS in computer science from Stanford University and is an MBA candidate ’08 at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Prior to business school, Michael was one of the first employees at Zazzle.com where he spent over five years leaving as Vice President of Product Technology.
Bill Reichert, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures
Bill Reichert has over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur and an operating executive. Since joining Garage in 1998, Bill has focused on early-stage information technology and materials science companies. He sits on the Boards of CaseStack, WhiteHat, ClearFuels, cFares, and ThermoCeramix. Prior to Garage, Bill was a co-founder or senior executive in several venture-backed technology startups, including Trademark Software, The Learning Company, and Academic Systems. Earlier in his career, he worked at McKinsey & Company, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., and the World Bank. Bill earned a B.A. at Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. He was a founding board member and a Chairman of the Churchill Club, and a Charter Member of the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs. Currently he is the Chairman of the Small Fund Roundtable of the VC Taskforce and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
Mitchell B. Fox, President & CEO, 8020publishing
Mitch is CEO of 8020 Publishing. 8020 Publishing, backed by CNET founder Halsey Minor and publishers of award winning JPG Magazine and Everywhere Magazine, empowers its communities to participate in all aspects of its magazine’s content creation, thereby dramatically increasing reach, lowering costs, and engaging a knowledgeable, global community.
Mitch’s career spans 30 years and almost as many publications. He joins 8020 following nearly 20 years at Conde Nast, where he served as the Group President and Publishing Director of Conde Nast Publications, and managed many publications and websites including W, WWD, Golf Digest, Bon Appétit, and the entire Bridal Group including Brides.com. He has also been President and CEO of the Golf Digest Company, Vice President and Publisher of Vanity Fair (where he oversaw five straight years of record growth and the magazine’s best year ever in 1999), and publisher of Details. A native of New York, Mitch enjoys golf, film, and has more frequent flier miles than the rest of 8020 combined.
Saar Gur, Venture Capitalist, Charles River Ventures
Saar is a Partner at venture capital firm Charles River Ventures. Saar joined CRV in 2007 with more than 10 years of experience working with entrepreneurs as a founder, investor and advisor. Prior to joining CRV, Saar was a co-founder of Brightroll, a popular Internet video advertising network. Saar also acted as an angel investor and advisor to numerous companies including RockYou, Admob, Flixster, Xobni, Lotus Vodka, and Voicestar.
Prior to Brightroll, Saar was part of the senior management team of Adteractive. Adteractive is an online performance-based marketing company and one of the largest buyers of online media. Saar helped build Adteractive to over 175 employees and $120mm in revenues, with no outside capital. He was vice president of online customer acquisition and was responsible for the company P&L.
Saar started his career in investment banking and venture capital at Lehman Brothers. He graduated phi beta kappa with a biochemistry degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MBA from Stanford University. He was also the co-founder of carebadges.com (acquired by Facebook Causes), an online community that enables individuals to generate market awareness for the organizations and causes that they care about.

DNA for Dollars: Featuring 23andMe, Kleiner Perkins, MDV, and More
2008-04-15 18:00 - 20:30 | Stanford Business School, Stanford, CA, United States
DNA for Dollars: Featuring 23andMe, Kleiner Perkins, MDV, and more
23andMe’s personal genome service helps you unlock the secrets of your DNA. Come find out how this Google and Genentech-funded company is raising hopes and fears in the world of healthcare. Additional panelists include KPCB, MDV, Navigenics, and Veracyte
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6:00pm – 7:00pm – Networking and Hors D’oeuvres
7:00pm – 8:30pm – Panel Discussion and Q/A
Location:
Stanford Business School
Moderator
Bambi Francisco, CEO & founder, Vator
Speaker
Linda Avey, Co-Founder, 23andMe
Panelists
Bonnie Anderson, CEO, Veracyte
Rowan Chapman, Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures
Mari Baker, CEO, Navigenics
Risa Stack, Partner, KPCB
Event Description:
With the advent of the Human Genome Project came the birth of a new term and lifestyle: personalized medicine, which promises to provide better care by analyzing the genetic basis of a disease and tailoring the treatment to the individual. As the science of genomics continues to improve, the implications could rock the medical world — and the ethical one. But when does personal become too personal?
This event will feature 23andMe, a start-up funded by google. Does this portend to ‘Googling our genes?’. Find out at the VLAB April 15th event. Co-Founded by Linda Avey and Anne Wojcicki, 23andMe is one of Wired magazine’s top 10 startups worth watching in 2008. 23andMe is revolutionizing personalized medicine through a web-based service that helps you read and understand your DNA, shed new light on your distant ancestors, your close family and most of all, yourself.
Bios:
Bambi Francisco, CEO and founder, Vator
Bambi Francisco is CEO and founder of Vator, a social media company focused on emerging technology companies. She is a former syndicated columnist and correspondent for Dow Jones MarketWatch. She covered Internet trends and investments across the public and private sectors. She started her career at MarketWatch in 1999, as Internet editor and morning business anchor for KPIX, a CBS affiliate. At the time, MarketWatch was owned by CBS.
In 2001, Bambi was named to the “blue-chip” financial reporting all-star team by The Journal of Financial Reporters, the leading organization for the business news industry. Adweek named her one of the top ten most influential journalists on the Web.
Linda Avey, Co-Founder, 23andMe
Linda has over 20 years of sales and business development experience in the biopharmaceutical industry in San Francisco, Boston, San Diego, and Washington, D.C. Prior to starting 23andMe, she developed translational research collaborations with academic and pharmaceutical partners for Affymetrix and Perlegen Sciences. Linda also spent time at Spotfire helping scientists understand the power of data visualization and at Applied Biosystems during the early days of the human genome project. The advent of high density genome-wide scanning technologies brought huge potential for significant discoveries. However, the lack of sufficient funding to enable adequate studies prompted Linda to think of a new research model. These ideas led to the formation of 23andMe. Her primary interest is the acceleration of personalized medicine, using genetic profiles to target the right drug to the right person at the correct dose. Linda graduated from Augustana College with a B.A. in biology.
Bonnie Anderson, CEO, Veracyte
Bonnie Anderson, Chief Executive Officer of Veracyte, Inc. is the former Vice President, Translational Solutions Business Center, for Beckman Coulter. Previously, she served as Vice President-Director of Beckman Coulter’s former Immunomics Operations and Director of Strategic Planning and Marketing at Beckman Coulter’s Miami, FL site. Ms. Anderson has also been Product Manager for American Labor in Largo, FL, Technical Sales Representative for Dia Tech in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, and Supervisor of Henatology and Apheresis Laboratory for Memorial Hospital in Johnstown, PA. She earned a BS degree in medical technology with a minor in chemistry from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She serves as a member of the Founding Board of Directors for Women in Biotechnology and as an Industry Liaison for the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies.
Rowan Chapman, Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures
Rowan Chapman joined MDV in 2001. Through her relationships with industry and academic leaders advancing the fields of personalized medicine, drug discovery technology and regenerative medicine she both sources new life sciences investments and works to develop and grow MDV life sciences companies including Artemis Health, Pacific Biosciences, Adamas Pharmaceuticals and ParAllele BioScience (acquired by Affymetrix). Rowan is also a member of the Personalized Medicine Coalition.

Prior to joining MDV she held the position of director of business development at Rosetta Inpharmatics (acquired by Merck) where she established collaborative partnerships with organizations in the pharmaceutical, agricultural and biotech fields as well as among various research institutions. Previously, Rowan held the position of marketing manager at Incyte Genomics.

Rowan holds a Ph.D. in cellular and molecular biology from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge University, United Kingdom, where she also earned a bachelor’s degree with first class honors in Biochemistry. She served postdoctoral fellowships at the University of California, San Francisco, as well as at the MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge.

Mari Baker, President and CEO, Navigenics
Ms. Baker was most recently an executive-in-residence at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which she joined in 2006. Prior to that, she was president of BabyCenter, LLC, a Johnson & Johnson company. Under her leadership, BabyCenter became the world’s leading Web site for new and expectant parents, winning numerous online health awards and expanding significantly offline and internationally.
Prior to her tenure with BabyCenter and Johnson & Johnson, she was a senior vice president at Intuit, Inc., which she joined in 1989 as product manager for Quicken. Ms. Baker led the growth of Quicken into the No. 1 personal finance product in the world, along with international expansion and the launch of Quicken.com. Ms. Baker also held executive or product management positions at Now Software, Migent Software and E.F. Hutton.
Ms. Baker earned degrees in economics and sociology from Stanford University. She served on the board of trustees of Stanford University from 1996 to 2003, including oversight of the Stanford Medical Center, and continues to serve as a trustee emeritus. She currently serves on the board of directors of the Cozi Group and is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization.
Risa Stack, Partner, KPCB
Risa Stack joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 2003. Risa specializes in the development of life science companies. She was the founding CEO and is currently a board member of several companies including CardioDx, Nodality, and an incubation in the personalized medicine area. She is a board observer at Codon Devices, Xdx, Orexigen (OREX), Tethys, and Pacific Biosciences.
Prior to joining KPCB, Risa was a Principal at J.P. Morgan Partners in the life science practice for 6 years. While at J.P. Morgan Partners she sponsored a series of investments including Acurian, AlgoRx (now Anesiva), Connetics, Diatide, Ilex Oncology, Illumina, Praecis Pharmaceuticals and Triangle Pharmaceuticals.
Risa received her B.S. in Genetics and Development with distinction from the University of Illinois and her Ph.D. in Immunology from the University of Chicago. She was also a member of the second class of Kauffman Fellows.
Risa was named as one of the 100 Most Influential Women in Business by the San Francisco Business Times in 2004.

Future of Content Consumption
2008-03-18 18:00 - 20:30 | Stanford Business School, Stanford, CA, United States
The Future of Content Consumption
New Frontiers of Digital Revenue Generation
6:00pm – 7:00pm – Networking and Hors D’oeuvres
7:00pm – 8:30pm – Panel Discussion and Q/A
Location:
Stanford Business School
Moderator
Liz Gannes, Editor, NewTeeVee
Panelists
Mark Jung, Chief Executive Officer, VUDU
Howard Hartenbaum, General Partner, Draper Richards, L.P.
Ben Huang, Director of Product Management, Microsoft TV
Gary Lauder, Managing Partner, Lauder Partners
Gilles BianRosa, Chief Executive Officer, VUZE
Event Description:
Household consumption of television content remained unchanged for 50 years: programming delivered in sequential order on a limited number of channels to one device. Tivo shook the industry by introducing “time shifting,” an effortless way to watch the content you want when you want. Sling Media continued this trend with “place shifting,” allowing consumers to take content outside the living room. Now, higher broadband speeds, capable of turning the internet into a viable HD content medium, coupled with universal access by both producers and consumers, have given rise to a revolution in content consumption habits worldwide, threatening many of the existing business models that TV has enjoyed for so long.
Liz Gannes from NewTeeVee will be moderating a panel discussion among hot new startups and old industry powerhouses on how changing content consumption habits are creating new business opportunities for entrepreneurs in the household content market.
Topics to be discussed include time-scheduled vs. VOD, pay-for vs. advertising supported, long form vs. short form, and TV vs. PC vs. mobile as the dominant screen. Stay tuned for more updates regarding the event!

Bios
Liz Gannes, Editor, New Tee Vee
Liz Gannes is an Editor at NewTeeVee, a site that was launched in December 2006 as a dedicated outlet for the online video industry coverage. She is also a staff writer at GigaOM.com. She has built NewTeeVee to be the must-read chronicle of the web video revolution, developing a community of readers for events such as the NewTeeVee Pier Screenings and now NewTeeVee Live. She speaks often about video at conferences such as Web 2.0, the Web Video Summit, and Streaming Media West. Prior to GigaOM, she wrote for Red Herring.
Mark Jung, Chief Executive Officer, VUDU
Mark Jung is VUDU’s Chief Executive Officer. Having spent 20 years as a leader in the technology industry and the last several years as a force in the convergence of media and technology, Mark is uniquely skilled to guide VUDU’s rapid expansion. As CEO, Mark oversees the definition and implementation of the company’s strategic and operational goals. Prior to joining VUDU, Mark was the co-founder and CEO of IGN Entertainment, a leading Internet media and services company for video gaming and other forms of digital entertainment. Mark led IGN, founded in 1999, from a small start-up to an entertainment powerhouse with millions of users and a strong subscription business. In October 2005, Mark led IGN’s sale to News Corp., the parent company of Fox Interactive Media. Subsequent to the acquisition, Mark served as Chief Operating Officer of Fox Interactive Media where he was responsible for all of its Internet properties including MySpace, IGN Entertainment, FoxSports.com, AmericanIdol.com, and Scout Media.
Mark holds an MBA from Stanford Business School and a B.S. from Princeton University.
Howard Hartenbaum, General Partner, Draper Richards, L.P.
Howard Hartenbaum focuses on investments in enterprise and consumer software and services, wireless network solutions, and peer-to-peer technology. His current directorships include LucidPort, NearbyNow and Zimbio. He led the founding investment in Skype (acquired by eBay), and was also a former member of the board of directors where his achievement resulted in his joining the Forbes Midas List of top venture capitalists for the years 2006-2007. Prior to joining Draper Richards, Mr. Hartenbaum held positions at Hughes Electronics, where he was responsible for supporting business development, marketing and sales of satellite, information security and automotive technologies developed by HRL Technologies. He has also worked in engineering positions at Honda Motor Company and Teledyne Relays. Mr. Hartenbaum has worked overseas for a total of ten years in Luxembourg and Japan, is professionally fluent in Japanese and a graduate of M.I.T.
Ben Huang, Director of Product Management, Microsoft TV
Ben Huang is a Director of Product Management at Microsoft TV, the company’s division delivering broadcast-quality video and new, integrated TV services over broadband networks. In this capacity, he oversees product strategy for the division’s efforts in the connected entertainment space and various aspects of the consumer experience. Mr. Huang joined Microsoft in 2003, where he led various initiatives related to new business opportunities, emerging markets, pricing, and corporate transactions, among other areas. Prior to joining Microsoft, Mr. Huang worked in various strategic, financial, and marketing leadership roles spanning multiple industries. He holds MBA and JD degrees from the Kellogg School of Management and Northwestern Law School, and a bachelor’s degree from UCLA. He is also a licensed attorney with the State Bar of California.
Gary Lauder, Managing Partner, Lauder Partners
Gary Lauder is the Managing Partner of Lauder Partners LLC, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm investing primarily in information technologies. He has been a venture capitalist since 1985 investing in over 60 private companies. He is also Chairman of ICTV Inc., a developer of interactive television technology for cable, IPTV and other forms of internet delivery. Other directorships: Promptu, Integra5 and ShotSpotter. Investments are primarily in cable television/IPTV technology and WWW arenas. In the 1980¹s, he worked at the venture firms of Aetna, Jacobs & Ramo Technology Ventures, as well as Wolfensohn Associates. He holds a BA in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania; a BS in Economics from the Wharton School; and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In 1997 he was chosen to become a member of the inaugural class of Henry Crown Fellows of the Aspen Institute, at which he is the co-creator of its Socrates Society with Laura, his wife. He has had a working cable modem (usually) in his home since 1994, the same year that Upside Magazine named him one of the top 100 builders of the information highway. He is co-inventor of 9 patents, has spoken at over 70 industry forums, and, since 1992, has published several articles about the future of the cable industry that he still stands by.
Gilles BianRosa, Chief Executive Officer, VUZE
Gilles BianRosa is the Chief Executive Officer of Vuze, Inc. As CEO, Gilles is driving the evolution of the company from the popular, award-winning peer-2-peer application to a global distribution and exchange platform for high-resolution digital content. Prior to Vuze, Gilles was with McKinsey and Company in Palo Alto, California, where he led mission-critical initiatives related to product roadmaps and go-to-market strategies for venture- backed and “academy” technology companies including Microsoft, HP, BEA, SAP. Prior to McKinsey, Gilles was instrumental in the launch of Vivendi’s media and services Internet platform for health professionals. Early in his career, Gilles founded MileStone, a software company serving the retail industry.
Gilles is a frequent speaker at leading industry events in the US and Europe. Gilles holds a MS in Computer Science from EPITA School of Engineering in Paris, and an MBA from Harvard University in Boston.
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Shaking the Money Tree of Multi-Platform Social Networks
2008-02-19 18:00 - 20:30 | Stanford Business School, Stanford, CA, United States
Shaking the Money Tree of Multi-Platform Social Networks
Why Pursue a Multi-platform social network strategy? Find Out the Pros and Cons.
6:00pm – 7:00pm – Networking and Hors D’oeuvres
7:00pm – 8:30pm – Panel Discussion and Q/A
Blog Recaps of the Event

Some Notes from the Multi Platform Social Networks Event on Sexy Widget by Lawrence Coburn
Abstractions for Metrics and Targeting – extending OpenSocial on Searching for the Moon by Shannon Clark
Shaking the Money Tree on Dogpatch Dispatch by Mike McGrath.
A Night a VLAB: The Social Networking Widget Money Tree –a Green Sapling with Fruit to Bear on Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang (the moderator for this event).

Location:
Stanford Business School
Moderator
Jeremiah Owyang, Senior Analyst
Forrester Research & Blogger of www.web-strategist.com
Panelists:
Sourabh Niyogi, Co-Founder & Vice President of Engineering, SocialMedia

Kevin Marks, Developer Advocate, OpenSocial
Jia Shen, Co-Founder & CTO, RockYou

Steve Cohen, Head of Platform, Bebo

Ken Gullicksen, Managing Partner, Morgenthaler Ventures
Event Description:
Since Facebook launched an open API last summer, it has benefited by seeing a tsunami of more than 15,000 applications created to run on its platform. In November, Google followed suit by introducing its OpenSocial API, which offers participating developers a way to create an application that can run across multiple social networking platforms. Both are compelling approaches, and developers are currently at a crossroads as they decide which of these two approaches to choose and to commit resources for their company?s long-term direction and strategy.
The panel will examine the viability of the multi-platform strategy for social apps, with an emphasis on exploring the revenue side of the equation. Panelists will share their insights across a spectrum of important issues, including: development, deployment, distribution and promotion of the application. Lastly, the panel will discuss how the advertising options shake out on both platforms.
Our forum takes a critical eye from the entrepreneur’s perspective to examine unfolding opportunities offered by major social networking platforms, specifically OpenSocial and Facebook.
Moderator & Panelist Bio’s:
Jeremiah Owyang, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research
Jeremiah is a well known web strategy and media expert and is sought out by both Fortune 1000 and startup companies. At Forrester Research, he focuses on Social Computing for the interactive marketer.
Prior to joining Forrester, Jeremiah served as the Director of Corporate Media Strategy at PodTech.net, an online media network, where he was responsible for the strategy and development of corporate web programs.? Previously, he founded and led the Community Marketing program at Hitachi Data Systems and has experience in Web Marketing, Intranets, Extranet and User Interface Design at companies, including Exodus Communications, Cable and Wireless, and World Savings (now Wachovia). Jeremiah has a Bachelors in Business Administration with a focus on Marketing from San Francisco State University.
Sourabh Niyogi, Co-Founder and Vice President of Engineering, SocialMedia
Under Sourabh’s leadership, SocialMedia has built one of the largest independent social advertising networks where developers can monetize their social applications on Facebook, Bebo, and OpenSocial-based social networks.
Before SocialMedia, Sourabh was a researcher at MIT in cognitive science, computational linguistics and machine vision and consulted for leading ad serving technology companies and performance-driven advertising agencies.
Sourabh holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master?s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.
Kevin Marks, Developer Advocate, Google
Kevin Marks is a developer advocate for OpenSocial at Google, bringing external developers and Google engineers together to make a better web.
Over the last 20 years he’s alternated between giant companies and founding startups – BBC, The UK MultiMedia Corporation, Apple QuickTime, Technorati and now Google. The common thread has been working out how people, computers and media can complement each other, and solving the engineering and social problems where they meet. He is one of the driving forces behind microformats.org and advisor to the Open Rights group.
Kevin holds a Master?s degree in Physics from the University of Cambridge.
Jia Shen, CTO and Co-Founder, RockYou
Jia is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of RockYou and has focused extensively on graphic design and usability throughout his professional web development career spanning over 10 years. Prior to RockYou, Jia has held management roles leading the user interface and technical solutions teams at Open Harbor, and managing the majority of engineering at Iconix. Jia started working on scalable consumer applications at shopping tools internet provider Bluedog, a Stanford-based startup, and was part of the original team at Bell Laboratories which developed the VoiceXML format into the W3C standard. In addition, Jia’s experience has spanned enterprise sales and professional services functions, as he closed transactions and integrated with large multi-national corporation customers like Mitsubishi, Tyco, Flextronics, and DHL.
Jia has a double major in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.
Steve Cohen, Head of Platform, Bebo
As head of Platform, Steve leads a team that provides the framework for third-party developers to create fun and engaging applications that run within Bebo. Bebo’s platform was the first F8 compatible platform to be released, and currently has over 1000 applications.
He has 8 years of development experience, creating APIs for large online retailers, game companies and social networks. Previously, Steve worked at Digital Chocolate, a mobile gaming company, where he made the server APIs available to select third-party developers. He also designed and implemented the protocol used by phones to communicate with the server and was heavily involved in developing the first mobile game to incorporate social features.? Before Digital Chocolate, Steve worked for Officemax.com, integrating third-party content into the site, augmenting it with calendaring, mail and messaging.
Steve holds a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from the Ohio State University.
Ken?Gullicksen, Partner, Morgenthaler Ventures
Ken joined Morgenthaler in 2001 and is currently a Partner on the boards of imeem, Voltage Security, Digital Railroad, Nominum and Danal Corp. He was either a Series-A lead or co-lead investor in all of the above companies.
Ken has 18 years of experience in Silicon Valley’s high-technology industry as CEO, business strategist, marketing/engineering director and venture capitalist. He was founding CEO of FiberStreet, Inc., a gigabit network service provider. Ken previously served as Director of Business Development for Nortel Networks. He held a number of market development and engineering roles at Hitachi-Raychem Display Systems and Sun Microsystems.
Ken has a BS in electrical engineering from San Jose State University and an MBA from Stanford University.

Workshop & Networking Mixer with Ken Morse
2008-02-15 18:00 - 20:30 | SAP, 3410 Hillview Drive, Palo Alto, CA, United States
OPEN & VLAB present:
Workshop & Networking Mixer with Ken Morse
The
Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs & the
MIT/Stanford Venture Lab present
a Workshop & Networking Mixer with
Ken Morse
On Friday, February 15th, OPEN Silicon Valley & VLAB will host a workshop & networking session with Ken Morse , head of the MIT Entrepreneurial Center. Ken has played a key role in launching several high-tech start-ups, including 3Com Corporation, Aspen Technology, an expert systems company, and a biotech firm. Ken’s batting average is 0.833: five of his start-ups went public or were successfully merged; one was a complete disaster. As head of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, Ken is responsible for inspiring, training, and coaching new generations of entrepreneurs from all parts of MIT. Ken has been profiled and quoted in numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Economist, and Red Herring.
Workshop: The Importance of Sales and the Key Roles of the CEO in Sales
When: Friday, February 15th, 2008
Where: SAP, 3410 Hillview Drive, Palo Alto, CA.
Time: 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

GREENtrepreneurs Help Individuals Go Green: Green Tech for the Consumer Market
2008-01-22 18:00 - 20:30 | Stanford Business School, Stanford, CA, United States
GREENtrepreneurs Help Individuals Go Green: Green Tech for the Consumer Market
Featuring John Rockwell of DFJ Element, Michael Murray of Lucid Design Group, John Denniston of Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, Steve Westly of The Westly Group, Frank P. Paniagua of Green Plug, and Ron Gonen of RecycleBank.

6:00pm – 7:00pm – Networking and Hors D’oeuvres
7:00pm – 8:30pm – Panel Discussion and Q/A
Locations/Directions: Stanford Business School

Moderator:
John Rockwell, Managing Director, DFJ Element

Panelists:
Steve Westly, Founder and CEO, The Westly Group
Ron Gonen, Co-Founder and CEO, RecycleBank
Michael Murray, CEO, Lucid Design Group
John Denniston, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers
Frank P. Paniagua, Jr., Founder and CEO, Green Plug
Event Description:
There are endless news stories about the growth of the cleantech industry.We hear about large enterprises such as Google and Walgreens implementing cleantech.But what are the trends in the consumer market?

More and more venture capitalists are now backing greentrepreneurs who aim to invent green-consumer products that the mass market consumer will actually pay for. The press talks about the new green car in the driveway, the solar panel on the roof or the energy efficient light bulbs throughout the house.What will come next?

This panel will focus on green-consumer products that have the potential to trigger a tipping point for mass market adoption.

• How will green tech solutions transform your life and living space?
• What are the green tech trends for 2008 and beyond? Is green tech ready for mass market?
• What types of consumer green tech start-ups are getting funding today?
• What are the opportunities for aspiring “greentrepreneurs”?
• How do US greentech trends compare with other countries?
• What role will government play in promoting consumer greentech?

Bios:
Moderator:
John Rockwell
Managing Director
DFJ Element

John has more than 15 years of experience investing in venture capital and developing companies commercializing applications of advanced materials and over 20 years of financial investment experience. Prior to Element, John was a Partner at Advent International Corporation and managed the firm’s California office. John joined Advent in 1996 and participated in the direct investment activities of both Advent’s EnviroTech and Advent Energy II funds. He has invested broadly across the CleanTech sectors with an emphasis on advanced materials, information technology, and electronics. Areas of focus include applications of advanced materials, energy, and supply chain management.
Before Advent, John spent 7 years at Materia Ventures Associates, investing in and managing early- stage companies that were commercializing advanced material technologies. While at Materia, John also served as CEO of Luxar Corporation, a manufacturer of CO 2 lasers for the medical market and as President of SSC, Inc., a manufacturer of high performance ceramic oxide materials used in superconductors, fuel cells, catalysts, and other applications. From 1984 to 1988, John held various positions at 3M Corporation in its Acquisitions and Business Development Department.
John is a member of the boards of Accelergy Corp., BMG Seltec, Inc., Deeya Energy, Inc., Miartech, Inc., PowerGenix Systems, Inc., and SyntheSys Research, Inc. Previous boards on which John has served include: Luxar Corp., OK International, Inc., RedPrairie Corp., SSC, Inc., and Superconductivity, Inc. He is past Chairman of the CleanTech Venture Network Advisory Board.
John received a BS in Business Administration from Michigan Technological University and an MBA from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management.
Panelists:
Steve Westly
Founder and CEO
The Westly Group
Prior to founding The Westly Group, Steve Westly served as the Controller and Chief Fiscal Officer of the state of California – the world’s sixth largest economy. As Controller, he chaired the State Lands Commission and served on 63 other boards and commissions, including CalPERS and CalSTRS, the nation’s two largest public pension funds, which together invest more than $350 billion. During his four-year term, Mr. Westly spearheaded innovative tax programs that helped close the State’s budget deficit and also led an effort to commit more than $1 billion to clean technology investments.
Before running for office, Mr. Westly helped guide the online auction company eBay through its period of most rapid growth, serving as the Senior Vice President of Marketing, Business Development, M&A and International. Mr. Westly helped bring eBay to Europe and Asia and developed the marketing and acquisition strategies that paved the path for the firm’s exponential growth.
Mr. Westly began his career in Washington, D.C., where he worked first on Capitol Hill and later in the Office of Conservation and Solar at the U.S. Department of Energy. Mr. Westly returned to California to become special assistant to the President of the California Public Utilities Commission. While there, he published two books on alternative energy and the utilities. Mr. Westly also held senior positions at Sprint Communications, Netcom, and WhoWhere?.
Mr. Westly holds a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, where he served on the faculty for five years. Mr. Westly and his wife, Anita, run the Westly Foundation, which provides education and health care services for children and underserved communities throughout California.

Ron Gonen
Co-Founder and CEO
RecycleBank

Ron Gonen is the Co-Founder and CEO of RecycleBank. Prior to RecycleBank, Ron was a Senior Consultant at Deloitte Consulting. Ron focused on developing CRM and strategic account management programs for clients. His clients have included Bank of America, Bank of Montreal, Bank One, GE, and DIRECTV. Ron was a co-recipient of Deloitte Consulting’s National Impact Award in 2002 for his development and management of a consulting unit that provides pro bono consulting services to non-profit and charitable organizations. In addition, Ron was a founding member of the National Conference for High School Students Against Hunger and Homelessness. Ron received an MBA from Columbia Business School where he was a Eugene M. Lang Center for Entrepreneurship award winner and received a Bachelor of Arts in History and Economics from the University of Massachusetts where he graduated cum laude and was awarded Massachusetts Commonwealth Scholar honors.

Michael Murray
CEO
Lucid Design Group
Lucid Design Group provides data acquisition and display software to the green building industry. The company’s flagship product, The Building Dashboard™, allows homeowners to continuously monitor their electricity and water use and, in buildings with renewable energy systems like solar panels, how much energy they are producing. Monitoring is done on a personal computer in the home.
With a B.A. in Environmental Studies, Michael’s career was green from the very beginning. Before launching Lucid, Michael was with Global Footprint Network, an environmental non-profit that assessed the environmental performance of utilities, businesses, real estate development and governments. He’s considered a green building consultant and software guru.

John Denniston
Partner
Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers
John Denniston came to KPCB from Salomon Smith Barney, where he was a Managing Director and head of Technology Investment Banking for the Western U.S., and also served on the Investment Committee for Salomon’s direct investment venture fund and its venture capital fund-of-funds. Prior to Salomon, John was a Partner with the law firm Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, where he was the head of Brobeck’s Venture Capital Practice Group, Co-head of its Information Technology Practice Group and a member of the Investment Committee for its venture capital fund.

Frank P.Paniagua, Jr.,
Founder and CEO
Green Plug
Frank is the Founder and CEO of Green Plug, Inc. A two year old technology company dedicated to fixing the AC to DC consumer charging experience and changing the world. As a serial entrepreneur, Frank has spent his entire career involved in start-ups. Frank was the co-founder of the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) and was Vice President of Worldwide OEM Sales at RasterOps and VideoLogic (both companies executed successful IPO’s), founder of KidWise LearningWare, co-founder of Eskape Labs and AutoNetworks and the president of IXMICRO. (EskapeLabs, and AutoNetworks were acquired.) Frank has a history of success including 23+ years of “solution selling” into the industry’s most respected PC and consumer electronic manufacturers (Apple, Compaq, Digital Equipment, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Sun and Sony). Frank’s expertise is building and growing new ventures into successful companies. Frank’s last tenure was as a partner for Trusted Strategies, an IT Security consulting firm. Frank holds a BA degree from California State University Hayward.

WiMAX Broadband Convergence: Emerging Fixed and Mobile Revenue Opportunities
2007-12-11 18:00 - 20:30 | Intel SC12 Auditorium, 3200 Juliette Lane, Building SC12, Santa Clara, CA, 95052, United States
WiMAX Broadband Convergence: Emerging Fixed and Mobile Revenue Opportunities
Special Event from MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB) and SVASE. Sponsored by Intel Corporation. Location is at Intel in Santa Clara (not Stanford GSB)
6:00pm – 7:00pm – Networking and Hors D’oeuvres
7:00pm – 8:30pm – Panel Discussion and Q/A
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Opening Remarks – Sriram Viswanathan , GM of WiMAX Program Office, Intel Corporation
Moderator:
Berge Ayvazian, Chief Strategy Officer, Yankee Group
Panelists:
Rama Shukla, VP Mobility Group & Director, WiMAX Program Office, Intel Corporation
Rehan Jalil, President and CEO, WiChorus
P. Kelley Dunne, CEO, Digital Bridge Communications
Sandesh Patnam, Partner and CFO, Bay Partners
Tom Gruba , Senior Director of Marketing for MOTOwi4 WIMAX, Motorola

Event Description:
WiMAX Broadband Convergence
Emerging Fixed and Mobile Revenue Opportunities
The demand for mobility and broadband will be satisfied only with true mobile broadband services and the technology that can support them. At the forefront of the evolution to mobile broadband, and with the support of several industry heavyweights, WiMAX looks to be the leader for extending broadband to underserved areas and driving the Mobile Internet. WiMAX has gained momentum in the last year and is set to have a major impact on the converging fixed and mobile broadband.
The panel discussion will explore these topics, and provide further insights to the following questions:
o Where do key industry players stand on incorporating WiMAX into their existing strategies?
o Will 2008 be the breakout year for WiMAX and what is its role in shaping the mobile Internet of the future?
o What opportunities do these represent for aspiring entrepreneurs?
o Where are the current opportunities to monetize in WiMAX?
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Moderator:

Berge Ayvazian
Chief Strategy Officer
Yankee Group
As chief strategy officer, Berge Ayvazian oversees Yankee Group’s new growth mission, providing thought leadership for the firm’s research, consulting and events in the mobile, telecom, IT, applications, media and entertainment industries worldwide. Working with the company’s diverse research groups, Ayvazian ensures Yankee Group is aligned with clients to help them visualize, navigate and generate value from current and future business opportunities. As a senior industry analyst and consultant, Ayvazian directs a wide range of research and consulting projects across a broad group of topics, including communications industry structure, broadband service provider strategy, mobile network infrastructure, enterprise networking strategy, information technology and applications.
Ayvazian has directed more than 100 consulting projects forecasting product and service markets, assessing strategies and analyzing investment opportunities in the telecommunications, wireless, computer, internet, cable and broadcast TV industries. He is currently leading several new research, consulting and product initiatives on the convergence of broadband and mobile network technologies, and the emerging business strategies of mobile broadband service providers. He recently led the launch of Yankee Group’s new research and consulting practice, Municipal Broadband Technologies & Services. He also plans to launch a Yankee Fellows program and form a company advisory board later this year.
Ayvazian is Yankee Group’s principal public spokesperson and has served as conference chairman and keynote speaker for the company’s Telecom Industry Forums and Enterprise Network Decision Summits. He is currently the co-chairman of Trendsmedia’s WiMAX World Conference, keynote speaker at W2i Digital Cities Convention and a featured moderator of a CIO panel on wireless and broadband at Telefonica’s fourth annual Leadership Conference of the Americas.
During his nearly 20-year career at Yankee Group, he served as strategy director for the Reuters Research and Advisory unit and was a consultant and researcher with Kalba Bowen Associates. In addition, Ayvazian was the company chief executive officer from 1999 through 2001. Web site is http://www.saffo.com

Panelists:

Rama Shukla
VP Mobility Group & Director, WiMAX Program Office
Intel Corporation
Dr. Rama K. Shukla is Vice President of the Mobility Group and Director, WiMAX Program Office at Intel Corporation. Dr. Shukla joined Intel in 1979.
Previous to his current assignment, Dr. Shukla has held a number of technical and business management positions spanning 28 years of his career with Intel Corporation. These include positions such as Engineering Manager and Centrino® Platform Program Management in Mobility Group, General Manager & Director of the Silicon based Photonics Optical Components business group and various positions ranging from individual technical contributor to group manager/director involving the development of Silicon IC process and associated packaging/interconnect technologies.
Dr. Shukla received his master’s degree in solid state chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India & Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1979. He holds several patents and has published numerous papers related to silicon device processing and assembly technologies. He received IEEE Manufacturing Technology of the Year Award in 2000 for leading IC industry transition to flip-chip laminated package & interconnects technologies at Intel Corporation.
Rehan Jalil
Founder and CEO
WiChorus
Rehan has over 15 years of technical management and sales experience in telecommunications, networking, and multi-core processors. Prior to WiChorus, he was the chief architect for Aperto Networks and played diverse leadership roles in technology and sales. Aperto was a key contributor of technology that became part of IEEE802.16 and was a founding member of WiMAX Forum. He developed multiple generations of broadband wireless silicon, carrier-grade base stations and terminals, and also brought multi-million dollar orders. These systems are used to deploy networks globally, in over 75 countries, by more than 400 operators. At Sun Microsystems, he helped develop one of the industry’s earliest advanced multi-core multithreaded processor for throughput computing and graphics applications. Part of the technology is now used in Sun’s 32-threaded Niagra and Rock processors. At Siemens, he managed projects related to system-level design and implementation. He also contributes to social entrepreneurship projects and is a charter member of OPEN Silicon Valley. He has over 18 patents pending and graduated with an MSEE from Purdue University.
P.Kelley Dunne
Chief Executive Officer
Digital Bridge Communications
Kelley Dunne was formerly Executive Vice President, Operations for Verizon Avenue, the Verizon subsidiary focused on providing bundled communications services to concentrated communities nationwide. Mr. Dunne’s responsibilities included leadership of Network Operations, Program Management, Customer Care, and Field Operations for Verizon’s multi-dwelling unit and concentrated community markets. He was also responsible for initiating and leading Verizon’s rural broadband trials nationwide. Previously, Mr. Dunne held positions as Vice President of HR, Vice President of Provisioning and Customer Care, and Director of Carrier Services at OnePoint Communications prior to Verizon’s acquisition of OnePoint in 2000. Mr. Dunne has over 15 years experience in the field of telecommunications, including 7 years with AT&T and Bell Labs, where he held management positions in Network Operations, Data Network Planning, and Network Security. In addition, Mr. Dunne served as an enlisted serviceman and later as an Army Officer in the US Army’s Signal Corps. Mr. Dunne received his BS degree in Communications Systems Management from Ohio University and his MS degree in Information and Communications Sciences from Ball State University.
Sandesh Patnam
Partner and CFO
Bay Partners
Sandesh is a Partner and CFO at Bay. Prior, Sandesh was with TeleSoft Partners, where he co-led investments in Aarohi Communications (acquired by Emulex), Amberwave Systems, Redclover Networks, Sierra Design Automation (acquired by Mentor Graphics), Validity Sensors, Xambala and Xpedion Design Systems (acquired by Agilent Technologies). He was also associated with Ikanos Communications (Nasdaq: IKAN), Lara Networks (acquired by Cypress Semiconductor), Catamaran (acquired by Infineon) and Empowertel (acquired by IP Unity).
Before TeleSoft, Sandesh was at Malleable Technologies (acquired by PMC-Sierra), an early stage startup developing a VoIP chipset. There, he had a variety of roles from design engineering to product marketing. Prior, Sandesh was at MIPS/Silicon Graphics, where he was involved in developing next-generation computing architectures and microprocessors. He has also spent time at Integrated Device Technologies (IDT), Cirrus Logic and Tandem Computers (acquired by HP)
Tom Gruba
Senior Director of Marketing for MOTOwi4
Motorola
Tom Gruba is the Senior Director of Marketing for the MOTOwi4 WiMAX within the Home and Networks Mobility business of Motorola. Gruba started marketing Motorola’s wireless broadband products with the 2002 launch of its award winning Canopy(R) wireless broadband portfolio.
He has been with Motorola for ten years and has served in various business development and marketing roles in both Motorola Networks and the Internet Content and Software Group. Prior to joining Motorola, Gruba was at ATT Bell Laboratories, ATT Network Systems and Lucent Technologies for 13 years where he held numerous management roles in engineering and product marketing.
Gruba earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Aurora University in Aurora, Illinois, and an Associate in Applied Science degree from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois.

Sriram Viswanathan
GM of WiMAX Program Office
Intel Corporation
Sriram Viswanathan is managing director of Intel Capital and general manager of the WiMAX program office. As the head of the mobility sector, Viswanathan is responsible for investments on a worldwide basis in the mobile area. He is also responsible for the mobile content and services sector, mobile communications sector and mobile platforms sector. In January 2007 he also assumed responsibility for leading Intel’s WiMAX efforts, acting as the corporate focal point for our customers and business partners in this strategic effort for Intel.
Previously, Viswanathan served in a variety of positions for Intel Capital, including director of the eHome and broadband sectors and director of the mobile communications sector. He also served as director for the Hollywood/media programs, leading Intel’s activities in the media industry in support of Intel’s content efforts.
Viswanathan joined Intel in 1993 as a technical marketing engineer for corporate demos, responsible for showcasing Intel’s leading technologies in industry events supporting Intel’s top executives.
Viswanathan received his bachelor’s degree in physics from American College in 1984. In 1987, he received his second bachelor’s degree in computer science and automation from the Indian Institute of Science. Viswanathan received his master’s degree from UCLA Anderson School of Business in 1997.

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Web 3.0: New Opportunities on the Semantic Web
2007-11-20 18:00 - 20:30 | CA
Web 3.0: New Opportunities on the Semantic Web
Robert Cook from Metaweb, Nova Spivack from Radar Networks, Alex Iskold from Adaptive Blue and Paul Kedrosky from Ventures West, moderated by Paul Saffo.

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Moderator:
Paul Saffo, Technology Forecaster and Consulting Professor,
Stanford University
Panelists:
Robert Cook, Co-founder and Executive VP of Product Development,
Metaweb
Nova Spivack , CEO and Founder,
Radar Networks
Alex Iskold , CEO and Founder,
Adaptive Blue
Paul Kedrosky , Venture Partner,
Ventures West
Event Description:
We are well into the current era of the Web, commonly referred to as Web 2.0.
What lies on the horizon? Will Web 3.0 usher in the long awaited vision of the semantic web, as proposed by “Father of the Web” Tim Berners-Lee more than ten years ago?
Join us for a lively panel session where some of the best emerging companies in the semantic web space present their different approaches to realizing the vision. The panel will address questions such as: How can we best implement the vision of the semantic web? What will we do with the web once it is structured with semantic information? What new applications will appear? Where is the consumer value and how should it be marketed? What new businesses can be built on top of the semantic web that are not possible today? Will the semantic web ultimately bring about a new intelligence that surpasses that of humanity, sparking a new era of non-biological evolution?
Join us and bring questions of your own – help us uncover the future of the web!
Bios:
Moderator:
Paul Saffo
Technology Forecaster and Consulting Professor
Stanford University
Paul is a forecaster and essayist with over two decades experience exploring long-term technological change and its practical impact on business and society. He currently teaches at Stanford University and is a fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. He was the founding chairman of the Samsung Science Board and serves on a variety of other boards including the Long Now Foundation and the Singapore National Research Foundation Science Advisory Board. He is also an advisor to 3i Venture Capital and has served as an advisor and Forum Fellow to the World Economic Forum. He is on a research sabbatical from Institute for the Future where he has worked since 1985. Paul’s essays have appeared in numerous publications, including The Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Wired, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, The New York Times,and the Washington Post. Paul is also a columnist for ABCNews.com, writing on technology and innovation issues. Paul holds degrees from Harvard College, Cambridge University, and Stanford University. His web site is http://www.saffo.com
Panelists:
Robert Cook
Co-Founder and Executive VP of Product Development
Metaweb
Robert Cook co-founded Metaweb Technologies in July 2005. At parent company Applied Minds, Robert led the San Francisco office as Director of Knowledge Product Development. Since the start of his career, Robert has played the role of author, designer and programmer for myriad software applications. Robert’s first computer was an Elf II, which used the same microprocessor as the Voyager, Viking and Galileo spacecraft. At the young age of 15, Robert created database software for a small publishing company. He followed this first piece of work by publishing a number of computer games through Broderbund. This early work included the classic game Gumball as well as the Atari 400/800 and Commodore 64 versions of Karateka. Robert later designed the game D/Generation and acted as the technical director for The Last Express.
Robert holds a BS in Computer Science from Yale University.
Nova Spivack
Founder and CEO
Radar Networks
Nova Spivack is a technology visionary and entrepreneur with nearly two decades of experience in pioneering ventures. In 1994, Mr. Spivack co-founded EarthWeb, one of the first Internet companies, where he was Executive Vice-President for Products, Strategy and Marketing. EarthWeb went public in 1999 and resulted in the Nasdaq’s largest IPO single-day percentage point gain up to that point, spawning a wave of Tech IPOs. Mr. Spivack left EarthWeb’s board of directors in 1999 and began advising startups and angel investing. During the down-years of the post-Internet-bubble, EarthWeb’s content properties were acquired in 2000 by Internet.com. The company’s Dice.com property remained a strong stand-alone business until it was acquired for approximately $200 million in 2005.
While at EarthWeb he helped key cultural institutions and businesses develop their first large-scale Web presences, including the New York Stock Exchange, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, BMG Music Club, Sony, AT&T, US West, and others. He also helped to catalyze the adoption of Java technology by leading the production of large on communities for the IT professionals, including Gamelan.com, Developer.com, and Datamation.com.
Prior to EarthWeb, Mr. Spivack worked in a variety of roles from technology marketing to software engineering at artificial intelligence and next-generation computing ventures including Individual, Inc., Ray Kurzweil’s pioneering OCR company, Kurzweil Computer Products which was sold to Xerox, and at Danny Hillis’ legendary supercomputing venture, Thinking Machines. Mr. Spivack is also the founder of Lucid Ventures, an early-stage incubator that originated the technologies that are now Radar Networks. Mr. Spivack is a co-founder of the San Francisco Web Innovators Network (SFWIN), a network of several hundred technology innovators and business leaders who meet monthly in the Bay Area.
Mr. Spivack has extensive experience working on knowledge representation and the Semantic Web, and has authored and helped to design several large (500 to 3000 class) ontologies in the OWL language, the W3C open standard for ontology specifications. Mr. Spivack has also been a lead advisor to SRI International on the DARPA CALO program, a distributed research program encompassing several hundred top researchers across over 20 major research institutions focused on next-generation semantically-aware machine learning applications, and in particular on the IRIS Semantic Desktop project. Also with SRI and Sarnoff Laboratories, Mr. Spivack helped to co-found nVention, SRI’s in-house technology incubator.
Mr. Spivack has co-authored several books on Internet strategy and technology and led the EarthWeb Press publishing imprint with Macmillan Computer Publishing, one of the largest computer book publishers, which resulted in a series of publications by leading authors on technology. He has been featured and cited in Business Week, CNN, CNBC, CBS Evening News, CNN-FN, Discovery Channel, The New York Times, Washington Post, WIRED Magazine, Chronicle of Philanthropy, Communications Week, Interactive Week, Internet World, Reuters, Newsweek, Red Herring, Silicon Alley Reporter, Interactive Age, Web Week, Java Developer’s Journal, and has spoken at numerous conferences and industry events. Mr. Spivack also helped to invent key technologies for interactive television and Web convergence in the early days of the Web, as well as several pending patents for Radar Networks.
Mr. Spivack has a long-time interest in cognitive science, artificial intelligence, emergent computation, knowledge management and the emerging Semantic Web. As a grandson of management guru Peter F. Drucker, Mr. Spivack shares his family’s heritage of interests in management theory, nonprofits, and knowledge work. In addition, he has been a student of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, art and culture for nearly 20 years and has pursued this interest extensively in monasteries, refugee camps and communities in Nepal, India, Europe and the USA. Mr. Spivack focuses his philanthropic activities on helping to fund the preservation of Tibet’s unique wisdom culture as a world-heritage treasure for the benefit of future generations.
Mr. Spivack has a BA in Philosophy, with a focus on cognitive science and artificial intelligence, from Oberlin College and a CSS degree from the International Space University a NASA-funded graduate professional business school for the space industry. In 1999 Mr. Spivack’s interest in space gave him the opportunity to help pioneer the early days of space tourism when he flew to the edge of space with Space Adventures and did micro-gravity parabolic flight training with the Russian air force.
Mr. Spivack’s weblog, Minding the Planet, focuses on Radar Networks and emerging technologies and can be read at http://www.mindingtheplanet.net
Alex Iskold
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Adaptive Blue
Alex launched AdaptiveBlue because he was inspired by the vision of a personalized web. He is passionate about building elegant software that helps people save time and makes their online experience effective and enjoyable.
His previous startup, Information Laboratory, was focused on applying the ideas of Complexity Science to software engineering. Alex and his team developed a tool, called Small Worlds, which automatically identified structural problems in large-scale software systems. After Information Laboratory was acquired by IBM, Alex worked in the IBM Automated Software Quality group as an architect.
Alex regularly contributes to influencial Read/WriteWeb blog and Web 2.0 journal. You can see some of his articles in here, and read more in his blog at http://alexiskold.wordpress.com.
Paul Kedrosky
Venture Partner
Ventures West
Dr. Kedrosky is a venture capitalist, media personality, and entrepreneur. He is a sought-after speaker; an analyst for CNBC television; a columnist for TheStreet/RealMoney; the editor of Infectious Greed, one of the best known business blogs on the Internet; and he is frequently quoted in major publications around the world.
Most recently he has been the Executive Director of the William J. von Liebig Center in San Diego, California. Using an innovative seed capital program, the Center catalyzes the commercialization of technologies from the internationally-ranked University of California, San Diego.
He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation, where he is focused on entrepreneurship, innovation, and the future of risk capital. He is also a venture partner with Ventures West, Canada’s largest institutional venture capital firm. In the latter capacity his interests include consumer technologies, media, semiconductors, and life sciences. He is currently on the board of Marqui Corporation, a marketing automation software firm, as well as Dabbledb, a hosted data management company.
Earlier in his career, Dr. Kedrosky founded the technology equity research practice at HSBC James Capel. As a highly-ranked technology equity analyst, transactions with which he was involved created in excess of a billion dollars in public market value. Dr. Kedrosky was one of the first analysts to cover Internet companies, as well as making early and timely calls in networking and communications.
Dr. Kedrosky has also been a successful entrepreneur. In 1999 he financed and launched one of the first hosted blogging services, GrokSoup. The service grew to more than a thousand subscribers. Relatedly, he wrote for Harvard Business Review what is widely regarded as the seminal article on dark matter and syndication technologies.
Dr. Kedrosky is a sought after media personality. He has hosted a television program, “Profiles on Innovation”, that is available on cable in the U.S., as well as on the web (at www.ucsd.tv). He has written influential columns for Business 2.0 magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Harvard Business Review, and others. He has also appeared on many media outlets, including CNN, PBS Newshour, ABC Nightline, and the New York Times, and he can be seen frequently on CNBC’s “On the Money”. He maintains one of the best known technology, venture capital, & finance blogs at http://paul.kedrosky.com.
Dr. Kedrosky currently divides his time between La Jolla, California, and Vancouver, British Columbia.

Introducing the Seventh Sense: Location Awareness
2007-10-16 18:00 - 20:30 | CA
Loopt mobile application

Introducing the Seventh Sense: Location Awareness
I’m here, where are you?

Speaker:
Sam Altman, CEO, Loopt
Moderator:
Rajeev Chand, Director of Research, Rutberg & Co
Panelists:
Russ McGuire, Director of Corporate Strategy, Sprint Nextel
Michael Sharon, Co-founder, Socialight
Jodi Sherman Jahic, Principal, Voyager Capital
Rick Witham, Business Development Manager, Nokia

Event Description: We perceive and interact with our world through sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. As more of us are increasingly “connected” through cell phones and the Web, the evolution of location based services (LBS) stands to dramatically enhance our lives. Come and discover the incredible capabilities and services that are already available to us as well as the cutting edge technologies around the corner. A distinguished panel of experts spanning the ecosystem of LBS will share and discuss the opportunities and challenges that await, including mobile search and social networking. The event features Loopt, Nokia, Sprint/Nextel, Socialight and Rutberg & Co.

About VLAB:
The MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB) is the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the MIT Enterprise Forum, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the growth and success of high-tech entrepreneurial ventures by connecting ideas, technology and people.

The Post-Wii Gaming Boom: Controlling the Money via Interface, Content, and Platform
2007-09-18 18:00 - 20:30 | CA
Emotiv Project Epoc

The Post-Wii Gaming Boom
Controlling the Money via Interface, Content, and Platform

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Speaker:
All panelists to present,
Moderators:
Mike Zyda, Director,
USC GamePipe Laboratory
Tim Chang, Principal at
Norwest Ventures
Panelists:
Lars Buttler, Co-Founder and CEO,
Trion World Network
Tim Chang, Principal,
Norwest Venture Partners
Nam Do, Co-Founder and CEO,
Emotiv Systems
Jim Greer, Co-Founder and CEO,
Kongregate
Hans Lee, Cofounder and CTO,
Emsense

Event Description: What is next for the gaming industry? A not-so-quiet revolution has taken place recently with Nintendo quickly capturing market share with the sales of its new gaming system. Sony and Microsoft released significantly faster, more capable machines at roughly the same time, but lacked Wii’s ability to interact in a novel way with the user. Will this revolution in the way humans interact with computers and gaming systems continue? Or will the next revolution be more about the games themselves? Will the big revenue come from massive multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG), which have captured the attention of more than 15 million users globally? Or is the next big thing the combination of a social network and the dissemination of user generated games? Will we control future games with our minds? How can you measure the quality of a gaming experience? Come join VLAB on September 18th as we seek to unearth the answers to these questions and more.

Two key industry moderators will trade off shooting challenging questions at the speakers.

Mike Zyda is the architect of the hit game America’s Army, Director of USC GamePipe Lab, and will query our speakers on how their approaches will create more compelling gaming experiences.
Tim Chang, Principal at Norwest Ventures, will poll our speakers on the changing economics of the gaming world.

About VLAB:
The MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB) is the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the MIT Enterprise Forum, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the growth and success of high-tech entrepreneurial ventures by connecting ideas, technology and people.

The Battle of the Mobile Operating Systems
2007-06-19 18:00 - 20:30 | CA
The Battle of the Mobile Operating Systems
Symbian, Linux, RIM, Palm and Windows Mobile prepare to do battle against the iPhone while the gPhone lurks.

Speaker:
James Ready, Founder & CTO,
MontaVista
Moderator:
Scott Raney, Partner,
Redpoint Ventures
Panelist:
Todd Brix, Director, Product Planning and Partner Development, Mobile Communications Business,
Microsoft Corp.
Tomihisa Kamada, Co-Founder, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer,
ACCESS CO., LTD
Bill Weinberg, Analyst and Consultant,
Linux Pundit
Christy Wyatt, Vice President, Ecosystem and Market Development,
Motorola, Inc.
Event Description:
Those involved in the mobile industry will remember for generations June of 2007. The looming introduction of the iPhone could shift how we think of our mobile devices. Will our previously smart phones get a life and become more fun? How will the dominant mobile operating systems and the handset manufacturers that build compelling mobile experiences on top of these OS’s evolve in today’s changing market?
The mobile OS market is narrowing down to Symbian, Linux, RIM, Palm and Windows Mobile. How will the mobile OS market react to the functions of the iPhone? Will Linux phones transition from Asia to the rest of the world? What is Palm’s strategy moving ahead? What will be Sun’s strategy with the SavaJe’s mobile operating system? Are there upstarts moving in to change the game? How will RIM’s strategy change as they expand beyond their hardware?
This event will bring together several players in the mobile ecosystem as we work together to understand what is next on the Mobile OS world stage.

Speaker:
James Ready
Founder & CTO
MontaVista
Jim, with over 25 years of technical and entrepreneurial experience, is a recognized authority in the embedded systems and real-time software industry. Co-founder of Ready Systems, he pioneered the development of the first commercially viable, real-time operating system (RTOS) product – the VRTX real-time kernel.
Ready Systems, founded in 1980, merged with Microtec Research in 1993, went public in 1994, and was acquired by Mentor Graphics in 1995. During this period, Jim served as Ready Systems’ President, and as chief technical officer (CTO) at Microtec/Mentor.
Jim founded MontaVista in 1999 to provide the Linux operating system to the embedded systems market, and to offer embedded-system expertise to the open source Linux community.
Moderator:
Scott Raney
Partner
Redpoint Ventures
Scott Raney is a Partner with Redpoint Ventures focusing on infrastructure and software investments in the enterprise, wireless, and consumer segments. Scott serves on the board of directors of mig33 and LetsTalk, and is involved with Redpoint’s investments in Cortina Systems, JumpTap, Mobilygen, MobiTV, and Kodiak Networks.
Prior to joining Redpoint, Scott served as Senior Manager of New Products with NorthPoint Communications, a data CLEC providing nationwide DSL services. Scott managed NorthPoint’s first consumer product and led product development of other new products. Prior to NorthPoint, Scott worked as a management consultant at Bain & Company, where he helped clients in the private equity and telecommunications industries. Previously, Scott was the Director of Engineering for VideoPort Technologies, a developer of videoconferencing hardware.
Panelist:
Todd Brix
Director, Product Planning and Partner Development, Mobile Communications Business
Microsoft Corp.
Todd Brix directs Product Planning and Partner Development for the Microsoft Mobile Communication Business.
In this role, Todd leads the team responsible for defining and driving product plans and partnerships for the Windows Mobile software platform and related mobile applications and services.
Todd has worked at Microsoft for going on 9 years in a variety of product management, marketing and planning roles: Windows Server, Windows Embedded and, for the last 3+ years, Windows Mobile.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Todd worked in program management at Silicon Graphics and Intel. Todd earned a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of Washington, and holds a MBA from the Harvard Business School
Tomihisa Kamada
Co-Founder, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
ACCESS CO., LTD
Dr. Tomihisa “Tomy” Kamada co-founded ACCESS CO., LTD. in 1984 with the current CEO, Toru Arakawa. Since that time, ACCESS has grown to become the world’s leading provider of software solutions for the mobile and beyond-PC markets. Principal ACCESS technologies include ACCESS Linux(R) Platform(TM), a complete software platform for Mobile that combines a Linux core with middleware, applications and Garnet(TM) VM (Garnet OS is one of the world’s first and most successful mobile operating systems); NetFront(TM) Mobile Client Suite, a comprehensive client software suite for mobile devices; and NetFront Browser, an advanced, full-featured Internet browser widely recognized as one of the leading browsers in the world.
As chief technology officer for ACCESS, Dr. Kamada oversees all technologies and R&D within the group companies. ACCESS technologies were central to the development of the world’s first successful mobile data service and are now deployed in millions of devices. ACCESS software is incorporated not only in most mobile phones in Japan, but also some 1100 mobile phone models, totaling some 378 million devices worldwide, and growing by millions each month.
Dr. Kamada also plays a key role in ACCESS’ ongoing overseas expansion, as CEO of ACCESS Systems Americas (the former PalmSource Inc.), and vice-chairman of subsidiaries in Europe and China.
Dr. Kamada has been recognized globally as a leader in communications and mobile technology. He is the developer of “Compact HTML,” an innovative subset of HTML for small information appliances. The technology was submitted to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to be assessed for standardization. In 2000, Dr. Kamada was selected by EE Times as the “2000 Architect of the Internet.” In 2001, he received an award from Japan’s Ministry of International Affairs and Communications for his outstanding contributions to the development of communications technology in Japan.
Dr. Kamada received a Doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Tokyo.
Bill Weinberg
Analyst and Consultant
Linux Pundit
Bill Weinberg brings two decades of open source, embedded and open systems, telecoms, and other technology experience to his role as Independent Analyst and Consultant at Linuxpundit.com. He also serves in a part-time executive capacity at Linux Phone Standards Forum (LiPS).
Previously, at Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) he served as Senior Technology Analyst and also managed the OSDL Mobile Linux and Carrier Grade Linux Initiatives. Prior to OSDL, Bill was a founding team-member at MontaVista Software, helping to pioneer and ultimately to establish Linux as the leading platform for intelligent devices. In his extensive and varied career, Bill also worked at Lynx Real-Time Systems, Acer Computer Brazil, and Microtec Research.
Christy Wyatt
Vice President, Ecosystem and Market Development
Motorola, Inc.
As Vice President, Ecosystem and Market Development for Motorola, Christy Wyatt is responsible for building a healthy software economy around Motorola’s products through the development and management of Motorola’s partner, ISV and developer ecosystem. Christy and her organization are responsible for all aspects of ecosystem development including partner recruitment/management, tools and technical services, and go-to-market programs. Christy also leads platform marketing and vendor management for software.
Prior to joining Motorola, Christy served as Worldwide Developer Relations Director at Apple Computer where she was responsible for partners, global alliances and evangelism. Before her time at Apple, Christy was Senior Director at Palmsource Inc. responsible for their licensing and developer relations teams where she grew the developer community from 3,000 to 200,000 with over 14,000 applications.
Christy has also held key technical, sales and business development roles at Sun Microsystems, JavaSoft and ESRI and she currently serves as Motorola’s board member for the Linux Foundation, LiMo Foundation, and Eclipse Foundation.

Concept-to-Company: Widgets to Riches - Monetization Strategies for Emerging Web Services Platforms
2007-05-15 18:00 - 20:30 | CA
A Concept-to-Company Event
Widgets to Riches: Monetization Strategies for Emerging Web Services Platforms

Speaker:
Ed Anuff, CEO,
Widgetbox
Moderator:
Ann Winblad, Co-Founding Partner,
Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
Panelist:
Max Mancini, Senior Director of Platform and Innovation,
eBay
Adam Sah, Architect, Google Gadgets,
Google
Lance Tokuda, CEO and Founder,
RockYou!
Event Description:
Every year, the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB) has the honor of hosting a special session called Concept-to-Company, moderated by Ann Winblad, the co-founding partner of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. This year’s Concept-to-Company will focus on Widgetbox, an open web widget marketplace and syndication platform. With the recent proliferation of widgets, widget companies entering the marketplace, and the atomization of content and services, what opportunities do entrepreneurs and VCs see as ways to capitalize on this current trend? Is there a profitable business model for the current trend of decoupling content and services from their source — pushing revenue generation to the distributor as opposed to the creator?
Please join speaker Ed Anuff, moderator Ann Winblad and industry leading panelists as they explore how the widgetization of the web will impact the way we maximize the potential of online communication, efficiency, and revenue generation.

Speaker:
Ed Anuff
CEO
Widgetbox
Ed has over 10 years of experience in general management and marketing of consumer, developer, and enterprise technology products. Prior to his position as CEO of Widgetbox, Ed co-founded Epicentric, a leading vendor of enterprise portal solutions. He became the VP of Portals and Collaboration at Vignette after they acquired Epicentric in 2003. Prior to founding Epicentric, he was Director of Product Management at HotWired and General Manager for the HotBot.com search engine, which was a partnership between Wired and Inktomi.
Moderator:
Ann Winblad
Co-Founding Partner
Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
Ann Winblad is the co-founding Partner of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. She is a well-known and respected software industry entrepreneur and technology leader. Her background and experience have been chronicled in many national business and trade publications.
Ann has over 25 years of experience in the software industry. She began her career as a systems programmer at the Federal Reserve Bank. In 1976 Ann co-founded Open Systems, Inc., a top selling accounting software company, with a $500 investment. She operated Open Systems profitably for six years and then sold it for over $15 million. Prior to co-founding Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Ann served as a strategy consultant for prestigious clients such as IBM, Microsoft, Price Waterhouse, and numerous start-ups. In addition, Ann has co-authored the book Object-Oriented Software and has written articles for numerous publications. Ann received a BA in mathematics and in business administration, as well as an MA in education and international economics from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota. Ann also has an honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of St. Thomas.
Ann has served as a Director of start-up and public companies and currently serves as a director of Dean & Deluca, Intacct, Market Wire, The Knot and Voltage Security. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of St. Thomas and is an advisor to numerous entrepreneur groups.
Panelist:
Max Mancini
Senior Director of Platform and Innovation
eBay
Max Mancini is responsible for eBay’s Developer’s Program and Disruptive Innovation in eBay’s Marketplaces business. In his innovation leadership role, Max drives idea creation across the business, and directs innovation projects, new business strategies and product investment. For the eBay Developers Program, Max enables third-party developers to extend the eBay marketplace by creating solutions that make it faster, easier and safer to buy and sell on eBay. In his previous roles at eBay, Max led an engineering team of 70+ developers responsible for development on eBay Stores, merchandising, registration, sign-in, trust & safety, and customer support tools. He also led the product and technology teams for Kijiji, eBay’s local community classifieds websites, as well as eBay’s New Business Ventures.
Prior to joining eBay, Max spent a number of years at startups in various business and technology roles. Most recently, he was the CTO & VP of Engineering at Cranite Systems, a wireless network security company, and President & CEO of Consumer Review, a Web portal delivering consumer-generated product information. Max has been an adjunct faculty member at Santa Clara University and served as a Military Intelligence officer in the U.S. Army and Army Reserves.
Adam Sah
Architect, Google Gadgets
Google
Adam Sah is the architect of Google Gadgets. Prior to Google, Adam was a founding engineer at several startups, among them Inktomi and Sensage, where he is a member of the board. He holds several patents in databases and web systems.
Lance Tokuda
CEO and Founder
RockYou!
Lance is the CEO and founder of RockYou, the leading provider of widgets on the web. Incorporated in 2006, RockYou serves over 100M widget views a day. Prior to RockYou, Lance was a VP & CTO in consumer (Iconix) and enterprise (Open Harbor) web services. He was also employee four at Resumix, now Yahoo! HotJobs. Lance has multiple patents in text extraction, document categorization, and email (pending) and has received the American Association of Artificial Intelligence Award of Innovation for work on spatial text understanding. He received his Bachelors and Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Hawaii and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas.
