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Young Entrepreneurs: The Next Wave of Innovation
2009-02-17 18:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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.

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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
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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”.
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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
https://vlab.org/article.html?aid=185
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The May 30 event meeting notes on clean green investment trends, visit
https://vlab.org/article.html?aid=204
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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

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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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3200 Juliette Lane, Santa Clara, CA, 95052 (directions )
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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Bios:

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.

The Next Wave in Online Ad Distribution Networks
2007-04-17 18:00 - 20:30 | CA
The Next Wave in Online Ad Distribution Networks

Speaker:
Ori Cohen, Founder,
Skyrider
Moderator:
Rich LeFurgy, General Partner,
Archer Martin
Panelist:
Mitchell Davis, Former CEO of Massive, Inc.,
Massive
Brian Fitzgerald, President & Co-founder,
Gorilla Nation
Mark D. Kvamme, General Partner,
Sequoia Capital
William Urschel, CEO,
AdECN
Event Description:
This forum will examine new ways online ad inventory is being created and sold. We will feature three exciting companies (SkyRider, ADECN and Gorilla Nation) as well as insights from top industry experts.
We live in a world where digital advertisers are increasingly limited by the availability of quality online inventory. In response, there has been a surge of entrepreneurs devising new distribution models to extend inventory or eliminate existing inefficiencies inherent in ad networks. Early on, some of these innovative startups have been snapped up by bigger players as evidenced by recent acquisitions of Massive by Microsoft and dMarc by Google. Radio, video, mobile phones, shopping malls, games, billboards, and peer-to-peer networks are just some of the innovative distribution alternatives surfacing — all focused on taking a piece of the growing online advertising pie.
This event will feature several exciting companies including:
Skyrider: This Sequoia Capital-backed start-up allows content owners to include ads in video files over peer-to-peer networks. While initially some P2P networks were involved in illegal file-sharing, today many P2P client applications (file sharing, instant messaging, internet telephony applications, software updates) are transitioning to legal, pay-per-song or advertising-sponsored models that fairly compensate copyright owners. Representing over 60% of all Internet backbone traffic, P2P networks are now viewed as the next global channel for content distribution and targeted marketing because of advantages in computing power and distributed bandwidth capabilities that reduce the costs practically to zero.
AdECN: A start-up producing the first real-time, auction-based exchange for online display advertising. It works much like a stock exchange, AdECN aims to solve the transitory supply and demand problems ad networks face. A member of the AdECN exchange buys on the exchange for its advertisers and sells on the exchange for its publishers.
Gorilla Nation: The largest online advertising sales representation company, Gorilla Nation exclusively handles media sales for over 400 high traffic, high quality websites in select vertical markets.
Please join us as our distinguished panelists discuss the issues, opportunities, and innovative approaches in online advertising.

Speaker:
Ori Cohen
Founder
Skyrider
Ori Cohen is a business and technology pioneer, leading innovation in the telecom and video arenas. Prior to founding Skyrider, Cohen founded Narus, a global leader in software and technology for the telecom industry and government agencies. Cohen had previously served as Vice President of Business and Technology Development for VDOnet, an early leader in internet video. Additionally, Cohen served as Chief Executive Officer for IntelliCom Ltd. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Imperial College in London, U.K.
Moderator:
Rich LeFurgy
General Partner
Archer Martin
Rich LeFurgy is General Partner at Archer Martin, advising and investing in early stage digital media companies. He is a Director at X+1 (Chairman), Blue Lithium, Fathom Online and Associated Content, is an advisor with Fraudwall Technologies, Glam Media and Viewpoints Networks, and has consulted with AOL.com and Google. LeFurgy was a Venture Capitalist in digital media at WaldenVC (1998-2005), Founding Chairman of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (1996-2001), and Head of Sales for Starwave Corporation and later the Walt Disney Internet Group (1995-1998). Prior to that, he was on Madison Avenue at NW Ayer for 17 years from 1978-1995. LeFurgy has long been recognized as one of interactive industry’s leaders and was awarded the IAB’s first Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004. In 2000, he was one of the first inductees to Advertising Age’s Interactive Hall of Fame, along with Jeff Bezos, Jerry Yang and Steve Case.
Panelist:
Mitchell Davis
Former CEO of Massive, Inc.
Massive
Mitch has 10 years of experience in technology and software development with expertise in middleware software, online media and general management. Most recently, he was founder and CEO of pioneer in-game advertising company Massive, which was acquired by Microsoft last year. He is a former Senior Vice President of Encyclopedia Britannica, where he spent three years heading the Britannica.com and CD Rom business units. In this position, he oversaw P&L responsibility and coverage for the ad sales team, business development, editorial, production, product development and international offices. Mitch has a track record of success in entrepreneurial ventures as co-founder of Digital Rights (acquired by Liberty One) and founder of Parcelhouse (an international middleware software developer). Mitch has 12 years of integrated agency experience at APM Consulting and Maine Marketing. He received a Bachelor of Commerce Degree in marketing from the University of New South Wales, Australia.
Brian Fitzgerald
President & Co-founder
Gorilla Nation
Brian Fitzgerald is co-founder and President of Gorilla Nation Media, LLC, the world’s largest online ad rep firm. Mr. Fitzgerald began his career as an intellectual property attorney at MGM Studios, went on to represent some of the entertainment industry’s largest independent film distributors, and co-founded Celebrity Blvd. prior to Gorilla Nation.
Mark D. Kvamme
General Partner
Sequoia Capital
Mark Kvamme focuses on software and services investments. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 1999, Mark was Chairman of USWeb/CKS and Chairman and CEO of CKS Group prior to the merger with USWeb. Earlier in his career Mark was a Director of International Marketing for Wyse Technology, the President and CEO of International Solutions, and was a founding member of Apple France. Mark has a BA in French Economics and Literature from the University of California at Berkeley.
William Urschel
CEO
AdECN
Mr. Urschel founded AdECN, the first and only real-time auction-based exchange for online advertising, which launched in October, 2005. From 2002 to 2003, Mr. Urschel was CEO of publicly-traded ExperTelligence,(OTC: EXGP), selling that company in 2003. Previously, Mr. Urschel started and ran a number of successful technology companies, all located in Santa Barbara. In 2000, he started The Narrative Press, a digital book publishing company with over 100 titles, which he sold in December 2005. In 1994, he started Alliance Manufacturing Software, which quickly became a leading publisher of MRP/ERP software to small and mid-sized manufacturers. He graduated from Princeton University in 1978 with a degree in history.

Next-Generation Search: The Hope, the Hype, and the Chutzpah
2007-03-20 18:00 - 20:30 | CA
Next Generation Search: The Hope, the Hype, and the Chutzpah

Speaker:
Barney Pell, CEO and Co-founder,
Powerset
Moderator:
Mike Sigal, CEO and Co-founder,
The Guidewire Group
Panelist:
Christine Herron, Director,
Omidyar Network
Phyllis Reuther, CTO,
MCN (Mobile Content Networks)
Munjal Shah, CEO and Co-founder,
Riya
Event Description:
A new crop of startups are hoping to stake their claim in the lucrative search landscape by refining and improving search capabilities. In the past two years more than 30 search engine companies have been funded, reflecting a renewed optimism that Google isn’t the final word in search. Search-engine companies such as Vivisimo, Powerset, Hakia, MCN (Mobile Content Networks), ChaCha, Riya and Snap are moving forward with the idea that fortunes can be made — even if only a small portion of Google’s vast revenue streams can be diverted away from the ubiquitous 800-pound gorilla.
We have put together a group of hot new search companies along with their audacious and innovative leaders. Powerset, which has been touted recently in the NY Times, will be debuting soon with it’s proprietary natural language search capabilities; Riya has launched a new product, Like.com, to tap into using visual search technology in the promising arena of online shopping; and MCN (Mobile Content Networks) has launched the industry’s first real-time mobile search solution. Join moderator Mike Sigal, CEO of the Guidewire Group, Christine Herron, Director of Omidyar Network, and our panelists as we explore the challenges and opportunities for next generation search.

Speaker:
Barney Pell
CEO and Co-founder
Powerset
Barney Pell, Ph.D. (CEO) For over 15 years Barney Pell (Ph.D. Computer science, Cambridge University 1993) has pursued groundbreaking technical and commercial innovation in A.I. and Natural Language understanding at research institutions including NASA, SRI, Stanford University and Cambridge University. In startup companies, Dr. Pell was Chief Strategist and VP of Business Development at StockMaster.com (acquired by Red Herring in March, 2000) and later had the same role at Whizbang! Labs. Just prior to Powerset, Pell was an Entrepeneur in Residence at Mayfield, one of the top VC firms in Silicon Valley.
Moderator:
Mike Sigal
CEO and Co-founder
The Guidewire Group
Mike Sigal is Co-founder and CEO of Guidewire Group. Mike brings to Guidewire Group a 20-year record of building innovative technology-based businesses for existing and emerging global companies. Previously, he ran a strategic advisory and interim management consulting firm, with clients such as the Daily Mail General Trust, Fresher Information Corp, IDG, Office Depot, Pacific Bell, Philips Electronics, Synoptics and the U.S. Postal Service.
He has lived and worked in Europe, providing marketing and business development services to technology companies as they developed their trans-Atlantic strategies. As director of DASAR, producer of the annual European Technology Roundtable Exposition (ETRE) conferences, Mike built communities which fostered relationships among technology industry executives and investors.
An entrepreneur at heart, Mike has founded a number of technology ventures, including FM Waves and WiFinder. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
Panelist:
Christine Herron
Director
Omidyar Network
Christine Herron is a director at Omidyar Network, where she invests in both participatory content and communications infrastructure. Prior to Omidyar Network, Christine held operational roles with Mission Research, NetObjects, and Microsoft, and co-founded both Cycle Partners and Mercury2. Christine started as an investor with Geocapital Partners, where she funded early Internet and network infrastructure businesses such as Netcom and AXON Networks. Her current board participation includes Backfence, Collaborative Drug Discovery (CDD), Common Sense Media, Digg, Nickel Tour Productions, and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. Christine was ranked among the Top 20 Women in Technology in 2000 by AltaVista and holds degrees from Stanford University and Columbia University.
Phyllis Reuther
CTO
MCN (Mobile Content Networks)
Phyllis has fifteen years of industry experience, including seven years as a Carnegie Mellon University computational linguistics researcher and four years with Documentum leading their enterprise search architecture and strategy activities.
Munjal Shah
CEO and Co-founder
Riya
When CEO and Co-Founder, Munjal Shah, took a look at his 38,015 and growing digital photo collection, he saw the need for a tool to help him find the photos he wanted. He also believed that there were many others out there who had the same need. With his prior experience as the CEO and Co-Founder of the successful eBay seller auction management service, Andale he knew nothing was impossible and set out to put together a team to make it happen.
Munjal has an MS in Computer Science from Stanford, a BS from UCSD and was nominated one of the top 10 “Up and Comers” in Business week in 2001. He has previously worked for Baan, IBM and Blaxxun, and co-founded Round Zero, a Web 1.0 networking forum for early stage entrepreneurs.
Munjal is also one of those guys that everybody instantly likes. He’s not only a nice guy with great ideas and passion, but he can also blog like a pro. Part of this is due to the fact that he has a passion for life and doesn’t believe in limitations.

Young Leaders of Silicon Valley
2007-01-16 18:00 - 20:30 | CA
Young Leaders of Silicon Valley

Speaker:
Moderator:
Ram Shriram, Founder,
Sherpalo Ventures
Panelist:
Garrett Camp, Founder,
StumbleUpon
Angus Davis, Founder,
Tellme
Omar Hamoui, CEO,
AdMob
Seth Sternberg, CEO,
Meebo
Zaw Thet, CEO,
4INFO
Event Description:
VLAB is kicking off its 2007 season by presenting some of Silicon Valley’s youngest and brightest entrepreneurs. Come join us for an evening where we put the spotlight on these young entrepreneurs to reveal the facts and dispel the myths behind the makings of hot startups and young moguls. Whether you’re interested in becoming the next baby billionaire or would like to hear some sage advice from this group of go-getters, this VLAB event promises to provide an evening of insightful and inventive dialogue.
Our moderator Ram Shriram will quiz the panelists about what it takes to not only create the right buzz for their products and companies, but also to secure the funding and build upon it. Garrett Camp of StumbleUpon, Angus Davis of Tellme, Omar Hamoui of AdMob, Seth Sternberg of Meebo, and Zaw Thet of 4INFO have had great success in starting and growing their online and mobile startups. They are also familiar faces of the Web 2.0 movement.
We look forward to your participation!

Speaker:
Moderator:
Ram Shriram
Founder
Sherpalo Ventures
Ram Shriram is a founding board member of Google Inc. and 247customer.com. As a technology industry insider for over 25 years, he has worked in companies large and small across all functional areas and through fluctuating business cycles. Shriram started Sherpalo in January, 2000, with the goal of applying his wealth of operating and company building experience to promising early stage ventures. In 2006, Shriram was named one of the top three dealmakers in high-tech by Forbes magazine.
Panelist:
Garrett Camp
Founder
StumbleUpon
Garrett is an adaptive information systems researcher who completed his Masters degree in Software Engineering at the University of Calgary. He has researched evolutionary algorithms, knowledge retrieval and web usability while at UofC, and voice recognition as an intern at Nortel. At StumbleUpon, Garrett fulfills a key technical role: he is responsible for the high-level design of StumbleUpon’s client-server applications.
Angus Davis
Founder
Tellme
Angus co-founded Tellme with Mike McCue in February 1999. He works across the company to develop business and technology strategies to guide Tellme’s products and strategic direction. Prior, Angus facilitated Tellme’s entry into the travel and transportation markets, managed Tellme’s product line transition to serve Fortune 500 clients and led production of the 1-800-555-TELL consumer voice portal.
Angus joined Netscape Communications in 1996, bypassing college after an initial summer internship to become the company’s youngest fulltime employee. While at Netscape, Angus was a product manager for the Netscape Communicator Web browser. He was responsible for fostering developer relations, prototyping next generation browser technology, representing the company on standards committees, contributing to company strategy on legal matters and working on the AOL/Netscape merger.
His first telecommunications endeavor began mischievously at Phillips Academy Andover, where he hacked into a campus phone system so fellow students could make free long-distance calls. A native of Rhode Island, Angus lives in Providence.
Omar Hamoui
CEO
AdMob
Omar is an entrepreneur with deep roots in the mobile industry. After earning a degree in Computer Science at UCLA, Omar founded and ran several companies in mobile software and services. At the time, he was frustrated by the lack of available options when it came to promoting and monetizing mobile products. Omar realized that mobile service and content firms needed better ways to advertise and make money on the mobile Web. While earning his MBA at the Wharton School, Omar began to think more seriously about the untapped potential of mobile advertising, and created AdMob to address this growing opportunity. Today, Omar has taken a leave from Wharton to focus on AdMob, and is now running one of the fastest growing and most innovative companies in the mobile world.
Seth Sternberg
CEO
Meebo
Seth is responsible for all things business at meebo, which he co-founded with Elaine & Sandy. Prior to meebo, Seth worked at IBM in Corporate Development leading M&A transactions and working on strategy and venture capital initiatives. Seth flies airplanes, rides motorcycles, and rollerblades. Seth majored in Political Science at Yale, and withdrew from Stanford business school during his second year to concentrate on meebo.
Zaw Thet
CEO
4INFO
As the CEO and co-founder of 4INFO, Zaw Thet sets the company strategy, oversees product offerings, corporate alliances, business development and corporate communications. Prior to founding 4INFO, Zaw led business development at Spoke Software, a leading Silicon Valley CRM solution provider, and was the general manager of the company’s flagship Team Edition product. He has held positions within emerging technology management for IBM and was the CEO and co-founder of GetInventory, a web-based supply chain management company. Zaw has also held special consulting roles with numerous organizations including a past advisory role with the San Francisco 49ers.
Zaw is a member of the Silicon Valley 100 and is a frequent moderator and speaker at conferences including Silicon Forum, Dialog, Mobile Entertainment Summit, and the Kelsey Group. Zaw s entrepreneurial pursuits have been featured in many publications including: The New York Times, San Jose Business Journal, Chicago Tribune, and International Herald Tribune. He also writes a well-read blog on new technology at: http://www.zawthet.com
Zaw holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was a Soros Fellow and the youngest person to ever graduate from Stanford’s business school. He received his BA from Stanford University in Political Science with a minor in Computer Science, where he was a President’s Scholar.

A Special Evening with Geoffrey Moore
2006-11-15 18:00 - 20:30 | CA
A Special Evening with Geoffrey Moore
Best-selling author of Crossing the Chasm and Dealing with Darwin

Speaker:
Moderator:
Geoffrey Moore, Managing Director, TCG Advisors; Venture Partner,
Mohr Davidow Ventures
Panelist:
Dean Drako, President and CEO,
Barracuda Networks
Quentin Gallivan, President and CEO,
Postini
Gary Steele, CEO,
Proofpoint
Event Description:
Join acclaimed author and venture capitalist Geoffrey Moore and three veteran CEOs from online security and communication management companies (Barracuda Networks, Postini, and Proofpoint) in exploring what it takes for businesses to thrive in this highly competitive global marketplace.
Geoffrey, whose books include Crossing the Chasm, Dealing with Darwin and Inside the Tornado, will explore insights on the latest developments in the online security space, revenue generation, viral marketing, business model strategies, and other issues critical to the survival of startups.

Speaker:
Moderator:
Geoffrey Moore
Managing Director, TCG Advisors; Venture Partner
Mohr Davidow Ventures
Geoffrey Moore is a best-selling author and venture partner at MDV. Recognized for his expertise in market development and business and investment strategies, he serves as an advisor to many of MDV’s portfolio companies, drawing upon best practices derived from his extensive work with technology startups.
Geoffrey has made the understanding and effective exploitation of disruptive technologies the core of his life’s work. His books, Crossing the Chasm, Inside the Tornado, The Gorilla Game, and Living on the Fault Line are best sellers and required reading at leading business schools. Highly regarded as a dynamic public speaker, Geoffrey is the founder of The Chasm Group and currently is managing director of TCG Advisors. Earlier in his career, he was a principal and partner at Regis McKenna, Inc., a leading high tech marketing strategy and communications company, and for the decade prior, a sales and marketing executive in the software industry.
Education: He holds a bachelor’s degree in literature from Stanford University and a doctorate in literature from the University of Washington.
Panelist:
Dean Drako
President and CEO
Barracuda Networks
Dean Drako brings to Barracuda Networks a successful history in building companies and products. Prior to co-founding Barracuda Networks, Dean was founder, president and CEO of Velosel Corporation, a leader in product information management. Prior to Velosel, Dean founded Boldfish (now a part of Siebel Systems), a provider of enterprise messaging solutions. Dean was also founder, president and CEO of Design Acceleration, Inc. (now a part of Cadence Design Systems), maker of the popular SignalScan, a suite of design analysis and verification tools. Holder of over 16 patents in various disciplines, Dean has served as entrepreneur in residence at SoftBank Venture Capital and vice president of Engineering at the 3DO Company and project leader at Apple Computer. Dean is a frequent speaker at industry events, including INBOX: The Email Event and NGN Conference. Dean holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
Quentin Gallivan
President and CEO
Postini
Quentin Gallivan is the chief executive officer and president of Postini. Quentin brings over two decades of sales and management experience in the high technology industry to Postini, most recently as executive vice president of worldwide sales and services at VeriSign. Prior to joining VeriSign, Quentin was the vice president and general manager of the Asia Pacific and Latin America regions at Netscape Communications Corporation. He also spent 13 years with GE Information Services (GEIS), where he had full profit-and-loss responsibility for the GEIS business in the United States, Canada, and Latin America. Quentin holds a B.A. degree in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Gary Steele
CEO
Proofpoint
Gary Steele brings a broad range of enterprise software experience to the company. Before joining Proofpoint, Mr. Steele served as the CEO of Portera, an applications company delivering solutions for the professional services industry. Under Mr. Steele’s leadership, Portera raised more than $100M in capital from some of the leading venture capitalists including Kleiner Perkins, IVP, and American Express, and grew the business from its initial concept to $20M in revenue. Prior to Portera, Mr. Steele served as the vice president and general manager of the Middleware and Data Warehousing Product Group at Sybase, Inc., an organization of more than 350 people, spanning four geographies and generating $150M in revenue. In this capacity, he initiated and spearheaded all new Internet projects targeted at the enterprise. Mr. Steele’s prior experience includes business development, marketing, and engineering roles at Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. He holds a B.S. degree in computer science from Washington State University.

Enterprise 2.0: Revolution in Software Development and Delivery?
2006-10-17 18:00 - 20:30 | CA
Enterprise 2.0: Revolution in Software Development and Delivery?

Speaker:
John Roberts, CEO and Co-Founder,
SugarCRM
Moderator:
Mary Coleman, Director,
Walden International
Panelist:
Antony Brydon, CEO and Co-Founder,
Visible Path
Ivan Koon, CEO,
YouSendIt
Ross Mayfield, Founder & CEO,
Socialtext
Event Description:
VLAB has assembled an exceptional panel of CEOs to discuss a timely topic: Enterprise 2.0. John Roberts leads one of the most innovative software businesses today, Ross Mayfield is one of the thought leaders who coined the term Enterprise 2.0 and Antony Brydon leads a high profile company with a team of top investors and advisors. Mary Coleman , who was the CEO of a CRM company in the early 90s – long before the term CRM was introduced – will moderate this exceptional panel.
Wikipedia ignited the debate on Enterprise 2.0 when it deleted the term from its website. The debate has raged on and even experts do not agree on the definition and significance of Enterprise 2.0. What remains clear is that 1) the software industry is reemerging after a long slump, 2) a new class of enterprise applications are making inroads in the enterprise, and 3) innovative software development and delivery models are creating powerful disruptive waves to the existing players.
Come hear this outstanding panel explore the meaning of Enterprise 2.0 and the controversy surrounding it.

Speaker:
John Roberts
CEO and Co-Founder
SugarCRM
John Roberts, Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of SugarCRM, is a pioneer in the open source enterprise application space as one of the three founders of SugarCRM. John co-led the product design of Sugar Open Source. Having strong business, marketing, business development and product management experience, John has introduced open source as the only viable contender to the established proprietary CRM solutions. John brings a strong enterprise CRM applications track record spanning 14 years.
Prior to co-founding SugarCRM, John held product management and sales engineering positions at E.piphany, BroadVision, Baan/Aurum Software and IBM. John holds a BS in Business from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Moderator:
Mary Coleman
Director
Walden International
Mary joined Walden International in 2002. Prior to joining WI, she was CEO of Rightworks, an e-procurement and trading exchange software firm, which was acquired by I2 Technologies. She joined Rightworks from Internet Capital Group, where she had been a Managing Director focusing on investments in enterprise software and internet infrastructure including companies such as Rightworks. Prior to Internet Capital Group, Mary was the CEO of the Baan Company, a leading European ERP software firm. She attained this position after selling Aurum Software, a customer relationship management software firm, where she was the CEO, to the Baan Company, after taking Aurum Software public on NASDAQ. Earlier in her career Mary served as a Vice President of Marketing in several high technology firms.
Mary studied electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Panelist:
Antony Brydon
CEO and Co-Founder
Visible Path
As CEO and Co-Founder of Visible Path, Antony focuses on new technologies, strategic direction and new market opportunities. Prior to founding Visible Path, Antony served as CEO of IUMA, a leading digital music company, which he sold to EMusic in July 1998. Following the sale, he joined the executive team that sold EMusic to Vivendi-Universal in June 2001. From 1995 – 1998, Antony was an analyst at R. B. Webber & Company, a strategy consulting firm and venture fund in Palo Alto, CA. At Webber & Company, he developed business strategies and evaluated new market opportunities for ERP, CRM and SFA companies. Antony graduated from Yale University with a degree in psychology and philosophy and coursework in statistics.
Ivan Koon
CEO
YouSendIt
Ivan Koon is CEO of YouSendIt, Inc. a start-up delivering enterprise-level file transfer solutions to business and consumer clients. Most recently he was SVP of the Acrobat Intelligent Document Business Unit at Adobe inc. and before that president of the New Technologies Division at BEA Systems. Earler, Koon served in a variety of executive management roles at S2 Systems, including president and COO from 1997 to 1999. He has also held engineering and management positions at Shared Systems and Digital Switch. Koon serves on the board of multiple Internet start-ups. He holds a B.Sc. in mathematics and computer science from the University ofTexas at Arlington.
Ross Mayfield
Founder & CEO
Socialtext
Ross Mayfield is a serial entrepreneur with over 10 years of startup executive management experience and a focus on helping people and companies communicate effectively. He co-founded and served as President of RateXchange (AMEX:RTX), the leading B2B commodity exchange for telecom. RateXchange reached $1 billion market capitalization, raising over $45 million in equity and debt. Most recently, Ross served as VP of Marketing for a Fujitsu spinout developing enterprise software for the telecommunications industry, and as Interim VP of Marketing for an Immersive Group Simulation provider to military and homeland defense markets. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from the UCLA and completed the Management Development for Entrepreneurs (MDE) program at the Anderson School of Business.

Television Breaks Out of the Box: The Mad Rush to Go Mobile
2006-09-19 18:00 - 20:30 | CA
Television Breaks Out of the Box
The Mad Rush to Go Mobile

Speaker:
Philip Alvelda, Chairman, CEO & Cofounder,
MobiTV
Moderator:
Rafe Needleman, Editor-at-Large,
CNET
Panelist:
Seamus McAteer, Cofounder, Chief Product Architect & Senior Analyst,
M:Metrics
Scott Raney, Partner,
Redpoint Ventures
Daren Tsui, Cofounder & CEO,
mSpot
Event Description:
According to Gartner, annual sales of mobile devices will surpass 1-billion units in 2009. With increased capabilities and a sub-2-year upgrade cycle, mobile devices are where the action is — information, collaboration, commerce, social networking, personalized/location-based services, and especially, multimedia entertainment! In this September forum, we will share the experience of early pioneers and vision of the mobile future, which is fast approaching.
Join VLAB moderator Rafe Needleman in a spirited exploration of mobile entertainment featuring Philip Alvelda, Chairman, CEO & Co-founder of MobiTV. MobiTV bravely launched its first service in 2003 with Sprint, at a time when cell-phone transmission rates were painfully slow. Fast forward to July 2006, a zippier world and a brand new $70 million “C” round of financing — MobiTV appears to be leading the pack in the U.S. Will it be enough? We will hear from Palo Alto-based mSpot, an industry analyst and a VC who has serious money on the table.
Every week, the potential field of competitors grows larger and more diverse (ranging from start-ups such as GoTV and Sling Media to Apple). Standards and alliances are forming; technologies are evolving from unicast to broadcast and multicast; and all contenders are looking for ways to accelerate consumer adoption. There is a lot at stake as new upstarts seek to move television from the big screen to one on-the-go. Join us in an exploration of the elements of risk and success in this highly sought-after space.

Speaker:
Philip Alvelda
Chairman, CEO & Cofounder
MobiTV
Dr. Phillip Alvelda is a cofounder of MobiTV and serves as its Chairman and CEO. Since launching MobiTV in 2000, Alvelda has played an instrumental role in managing the company’s growth from a start-up to being the first and only global television network for cell phones.
Previously, Dr. Alvelda was the founding Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer of The MicroDisplay Corporation, a manufacturer of ultra-high resolution miniature displays for portable systems and low cost HDTVs. Prior to MicroDisplay, Dr. Alvelda was a developer of spacecraft hardware and software systems for image processing and data compression at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Dr. Alvelda holds a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Cornell University and received his Masters and PhD degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Moderator:
Rafe Needleman
Editor-at-Large
CNET
Rafe Needleman is editor at large for CNET Networks. He writes about Web-based products and startups. Rafe has been a technology editor and writer since 1988. His experience and perspective makes him a keen judge of what works and what doesn’t, which he discusses in his blog posts on CNET.com and News.com, and his column, “Works for Me.” Previously, Rafe wrote “Catch of the Day” for Red Herring. He has written for Business 2.0, Always On, and Release 1.0. He has also edited several publications, including Byte Magazine, where he was editor-in-chief.
Panelist:
Seamus McAteer
Cofounder, Chief Product Architect & Senior Analyst
M:Metrics
As cofounder, chief product architect and senior analyst at M:Metrics, McAteer determines how services are shaped to match client needs. He is also the company’s primary evangelist.
McAteer has been analyzing the wireless industry since its inception and has been assisting clients in the wireless and portable computing sectors since the early 1990s. Most recently, McAteer was managing partner at Zelos Group, a boutique advisory services firm focused on wireless and voice applications. Prior to founding Zelos Group, McAteer was a director and research fellow with Jupiter Research, where he headed Jupiter’s coverage of new technologies and services. Before joining Jupiter, McAteer focused on wireless services and pervasive computing as a senior analyst with SRI International.
McAteer is frequently sought as a speaker and expert commentator. He has been quoted in numerous international media outlets, including: the New York Times, USA Today, Nikkei Weekly, Wired Magazine, the Associated Press and a variety of trade journals. He has made frequent TV and radio appearances, commenting on technology issues for CNN, Fox News, NPR and TechTV. McAteer often speaks at prestigious industry events.
He received an undergraduate degree at Trinity College Dublin, and a Diploma in Advanced Marketing Techniques from the Dublin Institute of Technology.
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 LetsTalk and is involved with Redpoint’s investments in Caymas Systems, 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. Scott began his career at Andersen Consulting as a member of the Advanced Technology Group where he assisted clients in the telecommunications industry.
Scott holds a B.S.E.E., with high distinction, from Duke University and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.
Daren Tsui
Cofounder & CEO
mSpot
Daren is a cofounder of mSpot and serves as its CEO and a member of the Board of Directors. Daren has 16 years of entrepreneurial experience including 12 years of media business development. He is responsible for leading the overall vision of the company as well as planning the product distribution strategy.
Prior to mSpot, Daren was the vice president of business development at Enpocket, a global mobile media company providing integrated entertainment and marketing services, responsible for U.S. mobile carrier relationships and business development. In addition, he oversaw Enpocket’s Japanese operations including sales, product marketing and professional services.
Daren joined Enpocket as a result of the SkyGo acquisition, an early pioneer in mobile marketing funded by VeriSign, Vanguard Ventures and others. At SkyGo he was the president, cofounder and a member of the Board of Directors. Daren was responsible for building the global strategy to work with mobile carriers, multi-national brands and interactive agencies. As a part of that strategy, SkyGo won a highly competitive contract with Vodafone KK in Japan as the exclusive mobile marketing technology provider.
Prior to founding SkyGo, Daren was the vice president of data integration at AltaVista, where he worked with a variety of domestic and international media companies launching online portals contributed to the growth of the company to one of the ten most trafficked sites on the Web.
Daren came to Alta Vista from Pantheon, where he was cofounder and served as vice president of product marketing and development. In 1997, he led the merger of Pantheon and Zip2, creating the dominant technology provider in the local yellow pages, directions and mapping space.
Prior to founding Pantheon, Daren began his career at SPRY where he helped develop the company’s award winning software “Internet in a Box,” which won “PC Magazine Product of the Year 1994” and one of the pioneer products in the Internet browser market.

AlwaysOn Stanford Summit: CEO Showcase
2006-07-25 18:00 - 20:30 | Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
AlwaysOn Stanford Summit: CEO Showcase
AO & MIT/Stanford Venture Lab CEO Showcase
vent Description:
AlwaysOn has again joined forces with the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB) to produce the popular.CEO Showcase program. A subset of the Summit, The AO & MIT/Stanford Venture Lab CEO Showcase program highlights 50 emerging companies that will present their businesses to a panel of industry insiders and a standing room only audience. The top three companies will be given the opportunity to present to the audience on the main stage at the end of the event.

The AO2006: Stanford Summit will showcase the AO100, with selected industry expert keynotes. The AO100 is a premier list of private companies that have demonstrated leadership among their peers in market traction measured by revenue or customer growth, and game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players. In order to make the AO100 list, companies had to be peer-nominated. AlwaysOn received more than 1,000 nominations from venture investors, investment bankers and other industry experts for the AO100.

Consumer Robotics: Rise of the Machines
2006-06-20 18:00 - 20:30 | CA
Consumer Robotics
Rise of the Machines

Speaker:
Bob Christopher, CEO & Co-founder,
Ugobe
Moderator:
Chris Shipley, Executive Producer, DEMO Conferences; Co-founder,
GuideWire Group
Panelist:
Khalid Al-Ali, Director of Robotics,
Carnegie Mellon University – West; CEO, Senseta
Robert Capps, Senior Editor,
Wired Magazine
Jason Morella, Regional Director,
FIRST – For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology
Warren Packard, Managing Director,
Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Event Description:
Have we finally reached a nexus today that combines culture, and trends, and affordable technology to make consumer robotics a viable market opportunity? The June forum will examine market and venture capital investment opportunities in the category of consumer robotics.
The Japan Robotics Association forecasts the worldwide robotics market (service and personal) to double in size over the next five years, approaching nearly $13 billion. Most recently, consumers have warmed up to robotics, early on with the likes of Furby, a plush toy that exhibited realistic form-factors and Lego Mindstorms, the programmable play set. The latest consumer robotics to hit the shelves include Robosapien, an affordable, mass-marketed humanoid robot, and Roomba, a robotic vacuum, and its sidekick, Scooba, a floor-scrubbing mechanical disk.
Startup Ugobe, creators of Pleo, a genetic descendant of Furby, develops robotic technology that transforms inanimate objects into creatures capable of exhibiting life-like movements and behaviors. Similar to the Terminator’s advanced robots, Pleo supersedes Furby’s single motor and microprocessor, sporting 8 processors that control 14 motors and receive signals from 38 sensors. It can also write its own code as it learns from its own experiences.
The driving vision behind the Ugobe team is to marry people’s emotional connections with technology. With consumers embracing virtual avatars and characters, such as Laura Croft and Super Mario, is there a budding opportunity to make screen-to-table products that are brand extensions of popular virtual characters? Come join this forward-thinking event, as VLAB brings together a panel of experts to discuss and debate how to form a business model that works.

Speaker:
Bob Christopher
CEO & Co-founder
Ugobe
A seasoned entrepreneur, Bob Christopher has founded and led a number of successful start-up companies in the technology and consumer markets. Mr. Christopher helped launch the Voice-over- IP industry through the creation of ISPtel, an international clearinghouse connecting over 35 of the world’s largest phone companies.
Understanding market challenges and visionary opportunities, he has helped companies in their formative stages to develop market strategies, partnerships, operations and launch consumer and enterprise products. Mr. Christopher’s leadership skills have attracted talented management teams, industry alliances, strategic advisors and partnerships that are needed to execute on emerging business models. Both an excellent communicator and team builder Bob is able to lead diverse teams and inspire great performance that drives bottom line results.
An experienced executive leader, Mr., Christopher has contributed to the success of Zentera, Five 9, Circle 24, ValuCircle, Jopari, Mercotel, and NextSport
Moderator:
Chris Shipley
Executive Producer, DEMO Conferences; Co-founder
GuideWire Group
Chris Shipley is a leading technology and product analyst. Best known as the executive producer of the DEMO Conferences for IDG Executive Forums, Shipley has helped technology companies bring more than 1,000 new products to market since 1996. As a founding partner and editorial director in Guidewire Group, she consults with emerging technology companies in the U.S. and Europe to identify market opportunities and accelerate products to market. Fortune Small Business Magazine placed Shipley on its “Top 10 Minds in Small Business,” and the San Jose Business Journal named her a “Woman of Distinction.” She has often been cited as a leading influencer by Marketing Computers magazine. Shipley has covered personal technology since 1984 and has worked as a writer and editor for a variety of technology and consumer media. She is currently authoring a book on the social impact of technology-driven change.
Shipley holds BAs in Literature and Communication Arts from Allegheny College and pursues knowledge and understanding relentlessly.
Panelist:
Khalid Al-Ali Ph.D.
Director of Robotics
Carnegie Mellon University – West; CEO, Senseta
Dr. Khalid Al-Ali is a Senior Fellow and Director of Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University’s west coast campus. He is also the President and CEO of Senseta, a robotic sentry and patrol platform provider for the security industry. At both NASA Ames Research Center and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratories (JPL), he has been the principal investigator, project lead, and senior scientist on key projects involving advanced control sytems, intelligent avionics, novel power systems, planetary rovers and robots, spacecraft, and autonomous exploratory vehicles for Lunar, Martian, and Antarctic missions. He also serves as a member and principal test pilot for unmanned aerial vehicles for NASA Ames’ Intelligent Avionics Program. He founded the Carnegie Mellon Innovation Laboratory (CMIL) and directs its activities, where he is leading efforts to create compact, highly capable mobile autonomous vehicles covering ground, air and space operations. Some of these platforms are already used by NASA Ames and NASA JPL as research test beds for NASA-relevant technologies and educational tools to excite students about robotics, science and engineering. Dr. Al-Ali holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.
Robert Capps
Senior Editor
Wired Magazine
Robert Capps has been covering technology for over 10 years. He is currently a Senior Editor at Wired magazine, where he edits news and feature stories. Robert is considered the publication’s go-to-guy on robotics, last penning Wired’s February cover article “The 50 Greatest Robots of All Time.” Previously he was the magazine’s Products Editor, responsible for tracking consumer electronics, toys, and other cool gear. Before coming to Wired, Robert was the Editor-in-Chief of MacAddict magazine.
Jason Morella
Regional Director
FIRST – For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology
As a Regional Director for FIRST, Jason works with local planning committees and sponsors to help plan and organize Regional Robotics Competitions in California, the Pacific Northwest and Arizona. Jason also assists schools in the Western United States to implement the FIRST Robotics Competition program and helps provide guidance, resources and training for teachers to include it in their curricula. He has integrated the FIRST program into a continuation school (schools for at risk-students removed from other city high schools due to drug use, gangs, poor attendance or performance, etc) and was the recipient of the 1998-1999 San Jose Unified School District Teacher of the Year award.
Warren Packard
Managing Director
Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Warren Packard is a Managing Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He currently serves on the Boards of 422 inc., Anagran, BinOptics, Eoplex, Imago Scientific Instruments, Media Lario, Ooma and Xfire. Mr. Packard also led the firm’s investments in Feedburner , Hypernex, Microfabrica, Primet Precision Materials, Chilisoft (acquired by Sun Microsystems), Digital Impact (NASDAQ: DIGI), Direct Hit Technologies (acquired by Ask Jeeves), Enviz (acquired by Keynote Systems), Fogdog Sports (acquired by Global Sports), and NetMind (acquired by Puma Technology).
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Packard co-founded Angara Database Systems, a main-memory relational database company, which was acquired by Personify. Prior to Angara, he was an Associate at Institutional Venture Partners, investing in early-stage technology companies. Before IVP, Mr. Packard was a Senior Principal Engineer in the New Business and Advanced Product Development Group at Baxter International. In this position, he led professionals from product development, marketing, and manufacturing in the design and manufacture of next-generation kidney dialysis machines. During his tenure at Baxter, Mr. Packard received a number of domestic and international patents for his engineering work – including designs of silicon-based micro-electromechanical systems. Mr. Packard is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University and holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering: Smart Product Design. He received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.

Ad Model Madness: How to Monetize New Media Channels and Make Ad Revenue Real
2006-05-16 18:00 - 20:30 | CA
Ad Model Madness
How to Monetize New Media Channels and Make Ad Revenue Real

Speaker:
Jason Feinsmith, CEO and Co-Founder,
Accomplice
Robert A. Leathern, VP and GM,
Root Markets
Moderator:
Mark Kvamme, Partner,
Sequoia Capital
Panelist:
John Cate, Vice President, National Media Director,
Carat Fusion
Philip J. Kaplan, CEO,
AdBrite
Gokul Rajaram, Product Management Director, Google AdSense,
Google
Event Description:
Several innovative startups will participate as this forum delves into examining a range of ad-driven business models that are tapping emerging media channels from mobile phones, to the desktop, to advertising marketplaces. Attendees will receive an overview of a wide-range of companies in this space and will hear from two featured companies whose founders will discuss novel ways to turn profits in the new media sector.
Over the past few years, the market has seen a proliferation of new media channels go mainstream. From blogging to online video, to podcasting, to mobile TV and gaming, these emerging media channels present new avenues of distribution and revenue opportunities. Advertising is one of the primary streams of revenue that startups are hoping to monetize. With these waters still unchartered however, there remain many unknowns for all constituents involved from Madison Avenue, to the investor community, to entrepreneurs disrupting traditional advertising, to consumers who will ultimately decide which approaches win. Founders from the panel of startups will share their unique perspectives, invaluable insights and steps they are taking to make their ad model succeed. Experts will round out the panel to interject real-world perspective and advice to the entrepreneurs.

Speaker:
Jason Feinsmith
CEO and Co-Founder
Accomplice
Accomplice addresses a pervasive problem for 75 million professionals: how to manage all the things you and your team need to do to achieve your goals. Accomplice delivers a networked desktop application that organizes your activities (todo’s, goals, related notes) and synchronizes them with your team. In so doing, Accomplice captures the timely intent of its users, while offering a persistent channel for content delivery. Meanwhile, advertisers hunger to reach these same busy people via cost-effective and well-targeted channels. Accomplice accurately matches relevant ads from advertising networks with users based on their timely intent. Just as advertising via search is effective because it leverages what the user is searching for, activity advertising works because it leverages what the user needs to get done.
Accomplice was born out of fourteen years of iteration by CEO, Jason Feinsmith, addressing activity management problems. Prior to Accomplice, Jason Feinsmith was an executive at Silicon Storage Technology, a business unit manager at Xilinx, and at Intel, he was in sales and was part of the Intel Inside(r) program. He has a B.S. from Cornell University, and a CS Masters and MBA from Stanford University.
Robert A. Leathern CFA
VP and GM
Root Markets
Rob was a founding member of ROOT’s Advisory Board before joining the company full time in January 2006. Prior to joining ROOT, he was General Manager of Advertising at LinkedIn. At LinkedIn, Rob was responsible for all advertising strategy and revenues, and helped craft acquisition programs that increased LinkedIn’s global user base to over 5 million professionals. Rob worked as an investment banker in New York with ING Barings Furman Selz, and then spent four-and-a-half years as an Internet and technology analyst with Jupiter Research and Nielsen//NetRatings. He received the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) designation in 2003. During his time at Jupiter and Nielsen, Rob assisted clients with their online business strategies, revenue models, marketing and consumer adoption. As an industry commentator and thought leader he spoke at numerous events including before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and was frequently sought out by media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, CNBC, Bloomberg, Fortune and Business Week. In late 2003, he moved to NexTag where he drove multi-million dollar revenue increases in NexTag’s online consumer lead generation business, and designed and built leading-edge adserving and consumer marketing technologies. Rob received a B.S. in Computer Science and Economics from Dartmouth College.
Moderator:
Mark Kvamme
Partner
Sequoia Capital
Mark Kvamme is a Sequoia Capital US partner and focuses on services and software investments. He is currently a Director of AdBrite, Cast Iron Systems, EMN8, LinkedIn, Mark Logic, MotoSport.com, Popular Media and StrongMail Systems. He is also involved in portfolio companies including FON Wireless and PodShow. Previously, he had been a Director of Corvigo (acquired by Tumbleweed Communications) and Allocity (acquired by EMC Corporation). Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 1999, Mark was Chairman of USWeb/CKS and Chairman and CEO of CKS Group prior to the merger with USWeb. Earlier in his career Mark was a Director of International Marketing for Wyse Technology, the President and CEO of International Solutions, and was a founding member of Apple France. Mark has a B.A. in French Economics and Literature from the University of California at Berkeley.
Panelist:
John Cate
Vice President, National Media Director
Carat Fusion
John drives Carat Interactive’s media planning and buying services. These services include all forms of digital media as well as cross-media programs that include direct response elements of traditional vehicles. His focus has been on a number of Carat’s larger clients including Kodak, Ofoto and TiVo. John spearheaded the launch of Carat Interactive’s blogging practice and is working closely with clients to determine how best to integrate blogging into their overall marketing programs. He oversees Carat’s behavioral marketing practice, combining pre-marketing segmentation and post site visit re-targeting. Ultimately the practice will merge the behavioral offerings of several major providers, providing a single-source publisher agnostic resource for behavioral targeting.
John has almost 20 years of traditional and online media experience working with major agencies including McCann-Erickson, Chiat Day and Leftfield LLP. His clients have included Sun Microsystems, Nestle Beverage Company, multiple divisions of SBC, Levi’s, and Microsoft. He has a B.A. in Advertising from School of Journalism & Mass Communication, San Jose State University.
Philip J. Kaplan
CEO
AdBrite
As CEO of AdBrite, Philip J. Kaplan sets corporate strategy and oversees all operations and product offerings. Prior to founding AdBrite, Philip founded and sold several businesses, including PK Interactive, a software company that developed Web-based applications for clients including Toyota and Mead Paper. Philip also founded Fu**edcompany.com, which was Yahoo! and Rolling Stone’s Site-of-the-Year, and #6 in TIME Magazine’s “Best of 2000”. Previously, Philip held engineering and management roles at Booz-Allen & Hamilton and Think New Ideas. Philip is the bestselling author of F’d Companies: Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts (Simon & Schuster) and has a Bachelor of Science, cum laude, from Syracuse University.
Gokul Rajaram
Product Management Director, Google AdSense
Google
As Product Management Director for Google AdSense, Gokul Rajaram develops and implements the product strategy for Google AdSense, an advertising program that enables publishers to monetize their websites while making their site more useful for visitors. In this role, Rajaram’s duties include defining new features and enhancements to the AdSense program and working with engineering on implementation.
Earlier in his career, Rajaram was a Technical Lead at Juno Online, an early internet service provider that is now part of United Online, the second largest ISP in the US. At Juno, he was part of the team that developed Juno’s online advertising platform. Rajaram has also worked as a Software Engineer at Sun Microsystems, and as a Product Manager at Onetta, a telecom hardware company.
Rajaram earned his M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management, his M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin, and his B.Tech in Computer Science from the Indian institute of Technology, Kanpur, where he was awarded the President of India’s Gold Medal for being class valedictorian.

Concept-to-Company: Strategies for Swimming with the Sharks
2006-04-18 18:00 - 20:30 | CA
Concept-to-Company
Strategies for Swimming with the Sharks
Moderated by Ann Winblad

Speaker:
Jamie Lerner, Chairman and CEO,
Cittio
Moderator:
Ann Winblad, Co-founding Partner,
Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
Panelist:
Sandeep Johri, VP Strategy & Business Planning,
Hewlett-Packard Company
Deborah Magid, Director, Software Strategy,
IBM Venture Capital Group
Elisabeth Rainge, Director, Network Management,
IDC
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, co-founder of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Ann Winblad is a well-known and respected software industry entrepreneur and technology leader who has been chronicled in many national business and trade publications.
This year’s Concept-to-Company event will focus on the business formation of Cittio, a network management software company founded in 2001. No doubt, many people may question the viability for a startup to enter this mature market – where IBM, HP and other large companies own a majority share. Why would any VC decide to fund a start-up in this space?
Jamie Lerner, CEO of Cittio, will discuss how investors and entrepreneurs can find clever ways to disrupt a mature industry. Our panelists from HP and IBM will talk about how they hope to be nimble enough to foil that plan. Join us at our annual VLAB special event and let us know your insights about where the action will be.

Speaker:
Jamie Lerner
Chairman and CEO
Cittio
Jamie Lerner has over 13 years of experience in both software development and management of high growth companies. Currently, Mr. Lerner is the CEO of JJ Labs Inc., an enterprise software company that delivers WatchTower, a leading system monitoring and management tool. In 2001, Mr. Lerner founded JJ Labs to address the need for cost-effective, easy-to-use, enterprise management software that he found was not available in the industry while managing thousands of servers at XUMA.
In 1997, Mr. Lerner and long time friend Joe Cha founded XUMA, Inc. to serve the rapidly growing need for Internet services. At XUMA, Mr. Lerner served as Chairman of the Board, co-CEO and Chief Technology Officer. He and Mr. Cha raised over $50M of venture funding from top tier VCs Menlo Ventures, Dell Computer, Broadview Capital Partners, Intel, The CIT Group and IDG Ventures. Mr. Lerner and XUMA s management team grew XUMA to 340 employees and over $20M of annual revenues in just two years. XUMA served over 90 domestic and international customers, including Cannon, Logitec, Bristol Meyers Squib, Bayer, Boeing, Riverdeep, Chase H&Q, General Electric, PG&E and Aegis Insurance.
At XUMA, Mr. Lerner focused on building three business units, a product business, a managed services business and a professional services business. By 1999, he was managing over 200 software engineers located in San Francisco, Las Vegas and New York in addition to three data centers, housing over 10,000 computing devices, running 24×7 operations. In early 2001, as the need for Internet hosting services slowed down drastically, XUMA was sold to an adjacent competitor and ceased operations.
Prior to co-founding XUMA, he served for three years as Senior Software Architect and Product Manager at Platinum Technology, where he was responsible for leading a successful programming team that created SQL Station, the industry leading development tool for Oracle, Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server. Under Mr. Lerner’s management, SQL Station won two PC Week Lab Analyst awards and annual revenues grew from $40K to over $12M.
Prior to working at Platinum, he spent three years at Andersen Consulting as a Senior Consultant, where he specialized in building high productivity development environments, and created a developers’ toolkit for Andersen’s consultants to use in the field. While at Andersen Consulting, he worked with such notable customers as Pacific Gas & Electric and United Airlines.
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:
Sandeep Johri
VP Strategy & Business Planning
Hewlett-Packard Company
Sandeep Johri is Vice President of Strategy and Business Planning. Sandeep is responsible for the overall strategy, M&A, acquisition integration and the portfolio investment for the OpenView business unit, a ~$900M business. He is responsible for overall strategy of the software business and has been an instrumental part of the team that developed the “Adaptive Enterprise” strategy which has resulted in the OpenView business growing 2X of market over the last 3 years. During his tenure at HP, he has led the acquisition and successful integration of 8 software companies valued at ~$750M.
Prior to HP, Johri was an Executive-in-Residence at Mayfield Fund, a leading venture fund in Silicon Valley. Prior to that Johri was the CEO and Founder of Oblix, a leading provider of enterprise Identity Management solutions. Oblix was funded by leading Silicon Valley investors and was acquired by Oracle in 2005. In 1999, Johri co-founded eBoodle, an e-commerce comparison shopping service. Johri led the negotiations with various potential acquirers and successfully completed the acquisition of the company by BizRate (acquired by EW Scripps).
Prior to Oblix, Johri was with Silicon Graphics as staff to Ed McCracken, where he assisted McCracken in his responsibilities as co-chair of President Bill Clinton’s Information Infrastructure Advisory Council (NII). Prior to SGI, Johri was a principal with the technology and telecom practice at Gemini Consulting, an international management consulting company. He has an MBA from Stanford University, a Masters in Industrial Engineering from Wayne State University, Detroit, and Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Pune University, India.
Johri currently serves on the board of BlueLane (a Security startup), Livedeal (online local classifieds website) and Persistent Systems (outsourced software development company based in India) and as an advisor to several other startups.
Deborah Magid
Director, Software Strategy
IBM Venture Capital Group
Deborah Magid is Director of Software Strategy in IBM’s Venture Capital Group. Deborah builds ecosystems for IBM by sharing insights about emerging markets, technologies, and business models with venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. As a member of IBM’s software strategy team, she also brings insight form the venture community into the development of IBM’s growth strategies, identifies new business opportunities with portfolio companies, and shares views on innovation and growth areas of the market. Deborah is a frequent spokesperson on topics of relevance to entrepreneurs and investors, and is on the board of SDForum, the Silicon Valley emerging technology network. Previously, Deborah held various positions in marketing and product design and development at IBM, Taligent, GE and AT&T. Deborah holds degrees in cognitive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Connecticut.
Elisabeth Rainge
Director, Network Management
IDC
Elisabeth Rainge is Director of IDC’s Network Management and related network software programs. Ms.Rainge’s research and analysis of enterprise network as well as service provider infrastructure markets examines the challenges and opportunities of the business and technology upheavals that are facing and network and telecom management users and suppliers. This includes business service management as well as LAN/WAN operations. Her specific areas of coverage include service assurance, service delivery, management architectures and best practices such as ROI analysis.
Prior to joining IDC, Ms. Rainge was involved in product management, marketing and market research at an IDC customer.

From R&D to ROI: Building a Sustainable Bio-Nano Products Company
2006-03-21 18:00 - 20:30 | CA
From R&D to ROI
Building a Sustainable Bio-Nano Products Company

Speaker:
David Macdonald, President & CEO,
Nanomix, Inc.
Moderator:
Faysal Sohail, Managing Director,
CMEA Ventures
Panelist:
Wasiq Bokhari, Managing Partner,
Quantum Insight
Michael Knapp, President & CEO,
Cambrios Technologies
Srinivas Rao, CEO & CTO,
Molecular Nanosystems, Inc.
Event Description:
Transforming a start-up culture focused on fundamental R&D into a market-focused product commercialization culture is a daunting challenge faced by many early-stage companies operating at the convergence of biotechnology and nanotechnology. There are so many potential opportunities to explore, and such a wide variety of challenges to manage. Creating well-defined products matched to real market needs requires thoughtful discipline. Novel platform technologies and applications also require carefully crafted business models to ensure that the full value of an innovation is captured. Completing this transformation usually requires the introduction of new skill-sets into the company.
Nanomix is developing a pipeline of industrial and medical detection and sensing devices, based on its Sensation(tm) technology platform. These nanoelectronic devices use ultra-sensitive carbon nanotube detection elements combined with proprietary functionalization chemistries to achieve unprecedented detection sensitivity and specificity. Sensation devices can be deployed across a broad range of applications where the benefits of nanoelectronic technology – low power consumption, small form factor, and high sensitivity – offer breakthrough performance advantages and enable immediate access to critical information. Nanomix is located in Emeryville, California. For additional information, please visit the Nanomix web site at http://www.nano.com/.
David Macdonald, CEO, will discuss the transformation of Nanomix’s initial R&D culture into a commercial business, with a pipeline of innovative products coming to market. David will focus on how he’s laying the groundwork to consistently generate new products and new streams of revenue, the basis for long-term success. Topics will include the thought process that led to focusing on the medical sensor market, defining a business model that captures the full value of the technology platform, matching product and process strategies with opportunities and partners, and the personal challenges involved in leading the transition.
The event moderator and panelists have been chosen for their experience in both life sciences and nanotechnology, and with the convoluted process of transforming academic research breakthroughs into market-leading products. They will bring a range of informed and challenging perspectives to bear on the question of how to create a successful business in this complex space.

Speaker:
David Macdonald
President & CEO
Nanomix, Inc.
David Macdonald, joined Nanomix in March of 2004, bringing over 20 years of product development and commercialization experience. Mr. Macdonald has successfully built several high performance teams that achieved aggressive goals in technical product and service environments, developing and launching hundreds of products sold directly in the United States and Western Europe, and through independent distribution relationships worldwide. Mr. Macdonald served as President and COO of Nichols Institute Diagnostics (a division of Quest Diagnostics), as President and CEO of Progeny Systems and Medical Electronic Systems, in operational roles at Behring Diagnostics and Nova Biomedical, and most recently as the Senior VP of Global Operations and Business Development at Nanogen. Mr. Macdonald holds BS and BA degrees from Northeastern University, and an MBA degree from Babson College.
Moderator:
Faysal Sohail
Managing Director
CMEA Ventures
Faysal Sohail joined CMEA Ventures in 2002 as a Managing Director. CMEA focuses on companies that exploit exponential Moore’s Law trends to develop new technologies that provide order of magnitude improvements in specific application domains. Faysal is currently on the Board of Directors of Alien Technology, Applied Wave Research and Inovys. Before joining CMEA Mr. Sohail was CEO of Cadabra Design Automation, and managed its acquisition by Numerical Technologies, where he served as Sr. VP of Worldwide Field Operations. Previously, Faysal was Senior VP of Corporate Strategy for Synopsys. In 1990, he founded Silicon Architects, acquired by Synopsys in 1995. Earlier, Faysal worked in IC design engineering and marketing at Actel and LSI Logic. Mr. Sohail holds a BS in computer engineering from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) where he serves on the College of Engineering Advisory Board.
Panelist:
Wasiq Bokhari PhD
Managing Partner
Quantum Insight
Wasiq is a co-founder of Quantum Insight, where he works with Fortune 500 clients to commercialize materials and nanotechnology with applications in energy, IT and medicine. Wasiq also works with entrepreneurs, start-ups and venture funds to help emerging nanotechnologies cross the valley of death. Before Quantum Insight, he was a co-founder and Senior VP of Products at Clickmarks, an enterprise infrastructure software company, acquired by Semotus Solutions. Wasiq received his PhD in physics from MIT, where he studied under Nobel laureate Jerome Friedman, and participated in discovering the top quark particle at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in 1995. He is an author of more than 50 scientific and technical publications, and is cited as an inventor on 8 US patents. Wasiq co-authored a recent report on the potential of nanotechnology for the California Commission for Science and Technology (CCST), and is a co-founder and Steering Committee Chair of the MIT-Stanford-Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum. Wasiq currently works with the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology on issues related to energy.
Michael Knapp PhD
President & CEO
Cambrios Technologies
Dr. Knapp is a scientist and entrepreneur who has helped grow several companies from the R&D stage to commercial success. Prior to joining Cambrios, Dr. Knapp co-founded Caliper Technologies (now Caliper Life Sciences), where he played an integral role in the creation and development of the company. As VP of Corporate Development he configured the company’s technology access program and drove the creation of partnerships with larger pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. He also created the Applications Developer Program that enabled applications of Caliper’s microfluidic technology in other fields. In addition, Dr. Knapp co-founded Amphora Discovery Corp., a chemical genomics company that was spun out of Caliper with independent funding and management. Before starting Caliper, Dr. Knapp served as President and Scientific Director at Molecular Tool, Inc., a genetics technology company that he co-founded. Previously, Dr. Knapp was on the staff of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior at Columbia University and was Scientific Director of Genetica SARL, an affiliate of Rhone Poulenc SA. Dr. Knapp holds a B.S. in Biology from Trinity College (Hartford) and a Ph.D. in Medical Microbiology from Stanford University.
Srinivas Rao PhD
CEO & CTO
Molecular Nanosystems, Inc.
Dr. Rao has over 20 years of product development and commercialization experience in the electronics industry. Prior to Molecular Nanosystems, he served as VP of Technology at Solectron, where his responsibilities included product development and deployment of support programs in engineering design, test and assembly. Previously, he held senior technical positions at Raychem, Eastman Kodak Labs, and RCA Labs. He has received numerous honors including EP&P’s Engineer of the Year (2000) and the ‘Outstanding Achievement Award’ at RCA. Dr. Rao holds six issued patents and has authored several papers. He serves on the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Nanotechnology (BRTFN), a joint federal-state venture to promote California as a national and worldwide center for research, development, and commercialization of nanotechnology. Dr. Rao holds a BS in metallurgy from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, and MS and PhD degrees in metallurgy and materials science from the Stevens Institute of Technology.
