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SUMMARY:From R&D to ROI: Building a Sustainable Bio-Nano Products Company
DESCRIPTION:From R&D to ROI \nBuilding a Sustainable Bio-Nano Products Company \n\nSpeaker:\nDavid Macdonald\, President & CEO\,\nNanomix\, Inc.\nModerator:\nFaysal Sohail\, Managing Director\,\nCMEA Ventures\nPanelist: \nWasiq Bokhari\, Managing Partner\,\nQuantum Insight\nMichael Knapp\, President & CEO\,\nCambrios Technologies\nSrinivas Rao\, CEO & CTO\,\nMolecular Nanosystems\, Inc.\nEvent Description: \nTransforming 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. \nNanomix 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/. \nDavid 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. \nThe 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. \n \nSpeaker:\nDavid Macdonald \nPresident & CEO\nNanomix\, Inc. \nDavid 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. \nModerator:\nFaysal Sohail \nManaging Director\nCMEA Ventures \nFaysal 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. \nPanelist:\nWasiq Bokhari PhD \nManaging Partner\nQuantum Insight \nWasiq 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. \nMichael Knapp PhD \nPresident & CEO\nCambrios Technologies \nDr. 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. \nSrinivas Rao PhD \nCEO & CTO\nMolecular Nanosystems\, Inc. \nDr. 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.
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SUMMARY:The Next Wave of Web 2.0: Is AJAX Where the Action is?
DESCRIPTION:The Next Wave of Web 2.0: Is AJAX Where the Action is? \n\nSpeaker:\nScott Dietzen\, President and CTO\,\nZimbra\nModerator:\nOm Malik\, Senior Writer at Business 2.0\,\nGigaom\nPanelist: \nLarry Augustin\, Chairman\,\nVA Software\nSam Ramji\, Director\, Emerging Business\,\nMicrosoft\nPradeep Tagare\, Senior Investment Manager\,\nIntel Capital\nEvent Description: \nVCs and entrepreneurs are talking about a “funding frenzy” in the AJAX powered applications space. What is AJAX? It is the special sauce behind a new generation of rich internet applications such as Google Maps\, Yahoo’s Flickr\, and a plethora of emerging Web 2.0 applications. \nWhile some technology pundits are dismissing AJAX as nothing but a cool technology that enables web applications to act like desktop applications\, others are claiming that there is more to AJAX then enhanced user interfaces. Many of the emerging AJAX companies have adopted disruptive business models that have successfully displaced incumbents’ offerings. \nCome and hear several break-out companies\, including Zimbra\, which are on the cutting-edge of Web 2.0. The panel will explore the source of value in AJAX\, the viability of new business models\, and the impact on software and user experience. \n \nSpeaker:\nScott Dietzen PhD \nPresident and CTO\nZimbra \nPrior to Zimbra\, Scott was CTO of BEA Systems where he was the principal architect of the technology strategy for the WebLogic product family\, which drove the company from $61 million in revenue for the year prior to WebLogic’s acquisition to over $1 billion. He was also one of BEA’s top spokespersons with customers\, business partners\, analysts\, and the press. Scott came to BEA in 1998 via the $200+ million acquisition of WebLogic\, a pioneer in Java and web application technology. He is widely credited with helping put together the J2EE standard\, launching the Web application server category\, launching the Java Community Process\, and driving the web services collaboration with Microsoft and IBM. Prior to WebLogic\, Scott was Principal Technologist for Transarc (acquired by IBM)\, a developer of distributed transaction and information sharing systems. In addition to working on Internet infrastructure since 1991\, Scott has managed teams focused on sales\, marketing\, product management\, and standards. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. \nModerator:\nOm Malik \nSenior Writer at Business 2.0\nGigaom \nOm is a senior writer for Business 2.0 magazine in San Francisco since 2003. Prior to that Om was a senior writer for Red Herring focusing on the telecommunications sector. Om has often appeared on several television shows such as Business Week Television (on ABC Network); BBC Television & Radio; CNNfn; CNBC and TechTV. He maintains a highly regarded blog on the next generation internet. \nHis first book\, Broadbandits: Inside the $750 billion telecom heist\, was released on May 15\, 2003. Before joining Red Herring in July 2000\, Om was part of the founding team of Forbes.com where he was a senior editor. His writings have also appeared in newspapers and magazines such as The Wall Street Journal\, Business 2.0\, Brandweek\, and Crains\, New York Business. In 1999\, Om left Forbes.com to join Hambrecht & Quist Asia Pacific as an investment manager\, thus crossing over into the venture capital business. \nOm graduated from St. Stephens’ College in New Delhi with an honors degree in chemistry in 1986. Om has also contributed to several Indian publications including the Economic Times and The Week\, India’s leading news weekly. \nPanelist:\nLarry Augustin \nChairman\nVA Software \nLarry Augustin\, CEO\, founded VA Software in 1993 as a PhD student in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. A strong advocate of collaborative software development\, Augustin was the visionary behind SourceForge.net \, which quickly became the world’s largest Open Source development Internet site following its launch in November 1999. Augustin serves on the board of directors for OSDL\, the Open Source Development Lab\, and Linux International. Prior to VA Software\, Augustin was a research associate in the Program Analysis and Verification Group (PAVG) at Stanford University where he worked on rapid prototyping languages\, software engineering\, hardware verification\, and software prototyping environments. Prior to Stanford\, he worked as a systems engineer on high-speed switched digital services at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Larry Augustin holds a PhD and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University\, and a BSEE from the University of Notre Dame. \nSam Ramji \nDirector\, Emerging Business\nMicrosoft \nSam is responsible for building alliances with venture capital firms and their portfolio companies in the Software as a Service and Application Development domains\, covering Open Source Software\, AJAX\, and emerging technologies. He focuses on identifying synergy with VC-funded portfolio companies and partnering with them to develop and market offerings complementary to the Microsoft platform. \nPrior to joining Microsoft\, Sam was Director of Business Development at BEA Systems in the WebLogic Integration division\, where he helped drive the business from $20 to $100M revenue. Sam has worked at 5 startups\, including Ofoto (now Kodak)\, where he was Director of Engineering\, leading the web and middleware teams. Sam has developed desktop\, server\, and web applications in COM/DCOM and J2EE on Windows\, Unix\, and Macintosh. \nSam holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Cognitive Science from the University of California at San Diego. \nPradeep Tagare \nSenior Investment Manager\nIntel Capital \nPradeep is a Sr. Investment Manager at Intel Capital focusing on investments in the enterprise software space. Prior to Intel Capital\, Pradeep was the Founder/CEO and later VP Products at Yopa Inc\, a venture-backed company that developed a mobile applications software platform. Yopa was acquired by XDrive Technologies in 2001. Pradeep served as VP Product Management at XDrive after the acquisition. \nBefore Yopa\, Pradeep was instrumental in BroadVision’s early success by driving the Financial Services product line. Pradeep honed his technical skills in the software division of Intel Corp developing large scale distributed computing applications\, and at Inference Corp. developing carrier-grade expert systems applications. \nPradeep holds a MSEE from the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, and a BEEE from the University of Bombay\, India. \nPradeep is a member of Kauffman Fellows Class 10 and is currently serving his fellowship under mentor Keith Larson at Intel Capital in Santa Clara\, CA.
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SUMMARY:User-Generated Content and the Future of Media
DESCRIPTION:User-Generated Content and the Future of Media \n\nSpeaker:\nEvan Williams\, CEO\,\nOdeo\, Inc.\nModerator:\nRandy Haykin\, Founder and Managing Director\,\nOutlook Ventures\nPanelist: \nJim Barton\, Co-founder\, CTO\, and Senior Vice President of Tivo\,\nTiVo Inc.\nDavid Hornik\, General Partner\,\nAugust Capital\nGary Stein\, Senior Analyst\,\nJupiter Research\nEvent Description: \nThe internet has evolved into a realm where people are not only consuming media content\, but also participating in creating content. The availability of online connectivity and simple content creation tools are putting media power in the hands of consumers. User generated content\, such as podcasting\, blogging\, and video-blogging\, has emerged as a vastly growing market. \nWith few technical and regulatory limitations\, people are busy creating content to publish on the internet. Many entrepreneurs are making bets that content created by consumers is a viable and sustainable business model. \nLeaders in this space will join a panel to discuss what the market is witnessing and the emerging business models. In addition\, key uncertainties will be discussed such as issues of quality control and the affect on traditional media outlets. \n \nSpeaker:\nEvan Williams \nCEO\nOdeo\, Inc. \nEvan Williams is the co-founder and CEO of Odeo\, Inc. — a new company focused on giving people new ways to record and share audio. In 1999\, as CEO of Pyra Labs\, he co-created Blogger.com\, one of the first blogging tools\, and helped define the blogging phenomenon. Evan sold Pyra Labs to Google in 2003\, where he served as a product and engineering manager until October 2004. In 1994\, Evan started his first Internet company\, in Nebraska\, where he grew up amongst the cornfields. He now lives in San Francisco with his girlfriend and her cat and can be found on the web at evhead.com. \nModerator:\nRandy Haykin \nFounder and Managing Director\nOutlook Ventures \nRandy Haykin is a founder and Managing Director of Outlook Ventures\, an\nearly-stage software-focused fund he established in 1996. For the past\nnine years he has been investing in software firms in the consumer\,\nenterprise and infrastructure sectors. He led the firms early\ninvolvement at Overture\, and has represented Outlook on the Boards of Reconnex\, Loyalty Lab Bridgestream\, NetBrowser Communications\, nSite Software\, Impulse Network (acquired by Inktomi ” N: IKTM)\, eTeamz (merged with Active Networks)\, Voquette (merged with Semagix)\, Qbiquity (acquired by Collabrys) and\, Logilent (merged with Toolwire\, Inc). Much of Randy’s work as a VC has been in the area of user-generated content\, including hands-on work with Yahoo\, AOL Greenhouse\, SBC @Hand service\, Electric Minds\, eCircles\, Active Networks\, and Classmates.com. \nPrior to Outlook\, Haykin held various senior sales and marketing positions in the high technology arena over the past 19 years with high-profile companies such as Yahoo!\, Viacom\, Paramount\, BBN\, IBM\, and Apple Computer. \nRandy served as the founding Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Yahoo!\, where he was responsible for building the company’s marketing team\, establishing agency relationships and generating initial business model and advertising sales for Yahoo. Haykin served as interim VP Marketing at NetChannel\, which was successfully acquired by America Online in 1998. He has also served as part of the core team that launched America Online’s Greenhouse\, a successful venture incubator. \nHaykin holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Organizational Studies from Brown University\, magna cum laude\, and an MBA from Harvard’s Graduate School of Business. He is the author of “Demystifying Multimedia” (Random House\, 1993). Randy enjoys “soccer-parenting”\, playing the guitar and family outings with his wife\, Patty and three daughters\, Elise\, Julianna and Kayla. He is on the Governing Board of Opportunity International\, a non-profit that provides micro-loans for 3rd World countries and the Board of the American Cancer Society. \nPanelist:\nJim Barton \nCo-founder\, CTO\, and Senior Vice President of Tivo\nTiVo Inc. \nAt TiVo\, Jim sets the technical vision for the company\, including our product\, service and partnership roadmaps. In addition to responsibility for all product development\, his special area of emphasis is on the software and digital video streaming technologies behind the TiVo Service. \nPrior to co-founding TiVo\, Jim was President and CEO of Network Age Software\, Inc.\, a company he founded to develop software products targeted at managed electronic distribution. The concepts he developed at Network Age form the foundation of the TiVo Personal TV Service. \nJim began his executive career at SGI\, holding a position as Vice President and General Manager of the Systems Software Division\, and continued with executive roles in both operational management and R&D organizations within the company. While at SGI\, he became the lead system software architect of the Full Service Network in Orlando\, Florida\, in which he worked to develop the only large-scale interactive television system to be put into operational service. He also served as CTO of Interactive Digital Solutions Company\, a joint venture of Silicon Graphics and AT&T Network Systems created to develop interactive television systems. \nPrior to joining SGI\, Jim held technical and management positions at Hewlett-Packard and Bell laboratories in the areas of operating system and networking technology and product development. Jim holds a B.S.E.E. and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder. \nDavid Hornik \nGeneral Partner\nAugust Capital \nDavid Hornik is a General Partner with August Capital. He invests broadly in information technology companies\, with a focus on consumer-facing software and services\, enterprise applications and infrastructure software. Prior to joining August Capital\, Hornik was an intellectual property and corporate attorney at Venture Law Group\, Cravath Swaine & Moore\, and Perkins Coie LLP. Hornik teaches business and law at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and writes about the venture capital industry in VentureBlog. Hornik sits on the board of Six Apart and has been an investor in or advisor to When.com\, Evite\, Ofoto and Tickle\, among other user-generated content services. \nGary Stein \nSenior Analyst\nJupiter Research \nMr. Stein is the Senior Analyst for online advertising and marketing for Jupiter Research; he also focuses on the Consumer Packaged Goods industry. Topics that Stein covers include advertising formats\, rich-media\, media purchasing tactics\, marketing strategies\, and consumer behavior online. \nMr. Stein writes a column on marketing for the online journal ClickZ and maintains a Weblog covering online marketing trends. He has appeared on CNN\, in The Wall Street Journal\, and in many newspapers and trade journals. He also teaches a class at San Francisco State on strategic interactive marketing and design. \nPrior to joining Jupiter Research\, Mr. Stein worked as the Senior Strategist at Red Sky\, an interactive marketing and advertising agency\, where his clients included Procter & Gamble\, The Coca-Cola Company\, Lands’ End\, and Nike. Before Red Sky\, he worked at Poppe Tyson. Hen started his career at Mactivity\, Inc.\, a firm focused on tradeshows and publications targeting the then-emerging interactive services market. \nMr. Stein holds a B.A. in English and M.A. in American Literature from California State University at Chico\, and currently lives in San Francisco.
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SUMMARY:A Brave New (Virtual) World: Commerce and Community in Virtual Societies
DESCRIPTION:A Brave New (Virtual) World \nCommerce and Community in Virtual Societies \n\nSpeaker:\nPhilip Rosedale\, Founder & CEO\,\nLinden Lab\nModerator:\nF. Randall Farmer\, Virtual Worlds Pioneer & Community Strategist for Yahoo!\, Inc.\,\nYahoo!\nPanelist: \nBill Gurley\, General Partner\,\nBenchmark Capital\nWill Harvey\, CEO\,\nIMVU\nJob Lawrence\, Product Manager\, Market Intelligence\,\nIGN Entertainment (Div. of Fox Interactive)\nEvent Description: \nTo an increasing degree\, personal self-expression and social interaction are migrating from the physical world to on-line virtual worlds. By breaking down geographic limitations and providing greater control of how one is perceived by other users\, virtual societies have proven an increasingly appealing environment for social interaction. \nNumerous business models have emerged to capitalize on this virtual interaction and character personalization. Key questions this panel will explore include what opportunities exist to monetize this shift\, what are the underlying social implications for increasingly living in virtual worlds\, and what tensions are likely to arise as a larger percentage of social interaction and commerce moves to the virtual domain? \n \nSpeaker:\nPhilip Rosedale \nFounder & CEO\nLinden Lab \nPhilip Rosedale has an extensive background in the development and pioneering of streaming technology\, having built his first computer in 4th grade\, and started his first computer software company while still in high school. In 1995 he developed FreeVue\, a low-bitrate video conferencing system for Internet-connected PC’s\, resulting in the acquisition of his company in early 1996 by RealNetworks. For 3 1/2 years\, Rosedale served at RealNetworks as Vice President and CTO\, where he was responsible for the development and launch of RealVideo\, RealSystem 5.0\, and RealSystem G2. In 1999 Rosedale returned to San Francisco\, joined Accel Partners as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence\, and began the basic research that would become the technology behind Linden Lab. Rosedale holds a BS degree in Physics from the University of California at San Diego. \nModerator:\nF. Randall Farmer \nVirtual Worlds Pioneer & Community Strategist for Yahoo!\, Inc.\nYahoo! \nFor more than 30 years\, Randy has been connecting people with each other\nusing computers as the mediating technology. He co-created: one of the\nfirst forums\, the first Trek MUD\, the first graphical MMOG with the\nfirst avatars\, the first virtual MMOG currency\, the first virtual\ninformation marketplace\, the first fully distributed virtual world\nplatform\, the first no-plugin web session platform\, Yahoo’s 360 project\,\nand more. \nPanelist:\nBill Gurley \nGeneral Partner\nBenchmark Capital \nBill Gurley joined Benchmark Capital in 1999 after spending two years as a partner with Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Before entering the venture capital business\, Bill spent four years on Wall Street as a top-ranked research analyst\, including three years at CS First Boston focusing on personal computer hardware and software. His research coverage included such companies as Dell\, Compaq\, and Microsoft\, and he was the lead analyst on the Amazon IPO. In both 1995 and 1996\, Bill was a member of the Institutional Investor All-American Research Team. \nPrior to his investment career\, Bill was a design engineer at Compaq Computer\, where he worked on products such as the 486/50 and Compaq’s first multi-processor server. Before Compaq\, he served in the technical marketing group of Advanced Micro Devices’ embedded processor division. For the past seven years\, Bill has authored the Above the Crowd newsletter which focuses on the evolution and economics of high technology businesses. \nInvestments: Avamar Technologies\, Business.com\, Crossgain (acquired by BEA Systems)\, Engim\, JAMDAT (JMDT)\, Linden Lab\, OpenTable\, Nanosolar\, Nordstrom.com (acquired by Nordstrom)\, Shopping.com (SHOP)\, Tropos Networks\, and Zillow.com\, Inc. \nOther Affiliations: Advisory board of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas. \nEducation: MBA from the University of Texas\, 1993; and a BS in computer science from the University of Florida\, 1989. Chartered Financial Analyst. \nAbove the Crowd\n“The Revolutionary Business of Multiplayer Gaming”\nhttp://www.abovethecrowd.com/atc/2004/10/the_revolutiona.html \nWill Harvey \nCEO\nIMVU \nWill Harvey is the Founder and CEO of IMVU\, the maker of the world s greatest 3D instant messenger and also the Founder of www.there.com\, the maker of the first 3D virtual world for socializing online. Will has an academic background in computer science and search\, a professional background in networking software\, and an artistic background in video game development\, stretching back to when he wrote a world wide best selling video game at the age of 15. \nBefore founding There\, Will ran the dynamic media products at Adobe Systems\, including AfterEffects and Adobe Premier\, the world’s leading video editing program. Will came to Adobe when Adobe acquired Will’s previous company\, Sandcastle\, which Will had founded to develop network technology to enable low latency interaction over the internet. Prior to Sandcastle\, Will served as Vice President of Engineering at Rocket Science Games in San Francisco\, where he led the company’s transition from full motion video based games to games focused on\ninteractivity. \nDuring school\, Will founded and ran several successful game development companies while simultaneously earning his Bachelor’s\, Master’s and Doctorate degrees in computer science from Stanford. Will’s doctoral thesis introduced several important search algorithms that are now used commercially in manufacturing scheduling. Will’s game companies produced Platinum and Gold game titles including Zany Golf\, Immortal\, and Music Construction Set\, with combined sales of over a million units. Will has filed 8 patents related to networking\, graphics\, and automated scheduling. He wrote his first commercial video game\, Music Construction Set\, at the age of 15. \nJob Lawrence \nProduct Manager\, Market Intelligence\nIGN Entertainment (Div. of Fox Interactive) \nNot Available.
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SUMMARY:Extreme Telemedicine: Critical Care Goes Virtual
DESCRIPTION:Extreme Telemedicine: Critical Care Goes Virtual \n\nSpeaker:\nBrian Rosenfeld MD\, Co-founder\, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer\,\nVISICU\nModerator:\nMolly Coye\, Founder and CEO\,\nInstitute for the Future Health Technology Center\nPanelist: \nThomas McKinley\, Co-founder and Managing Partner\,\nPartech International\nArnold Milstein\, US Healthcare Thought Leader\,\nPacific Business Group on Health\nSean Wieland\, Managing director and Senior Research Analyst\,\nHealth Care IT at Piper Jaffray\nEvent Description: \nFuturistic visions of the use of information technology in medicine have been promoted for decades. In spite of this\, true innovations in the delivery of health care have only recently been introduced on a broader scale. Brian Rosenfeld M.D.\, co-founder of VISICU\, will present the technology and business model for the ultimate electronic ICU. The panel will explore where the next health care IT innovations will come from\, what obstacles stand in the way of their availability and what needs to be done to ensure that the use of information technology in medicine delivers on its promises. \n \nSpeaker:\nBrian Rosenfeld MD \nCo-founder\, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer\nVISICU \nDr. Rosenfeld has practiced critical care for more than fifteen years and is currently an adjunct associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine\, medicine­ and surgery at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. Prior to founding VISICU\, Dr. Rosenfeld was medical director of two critical care units at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He received the Shannon Award and grants from the National Institutes of Health for his research on stress-induced changes in blood coagulation­ and he was principal investigator on numerous ICU clinical research trials. He has published over fifty peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and numerous scientific abstracts. He developed the first application of a smart monitoring system that provides hospital-wide management of patients with myocardial ischemia and co-developed a comprehensive personnel and equipment triage system for evacuating critically ill soldiers for the U. S. Air Force. \nDr. Rosenfeld graduated magna cum laude\, special honors\, biology from the University of Pittsburgh in 1975. He graduated from Temple University School of Medicine in 1980 and then trained in internal medicine\, pulmonary medicine\, anesthesiology\, and critical care. He was selected chief resident while at Johns Hopkins during his anesthesiology and critical care fellowship. He has been inducted as a fellow in both the College of Critical Care Medicine and the College of Chest Physicians. \nModerator:\nMolly Coye MD\, MPH \nFounder and CEO\nInstitute for the Future Health Technology Center \nMolly Coye\, founder and CEO of the Health Technology Center (Health Tech)\, a not-for-profit research organization\, is a distinguished innovator and leader in both the public and private sectors of healthcare. HealthTech is dedicated to advancing the use of beneficial technologies for healthier people and communities. Through Dr. Coye’s oversight\, HealthTech provides its Partners with independent trusted information and tools about the impact of technologies in health care so that they may make appropriate decisions about advancing and improving their delivery systems. \nPrior to HealthTech\, Dr. Coye served as health director for two states\, executive in health delivery system and health software development firm\, and advisor to investors in emerging healthcare technologies\, has been leader looking for opportunities to innovate and improve healthcare. Dr. Coye is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) and most recently appointed to the American Hospital Association Board of Directors. \nDr. Coye is also a member of the Institute of Medicine\, was a member of the IOM Committee on the Quality of Healthcare in America\, and chaired the IOM Committee on Access to Insurance for Children. A former trustee of The California Endowment and the China Medical Board Dr. Coye has received a variety of honors. A sought after speaker\, Dr. Coye has presented to health care and hospital leadership as well as provided testimony for state and national government initiatives. \nFluent in Spanish and Chinese\, she has also served as a consultant with the World Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organization. Dr. Coye received both the Doctor of Medicine and Master of Public Health degrees from Johns Hopkins University. \nPanelist:\nThomas McKinley \nCo-founder and Managing Partner\nPartech International \nTom McKinley\, Managing Partner and Co-Founder \nTom is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Partech International and has over 25 years of investment experience with a successful track record of helping several entrepreneurs build successful technology companies. His past investments include Ascend Communications (ASND acq. by Lucent Technologies)\, Medicode (acq. by Ingenix) and VeriFone (PAY). Most recently Tom has led the firm’s investment activities in the healthcare IT and financial services sectors. \nHe also currently serves on the boards of U.C. Berkley’s Entrepreneurs Forum and the World Venture Summit. Tom is an active member of the Health Management Academy (HMA) and an active supporter of the University of San Francisco’s Entrepreneurship Program. As an alumnus\, Tom maintains close ties with Stanford Business School as well as Harvard University\, where he serves as class secretary. \nTom sits on the board of directors of current portfolio companies Decisionview\, Radianse and VISICU. \nTom received an undergraduate degree in Economics from Harvard University\, an MS in Accounting from New York University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. \nArnold Milstein MD\, MPH \nUS Healthcare Thought Leader\nPacific Business Group on Health \nArnie Milstein is the Medical Director at the Pacific Business Group on Health and the National Health Care Thought Leader at William M. Mercer Inc. His work focuses on improving managed care programs for large purchasers and government. \nDr. Milstein’s 30 book chapters and published articles have centered on managed care program design. A member of NCQA’s national committee to develop HEDIS and the Performance Measures Coordinating Committee\, Business Insurance magazine selected him as “one of the 20 people who has made a difference in employee benefits management in the past 20 years.” Last year’s New England Journal of Medicine’s series on employer sponsored health insurance described him as a “pioneer” in employer efforts to advance quality. \nIn January 2002 Dr. Milstein was named to the Strategic Advisory Council of the National Quality Forum (NQF). \nDr. Milstein holds a medical degree from Tufts University and a master’s degree in health services planning from the University of California\, Berkeley. He received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard University. He is an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of California\, San Francisco Medical Center and a Worldwide Partner at Mercer. \nSean Wieland \nManaging director and Senior Research Analyst\nHealth Care IT at Piper Jaffray \nSean Wieland is a managing director and a senior research analyst at Piper Jaffray\, focusing on health care information technology and health care services. Wieland has 13 years’ experience in health care information technology\, including six years on the sell-side. Prior to joining Piper Jaffray in 2005\, Wieland was a senior research analyst at WR Hambrecht and Prudential Securities. Prior to joining the sell-side\, he spent seven years in the industry\, working in multiple roles at IDX Systems Corporation\, most recently as a senior sales executive\, where he learned firsthand about the need for technology in the health care setting. Wieland earned his master’s degree in business administration and his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Vermont.
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SUMMARY:Vertical Search: Show Me The Money!
DESCRIPTION:Vertical Search: Show Me The Money! \n\nSpeaker:\nScott Rafer\, President and CEO\,\nFeedster\nModerator:\nBarney Pell\, EIR\,\nMayfield\nPanelist: \nPaul A. Flaherty\, VP Product/Strategy\,\nTalkPlus\nReid Hoffman\, CEO and Chairman\,\nLinkedIn\, Ltd\nDion Lim\, VP Business Development\,\nSimply Hired\nEvent Description: \nRemember the heydays of the first generation Internet search engines like InfoSeek and AltaVista and then of course\, our darling Google? Vertical Search is now one of the hot new topics buzzing around the Internet industry and the investment community today. It refers to specialized search technologies that focus on narrow niches like a specific industry such as travel or health or new Web-based communication tools like blogs. Users can much more effectively find what they are looking for – be it cheap plane tickets or to find out what the investor community thinks about a certain technology. Businesses have much more effective way to reach their target customers. But the big question\, as with first generation search\, is Where is the Money? Though there is no question that there is value for vertical search\, who is willing to pay for it? At the September 20th VLAB event\, Scott Rafer\, CEO of Feedster\, will present how his company is building a business around providing vertical search for listings\, news\, and blogs\, followed by a panel discussion moderated by Barney Pell\, Entrepreneur in Residence at the Mayfield. \n  \nPrimer: made available from Dave B. Hill\, President and CEO\, Looksmart\, Ltd.\nWhat is Vertical Search? It is a specialized search engine tha mines data for one narrow niche of the marketplace\, such as jobs\, travel or blogs. Because the data sources are so fragmented\, there seems to be an opportunity to massage the data and present it in a manner that is simple to use and easy to consume. \nDefinition:\nVertical search is about “providing essential (versus exhaustive) search content and related tools for people who have a passion\, need or repetitive task\,” says Dave Hills. \nBringing together two types of search: \nBroad search – need-based without knowledge or opinion of where to find information\, products or services; consumer needs to case a wide net. \nVertical search – still need-based\, but the consumer has knowledge and needs greater concentration in one form of results. \nVertical search is not new\, and has been around for a number of years\, starting with travel and real estate. The explosion of services recently is due to the ever growing amount of advertising dollars shifting to search marketing\, and the lower cost of development for new entrants. The space will be segmented by content or by audience\, and will leverage partially on technology and partially on human editors. These vertical search sites will also provide a valuable service for one aspect of life. \n  \n*Errata notice: We regret that the attribution for Dave Hills’ quote\, which was used in the flyer that we handed out at the September 20th event on Vertical Search\, was inadvertently omitted during the production process. The text of the primer has been corrected and we have added the text of the primer to this web site above. We have also made the correction on the flyer. We offer our sincere apologies to our esteemed colleague Dave Hills and his team at Looksmart\, Ltd. – Louise Velazquez\, Chair\, MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB)\, September 30\, 2005. \n \nSpeaker:\nScott Rafer \nPresident and CEO\nFeedster \nScott Rafer is President and CEO of Feedster\, a fast-growing blog search engine and advertising network. Feedster delivers more relevant\, and timely information by continuously collecting data from over 13 million RSS content feeds. Before Feedster\, Rafer co-founded WiFinder\, the Wi-Fi hotspot directory; BookBroadband\, the broadband hotel finder; Fresher Information\, RSS indexing way too early; and FotoNation\, a creator of connected photography solutions. Previously\, Rafer led the Internet products group at Kodak Hollywood and worked in investment banking at Needham & Company. For school\, Rafer graduated from the Management of Technology program at the University of Pennsylvania. \nModerator:\nBarney Pell PhD \nEIR\nMayfield \nDr. Barney Pell is currently an Entrepreneur in Residence at Mayfield\, a Venture Capital Firm based in Silicon Valley. He is exploring and evaluating early-stage companies in the areas of search\, information management\, human interfaces and social software. Prior to joining Mayfield\, Barney was Technical Area Manager for the 80-person Collaborative and Assistant Systems (CAS) area within the Computational Sciences Division at NASA Ames Research Center. Dr. Pell received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cambridge University in 1993\, where he was a Marshall Scholar\, and his B.S. degree in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University in 1989\, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and was a National Merit Scholar. From 1998 to 2000\, Dr. Pell was Chief Strategist and Vice-President of Business Development for StockMaster.com\, a provider of internet-based stock-market analysis tools. Dr. Pell helped StockMaster.com grow from $500\,000 to $5 million in revenue in 2 years\, when the company was acquired by Red Herring Communications in July\, 2000. From 2000 to 2002\, Dr. Pell was Vice President of Strategy for Whizbang! Labs. a provider of advanced text processing and search engine software. Whizbang created Flipdog\, an online recruiting site that automatically built the world’s largest jobs database extracted directly from corporate websites\, which was acquired by Monster.com. \nPanelist:\nPaul A. Flaherty PhD \nVP Product/Strategy\nTalkPlus \nPaul A. Flaherty\, Ph.D. received his doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1994\, for his work in computer architecture\, digital radio communications\, radio science and RF engineering. He is considered one of the world’s leading authorities on communications protocol design. After Stanford\, Dr. Flaherty joined Digital Equipment Corporation’s Network Systems Laboratory\, where he invented and managed the Alta Vista search engine\, generating over $4.5 Billion in value for DEC. Since then\, he has worked as a corporate strategist and management consultant both independently\, and for firms such as Zindigo and Accenture. Author of the forthcoming book\, “A Better Mousetrap: Corporate Strategy for Emerging Technology”\, Paul has delivered international keynotes for COMDEX\, Internet World\, DECUS\, and other trade shows in the US\, Canada\, Barbados\, Brazil\, Argentina\, Japan\, Australia\, Sweden\, Denmark\, Portugal\, and the Czech Republic. \nReid Hoffman \nCEO and Chairman\nLinkedIn\, Ltd \nReid Hoffman was previously EVP at PayPal (Nasdaq: PYPL)\, where he was in charge of all external relationships and payments infrastructure. Reid serves on the board of directors for Grassroots.com\, JumpStart Technologies\, Talk To The Future\, TreasureGames\, SixApart\, and the International Media Project and on the board of advisors for EZCab and WeAttract. He is an angel investor in Ironport\, Friendster and Nanosolar. Earlier in his career\, he worked at Apple Computer\, Fujitsu Software Corporation\, and SocialNet.com. He holds a B.S. in Cognitive Science from Stanford University and a Master’s in philosophy from Oxford University\, and won the Dinkelspiel Award and a Marshall Scholarship while at Stanford. \nDion Lim \nVP Business Development\nSimply Hired \nDion is the creative spark that plugs us in to the great companies and technology Silicon Valley has to offer. An experienced entrepreneur\, his resume reads like a short history of the Internet itself: co-founder of Epinions.com (now Shopping.com)\, COO at Chinese portal Sina.com\, Director of Biz Dev at Quote.com (now Lycos)\, co-founder of the “dot-com Petri dish” Round Zero\, marketing exec at Schwab (ok\, we’re pretty sure he’s making up so me of this stuff) and way back when: excel jockey at Morgan Stanley and due diligence grunt at H&Q. In fact\, the only startup we know he didn’t have a hand in is Initech… although he does have a certain penchant for red Swingline staplers.
URL:https://vlab.org/event/vertical-search-show-me-the-money/
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