VLAB

Enterprise 2.0: Revolution in Software Development and Delivery?
2006-10-17 18:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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.

The Next Wave of Web 2.0: Is AJAX Where the Action is?
2006-02-21 18:00 - 20:30 | CA
The Next Wave of Web 2.0: Is AJAX Where the Action is?

Speaker:
Scott Dietzen, President and CTO,
Zimbra
Moderator:
Om Malik, Senior Writer at Business 2.0,
Gigaom
Panelist:
Larry Augustin, Chairman,
VA Software
Sam Ramji, Director, Emerging Business,
Microsoft
Pradeep Tagare, Senior Investment Manager,
Intel Capital
Event Description:
VCs 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.
While 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.
Come 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.

Speaker:
Scott Dietzen PhD
President and CTO
Zimbra
Prior 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.
Moderator:
Om Malik
Senior Writer at Business 2.0
Gigaom
Om 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.
His 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.
Om 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.
Panelist:
Larry Augustin
Chairman
VA Software
Larry 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.
Sam Ramji
Director, Emerging Business
Microsoft
Sam 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.
Prior 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.
Sam holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Cognitive Science from the University of California at San Diego.
Pradeep Tagare
Senior Investment Manager
Intel Capital
Pradeep 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.
Before 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.
Pradeep holds a MSEE from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a BEEE from the University of Bombay, India.
Pradeep 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.

User-Generated Content and the Future of Media
2006-01-17 18:00 - 20:30 | CA
User-Generated Content and the Future of Media

Speaker:
Evan Williams, CEO,
Odeo, Inc.
Moderator:
Randy Haykin, Founder and Managing Director,
Outlook Ventures
Panelist:
Jim Barton, Co-founder, CTO, and Senior Vice President of Tivo,
TiVo Inc.
David Hornik, General Partner,
August Capital
Gary Stein, Senior Analyst,
Jupiter Research
Event Description:
The 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.
With 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.
Leaders 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.

Speaker:
Evan Williams
CEO
Odeo, Inc.
Evan 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.
Moderator:
Randy Haykin
Founder and Managing Director
Outlook Ventures
Randy Haykin is a founder and Managing Director of Outlook Ventures, an
early-stage software-focused fund he established in 1996. For the past
nine years he has been investing in software firms in the consumer,
enterprise and infrastructure sectors. He led the firms early
involvement 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.
Prior 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.
Randy 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.
Haykin 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.
Panelist:
Jim Barton
Co-founder, CTO, and Senior Vice President of Tivo
TiVo Inc.
At 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.
Prior 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.
Jim 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.
Prior 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.
David Hornik
General Partner
August Capital
David 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.
Gary Stein
Senior Analyst
Jupiter Research
Mr. 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.
Mr. 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.
Prior 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.
Mr. 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.

A Brave New (Virtual) World: Commerce and Community in Virtual Societies
2005-11-15 18:00 - 20:30 | CA
A Brave New (Virtual) World
Commerce and Community in Virtual Societies

Speaker:
Philip Rosedale, Founder & CEO,
Linden Lab
Moderator:
F. Randall Farmer, Virtual Worlds Pioneer & Community Strategist for Yahoo!, Inc.,
Yahoo!
Panelist:
Bill Gurley, General Partner,
Benchmark Capital
Will Harvey, CEO,
IMVU
Job Lawrence, Product Manager, Market Intelligence,
IGN Entertainment (Div. of Fox Interactive)
Event Description:
To 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.
Numerous 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?

Speaker:
Philip Rosedale
Founder & CEO
Linden Lab
Philip 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.
Moderator:
F. Randall Farmer
Virtual Worlds Pioneer & Community Strategist for Yahoo!, Inc.
Yahoo!
For more than 30 years, Randy has been connecting people with each other
using computers as the mediating technology. He co-created: one of the
first forums, the first Trek MUD, the first graphical MMOG with the
first avatars, the first virtual MMOG currency, the first virtual
information marketplace, the first fully distributed virtual world
platform, the first no-plugin web session platform, Yahoo’s 360 project,
and more.
Panelist:
Bill Gurley
General Partner
Benchmark Capital
Bill 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.
Prior 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.
Investments: 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.
Other Affiliations: Advisory board of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas.
Education: MBA from the University of Texas, 1993; and a BS in computer science from the University of Florida, 1989. Chartered Financial Analyst.
Above the Crowd
“The Revolutionary Business of Multiplayer Gaming”
http://www.abovethecrowd.com/atc/2004/10/the_revolutiona.html
Will Harvey
CEO
IMVU
Will 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.
Before 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
interactivity.
During 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.
Job Lawrence
Product Manager, Market Intelligence
IGN Entertainment (Div. of Fox Interactive)
Not Available.

Extreme Telemedicine: Critical Care Goes Virtual
2005-10-18 18:00 - 20:30 | CA
Extreme Telemedicine: Critical Care Goes Virtual

Speaker:
Brian Rosenfeld MD, Co-founder, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer,
VISICU
Moderator:
Molly Coye, Founder and CEO,
Institute for the Future Health Technology Center
Panelist:
Thomas McKinley, Co-founder and Managing Partner,
Partech International
Arnold Milstein, US Healthcare Thought Leader,
Pacific Business Group on Health
Sean Wieland, Managing director and Senior Research Analyst,
Health Care IT at Piper Jaffray
Event Description:
Futuristic 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.

Speaker:
Brian Rosenfeld MD
Co-founder, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
VISICU
Dr. 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.
Dr. 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.
Moderator:
Molly Coye MD, MPH
Founder and CEO
Institute for the Future Health Technology Center
Molly 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.
Prior 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.
Dr. 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.
Fluent 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.
Panelist:
Thomas McKinley
Co-founder and Managing Partner
Partech International
Tom McKinley, Managing Partner and Co-Founder
Tom 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.
He 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.
Tom sits on the board of directors of current portfolio companies Decisionview, Radianse and VISICU.
Tom 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.
Arnold Milstein MD, MPH
US Healthcare Thought Leader
Pacific Business Group on Health
Arnie 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.
Dr. 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.
In January 2002 Dr. Milstein was named to the Strategic Advisory Council of the National Quality Forum (NQF).
Dr. 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.
Sean Wieland
Managing director and Senior Research Analyst
Health Care IT at Piper Jaffray
Sean 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.

Vertical Search: Show Me The Money!
2005-09-20 18:00 - 20:30 | CA
Vertical Search: Show Me The Money!

Speaker:
Scott Rafer, President and CEO,
Feedster
Moderator:
Barney Pell, EIR,
Mayfield
Panelist:
Paul A. Flaherty, VP Product/Strategy,
TalkPlus
Reid Hoffman, CEO and Chairman,
LinkedIn, Ltd
Dion Lim, VP Business Development,
Simply Hired
Event Description:
Remember 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.

Primer: made available from Dave B. Hill, President and CEO, Looksmart, Ltd.
What 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.
Definition:
Vertical 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.
Bringing together two types of search:
Broad search – need-based without knowledge or opinion of where to find information, products or services; consumer needs to case a wide net.
Vertical search – still need-based, but the consumer has knowledge and needs greater concentration in one form of results.
Vertical 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.

*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.

Speaker:
Scott Rafer
President and CEO
Feedster
Scott 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.
Moderator:
Barney Pell PhD
EIR
Mayfield
Dr. 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.
Panelist:
Paul A. Flaherty PhD
VP Product/Strategy
TalkPlus
Paul 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.
Reid Hoffman
CEO and Chairman
LinkedIn, Ltd
Reid 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.
Dion Lim
VP Business Development
Simply Hired
Dion 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.
