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Gamify Everything: From Monetization to Social Benefit
2012-09-18 18:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Stanford GSB: Cemex Auditorium at the Knight Management Center, 655 Knight Way, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States
Gamify Everything – from Monetization to Social Benefit ***Video Available***

When:
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
6:00pm – 7:00pm: Networking and Refreshments
7:00pm – 8:30pm: Panel Discussion and Q&A
Where:
Cemex Auditorium at Knight Management Center (Parking and Directions)

Event Description:
In the 1964 classic Mary Poppins, the Bank’s children refuse to clean up the nursery, so what does Mary Poppins do… she turns the chore into a game of course! Companies across the globe are using this same approach to achieve customer loyalty, employee engagement, and even social benefit.
Humans are wired from birth to play games that are fun and engaging. Games provide motivation, ability, and trigger and feed our basic drive for self-accomplishment according to the Fogg Behavior Model.
We have already seen mobile, social, and simple online games entice hundreds of millions of people into the gaming world. Will the next wave of games incentivize us to accomplish goals outside of the fun of playing the game? Will gamification revolutionize customer engagement, alter the way we measure and motivate employees, or change the way we improve our health and educate our children?
Join us at the Stanford Graduate School of Business to Learn More.
Moderator:
Margaret Wallace, CEO and Co-Founder, Playmatics
Panelists:
Courtney Guertin, Co-Founder & CTO Kiip, Inc.
Rajat Paharia, Founder & Chief Product Officer of Bunchball
Amy Jo Kim, Founder & CEO of ShuffleBrain
Joshua Williams, Senior Software Design Engineer at Microsoft Corporation
Andrew Trader, Venture Partner at Maveron

Crowdfunding: Disrupting Traditional Funding Models
2012-06-19 18:00 - 20:30 | Stanford University: Li Ka Shing Center, 291 Campus Drive West, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States
Crowdfunding: Disrupting Traditional Funding Models
Uncovering the opportunities and risks hidden behind Crowdfunding…
When: Tuesday, June 19, 2012

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

Where:
Li Ka Shing Center
for Learning and Knowledge,
Stanford University

291 Campus Drive West

Stanford School of Medicine

Stanford, California 94305

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Event Description

Can your $1 contribution create a Big Business? YES, with crowdfunding.
$1.5 billion in 2011, crowdfunding is set to double this year [1]. Kickstarter and Indiegogo crowdfunded 60,000 projects: Half of the cash came as donations, while the other half came as an exchange for creative rewards or future product.
Now that the JOBS Act lets startups exchange Equity-for-Cash up to $1M per year, implementation will prove interesting. Crowdfunding has vined its way through informal social networking sites, and these continue to fuel the rapid growth of this new economic engine.

Will crowdfunding consume or complement existing capitalist models?
How will alternative funding models accelerate disruption?
Will it create massive opportunities for entrepreneurs and the economy overall?
What does it mean to give equity to individual consumers and what’s the impact on the company?
Will VC’s shy away from a Series A funding due to the startup’s early-stage crowdfunding?

[1] Crowdfunding Industry Report from Massolution study on crowdfunding platforms
Come join us as the panelists uncover the opportunities and risks hidden behind Crowdfunding!

Moderator
Carl Esposti, Founder at Crowdsourcing.org
Presenter
Slava Rubin, CEO & Co-Founder at Indiegogo
Panelists
Ryan Caldbeck, CEO, CircleUp
Daniel Zimmermann, Partner, WilmerHale
Don Ross, Managing Director/Founder and Board Member, HealthTech Capital and Sand Hill Angels

About 500 to 600 attendees at the event and only 1 hour of networking.
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Founders' Series: Startup Office Hours With SoftTechVC's Jeff Clavier
2012-05-22 18:00 - 20:30 | Palo Alto, CA
Startup Office Hours With SoftTechVC’s Jeff Clavier
VLAB Founders’ Series
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Palo Alto, CA
6:00 – 7:00pm Registration / Networking
7:00 – 8:30pm Program and Office Hours

Founder of a startup?
Not in an incubator?
Have questions or need advice?…from an experienced Silicon Valley luminary like a startup founder who has had a successful exit, a high profile CEO or a VC?
VLAB is launching a new series of events exclusively for startup founders using an office hours format but with the added benefit of being on center-stage so that all founders in attendance will get to hear all of the questions, responses, and insights.
Several founders will be chosen for six minutes each on the“hot seat”— a chance to ask the featured expert burning questions about your startup – and get brutally honest feedback, immediately!
This event is for current startup founders only and has a registration fee of $35.
Registration is Closed.

Additional information available here
Questions? Please email founders.series@vlab.org

NoSQL & Big Data: Scaling the Enterprise into the New Age
2012-05-15 18:00 - 20:30 | Stanford GSB: Cemex Auditorium at the Knight Management Center, 655 Knight Way, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States
NoSQL & Big Data: Scaling the Enterprise into the New Age

When:
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
6:00 – 7:00pm Networking and Refreshments
7:00 – 8:30pm Panel Discussion and Q&A
Where:

Stanford Graduate School of Business
CEMEX Auditorium at Knight Management Center
641 Knight Way, Stanford, CA
Map: PDF Download
Parking: Parking at Stanford is free in most places after 4 pm, but can be unpredictably busy. Allow extra time in your plans to find parking. Park only in “A”, “C”, or “Visitor” designated spots after 4pm. Prior to that, parking is by permit or payment only.
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Event Description:

0 to 50 million users in 50 days? Disruptive scaling is painless with NoSQL.
Even enterprises have taken notice. They are using the same technology that propelled Google, Facebook and Amazon to massive success by analyzing petabytes of data from sensors, social media and commerce demographics. Imagine: If power companies had real-time analytics from all the log files in the grid to improve response time in emergencies. Or if the sales team had insightful analytics about trouble tickets or other call center issues… before they got an escalation from their customer’s executives.
Worth of this ‘Big Data’ market is projected to reach $53 billion in five years, and NoSQL is open-source. How can startups cash in, and how will incumbents respond?
Come join the discussion and learn about:

What new analysis and business disruption can NoSQL and related technologies unlock in the enterprise market?
Is there more value to be made higher up the stack in an analysis software?
How do companies build successful businesses with open source software?
Can startups provide the same level of professional services and support expected from an enterprise vendor?

Panelists:

Robert Scoble, Startup Liaison Officer at Rackspace Hosting
James Phillips, Director, Co-Founder & Sr. VP, Products at Couchbase
Max Schireson, President at 10gen, the company that develops and supports MongoDB
Doug Cutting, Chairman of the Board of Directors at Apache Software Foundation, Founder of Hadoop
Andrew Mendelsohn, SVP, Database Server Technologies, Oracle
Ravi Mohan, Managing Director, Shasta Ventures

3D Printing: Personalized Production for the Mass Market
2012-04-17 18:00 - 20:30 | Oberndorf Event Center, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States
3D Printing: Personalized Production for the Mass Market ***Video Available***

When

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

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

Where

Stanford Graduate School of Business
Oberndorf Event Center, 3rd Floor, North Building
641 Knight Way, Stanford, CA
Map: PDF Download

Parking: Parking at Stanford is free in most places after 4 pm, but can be unpredictably busy. Allow extra time to find parking. Park only in “A”, “C”, or “Visitor” designated spots after 4pm. Prior to that, parking is by permit/payment only.
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Event Description

3D Printing is poised to become a part of our daily lives, allowing consumers to make things in a new era of mass customization. Once an expensive technology used by engineers, 3D printers today print car bodies, medical and dental prosthetics, high-fashion shoes and much more. Layer by layer, 3D printers deposit material to build up one-of-a-kind products, even with complex internal shapes.

Virtual marketplaces, cheaper printers and cloud-based consumer software are transforming the 3D Printing ecosystem, bringing the technology within the reach of everyone. With a current market size of $1.3 billion, the 3D printing industry is set to explode to $3.1 billion by 2016, according to industry consulting firm Wohlers Associates.

Join us and our industry leading panelists to understand business models and see the technology in action.
Some of the key questions we’ll explore include:

How are entrepreneurs using 3D printing to build profitable businesses?
Will the entrepreneurial opportunities be in designing, printing, materials, or tools?
Will consumers print at home or use cloud-based services?
Will 3D printing be a niche market or will it disrupt traditional manufacturing with personalized production?

ONLINE REGISTRATION IS CLOSED

Tickets will be available at the door.

Moderator:

Dale Dougherty, Co-Founder, O’Reilly Media; Editor & Publisher, MAKE Magazine

Panelists:

Peter Weijmarshausen, Founder & CEO, Shapeways
Rajeev Kulkarni, VP, General Manager, Consumer Solutions Business, 3D Systems, Creator of Cubify
Gonzalo Martinez, Director, Strategic Research, Office of the CTO, Autodesk
Philip Delamore, Director of Fashion Digital Studio, London College of Fashion, University of Arts London

Come experience leaders in the 3D space, demos by –

Converse

Shapeways

Autodesk

Bespoke Innovations

3D Systems/Cubify

Techshop

Made in Space

London College of Fashion, University of the Arts

OâReilly Media, Maker Faire

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The Uploaded Life: Personal Evolution through Self-Tracking
2012-03-20 18:00 - 20:30 | Stanford GSB: Cemex Auditorium at the Knight Management Center, 655 Knight Way, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States
The Uploaded Life ***Video Available***
Personal evolution through self tracking

When

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

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

Where

Stanford Graduate School of Business
CEMEX Auditorium at Knight Management Center

641 Knight Way, Stanford, CA
Map:
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Event Description

What happens when we add the power of Social/Mobile and always-on personal devices to the evolving health markets. Peer pressure (social reinforcement) and data tracking have significantly contributed to the success of the $11B self improvement and $55B weight loss markets. Legacy business such as Weight Watchers have relied on snippets of painstakingly input data. How will the game be changed when personal data goes from a drop in the bucket to an ocean?

Large companies, as well as, garage hackers are leveraging smaller, cheaper sensors and powerful mobile devices are accelerating the virtuous circle of goal setting, data collection, analysis and social motivation necessary to stimulate lasting and steady gains in health, sports performance or other areas of self evolution.

What new perspectives do start ups provide using sensors and on-line services, to disrupt and support the incumbents in self evolution and health? And, what is needed for break-out success?

What new opportunities will exist in widespread tracking?
How do you keep users engaged long enough to make meaningful changes?
Will a start-up create virality to accelerate growth, become a category killer?
What are the challenges of collecting and applying meaningful data?
What incentives are effective to encourage adoption outside of tracker enthusiasts and early adopters?
Can a single offering service survive or will those aggregating multiple data streams dominate?
Can these services grow on an ad based model or is a subscription necessary?
How are companies using social motivation to encourage consistent engagement and long term participation?

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Moderator:

Gary Wolf, Co-Founder, The Quantified Self & Editor, Wired Magazine

Panelists:

Rick Lee, CEO of Healthrageous
Mark S. Gainey, Co-Founder Strava, Inc
Leslie Ziegler, Creative Director, Rock Health
James Park, CEO & Co-Founder, Fitbit
Greg LeMond, Three-Time Winner of the Tour de France

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Silicon Valley's Youngest and Brightest Entrepreneurs
2012-02-21 18:00 - 20:30 | Oberndorf Event Center, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States
Silicon Valley’s Youngest and Brightest Entrepreneurs
…who are they and what endeavors are they pursuing?

When

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

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

Where

Stanford Graduate School of Business
Oberndorf Event Center, 3rd Floor, North Building

641 Knight Way, Stanford, CA

Map:
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Event Description
Each iteration of the Silicon Valley cycle begets a new generation of ideas and challenges; among them are the young and the bold.

For example, Peter Thiel’s “stop going to college and create a business” program has taken off early in 2011 with 24 fellows announced. These young minds are offered $100,000 and 2 years of freedom to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams.Join us for a discussion with some of the youngest and most promising minds to reveal their perspectives on the latest technology trends, building startups in the economic turmoil, and the challenges and opportunities associated with being a young entrepreneur.
Some of the key questions we’ll explore include:

How are today’s youngest entrepreneurs thinking about the current environment and where are they focusing their talents?
How can youth and “inexperience” be turned from a liability into an asset?
Isn’t there a risk in starting too young?

Our past panels on Young Entrepreneurs in
2009 and
2007 include knock-out, homerun startups.

Moderator:

Ram Shriram – Founder of Sherpalo Ventures

Panelists:

Daniel Gross – Co-Founder of Greplin.com
Matt MacInnis – Founder & CEO of Inkling.com
Eden Full – Founder of Roseicollis, a Thiel Fellow
Corey Reese – Co-Founder & CEO of Ness Computing

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Wearable Devices: The Next “Smart” Platform
2012-01-17 18:00 - 20:30 | Stanford GSB: Cemex Auditorium at the Knight Management Center, 655 Knight Way, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States
Leveraging the SmartPhone ecosystem and Moore’s Law, entrepreneurs are launching a new class of small wearable devices. These general purpose compute platform devices are about to disrupt the world of consumer electronics and embedded devices, because they provide modern UIs and open Software development environments.
Start-ups, and giant global companies like Sony Ericsson and Motorola target the wrist as the beachhead, to launch these new platforms.
Will entrepreneurs re-invent Watches, Consumer Electronics, Sporting gear, Medical equipment, etc. Will the devices work as clients to Smartphone or the Cloud or both? Will entrepreneurs build Apps and services for Wearables, as they did for Smartphone and Tablets? We explore these questions, plus the challenges of start-ups creating Wearable Platforms.
Moderator
Rafe Needleman, Editor at large, CNET
Panelists
Dan Eisenhardt, CEO, Recon Instruments
Tim Twerdahl, VP Product, WIMM
Bill Geiser, CEO, MetaWatch
Rich Redelfs, General Partner Foundation Capital

Cyber Security SmackDown
2011-11-15 18:00 - 20:30 | Stanford GSB: Cemex Auditorium at the Knight Management Center, 655 Knight Way, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States
VLAB Presents, Cyber Security SmackDown
Organized Crime vs. Agile Start-ups

When

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

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

Where

Stanford Graduate School of Business
Cemex Auditorium

641 Knight Way, Stanford, CA

Map:
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Parking: The parking lot for Cemex Auditorium is underneath the Graduate School of Business off East Campus Drive. To get there, take Serra St from El Camino Real and make a right turn onto Campus Drive (in front of the Valero Gas station on-campus) and then turn at your second left into the underground lot. Parking is free after 4:00 PM on weekdays. The Cemex Auditorium is in Zambrano Hall. To get there, exit the parking lot by the elevator on the lot’s south side then head due west (away from Campus Drive) and Zambrano will be the last building on your right.

Event Description:

Cyber security used to be as simple as protecting computers with an antivirus program and a firewall. These static protections defended against drive-by hackers and “script kiddies”, similar to locking your doors to discourage opportunistic burglars. But today, the most dangerous cyber attacks originate from highly de-centralized and organized crime enterprises engaged in sophisticated and focused cyber attacks. Most organizations are unaware they have been hacked until it is too late. Just as the Mafia at the turn of 20th century changed the law enforcement landscape, black hat hacking has become a profitable, illegitimate business that harms individuals, companies, and national security. McAfee estimates that global cyber crime cost corporations and individuals over $1 trillion annually.

As the cloud continues to expand from computers and mobile devices, to cars and smart homes, so do the opportunities for hackers to infiltrate even more aspects of our corporate and personal lives. Large security firms have not been able to keep up with the cyber crime-wave sweeping the internet, but agile startups bring dynamic self-adaptive tools to defend us against this emerging threat. Hear about opportunities and implications for entrepreneurs in this evolving ecosystem.

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Moderator:

Jeffrey Carr, Founder and CEO of Taia Global, Inc.

Panelists:

Mike Eynon, Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Silver Tail Systems
Ali Golshan, Co-founder & Chief Architect at Cyphort Inc
Marc Goodman, Future Crimes, Founder and Chairman
Jacques Benkoski, Ph.D. and Venture Partner at US Venture Partners

Jeffery Carr

Mr. Jeffrey Carr is the author of “Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld” (O’Reilly Media 2009) and the founder and CEO of Taia Global, Inc., a boutique security consulting firm for Global 2000 companies. His book has been endorsed by General Chilton, former commander USSTRATCOM and he has had the privilege of speaking at the US Army War College, Air Force Institute of Technology, Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Study Group and at numerous conferences and seminars. His firm provides specialized cybersecurity services to a select group of companies and their executives in the defense, technology, and communication sectors world-wide.
Mike Eynon
Mike is the Co-Founder and President of Silver Tail, bringing substantial experience in building fraud detection and prevention tools forsome of the highest traffic and fraud targeted websites on the internet. Before co-founding Silver Tail Systems, Mike managed payment risk at PayPal, as well as fraud policy at eBay. Prior to these roles, Mike worked as an engineer for Trust and Safety at eBay where he built some of the industry’svery first real-time fraud fighting tools for websites. Silver Tail Systems is the leading provider of predictive analytics for detection and prevention of fraud and abuse to some of the most prominent websites in the world.
Ali Golshan

Ali Golshan, Co-founder & Chief Architect at Cyphort, is the visionary behind its technology. Ali has over 12 years of experience in Security, Virtualization, and Data Mining using Probabilistic Pattern Matching. Ali started his career as an ethical hacker at the age of 17. He has advised numerous Fortune 100 companies and government intelligence agencies in resolving cybe -espionage, sophisticated attacks, and targeted malware for purposes of Intellectual Property theft, and cyber terrorism. Over the past five years Ali has focused his research on vulnerabilities and fail points of current technologies, leveraging machine learning and large data for building predictive models. Ali is on the Technical Advisory Board of two other Stealth companies. Ali majored in Computer Science and Physics at the University of Calgary.

Marc Goodman
Marc Goodman is the Founder and Chairman of the Future Crimes Institute. In addition, he serves at the Global Security Advisor and Chair for Policy, Law & Ethics at Silicon Valley’s Singularity University. Over the past twenty years, he has built his expertise in next generation security threats such as cyber crime, cyber terrorism and information warfare working with organizations such as Interpol, the United Nations, NATO, the Los Angeles Police Department and the U.S. Government. He frequently advises industry leaders, security executives and global policy makers on transnational cyber risk and intelligence. Marc’s current areas of research include the disruptive security and business implications of advancing technologies including artificial intelligence, social data, robotics, virtual reality, synthetic biology, genomics, location-based services and ubiquitous computing. Additional information is available at www.marcgoodman.net.
Jacques Benkoski

Jacques joined USVP in 2005. He is working with several USVP companies such as BPT, Factery, HelloFax, Kilopass, Mobbles, Qnovo, Trusteer, and Zerto. Previously, he has advised several portfolio companies including ClearShape (Cadence), Dune Networks (Broadcom), LightSpeed, and Yoomba, and served as executive chairman of Certess (Springsoft) and Synfora (Synopsys).
Before joining USVP, Jacques was President and CEO of Monterey Design Systems from 1999 until its acquisition by Synopsys (SNPS) in 2004. Prior to that, he founded and served as General Manager of the European subsidiary of Epic Design Technology (EPIC) and became Vice President of European Sales following its acquisition by Synopsy

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Terminator Vision: Augmented Reality UnPlugged
2011-10-18 18:00 - 20:30 | Stanford GSB: Cemex Auditorium at the Knight Management Center, 655 Knight Way, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States
Terminator Vision: Augmented Reality UnPlugged ***Video Available!***

When

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

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

Where

Stanford Graduate School of Business,
Cemex Auditorium

655 Knight Way, Stanford, CA 94305-7298

Map:
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Event Description:

Augmented-Reality holds the promise of merging the physical world with information, but the ‘killer app’ remains elusive.
Today, the rise of the smartphone and tablet – with powerful 3D, 4G, and high-res cameras – combined with significant advances in computer-vision and new sensors such as the Microsoft Kinect are finally unleashing the full power of AR.
Technology leaders such as Intel, Qualcomm, and Nvidia, are targeting AR’s disruptive potential on mobile advertising, gaming, and education, by heavily investing in next-gen AR platforms.
With a market size projected to reach $1.5 billion by 2015, leading brands, entrepreneurs and investors are starting to develop profitable AR apps that meld virtual experiences with everyday consumer lives.
But will the mass market embrace augmented reality experiences? How will these developments change the game for retailers, advertisers, teachers,and game and mobile applications — and which monetization models will be most successful?
On-site registration will open at5:30pm

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Moderator:

William “Whurley” Hurley, GM of Chaotic Moon Labs

Panelists:

Bruno Uzzan, CEO & Co-Founder of Total Immersion
Jay Wright, Senior Director of Business Development of Qualcomm
Vivian Rosenthal, Founder and CEO of GoldRun
Dr. Manu Kumar, Chief Firestarter, K9 Ventures

Thismonth’s event will feature a special pre panel demo exhibition reception with the leading augmented reality companies. Don’t miss the opportunity to experience these innovative AR experiences live and meet the founders of these technologies. Demos from Aurasma, Zugara, Total Immersion, SportVision, Qualcomm, GoldRun and Vissee.

William Hurley

Whurley is a leading authority on open source, open innovation, and augmented reality. He is the co-founder of Chaotic Moon Studios; the world’s most proven mobile application studio, providing everything frominitial brainstorming and strategy, to custom development and publishing, to managing your entire mobile presence in any application marketplace. A frequent public speaker, he was named a Master Inventor by IBM. He has also received numerous other awards, including an IBM Pervasive Computing Award and an Apple Computer Design Award. In 2008, he was named one of the “Top Leaders in Open-Source Business” by LinuxWorld magazine.

Bruno Uzzan

Bruno Uzzan has been driving the growth of Total Immersion since 1999 – from start-up to the company’s current position of global category leader. As a pioneer and AR visionary, he has led Total Immersion’s global expansion and built the company’s client roster with blue chip accounts that include Disney, McDonald’s, Mattel, Twentieth Century Fox and Nissan Motors. He also is responsible for developing strategic alliances, bringing his vision for the potential of next gen AR to these relationships. Prior to establishing Total Immersion, Mr. Uzzan served as a consultant for Pierre Henri Scacchi and Associates (Price Waterhouse Group).

He holds a Masters Degree in Management from the University of Paris Dauphine.

Jay Wright

Jay Wright is responsible for developing and driving Qualcomm’s augmented reality commercialization strategy. In this role, he manages the Company’s partnerships with innovators in industry and academia, and leads Qualcomm’s efforts to enable augmented reality within the mobile ecosystem. Wright brings nearly 20 years experience in developing software and services for mobile and wireless devices to his role at Qualcomm. Prior to joining the Company, Wright was CEO of SingleTap Inc., a company focused on simplifying the discovery, purchase and installation of software.

An inventor and software engineer, Wright holds three patents – two of which encompass data synchronization between mobile devices and have been regarded as landmark patents in the field of wireless email. Wright earned a Bachelor of Arts in quantitative economics and decision sciences from the University of California, San Diego.

Vivian Rosenthal

Vivian Rosenthal is the founder and CEO of Goldrun, an augmented reality app that enables users to locate, interact with and take photos of GPS-linked virtual objects positioned in the real world. Previously, Vivian co-founded Tronic Studio, a digital media and experiential design company. She has been named one of Creativity Magazine’s top 50 global creatives of 2010 and has spoken at numerous conferences on the intersection of advertising and technology. Since its inception in November 2010, GoldRun has worked with HBO, Sony, Bloomingdales, NBC, Tommy Hilfiger, Airwalk and A&E, among many others.

Dr. Manu Kumar

Manu Kumar, Founder of K9 Ventures, is an entrepreneur turned investor. He was the founder of SneakerLabs (acquired by Octane/E.piphany), iMeet (merged with Netspoke, acquired by Premiere Conferencing), CardMunch (acquired by LinkedIn), and a founding advisor to Lytro. He is an investor in CrowdFlower, Twilio, DNAnexus, Lytro, Zimride, IndexTank, BackType (acquired by Twitter), EasyESI, card.io, Baydin, LucidChart, Torbit, and Occipital. He also serves as an investor and/or advisor for Refocus Imaging, Dolores Labs (CrowdFlower), Twilio, and DNAnexus. Manu holds a Bachelors in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Masters in Software Engineering, both from Carnegie Mellon, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science (Human Computer Interaction) with a Distinction in Teaching from Stanford University. His academic research has been in the area of automobile interfaces and the use of eye tracking for human computer interaction. His dissertation research explored how gaze information can effectively be used as an augmented input in addition to traditional devices. His interests include discovery, creation and commercialization of new and innovative technologies.

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Space Exploration: Not Just for Billionaires Anymore
2011-09-20 18:00 - 20:30 | Stanford GSB: Cemex Auditorium at the Knight Management Center, 655 Knight Way, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States
Space Exploration: Not Just for Billionaires Anymore ***Video Available***
Companies are launching in 10, 9, 8, 7…

When

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

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

Where

Stanford Graduate School of Business, Cemex Auditorium

655 Knight Way, Stanford, CA 94305-7298

Map: http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/mba/contact/GSB_KMC_finalMap.pdf

Parking Information:

Parking Structure VII, 655 Knight Way off Campus Drive (located under Faculty Building West @ Knight Mgmt Ctr)
Street Parking on either Serra Street or Galvez Street
Parking Lot located at Bonair Siding Road and Campus Drive.

Event Description:

Advances in payload and transport technology have made it easier than ever for entrepreneurs to launch into space – some for less than even $1M in capital. Entrepreneurs are now exploring opportunities with new rocket launchers, novel uses of affordable small satellites, space tourism, and even space-based power generation and extraterrestrial mining. The space market is already a $280B business.
Come discover companies disrupting the science and business of space travel and taking advantage of this new low cost paradigm in space exploration. Key questions to be explored by a panel of industry leading CEOs and founders include:

How can entrepreneurs successfully launch new ventures in the space industry?

Is cooperation from NASA a must have?

Can you really bootstrap your way into space?

What is the role of data and analytics in space?

How much capital does it really take to be successful?

What business models are most effective?

How can a software entrepreneur take advantage of this new ecosystem?

Space has always been a breeding ground for new technologies that later integrate into our everyday lives. Discover the latest developments and learn how private investors and businesses are providing new solutions for the Earth-bound.

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Online Registration is now closed. Any available tickets can be purchased at the door.
Moderator:

Amaresh Kollipara, Founder and Managing Partner of Earth2Orbit

Presenter:

Rich Pournelle, Senior Vice President of Business Development, NanoRacks

Panelists:

William Pomerantz, Vice President, Special Projects, Virgin Galactic
Bob Richards, Co-founder and CEO, Moon Express
Al Tadros, Vice President, Civil and DoD Business, Space Systems/Loral

Amaresh Kollipara, Managing Partner of Earth2Orbit, LLC and Strategic Consultant

Amaresh Kollipara is a seasoned strategy consultant, financial advisor, and entrepreneur with international expertise. He is a Founder and Managing Partner of Earth2Orbit, a global provider of satellite launch services, and he co-produced the first and second annual Space Venturing Forum, an entrepreneurial event hosted by the National Space Society. He is also a Principal of the Space Angels Network. Within the Strategy group of Accenture he managed key strategy offerings and recommendations for Global 500 clients. He has been influential in multi-million dollar private equity deals and in assisting clients to strategically allocate large-scale investments. Amaresh holds an MBA degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and a B.A. in Molecular and Cell Biology (Neurobiology) from the University of California at Berkeley.

Rich Pournelle, Senior Vice President of Business Development, NanoRacks
NanoRacks provides quality hardware and services for the U.S. National Laboratory onboard the International Space Station. Rich has been involved in commercial space for over ten years. Prior to NanoRacks, Rich worked for investment bank Near Earth helping aerospace companies raise capital. Rich spent eight years working at Mojave Spaceport as Director of Business Development for XCOR Aerospace. Rich served as Professional Staff for the Committee on House Administration where he helped create the THOMAS legislative information system. Rich holds a BA in Political Science from UCLA.
William Pomerantz, Vice President, Special Projects, Virgin Galactic
An explorer with a lifelong dedication to opening the space frontier. Will is the Vice President for Special Projects at Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, the world’s first space line. Virgin Galactic is building on the legacy of the award-winning SpaceShipOne, bringing a fleet of commercial spacecraft into service for private, civil, and scientific passengers. Will is a Trustee of the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS), the world’s largest student space organization. Will and Diana both occasionally serve as coaches for ZERO-G, which operates weightless parabolic flights. To date, Will has logged more than 45 minutes of weightlessness.
Dr. Robert Richards, Co-founder and CEO, Moon Express
Dr. Robert (Bob) Richards is a space entrepreneur and futurist. He is a Co-Founder of the International Space University, Singularity University, SEDS, the Space Generation Foundation and he currently serves as CEO of Moon Express, Inc. (MoonEx), a privately funded lunar transportation and data services company. Bob is an evangelist of the “NewSpace” movement and has been a catalyst for a number of commercial space ventures. In 2005 Bob received a Doctorate of Space Achievement (honoris causa) from the International Space University for “distinguished accomplishments in support of humanity’s exploration and use of space.”

Al Tadros, Vice President, Civil and DoD Business, Space Systems/Loral
Al Tadros is Vice President of Civil and DoD Business at Space Systems/Loral (SS/L). In this role he is responsible for applying SS/L’s best value solutions to U.S. Government mission needs, developing and maintaining relationships with U.S. Government agencies and managing sales and marketing activities. Mr. Tadros has worked at SS/L for more than 20 years in increasingly responsible positions and has most recently helped to draw attention to the value commercial satellite technologies and system solutions bring to government missions.
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Affiliate Event - SVASE: Leveraging Corporate Partnerships & Investors
2011-08-04 18:00 - 20:30 | Cooley LLP, 3175 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, United States
Affiliate Event: SVASE: Leveraging Corporate Partnerships & Investors

SVASE Main Event: Leveraging Corporate Partnerships & Investors, Co-hosted with GABA

A SVASE Event

Cooley LLP, 3175 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA 94304
Thursday, August 4, 2011
6-8:30 PM
http://www.svase.org/events/main-event-raising-capital-early-stage-technology-startups
Pre-registered Affiliates – $29

Learn about the key fundamentals of successful corporate investing programs, alliances and commercialization process from some of Silicon Valley’s leading Corporate Partnerships and Venture Funds. Looking for Corporate Venture Funding or Partnerships?

Panelists include Saleem Qadir, X.commerce, PayPal & eBay, Venu Pemmaraju, Intel Capital, David Hartwig, SAP, Anand Kamannavar, Applied Ventures, Moderated by Danielle Naftulin Reed, Cooley.

Beyond Bricks and Clicks: Smart Phones and Smart Shopping
2011-06-21 18:00 - 20:30 | Stanford University: S. Mark Taper Foundation Conference Center, Jacobson-Sorensen Hall, Munger Building 4, 554 Salvatierra Walk, Stanford, CA, United States
Beyond Bricks and Clicks: Smart Phones and Smart Shopping ***VIDEO AVAILABLE***

When

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

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

Where

S. Mark Taper Foundation Conference Center
Jacobson-Sorensen Hall, Munger Building 4

554 Salvatierra Walk
Stanford University

Event Description:

Near Field Communications (NFC), Geo-location services, and augmented reality (AR) are disrupting the consumer shopping experience while increasing sales and margins for brick and mortar retailers.
Putting interested buyers in front of relevant shelves at local stores is a huge monetizable opportunity for mobile platforms. 400,000 new Android devices are enabled each day, 60-70M phones are shipping with NFC this year alone and 15% of Tier 1 retailers are integrating mobile e-commerce platforms. Come discover how start ups in mobile are making shopping a whole lot smarter.
The panel will discuss a whole host of challenges and opportunities in the mobile retail space including:

How does a 20% conversion-rate for brick and mortar retail stores, (compared to 3-5% max online) create an opportunity for new companies?

Will consumers welcome or fear new shopping features?

Does the type of product or the market impact the preferred buying experience?

In the world of augmented shopping via mobile devices, will we see a shift away from online commerce?

Is mainstream NFC penetration at critical mass yet? What other technologies will emerge to supplement the platform and empower elements of the ecosystem? What will be the impact on commerce?

Moderator and Panel:

Aaron Emigh, CTO and Co-Founder, Shopkick, Inc. (Presenter)
Nitzan Shaer, Managing Director and Founder of High Start Group (Moderator)

Bob Borchers, General Partner, Opus Capital
Ben Hedrington, Director of Web Strategy, Best Buy Co. Inc
Matt Weathers, VP Product, ShopSavvy

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Panelists:
Aaron Emigh, CTO and Co-Founder, Shopkick, Inc.

Aaron Emigh is the CTO and cofounder of Shopkick, Inc. He has also served as EVP and GM of Technology at Six Apart, CTO of Rojo Networks, Managing Director of Radix Labs, and CEO of CommerceFlow.
Aaron’s work spans mobile, social media, security, consumer internet, anti-spam, networking, storage, e-commerce, data compression, multimedia, vision, machine learning, and operating systems. He is a named inventor on over 70 issued and pending US patents, and has presented original research at numerous conferences and research colloquia, including RSA, APWG, DIMACS, TIPPI, SFECTF, ISSA, MAAWG, ITTC, and the AAAS.
Aaron is a member of the US Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force and the US-DHS Infosec Technology Transition Council, a Research Fellow of the Anti-Phishing Working Group, and a technical advisor to the Financial Services Technology Consortium.

Bob Borchers, General Partner, Opus Capital

A mobile and consumer marketing veteran with more than 20 years operating experience, Bob Borchers comes to Opus Capital from Apple, Inc where he served as Sr. Director of Worldwide Product Marketing for the iPhone. At Opus Borchers is focused on investments in mobile applications and services as well as adjacent opportunities in both hardware and software.
As part of the original iPhone team, Bob was instrumental in the development, launch and global expansion of the revolutionary iPhone, iPhone OS, App Store. While at Apple he also led the Nike+iPod partnership, expanded the iPod accessory ecosystem, and forged relationships with every major auto company to provide iPod integration.
Prior to Apple, Bob was Vice President of Marketing at FusionOne, a pioneer in creating and marketing mobility solutions. Bob also spent six years at Nokia where he co-founded and served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the Vertu business unit. Before his career in the mobile industry, Bob worked for Nike, Inc. in Beaverton, Oregon, where he led efforts in product and service personalization. He began his career doing research and development in prosthetics.
Bob holds a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and a Masters Degree from a joint program between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Harvard Medical School in Health Sciences and Technology. He has more than 30 patents granted or pending.

Ben Hedrington, Director of Web Strategy, Best Buy Co. Inc

Ben Hedrington leads the mobile web businesses as part of Emerging Platforms at Best Buy.
Throughout his eight years at the company he continues to explore, discover and drive forward what is possible on the web in places where others could not yet see. His work made possible Best Buy’s early involvement in Mobile putting them in a leading position today for their mobile customers. With similar energy and vision, Ben saw a need to reinvent how a company can show up there for its customers: with the real people, voices and personalities inside the company creating an open web based tool in the process.
This led to his co-creation of Best Buy’s Twelpforce, two thousand plus Best Buy associates ready to help you on social media channels. Best Buy’s Twelpforce has been highly acclaimed and cataloged in a number of recent books.
Ben writes on occasion at buildcontext.com on web topics and trends.

Nitzan Shaer, Managing Director and Founder of High Start Group

Nitzan Shaer is the Managing Director and Founder of High Start Group, a consulting firm focused on helping startups and Fortune 500 companies define and launch breakthrough products. Nitzan holds a track record of successfully leading new product innovations at Skype, Microsoft, and multiple venture backed startups. He is frequently invited to speak on mobile commerce and how to drive consumer adoption of innovative products.
Prior to High Start Group, Nitzan founded and managed the Mobile Product Group at Skype, where he led the development and marketing efforts to enable Skype on mobile phones. Prior to Skype, Nitzan worked at Microsoft, where he managed the development of three emerging products in the Mobile and Embedded Division. Nitzan also led venture investments in his role as EIR at Flybridge Capital Partners, and served as Chief Operating Officer and Board Member at MOBIVOX, a consumer mobile startup.
Nitzan served as a Captain in the Israel Air Force and graduated first in his class from the Air Force Academy. He graduated summa cum laude with a BS in Engineering from Technion and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. Nitzan is currently a board member and investor in a number of startup companies

Matt Weathers, VP Product, ShopSavvy

Matt Weathers is VP Product for ShopSavvy. He is currently focused on strategies for user engagement and mobile commerce. Prior to joining ShopSavvy in January 2011, Matt led the product team at PayPal Mobile, where he built out its product suite for three business lines including P2P payments, eBay mobile checkout, and mobile ecommerce services. Matt also oversaw strategy planning for entering offline payments market with NFC. Before running PayPal Mobile, he worked in PayPal’s merchant services business on the first set of merchant integrations including Apple and Dell. Most recently, he led the product, design and research teams for the turnaround of eBay France. His team reversed a 30% declining market by introducing a new business line for local inventory. The local listings business was conceived and launched in 14 weeks, and added 1 million listings within 6 months—an eBay record. In his early career, Matt ran the telecommunications practice at G2 Research (acquired by Gartner) and engaged in mobile and Internet strategy projects at the McKenna Group. He cut his teeth on Product Management at WEGO Systems in the late ‘90’s which created social communities for publishers and corporations. Matt has an MBA from UC Berkeley and a double bachelor’s degree in Economics and International Relations with distinction from UCLA

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Energy Harvesting: Power Everywhere
2011-04-19 18:00 - 20:30 | Arbuckle Lounge and Bishop Auditorium at Stanford Business School, Stanford, CA, United States
Energy Harvesting – Power Everywhere ***Video Available!***

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When

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

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

Where

Arbuckle Lounge and Bishop Auditorium at Stanford Graduate School of Business

Event Description:

Three factors are reaching a tipping point to open up new vistas in Energy Harvesting: cheaper, smaller, long-lasting batteries; Super low power CPUs and digital signal processors; and innovations in the energy harvesting devices themselves. Benefits range from the convenience of eliminating wiring clutter and frequent battery replacement, to the enabling of new applications where prohibitive wiring or battery costs are avoided altogether.
The cost of finding and replacing batteries at frequent intervals for small devices such as wireless sensors and building & industrial controls is a challenge. Scavenging energy from the environment is becoming more attractive. There are over 500 products based on perpetually powered technologies ranging from simple light switches, which are powered by simply pressing the switch, to more complex devices that measure the integrity of the rotating blades on military helicopters. It is estimated that this segment of the market alone will yield an approximate $1.2B opportunity by 2014.
Growth in renewable energy itself will drive increased demand for energy storage capacity. Batteries represent about a $39B market, which will grow to $50B over the next five years; with rechargeable batteries leading the way. Energy harvesters are one approach in charging these batteries.
The military, security and aerospace industries with a projected market potential of over $1B, heavily rely on electronics that require field power where there are no convenient outlets for recharging batteries. In the battlefield soldiers use portable electronic systems, which can include communications equipment, thermal sights, night-vision goggles, GPS and portable or laptop computers. All of this equipment needs a lightweight and long lasting source of power. Our featured presenter shares exactly such a solution with us, with a product that harvests ambient energy generated by human motion.
Enhancing energy and power capacity in mobile and consumer devices may be the inflection point in guiding energy harvesting from a niche market into the mainstream “high volume” consumer market. Other possible use cases may include perpetually powered devices for monitoring traffic and road conditions, or sniffing out pesticides and other toxins. “Is there a new App for that?”
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The following companies will be demoing their exciting products at the event

Topics to be explored:

Applications beyond the wireless sensors
Business models to profitability
Will energy harvesting finally make smart cities a reality?

Moderator and Panel:

Rex Northen, Executive Director of the Cleantech Open (Moderator)
Yad Garcha, CEO, BionicPower (Presenter)
Robert Andosca, Founder & CTO, MicroGen Systems
Dr. Cyril Vancura, Investment Director, Robert Bosch Venture Capital
Dr. Ahmad Baghai Dowlatabadi, Founder & CEO, Aivaka
Nicholas Fowler, Chairman & CEO, Perpetua Power Source Technologies

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Moderator:
Rex Northen, Executive Director of the Cleantech Open

The Cleantech Open is the world’s largest clean technology business competition. As founder and CEO of technology companies in both Europe and the United States, Rex is an entrepreneur with a long history of building and managing technology companies and successful teams. He has worked with hundreds of diverse companies, ranging from startups to global corporations. Rex has led the Cleantech Open since January 2009, overseeing the growth of the California-based nonprofit from its Bay Area roots to a national organization with regional operations based in Silicon Valley, Seattle, Denver, Minneapolis and Boston. He has also directed the establishment of the Global Cleantech Open in partnership with the Kauffman Foundation. Northen holds an M.A. from the University of Oxford.

Presenter:
Yad Garcha, CEO, BionicPower

Yad Garcha is founder, director and CEO of Bionic Power. Mr. Garcha’s venture-capital background spans nearly two decades in the biotech, medical device, and pharmaceutical sectors. A former senior vice-president at GrowthWorks Capital, Mr. Garcha also worked at the Business Development Bank of Canada. As a VC, Mr. Garcha backed Angiotech, Anormed (sold to Genzyme) and Creo Products (sold to Kodak). Mr. Garcha earned a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology from the University of British Columbia, and an MBA from the University of Western Ontario.

Panelists:
Dr. Cyril Vančura, Investment Director, Robert Bosch Venture Capital

Cyril Vančura is an Investment Director at Venture Capital (RBVC) unit of Robert Bosch LLC based in Palo Alto. He focuses on finding investment opportunities for RBVC in North America, technical evaluations, and technical due diligence. Before joining RBVC, Cyril was at the Reseach and Technology Center of Robert Bosch in Palo Alto, where he worked on novel MEMS processes, power harvesting for autonomous systems, and photovoltaic technologies. Prior to this, Cyril conducted research in the field of CMOS-based MEMS sensors for biological and chemical applications during his Ph.D. thesis. Cyril holds a Ph.D. and a diploma (masters) in physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland.

Robert Andosca, Founder & CTO, MicroGen Systems

Mr. Robert Andosca (www.linkedin.com/in/randosca) is the Founder, President and CTO of MicroGen Systems, Inc., located in Ithaca, NY at the Cornell Business and Technology Park. MicroGen is developing a patent-pending MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) based piezoelectric vibrational energy harvester (PZEH) micro-power generator.

Mr. Andosca’s professional experience ranges from operational to technical management, business development, and the design and development of MEMS and semiconductor products. Mr. Andosca has held senior level positions at the Infotonics Technology Center, Lilliputian Systems, Umicore, Corning IntelliSense/IntelliSense, Clare Corporation and Lockheed Martin. Mr. Andosca will complete his Ph.D. on energy harvesting from The University of Vermont (UVM) in Materials Science (expected 2012). He holds an M.S. in Materials Science from UVM, and B.S. degrees in Mathematics/Physics from USNH, Keene State College.

Dr. Ahmad Baghai Dowlatabadi, Founder & CEO, Aivaka

Ahmad is the founder of Aivaka. He has over 20 years of experience in the field of analog, power management and RF systems. He has led research and product development activities in various areas in both large publicly traded and small private firms. Currently Ahmad and his team are focused on producing power management solutions for energy harvesting and ultra low-power electronic devices where efficiency is the most important criteria. He holds a Ph.D. from Georgia Tech, is a registered Professional Engineer (PE) in State of California, and is Senior Member of IEEE. He has been a member of various technical IEEE conferences and journals, and has been published in IEEE publications.
Nicholas Fowler, Chairman & CEO, Perpetua Power Source Technologies

Mr. Fowler is a technology veteran, entrepreneur, and angel investor. Spanning 25 years with Hewlett-Packard, Mr. Fowler managed global businesses, developed company strategies, and led the creation of major new businesses including notebook computers, PDAs, printing services, and Internet sales and support. Following his HP career, Mr. Fowler established Orion Ventures and Corvallis Venture Group, seed stage investment funds. Mr. Fowler is Chairman and CEO of Perpetua Power, a thermoelectric power startup; Executive Chairman of ZAPS Technologies, a spectrophotometric startup; and CEO of Advanced Material Recovery, innovator in membranes for energy storage and desalination. Mr. Fowler sits on the Boards of several businesses as well as charitable organizations. Mr. Fowler holds a B.A. in Economics and an M.S. in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management from Stanford University.

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Social TV: Broadcast Crowd Meets Cloud
2011-03-15 18:00 - 20:30 | Arbuckle Lounge and Bishop Auditorium at Stanford Business School, Stanford, CA, United States
Social TV: Broadcast Crowd Meets Cloud ***VIDEO AVAILABLE***

When

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

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

Where

Arbuckle Lounge and Bishop Auditorium at Stanford Business School

Event Description:
Social TV extends the experience of content with social networks across a new constellation of devices and platforms. Discover how entrepreneurs are accelerating the migration of TV from an isolated, a social single-screen experience to an increasingly interactive and social consumer experience while increasing values for advertisers.
Internet and mobile applications have made the world more social than ever before and TV is going through the same social transformation. The 2011 Superbowl is also known as the “Social Bowl”. Estimate is that two-thirds of the Superbowl viewers between 18~35 used a smart-phone to interact with the Ads.
While some say Connected-TV is the way of the future, others claim it’s destined for slow adoption. Connected-TV alone will not achieve the social experience consumers are seeking. Social TV seamlessly integrates content and social activities across TV, web, and mobile devices.
Come see how entrepreneurs are creating new breeds of applications offering creative ways to enhance user experience and attempting to monetize in the world of television entertainment.

MODERATOR

Michael T. Yang, Managing Director, Comcast Interactive Capital

PANEL

Greg Dudey, VP, Visual Displays UX Lab, Samsung Electronics
Itzik Cohen, Co-Founder & CEO, ClipSync
Sina Khelil, Founder & CEO, Vualla
Edgar Villalpando, Senior Vice President, ActiveVideo

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Predictive Analytics: The Consumer Crystal Ball
2011-02-15 18:30 - 20:30 | Arbuckle Lounge and Bishop Auditorium at Stanford Business School, Stanford, CA, United States
Predictive Analytics: The Consumer Crystal Ball ***Video Available!***

When

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

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

Where

Arbuckle Lounge and Bishop Auditorium at Stanford Business School

Event Description:
Whether you’re a wall street trader or Internet media buyer, knowledge is power. Engaged web users are now providing in-depth data about their actions and desires, powering a new generation of Predictive Analytics (PA).
Facebook, nearing 600 million active users, is the shining example of the meteoric rise of the engaged user. Through online engagement, users eagerly reveal more about themselves than slow old big-budget research studies could ever hope to uncover.
A new wave of PA start-ups are powered by social media, engaging brand awareness sites, on-line gamers, and always-on mobile web users. With APIs, platform providers create a virtuous circle – generating opportunities for start-ups and increasing the relevance of their platforms. Fueled by on-line ad spending approaching $50B, PA start-ups, their media buying customers, and venture capitalists are racing to discover the relevant insights which can predict users’ needs and next actions.

We will explore start-ups creating and marketing data about engaged users.
Will web properties with data about engaged users share the data gems?
What’s in it for the engaged user? How do they benefit?
What about the giants? (Legacy media, media buyers, giant ad firms, on-line retailers, on-line content providers)?

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Michael E. Driscoll, Ph.D. – Chairman and Founder, Dataspora
PANEL

Omar Tawakol, Chief Executive Officer, Bluekai (Presenter)

Scott Burke, Senior Vice President, Yahoo!, User Data and Analytics

Matthew J. Barkoff, Vice President, Badgeville, Media & Entertainment

Theresia Gouw Ranzetta, Partner, Accel Partners

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MODERATOR
Michael E. Driscoll, Ph.D. – Chairman and Founder, Dataspora
Michael E. Driscoll has a decade of experience developing large-scale databases and data mining algorithms within industry, government, and academic institutions. He founded and until 2008 served on the board of CustomInk.com, an Inc. 500 online retailer. Michael has a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from Boston University and an A.B. from Harvard College.

PRESENTER
Omar Tawakol, Chief Executive Officer, Bluekai
As Chief Executive Officer at BlueKai, Omar is responsible for the overall management, growth, and vision for the company’s groundbreaking exchange business. Prior to founding BlueKai, Omar was the Chief Advertising Officer of Medio Systems, the leading provider of mobile search and advertising solutions for carriers such asVerizon and TMobile. Before Medio, at Revenue Science, has Chief Marketing Officer and General Manager, he led the company’s behavioral targeting businesses, providing services for many of the largest Internet publishers. At Revenue Science, he actively engaged key industry leaders in defining standards for behavioral targeting.

Omar earned his Master of Computer Science and Industrial Engineering degrees from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from MIT. While at Stanford, he was a computer science researcher at both the Stanford Logic Group and HP Software Labs. Omar’s research on formalizing content was published in the American Association of Artificial Intelligence. Omar is also an active speaker and commentator on topics such as behavioral targeting, mobile advertising, and consumerprivacy. He was listed in Media Magazine’s Media 100 for 2008.

PANELISTS
Scott Burke, Senior Vice President, Yahoo!, User Data and Analytics
Scott Burke’s User Data and Analytics group at Yahoo!, is responsible for company-wide consumer and advertiser analytics. At Yahoo!, analytics drive decision-making, iterative experimentation, and thought leadership. Yahoo! analyzes petabytes of data on a continuous basis to generate information, knowledge, and insights for Yahoo!’s industry-leading consumer and advertiser experiences.
In five years at Yahoo! Burke has led marketplace engineering; and the content and video platform organizations. Before Yahoo!, Burke was VP of engineering at PacketHop which commercialized mobile mesh networking applications for public safety. He led application services at SEVEN, an enterprise wireless company serving the world’s top mobile operators. He was CTO and VP of engineering at WebMD leading infrastructure teams for the premier consumer health portal. Burke started as a computational physicist at Hewlett-Packard and holds a BS in physics and computers from Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California.

Matthew J. Barkoff, Vice President, Badgeville, Media & Entertainment

Matthew Barkoff joined Badgeville as VP Sales, Media and Entertainment where he is responsible for driving new business strategy and managing Media and Entertainment. With over 15 years of experience in start-up enterprise and SaaS technology companies, Matthew is working to help media companies drive engagement on websites and mobile using social loyalty techniques.
Before joining Badgeville, Matthew was Vice President of Sales, Media & Entertainment at Clickability, where he led the team to 20x revenue growth. He has served in various business executive management positions at 7 start-ups including Cadabra Inc. (acquired by Overture in 2000 (formerly GoTo.com)) where he was Director of Business & Corporate Development, and Netmosphere (acquired by Critical Path in 1999) where he was Director of Enterprise Sales.
Matthew graduated from UC Davis in 1995 with a degree in Economics and a minor in Computer Science. He was part of a two year program called the Sacramento Entrepreneurship Academy, where he discovered his passion of start-ups, and what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur.

Theresia Gouw Ranzetta, Partner, Accel Partners

Theresia focuses on internet and software investments with specific interest in social commerce, vertical media, security and consumer internet/mobile apps.Theresia was responsible for Accel’s investments which have had successful acquisition or IPO exits including AdECN (MSFT), CRS Retail Systems (EPIC), Interlace Systems (ORCL), PeopleSupport (PSPT), Xoopit (YHOO) and Zimbra (YHOO); and was part of the Walmart.com (WMT) investment team. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of several private companies in the both the consumer internet (Glam Media, LearnVest, ModCloth, Trulia) and security sectors (Imperva, TRUSTe, Webroot).

Prior to Accel Partners, she was founding VP of Business Development & Sales at Release Software, a venture-backed company whose products enabled digital rights management and payment technologies for software. Earlier, she was a management consultant at Bain & Company and a product manager at Silicon Graphics.
Theresia serves as a Trustee on Brown University’s Corporation Board, on the board of DonorsChoose.org and as a member of Stanford’s DAPER Investment Fund. She holds an Sc.B. in Engineering from Brown University, magna cum laude, and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. She is also a board member of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).

Theresia has contributed to Fortune.com, appeared on CNBC’s Women in Power series, Venture Capitalist Superstar. Read Theresia’s presentations and articles: an overview presentation on Accel’s Digital Media Portfolio, a profile of Theresia from The new Valley Girls article in Fortune Magazine, her opinion piece for Fortune.com, and a NY Times Article about the Accel Growth Fund.

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Entrepreneurs: Uncensored - Legal Series 3
2011-01-25 18:00 - 20:30 | SNR Denton, 1530 Page Mill Road, Suite 200, Palo Alto, CA, 94304-1125, United States
VLAB and SNR Denton present Entrepreneurs Uncensored – Legal Series! **SOLD OUT**
Speaker Series 3 – Start-Up Capital – Best Practices for Funding New Ventures **SOLD OUT**

When
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
6:00PM to 7:00PM – Registration and Networking
7:00PM to 8:15PM – Main Event
Where

SNR Denton
1530 Page Mill Rd.
Suite 200
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1125

Event Description:
This three part series provides entrepreneurs business, tactical and legal education. Presented by experienced industry CEOs, venture capitalists and lawyers, the series will offer insights on cutting-edge issues faced by entrepreneurs today.
Series 3: Start-Up Capital – Best Practices for Funding New Ventures
So you have the next killer idea. Raising start-up capital could be the difference between serving a handful of customers versus millions of customers. But raising startup capital is so daunting! Luckily today, there are many options for funding startups, but finding and securing “smart money” takes diligent research, good negotiating skills, and, above all, an unflagging commitment to launching your new business.

Come join us as our experienced panel guides you on the key factors that matter when it comes to raising capital. When is the right time to raise venture capital? Which type of investor is best suited for your startup: angels, venture capitalists, strategic investors, potential partners, other investment sources? How should you position your business vis-à-vis each capital source? What can you do to make your company stand out from the crowd? Which investor(s) should you choose? Interact with a panel of VCs, angels and attorneys to discuss the best practices for each role to contribute to the success of your startup.

Moderator

Daniel Zimmermann, Partner, SNR-Denton
Speakers
Sergio Monsalve, Principal, Norwest Venture Partners
Dror Berman, Innovation Endeavors
John Ricci, CEO, US Angels Investors

For any questions, please email ebf@vlab.org

This event is COMPLETELY SOLD OUT.

NO ticket can be sold at the door.

Vision Computing: The Eyes of the Machine
2011-01-18 18:00 - 20:30 | Arbuckle Lounge and Bishop Auditorium at Stanford Business School, Stanford, CA, United States
Vision Computing – The Eyes of the Machine

When

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
6:00pm – 7:00pm – Networking and Refreshment
7:00pm – 8:30pm – Panel Discussion and Q/A

Where

Arbuckle Lounge and Bishop Auditorium at Stanford Business School

Event Description:
More than a third of the human brain’s energy is dedicated to visual processing. Images are our primary medium for the perception of the world and our eyes have been the only means of interpreting these images.
Today’s search engines are incapable of searches using images instead they sift through mountains of text to recognize key terms. With the advent of computer vision algorithms, faster computing and prevalence of digital cameras, visual perception using computers is now possible. These technologies propel the search market into advanced image and video based searches enabling more meaningful discovery of rich content.
Breakthroughs in the ability to recognize shapes such as faces, emotions and places from mere image pixels are becoming a reality in our modern lives. Microsoft’s XBOX Kinect is a significant first step in that direction.
The text based web search and aggregation is a multi-billion dollar industry, it is only a matter of time when the rich media search embarks on this wagon. Discover how entrepreneurs are leveraging their complex mathematical computer vision know-how into highly profitable business models that will bring about new ways to discover, organize information and bring about the next wave of advanced computing and machine learning.
Come join us at the next VLAB event as we analyze, interpret and discuss along the following questions

Will visual computing simply make it possible to process more content or will it create a new paradigm for how we search?
Who are market leaders in this space who are changing the dynamics of the vision computing?
Could the agile startups outrun the giant corporations to the next prize in computing?
What are the security concerns with collecting and interpreting personal information such as facial features? Is there a scope for careful anonymity?

MODERATOR
Ezra Roizen, Ackrell Partners
Ezra Roizen is a partner with Ackrell Capital, a boutique investment bank, where he focuses on advising emerging digital businesses on matters of M&A, financing and corporate strategy. Previously Ezra was a Vice President with Rutberg & Company, a mobile and digital media focused investment bank. Ezra has co-founded two technology companies: Montclare Technologies, Inc., an Internet consulting and development firm where he was the CEO and Convoy Corporation (now part of Sybase) where he was the Director of Business Development. Ezra has also served as the Vice President of Business and Product development for Aircraft Technical Publishers, an aviation information services provider. Ezra is frequent speaker and emcee at technology conferences and is the co-host of Vator Box a show on emerging companies on VatorNews.com. Ezra holds an M.B.A. from a combined program of Columbia University’s Columbia Business School (where he earned beta gamma sigma honors) and the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business (where he earned a Haas community service fellowship). He also holds a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of California, Davis (with Minors in English and History). Ezra is the Chair of the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Alumni Relations Council. You can see Ezra’s full LinkedIn profile here: http://www.linkedin.com/in/roizen

PRESENTER
Laurent Gil, CEO of Viewdle
As CEO of Viewdle, Laurent leads the company’s technology, marketing, business, and corporate development strategy. Prior to Viewdle, Laurent spent over five years in investment banking as a senior investment banker in corporate finance and capital markets at the French investment bank Credit Agricole. During his MBA at Wharton, Laurent helped establish a boutique investment bank in Brazil, which completed large transactions in the telecom sector in Latin America. He co-founded and served as CFO of TAHO, a wireless internet service provider in Rio de Janeiro, which raised U.S. $10M in 2001 to develop a broadband wireless internet network in Latin America. Before leaving Brazil, he co-created IdeaValley, the leading provider of electronic paper in Latin America. Most recently, Laurent spent two years in West Africa deploying wireless networks in high schools, for a non-profit organization he founded.

PANELISTS
Dr. Fei-Fei Li, Assistant Professor, Director of Vision Lab, Stanford University
Fei-Fei Li is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department, at Stanford University, where she is the Director of the Vision Lab. Her areas of interest include Computer Vision — representation, learning, and recognition of objects, scenes, and events in static images and dynamic video sequences, and Human Vision – the use of psychophysics and neurophysiology tools to understand the underlying neural mechanisms of high-level visual perception. She previously held the role of Assistant Professor at Princeton University and the University of Illionois, Urban-Champaign. Fei-Fei has received numerous awards including the Stanford Terman Fellowship, Google Research Award, and Microsoft New Research Faculty Fellowship. She received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, and her BA in Physics from Princeton University. Notably, Fei-Fei spent a year in 1999-2000 doing Tibetan medical research.
Eghosa Omoigui, Founder & Partner, Echo Ventures
Eghosa Omoigui is founder and managing partner of EchoVC Partners, a new San Francisco Bay-based early stage venture capital firm that focuses on making investments in innovative technology startups across the globe. Prior to this, Eghosa was with Intel for nearly 10 years and his last role was as Director, Strategic Investments, Consumer Internet & Semantic Technologies. In the latter role, he acted as a senior investment professional in the world’s largest stage-agnostic technology venture capital organization, focused on platform-agnostic web services and digital media-based investment opportunities in the consumer internet. Due to a 10+ year passion for all things semweb/semtech/data, Eghosa also drove Intel Capital’s investment focus on next generation semantic technologies and the real-time web. Representative investments include Retailigence, Stipple, SpeakerText, Inflatable Spaces, Betaworks, Sense Networks, Voxify, Yatra, BuzzInTown, Cerebra, SmartZip and TextDigger (acquired by Federated Media).
Prior to joining Intel, Omoigui worked in several start-ups in senior management positions and has variegated experience as a corporate and securities law firm lawyer, in-house counsel and turnarounds/restructuring advisor. Eghosa attended the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College and has been admitted to the Bar in Nigeria, New York and Oregon . Eghosa lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his 3 kids, a miniature poodle and a supersized german shepherd.
Munjal Shah, Google, Founder of Like.com
Munjal Shah is Co-founder and CEO of Riya Inc (makers of Like.com). Together with Burak Gokturk, he co-founded the company in August of 2004. Munjal is a serial entrepreneur who focuses on building companies from zero to millions in revenue. Prior to Riya he was co-founder and CEO of Andale Inc, a provider of software to eBay merchants. While he was CEO, Andale grew from 0 to double digit millions in revenue. Prior to Andale, Baan, IBM, and a startup called Blaxxun Interactive. Munjal started his career in artificial intelligence, writing software for Agouron Pharmaceuticals that predicted the efficacy of anti-HIV drugs. Like.com was acquired by Google.
BusinessWeek declared Munjal one of the Top 10 up and coming CEOs in 2001. Munjal sits on the advisor board to a number of very early stage startups including: Yousendit, Auyptima (sold to Oracle), Pubmatic, and MesmoTV. He is a charter member of TIE (The Indus Entrepreneur) in Bangalore and writes a blog sharing his experiences as an entrepreneur herehttp://munjal.typepad.com. He received his Masters in Computer Science from Stanford University and his Bachelors in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego.
Dr. Eitan Sharon, CTO and Co-Founder of VideoSurf
Dr. Eitan Sharon, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer for VideoSurf, is leading the company’s innovative computer vision and search technology. He took a leave of absence from the tenure-track Assistant Professorship he held between 2005 and 2007 at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in order to lead VideoSurf’s technology team. Dr. Sharon received his B.Sc. in mathematics from Tel-Aviv University in 1995 and his Ph.D. in computer science and applied mathematics from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 2002. From 2003 to 2004 Dr. Sharon was a Visiting Research Associate at Brown University in the Division of Applied Mathematics. He then went on to hold postdoctoral fellowships at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Los-Angeles
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VLAB Innovation: "Out of the Labs" Holiday Party
2010-12-07 18:00 - 20:30 | Autodesk Gallery, The Landmark Building, One Market Street, 2F, San Francisco, CA, United States
VLAB Innovation – “Out of the Labs” Holiday Party **SOLD OUT**
Immerse yourself in the bleeding edge of technology and spend an evening with scientists from the Valley’s elite research labs and discover the next wave of innovations waiting to be commercialized by passionate entrepreneurs.

When

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
6:00pm – 8:30pm

Where

Autodesk Gallery
The Landmark Building, 2nd Floor
One Market, San Francisco, CA
Map
** Recommendation **
Enter The Landmark Building from Market Street and use the first lobby of elevators to come up to the 2nd floor. There will be NO event signage on the 1st floor.

Event Description
Networking can be a drag so we’re doing something a little different. Come join us at the award winning beautiful Autodesk Gallery, a space filled with inspiration and innovation to meet people who are actually interested in talking about what you want to talk about — not just awkward small talk.
We’re bringing the best and brightest scientists from Silicon Valley labs and having small group discussions that will be facilitated by our evening’s host who will focus the topics discussed by each group . Topics will be based on VLAB’s events in 2010, including cleantech, mobile, and more.
Once you’ve met the scientist or business person of your entrepreneurial dreams, wander over and connect with VLAB’s extensive network of venture capital advisors and supporters from VC firms around the world.
VCs attending include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Canaan Partners, Partech International, The Halo Fund, BlueRun Ventures, Austral Capital Partners, iGlobe Partners, and more.
In a discussion led by Richard G. Caro, Founder and CEO, TangibleFuture Inc, some of the elite researchers and top executives from premier research labs such as PARC Research, SRI International and Lawrence Livermore Labs discuss & present cutting edge technologies developed in their labs.

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In addition, Ancien Wines and Farella-Park will provide white wines.

We’re piloting a new networking tool provided by Presdo Match (from the creators of LinkedIn). Please be sure to opt-in during your ticket purchase and RSVP. Enhance your experience at the event. We’d love your feedback at sponsorship@vlab.org

Moderator

Richard G. Caro, Founder and CEO, TangibleFuture, Inc.
Dr. Richard G. Caro is founder & CEO of TangibleFuture, Inc., where he helps managers and entrepreneurs create and grow businesses based on innovative science and technology — in fields such as life sciences, communications, and cleantech. He is also founding member of Acceleration Co-op, a global “expert crowd”; and an angel investor.
Prior roles include Managing Director at RHK, a provider of advisory services to the communications industry; CEO (founder) of Vital Insite, a venture-backed, medical device start-up developing noninvasive monitoring products; and CTO of Summit Technology, a pioneer in the laser refractive surgery (LASIK) business. Before entering industry, he was a member of the research staff at Stanford University.
Richard has been responsible for the development of a number of successful products and has 23 issued patents. He received a B.Sc. degree from Melbourne University, Australia, and a D.Phil. in experimental physics from Oxford University — where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Presenters
SRI International

Silicon Valley-based SRI International is one of the world’s leading independent research and technology development organizations. SRI, which was founded by Stanford University as Stanford Research Institute in 1946 and became independent in 1970, has been meeting the strategic needs of clients and partners for more than 60 years. Perhaps best known for its invention of the computer mouse and interactive computing, SRI has also been responsible for major advances in networking and communications, robotics, drug discovery and development, advanced materials, atmospheric research, education research, economic development, national security, and more. The nonprofit institute performs sponsored research and development for government agencies, businesses, and foundations. SRI also licenses its technologies, forms strategic alliances, and creates spin-off companies.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory(LLNL) is a Department of Energy National Laboratory under contract to Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC. With an annual budget of approximately $1.5B, LLNL performs research and development in nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship, nuclear nonproliferation, detection systems for chemical, biological and nuclear weapons of mass destruction, and inertial confinement fusion research in the National Ignition Facility, the world’s largest and most powerful laser system. Large scale simulation and experimental science are at the core of LLNL’s capability. This research has yielded significant benefit to the US economy. LLNL has a strong history of entrepreneurial activity ranging from computer codes such as DYNA3D, commercialized as LSDYNA by Livermore Software Technology Corporation, which has revolutionized the field of automobile crash simulation saving the industry $Billions, to rapid PCR commercialized by Cepheid, and which currently monitors the US mail for “anthrax letters”. Literally hundreds of commercial products have sprung from LLNL intellectual property with annual sales of those products exceeding $400M.
PARC

A premier center for commercial innovation, PARC, a Xerox company, is in the business of breakthroughs. We work closely with global enterprises, entrepreneurs, government agencies and partners, and other clients to invent, co-develop, and bring to market game-changing innovations by combining imagination, investigation, and return on investment for our clients.
For 40 years, we have lived at the leading edge of innovation, merging inquiry and strategy to pioneer technological change. PARC was incorporated in 2002 as a wholly owned independent subsidiary of Xerox Corporation – enabling us to continue pioneering technological change but across a broader set of industries and clients today.
Companies around the world come to PARC so they can see their opportunities become reality… and generate revenue. They value us for our scientific rigor, industry knowledge, proven track record, IP portfolio, and comprehensive research and prototyping facilities – resources found nowhere else in a single organization – so they can accelerate their time to market, reduce risk, and build new revenue streams with lasting competitive advantage.

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BART
The BART Embarcadero station is a 2-min walk from The Landmark Building and Autodesk Gallery. Four of the five BART lines serve the Embarcadero station, so getting there and back is a breeze. BART stations provide free parking after 3p, so find the station that is closest to you at www.bart.gov.Then, ride BART.
CARPOOL
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PARKING
Google Maps show several parking options. http://bit.ly/cAa9Dy. Prices vary.
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Rincon Center, 121 Spear Street, SFO

Evening rate (5p to 12a, weekday)
$10.00 regardless of length

Embarcadero Center, 3 Embarcadero Center, SFO

Evening rate (5p to 12a, weekday)
$3.00 / hour

75 Howard Garage, 75 Howard Street, SFO

Evening rate (4p to 11p, weekday)
$8.00 regardless of length

De-Classifying Education: How Entrepreneurs Are Expanding the Boundaries of Global Learning Beyond the Classroom
2010-11-16 18:00 - 20:30 | Arbuckle Lounge and Bishop Auditorium at Stanford Business School, Stanford, CA, United States
De-Classifying Education **Video Available**
How entrepreneurs are expanding the boundaries of global learning beyond the classroom

When

Tuesday, November 16, 2010
6:00pm – 7:00pm – Networking and Refreshment
7:00pm – 8:30pm – Panel Discussion and Q/A

Where

Arbuckle Lounge and Bishop Auditorium at Stanford Business School

Event Description:
The best education has traditionally been reserved for the elite, but the advancements in technology promise to break down the barriers to knowledge. According to data from the National Center for Education Statistics – in 1996, about two-thirds of public schools had Internet access and by 2003 even least funded schools could boast near universal access to the Internet.Entrepreneurs are introducing platforms for social networks, user-focused learning, and real-time participation. Many of these innovators believe they may have the “golden goose” of education which allows structured information to be better disseminated. As the VC’s are seeking profit in higher institutions and abandoning K-12 to government grants and well-known philanthropists, these renegade entrepreneurs are walking away with some healthy profits.
Meet these visionary entrepreneurs who are creating a brighter tomorrow by leveraging today’s technology as they address questions such as

Can programs initially funded by grants establish strong enough business models to make them sustainable and ultimately profitable?
Can online education be as engaging as the physical classroom?
Are these claims a new line of the “same old rhetoric” or will entrepreneurs be able to change a seemingly “hopeless” industry and finally be able to make lasting changes
How to be profitable while revolutionizing the field of education?

On November 16, we will convene a panel of education entrepreneurs, visionaries, and established defenders of the status quo to discuss disruptive innovations in education.

MODERATOR

Lisa Petrides, President and Founder of the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education

Lisa Petrides, Ph.D. is president and founder of the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (www.iskme.org) an independent, nonprofit research institute in Half Moon Bay, CA, that conducts social science research in education, develops research-based innovations, and facilitates field building to improve knowledge sharing. Petrides has led research that contributes to the ways in which those in both K-20 formal and informal education foster the creation and sharing of information, apply it to well-defined problems, and create knowledge-driven environments focused on improved learning and organizational success. She also brings extensive experience as an innovator working at the forefront of understanding how developments in open source, social networking, resource use, and social media can impact—and already have impacted—educational practice and policy. This includes the creation of OER Commons (www.oercommons.org), an open source teaching and learning network that supports and facilitates the creation, sharing, and modification of open educational resources. Dr. Petrides is a former visiting scholar at Stanford University and professor in the Department of Organization and Leadership at Columbia University, Teachers College. She received a Ph.D. in Education from Stanford University and an MBA from Sonoma State University, and was a postdoctoral fellow in Educational Policy Research Division at Educational Testing Service. Petrides is widely published and has given many keynote addresses.

PRESENTER

Osman Rashid, CEO and Co-Founder, Kno, Inc.Osman Rashid, is a serial entrepreneur and pioneer in education technology. His first foray into this market was in 2003 with Chegg.com,the leading online textbook rental service, as its co-founder, founding CEO and remains its chairman. In 2009, Rashid co-founded and became the CEO of Kno, Inc., Kno.com. Kno is a digital textbook tablet and education platform launched in June 2010. Previously, he held founder and executive roles at software companies. Osman received the 2009 Ernst& Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Rashid received his BS in electrical engineering from University of Minnesota and originates from Pakistan. Osman is married to Renee and they have two daughters who will go to college and learn everything there is to know, on the Kno.

PANELISTS

Salman Khan, Founder of Khan Academy

Salman (Sal) Khan is the founder and faculty of the Khan Academy–a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. Most known for its collection of over 2000 videos produced by Sal, which are now the most used video education resource on the Internet (over 1.1 million unique visitors this past month), the Khan Academy also offers software for practice and assessment and has developed into a full virtual school. Salman was recently profiled in Fortune Magazine as “Bill Gates’ Favorite Teacher” and the Khan Academy now has the Bill and Melinda Gates as their primary funder. As part of the 10^100 initiative to fund ideas that will change the world, Google recently awarded the Khan Academy $2 million to translate the content into the world’s major languages and further build out the virtual school. Prior to starting the Khan Academy, Sal worked as a senior analyst for two Bay Area hedge funds. Sal has an MBA from Harvard Business School. He also has three degrees from MIT: an M.Eng. and B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science and a B.S. in mathematics.

Glen Moriarty, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder NIXTY

Glen Moriarty, chief executive officer, brings educational and marketing expertise gained over years of service in the academic and software industries. Moriarty is responsible for the strategy, direction, and growth of NIXTY. He co-founded Scholar360 (now Edvance360) in 2005 and grew the company into a leading provider of elearning software and services. He wanted to something truly disruptive, so along with his co-founders, he launched NIXTY. NIXTY combines powerful technology with open education to meet the outrageous goal of empowering education for everyone. Moriarty believes that the future of education will be transformed through collaboration, technology, and globalization. He lives with his wife, Nicole, and their three children Colin, Madeleine, and Avery in Virginia Beach, VA.
Philip Bronner, Novak Biddle Venture Partners

Philip Bronner joined Novak Biddle Venture Partners in 1999 and is focused on investments in information technology. Prior to joining Novak Biddle he founded a media technology company. In addition, he served as a management consultant with McKinsey & Co. in New York advising high-tech clients on corporate strategy and worked as a software engineer at IBM. Phil earned a BS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University; a Juris Doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Law; and a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Phil currently serves on the Alumni Advisory Board for Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science and is a board member for In2Books, a Washington, DC-based reading and literacy program.

Entrepreneurs: Uncensored - Legal Series 2
2010-10-26 18:00 - 20:30 | SNR Denton, 1530 Page Mill Road, Suite 200, Palo Alto, CA, 94304-1125, United States
VLAB and SNR Denton present Entrepreneurs Uncensored – Legal Series!
Speaker Series 2 – ‘Internet Security for Startups: Enforcement and Compliance.’ Presented by John P. Tomaszewski, Shane McGee, Tarique Mustafa, Matthew Prince and Ethan Kurzweil

When
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
6:00PM to 7:00PM – Registration and Networking
7:00PM to 8:15PM – Main Event
Where

SNR Denton
1530 Page Mill Rd.
Suite 200
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1125

Event Description:
This three part series provides entrepreneurs business, tactical and legal education. Presented by experienced industry CEOs, venture capitalists and lawyers, the series will offer insights on cutting-edge issues faced by entrepreneurs today.
Series 2: Internet Security for Startups: Enforcement and Compliance
If your startup transmits, handles, or stores sensitive information using the Internet, do you know the rules and industry standards around how you must collect, use, protect, disclose and manage that information? On the compliance side, what are the requirements for content protection, incident response, breach notification, privacy, and records management related to personally identifiable information? Do your colleagues know the best practices to protect your intellectual property?
Panelists from an online security company, a global law firm and a major venture capital fund will answer these questions. You will get advice on the issues surrounding transmitting and storing personally identifiable information, user-generated content, intellectual property, and other types of content.

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Moderator

* John P. Tomaszewski, General Counsel, TRUSTe
Speakers
* Ethan Kurzweil, Vice President, Bessemer Venture Partners
* Tarique Mustafa, Founder/CEO/Chairman, nexTier Networks
* Shane McGee, Partner, SNR Denton
* Matthew Prince, CEO & Co-Founder, CloudFlare
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Detailed Bios
John P. Tomaszewski, General Counsel, TRUSTe

John is responsible for all of TRUSTe’s legal affairs and for providing legal and business counsel to the Chief Executive Officer and the Board of Directors. He also ensures that the organization’s online safety programs are built on a strong legal framework. John makes certain that TRUSTe’s enforcement and compliance efforts are thorough, transparent, and defensible.
Prior to joining TRUSTe, while in private practice, John served as Chief Privacy Officer of CheckFree Corporation (now Fiserv) and has provided advice to companies on secure eCommerce. He frequently lectures on secure e-commerce and public key infrastructure (PKI). John graduated from St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio, Texas, where he was the solicitations editor of the Law Journal. He completed his undergraduate work at the University of Texas, Austin.
Shane McGee, Partner, SNR Denton
Shane is a partner in the Internet and Data Protection practice of SNR Denton’s Washington, DC office. Shane also manages investigations, computer forensics and Denton’s electronic discovery lab to help his clients respond to discovery requests and subpoenas. He helps clients create, implement, and maintain programs to protect intellectual property and litigates against infringers.
Shane counsels clients on issues involving information technology systems and the Internet, including incident prevention and response; identifying and mitigating liability for unsecured systems; and regulatory compliance. Shane’s experience includes auditing websites and other information portals; responding to FTC inquiries regarding companies’ privacy policies and practices; and negotiating settlements for alleged violations of privacy policies.
He received his J.D. from the University of Cincinnati where he was a student articles editor for the University of Cincinnati Law Review. Shane has served on the International Trademark Association’s (INTA) Special Committee on the Internet and Meetings Committee.
Ethan Kurzweil, Vice President, Bessemer Venture Partners
Ethan Kurzweil focuses on consumer-Internet, Internet-services, mobile and Web-technology investments. Ethan managed Bessemer’s investments in Playdom (acquired by Disney), Zoosk, Crowdflower, ReputationDefender and Goodmail. He is a board observer for those companies as well as for Smule, Billshrink, Delivery Agent, MashLogic and Nominum. He is on the board of OpenCandy and Mailrank, an internal BVP incubation.
Prior to joining Bessemer, Ethan worked at Linden Lab, the creator of Second Life. He held positions at Dow Jones & Co., culminating in identifying and launching new business ventures. He also managed the turnaround of the international editions of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones’ acquisition of Factiva.
Ethan earned an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School and a BA in economics from Stanford University. While an undergraduate, Ethan co-founded S-S-B Technologies (now SSB-Bart Group), a provider of software and services that make the Web accessible to users with disabilities, and served as founding director of business development.
Tarique Mustafa, Founder/CEO/Chairman, nexTierNetworks
Previous to nexTier Networks, Tarique founded Network Utilities that built a wireless infrastructure and security platform. Tarique was the CTO of Andes Networks that offered a SSL Security Appliance that was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2003. Most recently, Tarique served as Principal Architect at Nevis Networks where he was responsible for building next generation Security Monitoring and Security Event Correlation technology for Intrusion Detection/Prevention (IDS/IPS) and SSL/IPSec.
Tarique has held key technical positions with Symantec, DHL Airways, MCI WorldCom and EDS. Tarique has several patents pending and has published many research publications in areas of computer and network security, software architecture and database technologies.
Tarique holds master’s degrees in Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Southern California (USC) and was awarded the Rotary International Scholarship for Computer Science studies from USC based on his doctoral studies in Computer Science.
Matthew Prince, CEO & Co-Founder, CloudFlare
Matthew wrote his first computer program when he was 7, and hasn’t been able to shake the bug since. After attending the University of Chicago Law School, he worked as an attorney for one day before jumping at the opportunity to be a founding member of a tech startup. He hasn’t looked back. CloudFlare is Matthew’s third entrepreneurial venture. On the side, Matthew teaches Internet law as an adjunct professor, and is a certified ski instructor and regular attendee of the Sundance Film Festival.
Matthew holds a degree in English and Computer Science from Trinity College. He graduated with highest honors from the Harvard Business School where he was a George F. Baker Scholar and was awarded the Dubliner Prize for Entrepreneurship. He earned a JD from the University of Chicago and is a member of the Illinois Bar. He teaches technology law as an adjunct professor at the John Marshall Law School where he serves on the Board of Advisors for the Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law. He is also the co-founder of Project Honey Pot, an open source community of more than 100,000 web administrators tracking online fraud and abuse.

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Blue Tech: Is Water's Dry Spell Over?
2010-10-19 18:00 - 20:30 | Arbuckle Lounge and Bishop Auditorium at Stanford Business School, Stanford, CA, United States
Blue Tech: Is Water’s Dry Spell Over? **Video Available**
An exclusive event hosted by MIT/Stanford Venture Lab and Imagine H20

When

Tuesday, October 19, 2010
6:00pm – 7:00pm – Networking and Refreshment
7:00pm – 8:30pm – Panel Discussion and Q/A

Where

Arbuckle Lounge and Bishop Auditorium at Stanford Business School

Event Description:
Current water technologies are not effectively delivering what is needed by the world: more water, cleaner water, at lower cost and less energy. Evidence continues to build that an increasing number of places need more useable water. Entrepreneurs and their new, more effective technologies are poised to disrupt the status quo, to help provide relief from a growing water crisis in some places.

The world’s population
tripled between 1900 and 2000
; water use grew six fold. World demand for water will likely continue to outpace population growth creating a rare, explosive opportunity for entrepreneurs; experts predict the human population will grow 25% to 7.5 billion by 2020. Consider what that will do to the world’s need for water. Entrepreneurs are needed and many are already seeing opportunities in this worldwide, growing market. And, the lessons shared at the event can help others facing similar large-scale challenges in areas such as energy.Please join us for a fresh look at water, the next big focus in cleantech.

Topics to Be Explored:

Why are there so few VC investments in water given the demonstrated need for new solutions?
Are there opportunities for IT to play a bigger role in water?
Where and what are the biggest opportunities in water for entrepreneurs?
What can cleantech entrepreneurs learn from water start-ups?

Moderator

Susan Leal, Harvard University, Senior Fellow; Co-author of “Running out of Water”

Presenter* & Panelists

David Stanton*, APTwater, CEO & President
Aaron H. Mandell, Oasys Water, Co-Founder, CEO and President
Lee Ng, PhD., Siemens Technology-to-Business Center, Director of Venture Technology
Chris Berkner, PureSense, Chief Executive Officer

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MODERATOR

Susan Leal, Harvard University, Senior Fellow; Co-author of “Running out of Water”
Leal has just completed a book exploring the solutions to the world’s impending water crisis. She co-authored the book with Harvard’s Engineering Professor Peter Rogers. They combine their managerial and academic backgrounds to provide their prescription for the crisis. The book Running Out of Water (published by Macmillan) was released in late August 2010.Prior to the fellowship, Leal ran the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC). The SFPUC delivers water to 2.5 million customers in the San Francisco Bay Area and also provides hydroelectric and clean renewable power to the Bay Area and California Central Valley communities.
Leal earned a B.A. in economics and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a member of the District of Columbia bar, the Advisory Board of the Department Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley and is an Associate of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard.

PRESENTER

David Stanton, APTwater, CEO & President
Mr. Stanton joined APTwater, Inc. as President and Chief Executive Officer in 2010. Before joining APTwater, Inc., Mr. Stanton held the positions of Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer for SouthWest Water Company.Previously, Mr. Stanton served as an Executive Vice President of Earth Tech, Inc., a division of Tyco International. At Earth Tech, Mr. Stanton led the International Asset Management Division focused on design, build, operation and financing of water and wastewater projects worldwide. He also served as Earth Tech’s interim Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development where he was responsible for all financial functions and acquisition growth strategies focused on water technology and service companies.
He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.

PANELISTS

Aaron H. Mandell, Oasys Water, Co-Founder, CEO and President

Aaron Mandell co-founded Oasys Water, Inc. in 2008 where he currently serves as President and CEO. His business career began as the co-founder of GreatPoint Ventures, an early stage venture creation firm, and since then has expanded to the founding of several cleantech/energy companies including GreatPoint Energy (coal gasification), Coskata (waste-to-fuels), and Altarock (enhanced geothermal power).With a devoted interest in the water industry and a technical background in groundwater hydrology and environmental engineering, Aaron has had the opportunity to work with and learn from two world-renowned water scientists; Dr. George Pinder, regarded as the father of groundwater modeling and Dr. Gideon Dagan, recipient of the 1998 Stockholm Water Prize. Aaron obtained his B.S. and M.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Vermont and has held visiting scientist appointments at MIT and Tel-Aviv University.

Lee Ng, PhD., Siemens Technology-to-Business Center, Director of Venture Technology

Lee Ng is the Director of Venture Technology at Siemens Technology-to-Business Center based in Berkeley, California.

Dr. Ng joined Siemens Technology-to-Business Center in 2009 to fund innovative technology ideas and early stage startups. She leverages her experience to develop new technologies and launch new business ventures for TTB. Her current focus lies in industrial automation, drive technologies, water and energy. Before Siemens, Lee worked at Agilent Central Research Laboratories as the Business Director of New Business Creation. Prior to that, she was at Hewlett Packard and Ampersand Ventures.

Lee holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Engineering from MIT, with minors in economics, finance, and strategy.

Chris Berkner, PureSense, Chief Executive Officer

Chris Berkner has extensive experience in start-up management including business analysis and software development. He founded AnalyViz, a 7-person consulting company that specialized in business intelligence dashboards. His diverse client base included AIG, Pfizer, and Avery-Dennison. Previously, he was Vice President of Systems and Programming Guinness Telli*Phone Corp., where he spearheaded the launch of the company’s first three products.For over 19 years, Chris has engaged his passion for green technology and renewable energy. He has held a renewable energy research internship at Stanford’s Material Science Deapartment where he discovered a new method for controlling pore size in organic nanostructured materials for photovoltaics. He also spent a summer at Princeton University studying the economic and environmental implications of Brazil’s biomass energy program. Chris graduated with honors from UC Santa Cruz with a B.A. in Business Economics. In addition, he has taken extensive coursework in chemistry and engineering at San Francisco State University and UC Berkeley.

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Entrepreneurs: Uncensored - Legal Series
2010-09-28 18:00 - 20:30 | Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, 1530 Page Mill Road, Suite 200, Palo Alto, CA, 94304-1125, United States
VLAB and Sonnenschein present Entrepreneurs Uncensored – Legal Series
Speaker Series 1 – ‘Top 10 mistakes entrepreneurs should avoid when launching a startup’. Presented by Drew Houston, Dave McClure and Carl Showalter.

When
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
6:00PM to 7:00PM – Registration and Networking
7:00PM to 8:15PM – Main Event
Where

Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal
1530 Page Mill Rd.
Suite 200
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1125

Event Description:
This three part series provides entrepreneurs business, tactical and legal education. Presented by experienced industry CEOs, venture capitalists and lawyers, the series will offer insights on cutting-edge issues faced by entrepreneurs today.
Series 1: Top 10 mistakes entrepreneurs should avoid when launching a startup
Many startup ideas fail to ever be launched and many, many fail within the first year or two. By knowing what not to do before launching a venture, an entrepreneur can convert that knowledge into a recipe for success just by negating. Come join us as our star panel discusses the common mistakes that lead to startup failures.

Moderator

* Craig Menden – Partner – Corporate Practice, Venture Capital/Emerging Growth Company Group, Sonnenschein

Speakers

* Drew Houston – CEO, Cofounder – DropBox
* Dave McClure – Angel Investor, Founder of Startup2Startup and GeeksOnaPlane

* Carl Showalter – General Partner, Opus Capital

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mHealth: Jailbreaking Health Care
2010-09-21 18:00 - 20:30 | Arbuckle Lounge and Bishop Auditorium at Stanford Business School, Stanford, CA, United States
mHealth: Jailbreaking Health Care

When

Tuesday, September 21, 2010
6:00pm – 7:00pm – Networking and Refreshment
7:00pm – 8:30pm – Panel Discussion and Q/A

Where

Arbuckle Lounge and Bishop Auditorium at Stanford Business School

Event Description:
mHealth, or Mobile Health, promises to revolutionize the delivery of health care around the globe. As cell phones, smartphones, and other mobile devices become more ubiquitous and integrated into our daily lives, does that mean diagnosing, treating, or preventing disease could be a click away anywhere in the world?
On the iPhone platform alone, there are 2,228 applications that fall under the medical category and entrepreneurs have already started to develop the next wave of innovative medical applications across the Android, Windows Mobile, iPhone, and on proprietary medical device platforms. How can entrepreneurs embrace this mobile medical revolution?
Topics to Be Explored:
* Will mobile technology reduce in-person doctor visits and help mitigate the doctor shortage?
* Will mobile wellness applications motivate people to focus on preventative health?
* Can mHealth help developing countries by providing access to medical care to almost anyone simply through a cell phone connection?
* How can mHealth technology companies navigate the current health care system including regulatory bodies such as the FDA, HIPAA and data privacy policies, and the payer reimbursement model?
Moderator
Dr. Chris Wasden, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Managing Director, Strategy & Innovation, Health Industries Advisory
Presenter
Wilson To, Mobilife, Founder
Panelists
Anand K. Iyer, Ph.D., MBA, Well Doc, President and CEO
Patrick Chung, Partner, NEA
Michelle Snyder, SVP Strategic Marketing, Epocrates

Entrepreneurs: Uncensored 3
2010-07-27 18:00 - 20:30 | Arbuckle Lounge and Bishop Auditorium at Stanford Business School, Stanford, CA, United States
VLAB presents Entrepreneurs Uncensored!
Speaker Series 6 – ‘How I Pivoted to Success Through Effective Iteration and Innovation’. Speakers from Google, IDEO and Kleiner Perkins. The last of the six part speaker series highlighting the valley’s boldest entrepreneurs.

When
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
6:00PM to 7:00PM – Registration and Networking
7:00PM to 8:15PM – Main Event
Where

Arbuckle Lounge and Bishop Auditorium at Stanford Business School

Event Description:
Successful companies start off with a business model that seems to make sense. But the key to their success lies in innovatively iterating their business model to one that helps them scale and exit. So join us for the final chapter of our Entrepreneurs Uncensored series as we take a look at what it takes to build a successful business. We have an all star panel lined up with Marissa Mayer (Google), Tim Brown (IDEO) and Randy Komisar (Kleiner Perkins & Getting to Plan B).

Moderator

Ravi Belani – Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Speakers

Marissa Mayer, VP Search Product and User Experiece, Google
Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO
Randy Komisar, Partner at Kleiner Perkins and Author of Getting to Plan B
Bios

Marissa Mayer, VP Search Product and User Experiece, Google
Marissa leads the company’s product management efforts on search products – web search, images, news, books, products, maps, Google Earth, Google Toolbar, Google Desktop, Google Health, Google Labs and more.
She joined Google in 1999 as Google’s first female engineer and led the user interface and web server teams at that time. Her efforts have included designing and developing Google’s search interface, internationalizing the site to more than 100 languages, defining Google News, Gmail, and Orkut, and launching more than 100 features and products on Google.com. Several patents have been filed on her work in artificial intelligence and interface design. In her spare time, Marissa also organizes Google Movies – outings a few times a year to see the latest blockbusters – for 6,000+ people (employees plus family and friends).
Concurrently with her full-time work at Google, Marissa has taught introductory computer programming classes at Stanford to more than 3,000 students. Stanford has recognized her with the Centennial Teaching Award and the Forsythe Award for her outstanding contribution to undergraduate education.
Marissa has been featured in various publications, including Newsweek (“10 Tech Leaders of the Future”), Red Herring (“15 Women to Watch”), Business 2.0 (“Silicon Valley Dream Team”), BusinessWeek, and Fast Company. In 2008, at 33, Marissa became the youngest woman ever to be included on Fortune’s Most Powerful Women list (#50).
Graduating with honors, Marissa received her bachelor’s degree in symbolic systems and her master’s degree in computer science from Stanford University. For both degrees, she specialized in artificial intelligence. She also holds an honorary doctorate of engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology.

Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO
Tim Brown is CEO and president of IDEO. An industrial designer by training, Tim has earned numerous design awards and has exhibited work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Axis Gallery in Tokyo, and the Design Museum in London. He takes special interest in the convergence of technology and the arts, as well as the ways in which design can be used to promote the well being of people living in emerging economies.
Tim advises senior executives and boards of Fortune 100 companies and has led strategic client relationships with such organizations as the Mayo Clinic, Microsoft, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble, and Steelcase. He is a board member of the Mayo Innovation Advisory Council and the Advisory Council of Acumen Fund, a not-for-profit global venture fund focused on improving the lives of the poor. Additionally, he writes extensively, with articles in the Harvard Business Review, The Economist, and other prominent publications. His book on how design thinking transforms organizations, Change By Design, was released by HarperBusiness in September 2009.

Randy Komisar, Partner at Kleiner Perkins and Author of Getting to Plan B
Randy Komisar joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 2005 as a partner. For several years prior, Randy worked with entrepreneurs creating businesses with leading-edge technologies.
He was a co-founder of Claris Corporation, served as CEO for LucasArts Entertainment and Crystal Dynamics, and acted as a “virtual CEO” for such companies as WebTV and GlobalGiving. He is a founding director of TiVo and serves on the Global Advisory Board for the UCSB Institute for Energy Efficiency. Earlier, Randy served as CFO of GO Corporation and Senior Counsel for Apple Computer, following a private practice in Technology Law.
Randy holds a BA in Economics from Brown University and a JD from Harvard Law School. He is a lecturer on entrepreneurship at Stanford University and author of the best-selling book The Monk and the Riddle, as well as several articles on leadership and entrepreneurship. He is also the co-author of a new book on managing innovation, Getting to Plan B. Randy frequently speaks here and abroad on such topics.

Ravi Belani, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Ravi Belani is an Associate at Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Ravi also led the firm’s investments in Komli and Pubmatic. Prior board directorships include TinyPictures (acquired by Shutterfly, NASDAQ: SFLY) and Personiva (acquired by Glam Media). Ravi brings experiences with new ventures and established firms to his role. Prior to Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Ravi worked in product management at software startup Zaplet (acquired by MetricStream). Ravi has also worked in product management at enterprise software company Extensity (IPO’d then acquired by GEAC) as a Mayfield Fellow. As a management consultant at McKinsey and Company’s San Francisco office, Ravi worked with Fortune 500 hi tech and biotech companies on a range of strategic issues, including market attractiveness assessments, pricing, channel strategy, and new product development processes. He has also worked at Medtronic on wireless communication technologies for remote patient monitoring and in equity research at Bridgewater Associates.
Ravi is a Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi graduate of Stanford University, holding a BS with Distinction and MS in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management. Ravi also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. As a Board Fellow at Harvard, Ravi served the Global Board of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs). Ravi is also a graduate of the Kauffman Fellows Program.
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Entrepreneurs: Uncensored 2
2010-06-22 18:00 - 20:30 | Fenwick & West LLP, 801 California Street, Mountain View, CA, 94041, United States
Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Fenwick & West and VLAB present Entrepreneurs – Uncensored!
Speaker Series 5 – ‘How to negotiate a great deal on your term sheet’ with DFJ, Fanbase and Fenwick & West LLP.

When
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
6:00PM to 6:30PM – Registration and Networking
6:30PM to 7:45PM – Main Event
7:45PM to 8:30PM – Networking

Where
Fenwick & West LLP
Silicon Valley Center
801 California Street
Mountain View, California 94041

Event Description:

Term sheets are a vital aspect of any financial agreement when securing angel or venture capital funds. A company will often be obligated to the arrangement for many years so it is important that entrepreneurs understand the “what, why and how” of a term sheet before entering into talks with financiers.

Come join us to learn how to successfully negotiate a term sheet from Warren Packard, Nirav Tolia and Cindy Clarfield.

Online registrations are now closed

There will be some tickets available at the door.
Panel

Warren Packard, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Managing Director
Nirav Tolia, Co-founder & CEO, Fanbase
Cynthia Clarfield Hess, Partner, Corporate Group, Fenwick & West LLP

Bios

Warren Packard, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Managing Director
Warren Packard is a Managing Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He currently serves on the Boards of Anagran, CastTV, EoPlex, Media Lario, Microfabrica, Primet Precision Materials, and SeaMicro. Warren also leads the firm’s investments in BinOptics, CallGate, Hola!, ooma, Ruba, and YeePay. Prior to joining the firm, Warren co-founded Angara Database Systems, a main memory relational database company, which was acquired by Personify. Prior to co-founding Angara, he was an Associate at Institutional Venture Partners, investing in early-stage technology companies. Before IVP, Warren was a Senior Principal Engineer in the Advanced Product Development Group at Baxter International. Warren 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.

Nirav Tolia, Co-founder & CEO, Fanbase

Nirav Tolia is currently co-founder and CEO of Fanbase Inc. Nirav has spent the last 11 years working at early-stage, pioneering consumer Internet companies. His experience lies in the areas of online community, user-generated content, e-commerce and social networking. He has served as an advisor and consultant to several consumer Internet companies, including aSmallWorld, Simply Hired and Zillow.

Nirav was also the co-founder and chief executive officer of Epinions, one of the first Web sites to introduce the mainstream use of online community and user-generated content. Over a four-year period, he successfully raised $45 million in venture financing, led the company to profitability and oversaw its 2003 merger with DealTime. He began his career as an early employee of Yahoo!, working in the production and marketing departments. He also co-founded and served as president of Round Zero, a prominent non-profit organization and networking forum for Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. Nirav is originally from Odessa, Texas.

Cynthia Clarfield Hess, Partner, Corporate Group, Fenwick & West LLP

Ms. Clarfield Hess practices in the firm’s Mountain View, California, headquarters and concentrates on counseling emerging growth companies, venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, and public offerings (representing both companies and underwriters). Ms. Clarfield Hess represents a wide range of high technology companies, ranging from privately held start-ups to publicly traded companies. Ms. Clarfield Hess has lectured on the topics of venture capital investments, start-up company issues and initial public offerings at various seminars sponsored by state bar associations and other organizations. Ms. Clarfield Hess is a member of the State Bars of California, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Oregon. She received her undergraduate education at Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, in 1985. She received her J.D., cum laude, from The Cornell Law School in 1988, where she served on the Cornell International Law Review

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Monitor, Analyze, Control: The Software Side of Energy Efficiency
2010-06-15 18:00 - 20:30 | Arbuckle Lounge and Bishop Auditorium at Stanford Business School, Stanford, CA, United States
Monitor, Analyze, Control: The Software Side of Energy Efficiency **Video Available!**

When

Tuesday, June 15, 2010
6:00pm – 7:00pm – Networking and Refreshment
7:00pm – 8:30pm – Panel Discussion and Q/A

Where

Arbuckle Lounge and Bishop Auditorium at Stanford Business School

Event Description:
Many consider energy efficiency the easiest path to immediate gains in reducing carbon emissions and counteracting the ever-increasing cost of energy. As an example, Al Gore contends that turning American television sets fully off rather than using standby mode will eliminate the need for a 1,000-megawatt coal-fired generating plant.
Be it televisions or office lights, energy use can be dramatically curtailed just by improving the monitoring and control mechanisms through software-enabled solutions developed by today’s entrepreneurs. Venture capitalists recognize the opportunity too, so investments in energy are up; energy efficiency leads the way with 39 funding rounds in first quarter 2010. We see the impact all around us here in California where policy makers and business leaders have understood the importance of energy efficiency for over thirty years, thus leading the nation in reducing energy use on a per capita basis during that period.
Now, a new wave of innovation emerges as increased incentives and market demand drive entrepreneurs to develop energy efficient solutions in which software plays a unique role. Many companies, both large and small, leverage the data-rich ecosystem where every point of energy use now can be monitored, analyzed and controlled. This access to data will change everything from building design to product development to consumer behavior.
Come join us and learn more about the opportunities, changes and implications. This growing sector provides fertile ground for discussion.
Topics to be explored:

What will it take to be a winner in this sector? And, how early will we know who the winners are?

How important are strategic alliances?

Is there room for more start-ups? If so, where?

How will the sector evolve in the coming five years? Continued growth? Consolidation?

What are the implications when every point of energy use can be monitored, controlled and analyzed?

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MODERATOR

Eric Wesoff, Senior Analyst, Greentech Media

Prior to joining Greentech Media, Eric Wesoff founded Sage Marketing Partners in 2000 to provide sales and marketing-consulting services to venture-capital firms and their portfolio companies in the alternative energy and telecommunications sectors. Mr. Wesoff has become a well-known, respected authority and speaker in these fields. He also was the publisher of the Venture Power newsletter, a subscription-only newsletter covering venture-capital investment in renewable energy.

Eric’s expertise covers solar power, fuel cells, biofuels and advanced batteries. His strengths are in market research and analysis, business development and due diligence for investors. He frequently consults for energy startups and Silicon Valley’s premier venture capitalists.

From 1988 to 1996, Eric served as product marketing manager for Siemens Optoelectronics, where he oversaw complex product lines and managed relationships with global customers. He then became the U.S. marketing and sales manger for Akzo Nobel Photonics, which was acquired by JDS Uniphase. Eric later served as the sales director for Dicon Fiber Optics, where he was responsible for selling millions of dollars of fiber-optic telecom-equipment. He has consulted for Merck, JDSU, Coherent, IBM and scores of other firms, governments and organizations.

PRESENTER:

John Steinberg, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, EcoFactor
Prior to founding EcoFactor, John was Director of Corporate Business Development for Electronics for Imaging, where he had a leadership role in $500M in transactions. He was also founder and President of Bebop Incorporated, and co-founded Involved Professionals Against Cancer, a 501(c)(3) stressing hands-on involvement with pediatric cancer patients at Long Beach Memorial Hospital.
John is a graduate of Stanford Law School, where he was an Associate Editor of the Stanford Law Review. He received his undergraduate degree (with honors) from Oberlin College, where he majored in Economics and Government, and was Phi Beta Kappa.
John has been issued 12 US patents for inventions in such diverse fields as digital photography, networked printing, and various mechanical devices. He has served on the Board of Directors of Long Beach Youth Centers and the Board of Advisors of the Tech Coast Venture Network. John has been a featured speaker at multiple cleantech industry events, including the Behavior Energy and Climate Change Conference.

PANELISTS:

Dharmesh Thakker, Vice President, Advanced Technology Ventures
Dharmesh joined ATV in 2007 as a member of the firm’s Cleantech and IT Infrastructure practice areas. He observes on the boards of AltaRock Energy, Calisolar, Nuventix, Qumu, and Sub-one Technology. He is a founding member and Co-President of the Wharton Cleantech and Energy Network and also serves on the Cleantech Advisory Board at TiE.
Dharmesh brings ten years of business development, product strategy and sales experience at start-ups and public companies. Previously, he was the Director of Corporate Business Development at Keynote Systems (NASDAQ: KEYN) where he supported acquisitions in the wireless and video infrastructure sectors and established alliances with H-P, Computer Associates and European VARs. Previously, he was a member of the founding team at InterNetwork (acquired by FinePoint Technologies). He was part of the early strategy consulting team at Manhattan Associates (NASDAQ: MANH), and served briefly in the Investment Banking team at Thomas Weisel Partners.
Dharmesh received his M.B.A. from The Wharton School and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.

Danie
l Yates, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, OPOWER
Daniel Yates is the CEO and Founder of OPOWER, an 85-person Smart Grid and Energy Efficiency software company that partners with utilities to engage their customers to drive large-scale measurable and verifiable reductions in energy usage through a combination of behavioral science, data analytics and software expertise.†
Prior to founding OPOWER, Dan was Founder and CEO of Edusoft, the leading educational software company providing assessment platforms to US public school districts. Dan led the company from inception to national success and sold the 150-person, $20M revenue company to Houghton Mifflin in 2004.
After leaving Houghton Mifflin, Dan embarked on a year-long adventure with his wife, driving from the Arctic Sea in Alaska to the southern tip of South America. During this trip, Dan became aware of the shocking degradation of the environment, and he subsequently resolved to dedicate his life to sustaining what’s left of our beautiful natural world.
In 2009, Dan was named a “Tech Titan” by Washingtonian magazine and was a finalist for the Ernst and Young 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year award for the Greater Washington region.
Dan received his B.A. in Computer Science, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Harvard University.

Da
vid
Hsieh, Vice President of Marketing, Emerging Technologies, Cisco
David Hsieh is a seasoned executive with over 20 years of experience in building and marketing software and services. At Cisco he has marketing responsibility for Cisco’s Emerging Technologies—innovative new businesses created from an internal venture model. Prior to Cisco, Hsieh was a co-founder of FaceTime Communications, a leader in instant messaging solutions for large enterprises. He also served as an VP of Products at WebEx, entrepreneur-in-residence at Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), Vice President of Product Marketing at Sybase and Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and Business Development at LBMS. Hsieh is a graduate of Northwestern University.

The Business of the Brain
2010-05-18 18:00 - 20:30 | Arbuckle Lounge and Bishop Auditorium at Stanford Business School, Stanford, CA, United States
The Business of the Brain **Video Available!**

When

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

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

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

Where

Arbuckle Lounge and Bishop Auditorium at Stanford Business School

Event Description:
Brain-Computer Interfacing (BCI) promises a quantum leap in human interaction with technology—enabling our thoughts and emotions to control devices and enabling devices to know what were “really thinking” and feeling. Currently, there are more than 300 million brain toting people in the United States alone, making the opportunities for BCI products far-reaching.
BCI is bringing fresh and often unexpected perspectives to established industries, from entertainment and transportation to medicine and information systems. In this emergent phase of consumer-related BCI, innovators are redefining sleep management, gaming, user interfacing, courtroom evidence, and national security—and this is only the beginning.
For the first time, neuroscientists and savvy entrepreneurs, from a number of traditionally unrelated industries, are teaming up to move BCI technology out of research and medical labs and into our everyday lives. The Business of the Brain event will address the challenges and opportunities of this exciting revolution, including limitations of wet sensors, noise interference, government regulation, novel user interfaces, designing industry-specific BCI applications and the cost engineering of current applications.
Meet the minds behind this wave and find out how entrepreneurs are using the way we think to drive the future of technology.

MODERATOR

Christie Nicholson
Freelance Science Journalist; Contributing Editor, Scientific American
Christie Nicholson is a science journalist based in New York. She hosts and produces Scientific American’s 60-Second Psych, which covers the latest research in neuroscience. Last year she participated in Discovery Channel’s Neuroethics Salon, that culminated in her co-authoring a Nature paper on communicating ethical issues in neuroscience. This year she spoke on brain-machine interfaces at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, TX. She is an on-air contributor to Web and TV shows on Slate, Scientific American, Discovery Channel and the Science Channel. A graduate of Columbia University’s School of Journalism, she co-created the “Science of Sex,” that won two Webby Awards. Currently a contributing editor at Scientific American, she teaches Web journalism each summer at the Banff Centre for the Arts.

PRESENTER

David P. Dickinson
President & C.E.O., Zeo, Inc.
After a long career with four Fortune 500 corporations, Dave is now the Chief Executive Officer of Zeo, Inc. (f/k/a Axon Labs), an early stage startup founded by an entrepreneurial team of computer science and engineering students at Brown University.

Prior to Zeo, he was the Chief Operating Officer and a division President/CEO of StemCyte, a global umbilical cord blood stem cell banking company. In addition, Dave has held numerous executive positions including Director and President/CEO of Pericor Science, and Vice President, New Ventures, and Vice President, Global New Business Development/Innovation for the Mead Johnson Nutritionals Division of Bristol-Myers Squibb after starting his career in brand management with Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products and sales with Procter & Gamble. Dave received a B.S. in Industrial Economics from Union College in 1977 and an MBA in Marketing from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management in 1982.

PANELISTS

Lawrence A. Farwell, PhD
Chairman & Chief Scientist, Brain Fingerprinting Laboratories
Dr. Farwell invented Brain Fingerprinting, a scientific technology for detecting concealed information in the brain using EEG. It proved over 99% accurate at the FBI, CIA, and US Navy, was ruled admissible in court, and helped catch a serial killer and free an innocent murder convict.

He invented the first EEG-based brain-computer interface, using EEG to communicate to a computer. He patented a system using brainwaves in detection of Alzheimer’s. He conducted pioneering research using brainwaves to determine the impact of advertising. He is a Harvard graduate, former Harvard research associate, and Chairman and Chief Scientist of Brain Fingerprinting Laboratories, Inc. TIME Magazine selected him to the TIME 100: The Next Wave, the innovators who may be “the Picassos or Einsteins of the 21st Century.”

James Sullivan
VP of World Wide Sales, NeuroSky
James Sullivan brought over 25 years of experience in high-tech sales experience in both hardware and software, to the NeuroSky founding team. Through his success developing OEM/ODM relationships and technology partnerships he was able to identify the unique opportunity of creating a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) platform technology that focuses on usability and low cost.
Prior to NeuroSky Jim was involved in several early stage and start up opportunities, and was part of explosive growth and success on more than one occasion including an IPO and follow on Public Offerings. His success has included tenures at Lanier, Canon, Arrow Electronics, Novell and Nuance Communications.

Timothy Chang
Principal, Norwest Venture Partners
Tim brings a combination of operational, technical and international business experience to NVP. He focuses on investments in mobile, gaming, digital media, and also leads NVP’s investment practice in China and Asia-Pacific. Tim led NVP’s investments in and joined the boards of directors of ngmoco, Lumos Labs, Brite Semiconductor and 3jam. He also led NVP’s investment in PCH International, a turnkey global supply chain services firm based in Shenzhen. Tim is a board observer working closely with Borqs, deCarta, Double Fusion and Veveo.

Jamie Hyneman
Host of Mythbusters and Serial Entrepreneur
Jamie Hyneman is now best known as the host of the Discovery Channel’s Emmy-nominated program, “MythBusters.” He has worked on 800-plus commercials and feature films, holds several patents, has a degree in Russian linguistics from Indiana University, an engineering degree from University of Maine, and a Doctor of Engineering Degree from Villanova University (both honorary). He has been a Screen Actor’s Guild member for over a decade, is a member of the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators, a member of the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society, and a lifetime member of the California Teacher’s Association.

Today, while his work for the Discovery Channel occupies the majority of Hyneman’s professional time, he is actively involved in developing cutting edge technologies and prototypes for a variety of industries, ranging from defense and aerospace to green vehicle design.

The Future of Video
2010-04-27 18:00 - 20:30 | Fenwick & West LLP, 801 California Street, Mountain View, CA, 94041, United States
Draper Fisher Jurvetson and VLAB present a special event – The Future of Video

When
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
6:00PM to 6:30PM – Registration and Networking
6:30PM to 7:45PM – Main Event
7:45PM to 8:30PM – Networking

Where
Fenwick & West LLP
Silicon Valley Center
801 California Street
Mountain View, California 94041

Event Description:
The way we consume video is inexorably changing. YouTube alone sees a full day’s worth of video content (24 hours) uploaded to its servers every minute. The iPhone changed everything in regard to consumption of video on the go and now the iPad is shepherding in a new generation of smart mobile platforms that will enable video consumption to be richer and more flexible than ever seen. Content, conduit, and consumption are all expanding. What will the next phase of the video ecosystem look like and how will it be monetized? What metaphor will dominate how end consumers navigate the unfathomably large volumes of video available? Who will win in the new value chain?

Moderator

David Price, VP Business Devlopment, Harmonic Inc

Panel

Erick Hachenburg, CEO – Metacafe

David McIntosh, CEO – Redux
Margaret Stewart, Head of User Experience – YouTube
Michael Yang, Venture Partner – Comcast Interactive Capital, Former VP Yahoo Media Group
Paul Wehrley, Co-founder and COO of Clicker, former VP Strategy IAC

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David Price, Vice President, Business Development and Corporate Communications – Harmonic Inc
David is responsible for pioneering Harmonic’s leading position in digital video broadcast, contribution, distribution and IP-based delivery technologies. An experienced speaker, he has presented at many conferences throughout the world. He has over 27 years experience in the telecommunications industry and is currently Vice President of the MPEG Industry Forum. Mr. Price was selected in 2003, 2004 and 2009 as one of the “Euro 50” by Cable & Satellite Europe. Originally, an electronics engineer on the design team of the world’s first CAT scan system, he graduated from CIT with a Fellowship MBA and has an Honors Bachelors degree in Cybernetics, Instrument Physics and Mathematics.

Erick Hachenburg, CEO – Metacafe
Erick brings more than 15 years of experience in market creation, global expansion, operations and publishing to his role as Metacafe CEO.

Prior to joining Metacafe, Erick was Electronic Art’s senior vice president of global online publishing and managing director of EA China. In this role, he developed and led key strategic initiatives, including the company’s entry into the digital distribution of retail games. Erick joined EA following the company’s 2001 acquisition of Pogo.com, the industry leader in the casual games market that he founded and built to nearly 1.5 million subscribers.

Erick began his career as an intellectual property attorney at Fenwick & West. He holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a BS in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois.
David McIntosh, CEO – Redux

David is the founder and CEO of Redux, a crowd sourced video company that taps into users’ friends and people that share their interests to deliver a uniquely addictive and personalized entertainment experience. David previously co-founded the mobile photo sharing site, Fotodunk, which was acquired by iLike, and while at Prosper, built most of the site’s loan performance visualizations. BusinessWeek named Mr.McIntosh one of the top 25 US Entrepreneurs under 25 in 2007.

Margaret Stewart, Head of User Experience – You Tube

Margaret Gould Stewart manages the User Experience Team for YouTube. Prior to that, she spent two years leading Search and Consumer Products UX at Google.
Margaret has been a practitioner and manager in the field of User Experience for over 10 years. After graduating from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program in 1995, Margaret consulted extensively with New York media companies such as the New York Times, Time-Warner, and Scholastic to develop many of their first forays into the web.
She subsequently joined Tripod, Inc, the pioneering homepage building site and online community, in 1995 as its first Creative Director. Tripod was acquired by Lycos, Inc in 1998. Margaret served as General Manager of Tripod.com and Angelfire.com, and then as Senior Director of Network Design and Integration for the Lycos Network. In 2005, she joined Wachovia as its Web Usability Manager. She relocated to California in early 2007 to join Google, and in early 2009 moved to YouTube to lead their user experience team. Over the course of her career, Margaret has had the privilege of managing the user experience of 5 top 10 most visited websites in the world.
Margaret has served on the jury for the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards, and is a frequent speaker about design, user experience, creative management, and the changing landscape of media at a variety of industry events such as the TED Conference, Adaptive Path’s Managing Experience Conference, and The Future of Design Conference at the University of Michigan.

Michael Yang, Venture Partner – Comcast Interactive Capital
Michael is a Venture Partner at CIC based in our Silicon Valley office. He is involved in sourcing, identifying, and evaluating new investment opportunities and is actively part of the decision making process at the fund. Prior to joining CIC, Michael was a Vice President/General Manager at Yahoo! in the Media Group as well as the Local Markets & Commerce Division. During his tenure at Yahoo!, he managed Yahoo! Autos, Yahoo! Real Estate and Yahoo! Health; co-led Yahoo! Shopping; and was part of the team that formed Yahoo!’s strategic alliance with the Newspaper Consortium. Previously, he was a Principal with Atlas Venture, a trans-Atlantic venture capital firm, where he focused on early stage enterprise software and IT investments in New England. Earlier in his career, he served as senior director of product marketing and business development for Zaplet, a venture-backed collaboration software company, and was a member of AOL’s Business Affairs team which focused on e-commerce and interactive marketing partnerships. Michael graduated from Harvard University with an MBA. He also graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BS in Economics from The Wharton

Paul Wehrley, Co-founder and COO – Clicker
Paul leads all business operations functions at Clicker. Prior to founding Clicker, Paul spent nine years at Ask.com / IAC in both operational and M&A roles. As Ask’s VP Strategy & Operations, he oversaw the Ask P&L, drove its strategic planning process, and managed the company’s business development group. Previously, as Ask’s VP Corporate Development, he completed over 15 M&A transactions, including the acquisitions of Teoma Technologies, Interactive Search Holdings, and Bloglines. Before working at Ask, Paul was a Financial Analyst in the mergers & acquisitions group at Volpe Brown Whelan & Co, a San Francisco-based technology investment bank. Paul holds a BA in Economics from Stanford University. rd University.

Innovation, Inspiration, and Fundraising: Secret Recipes from Leading VCs
2010-04-26 18:00 - 20:30 | Fenwick & West LLP, 801 California Street, Mountain View, CA, 94041, United States
Innovation, Inspiration and Fundraising – Secret Recipes from Leading VCs
Tips and strategies from leading VC’s in the valley.

When
Tuesday, April 26, 2010
6:00PM to 7:00PM – Registration and Networking
7:00PM to 8:15PM – Main Event
Where

Fenwick & West LLP
801 California Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
Event Description:
Venture capitalists invested $21.8 billion in 3,277 deals in 2010, an increase of 19 percent in dollars and a 12 percent rise in deals over the prior year according to latest MoneyTree Report, which tracks the industry. The rise in venture investments in 2010 represents the first time the annual investment level has increased since 2007.
Now that you have decided to launch a company, how do you ensure that you have the right recipe for a successful business? What does it take for an innovative idea to land a top investor in its early days? How do investors gauge the chances of success for a startup beyond early days? How do they partner with entrepreneurs to ensure a successful exit?
Our event panel, consisting of top notch silicon valley investors, will discuss their secret recipe for picking the right startups early on and helping them become successful businesses.
This event is a special VLAB fundraiser event for Japan Tsunami Relief. All ticket proceeds will be donated to American RedCross.

Moderator

* Peter Sims, Author, “LITTLE BETS”, speaker, and entrepreneur
Speakers
* Howard Hartenbaum, August Capital
* Jeff Clavier, SoftTech VC
* Rob Coneybeer, Managing Director, Shasta Ventures

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Detailed Bios

Peter Sims
Peter Sims is an author, LITTLE BETS, speaker, and entrepreneur. He was the coauthor with Bill George of True North, the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek best-selling book. His next book is Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries, from Simon & Schuster: Free Press. His work has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Tech Crunch, and Fortune and he’s a contributor to the Reuters, Fast Company, and Harvard Business Review blogs. He received an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business where he and several classmates established a popular course on leadership and has had long collaboration with faculty at Stanford’s Institute of Design (the d.school). He frequently speaks or advises at corporations, associations, and universities, including Cisco Systems, Eli Lilly, Current Media, Qualcomm, and Stanford University. Previously, he worked in venture capital with Summit Partners, a leading investment firm, including as part of the team that established the firm’s London Office.
He lives in San Francisco and his great-great-great grandfather, Jacob Gundlach, founded Gundlach Bundschu (GunBun) in Sonoma, California’s oldest family-owned winery, which is run today by his cousins who, unlike Peter, know a lot about wine.

Howard Hartenbaum, Partner, August Capital
Howard Hartenbaum joined August Capital in 2008. Prior to joining, he served as a General Partner at Draper Richards LP where he was the founding investor in Skype and a former member of the board of directors where his achievement resulted in his joining the Forbes Midas List of top venture capitalists.
Before entering the venture capital field, Howard was at Hughes Electronics, where he was responsible for supporting business development, marketing and sales of satellite, information security and automotive technologies developed by HRL Laboratories. He also worked in engineering positions in ergonomics and user experience at Honda Motor Company and manufacturing at Teledyne Relays.
Howard has worked overseas for a total of ten years in Luxembourg and Japan. He is a graduate of M.I.T.
Current Investments: Bubbli, Livemocha, Memolane, Pixazza, and RelayRides.
Previous investments: Skype (acquired by eBay – EBAY), Photobucket (acquired by Fox Interactive Media – NWS), Bebo (acquired by AOL – TWX), Netkraft (acquired by Adea Solutions) and DimDim (acquired by Salesforce.com – CRM)
Jeff Clavier, SoftTech VC
Jean-Francois “Jeff” Clavier is the Founder and Managing Partner of SoftTech VC, one of the most active seed stage investors in Web 2.0 startups. Since 2004, Jeff has invested in close to 100 consumer internet startups (Fund I, Fund II, Fund III) in areas like social media, monetization, search, gaming or B2B/B2C web services. These investments are typically located in Silicon Valley, New-York and Boulder. With over 20 years of operational, entrepreneurial and venture capital experience, Jeff is able to add relevant perspective and value to his companies as they grow from inception to maturity, and hopefully, success.
In 2007, Jeff was recognized as one of the 13 “Web 2.0 King Makers” by (late) Business 2.0. BusinessWeek named him one of “The 25 Most Influential People on the Web” in 2008, and one of the “Top 25 Angels in Tech” in 2010. He was also nominated in the “Best Angel” category at the Crunchies in 2009 and 2010. He is often noted for his investments in categories such as “passion-centric communities” or online gaming, or for having sold a number of his Web 2.0 startups to the likes of Yahoo, AOL, Intuit or more recently Twitter and Groupon.
In September 2007, after successfully investing as a business angel, Jeff announced the formation of SoftTech VC II, L.P. – a $15M seed fund backed by a mix of institutional and private investors to invest in 60+ consumer Internet companies over 3 years.
Some of Jeff’s representative investments include Mint (Intuit), Brightroll, Truveo (AOL), Userplane (AOL), Rapleaf, Ustream, Milo (eBay), Blekko, Eventbrite, Tapulous (Disney), DNANexus, FanBridge, BillFloat,…
Rob Coneybeer, Shasta Ventures
Rob Coneybeer brings to Shasta Ventures deep experience in building startup companies. Prior to co-founding Shasta Ventures, he was a general partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA) where he led 15 early-stage investments in core infrastructure technologies spanning semiconductors, software and networking equipment. Prior to joining the venture capital industry, Rob served as a lead integration and test engineer in the Astro Space division of Martin Marietta. While at Martin Marietta, Rob helped build the first EchoStar spacecraft.
Rob’s current areas of active interest include mobile, wireless, and sensors, as well as technology applications that leverage new infrastructure technologies in novel and creative ways. He is particularly interested in startups that have discovered creative new approaches to connecting the “real world” to the Internet, whether via smartphones, low-cost sensors, or other innovative new devices.
Rob earned a Master of Science in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the University of Virginia. He also holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was named a Palmer Scholar.

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