FountainBlue's Connections Event
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FountainBlue's Connections Events cover today's business, technology and leadership issues for high-tech, clean-tech and life-science decision-makers who are entrepreneurs or executives. It is our intent that FountainBlue's events for executives 1) foster deeper relationships between fellow professionals and 2) stimulate critical thinking on leadership and business issues, which directly and positively impact a leader's decisions and results.
Held on the third Fridays of each month from 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m., FountainBlue's monthly Connections events feature business and technology trends of interest to senior-level entrepreneurs and corporate executives. Topics of interest range from management, policy and business trends to emerging technology and investment trends, all designed to educate and support decision-makers in high-tech, clean-tech and life science industries within Silicon Valley. Notes from previous sessions are available at http://www.fountainblue.biz/resources/connectionsnotes.html. We also welcome your comments on our blog, which are updated with input following each event http://FountainBlue.blogspot.com.
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A typical agenda for our events is posted for your reference:
11:30 - 12:00 Registration, Lunch and Networking
12:00 - 12:05 Welcomes and Thank Yous and Audience Survey
12:05 - 12:40 Interactive Panelist Discussion
12:40 - 1:10 Questions from the Audience
1:10 - 1:15 Final Remarks from the Panelists, Thank Yous and Close
1:15 - 1:30 Additional Networking and Adjourn
Sponsorship
We are grateful for the ongoing support of Fenwick and West, who has supported our Connections series since 2006. We encourage you to consider their services. http://www.fenwick.com.
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This Month's Topic: The Nearshoring Options
For March 16 Connections event, we will describe Nearshoring options, in comparison to off-shoring options, share some Nearshoring success stories from large high-tech, life science companies as well as a smaller start-up's successes. Our experienced panel of experts will also share criteria they use to determine your outsourcing solutions. Come participate in this interactive session, and share your challenges and successes with our esteemed panel:
It is our hope that the discussion at this event will help everyone think about offshoring and Nearshoring options and how they will impact the company's business model in the long-term and in the short term. We hope to make connections between like-minded attendees and to foster ongoing discussions on this and other related topics of interest to entrepreneurs and executives.
This event is complementary for FountainBlue community members who register at
http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=122878 by noon the day before the event. On-site registration is also available for $30.
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| We are grateful to our sponsors Fenwick & West LLP |
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See below for a list of program topics and facilitators for 2007.
| Meeting Date |
Meeting Topic |
Panelists |
| Friday, January 19 |
Business and Technology Predictions for 2007 |
John Verrochi
Steve Bengston, PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Rick Ellinger, WCA
Tom Foremski of SiliconValleyWatcher.com
Fred Greguras, Of Counsel, Fenwick and West |
| Friday, February 16 |
Building a Culture of Leadership and Innovation |
Facilitator Linda Prowse Fosler, Linda Prowse-Fosler and Associates
Panelist Allen Kato, Associate from Fenwick & West
Panelist Barrie Novak, Director of Organization Design & Development, Global Technical Services at Cisco Systems
Panelist Donna Novitsky, partner from Mohr Davidow Ventures
Panelist Ramon Nunez, CEO of MetaLINCS |
| Friday, March 16 |
The Nearshoring Options |
Matt Perez, NearSoft
Panelist Steve Mezak, author of Software without Boundaries
Panelist Brian Higgins, Manager at KLA Tencor |
| Friday, April 20 |
Business Opportunities for Software as a Service Companies |
Antony Awaida, StartLeap |
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See below for a list of prior and upcoming Connections events for 2006.
| Meeting Date |
Meeting Topic |
Panelists |
| Friday, January 20 |
Good Management Practices |
Rossella Derickson and Krista Henley, SBODN and Corporate Wisdom
David Douglass: Partner, Delphi Ventures
Bill Mince: V.P. Operations, Natus Medical
Barbara Scott: Principal, Scott Consulting Team
Mary Walti: Director of Human Resources & OD, Kodak EasyShare Gallery, formerly Ofoto
Andrew Whiteley: CEO, Vitra Bioscience |
| Friday, February 17 |
Lessons Learned from Bad Management Practices |
Kimberly Wiefling, Wiefling Consulting
Hannah Kain, Alom Technologies
Scott Janssen, QA4U
Mike Kanze, Cornerstone Services Inc.
Dr. Tam Nguyen, SDForum SW Engineering Mgmt SIG Co-chair |
| Friday, March 17 |
Trends in 2006: What to Expect and How to Prepare |
Bill Shepard, COO Business Forum
Mitchell Levy, Happy About
Cindy Padnos, Outlook Ventures
Bill Grosso, SD Forum Engineering SIG Chair
Mike Gospe, Kickstart Alliance |
| Friday, April 21 |
Business Models for Open-Source Based Companies |
Greg Olson, Olliance Group
Fred Greguras, Fenwick & West
Paul Doscher, JasperSoft
Pradeep Tagare, Intel Capital |
| Friday, May 19 |
Business Collaboration Tools: Where's the Money? |
Patti Wilson, Career Company
Bob Karr, LinkSV
Eugene Kim, Blue Oxen
Scott McMullen, JotSpot |
| Friday, June 16 |
Emerging Technologies: What's Hot, What's Not |
Bill Grosso, SD Forum Engineering SIG Chair
Dave McClure, 500Hats
Carol Sands, The Angels Forum
Gary Sasaki, Digdia |
| Friday, July 21 |
Successful Mergers and Acquisitions: What Does It Take |
Mike Jones, Onyx Associates
Ken Gonzalez, VP Corporate Development, McAfee
Andrew Luh, Partner, Mergers & Acquisitions Group, Fenwick & West
Dave Petroni, Advisor to Valchemy Inc., former VP Corporate Development, PeopleSoft
Frank Young, Private Equity Investor and CEO, PS Print |
| Friday, August 18 |
Sustainable IT Practices for the Successful Exec |
Stuart Robbins, CIO Collective
Madhukar Govindaraju, SVP of Engineering for Certive, former VP of Engineering for Hyperion
Usha Sekar, former CIO of Fujitsu America and CEO of CriaTech |
| Friday, September 15 |
Starting and Growing a Life Science Company |
Ken Macrae
Ed Amento, Theracos
Sergio Garcia, Fenwick & West
Geetha Rao, Auxoglobal
Dave Whitman, Pharmadyn |
| Friday, October 20 |
Outsourcing Challenges and Solutions |
Dave Gardner, Gardner Associates
Lila Dormishian, Lam Research
Stephen Gillespie, Fenwick & West
Usha Sekar, CEO of CriaTech
Yogen Upadhye, Omnivant |
| Friday, November 17 |
Corporate Governance: What It Means for the Average Exec |
Richard Brenner, Brenner Group
Mark Leahy, Fenwick & West
Leinani Nakamura, Mohler Nixon
Tom Sa, BridgeBank |
| Friday, December 15 |
2006: The Year in Perspective |
Ysabel Duron, "KRON 4 Weekend Morning News", Facilitator
Martin Kan, Silicon Valley Bank
Jay Phillips, Senior VP, Cornish & Carey
Keith Virnoche, Virnoche-Frigon Group at Merrill Lynch |
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