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FountainBlue's High Tech Entrepreneurs' Forum
FountainBlue's High Tech Entrepreneurs' Forum was launched
in March 2006 and provides ongoing networking and program benefits for 40-150
entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and investors across Silicon Valley and beyond.
For this series, we run an annual high-tech funding trends panel in January, an
annual cloud and security event in May, and an annual virtual worlds conference
in September, as well as an annual business analytics event in November. Each
event will feature a panel of entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and investors
speaking on challenges and opportunities and trends, providing advice for
information to all. A summary of past and upcoming topics and speakers and
notes from all our previous sessions are available at
http://www.sventrepreneurs.com. We will be sunsetting the series
following our September 2011 event, and would like to thank and
recognize everyone who has joined us on the panels, as a program
adviser, as a sponsor, and as an attendee. Please complete the form to the right if you would like to be attended to the free mailing list to get updated on trends, open job positions, quotes, and other information of interest to high tech entrepreneurs and executives.
Launched in January 2006, FountainBlue built its reputation of excellence and quality through the monthly entrepreneurial events we ran, and the community of thousands of entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and beyond. We sunsetted all our entrepreneurial events by January 2012, and are focusing on coaching, consulting, and recruiting for our entrepreneurial community. This page lists all the high tech forums we ran from March 2006 through August 2011 and honors all our speakers, sponsors and the community who helped to make them successful. We will continue to serve the high tech entrepreneurial community and invite you to join our free weekly mailing list for more information.
Testimonials about FountainBlue’s
High Tech Entrepreneurs’ Forum
The
speakers were excellent! Based on the attendee intros at the beginning I
had identified two people whom I wanted to meet. When the angel panel wrapped
up, I moved quickly to find the people I had targeted while discovering that
several others were seeking me out as well. Great networking experience!
FountainBlue
has done an excellent job of organizing and executing these events. I've been
impressed with both the quality of the panels and individual speakers and with
the number and quality of attendees. These events continue to provide
great content and the networking opportunities and have been well worth my
time.
FountainBlue's
programs are exceptional because of the relevance and timeliness of the
topics, the quality of speakers combined with the interactive
nature of the programs, and the organized and efficient manner in
which the events are run.
It was a
very well-run event, but also one of the most content-rich, worthwhile
conferences I have been to on this subject.
We would like to thank and honor our panelists for
FountainBlue's 2011 high tech entrepreneurs' forums.
Date
Title
Description
Monday,
January 24, at Hacker Dojo
Third Annual Investment Trends Event: Super
Angels to the Rescue
Facilitator
John Furrier, Silicon Angle
Steve
Hoffman, CEO & Cofounder, LavaMind
Gary
Kremen, serial investor and entrepreneur
Manu
Kumar, Founder and Chief Firestarter, K9 Ventures
Katy
Levinson, Director, Hacker Dojo
As
traditional venture funds and investors become more reticent to fund riskier,
earlier stage projects, Super Angels are beginning to fill early stage
funding gaps. Traditionally led by proven tech execs, angel fund leaders are
now raising funds from corporate partners as well as wealthy individuals to fund
earlier-stage, riskier deals, with high potential for success. Our annual
investment trends event, FountainBlue will feature a panel of Super Angels,
and cover their approach in funding specific high tech sub-industries
including Enterprise Software Solutions, Digital Media Technology, including
visualization, gaming, media analytics, Communications, including networking,
mobile, wireless, and security and Hardware and Semiconductor, including
electronic devices, chip design.
Friday,
May 27 at EMC
Second Annual Event: Trends in
Data Security and Storage
Corporate
Panel:
Facilitator Sheri Osborn,
MineSeeker
Panelist Jay Chitnis, Jay
Chitnis, Director, Business Development & Alliances, Isilon Systems
Panelist Gerhard Eschelbeck,
CTO, WebRoot
Panelist Nasrin Rezai, Senior
Director, Information Security, Cisco
Panelist Prasenjit Sarkar,
Research Staff Member and Master Inventor, IBM Almaden Research Center
Entrepreneur
Panel:
Facilitator Sandy Orlando, VP
Marketing, IP Infusion
Panelist Tyler Bengston,
Director of Product Management, IronKey (secure thumb drives)
Panelist Brian Bulkowski, CEO
& Founder, Citrusleaf
Panelist Andres Kohn, Vice
President of Technology for Proofpoint (secure e-mailing and archiving)
Panelist Ryo Koyama, CEO, YOICS
(remote computer and network management)
Our
second annual trends in data security and storage event will feature the
latest advances in technologies and business processes in the storage and
security space. We will feature a corporate panel, speaking on its strategic
direction and innovations, and an entrepreneur panel, featuring some
up-and-coming technology in the storage and security space.
Friday,
June 3 at eBay
Bi-Monthly Business Analytics
Event: Business Analytics in Consumer Products and Retail
Facilitator
Adrian Ott, CEO, Exponential Edge Inc. and Author, The 24-Hour Customer
Panelist
Darren Bruntz, Senior Director, Analytics Platform & Delivery, eBay
Panelist
Tobin Gilman, Vice President, BI and EPM Product Marketing, Oracle
Panelist
Raj Sen, Group Manager, Multi-Channel Analytics, Adobe
The
common perception about brick-and-mortar stores has changed dramatically over
the last decade or two with the emergence of online solutions and business
analytics. The solutions today are becoming much more sophisticated, and
leading retailers are leveraging business analytics to more efficient deliver
the personalized services online and on-site users demand.
Come
here how technology is changing the way we shop today and for years to come.
Friday,
August 5 at Bay Cafe Clubhouse
Bi-Monthly Business Analytics
Event: Business Analytics in Financial Services
Panelist Satya Kunapuli, Director - Research, Testing and Analytics at
Intuit, Principal at Esskay Solutions Inc.
Panelist Raj Sen, Group Manager, Multi-Channel Analytics, Adobe
Panelist Carl Snyder, Senior Industry Principal, Banking, SAP America
The
financial services industry has always been inundated with data. The current
tread is to personalize and customize the volumes of information dynamically
available to customers, in order to recommend real-time, fact-based decisions
for financial management. Here our diverse panel speak on the opportunities
and challenges in this area.
Friday,
September 30, at location to be confirmed
Third Annual Event: State of the Virtual Worlds
Industry
Facilitator
and Panelists to be confirmed
Our
Third Annual State of the Virtual Worlds Industry conference updates
entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and investors on the successes, challenges and
trends of the industry overall, and showcases corporate and entrepreneurial
virtual world successes. Our trends panel will share the growth of the
industry from the legal, venture, research and corporate perspectives, and
our entrepreneur panel will feature innovative technology and business
solutions from corporations and entrepreneurs successfully leveraging virtual
worlds solutions to better serve their constituents.
Friday,
October 7, 8:30 – 10:30 @ tbd
Business Analytics in Telecommunications
Facilitator
and Panelists to be confirmed
Mobile
solutions are hot, as indicated by the volumes of users and usage data. But
how do we make that usage data relevant for users, advertisers, programmers
and other stakeholders and provide personalized profiles and dynamic
recommendations tailored to the needs of users? Our panel of experts will
focus on the opportunities and challenges in mobile, leveraging business
analytics.
Friday,
December 2, 8:30 – 10:30 at location to be confirmed
We are
in an age of information, where everyone is inundated by volumes of data,
some of which is relevant. The leaders emerging from this era will be able to
real-time collect, analyze, communicate, and most importantly, empower users
to ACT on the data, in collaboration with others. Our first annual trends in
Business Analytics Trends event, we will feature a corporate panel to talk
about technology directions and share strategies and directions companies are
taking in this space, as well as a panel of entrepreneurs and non-tech
companies successfully applying business analytics technologies and processes
to the clean tech, life science and consumer markets.
We would like
to thank and acknowledge our hosts and speakers for our past high tech entrepreneur events and conferences for 2010.
Date
Title
Speakers
Description
Monday,
January 18, at Hacker Dojo
Angel Investor Panel Technology Trends, Conducted in
Partnership with Stanford BASES
Facilitator
Bill Reichert, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures
Panelist
Jim Connor, Board Member, Sand Hill Angels
Panelist
Edward Esber, Angels Forum and Halo Fund
Panelist
Ann Miura-Ko, Partner, Maples Investments, Ph.D. candidate in the Management
Science and Engineering Department at Stanford University
Panelist
Steven Borochoff, Sand Hill Angels
High
Tech angel investors are generally seasoned executives with deep strategic
and operational experience in running successful start-ups as well as
extensive experience within corporations in various roles. Our angel investor
panelists have been seen a wide range of high tech business plans, and have
their own thoughts and recommendations on technology trends for 2010 with thoughts
on what will get funded, where the markets and business is heading, how to be
successful in these challenging times.
As part
of this program, we will also have investor-led small group discussions on
specific high tech sub-industries including Enterprise Software Solutions,
Digital Media Technology, including visualization, gaming, media analytics,
Communications, including networking, mobile, wireless, and security and
Hardware and Semiconductor, including electronic devices, chip design.
FountainBlue
is pleased to launch its spring 2010 Funding Road Trip Series, the first of a
three-month workshop series serving high tech, clean energy and life science
entrepreneurs within Silicon Valley. Begun in spring 2008, our workshop
series is designed to help entrepreneurs think through their company
offerings as well as the market opportunity, and then communicate that
opportunity succinctly and compellingly to strategic investors.
Before you can pitch your company to raise funds or attract strategic
partners and alliances, you have to perfect your positioning. This session provides you with a systematic approach to help you better determine your
all important market definition and value propositions. This program features
a hard-copy, walk-away tool that helps define these for a technology based
start-up company and also includes powerful and practical techniques from
market research pros to validate your customers' real pain points and the
value of your painkiller. Participants will be taught how to use this tool
which is based on a case-study example of a real startup
Panelist
Mihir Nanavati, General Manager, Small Office/Home Office, YouSendIt
Panelist
Donna Novitsky, CEO, BigTent
Experienced
entrepreneurs still standing after the recent tsunami know that you have to
prove you can be resourceful and build product and sign on customers despite
the economic conditions! A popular way to bring in customers, gather feedback
and build momentum is to adopt a free-mium
to premium model, letting most users try basic versions of a solution for
free and incentivizing some to upgrade to full-featured functionality, paying
for the service. But rare is the company that is able to successfully do
this. This panel will feature entrepreneurial companies who have done this
and are willing to share their secrets.
This
hands-on workshop will take entrepreneurs through the process of creating and
delivering a compelling elevator pitch, a one-page executive summary and a
13-15 slide company overview presentation. Working in partnership with fellow
entrepreneurs in similar, non-competing spaces, participating entrepreneurs
will have the opportunity to learn best practices and immediately apply these
learnings to their own companies.
Friday,
May 7, at Cooley Godward
Funding Road Trip Workshop #3: Your Meeting with Investors
Bill
Joos, Go to Market Consulting
During
this third and final invitation-only workshop of our Funding Road Trip
series, Bill Joos will help you understand how to manage the three critical
components of the initial meeting with an investor: your pre-meeting
homework, meeting dynamics and management, and the post-meeting follow up.
Thursday,
June 10, at Symantec
Annual M&A Trends Event
Technology Innovations: An Update on What's New and What's Coming
Facilitator
Steve Bengston, Managing Director, Emerging Technologies, PWC
Rudy
Burger, Managing Partner, Woodside Capital Partners
James
Peacock, Chairman and CEO, NociMed
Roger
Royse, Royse Law Firm PC
Corporate
Development Panel: M&A Successes and Strategies
Facilitator
Edmund Becmer, Partner, CFOs2Go, President, FEI SV Chapter
Shekar
Ayyar, Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development, VMware
Todson
Page, M&A Partner, PWC
Charlie
Rice, VP Corporate Development,
Symantec
Lily
Stoyanovski, Managing Director, Marrod Group, formerly with Oracle, Gilead
Science and Accenture
Entrepreneur
Panel: Secrets for Successful Exits:
Facilitator
Roger Royse, Royse Law Firm PC
Dr.
Aaron Berez, CEO, Chestnut Medical
Steve
Hoffman, Publisher & Cofounder of Founders Space and a Partner in
LavaMind, web games and applications
Betty
Kayton, CFO, AdMarvel (sold to Opera Software), mobile advertising
Lily
Stoyanovski, Managing Director, Marrod Group, formerly with Oracle, Gilead
Science and Accenture
FountainBlue's
first annual Trends in M&A event designed to feature 1)
academics and researchers highlighting some of the latest technologies, 2)
executives profiling their acquisition strategies and 3) entrepreneurs who
had successfully grown their companies from concept to acquisition. This workshop will focus on understanding the business and technology innovations
of today, and position your early stage company for strategic partnerships
and exits for tomorrow.
Friday,
September 24, at Cisco
Second Annual State of the Virtual Worlds Industry
Trends
in the Virtual Worlds Industry: An Update on What’s New and What’s Coming
Facilitator
Jeff Pope, Founding Partner, Spark Sky Ventures
David
Helgason, CEO and Co-Founder, Unity
Chris
Platz, Creative Director and Art Lead, Stanford Sirikata Labs
Eilif
Trondsen, Research and Program Director of the Virtual Worlds @ Work
Consortium at Strategic Business Insights, SRI International
Mark
Wallace, Conversation Manager, Linden Lab
Corporate
Panel: Serving Customers, Building Communities, Training Users
Facilitator
Dennis Shiao, Director of Product Marketing, INXPO
Sai
Allavarpu, Senior Director for Security and Virtualization, CITRIX
Mic
Bowman, Principal Engineer, Intel
Kenny
Lauer, VP of Digital Experience, George P. Johnson
Entrepreneur
Panel: The Tools, The Goods, The Immersion Experience
Facilitator
Nina Gerwin, The NRG Group
Michael
Gold, CEO, Electrotank: virtual world & virtual games development
platform
Steve
Hoffman, CEO, Rocketon: virtual world for tweeners
Albert
Kim, CEO, Zenitum: Augmented reality with 3D displays
Jim
Parker, President, Digitell: SaaS 3D immersive virtual events and virtual
training
FountainBlue's
Second Annual State of the Virtual Worlds Industry conference updates
entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and investors on the successes, challenges and
trends of the industry overall, and showcases corporate and entrepreneurial
virtual world demos. Beginning with a panel sharing the growth of the
industry from the legal, venture, research and corporate perspectives, the
program will next highlight how leading corporations are leveraging virtual
worlds solutions to better serve their constituents, and culminating in
showcasing early stage, funding-bound virtual worlds entrepreneurs with a
range of solutions pushing the technology and business envelope.
Panelist
Chris Meyer, Senior VP, Sales and Marketing, INXPO
Panelist
Mark Mitchell, SVP, SeriousMaterials, GM, SeriousEnergy
Panelist
Brad Peters, CEO, Birst
First
Annual Business Intelligence Trends Event
We are
in an age of information, where everyone is inundated by volumes of data,
some of which is relevant. The leaders emerging from this era will be able to
real-time collect, analyze, communicate, and most importantly, empower users
to ACT on the data, in collaboration with others. Our first
annual trends in Business Analytics Trends event, we will feature a corporate panel
to talk about technology directions and share strategies and directions
companies are taking in this space, as well as a panel of entrepreneurs and
non-tech companies successfully applying business intelligence technologies
and processes to the clean tech, life science and consumer markets.
Below is a list of past and upcoming high tech entrepreneur
events and conferences for 2009.
Date
Title
Facilitator
Monday, January 12 at BASES on the Stanford University Campus
•
Facilitator Brian Boyer, Partner, TIPS Group
• Panelist Jim Connor, President, Sand Hill Angels
• Panelist Ed Esber, Angels Forum and Halo Fund
• Panelist Bill Powar, Member, Keiretsu Forum and General Partner, Emerson
Street Ventures
• Panelist Ron Weissman, Member, Band of Angels
•
Facilitator Jeff Snider, Next Stage - Business Acceleration
• Panelist Lars Buttler, Founder, Chairman & CEO at Trion World
Network, Inc.
• Panelist Patrick Gannon, SVP, Lending Services, Lending Club
• Panelist Ivan Koon, CEO, YouSendIt
• Panelist Axel Schultze, CEO, Xeequa
• Panelist André Sloth Eriksen, Asetek
•
Facilitator Glenn Von Tersch, Partner, TIPS Group
• Panelist Anne-Marie Roussel, Microsoft
• Panelist Robin Harper, Former VP of Marketing and Community Development,
Second Life, Linden Labs
• Panelist Steve Nelson, Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer,
Clear Ink
• Panelist Susan Stucky, Research Manager, IBM
•
Facilitator Sara Rauchwerger, Managing Director, BG Strategy, Founder,
CCICE
• Panelist Henry Sang, Jr., Associate Director, HP Labs Technology Transfer
Office, Hewlett-Packard Company
• Panelist Rodney Bowen-Wright, Director, Business Development, Strategic
and Emerging Business Team, Microsoft
• Panelist Leonard Greenberg, Founder and CTO of Assistyx LLC, past
co-founder and CTO, Pathlore Software Corporation
• Panelist Prashant Shah, Managing Partner, Hummer Winblad
•
Facilitator Sara Rauchwerger, CCICE and BG Strategy
• Panelist Matthew Denesuk, Partner, IBM Venture Capital Group
• Panelist Victoria Livschitz, CEO, Grid Dynamics Consulting Services
• Panelist Pascal Lorne, CEO, Miyowa
• Panelist Lynda Ting, Director, Emerging Business Team, Microsoft
Below is a list of past and upcoming high tech entrepreneur
events and conferences for 2008.
Panelist Deborah Magid, Director, Software Strategy, IBM Venture Capital
Group
Panelist Eghosa D. Omoigui, Esq., Director, Strategic Investments, Consumer
Internet; Semantic Technologies, Intel Capital
Monday,
March 10
Acquiring
Reference Customers
Facilitator
Chuck De Vita, President and CEO, Growth Process Group, LLC
Panelist Marcus Bragg, Vice President, Western Region, Right Now
Technologies
Panelist Jonathan Fisher, Managing Director Teahupoo, LLC; Professor of Business,
University of San Francisco; CEO, Bharosa, Inc. (Acquired by Oracle, Inc.)
Panelist John Hall, Managing Director, Horizon Ventures
Panelist Chris Whitted, VP of Sales at SteelWedge
Panelist Steve Wurzburg, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Pittman & Shaw LLP
Monday,
April 14
Web
2.0 - from Consumer to Enterprise Opportunities and Business Models
Facilitator
Gary Benton, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Pittman & Shaw LLP
Panelist Dr. Cheemin Bo-Linn, CEO & President,
Peritus Partners
Panelist Lyle Fong, CEO and Co-Founder, Lithium
Panelist Anand Iyer, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation
Panelist Lars Leckie, Partner, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
Jonathan Fisher - Professor of Business, University of San Francisco, CEO,
Bharosa, Inc. (Acquired by Oracle, Inc.)
Rajiv Gupta -VP/GM, Policy Management Business Unit, Cisco, Inc.; Founder
& CEO Securent, Inc. (acquired by Cisco); Founder & CEO, Confluent
Software, Inc. (acquired by Oblix, Inc.)
Nand Mulchandani - Sr. Director, Security Products Management &
Marketing, VP, Marketing and Business Development, Determina, Inc. (Acquired
by VMWare, Inc.); Co-Founder & VP, Product Management, Oblix, Inc.
(Acquired by Oracle, Inc.)
Craig Walker - CEO, Grand Central, Inc (acquired by Google, Inc); former
CEO, Dialpad Communications, Inc. (Acquired by Yahoo!)
Monday, July
14
Building Your Facebook
Application Business
Moderator, Jeff
Harrell, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP
Panelists:
Ed Baker, FaceBook entrepreneur for Send Hotness and Compare People,
Founder, Demigo
Marc Burch, co-founder, ComoBlue; Principal, Burch Ventures
Siqi Chen, Creator, ‘Friends for Sale’ App for FaceBook
Jason Holloway, CEO, Face It!
Monday,
August 11
Selling SaaS to
the Enterprise
Facilitator
Chuck DeVita, President, Growth Process Group Inc.
Panelist Stephen Gillette, Partner, Jones Day
Panelist Ken Rudin, CEO and CoFounder, LucidEra
Panelist Chris Whitted, SVP of Sales, Steelwedge
Tuesday, September 9
Trends in the Wireless Industry
Facilitator
David Witkowski, Vice President, Wireless Communications Alliance
Facilitator
David Chen, Corporate Associate, Jones Day
Panelist Matthew Denesuk, Ph.D., Partner, IBM Venture Capital Group
Panelist Brian Martin, Sr. Director, Partner Solution Engineering, Multi-
Product Group (MPG), EMC Corporation
Panelist Jo Anne Miller, Milk Street Ventures
Panelist Henry Sang, Jr., Associate Director, HP Labs Technology Transfer
Office, Hewlett-Packard Company
Panelist John Wolpert, Executive Director, Team upStart, LLC
Monday,
December 8
Technology
Predictions for 2009
Facilitator
Arthur Beeman, Partner, Jones Day LLP
Panelist Gustavo Aray, Senior Investment Manager, Intel Capital
Panelist Tom Foremski, Founder and Editor, Silicon Valley Watcher
Panelist Rebeca Hwang, Director of Network Strategy and Development,
YouNoodle, Member Board of Directors and Chair of Judging California Clean
Tech Open
Panelist Lars Leckie, Principal, Hummer Winblad
Panelist Katya Stesin, Serial Entrepreneur and Founder and CEO of recently
funded Razoom
Below is a list of past and upcoming high tech entrepreneur
events and conferences for 2007.
Date
Title
Facilitator
Monday,
January 8
Investor
Panel - Technology Trends
Marc
Burch, Independent Angel Investor
Steve Bennet, Sand Hill Angels
Clifford Tong, Keiretsu Forum
Ben Wan, Independent Angel Investor
Ron Weissman, Band Of Angels
Monday,
February 12
Successful
Entrepreneur Panel
Steve
Adelman, Nexus Partners
Naveen Bisht, founder/CEO Ukiah Software, currently CEO/founder of Nayna
Networks
Mike Grossman, co-founder/CEO LiveCapital,currently CEO, Tempo Payments, Inc.
Chuck Haas, co-founder Covad, currently CEO and co-Founder of MetroFi
Wendy York-Fess, co-founder MarketSmart, President Electric Minds,
currently COO of IMMI
Monday,
March 12
Corporate
Investments in High Tech Companies
Facilitator,
Antony Awaida from StartLeap Corporation, is a corporate executive and serial
entrepreneur.
Panelist Lisa Lambert, Managing Director, Intel Capital, Software and
Solutions Group
Panelist Cliff Reeves, Emerging Business Team at Microsoft
Panelist Ray Wu, is Director, Strategy and Corporate Development at HP
Monday,
April 9
Successful
Web 2.0 Consumer Business Models
Facilitator,
Steve Bengston, Managing Director, PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Panelist Keith Rabois, VP Business Development, LinkedIn
Panelist Bill Schreiber, Corporate Partner, Fenwick & West
Panelist Jeffrey Walker, CEO, Atlassian
Panelist Karsten Weide, IDC
Panelist Peter Ziebelman from Palo Alto Venture Partners
Friday, May
18
An
Investors' Eyes' View on Trends in High Tech Investing
Facilitator,
Linda Prowse Fosler, Prowse-Fosler and Associates
Panelist Clint Chao, Formative Ventures
Panelist Vish Mishra, Clearstone Ventures
Panelist Rich Simoni, Asset Management Company
Panelist Ted Wang, Fenwick & West
Monday, June
11
Successful
Exits through Acquisition
Susan
Felix, Managing Partner, Felix Consulting
Liam Goudge, Senior VP, Corporate Development & Licensing, Tessera
Andrew Luh, Attorney at Fenwick & West
Diaz Nesamoney, former founder and CEO of Celequest / co-founder, president,
and COO Informatica
Monday, July
9
Developing
Clear Value Propositions
Facilitator
Chuck DeVita, President, Growth Process Group Inc.
Panelist Allen Blue, VP Product Strategy and a Founder at LinkedIn
Panelist John Hall, Managing Director, Horizon Ventures
Panelist John Occhipinti, Managing Director, Woodside Fund
Monday, August
13
The
Role of Process in Early Stage Companies
Facilitator
Jane Divinski, JAD Consulting
Panelist Subutai Ahmad, VP Engineering, Numenta
Panelist Steve Martin, VP of Engineering, Ruckus Wireless
Panelist Jay Michlin, VP of Engineering, OnStor
Panelist Jim Nisbet, Founder and CTO at Tablus
Tuesday,
September 11
Acquiring
Reference Customers
Facilitator
Chuck DeVita, President, Growth Process Group Inc.
Panelist Steve Blank, Commissioner at California Coastal Commission,
Lecturer at Stanford University, Graduate School of Engineering, Director at
IMVU
Panelist John Hall, Managing Director, Horizon Ventures
Panelist Alok Srivastava, CTO at SalesEdge and previously Director of
R&D for Oracle's Collaboration Services group
Monday,
October 8
Integrating
the Sales and Marketing Plan
Facilitator
Diane Wieser, VP of Sales, Clarity Consultants
Panelist Rod Bacon, Founder, EVP of Service Provider Solutions,
MediaPublisher
Panelist Avery Lyford, CEO, DigiSense
Panelist Axel Schultze, CEO, Xeequa
Panelist Jeffrey Walker, President, Atlassian
Monday,
November 12
A
Start-Up's Bottom Line
Facilitator
Ben Park, Founder and CEO, Camfess.com and President, KASE
Panelist Chuck DeVita, President, Growth Process Group Inc., and Adjunct
Professor, Stanford University
Panelist Robert Jurkowski, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
Selectica
Panelist Axel Schultze, Founder and CEO, Xeequa
Panelist Henry Wong, Garage.com and Diamond TechVentures
Monday,
December 10
Successfully
Positioning Your High Tech Company
Facilitator
Karen Kang, Karen Kang Consulting
Panelist Glenn Helton, Founder and Partner, Positioning Strategies
Panelist Pamela Kline Smith, former VP of Marketing for LiveOps and
Metreo
Panelist Prashant Shah, Principal, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
Below is a list of past and upcoming high tech entrepreneur
events and conferences for 2006.
Date
Title
Facilitator
Thursday,
March 9
SV
High Tech Entrepreneurs' Forum
Bill Joos, Go to
Market Consulting
Thursday,
April 20
SV
High Tech Entrepreneurs' Forum
Steve
Adelman, Nexus Partners
Christine Comaford-Lynch, Mighty Ventures
Jenelle Cox, DLA Piper
Monday, May 8
SV
High Tech Entrepreneurs' Forum
Bill
Joos, Go to Market Consulting
Linda Usoz, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart
Monday, June
12
SV
High Tech Entrepreneurs' Forum
Christine
Comaford-Lynch, Mighty Ventures
Linda Usoz, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart
Monday, July
10
SV
High Tech Entrepreneurs' Forum Theme: Sales Strategies for Entrepreneurs
Jeffrey
Walker, Atlassian
Mike Griego, MXL Partners
Linda Usoz, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart
Monday,
August 14
SV
High Tech Entrepreneurs' Forum Theme: Revenue Models
Steve
Adelman, Nexus Partners
Linda Usoz, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart
Monday,
September 11
SV
High Tech Entrepreneurs' Workshop: Semiannual Gathering
Kirkpatrick
& Lockhart
Monday,
October 9
SV
High Tech Entrepreneurs' Forum Theme: Building an Executive Team
Kurt
Amundson;
Linda Usoz, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart
Monday,
November 13
Alternative
Funding Options
Ed
Lambert, Bridge Bank
Dirk Michels, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart
Jake Schwarz, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart
Monday,
December 11
Growing
the business – Taking sales to the next level
Chuck
DeVita, Growth Process
See below for a list of Connections 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
FountainBlue began producing events with our Connections series, which transitioned into the high tech entrepreneurs' forums. Below is our calendar of Connections topics 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
