Mazy Kazerooni has fun manipulating social media. At 17, he is the youngest employee of Ustream.TV. His best projects tend to be the one's with the silliest ideas behind them (having a friend play Halo 3 for 72 hours straight, live? 1200 simultaneous viewers and 80,000 unique visitors). Spends most of his free time sneaking in to Web 2.0 parties.

Rishabh "Shooby" Kumar. Rishabh "Shooby" Kumar is in the 11th grade at Archbishop Mitty High School. Shooby has been in the realm of technology and the Internet since the age of 11. Beginning by working for one of the most popular anime websites on the web, he has maintained and developed his interests in the ever-changing field.  With experience working at Leo Laporte's TWiT.TV and Justin.TV, he currently interns at the mobile video website Qik.  At the age of 16, Rishabh looks forward to working towards a degree in business administration after high school.

Drew Lavine is a 14 year old 8th grader at Gideon Hausner. His knowledge isn't specialized, and ranges from C++ to recording equipment. Drew is currently on a music break, and has put away all projects that he was working on, though currently he is helping RocketOn test its new online based game. He is very interested in new high tech equipment, and is constantly striving to gain as much knowledge as he can. In his free time he enjoys hanging out with friends, playing video games, and playing his guitar.

JD Lewin, Enthusiast Evangelist, Microsoft Since he could walk, JD has been someone who places demands of efficiency, simplicity, and beauty on the technology he surrounds himself with, beginning with the first Macintosh prototypes. His passion lies in understanding how software and hardware can empower human beings to evolve their abilities. He will talk your ear off about the possibilities and pitfalls of mobile communications, digital media, persistent presence, online gaming, and global positioning. JD does not write code, and yet he makes outrageous demands of any software developer who crosses his path. He stands as a bastion of simple human demands on technology. JD's life revolves around vehicular velocity, exploring the corners of the world, and developing his first book, entitled, "[Off-colour humorous title]: Quoting The Big Lebowski and Rushmore together."

Alina Libova graduated from Mountain View High School and is a first year computer science major at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. She enjoys programming, graphic design, hiking and ice skating in her free time. Last year she put together a Vista Party which drew over 300 people and 15 presenters. Recently she made and sold an application with over 300,000 users using the Facebook's framework.

Stefanie Olsen, CNET. Stefanie is an award-winning journalist with CNET News.com who covers technology, start-ups and Silicon Valley. She writes a regular feature and blog called Digital Kids about the young generation's unique immersion in technology.    

Jon "Max" Osbon, I go by my middle name Max.  I am a double major in Mathematics and Finance, a member of the rugby team, and the winner of the 2008 SCU entrepreneur competition.  I've been heavily involved in the entrepreneurial program here since I joined a little over a year ago.  Last summer I won the Grand prize for the national entrepreneurial What's Your Big Idea competition sponsored by the Best Buy Geek Squad.

Courtney Macavinta is an award-winning journalist, author, speaker and teen coach who has reached more than a million girls and women through her work, including her blog RespectRx.com and best-selling book, RESPECT: A Girl’s Guide to Getting Respect and Dealing When Your Line Is Crossed (Free Spirit Publishing, 2005), which has won both IPPY and iParenting awards.  As an expert on teens and women, Courtney has been featured on CNN, Fox, National Public Radio, MSNBC and in USA Today, CosmoGIRL!, Teen People, Teen Vogue, The Seattle Times, The San Jose Mercury News and numerous other media.

Sergio Monsalve,Principal Norwest Venture Partners Sergio brings to NVP over 12 years of operational experience in marketing, product management, business development, sales and finance from a wide range of business and consumer technology companies. Sergio is focused on investments in the consumer internet, media and software sectors. His current investments and board seats include Adzilla and Fatdoor.

Prior to NVP, Sergio was Vice President of Product Marketing at Photobucket, which was successfully sold to News Corp in May for a reported $300 Million. At Photobucket, Sergio drove product marketing, public awareness and user experience, which helped accelerate Photobucket’s growth to more than 40 million unique visitors per month.

Mani Pande, Institute for The Future.  A native of New Delhi, India, Mani works as a Research Director at Institute for The Future, a non-profit research forecasting group based in Palo Alto. She has experience in conducting surveys in the US and India. She is conducting a comparative survey looking at technology usage and work and career aspirations among youth in India, China and USA. She has conducted focus groups with high school and college students, and young workers in the US, and is doing similar focus groups in India. She has designed large-scale surveys looking at technology usage, health and food habits, work and career among US adults.

Karen Rohde,Vice President Global Talent Management and Rewards Human Resources,Sun Microsystems, Inc.
As Vice President, Human Resources, Global Talent Management and Rewards, at Sun Microsystems, Inc., Karen Rohde is responsible for the development of Sun's talent management strategy and the design and implementation of global, integrated solutions to deliver on that strategy. In this role, Rohde has worldwide responsibility for leadership development and succession planning, compensation and benefits, staffing, management capability, employee engagement, performance management, global inclusion and diversity, and employer branding/employee value proposition.

Anshul Samar is the 14 year old Founder and CEO of Alchemist Empire, Inc., the creators of a Chemistry card game, Elementeo (www.elementeo.com).  Elementeo is a unique concoction of  fantasy, action, and chemistry brought together in a battle based game meant to inject fun into education.  As an eighth grader from Sam H. Lawson Middle School in Cupertino, Anshul has spoken at American Chemical Society, National Academy of Science, California Association of the Gifted, and at various schools.

Jeff Seibert Jr. is a current Senior at Stanford University where he is studying Computer Science and Economics. Seibert is Co-Founder and President of Increo Solutions, Inc., a startup focused on creating the next generation of tools to help companies address the most important and difficult aspect of business communication: innovation. Increo recently raised a Seed Round of financing from Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Prior to Increo, Seibert served as President of Arios Software, a Macintosh software company he founded during high-school in Baltimore, MD. He has also worked in both engineering and marketing for Apple, Inc., as well as independently as a freelance designer. Favorite pastimes include surfing and playing tennis.

Whitney Smith, Visionary Co-Founder, Girls for a Change. Whitney is the visionary Founder of Girls For A Change. Her experience working with girls in juvenile detention and group homes has shaped her vision for a different world for girls and women. Envisioned as a highly collaborative and community-based model, Girls for a Change evolved out of Whitney’s work as the Chair of the Silicon Valley Girls Coalition. In this role Whitney developed a powerful collaboration of over 75 community based organizations, legislators and individuals. She was recently selected to attend Harvard Business School’s Nonprofit Strategic Management Program and awarded a scholarship to Hewlett Packard’s Leadership Initiative Program.  She has received honors for her work from The Commission on the Status of Women  and was honored by the San Jose Mercury News as one of Silicon Valley’s leading change agents. Girls For A Change was featured as a “Rising Star” in Fast Company Magazine. 

Elisabeth Stock, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Computers for Youth from a nascent non-profit in 1999 to a national leader in improving the home learning environment of low-income families. CFY has been recognized by the Drucker Foundation and by the Tech Museum in San Jose, California for its innovative use of technology in education. Recognized as an expert in her field, Elisabeth has served as an advisor to both the NYC Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She was also appointed to serve on the New York City Broadband Advisory Committee. She has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and on National Public Radio and has published a policy paper with the Benton Foundation. Prior to her work at CFY, Elisabeth served as a White House Fellow (1996-1997), where she was the principal architect of a program that enables Federal agencies to donate surplus computers directly to needy schools. She also worked at the Vera Institute of Justice and helped the Open Society Institute start the After-School Corporation.

Angela Strange, Senior Associate Partner at Bay. Prior to Bay, Angela worked at Mercer Management Consulting, where she focused on strategic and operational issues in the technology practice. While at Mercer, Angela won several marathons and achieved a seventh place national ranking in Canada. She spent two years training as a professional athlete. Angela has also worked at Nike, where she assisted in developing the product and go-to-market strategy of a new footwear category.

While pursuing her MBA at Stanford, Angela helped to develop curriculum for a new course on Women in Entrepreneurship, and served on the Board of StartUP, a nonprofit organization supporting entrepreneurs in East Palo Alto.

 

Allison Leopold Tilley, Pillsbury Winthrop, Allison Leopold Tilley, a partner at Pillsbury Winthrop, focuses on the representation of technology companies in securities and venture capital transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, private placements, public offerings, venture funds and joint ventures. She has significant experience representing acquirers and target companies. Ms. Leopold Tilley is co-head of the Firm’s Information Technology Practice Team, Head of the Silicon Valley Business and Technology Group and co-head of the Southeast Asia Specialty Team.

Salina Truong: Salina assists the Outreach department in maintaining corporate partnerships, general contact lists, and initial correspondence with potential affiliates. She is treasurer of her dormitory and does research in the Psychology department. In middle school, she began her first venture selling Rubik's Cubes and fruit snacks at discounted prices. She graduated to selling affiliate software on eBay. She is known for her fascination with Rubik's Cubes, Ty Beanie Babies, the Food Network, and colorful things in general.

Jonathan Wilde, Mountain View high School is a 15-year-old who enjoys web design, programming, art, and robotics.  He currently runs his own personal website, www.speedbreeze.com.  In his spare time, he develops themes for the Plone website content-management system, themes and plugins for the WordPress blogging platform, and writes Adobe AIR applications.  He recently was named as one of the ten grand prize winners in the Google Highly Open Participation Contest for his work on the Plone project.  Last May, he won nine awards, including second place in the applied mechanics division at the California State Science Fair in Los Angeles, California, for his work on an urban search and rescue robotics platform.

Girls For A Change is a national organization that empowers girls to create social change. We invite young women of color in low income and urban communities to design, lead, fund and implement social change projects that tackle issues girls face in their own neighborhoods.

GFC provides the tools, resources, partnerships and support girls need to gain the voice, ability, and problem-solving capacity to realize their full potential.  GFC was founded in Silicon Valley, California in 2002--and has since doubled the number of girls served. We expanded to the Phoenix Metro Area in 2005.

Description: Gumball Capital engages students with entrepreneurship for social good through microfinance. We run a collegiate competition called the Gumball Challenge where we give student teams $27 loans and educational booklets on entrepreneurship and microfinance. The teams have one week to pursue entrepreneurial ventures with the loan and the gumballs, and can win awards for exemplifying things like innovation, risk-taking, and of course, value-generation. The revenue they generate goes to fund the working poor through Kiva.org- a website that allows the public to make loans to entrepreneurs in the developing world.

Location:

Hewlett-Packard
Auditorium
3000 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, CA 94304
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(Refreshments, Breakfast, Lunch, and Reception included)
$25 Student Price Please conact Ksullivan@sdforum.org to receive the student rate.(Must Show Student ID At The Door)
$60 SDForum Members Price
$75 Non-SDForum Members Price

Schools interested in bringing classes please contact Kristen Sullivan at Kristen@sdforum.org prior to the event.

Registration the day of the event will increase by $10. Limited registration will be available at the door.


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