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Location:
Hewlett Packard Auditorium
3000 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, CA
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Speaker Bios:
Mike Cassidy, Business Columnist, San Jose Mercury News. Mike is a business columnist at the San Jose Mercury News who writes about the distinctive culture of Silicon Valley. His Silicon Valley Dispatches column has for years looked at the entrepreneurship, diversity and risk-taking tradition that make the valley a place like few others in the world.
Judith Estrin, Entrepreneur/Board Member/Author of Closing the Innovation Gap. Judith is a three-time member of Fortune's Fifty Most Powerful Women In Business, and author of "Closing the Innovation Gap: Reigniting the Spark of Creativity in a Global Economy", Judy is regarded as one of the "Pioneers of Silicon Valley." Currently CEO of her third venture backed start-up JLABS, LLC, formerly known as Packet Design Management Company, LLC., she has also served as CTO of Cisco until April of 2000 and currently sits on the boards of directors of The Walt Disney Company and FedEx Corporation and various advisory councils including Stanford's School of Engineering and Stanford's BioX initiative.
Pascal Finette, Director, Mozilla Labs. Pascal is the Director of Mozilla Labs, where he works with an incredibly talented team of engineers on inventing the future of the Web. He is an entrepreneur, tech-enthusiast & evangelist, seed investor and consultant. He got started on the Net before there was a web browser, founded a couple of companies on the Internet, led eBay's Platform Solutions Group, consulted a bunch of entrepreneurs on their strategy & operations and invested into startups.
Rich Friedrich, Director of Strategy and Innovation Office, HP Labs. Rich reports directly to the Senior Vice President of Research. Leading a global team, he is responsible for the strategy and portfolio management of HP’s central research organization, applying Open Innovation to amplify and accelerate research results, and technology transfer to effectively monetize these technologies. HP’s Open innovation program is recognized for its uniqueness as the only global, open, competitive innovation program that has established deep and impactful research collaborations between HP and academia.
Ping Li, General Partner, Accel. Ping joined Accel in 2004 and focuses primarily on Information Technology Infrastructure and Digital Media platforms. His specific areas of interest also include cloud computing (see below), datacenter virtualization, distributed data management/storage, internet datacenter scalability and gaming. He currently is an investor/Board Member of BitTorrent, Cloudera, Lookout, Ludic Labs, Mu Dynamics, Raptr, Verivue and YuMe; and he is actively involved in Imperva. Ping holds an A.B. from Harvard University, with honors, and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
John Shen, Research Fellow, Head of Nokia Research Center Palo Alto.
Dr. Shen leads the System Research Center in Nokia Research Center Palo Alto. Prior to joining Nokia in 2006, he was the Director of the Microarchitecture Research Lab at Intel, which was responsible for developing innovative microarchitecture and system architecture techniques that can be incorporated in microprocessor products and platforms from Intel.Dr. Shen received his BS degree from the University of Michigan and his MS and PhD degrees from the University of Southern California, all in Electrical Engineering.
John Wolpert, CEO, UpStart Mobile, Inc. John has twenty years experience managing teams of creative talent in the entertainment, media, and computer industries. He is currently the CEO of UpStart Mobile Inc, a new startup in the transportation industry, created inside an experimental corporate entrepreneurship program that John ran for Best Buy in 2008. The company was successfully spun out of Best Buy in 2009, then received Series A funding from Sand Hill Angels, Band of Angels and North Bay Angels, and began operations in 2010. Cabulous (http://cabulous.com) is the company's first product for the taxi industry.
Chris Yeh, Marketing Director, PBWorks. Chris has been building Internet businesses since 1995. He is the VP Marketing for PBworks, the world's leading provider of hosted collaboration solutions. PBworks serves over 85,000 businesses, including 1/3 of the Fortune 500. Previously, he was the first investor in and interim CEO of Ustream.TV, which provides an open and distributable platform for live interactive online video. Chris is also an active angel investor and the founder and Chairman of the Harvard Business School Technology Alumni Association. Chris earned two degrees from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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