Christina F. Aranda

palo_alto, ca

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Member since: 2007-03-28 00:00:00
Last log-in: 2007-11-05 00:00:00
Events: 27

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Elisa Monte Dance Company (Bay Area Debut)

Date: 2008-03-14 20:00:00

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Tickets: $40/$34/$22/$16 (Adult) / $20/$17/$11/$8 (Stanford Student) Half-price tickets are available for young people age 15 and under and discounts are available for students and groups. Call 650-725-ARTS (2787) or visit: http://livelyarts.stanford.edu Not seen in California for more than a decade, the celebrated Elisa Monte Dance Company makes its Bay Area debut. Founded by Elisa Monte—formerly a principal with the Martha Graham Dance Company and Pilobolus—the company marked its 25th anniversary in 2006 and is widely recognized for its highly athletic and sensual style as well as its technical and physical acuity.

BarCampBlock

Where: SocialText HQ

Date: 2007-08-18 10:00:00

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This year's BarCamp anniversary will take place full circle back in the same place it started: SocialText's offices... and spilling out into the streets! Yep. We will be working with SocialText to get this puppy off the ground with the goal of having a multi-office party starting SocialText's offices... and maybe looping in nearby neighbors like Facebook, iMeem, IDEO, Edgeio and so on. BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees. Please sign up on the Event Registration page: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/67666392 and Please add yourself to the wiki: http://barcamp.org/BarCampBlock

Meridian Arts Ensemble

Where: Stanford Dinkelspiel Auditorium

Date: 2008-02-24 14:30:00

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Tickets: $36/$32 (Adult) / $18/$16 (Stanford Student) Half-price tickets are available for young people age 15 and under and discounts are available for students and groups. Call 650-725-ARTS (2787) or visit: http://livelyarts.stanford.edu Boasting a no-holds-barred style and unparalleled musicianship, the Meridian Arts Ensemble is a hip, high-energy sextet that redefines the brass genre. Composed of five brass players plus a percussionist, the group makes its Lively Arts debut juxtaposing the classic contemporary voice of Milton Babbitt with those of Frank Zappa, Silvestre Revueltas, and Stanford faculty composer Mark Applebaum.

SVASE Event: 'VC Breakfast: Applied Ventures: Focus On Semi-...

Where: Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP

Date: 2007-06-07 08:00:00

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SVASE Event: 'VC Breakfast: Applied Ventures: Focus On Semi-Conductor And Technologies Related To Display And Related Products, Services' Event: 'VC Breakfast: Applied Ventures: Focus On Semi-Conductor And Technologies Related To Display And Related Products, Services' Date: Thursday, June 07, 2007 At 08:00 Duration: 1 Hour 30 Minutes Contact Info: CONTACT: VCBC Chair: Jai Kumar, contact no. - 408-406-4693 Email: jai@vigyana.com URL: svase.org/index.php?option=com_extcalendar&Itemid=149&extmode=view&extid=929 VC Breakfast: Applied Ventures: Focus on Semi-Conductor and Technologies related to Display and related products, Services The featured VC will be Michelle Klein, Applied Ventures. www.appliedventures.com EVENT LOCATION: Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP, 390 Lytton Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301-1431 This event is co-sponsored by Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP. www.townsend.com. Applied Ventures Applied Ventures, LLC is the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, Inc., (*Nasdaq: AMAT), the global leader in nanomanufacturing technology solutions with a broad portfolio of innovative equipment, service and software products for the fabrication of semiconductor chips, flat panels, solar photovoltaic cells, flexible electronics and energy efficient glass. At Applied Materials, we apply nanomanufacturing technology to improve the way people live. Applied Ventures invests in high-growth, early stage technology companies. We are driven by both financial and strategic objectives, and our mission is to profitably invest in companies that provide a window on technologies that advance the semiconductor and related industries. The fund focuses on companies pursuing technologies and markets that provide a natural extension to Applied Materials' core business in addition to innovations that stimulate the growth of applications for semiconductors, displays and related products and services. Applied Ventures invests in companies that drive change in industries that may be relevant to Applied Materials. We partner with talented teams and create value through industry access, insight, contacts and partnership. As a result of our involvement, Applied Materials, Inc. may be partnering with a portfolio company to commercialize products and define winning market strategies. Our mission is to profitably invest in companies that provide a window on technologies that will move the semiconductor and related industries to the cutting edge. We want to put our vast experience, bright minds, and broad asset base to work assisting young companies with financial promise to formulate marketable ideas from concept to commercialization. Mutual value is created as Applied Materials provides the needed support for portfolio companies from both the financial return and strategic insight provided from distinct value propositions in growing market segments of disruptive technologies. Michelle Klein Michele Klein is a director of Applied Ventures, the venture capital fund of Applied Materials, Inc., responsible for identifying, recommending and managing venture capital investments since 2005. Prior to her current position, Ms. Klein led the In-line Electrical Metrology team in the Process and Diagnostics Control (PDC) business group since 2003. Before joining Applied Materials, she founded and led two semiconductor equipment companies and served actively on technology boards for 17 years. Ms. Klein was CEO and President of Boxer Cross from 1997 to 2003, when it was acquired by Applied Materials. She led her previous start-up, High Yield Technology, from 1986-1996. Prior to that, Ms. Klein held marketing management positions at Knoll International and Hewlett-Packard. Ms. Klein is a board observer for Solaicx, a high-efficiency solar wafer manufacturer, and Infinite Power Solutions (IPS), a thin-film battery manufacturer. She is also a director of the Silicon Valley Association for Startup Entrepreneurs (SVASE), and serves on the Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) planning committee for the Industry Strategy Symposium (ISS 2008). She has served on the boards of several non-profits, including the CEO Forum, the Community Relations Council and Stanford Hillel, and is currently a trustee of the San Jose Museum of Art. Ms. Klein received a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Illinois and a Master in Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. COST: $25 SVASE Members; $39 Affiliates; $49 Non-members. This event is for ENTREPRENEURS ONLY, BY PREREGISTRATION ONLY. This event is co-sponsored by Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP. www.townsend.com. CONTACT: VCBC Chair: Jai Kumar, contact no. - 408-406-4693 Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP, 390 Lytton Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301-1431

Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Where: Memorial Auditorium

Date: 2008-01-26 20:00:00

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Tickets: $46/$38/$26/$18 (Adult) / $23/$19/$13/$9 (Stanford Student) Half-price tickets are available for young people age 15 and under and discounts are available for students and groups. Call 650-725-ARTS (2787) or visit: http://livelyarts.stanford.edu For more than 50 years, dance icon Merce Cunningham and his legendary company have explored and recast the relationship between music and dance, questioning how time and space intersect. Returning to Stanford following the wildly successful Encounter:Merce project in 2005, the company offers two distinct programs that feature the classic works Crises, CRWDSPCR, and BIPED mounted alongside his recent eyeSpace, in which the audience uses iPods to create personal soundscapes for the movement onstage.

SDForum Semantic Web SIG: How Can We Make Semantic Web Usabl...

Where: Cubberly Community Center

Date: 2007-09-05 18:30:00

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The Semantic Web has been emerging over several decades but has yet to reach a stage where it is easily accessible, useable and beneficial to the majority of end-users on the Web. Everyone still ask the same question: How will the Semantic Web become useable? In the first presentation, Nova Spivack, CEO of Radar Networks, will discuss his outlook for the coming years as the Semantic Web begins to mature, and the stages it will go through. He will also discuss barriers to adoption and how to overcome them, and how forward-looking organizations can start working with the Semantic Web today. In addition he will discuss how the Semantic Web can benefit key application categories from advertising to e-commerce to search, publishing, collaboration and entertainment. In the second presentation, Holger Knublauch, VP of Product Development from TopQuatrant, will introduce to you the building blocks of a usable semantic web: RDF, RDFS, OWL, SPARQL and SWRL. These languages provide distributed and federated capabilities for resolving semantic differences between systems and databases. After the hands-on introduction to these powerful languages using TopBraid semantic development platform, he will demonstration how ontology-driven applications can be integrated with Web 2.0 technologies. Speaker: Nova Spivack, CEO, Radar Networks Nova Spivack is one of the leading voices of the emerging Semantic Web, often referred to as Web 3.0. Nova founded Radar Networks to develop semantic social software. In 1994, Nova co-founded EarthWeb (IPO 1998). Nova has worked at Individual, Xerox/Kurzweil, Thinking Machines, and also with SRI International on the DARPA CALO program and nVention. Nova founded Lucid Ventures, and co-founded the San Francisco Web Innovators Network. As a grandson of management guru Peter F. Drucker, Nova shares his grandfather’s interests in the evolution of knowledge work. He has a BA in Philosophy from Oberlin College and did graduate study at the International Space University. In 1999 Nova flew to the edge of space in Russia with Space Adventures. Nova blogs at Minding the Planet. Holger Knublauch, VP, Product Development, TopQuadrant Dr. Holger Knublauch is well known in the Semantic Web community as the designer and developer of Protégé-OWL. At TopQuadrant he is responsible for ontology development tools. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Ulm in Germany, 2002. Dr. Knublauch's work in Germany was has resulted in the development of various clinical information systems, as well as in pragmatic design and implementation techniques for these and similar systems. As a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Stanford Medical Informatics at the Stanford University Holger was responsible for research and development of various components of the knowledge modeling tool Protégé including Protege OWL, UML interfaces and interoperability with a Meta Object Facility (MOF) format. He now is the lead developer of TopQuadrant's TopBraid product suite that includes the leading professional ontology development tool TopBraid Composer as well as the rich internet application platform TopBraid Live. Holger actively participates in the World Wide Web Consortium’s Semantic Web Best Practices Working Group on developing guidance for building Semantic Web applications. Moderator Bios: AJ Chen, Ph.D., Sr. Search Engineer, Healthline.com Dr. Chen is an advocate of semantic web and digital health. Currently a Sr. Search Engineer at Healthline.com, he applies ontology and knowledge base for developing search engine focusing on consumer healthcare. Working with various open communities and open source software, he is also experimenting new and practical approaches that help make semantic data web a reality, including coordinating the scientific publishing task force for W3C’s Semantic Web HCLS Group. Previously, Dr. Chen had developed genome sequencing technologies for the vision of personalized medicine, playing technical and product roles at Hyseq, Callida Genomics, and Complete Genomics. Earlier, Dr. Chen worked with Nobel Prize winner Dr. Barry Marshall to introduce new disease treatments and diagnostics to China. Dr. Chen earned his Ph. D. in Biochemistry from U. of Utah and did postdoctoral research at Duke Medical School. Jeffrey Pollock, Senior Director, Oracle Fusion Middleware Mr. Pollock is a technology leader and author of the enterprise software book "Adaptive Information" (John Wiley & Sons 2004). Currently a Senior Director with Oracle’s Fusion Middleware group, Mr. Pollock was formerly an independent consultant for the Defense Department, Vice President of Technology at Cerebra and Chief Technology Officer of Modulant, developing semantic middleware platforms and inference-driven SOA platforms from 2001 to 2006. Throughout his career, he has architected, designed, and built application server/middleware solutions for Fortune 500 and US Government clients. Prior to Modulant, Mr. Pollock was a Principal Engineer with Modem Media and Senior Architect with Ernst & Young’s Center for Technology Enablement. He is also a frequent speaker at industry conferences, author for industry journals, active member of W3C and OASIS, and formerly an engineering instructor with University of California at Berkeley’s Extension on the subjects of object-oriented systems, software development process and enterprise systems architecture.

Pilates Cardiocamp in Palo Alto Starts July 2nd!

Where: Gunn High School

Date: 2007-07-02 06:00:00

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Are you tired of doing workouts on your own? Are you not getting the results you want? Do you want a group, outdoor morning class that inspires to get up and get going? The Pilates Cardiocamp is the next best thing to a persona trainer and perfect for any out of shape mom or dad! We meet at 6am 5-days a week. To much for you? Join us for one or two days a week. Come try us free for a week and see why we are the best class to take on the border of Los Altos and Palo Alto. Call us at 408.260.0448.

Jena Semantic Web Platform User Conference - CANCELLED

Where: Four Seasons Hotel Silicon Valley

Date: 2007-09-05 00:00:00

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Conference about the Jena Java semantic web platform organized by the main developers (Hewlett Packard). Call for papers for abstracts and demos is Apr 30 2007.

VCTaskforce: VC Connect

Where: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Date: 2008-05-21 17:30:00

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VC Connect: A Q&A Roundtable for entrepreneurs to meet and talk with VCs. There are lots of conferences, panels and beauty pageants for entrepreneurs, but when do you really have the chance to ask VCs the questions you really need answered? At VC Connect, that's when. Come with your questions to a Q&A Roundtable with a panel of experienced, savvy and open venture capitalists who are eager to answer your questions, and hopeful of meeting the next great entrepreneur. The panel features partners of venture funds that are smaller or newer. These investors may be a better fit for your startup than the standard big-brand Sand Hill Road fund. The session will begin with a brief panel discussion of: "How do investors assess the market opportunity for a new technology?" And then the floor will be open to questions from entrepreneurs on this and all other topics. As an added bonus: The panelists have committed to providing feedback within one week of the event on any questions or executive summaries you send them. Moderator: Bill Reichert, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures Emcee: Josh Jaffe, General Manager, TechConfidential.com http://www.thedeal.com/ Panel: Rob Coneybeer, Shasta Ventures David Blumberg, Blumberg Capital Jon Callaghan, True Ventures Jeff Clavier, SoftTech VC Registration: 5:30 - 6:00 PM Q&A Session: 6:00 - 7:30 PM Networking Reception: 7:30 - 8:00 PM $35 VC Taskforce members; $45 Affiliates; $65 General.

SVASE Event: 'MAIN EVENT: Leveraging Corporate, Strategic Pa...

Where: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Date: 2007-05-03 18:00:00

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SVASE Event: 'MAIN EVENT: Leveraging Corporate, Strategic Partnerships And Investments' Event: 'MAIN EVENT: Leveraging Corporate, Strategic Partnerships And Investments' Date: Thursday, May 03, 2007 At 06:00 Duration: 2 Hours 30 Minutes Contact Info: Laura Weigant Email: info@svase.org URL: svase.org/index.php?option=com_extcalendar&Itemid=149&extmode=view&extid=870 Market leaders continually need to find new innovations from outside as well as inside their firms if they’re going to stay in front. Corporations may be able to exploit resources and complementarities with their existing lines of business, giving them—potentially, at least—a strategic edge that private funds lack. Learn about the key fundamentals of successful corporate investing programs, alliances and commercialization process from four of Silicon Valley’s leading Corporate Venture Funds. Looking for Corporate Venture Funding or Partnerships? This lively panel of active corporate investors will explore current trends and panelist opinions on topics including: • What sort of partnerships or investment opportunities are Corporate Venture Funds now looking for? • How do Corporate Partnerships and Venture Funds now respond to these opportunities? • What are your goals – maximize return on investment, new technology acquisition or what? • What levels of involvement do you want in a portfolio company? • How do Corporate Partnerships and Venture Fund deal structures differ from independent Venture Funds? • What is the ideal outcome – partnership, acquisition, IPO or what? • What technologies and deals are most attractive to Corporations right now? The Panel: • Jake W. Kaldenbaugh, Director, Strategy & Planning, NEC Corporation of America • Nicolas Kardas, Director of Business Development, Emerging Business Team, Microsoft Corporation • J. Christopher Moran, Vice President and General Manager, Applied Ventures LLC • Rob Trice, Partner, Nokia Growth Partners • Ray Wu, Director, New Business Ventures, Hewlett-Packard Moderator: Steve Bengston, Managing Director of Emerging Company Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers WHEN: Thursday, May 3 6:00 - 7:00 pm: Networking and hors d’oeuvres 7:00 - 8:15 pm: Panel discussion and Q/A 8:15 - 8:30 pm: Additional networking LOCATION: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSGR Campus), 950 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304 PRE-REGISTERED RATES (All Rates Include Hors D’oeuvres): Members - $20; Affiliates who advertise this event - $29; General Public - $49 WALK-IN RATES: Add $10.00 to the listed price To reserve an Exhibit Table: Contact Info@svase.org, $500 Members, $1,000 Non-members (Includes an annual corporate membership, exhbit table and two tickets to the event.) Seating is limited, so early registration is recommended to avoid disappointment on the day. Look for free information and materials from our Sponsors and Members at this event: ABD Insurance & Financial Services: A leading brokerage firm providing global insurance, risk management and employee benefits solutions, www.cybersure.com Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A. provides intellectual property services for emerging and established corporations and research institutions, www.slwk.com White & Case LLP: White & Case is a global law firm with one of the largest intellectual property groups. Our Palo Alto office focuses on the full spectrum of IP and cross border issues, www.whitecase.com Speakers’ Bios Steve Bengston, Managing Director of Emerging Company Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers Steve is Managing Director of Emerging Company Services (ECS) at PricewaterhouseCoopers. ECS acts as “mentor capitalists” for young, high potential companies and assists them with a variety of services, including, Reviewing Executive Summaries/Investor Presentations, Referrals, Raising Money, Partnerships and Finding People. ECS works closely with the leading opinion leaders/influencers in the Bay Area, including venture capitalists, attorneys, bankers and other service providers that have made Silicon Valley the leading high tech center in the world. Before joining PwC, Steve had 20 years of experience in a variety of marketing, business development and general management roles at several high tech companies in the Bay Area. Most recently, he was Pres/CEO of ynot.com, a leading international emarketing and greeting card company. Previously, he was VP Marketing & Business Development at Worldview Systems, an Internet travel pioneer. At Worldview, Steve helped launch and market Travelocity with Sabre Interactive. Steve has a BA in Economics and MBA from Stanford University. He works closely or sits on the Advisory Board at Churchill Club, SVASE, SDForum, Financing Partners, Life Science Angels, and the Stanford/MIT Venture Lab, has taught classes on funding/running start ups at UC Berkeley, Santa Clara Law School, Hastings Law School, and Stanford, and is active in a variety of other organizations in the Bay Area targeting entrepreneurs and investors. He is a frequent moderator/panelist at both university and industry sponsored events. Jake W. Kaldenbaugh, Director, Strategy & Planning, NEC Corporation of America Jake has over a decade of corporate development experience in investment banking, corporate restructuring and business development in the technology sector and is currently the Director of Strategy & Planning at NEC Corporation of America. He is experienced in developing and executing strategic growth programs including acquisitions, partnerships and new business development for growing technology companies. In his previous positions, Jake was a consulting partner at VentureArchetypes LLC, a start-up business planning firm. He was also responsible for the Corporate Development process at Borland Software Corp. where he was responsible in identifying acquisitions and managing strategic partnerships. Jake's start-up experience includes founding an emerging technology sector research firm, Harvest Equity Research. At Harvest, Jake analyzed emerging business models, growth metrics and sector activity in the Digital Media, Wireless, Storage Area Networks and Enterprise Software public-equity markets. Jake also possesses significant experience performing corporate restructuring, bankruptcy administration and recapitalizations with investment banks Instream Partners LLC, Prudential Securities, and a Big 5 accounting firm. Jake is a Chartered Financial Analyst charterholder, a member of the CFA Institute and the Security Analysts of San Francisco and a former member of the Los Angeles Society of Security Analysts. Nicolas Kardas, Director, Strategic & Emerging Business, Microsoft Corporation Nicolas’ overall goal is to build a stronger relationship with the private equity-backed companies and the Venture Capital community by demonstrating the value of partnering with Microsoft to develop and market offerings complementary to the Microsoft platform, www.microsoftstartupzone.com. Before joining Microsoft, Nicolas led product development for Infotility, a startup providing software for the Energy industry. Before Infotility, he held a technical sales position with Nortel Networks, selling wireless network infrastructure to administrations worldwide. In a prior life, he worked for HP in finance and operations to reduce the costs of PCs manufacturing. Nicolas has a Master of Science in Information Systems Engineering of Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité (Supélec) in France and also a Business degree from the College Des Ingenieurs in Paris (MBA program). J. Christopher Moran, Vice President and General Manager, Applied Ventures J. Christopher "Chris" Moran is vice president, general manager, Applied Ventures since October 2005, responsible for the development and management of Applied Ventures' investments in early stage, privately held companies. Most recently, Mr. Moran served as vice president and division general manager of the Applied Materials Mask Products Division. Prior to that, Mr. Moran was vice president of Corporate Marketing from 1999-2005. Since joining Applied Materials in 1984, Mr. Moran has held a number of positions in division management, product management and marketing. He also served as general manager of the Metal Etch Division, Etch Product Business Group, and held a variety of engineering and product management positions. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Moran served as a member of the technical staff at Hughes Aircraft Co., and Atari Computer Corporation. Mr. Moran received his bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Rob Trice, Partner, Nokia Growth Partners Rob Trice brings a variety of domestic and international operational and business planning experience to Nokia Growth Partners. He joined BlueRun Ventures in late 2000. Previously, he worked at DIRECTV in Los Angeles and Tokyo. Rob also worked as a policy analyst at a Washington, D.C. based think tank, the Center for Strategic & International Studies. He holds a Master of Arts from George Mason University and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia. Rob is based in Menlo Park, California. Ray Wu, Director, New Business Ventures, Hewlett-Packard Ray Wu currently leads HP's New Business Ventures to manage company-wide technology evaluation process, VC outreach and partnership, and venture transactions, Prior to HP, he spent more than six years with Cisco Systems, and held several senior positions leading internal incubation, software investment and M&A, technology and business consulting in both North America and Asia Pacific. Prior to Cisco, Ray was a senior partner of a leading Internet consulting and software development company. Mr. Wu is a frequently requested speaker for business and technology conferences. You can read Ray’s latest thoughts on his blog: blog.boundaryfree.com.

Christopher O'Riley, piano

Where: Stanford Dinkelspiel Auditorium

Date: 2008-01-23 20:00:00

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Tickets: $44/$40 (Adult) / $22/$20 (Stanford Student) Half-price tickets are available for young people age 15 and under and discounts are available for students and groups. Call 650-725-ARTS (2787) or visit: http://livelyarts.stanford.edu Pianist and radio host Christopher O’Riley challenges the boundaries of classic and rock music by juxtaposing piano preludes by Russian master Dimitri Shostakovich wih original transcriptions of songs by the British rock group Radiohead in his Reimaginings.

Web 3.0: New Opportunities on the Semantic Web

Where: Bishop Auditorium, Stanford University

Date: 2007-11-20 18:00:00

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We are well into the current era of the Web, commonly referred to as Web 2.0. What lies on the horizon? Will Web 3.0 usher in the long awaited vision of the semantic web, as proposed by "Father of the Web" Tim Berners-Lee more than ten years ago? Join us for a lively panel session where some of the best emerging companies in the semantic web space present their different approaches to realizing the vision. The panel will address questions such as: How can we best implement the vision of the semantic web? What will we do with the web once it is structured with semantic information? What new applications will appear? Where is the consumer value and how should it be marketed? What new businesses can be built on top of the semantic web that are not possible today? Will the semantic web ultimately bring about a new intelligence that surpasses that of humanity, sparking a new era of non-biological evolution? Join us and bring questions of your own - help us uncover the future of the web! $30.

Alarm Will Sound

Where: Dinkelspiel Auditorium

Date: 2007-11-30 20:00:00

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Tickets: $36/$32 (Adult) / $18/$16 (Stanford Student) Half-price tickets are available for young people age 15 and under and discounts are available for students and groups. Call 650-725-ARTS (2787) or visit: http://livelyarts.stanford.edu The world premiere of Son of Chamber Symphony by one of America’s most distinguished and important creative forces, Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award winner John Adams, is the centerpiece of Alarm Will Sound’s Stanford debut. This 20-member new-music ensemble, known for their extreme virtuosity and brazen energy, also tackles Conlon Nancarrow’s Player Piano Study No. 6 and the dark techno sounds of Aphex Twin.

Emerson String Quartet

Where: Dinkelspiel Auditorium

Date: 2008-02-06 20:00:00

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Tickets: $48/$44 (Adult) / $24/$22 (Stanford Student) Half-price tickets are available for young people age 15 and under and discounts are available for students and groups. Call 650-725-ARTS (2787) or visit: http://livelyarts.stanford.edu The eight-time Grammy-winning Emerson String Quartet performs the West Coast premiere of a Lively Arts co-commission by MacArthur “Genius Award” winner Bright Sheng, in which the Chinese/American composer eloquently fuses the western classical tradition with Chinese influences. It is featured alongside the Bay Area premiere of Terra Memoria by acclaimed Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, Béla Bartók’s String Quartet No. 3, and two works—String Quartet No. 3 and Madrigals for Violin and Viola—by Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu.

SVASE Event: 'VC Brealfast: Accel Partners, Focus On Mobile ...

Where: Nixon Peabody

Date: 2007-11-29 08:00:00

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Event: 'VC Brealfast: Accel Partners, Focus On Mobile & Broadband Services S/W, Messaging, Security' Date: Thursday, November 29, 2007 At 08:00 Duration: 1 Hour 30 Minutes Contact Info: Nixon Peabody, 200 Page Mill Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94306 Program Chair: Jai Kumar 408-406-4693 Email: jai@vigyana.com URL:svase.org/index.php?option=com_extcalendar&Itemid=149&extmode=view&extid=1152 Accel Partners The Accel teams focuses on partnering with entrepreneurs to build category defining companies. Richard Wong Richard joined Accel in 2006, with a focus on mobile and broadband services software, as well as messaging and security applications. Rich currently serves on the board of AdMob, the leading mobile advertising company, and Sana Security. Through pre-Accel associations, Rich also serves as a board advisor to Plaxo, Simplicita, and 4thMedia. Some of Rich’s writing on key trends in the mobile industry can be found here. Prior to Accel, Rich was SVP/GM of Products at Openwave. In this capacity, Rich launched several of OPWV’s most successful new products such as the Edge security gateway (anti-abuse), integrated messaging, and location-based services. Rich was previously GM of Messaging Products, growing the business from $50MM to $180MM from 2003 to 2005, and Chief Marketing Officer from 2001 to 2003. While at Openwave, Rich founded and chaired the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group, a consortium of ISPs and technology providers working together to combat internet abuse. Previously Rich was the Chief Marketing Officer and EVP/GM of Value-Added Services at Covad Communications, the DSL provider. During his time Covad revenue grew from $5MM to $250MM. Preceding Covad, he was a management consultant for McKinsey & Company, focusing on software and consumer technology. Rich started his career as a Brand Manager at Procter & Gamble Mr. Wong holds a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Rich remains active as an EVP of the MIT Club of Northern California, Board Member of the MIT CNC - Entrepreneurship Program, and the CTIA Wireless Internet Caucus. Copies of Rich’s recent presentation on Future of Digital Media & Advertising, or presentation on wireless from the MIT C3 Wireless event, can be downloaded here. EVENT LOCATION: Nixon Peabody, 200 Page Mill Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94306 This event is co-sponsored by Nixon Peabody www.nixonpeabody.com.com. COST: $25 SVASE Members; $39 Affiliates; $49 Non-members. This event is for ENTREPRENEURS ONLY, BY PREREGISTRATION ONLY. CONTACT: VCBC Chair: Jai Kumar, contact no. - 408-406-4693 This event is co-sponsored by: Nixon Peabody, 200 Page Mill Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94306

WCA LBS SIG "Introduction To Yahoo Fire Eagle : A User-Locat...

Where: Palo Alto Research Center Pake Auditorium

Date: 2008-01-22 16:00:00

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WCA LBS SIG Introduction To Yahoo Fire Eagle: A User-Location Platform For The Web Venue: Palo Alto Research Center, Pake Auditorium -- Mor Naaman, Yahoo Inc. Yahoo's Fire Eagle is a cutting-edge effort to better integrate location into web and mobile applications through a set of simple but powerful APIs. Using Fire Eagle applications can securely update or query a user's location based on the user's permission. At the same time, Fire Eagle provides the user with flexible control over their data and privacy. Mor Naaman of Stanford's InfoLab and Yahoo will provide an insights into this exciting technology. Cost: $10 at the door

Ads2Go: What's Working, Where and Why with Mobile 2.0?

Where: Carr & Ferrell LLP

Date: 2007-12-05 08:00:00

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Carr & Ferrell LLP is pleased to present the next Innovator's Engine Seminar, "Ads2Go: What's Working, Why and Where with Mobile Advertising." As the fastest growing advertising channel and highly effective communication tool between a brand and a consumer, mobile advertising is clearly an industry on the rise. This program will focus on the issues and developments in mobile advertising featuring insights from Ted Maidenberg, associate from U.S. Venture Partners; Zaw Thet, CEO and Co-Founder of 4Info; and Mike Rowehl, lead architect of AdMob. Key topics to be discussed include: Who has the technologies and business models for great mobile ad revenue opportunities? How do you transition the web from a desktop tool to a useful mobile tool? What are the factors influencing consumer willingness to accept mobile advertising? How will ad-supported content impact mobile media economics? When will big brands allocate traditional marketing budgets to mobile? Free. To register, please contact Katy Citron at events@carrferrell.com / 650.812.3400.

TransitCampBayArea

Where: SocialText HQ

Date: 2008-02-23 10:00:00

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What is TransitCamp? Transit Camp is inspired by BarCamp. Bar Camp events are powered by participation and collaboration. This particular TransitCamp will highlight the public transit system in the Bay Area Region and will bring together transit officials and citizens to discuss stuff like: getting schedules on the go, the future of the Bay Area transit system, experiences and observations (not complaints, though), the websites, cool ideas for attracting more riders, etc. The event will be well-documented in the form of blog posts, wiki content, photos, and video for everyone who is unable to attend. (Please use the tag: transitcampbayarea) More details to come...

SVASE Event: 'VC Breakfast: Gabriel Ventures, Focus Disrupti...

Where: Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP

Date: 2008-02-07 08:00:00

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Event: 'VC Breakfast: Gabriel Ventures, Focus Disruptive Technologies' Date: Thursday, February 07, 2008 At 08:00 AM Duration: 1 Hour 30 Minutes Contact Info: Location: Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP, 390 Lytton Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301-1431 VCBC Chair: Jai Kumar, contact no. - 408-406-4693 Email: jai@vigyana.com URL: svase.org/index.php?option=com_extcalendar&Itemid=149&extmode=view&extid=1342 Gabriel Venture Partners® is an early-stage venture capital firm committed to fostering innovation by actively assisting entrepreneurs in technology and technology-enabled businesses. Gabriel seeks investment opportunities in capital-efficient companies that have the potential to be market leaders. Gabriel is based in Silicon Valley and has over $260 million under management. Gabriel's investment team consists of seasoned technology entrepreneurs and industry executives, each with international operating experience and strong domain expertise. Representative investments include Placeware (acquired by Microsoft), NetScaler (acquired by Citrix), and Iridigm (acquired by Qualcomm), as well as India investments such as Allsec (IPO), IL&FS Investsmart (IPO), and Provogue (IPO). Scott Chou Scott Chou joined Gabriel Venture Partners in 2000, bringing a broad base of experience in venture capital, technology, and startup operations to the Firm. His extensive experience working with early stage technology ventures is a direct reflection of his passion for introducing innovations to society. Scott leads Gabriel's Disruptive Technologies practice and proactively manages relationships with universities as well as corporate and government labs in search of groundbreaking innovations with enormous market potential. Venture Capital Scott entered the venture capital arena via the Kauffman Fellows Program, a prestigious fellowship in venture capital awarded annually to a select number of recipients. He completed his fellowship at Onset Ventures, a groundbreaking firm in seed capital investing. Scott currently serves as Chairman of the Kauffman Fellows Alumni Association. He is also the author of Maxims, Morals, and Metaphors: A Philosophical Guide to Venture Capital , a popular book used in teaching the art of venture capital. Operating Experience Scott joined his first startup as a software developer while still in high school, working on a small business accounting package. He has since worked for five other technology ventures as well as world-renowned research and development organizations. At Bellcore, Scott conducted pioneering research in broadband packet switching for the Internet. At IBM, he received an Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for his design work in enterprise storage systems. Scott was also instrumental in the launch of the handheld computing market while working at Poqet Computer, a startup later acquired by Fujitsu. From there, he founded Memory Card Associates, a systems integration firm focused on portable computing. Most recently, Scott was the founding manager of the engineering and manufacturing organizations within Integrated Computing Engines (ICE), a venture-backed startup in the graphics workstation market. EVENT LOCATION: Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP, 390 Lytton Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301-1431 COST: $25 SVASE Members; $39 Affiliates; $49 Non-members. This event is for ENTREPRENEURS ONLY, BY PREREGISTRATION ONLY. This event is co-sponsored by Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP, www.townsend.com. CONTACT: VCBC Chair: Jai Kumar, contact no. - 408-406-4693

Makishi: Mask Characters of Zambia

Where: Stanford University Iris and B Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts

Date: 2008-03-26 11:00:00

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This intimate exhibition focuses on 24 wooden masks, drawn from the collection of the Fowler Museum at UCLA, and explores the drama and complexity of the masquerades in which the masks are used.

BayCHI: Rael Dornfest & Jeffrey T. Schnapp

Where: PARC's George E. Pake Auditorium

Date: 2008-03-11 19:30:00

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What is To Be Learned from "Crowds" Jeffrey T. Schnapp, director Stanford Humanities Lab "Crowds" synthesizes a wide ranging set of analyses of crowds "of most every variety: political crowds, sports crowds, captive crowds, masses, packs and mobs, etc". The book represents the main output of one of the Stanford Humanities Lab’s prototype “Big Humanities” projects and is supported by an extensive website (http://crowds.stanford.edu) which includes virtual galleries, video capture of the November 2005 Crowds seminar, and a database of early social science readings on modern crowds. Jeffrey T. Schnapp has been the director of the Stanford Humanities Lab (http://shl.stanford.edu) since its foundation in 2000. He occupies the Pierotti Chair in Italian Studies at Stanford University where he is professor of French & Italian, Comparative Literature, and German Studies. He has played a pioneering role in several areas of transdisciplinary research and led the development of a new wave of digital humanities work. His research interests extend from antiquity to the present, encompassing such domains as the material history of literature, the history of design and architecture, and the cultural history of engineering. He is the author or editor of eighteen books and over one hundred essays on authors such as Virgil, Dante, Hildegard of Bingen, Petrarch, and Machiavelli, and on topics such as late antique patchwork poetry, futurist and dadaist visual poetics, the cultural history of coffee consumption, glass architecture, and the iconography of the pipe in modern art. What It Takes to Build a Left-Justified, Text-Only, Asynchronous Application Rael Dornfest, founder and CEO, values of n Why does email continues to thrive despite "email overload" and the occasional need to declare "email bankruptcy." Why hasn’t it gone away? What does it want from us? Where is it going (aside from my inbox)? What is its ongoing role in a Web 2.0 world? Email is a thin wrapper of technology around the innately understandable medium of the written word. It provides context and conversation—both explicit and implicit—like nothing else. It is inherently social and collaborative—for lack of a better term, it might even be called a "social network." Rael will go into the lessons we’ve learned from email, what it still has to teach us about simplicity, virality, frequency, distribution, and timeliness, and how much more it still has to contribute to the conversation. He'll survey the landscape of historical, current, and future killer email apps with an eye to building left-justified, text-only applications that allow email to do more, not just suck less. Bio: Rael Dornfest is Founder and CEO of Values of n, a Portland, Oregon company that is passionate about product, cautiously optimistic about software, and fascinated by the clever ways in which people have adapted technology to fit their needs. You'll find this reflected in Values of n's products: Stikkit: Little yellow notes that think, and I want Sandy — Your personal email assistant. Prior to founding Values of n, he was O'Reilly's Chief Technical Officer, program chair for the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (which he continues to chair), series editor of the bestselling Hacks book series, instigator of O'Reilly's Rough Cuts early access program. He built Meerkat, the first web-based feed aggregator, was champion and co-author of the RSS 1.0 specification, and has written and contributed to six O'Reilly books. When not programming, Rael can be found writing all-but-illegibly on whiteboards, sketching on reams of butcher-paper, or expounding on the virtues of same.

SVASE Event: 'BIG EVENT: Clean Tech: Greening Buildings And ...

Where: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

Date: 2008-04-17 18:00:00

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SVASE Event: 'BIG EVENT: Clean Tech: Greening Buildings And Construction – What’s In It For You?' Business Interface Groups – where Business & Technology collide! Date: Thursday, April 17, 2008 At 06:00 PM Duration: 2 Hours 30 Minutes Contact Info: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, 3175 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA 94304 Contact: Laura Weigant Email: info@svase.org URL: www.svase.org/index.php?option=com_extcalendar&Itemid=149&extmode=view&extid=1422 Clean tech investing is at an all time high of $6 billion and flourishing in a range of sectors including the emerging area of green buildings and green construction. This will have a huge impact on energy use and CO2 emissions. With a demand for energy efficiencies, and electronic and software applications, investors from the corporate and venture capital communities are turning their heads in this direction. "After six exciting years of growth, we are looking forward to 2008 being a monumental year for the industry, and as the caliber of our speakers and record attendance confirm -- now is the time to incorporate clean technology into the world economy," said Nicholas Parker, co-founder and chairman, Cleantech Group. "As more leaders from government and business engage in the global sustainability dialogue, clean technology innovations will contribute significantly to economic growth as well as fundamental human needs and environmental quality." What’s in it for You? This lively panel discussion will explore this topic to provide answers to the following questions and more: • What are the real opportunities in the Solar energy market? • What are the infrastructure issues for energy monitoring and distribution? • What’s the potential for “Smart” buildings? • What are realistic financing strategies for green building suppliers? • What sort of returns are investors expecting, and over how long? • What opportunities are there for entrepreneurs? The Panel: • James F. Fulton, Jr., Partner, Cooley Godward Kronish LLP • TBD • TBD • TBD Moderator: Cliff Detz, Partner, New Energy Venture Partners LLC WHEN: Thursday, April 17 6:00 – 7:00 pm: Networking and Business Showcase 7:00 – 8:15 pm: Panel discussion and Q/A 8:15 – 8:30 pm: Additional networking LOCATION: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, 3175 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA 94304 PRE-REGISTERED RATES (All Rates Include Hors D’oeuvres): Members - $20; Affiliates who advertise this event - $29; General Public - $49; Business Showcase Exhibit Table – member rate: $149; non-member rate: $375 (Includes exhibit table and two tickets to the event.) WALK-IN RATES: Add $10.00 to the listed price This event is co-sponsored by: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, www.cooley.com Applied Ventures, LLC, www.appliedventures.com/ Seating is limited, so early registration is recommended to avoid disappointment on the day.

Early Risers Toastmasters

Where: Unity Palo Alto Community Church

Date: 2008-04-15 06:30:00

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Tuesday mornings 6:30 - 8:00 AM (We're not called "Early Risers" for nothing). Guests are always welcomed. We are a friendly and diverse group of people who support each other in improving our communications and leadership skills. We help each other every step of the way as we progress through the Toastmasters program and build our skills.

Young Poets Open Mike Night

Where: Books Inc

Date: 2008-04-25 19:00:00

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Friday, April 25th at 7:00 PM Celebrating National Poetry Month Celebrate National Poetry Month with a special open mike night featuring young poets from Palo Alto schools. Poets grades 1-5 are invited to read their own poems or a favorite poem. Come by & meet the next generation's best & brightest of aspiring poets!

SVASE VC Breakfast Club with Allen Beasley of Redpoint Ventu...

Where: Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP

Date: 2008-05-22 08:00:00

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SVASE VC Breakfast Club with Allen Beasley of Redpoint Ventures, focus on Broadband, Enterprise Systems, Mobile Platforms WHAT:VC Breakfast Club with Allen Beasley of Redpoint Ventures, focus on Broadband, Enterprise Systems, Mobile Platforms, Semiconductors and Consumer Internet WHEN:Thu May 22nd from 8:00am – 9:30am WHERE:Townsend, Townsend & Crewe 379 Lytton Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301-1431, www.townsend.com CONTACT:Jai Kumar, Program Chair, jai@vigyana.com Cell: 408-406-4693 URL:www.svase.org/?q=node/1394 COST: $25 SVASE Members; $39 Affiliates; $49 Non-members. This event is for ENTREPRENEURS ONLY, BY PREREGISTRATION ONLY. This event is co-sponsored by Townsend, Townsend and Crewe, www.townsend.com. VC Breakfast Club: Allen Beasley of Redpoint Ventures, focus on Broadband, Enterprise Systems, Mobile Platforms, Semiconductors and Consumer Internet Redpoint Ventures We founded Redpoint with a single vision. Partner with exceptional entrepreneurs to help build companies that define industries and shape the future. This kind of bold undertaking does not come easy and as partners in this process, we bring more than just capital. With over 100 collective years of experience and over $2 billion under management—including 34 IPOs and 54 upside acquisitions—we know what it takes to succeed. Commitment Changing the world is hard work. That's why Redpoint partners with entrepreneurs every step of the way, bringing deep market knowledge and contacts as well as operational expertise. Through the ups and downs, we strive to be the entrepreneur's closest and most loyal ally. We're hands-on—ready to roll up our sleeves and do whatever it takes. We're collaborative, bringing a valuable vantage point that stems from having worked with hundreds of start-ups. We pride ourselves on being open and direct at all times. Ultimately, we want to be the venture partner entrepreneurs value most. Experience Redpoint Ventures was formed in 1999 with partners from Brentwood Venture Capital and Institutional Venture Partners, two firms that have been successfully investing in technology since the early days of venture capital. We offer a deep bench of experienced partners with success in building companies throughout the technology industry. All of us have established track records—from early investments in industry pioneers like TiVo, NetFlix, Ask Jeeves, Foundry Networks and Juniper Networks to exciting new companies such as MySpace, Calix, MobiTV, BigBand Networks, Fortinet, Right Media and HomeAway. With a critical mass of partners in each of our focus areas, we bring the full weight of the partnership to every endeavor. This collective experience provides us with keen judgment on how to get things done right and insight into where things might go wrong. Connections Relationships matter. They are essential to the success of all entrepreneurial ventures. We provide our companies with access to an expansive network of business leaders and seasoned executives. Entrepreneurs leverage these relationships to find new team members, forge strategic partnerships and identify customers. Knowledge Redpoint partners have spent years developing domain and market expertise. This knowledge enables us to have a meaningful impact on companies that are tackling entirely new markets or redefining established ones. This knowledge also allows each of our partners to continually sharpen their point of view on where markets are heading. These insights are essential to helping us effectively advise our entrepreneurs. Above All, Passion At Redpoint, we love the role we play in helping companies achieve their full potential. For us, there's nothing more satisfying than working closely with extraordinary individuals to help them achieve their dreams. Our work with entrepreneurs over the years has not only resulted in groundbreaking companies, but it has produced rewarding and lasting relationships. Allen Beasley Allen Beasley is a partner with Redpoint Ventures. Prior to joining Redpoint, Allen was an associate with IVP, a firm he joined in 1998. Allen focuses on infrastructure and consumer media investments and currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Airplay, Buzznet and Obopay. Allen also led or was actively involved in investments in Intermix (acquired by News Corp.), MetaTV (acquired by Comcast and Cox), ON Semiconductor (ONNN), Orbital Data (acquired by Citrix). OuterBay (acquired by HP), and TopSpin Communications (acquired by Cisco). Prior to joining IVP, Allen worked in marketing and product management for Ipsilon Networks, a developer of IP switching technology founded in 1994 and acquired by Nokia in 1997. Allen holds a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

SVASE MAIN EVENT: Startup Founders – New Kids on the Block

Where: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Date: 2008-05-08 18:00:00

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SVASE MAIN EVENT: Startup Founders – New Kids on the Block Start: 05/08/2008 - 6:00pm End: 05/08/2008 - 8:30pm Timezone: US/Pacific url:www.svase.org/?q=node/1046 The landscape of the Web has changed radically in recent years, with start-ups sprouting daily and influence shifting from VCs to entrepreneurs. The cost of launching a business has plummeted, driven down by the advances in the "open source" software movement, outsourcing and the power of Web-based marketing. In startup and tech circles, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's 23-year-old founder, is likened to a rock star, as are the founders of YouTube and Google. VCs have become more creative, often acting as seed investors in exchange for equity. "There's a lot of money chasing a lot of deals," said Venrock's David Siminoff. Come hear from under radar founders making big waves in this new landscape. They are excited about the future of technology and building companies. This lively panel of hot, up and coming entrepreneurs and founders will share their stories and insights as well as answer your questions about building a successful company. The Panel: * Paul Buchheit, Co-founded, FriendFeed, Inc. * Joe DiPasquale, Founder & CEO, College Wikis * Kirill Makharinsky, Co-founder, YouNoodle * Eric Marcoullier, Founder & CEO, Gnip LOCATION: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSGR Campus), 950 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304 PRE-REGISTERED RATES (All Rates Include Hors D’oeuvres) Members - $20; Affiliates who advertise this event - $29; General Public - $49 WALK-IN RATES: Add $10.00 to the listed price To reserve an Exhibit Table Contact Info@svase.org, $600 Members, $1,100 Non-members. Seating is limited, so early registration is recommended to avoid disappointment on the day.

PostSecret: Frank Warren

Where: Kresge Auditorium, Stanford University

Date: 2008-05-06 19:00:00

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What's your secret? Postmaster of postsecret.com, Frank Warren, speaks at Stanford.

VC Taskforce: Elevator Pitch Roundtable

Where: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Date: 2008-05-07 18:00:00

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The Elevator Pitch Roundtable May 7, 2008 | 6:00-8:30 PM | 2475 Hanover Street | Palo Alto Event Host: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittmann Register now! The VC Taskforce Elevator Pitch Roundtable is a great opportunity for entrepreneurs to network with investors and other CXOs, present their company and idea, and hear first-hand what it takes to raise early-stage capital in 2008. Each of our events has consistently drawn an excellent entrepreneur-to-investor ratio. If you are an entrepreneur in a startup and currently seeking capital, come prepared with your best 60-second elevator pitch. If you are an investor come and listen to entrepreneurs' pitches. You never know where you'll find your next deal. Find out how our panel of investors rate the entrepreneurs' pitches; which VCs pass and for what reasons; and, which entrepreneurs other VCs want to talk to ASAP. Please let us know if you would like to participate on one of our Elevator Pitch Roundtable panels or Workshop panels. During the evening, a select number of entrepreneurs will present their pitch to the entire room. Our distinguished panel of early stage investors will ask questions and provide brief feedback. Please note that pitching time limits will be strictly enforced! Our lively panel discussion and Q&A will also provide critical insight into what it takes to raise capital today. Moderator: Dr. Juan-Antonio Carballo, General Partner, Argon venture Partners Panelists: Gary Benton, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman John Steuart, Managing Director, Claremont Creek Ventures Rick Lewis, Principal, U.S. Venture Partners John Hall, Managing Director, Horizon Ventures Capital If you wish to give your pitch, please register and then email Rich Weingart, Partner, Sweet & Baker Insurance Brokers, Direct Phone (415) 512-2122, who will provide you with further instructions and advice. PROGRAM Doors open: 6 PM; Program: 6:30-8:30 PM Registration [includes pizza and soda] $35 VC Taskforce members, $45 Non-Taskforce member Fees (If space is available, on-site registration is an additional $10) Register now! Elevator Pitch Roundtable Chair: Steve Bengston, Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers Elevator Round Table Mangers: Rich Weingart & Pokin Yeung

The Consumerization of Software

Where: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

Date: 2008-06-04 11:30:00

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SDForum in collaboration with Accel Partners will be holding "The Consumerization of Software" a half day conference on June 4, 2008 at the offices of Cooley Godward in Palo Alto. Please join us for this exciting event! The cutting edge of "software" is undergoing a structural change as new business models, and new strategies for customer acquisition have supplanted the Y2K era of enterprise software models. Centralized buying decisions driven by the CIO have given way to "democratic" or consumer-like adoption behavior within the enterprise. Open-source software, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and other "bottom-up" rather than "top-down" models are exploiting this trend. Agenda 11:30am Registration and Lunch 12:30pm Welcome & The Consumerization Thesis Kevin Efrusy, Accel; Susan Lucas-Conwell, SDForum 1:00pm Panel Discussion: "A View on Software from Wall St" Moderator: TBC, Cooley Godward Cornish Brendan Barnicle, Pacific Crest Charles Carmel, Cisco Mike Maples, Managing Partner/Founder, Maples Investments 1:45pm Panel Discussion: "Beating the incumbents through bottom-up tactics" Moderator: Rich Wong, Accel Mike Ni, Senior VP of Solutions, Netsuite Duke Chung, CEO President and Co-founder, Parature Satish Dharmaraj, CEO and Co-founder, Zimbra Javier Soltero, CEO and Co-founder, Hyperic 2:45pm Facebook in the Enterprise Chamath Palihapitiya, VP Prod Mktg & Operations, Facebook 3:00pm BREAK 3:15pm Panel Discussion: "Products for the end user instead of the manager" Moderator: Kevin Efrusy, Accel David Thompson, CEO, Genius Jason Lemkin, CEO and Co-founder, Echosign Anthony Deighton, SVP of Marketing, Qliktech 4:15pm Fireside Chat: Clarence So, CMO, SalesForce Introduced by: Rich Wong, Accel 4:45pm Closing Remarks Members: $65, Non-Members: $80, Platinum Pass: $0.

Picture Book Pals

Where: Books Inc

Date: 2008-06-21 10:30:00

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Saturday, June 21 at 10:30 AM Join The Picture Book Pals for a summer themed story time with crafts. The picture book pals meet on the first and third Saturday of the month. For children ages 3 through 6.