The Hon. Gavin Newsom
Lieutenant Governor
State of California
Overview
The Bloomberg Next Big Thing Summit is a two day conference Bloomberg Link is building in partnership with Bloomberg West and Bloomberg News. The summit convenes the most influential investors and entrepreneurs in technology, science and data to examine the future of technology, business and how innovation is changing the human experience. The program will look at the hunt for the ‘Next Big Thing,’ the future of money, mobile, design and the technologies that are reshaping industries.
Bloomberg’s talented stable of journalists including Bloomberg West’s Emily Chang, Cory Johnson, Jon Erlichman and Bloomberg Businessweek’s Josh Tyrangiel, Ashlee Vance, Brad Stone will host interviews, debates, and conversations that explore the great frontiers of tech on June 17 and June 18 in San Francisco.
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Venue
Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay | Half Moon Bay, CA
Registration
This event is by invitation only. For a nomination to attend, contact Elizabeth Hood at +1 212 617 4820 or ehood@bloomberg.net.
Sponsorship Opportunities
For sponsorship opportunities, contact Sue Ann Timco at +1 212 617 3644 or stimco@bloomberg.net.
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PRELIMINARY AGENDA AS OF MAY 23:
Please note that the program is subject to change.
| 7:30 am | PARTICIPANT CHECK-IN & BREAKFAST |
| 8:15 am | NEXT BIG THING SNEAK PEEK Robert Lloyd, Co-President, Cisco sits down with Emily Chang, Anchor, “Bloomberg West”, Bloomberg Television to preview The Bloomberg Next Big Thing Summit. * Interview will be simulcast on Bloomberg TV |
| 8:30 am | WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS Emcees: Diane Brady, Senior Editor, Bloomberg Businessweek Emily Chang, Anchor, “Bloomberg West”, Bloomberg Television |
| 8:35 am | THE HUNT FOR THE NEXT BIG THING • Hot Companies • Hot Sectors • The New Tech Wave • The Next Generation . Speakers: Beth Comstock, Chief Marketing Officer and SVP, GE; Head, GE Ventures Robert Lloyd, Co-President, Cisco Roger McNamee, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Elevation Partners Interviewed by: Brad Stone, Senior Writer, Bloomberg Businessweek |
| 9:00 am | DESIGNING THE FUTURE • How design is changing everything • The nexus of design, social and the way we live • Mobile Next Speakers: Dave Blakely, Senior Director, Technology Strategy, IDEO Doreen Lorenzo, President, frog Michael Sippey, VP of Product, Twitter Kevin Hunter , President, Calty Design Research, Toyota Interviewed by: Josh Tyrangiel , Editor, Bloomberg Businessweek |
| 9:30 am | BEST NEW IDEAS FROM THE LAB • Innovation: Buy it or Build it? • How are companies fostering innovation? • What game changing technologies are getting reach for launch? Speakers: Timothy C. Draper, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson Justin Rattner, Chief Technology Officer, Intel Corporation; Senior Fellow and Director, Intel Labs Sophie Vandebroek, CTO and President, Xerox Innovation Group, Xerox Corporation Norman Winarsky, Vice President, SRI Ventures Interviewed by: Paul Kedrosky, Author, Infectious Greed Blog; Contributing Editor, Bloomberg News |
| 10:00 am | BWEST LIVE: INTEL DIVE Justin Rattner, Chief Technology Officer, Intel Corporation; Senior Fellow and Director, Intel Labs sits downs with Emily Chang, Emily Chang, Anchor, “Bloomberg West”, Bloomberg Television. * Interview will be simulcast on Bloomberg TV |
| 10:15 am | TVLAND NEXT: OVER THE TOP & CUTTING THE CORD Speakers: Erik Huggers, Vice President and General Manager, Intel Media Chet Kanojia, Founder and CEO, Aereo, Inc. Anthony Wood, Founder and CEO, Roku Interviewed by: Norman Pearlstine, Chairman, Bloomberg Businessweek; Chief Content Officer, Bloomberg L.P. |
10:45 am | UPGRADING THE METROPOLIS •The city as a laboratory • Empowering the innovation and the tech industry in California Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California Interviewed by: Emily Chang, Anchor, “Bloomberg West”, Bloomberg Television |
11:10 am | CLOUD: BEYOND THE TIPPING POINT • Beyond the Cloud • Leveraging the cloud • The new frontier of cyber threats Speakers: Brad Garlinghouse, Chief Executive Officer, YouSendIt Tom Leighton, Chief Executive Officer, Akamai Technologies Aaron Levie, Co-Founder and CEO, Box Lanham Napier, President and CEO, Rackspace Interviewed by: Ashlee Vance, Technology Writer, Bloomberg Businessweek |
| 11:40 am | PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES • The future of transport • Artificial Intelligence • Driverless cars Speakers: Sheryl Connelly, Manager, Global Trends and Futuring, Ford Motor Company Scott Griffith, Former Chairman and CEO, Zipcar, Inc. Interviewed by: Jeffrey Taylor, San Francisco Bureau Chief, Bloomberg News |
12:05 pm | NEW HOLLYWOOD • Examining the convergence of content and technology • Putting a price on content • New Hollywood Business Models • Reinventing the studio system Speakers: Chris Cookson, President, Sony Pictures Technologies, Sony Pictures Entertainment Mark Greenberg, President & CEO, EPIX Brian Weinstein, Head, Corporate Finance Group, Creative Artists Agency (CAA) Interviewed by: Jon Erlichman, Senior West Coast Correspondent, Bloomberg Television |
| 12:30 pm | SAMSUNG’S PLAY FOR SILICON VALLEY David Eun, EVP & Head of Open Innovation Center, Samsung Electronic sits down with Diane Brady, Senior Editor, Bloomberg Businessweek for a one on one conversation |
| 12:30 pm | LUNCH BYTES: MONETIZING THE BIG DATA FRONTIER Are we finding new markets for big data? How is data driving innovation and changing the way we live? Welcome Remarks: Billy Bosworth, CEO, DataStax, Inc. Speakers: Sean Knapp, Co-Founder and CTO, Ooyala Roger Lee, General Partner, Battery Ventures Brenda Dietrich, IBM Fellow, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Business Analytics in IBM Interviewed by: Matt Turck, Managing Director, Bloomberg Ventures Location: Observatory *Sponsored by DataStax, Inc. |
12:45 pm | CLOSING REMARKS Deborah Hopkins, Chairman of Venture Capital Initiatives, Citi Ventures; Chief Innovation Officer, Citi. |
12:45 pm | OPEN LUNCH |
| 1:40 pm | CONCURRENT SESSIONS SESSION 1: MAIN ROOM WELCOME BACK Emcee: Diane Brady, Senior Editor, Bloomberg Businessweek |
| 1:40 pm | SESSION 2 LOCATION: THE SKUNK WORKS THE INNOVATION BIG THINK TANK Emcee: Jason Kelly, Managing Editor, Bloomberg LINK Author, The New Tycoons: Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry that Owns Everything |
| 1:45 pm | CONCURRENT SESSIONS SESSION 1: SILICON VALLEY, WASHINGTON & THE START-UP REVOLUTION Steve Case, Chairman and CEO, Revolution; Co-Founder, America Online; Chairman, Case Foundation Interviewed by: Brad Stone, Senior Writer, Bloomberg Businessweek |
| 1:45 pm | SESSION 2: OPEN, COLLABORATION & CROWD SOURCED INNOVATION Speakers: Marc Bodnick, Product Marketing, Community, Business Operations, Quora Jeremy Howard, President and Chief Scientist, Kaggle whurley (William Hurley), Co-Founder, Chaotic Moon Labs Interviewed by: Adam Satariano, Technology Reporter, Bloomberg News |
| 2:15 pm | CONCURRENT SESSIONS SESSION 1: ROBOTS & GLASS: SHOW & TELL WITH THE SCOBLEIZER *VIDEO: Skydiving with Google Glass • Guerilla Glass vs. Willow Glass • Meet Taurus the dexterous Robot • Wearable Computing • The technologies that are redesigning consumer technology Show: Dr. Waguih Ishak, Vice President and Director, West Coast Research, Corning, Inc. Richard Mahoney, Director, Robotics Program, SRI International Trae Vassallo, General Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Tell: Robert Scoble, Startup Liaison Officer, Rackspace Jeffrey Taylor, San Francisco Bureau Chief, Bloomberg News *VIDEO: A look at the Pebble Smartwatch |
| 2:15 pm | SESSION 2: SPORTS TECH *VIDEO: Business of March Madness • The next generation fan experience • Upgrading the stadium • Reinventing the sports network • The future of ticket fulfillment • Leveraging data Speakers: Maitreyi Krishnaswamy, Director of Interactive Video Services, Verizon FiOS Justin Osofsky , Director, Platform Partnerships and Operations, Facebook Oliver Slipper, CEO, Perform Group Interviewed by: Paul Sweeney, Director of North American Research and Senior Analyst, Media & Internet, Bloomberg Industries *VIDEO: Inside the Valley's hidden poker scene |
| 2:45 pm | CONCURRENT SESSIONS SESSION 1: THE FUTURE OF THE NETWORK: HOW SOFTWARE IS EATING EVERYTHING Speakers: Michael Gregoire, CEO, CA Technologies Rolla P. Huff, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President, EarthLink, Inc. Kate Mitchell, Partner and Co-founder, ScaleVP Vivek Ranadivé, Founder, Chairman and CEO, TIBCO Software Inc Interviewed by: Peter Burrows, Senior Writer, Bloomberg Businessweek Questioner-In Chief: Tom Forte, Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst, Telsey Advisory Group |
| 2:45 pm | SESSION 2: REIMAGINING RETAIL & THE NEW EMPOWERED CONSUMER • Beyond the Flash Sale • The empowered consumer • Intuitive Shopping • Variable pricing • The new era of payments • Subscriptions to Stuff • Intuitive Shopping • Social Discovery • Virtual Goods. Speakers: J. Scott Di Valerio, CEO, Coinstar, Inc. Bill Ready, CEO, Braintree Chris Tsakalakis, President, StubHub; General Manager, eBay Tickets / StubHub Interviewed by: Douglas MacMillan, Internet Reporter, Bloomberg News |
| 3:15 pm | CONCURRENT SESSIONS SESSION 1: SMART CITIES • The city as a laboratory for innovation • Faster, Better, Smarter cities • The future of transportation • The competition between the San Francisco and Silicon Valley Edwin M. Lee, Mayor, San Francisco Interviewed by: Emily Chang (@emilychangtv), Anchor, “Bloomberg West”, Bloomberg Television * Interview will be simulcast on Bloomberg West |
| 3:15 pm | SESSION 2: MEDIA NEXT & THE FUTURE OF CONTENT Speakers: Naveen Chopra, Chief Financial Officer, TiVo Kay Koplovitz, Founder, USA Network Chairman; CEO Koplovitz & Company LLC. Jim Wiatt, Former Chairman, William Morris Agency Interviewed by: Diane Brady (@dianebrady), Senior Editor, Bloomberg Businessweek |
| 3:40 pm | CONCURRENT SESSIONS SESSION 1: REMAKING THE MUSIC MODEL Speakers: Skylar Grey, Singer and Songwriter Patrick Leonard, Songwriter, Keyboardist, Music Producer Scott Warner (@ScottWarner18), CEO, Gigg Inc. Interviewed by: Mark Milian (@markmilian), Technology Reporter, Bloomberg News |
| 3:40 pm | SESSION 2: SOCIAL, MOBILE, GAMING NEXT Speakers: Joe Fernandez (@JoeFernandez), CEO and Co-Founder, Klout Owen Mahoney, Director, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer, Nexon Co., Ltd. Rick Thompson, Founding Partner, Signia Venture Partners; Co-Founder, Playdom Greg Tseng (@gregtseng), Founder & CEO, Tagged inc. Interviewed by: Ari Levy (@levynews), Reporter, Bloomberg News |
| 4:04 pm | CONCURRENT SESSIONS SESSION 1: DATA DIVE: TRAFFIC & WEATHER ON THE 4s • How is data around traffic and weather being leveraged? • Where are the opportunities? Speakers: David Kenny, Chairman and CEO, The Weather Company (TWC) Bryan Mistele, Co-Founder, President and CEO, INRIX, Inc. David Freidberg, CEO, The Climate Corporation Interviewed by: Michael R. Nelson (@MikeNelson), Senior Technology Analyst, Bloomberg Government; Professor of Internet Studies, Georgetown |
| 4:04 pm | SESSION 2: DOUBLE HEADER:
SPEED MENTORING & GOING BIG It is American Idol meets The Accelerator: Company founders are selected from the attendees to give 5 minute pitch to a panel of investors and mentors. The panel of judges break down the business model, assess revenue potential, and look at ways to take the business to the next level. The Companies: Toby Rush, CEO and Founder, EyeVerify Additional Speakers to be Announced The Mentors & Investors: Jeff Clavier, Founder and Managing Partner, SoftTech VC Kate Mitchell, Partner and Co-founder, ScaleVP Matt Turck, Managing Director, Bloomberg Ventures Maynard Webb, Author, Rebooting Work: Transform How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship; Angel Investor; Chairman, LiveOps; Interim Chairman, Yahoo! |
| 4:30 pm | CONCURRENT SESSIONS SESSION 1: THE INTERSECTION OF DATA, SECURITY CLOUD & MOBILE • The Enterprise Disruption Underway • Combating state sponsored cyber-espionage • The Big Data Explosion Speakers: Aneel Bhusri, Founder and Co-CEO, Workday; Partner, Greylock Partners Michael Lopp, Director of Engineering, Palantir Technologies Paul Maritz, CEO, Pivotal Mark McLaughlin, President & CEO, Palo Alto Networks Interviewed by: Rich Jaroslovsky, Editor-at-Large, Bloomberg News |
4:30 pm | SESSION 2: DOUBLE HEADER CONTINUES |
| 4:30 pm | SUNSET, BAGPIPES & COCKTAILS |
| 6:30 pm | BLOOMBERG NEXT BIG THING SUMMIT DINNER *Open to all Summit Attendees |
| 9:30 pm | FIRESIDE PROGRAMS
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| 7:45 am | MARKET MAKERS SECONDMARKET BREAKFAST BYTE TBD, sits down with Jon Erlichman, Senior West Coast Correspondent, Bloomberg Television to preview The Bloomberg Next Big Thing Summit. * Interview will be simulcast on Bloomberg TV |
| 8:15 am | MARKET MAKERS BREAKFAST BYTE II Barry Silbert, Founder & CEO, SecondMarket sits down with Jon Erlichman, Senior West Coast Correspondent, Bloomberg Television to preview The Bloomberg Next Big Thing Summit. * Interview will be simulcast on Bloomberg TV |
| 8:30 am | PARTICIPANT CHECK-IN |
| 9:00 am | WELCOME BACK & OPENING REMARKS Greg Sebasky (@gsebasky), Chairman, Phillips North America Emcees: Emily Chang, Anchor, “Bloomberg West”, Bloomberg Television Cory Johnson, Editor-at-Large, Bloomberg Television |
| 9:05 am | THE FUTURE OF MONEY • Going Cashless • New Currencies • Mobile Banking • Moving Money. Speakers: James Barrese, Chief Technology Officer, PayPal Patrick Collison, CEO, Stripe Harshul Sanghi, Managing Partner, American Express Ventures Interviewed by: Norman Pearlstine, Chairman, Bloomberg Businessweek; Chief Content Officer, Bloomberg L.P. |
| 9:35 am | CORPORATE VENTURING • Global companies as varied as Toyota, Coca-Cola, ESPN and Johnson & Johnson are opening Silicon Valley outposts. What are they learning? How much are they investing? How are partnerships with start-ups being carried out across multinational enterprises? What is the ROI? How are they integrating Silicon Valley's most innovative companies into their global strategies?Next Speakers: Deborah Hopkins, Chairman of Venture Capital Initiatives, Citi Ventures; Chief Innovation Officer, Citi Daniel Mattes, CEO and Founder, Jumio Inc. Michael Yang, Managing Director, Comcast Ventures Interviewed by: Roy Bahat, Head, Bloomberg Beta |
| 10:00 am | SHOW & TELL: ROBOTS GO MAINSTREAM *VIDEO: Making robots more human-like • iRobot launches latest invention • An interview with a robot and it’s maker Show: Colin Angle, Chairman of the Board, CEO and Co-Founder, iRobot *Joined by a Surprise Guest Tell: Emily Chang, Anchor, “Bloomberg West”, Bloomberg Television Cory Johnson, Editor-at-Large, Bloomberg Television *Interview will be simulcast on Bloomberg TV |
| 10:30 am |
Sebastian Thrun, Founder, Google X Lab; Professor, Stanford University; CEO and Co-founder, Udacity sits downs with Cory Johnson, Editor-at-Large, Bloomberg Television. * Interview will be simulcast on Bloomberg TV |
| 10:45 am | BEYOND THE HARKNESS TABLE: DISRUPTING THE IVORY TOWER • Innovation in Education •The Classroom of the future Speakers: Gregory W. Cappelli, Chief Executive Officer, Apollo Group, Inc.; Chairman, Apollo Global, Inc. Dan Rosensweig (@rosensweig), President and Chief Executive Office, Chegg Sebastian Thrun, Founder, Google X Lab; Professor, Stanford University; CEO and Co-founder, Udacity Linda K. Zecher, President and CEO, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pradeep K. Khosla, Chancellor, University of California, San Diego Interviewed by: Cory Johnson, Editor-at-Large, Bloomberg Television |
11:15 am | WHEN M&A IS THE INNOVATION STRATEGY • The trickle up implications of M&A • Buying and Building Speakers: Don Harrison, Head of M&A, Google Drago Rajkovic, Managing Director and Head of Technology Mergers, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Kenneth Hao, Managing Partner and Managing Director, Silver Lake Interviewed by: Serena Saitto, Senior Deal Reporter, Bloomberg News |
| 11:45 am | DEBATE: THE CURRENCY OF THE FUTURE IS BITCOIN? For the Motion: Speaker to be Announced Against the Motion: James Rickards (@JamesGRickards), Senior Managing Director, Tangent Capital Partners; Author; Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis Debate Moderator: Dave Goldberg, Chief Executive Officer, SurveyMonkey |
| 12:15 pm | THE LAUNCH • A journey beyond the frontiers of rocketry Presentation by: Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson |
| 12:30 pm | AIR & SPACE *VIDEO: Jetsuite: The private, friendly skies As NASA shelves its space program, outer atmosphere exploration is moving into the hands of private enterprise. SpaceX partnered with NASA to become the first company to dock a private supply ship at the International Space Station. Virgin Galactic is developing a rocket engine and Orbital plans to test a rocket in August, followed by liftoff of a spacecraft to supply the station in October or December. Who are the investors in the new age space race? What is the outlook for sovereign partnerships with Russia, China, and Abu Dhabi? Speakers: Eric Anderson, Co-Founder, Space Adventures; Co-Founder and Co-Chairman, Planetary Resources Luke Nosek, Co-Founder, Founders Fund; Co-Founder, PayPal; Member of the Board, SpaceX Megan Smith, Vice President, New Business Development, Google Inc. Interviewed by: Emily Chang, Anchor, “Bloomberg West”, Bloomberg Television |
| 12:55 pm | THE BWEST LUNCH BYTE • One number that tells a whole lot. |
| 1:00 pm | FREESTYLE LUNCH |
2:00 pm | BWEST PRE-SHOW SHOW Join special guests and the hosts of Bloomberg West outside as Bloomberg Television sets up for Bloomberg West’s live broadcast on the lawn of the Ritz Half Moon Bay. A conversation about private companies on the brink of going public with Lise Buyer, Principal, Class V Group, LLC, Kate Mitchell, Partner and Co-founder, ScaleVP, and Barry Silbert, Founder & CEO, SecondMarket. |
| 3:00 pm | BLOOMBERG WEST LIVE * Covering the Future of Business The Rundown A-Block B-Block C-Block D-Block E-Block F-Block G-Block Guests Include: Bing Gordon, General Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Ben Fried, Chief Information Officer, Google Maynard Webb, Author, Rebooting Work: Transform How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship; Angel Investor; Chairman, LiveOps; Interim Chairman, Yahoo! |
4:00 pm | BWEST POST-SHOW SHOW Join special guests and the hosts of Bloomberg West outside as Bloomberg Television sets up for Bloomberg West’s live broadcast on the lawn of the Ritz Half Moon Bay. |
| 4:45 pm | POST SHOW BBQ HOSTED BY CREDIT SUISSE |
Edwin M. Lee
Mayor
San Francisco
Eric Anderson
Co-Founder, Space Adventures
Co-Founder and Co-Chairman, Planetary Resources
Colin Angle
Chairman of the Board, CEO and Co-Founder
iRobot
James Barrese
Chief Technology Officer
PayPal
Mitra Best
U.S. Innovation Leader
PwC
Aneel Bhusri
Chairman, Co-Founder and Co-CEO
Workday, Inc.
Dave Blakely
Senior Director, Technology Strategy
IDEO
Peter L. Bocko
Chief Technology Officer, Corning Glass Technologies
Corning Incorporated
Marc Bodnick
Product Marketing, Community, Business Operations
Quora
Rick Braddock
Executive Chairman & CEO, Mozido
Former CEO, FreshDirect Holdings
Former CEO, Priceline.com
Lise Buyer
Principal
Class V Group, LLC
Gregory W. Cappelli
Director, Chief Executive Officer, Apollo Group, Inc.
Chairman, Apollo Global, Inc.
Steve Case
Chairman and CEO, Revolution
Co-Founder, America Online
Chairman, The Case Foundation
Naveen Chopra
SVP and Chief Financial Officer
TiVo Inc.
Jeff Clavier
Founder and Managing Partner
SoftTech VC
Beth Comstock
Chief Marketing Officer and SVP
GE
Sheryl Connelly
Manager, Global Trends and Futuring
Ford Motor Company
Chris Cookson
President Sony Pictures Technologies
Sony Pictures Entertainment
J. Scott Di Valerio
CEO
Coinstar, Inc.
Brenda Dietrich
IBM Fellow and VP, CTO and Strategist, Business Analytics
IBM
Timothy Draper
Managing Director
Draper Fisher Jurvetson
David Eun
Executive Vice President and Head of Open Innovation Center
Samsung Electronics
Tom Forte
Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst
Telsey Advisory Group
David Friedberg
CEO
The Climate Corporation
Brad Garlinghouse
Chief Executive Officer
YouSendIt
Dave Goldberg
Chief Executive Officer
SurveyMonkey
Bing Gordon
General Partner
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Mark Greenberg
President & CEO
EPIX
Hal Gregersen
Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank Chaired Professor of Innovation and Leadership, INSEAD; Co-Author, The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators
Mike Gregoire
Chief Executive Officer
CA Technologies
Scott Griffith
Former CEO and Chairman
Zipcar
Don Harrison
Head of M&A
Google
Deborah Hopkins
Chairman of Venture Capital Initiatives, Citi Ventures
Chief Innovation Officer, Citi
Jeremy Howard
President and Chief Scientist
Kaggle Inc.
Rolla P. Huff
Chairman, CEO and President
Earthlink, Inc.
Erik Huggers
Vice President and General Manager
Intel Media
Kevin Hunter
President
Calty Design Research, Inc., Toyota
whurley
Co-Founder
Chaotic Moon
Steve Jurvetson
Managing Director
Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Chet Kanojia
Founder and CEO
Aereo, Inc.
David Kenny
Chairman and CEO
The Weather Company (TWC)
Pradeep K. Khosla
Chancellor
University of California, San Diego
Sean Knapp
Co-Founder and CTO
Ooyala
Kay Koplovitz
Founder, USA Network
Chairman and CEO, Koplovitz & Company LLC
Maitreyi Krishnaswamy
Director of Interactive Video Services
Verizon FiOS
Roger Lee
General Partner
Battery Ventures
Tom Leighton
Chief Executive Officer
Akamai Technologies
Aaron Levie
Co-Founder and CEO
Box
Robert Lloyd
Co-President
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Michael Lopp
Director of Engineering
Palantir Technologies
Doreen Lorenzo
President, frog
EVP and General Manager, Aricent Group
Owen Mahoney
CFO & COO
Nexon Co. Ltd.
Paul Maritz
CEO
Pivotal
Mark McLaughlin
President & CEO
Palo Alto Networks
Roger McNamee
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Elevation Partners
Bryan Mistele
Co-Founder, President and CEO
INRIX, Inc.
Kate Mitchell
Partner
Scale Venture Partners
Lanham Napier
President and CEO
Rackspace, the Open Cloud Company
Luke Nosek
Partner
Founders Fund L.L.C.
Justin Osofsky
Director of Platform Partnerships and Operations
Facebook
Vivek Ranadivé
Chairman and CEO
TIBCO Software Inc.
Justin Rattner
CTO, Intel Corporation
Director, Intel Labs
Bill Ready
Chief Executive Officer
Braintree
Dan Rosensweig
President and CEO
Chegg Inc.
Toby Rush
CEO and Founder
EyeVerify
Harshul Sanghi
Managing Partner of American Express Ventures
American Express
Barry Schuler
Managing Director
DFJ Growth
Robert Scoble
Startup Liaison Officer
Rackspace, the Open Cloud Company
Greg Sebasky
Chairman, Philips Electronics North America
EVP, Business Transformation, Philips Healthcare
Barry E. Silbert
Founder & CEO
SecondMarket
Oliver Slipper
Joint CEO, Board Member and Co-Founder
PERFORM
Rick Thompson
Founding Partner, Signia Venture Partners
Co-Founder, Playdom
Sebastian Thrun
Co-Founder and CEO
Udacity
Chris Tsakalakis
President, StubHub
General Manager, eBay Tickets / StubHub
Greg Tseng
Founder & CEO
Tagged inc.
Sophie Vandebroek
Chief Technology Officer and President, Xerox Innovation Group
Xerox Corporation
Trae Vassallo
General Partner
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Scott Warner
CEO
GIGG Inc.
Maynard Webb
Chairman, LiveOps
Interim Chairman, Yahoo!
Author, Rebooting Work: Transform How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship
Jim Wiatt
Media and Technology Consultant
Norman Winarsky
Vice President
SRI Ventures
Anthony Wood
Founder and CEO
Roku
Michael Yang
Managing Director
Comcast Ventures
Linda K. Zecher
President and CEO
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Peter Burrows
Reporter
Bloomberg News
Emily Chang
Anchor, “Bloomberg West”
Bloomberg Television
Jon Erlichman
Senior West Coast Correspondent
Bloomberg Television
Tom Giles
U.S. Technology Team Leader
Bloomberg News
Rich Jaroslovsky
Editor-at-Large
Bloomberg News
Cory Johnson
Editor-at-Large
Bloomberg Television
Ari Levy
Technology Writer
Bloomberg News
Doug MacMillan
Internet Reporter
Bloomberg News
Mark Milian
Tech Writer/Editor
Bloomberg
Michael R. Nelson
Analyst, Technology and Internet Policy
Bloomberg Government
Serena Saitto
Senior Deal Reporter
Bloomberg News
Adam Satariano
Technology Reporter
Bloomberg News
Brad Stone
Senior Writer
Bloomberg Businessweek
Paul Sweeney
Director of North American Research and Senior Analyst, Media & Internet
Bloomberg Industries
Josh Tyrangiel
Editor
Bloomberg Businessweek
Ashlee Vance
Technology Writer
Bloomberg Businessweek
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The University of California
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Samsung
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Alcatel-Lucent innovations are regularly recognized by international institutions for their positive impact on society. In 2012 and for the second year running, Alcatel-Lucent was named one of the Thomson Reuters Top 100 Global Innovators, recognition for the company’s continued addition to its world-class patent portfolio, one of the largest in the telecom industry. Alcatel-Lucent has also been recognized for its sustainability performance. In 2012 the company was ranked Technology Supersector Leader by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. Through its innovations, Alcatel-Lucent is making communications more sustainable, more affordable and more accessible as we pursue our mission of Realizing the Potential of a Connected World.
With operations throughout the world, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach. The Company achieved revenues of Euro 14.4 billion in 2012 and is incorporated in France and headquartered in Paris.
For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent on: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/, read the latest posts on the Alcatel-Lucent blog: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/blog and follow the Company on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Alcatel_Lucent.
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The Sustainability Consortium
TSC is an organization of diverse global participants that work collaboratively to build a scientific foundation that drives innovation to improve consumer product sustainability. TSC develops transparent methodologies, tools, and strategies to drive a new generation of products and supply networks that address environmental, social, and economic imperatives. The Sustainability Consortium advocates for a credible, scalable, and transparent process and system. The organization boasts over 90 members from all corners of business employing over 57 million people and whose combined revenues total over $1.5 Trillion. The Sustainability Consortium is jointly administered by Arizona State University and University of Arkansas with additional operations at Wageningen University in The Netherlands and has recently launched an office in China. Learn more at www.sustainabilityconsortium.org
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One Miramontes Point Road
Half Moon Bay, California 94019
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SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES:
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