Schedule
Events will be added as Summit approaches - check back regularly!
Sunday 4/5
University Tour: 12p-2p, Campus
Meet at Old Union at 11:50am
Explore Stanford's beautiful campus on a guided tour.
Welcome by Prof. Dasher: 2p-3p, CIS-X Auditorium
Dr. Dasher has been with the US-Asia Technology Management Center at Stanford University since 1993, becoming USATMC Acting Director in 1994 and Director in 1996. Since 1996, he has concurrently held the post of Consulting Associate Professor ... more
Chapter Reports: 3p-4:30p, CIS-X Auditorium
E-Pitch Introduction: 4:30p-5:30p, CIS-X Auditorium
Introduction to the theme and rules of this year's E-Pitch Competition.
Monday 4/6
Creativity Workshop w/Tina Seelig: 10-11:30, Wallenberg Learning Theater
Tina Seelig, one of the most active proponents of importance of creativity and innovation on Stanford campus, provides you the glimpse into the world of creativity and innovation. Fun innovation activities and intellectually challenging questions will give you a better understanding of what it is like to actively think creativity and innovation.
E-Pitch Roundtable: 1p-2p, Oak East, Tresidder Union
Energy Industry Panel: 3p-4p, Wallenberg Learning Theater
Moderated by Tom Kosnik, Stanford Technology Ventures Program
With Dave Lyons, Former Director of Engineering at Tesla Motors
In this panel, co-hosted by Energy Crossroads, we hope to explore the entire process of setting up a clean energy firm in today's world. In particular, speakers will share their business models, experience in soliciting funding and their talent recruitment processes. Speakers will also reveal the technological challenges involved in tapping the sources of energy they are working on, and how they are responding to the goals and policies of the new administration and fluctuating oil prices.
Tuesday 4/7
Young Entrepreneurs Panel: 10-11:30, CIS-X Auditorium
Moderated by Alex Selig, Mayfield Fellow, ASES President 2008
With Josh Schwarzapel, Cooliris / Jeff Seibert, Increo / Josh Reeves, Unwrap /
Garry Tan, Posterous
Silicon Valley has never been the place for the old minds and the faint-hearted. From Steve Job to Larry Page and Sergei Brin to Mark Zuckerberg, the Valley has been characterized by its young, innovative entrepreneurs. In this panel, we take a look at some of the most promising young entrepreneurs in the Valley and their experiences as entrepreneurs. And, of course, ask them the question, "What’s next?"
E-Pitch Roundtable: 1p-2p, Oak East, Tresidder Union
Keynote by Patrick Chung, NEA: 2:30p-3:30p, Old Union 200
Patrick joined NEA in 2004 and became Partner in 2007. Patrick focuses on venture growth equity, consumer, Internet, and mobile investments. He is a director of Loopt and Realtime Worlds, and is actively involved with 23andMe, Xoom and ... more
Entrepreneurship in Asian High-Tech Industries: 4:15p-5:30p, Skilling Auditorium
Get a sense for Stanford's academic life by attending this popular class taught by Professor Dasher.
Wednesday 4/8
Web Industry Panel: 10-11:30, CIS-X Auditorium
Moderator TBA
With Jay Sullivan, VP of Mobile at Mozilla/ Maile Ohye, Senior Engineer at Google / Jeremiah Robinson, CTO of Slide
The panel will focus on the discussion over the direction of the web industry in the next 5 to 10 years. The scope of the discussion will include the current trends in the web platform space; how services can be developed so that they can create competitive business advantage through the participation of users; whether the Web 2.0 industry can further innovate; when the new paradigm shift for the web industry will take place and how the new generation of web development and design will differ from the current one.
Top 10 Legal Screw-ups in Start-ups: 1p-2p, Oak East, Tresidder Union
With Yokum Taku, Corporate and Securities Partner in Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Bored listening to the never-ending success stories of Silicon Valley? Yokum Taku, an expert in legality issues of start-ups, will provide you the legal examples of what not to do when you start a company. At any time, Yokum typically represents several start-up companies seeking venture financing, private companies that have received financing, and publicly traded companies. Yokum maintains a leading legal blog at www.startupcompanylawyer.com.
VC Industry Panel: 2:30p-3:30p, Wallenberg Hall Learning Theater
Moderated by Ian Wong, Mayfield Fellow, PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
With Sergio Monsalve, Norwest Venture Partners/ Ken Gullicksen, Morgenthaler Ventures / Jay Eum, Translink Capital, former head of Samsung Ventures
In the current economic crisis, the dynamics of VC industry has already changed immensely and will change more. The industry was heavily characterized the successes of almost zero-cost Web 2.0 for the past decade, but we wonder what the future will look like. Will the investment in Web 2.0 companies be sustainable for the VC industry, or will it move away to focus on more infrastructure heavy industries like energy, environment and new materials? How will such change in the dynamics of the industry affect the entrepreneurs looking for opportunities in the Silicon Valley and Asia?
Keynote by Jen-Hsun Huang, Founder and CEO of NVIDIA: 4:30p-6p, Skilling Auditorium
Jen-Hsun Huang co-founded NVIDIA Corporation in April 1993 and has served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the Board of Directors since its inception. Under his leadership, NVIDIA has become the world leader in visual computing technologies and ... more
Thurday 4/9
Biotech Industry Panel: 10-11:30, CIS-X Auditorium
Moderated by Alex Selig, Mayfield Fellow, ASES President 2008
With Mark Forchette, CEO of Optimedia / Deborah Kilpatrick, VP of CardioDX
The Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical industry is a capital-intensive industry that today faces numerous challenges. The process of developing, testing, seeking regulatory approval and patenting a drug costs billions of dollars and is an uncertain process that takes years to complete. The impending expirations of many of the patents that generate large revenues for big-Pharma firms have further necessitated these companies to develop robust pipelines of therapeutics to be market leaders amidst strong competition from both established and generic drugmakers. How these companies will leverage upon the tremendous pace of technological improvements and cutting-edge scientific research being done in this field, especially here in the Silicon Valley, is a question we hope to answer through this panel.
Genentech Company Tour: 1p-4p
Meet in front of Nexus, at the Clark Center, by 12:15pm for carpool
Genentech was founded by venture capitalist Robert A. Swanson and biochemist Dr. Herbert W. Boyer. After a fateful meeting in 1976, the two decided to start the first biotechnology company, Genentech. Considered the founder of the biotechnology industry, Genentech has been delivering on the promise of biotechnology for more than 30 years, using human genetic information to discover, develop, manufacture and commercialize biotherapeutics that address significant unmet medical needs. Today, Genentech is among the world's leading biotech companies, with multiple products on the market for serious or life-threatening medical conditions, more than 100 projects in the pipeline and a long term plan for growth.5 On January 22, 2009, FORTUNE magazine named Genentech one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For" for the eleventh consecutive year. This year Genentech is number seven on the list.
Keynote by Guy Kawasaki, Director of Garage: 4:30p-6p, Hewlett 201
Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm and a columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. Guy is the author of nine books including Reality Check ... more
E-Pitch Roundtable: 8:30p-9:30p, Wallenberg Learning Theater
Friday 4/10
E-pitch Competition: 10-11:30, Oak East, Tresidder Union
Facebook Company Tour: 1p-4p
Meet in front of Nexus, at the Clark Center, by 12:15pm for carpool
Founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. The company develops technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph, the digital mapping of people's real-world social connections. Anyone can sign up for Facebook and interact with the people they know in a trusted environment. Facebook is the second most-trafficked PHP site in the world, and one of the largest MySQL installations anywhere, running thousands of databases. Facebook has built a lightweight but powerful multi-language RPC framework that allows the company to seamlessly and easily tie together subsystems written in any language, running on any platform. The company is the largest user in the world of memcached, an open-source caching system, and has created a custom-built search engine serving millions of queries a day, completely distributed and entirely in-memory, with real-time updates.
Keynote by Ken Wilcox, CEO of Silicon Valley Bank: 4:30p-6p, Wallenberg Learning Theater
Ken Wilcox is president and CEO of SVB Financial Group. Since January 2000, when he took on the role, Wilcox has successfully pursued a strategy of expansion and diversification, while remaining focused on the company’s core niches of technology ... more
Saturday 4/11
San Francisco Tour: 10:30-10p
Relax and play after the long week in beautiful San Francisco.
