Registration

Welcome note

Keynote
Gaurav Dhillon, Chairman and CEO, SnapLogic, co-founder and former CEO of Informatica Corporation

During this key note session, Guarav Dhillon will share his inspiring story. After immigrating to the United States for graduate school, he went to work for a large technology firm and soon, with a $75,000 grant, started a venture in his garage. That venture was Informatica, which he grew into a publicly-traded company, and established as a enterprise software category leader in data integration. At SnapLogic, Dhillon and his team are setting out to create a category defining cloud integration company as businesses everywhere embrace a cloud computing approach. What will it take to transform an industry a second time? Come hear lessons learned from a successful entrepreneur and a respected technology business leader.

Panel 1 – Emerging Trends – User Experience Redefined

In the last 3-4 years, the tech industry has moved from web browsers for smaller screens to native apps for smart phones/tablets. And now, users want to run/use applications from their TV at home, Desktop/Laptops/Web browsers at home/work, and on mobile devices Smart phones/tablets on the move. All of this with a seamless experience. This panel will shed light on this emerging trend.

Moderator:
Thierry Fautier, Senior Director, Harmonic
Panelists:
Dhimant Bhayani, Founder and CEO, iRevo Multimedia, Inc.;
Alex Garcia-Tobar, President and CEO, SyncTV;
Shankar Narayan, Chairman and CEO, Spime, Inc.

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Keynote 2
Dr. Ashwin Ram, Research Fellow at PARC and manager of the Augmented Social Cognition area, focusing on social computing technologies to augmented human cognition

With the advent of open education resources, social networking technologies and new pedagogies for online and blended learning, we are in the early stages of a significant disruption in current models of education. The disruption is fueled by a staggering growth in demand. It is estimated that there will be 100 million students qualified to enter universities over the next decade. To educate them, a major university would need to be created every week. Universities have responded to this need with Open Education Resources—thousands of free, high quality courses, developed by hundreds of faculty, used by millions worldwide. Unfortunately, online courseware does not offer a supporting learning experience or the engagement needed to keep students motivated. Students read less when using e-textbooks; video lectures are boring; and retention and course completion rates are low. Therein lies the core problem: How to engage a generation of learners who live on the Internet yet tune out of school, who seek interaction on Facebook yet find none on iTunes U, who need community yet are only offered content. We propose a new approach to this problem: open social learning communities anchored with open content, providing an interactive online study group experience akin to sitting with study buddies on a world-wide campus quad. This solution is enabled by state-of-the-art web technologies: really real-time collaboration technologies for a highly interactive experience; intelligent recommender systems to help learners connect with relevant content and other learners; mining and analytics to assess learner outcomes; and reputation techniques to establish social capital. We will discuss these technologies and how they can be combined to address the problem of education in a manner that is highly scalable yet interactive and engaging.

Lunch

Startup Bootcamp/Workshop – 7 Steps to a Successful Startup

The workshop’s simple but thorough seven-step method will answer your most essential questions—questions your investors will soon be asking you! Among the many topics covered in the workshop, Zafar works with participants on their one-minute “elevator pitch,” fine-tuning idea presentation and explaining how best to seek customer feedback.
 
Instructor: Naeem Zafar
Naeem Zafar teaches at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. As the founder of www.Startup-advisor.com, he advises entrepreneurs and assists companies with funding.

Panel 2 – Social Entrepreneurship

Social Entrepreneurship is defying the belief that "doing good" is not profitable while breaking global boundaries.The panelists for Social Entrepreneurship will exchange innovative ideas and answer questions about funding social ventures. Join this panel to understand how to capture this idea while solving local and/ or global challenges via sustainable initiatives.

Moderator:
Tom Cervantez, Co-founder, Business Counsel Law Group Panelists:
Mike Hannigan, President and Co-Founder, Give Something Back
Carla Mays, Urban Entrepreneur and Investor Readiness coach

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Closing Keynote
Kirk Adams, President and CEO, The Lighthouse for the Blind, Incorporated

During this keynote session, Kirk will speak about the convergence of mission and financial goals in a social enterprise business model. He will use the Lighthouse for the Blind, Inc. a social enterprise with $50,000,000 in annual revenue and 400 employees in three states for illustration. He will describe the power of the social enterprise model when an organization’s mission, core capabilities and financial engine align.

Raffle and Closing