SIPA MONTHLY EVENT JUNE - 2006
 

What is Web 2.0? Could it be a new class of engaging web sites with thrilling new looks and and new integrated features from different service providers, presented in a manner that offers extensive utility and visual simplicity. Web 2.0 is not a standard, but rather a new concept of building sites that engage the user and and make the web more interactive and more democratic

MODERATOR:

• John Koenig, President, Riseforth Inc
  John Koenig is President of Riseforth, Inc., a consulting company located in Half Moon Bay, California with clients throughout the world.
  
  John primarily advises electronics and software companies on business development, sales, marketing and product development.
  
  His experience includes 7 years with General Electric in engineering and sales management and executive positions at companies in the field of telephony, electronic design and content delivery.
  
  His present interests are open source, software-as-a-service and appliances. A frequent writer and speaker, he received his B.S. from University of San Francisco and his J.D. from University of California, Hastings. He is a member of IEEE and the California Bar Association.

Speakers:

• Satish Dharmaraj, Co-Founder & CEO, Zimbra.com
  Prior to founding Zimbra, Satish was VP of the Messaging Product Division at Openwave Systems, responsible for the email, unified messaging, voicemail, and instant messaging product lines. Satish managed the engineering and product management teams which had over 200 people and a $45 million budget. While at Openwave, Satish's division deployed 180 million mailboxes worldwide with the largest deployments being 20 million mailboxes at JPhone and KDDI in Japan.
  
  Satish previously was part of the founding team at the unified messaging company Onebox, where he led engineering and network operations, and was instrumental in the sale of Onebox to Phone.com for $850 million. Prior to Onebox, Satish was at Sun Microsystems' JavaSoft Division where he was responsible for the conception, design and implementation of Java Server Pages (JSPs); in addition, he led the team that designed and implemented the Java Servlet API.
  
  Satish previously held several positions at IBM and Transarc Corporations. Satish has BS and MS degrees in Computer Sciences and an executive management degree from Harvard Business School.
   

• Robert Seidl, Co-Founder & CTO, Genius Incorporated
  As CTO of Genius Incorporated, Seidl is the driving force behind the technology development and “Genius” product innovation.
  
  After founding a successful software company in the Netherlands , Seidl launched his Silicon Valley career as an engineer at Apple. In 1994, Seidl founded and became CEO of Ceneca Software, the developer of PageMill, the first visual web page editor, and SiteMill, a website management product. Adobe acquired Ceneca and PageMill became a runaway success.
  
  Seidl's passion for creating cutting-edge software that is easy to use by all, led him to start two more companies: Canoma (acquired by Metacreations), a developer of ground-breaking photogrammetry 3D rendering software for graphic artists, and RTVS, a real-time video-processing software company for military and medical applications.
  
  Seidl holds undergraduate and masters degrees in computer science from the Delft University of Technology, in the Netherlands .
   

• Seth Sternberg, Founder & CEO, Meebo
  Seth is the Biz Guy at meebo, which he founded along with Sandy and Elaine in the summer of '05. Before meebo, Seth worked at IBM in the M&A group. Seth majored in Political Science at Yale and attended Stanford Business School, before leaving for meebo. Seth flies airplanes (less than he'd like to ... but it's expensive!), rides motorcycles, and rollerblades.