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SIPA Monthly Event - February 2006 "PowerLine Home Networking: Video and Games through Home Power Outlets"

Venue: Hewlett Packard, The Auditorium, 3000 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA (Venue Changed) Date: Feb 18, 2006 (Saturday) Time: 3pm to 6pm Price: Free for Members, $10 for non-members. REGISTER NOW PAST EVENTS NEWS

Silicon Valley Indian Professionals Association (SIPA) invites you to our monthly event on February 18, 2006. EVENT FOCUS Tired of laying wires in your home to connect video and audio devices? Powerline communication (PLC) uses electric wires to provide video, voice and data connectivity between various devices in your home. SIPA is proud to present a trend that may influence the next generation home! An esteemed panel of speakers will present in-home applications where Digital Video or X-Box 360 games are available ubiquitously from any power outlet in your home today. The home power line is the new high-speed (200Mb/s) video-audio-data backbone for the Home. Listen to industry leaders share their opinions on PLC including: Investment trends Behind the scene technology   Demo of Video Games played through power lines Hurry! First 100 Registrants entered automatically into a raffle for a XBOX 360 Demo Unit. SPEAKERS: 1. Barry Taylor - Managing Director, Warburg Pincus 2. Vivek Pathela – Senior Director, Consumer Product Business, NETGEAR 3. Dr. Victor Dominguez – Co-Founder, DS2 and Chairman of European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) 4. Chano Gomez – VP, Technology and Strategic Partnerships, DS2 AGENDA: Registration & Networking - 3.00 - 4.00pm Event - 4.00 - 5.00pm Q & A - 5.00 - 5.30pm Networking - 5.30 - 6.00pm !!!PLEASE NOTE: VENUE CHANGED TO PALO ALTO!!! To Register - Click Here... BIOS Barry Taylor Managing Director, Technology Group Warburg Pincus LLC Barry Taylor is a Managing Director in the Technology Group at Warburg Pincus and head of the Menlo Park office. He is focused on the firm’s investments in Silicon Valley and also works actively with its professionals in Asia, particularly engaged in investing in China and India. Prior to joining Warburg in 2000, Mr. Taylor was a partner with Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, PC, a venture capital and technology law firm in Palo Alto. He is a director of vCustomer, a provider of India-based outsourced voice and on line customer support, and Aicent, a provider of mobile data services. Mr. Taylor received a B.A. from Dickinson College in 1970, Phi Beta Kappa, with Honors in political science. He received a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1975, where he was a member of the Law Review. Warburg Pincus Warburg Pincus has been a leading private equity investor since 1971. The firm currently has approximately $12 billion under management and an additional $7 billion available for further investments. Warburg Pincus invests in a range of sectors including information and communication technology, financial services, healthcare, media and business services, energy, consumer, industrial and real estate. In August 2005, Warburg Pincus closed its 11th fund, Warburg Pincus Private Equity IX, L.P., an $8 billion fund that invests in companies in the U.S. and abroad. The firm has 59 partners and 145 professionals in offices in New York, Menlo Park, London, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo, Seoul and Mumbai. Warburg Pincus invests at all stages of a company's life cycle, from founding start-ups and providing growth capital to leading restructurings, recapitalizations and buy-outs. The firm has an active portfolio of more than 120 companies. For more information please visit www.warburgpincus.com. Vivek Pathela Senior Director Consumer & Home Products Business Unit NETGEAR As Senior Director for NETGEAR, Vivek Pathela is charged with the product management, marketing, brand development, P&L and strategic direction of NETGEAR’s consumer and home networking products business. He owns the company’s product lines of wireless LAN, broadband routers, powerline networking, storage central, and multimedia networking. Prior to NETGEAR in 2000, Vivek was at Hewlett-Packard for 15 years and served in various product management, marketing and systems engineering positions at HP’s Computer Systems Business HQ in Cupertino, CA as well as at HP’s Asia/Pacific regional HQs in Japan and Singapore. Vivek holds a BS degree from Tufts University with an honorary double major in computer science and international relations. He has also completed the Executive Management Program (EDP) at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and participated in executive studies at the Haas School of Business/UC Berkeley. NETGEAR NETGEAR has been a worldwide provider of technologically advanced, branded networking products since 1996. Our mission is to be the preferred customer-driven provider of innovative networking solutions for small businesses and homes. For more information please visit www.netgear.com. Victor Dominguez Founder and Vice President of Strategy and Standardization Design of Systems on Silicon (DS2) Victor Dominguez is the Chairman of ETSI PLT (Powerline Telecommunications) committee and Chairs or contributes to several other key industry groups including, IEEE, Cenelec, UPLC, CISPR, PLCforum and UPA. He is a Co-founder and Vice-President of Strategy & Standardization at DS2. He has also participated in product development, including the PHY and MAC layers. Prior to DS2, Victor was involved in several research and lecturing positions at the leading technical institution in Spain, the Universitat Politècnica de València, and also as a consulting expert to the European Commission. Chano Gomez Vice President of Technology and Strategic Partnerships Design of Systems on Silicon (DS2) Chano Gomez is Vice President for Technology and Strategic Partnerships for DS2 and heads the North America operations. He joined DS2 in 1999 as a Design Engineer in the System Architecture Group and rapidly assumed positions of increasing responsibility including Head of Applications Engineering. His pioneering work in Powerline Technology has led to several patents. He holds a degree in Telecommunication Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain. Design of Systems on Silicon (DS2) Founded in 1998, Design of Systems on Silicon S.A. (DS2) is the leading supplier of silicon and software for Power line Communications (PLC) and the first company to develop and market PLC chipsets delivering data rates of up to 200 Mbps. These award winning, high-performance, highly versatile, low cost chipsets are the chips of choice on the market for ultimate performance, feature rich, low cost Power Line Communications (PLC) modems and consumer electronic appliances. DS2 technology sets global benchmarks in terms of performance and features and enhances the competitive advantages of broadband PLC, providing solutions for every segment of the network, from the most performance demanding backhaul optical switch to the most cost-sensitive home networking PLC appliance. The company currently employs over 100 highly qualified graduates and continues to invest in the innovation and design of chips and in the development of strategic partnerships with manufacturers to accelerate the implantation of this technology in both the PLC access and consumer electronic markets. Two powerful industry groups, the Universal Powerline Association (UPA) and the European Commission funded OPERA (Open PLC European Research Alliance)

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