Venture Summit Silicon Valley 2009 Programs Listing

Dec 08,2009

  • 06:15 am
    Ballroom 1
    The VC Industry in Transition — What's Next for Sand Hill Road?

    Experienced VCs Discuss The Future of the Asset Class, as LPs, Banks and Markets Undergo Changes

    • Moderator: Steve Morgan, Partner, KPMG
    • Todd Chaffee, General Partner, Institutional Venture Partners
    • David Cowan, Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners
    • Dixon Doll, General Partner, DCM
    • Deepak Kamra, General Partner, Canaan Partners
    • Ann Winblad, Co-founder & Managing Director, Hummer Winblad
  • 07:00 am
    Break
  • 07:20 am
    Ballroom 1
    Exits: What's the M&A and IPO Outlook for 2010?
    • Moderator: Julia Reigel, Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
    • Paul Deninger, Senior Manging Director, Evercore Partners
    • George Lee, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs
    • Andrew Guevara, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley
    • Ivan Brockman, Sr. Managing Director, The Blackstone Group
    • Ethan Topper, Partner, Union Square Advisors
  • 07:20 am
    Ballroom 2
    Keynote: The Deal — The Importance of Free-Trade
    • Tim Draper, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
  • 07:30 am
    Ballroom 2
    Bulls in a China Shop — The Local Advantage in Chinese VC

    As the Chinese VC market matures and major American tech firms are bested by Chinese rivals, how do Leading Venture Firms hone their local advantage?

    • Moderator: Rebecca Fanin, International Editor, Asian Venture Capital Journal
    • Tim Draper, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
    • Richard Lim, Managing Director, GSR Ventures
    • Glenn Solomon, Managing Partner, GGV Capital
  • 08:00 am
    Ballroom 1
    What Funding Crisis?

    Silicon Valley's Leading Early & Angel Investors Discuss What's Whetting Their Appetite and the 2010 Funding Strategy

    • Moderator: Sam Angus, Partner, Fenwick & West
    • Ron Conway, Founder, SV Angels
    • Joyce Chung, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures
    • Aydin Senkut, Founder & President, Felicis Ventures
    • Howard Hartenbaum, Partner, August Capital
  • 08:05 am
    Ballroom 2
    CEO Showcase — Internet & Consumer

    Presentations by CEOs of the hottest companies in this sector, emceed by Ezra Roizen, Contributing Editor, AlwaysOn

    • Joe Ward, CEO, Groovy Corporation
    • Phil Fernandez, CEO, Marketo
    • Helen Zhu, CEO, Chictopia
    • Alex Mashinsky, CEO, Groundlink
    • Ed Lambert, SVP and Silicon Valley Region Market Manager, Bridge Bank
    • Rebecca Buckman, Journalist
  • 08:45 am
    Ballroom 1
    Fireside Chat: The VC 100 — Insights & VC Outlook
    • Tony Perkins, Founder and Editor, AlwaysOn
    • Victor Boyajian, Chair, Venture Capital/Emerging Growth Company Practice, SNR Denton
  • 08:45 am
    Ballroom 2
    CEO Showcase — Mobile & Software

    Presentations by CEOs of the hottest companies in this sector, emceed by Ezra Roizen, Contributing Editor, AlwaysOn

    • Jai Haissman, CEO, Affective Interfaces
    • Rahul Sonnad, CEO, Geodelic
    • John Corshen, CEO, GoingOn
    • Marion Frejsen, E-Factor, CTO
    • Russell Tillitt, CEO, Embee
    • Ed Lambert, SVP and Silicon Valley Region Market Manager, Bridge Bank
    • Rebecca Buckman, Journalist
  • 09:20 am
    Ballroom 1
    Announcing the Top 25 Women in Tech to Watch, Presented by Accenture
    • Liz Tinkham, Management Consulting and Integrated Markets, Communications & High Tech Operating Group, Accenture
    • Tony Perkins, Founder and Editor, AlwaysOn
  • 09:30 am
    Lunch
  • 10:30 am
    Ballroom 1
    CEO Showcase Session
    • Rajeev Goel, CEO, PubMatic
    • Edmundo Costa, CEO, Catbird
  • 11:00 am
    Ballroom 1
    Corporate Buyers — Where’s the Action for 2010?

    Hear from the most active acquirers of AlwaysOn's top private companies about next year's strategy

    • Moderator: Doug Cogen, Co-Chair, M&A Group, Fenwick & West
    • David Lawee, VP Corporate Development, Google
    • Ken Berryman, SVP, Strategy, Symantec
    • Hilton Romanski, VP, Corporate Development, Cisco
    • Doug Merritt, CEO, Baynote
  • 11:00 am
    Ballroom 2
    Addressing Private — Company Liquidity

    Which are the best ways for stakeholders in private equities to buy & sell? After a surge in 2009, what's the secondary-market outlook in 2010 and beyond?

    • Moderator: Ken Loveless, Managing Director, SVB Capital
    • Joseph Marks, Principal, Coller Capital
    • Colin McGrady, Managing Director, Cogent Capital
    • Jamie Hale, Partner, Aldenwood Capital
    • Dwight Badger, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Advanced Equities Financial Corp.
  • 11:45 am
    Ballroom 1
    The New-Millennium Strategy for Boutique & Middle-Market Banks

    In the post-Lehman world, the banking sector is open to disruption. What's the 2010 outlook for leading boutiques and middle-market banks? What are alternate strategies to IPO?

    • Moderator: Craig Menden, Partner, Sonnenschein Venture Technology Group
    • Jamie Montgomery, CEO, Montgomery & Co.
    • John Moriarty, Managing Director, Baird & Co.
    • David Rodoni, Managing Director, Revolution Partners
    • Jason Hutchinson, Managing Director, Houlihan Lokey
  • 11:45 am
    Ballroom 2
    CEO Showcase — SaaS & Enterprise

    Presentations by CEOs of the hottest companies in this sector, emceed by Ezra Roizen, Contributing Editor, AlwaysOn

    • Lukas Biewald, CEO, CrowdFlower
    • Roman Stanek, CEO, Good Data
    • Wences Casares, Co-CEO, Bling Nation
    • Chris Boone, CEO, Visuvi
    • Ed Lambert, SVP and Silicon Valley Region Market Manager, Bridge Bank
    • Jim Parsons, Managing Director, Silicon Valley Bank
  • 12:30 pm
    Ballroom 1
    Break
  • 12:45 pm
    Ballroom 2
    CEO Showcase Session — Greentech

    Presentations by CEOs of the hottest companies in this sector, emceed by Ezra Roizen, Contributing Editor, AlwaysOn

    • Phil Henson, CFO, Solar Power Partners
    • Pravin Jain, CEO, Senergen Devices
    • Trevor Stout, CEO, Yap.tv
    • Ed Lambert, SVP and Silicon Valley Region Market Manager, Bridge Bank
  • 01:30 pm
    Ballroom 1
    The IT Outlook for 2010 and Beyond — The VC 100 Weigh In

    The nation's top VCs who have produced exits for LPs and entrepreneurs discuss investing strategy in infrastructure and infotech

    • Moderator:
    • Woody Benson, General Partner, Prism VentureWorks
    • Neal Dempsey, Managing Director, Bay Partners
    • Michael Kwatinetz, General Partner, Azure Capital Partners
    • Steve Harrick, General Partner, Institutional Venture Partners
  • 02:00 pm
    Reception

Dec 09,2009

  • 05:30 am
    Ballroom 1
    Secrets of a Successful IPO

    Despite a trembling bear market, these executives steered companies to enormously successful exits in '09

    • Moderator: Tony Perkins, Founder and Editor, AlwaysOn
    • Paul Kwan, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley
    • Mike Rubino, CFO, A123Systems
    • Jim Kelliher, CFO, LogMeIn
    • Kevin Thompson, CFO & COO, SolarWinds
  • 06:15 am
    Ballroom 1
    Fireside Chat: Why I Went Social — And How You Can Too
    As the VC Sector Enters a Post-Crisis Shakeout, Will Social Venture Investing Offer an Alternate Risk/Return Model (and help save the world)?
    • Moderator: Arden Pennell, Program Director, AlwaysOn
    • Nancy Pfund, Managing Partner, DBL Investors
    • R. Paul Herman, CEO, HIP Investor
  • 07:00 am
    Ballroom 1
    Wireless Devices: Opportunities for the Global Growth Investor

    Leading Investors Debate What's Promising in the Major-Growth Mobile Sector, from Healthtech to Smart Cities to Mobile Computing

    • Moderator: Bambi Francisco, Founder & CEO, Vator.tv
    • Harshul Sanghi, Managing Partner, Enterprise Growth, AMEX Ventures
    • Tim Chang, Partner, Norwest Venture Partners
    • Nagraj Kashyap, VP Ventures, Qualcomm
    • Kevin Hamilton, US CEO, IREX
  • 07:45 am
    Break & Refreshments
  • 08:05 am
    Ballroom 1
    Corporate Investors: Outlook 2010

    Hear where top corporate venture firms are spending seed to mezzanine capital --which game-changing ideas do they want to fund?

    • Moderator: Chad Seiler, Partner, KPMG
    • Sanjiv Parikh, Managing Director, Corporate Ventures, Hewlett-Packard
    • Bill Maris, Managing Partner, Google Ventures
    • Louis Toth, Senior Managing Director, Comcast Interactive Capital
    • Jai Das, Partner, SAP Ventures
    • Rachel Lam, SVP, Time Warner Ventures
  • 08:50 am
    Ballroom 1
    The Greentech Evolution — What's Next?

    A sophisticated analysis of the sector as a whole with top investors. After mini-bubbles, increased govt attention, spiraling public awareness, and huge VC outlays --what's next for greentech investment? Where are we going?

    • Moderator: Eric Wesoff, Senior Analyst, Greentech Media
    • Jennifer Fonstad, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
    • Marianne Wu, Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures
    • Ray Lane, Managing Partner, KPCB
    • Michael Danaher, Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
    • Duncan Williams, Managing Director, Director of Clean Technology and Industrial Growth Banking, Wedbush Securities
  • 09:35 am
    Ballroom 1
    Fireside Chat: We Want Our Internet TV — Where Is It?
    • Mark Stevens, Partner and Co-Chair, Private Equity Group, Fenwick & West
    • Jim Lanzone, Founder & CEO, Clicker
  • 09:55 am
    Closing Remarks