9:00 AM - Registration Breakfast
9:30 AM - Seating
9:45 AM - Morning Keynote
- Duane Roth - CEO of CONNECT
10:45 AM - Session #1: Engineering Panel and Market Research Workshop
Engineering Panel
The Engineering Panel will focus on the essentials needed to succeed in a fledgling engineering business or as an aspiring engineering entrepreneur in today's business world. It will discuss what it means to be an engineer and how to use your skills in an industry context. The speakers will detail their own experiences in starting or working in their new companies, such as best practices, mistakes to avoid, and general advice to help new and old engineers alike.
- Moderator: Anne O'Donnell - Director, Corporate Affiliates Program
UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering - Sujit Dey- Founder of Ortiva Wireless
- George Varghese - Founder of Netsift
- Janet Vohariwatt - Founder & CEO of iChanneX Corporation
- Brad Chisum - CEO & Co-Founder of Lumedyne Technologies
Market Research Workshop
The Marketing Research workshop will tackle your most common questions about the in's-and out's of the marketing field. This interactive workshop will give you the tools to gauge the current market, the value of your product, and also what is the best way to execute your plan. Get expert advice from Dr. Gail Naughton, former biotech entrepreneur and Dean of SDSU School of Business Administration.
- Gail Naughton- Former bioentrepreneur & currently Dean of College of Business Administration- SDSU
12:00 PM - Lunch/Networking Session
1:00 PM - Seating
1:15 PM - Session #2: Web 2.0 Panel and Finance/IP Panel
Web 2.0 Panel
The topic of web 2.0 panel will focus on the future of "web as a platform", a hackneyed term that seems to have come of age recently.
Given the proliferation of Facebook applications, and the ever expanding Google web application war chest, what are their impact on the
industry, what kind of challenge and opportunities these developments present to stand-alone sites, web application developers and internet
entrepreneurs. Most importantly, we will be discussing what lies on the horizon in the future of web.
- Moderator: Dan O'Neill - Co-Founder & CTO at Trusonic, Inc.
- Brian Dear - Founder of Eventful.com
- Blake Ross - Co-founder of FireFox and Parakey
- Seth Greenberg - Director, Online Advertising & Internet Media of Intuit
- Seth Sternberg - Founder of Meebo.com
IP/Finance Panel
The IP/Finance panel will focus its discussion on the issues an entrepreneur face when leveraging their intellectual property to obtain
venture financing. Our panelists will share their insights on IP best practices, financing strategies, and industry developments, all of which
can help you succeed in your entrepreneurial career.
- Moderator: Joe Lesko - Partner at Gordon & Rees LLP
- Neil Senturia - CEO of Blackbird Venture
- Jane Moores - Director of UCSD TechTips
- Astrid R. Spain - Partner at McDermott Will & Emery LLP
- Peter N. Townshend - Partner at McDermott Will & Emery LLP
2:30 PM - Afternoon Keynote
- Blake Ross - Co-founder of FireFox and Parakey
