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Registration $495
Stanford Students & Staff $25

Stanford's MediaX and Accel Partners have organized this 16th Symposium which brings together the Stanford research community, high-technology business leaders, and entrepreneurs who are collectively driving developments in this rapidly changing arena.

SPEAKERS

Confirmed Speakers To Date (others to be announced):

Paul Jacobs, Chairman and CEO, Qualcomm

Dr. Paul E. Jacobs is chairman of Qualcomm's board of directors and the Company's chief executive officer. A leader in the field of mobile communications for nearly two decades and a key architect of Qualcomm's strategic vision, Dr. Jacobs' responsibilities include leadership and oversight of all the Company's initiatives and operations.

Following the completion of his Ph.D. in 1989 and a year as a post-doctoral researcher at a French government lab in Toulouse, Dr. Jacobs joined the Company fulltime in 1990 as a development engineer leading the mobile phone digital signal processor software team. Five years later, Dr. Jacobs became vice president and general manager of the combined handset and integrated circuit division, which was subsequently divided into Qualcomm Consumer Products (QCP) and Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, respectively.

As an innovative leader of a broad range of technical teams within Qualcomm, Dr. Jacobs has been granted more than 35 patents for his inventions in the areas of wireless technology and devices. Dr. Jacobs chairs the World Economic Forum's Future of Mobile Communications council, serves on the Board of Directors for A123Systems, and is a member of the Advisory Board of the University of California, Berkeley, College of Engineering; the Advisory Board of University of California, San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering; and the Young President's Organization.

Kevin Mayer, EVP Corporate Strategy, Business Development and Technology Group, The Walt Disney Group

Kevin Mayer was appointed executive vice president of the new Corporate Strategy, Business Development and Technology Group in June 2005. Mayer leads the smaller, tightly-focused group as it targets emerging businesses new to Disney's existing portfolio, manages cross-divisional issues and opportunities, and evaluates new technology and business models. The group is responsible for aiding in the evaluation and execution of potential acquisition transactions as well.

Mayer rejoined Disney from L.E.K. Consulting LLC, where he was a partner and head of the Global Media and Entertainment practice. Prior to L.E.K., Mayer held leading positions at interactive and Internet businesses. As chairman and CEO of Clear Channel Interactive he managed all aspects of new media business, including content, sales, business and technology development, and distribution. While at Clear Channel, Mayer successfully launched local subscription ticketing services. He also served as president and CEO of Playboy.com, Inc. where he established the overall strategy and financial plans for the interactive business.

Mayer first joined Disney in 1993 as manager, Strategic Planning where he spearheaded strategy and business development for all of Disney's interactive/Internet and television businesses worldwide. Mayer received his M.B.A. from Harvard University in 1990, and holds a M.S.E.E. from San Diego State University and a B.S.M.E. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Qi Lu @qilu, President, Microsoft Online Services Division

As president of Microsoft's Online Services Division (OSD), Dr. Qi Lu leads the company's search and online advertising efforts. Dr. Lu oversees the OSD Research & Development team which has responsibility for the evolution of Microsoft's search, portal and advertising services; the Online Audience Business Group; and the Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Business Group. Dr. Lu reports to Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Dr. Lu spent 10 years as a Yahoo! senior executive. His roles included serving as the executive vice president of engineering for the company's Search and Advertising Technology Group where he oversaw the development of Yahoo!'s Web search and monetization platforms and vice president of engineering responsible for the technology development of Yahoo!'s search, e-commerce and local listings of businesses and products.

Before joining Yahoo!, Dr. Lu worked as a research staff member at IBM's Almaden Research Center and Carnegie Mellon University and was a faculty member at Fudan University in China. He received his bachelor of science and master of science in computer science from Fudan University and his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Lu holds 20 U.S. patents.

Mike Schroepfer, Vice President of Engineering, Facebook

Mike Schroepfer is the Vice President of Engineering at Facebook. Mike is responsible for harnessing the engineering organization's culture of speed, creativity and exploration to build products, services and infrastructure that support the company's users, developers and partners around the world.

Before coming to Facebook, Mike was the Vice President of Engineering at Mozilla Corporation, where he led the global, collaborative, open and participatory product development process behind Mozilla's popular software, such as the Firefox web browser. Mike was formerly a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems where he was the Chief Technology Officer for the data center automation division ("N1"). He was also the founder, Chief Architect and Director of Engineering at CenterRun, which was acquired by Sun. Mike worked with several startups at the outset of his career, including a digital effects software startup where he built software that has been used in several major motion pictures. Mike holds a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in computer science from Stanford University and has filed two U.S. patents.

Ravi Dhariwal, CEO, Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd, Publisher of The Times of India

Ravi gained much of his experience at Unilver and Pepsi Cola Inc, where he worked a total of 24 years in their India and overseas offices. Ravi was the VP of Operations and responsible for Pepsi's business in Africa and Southeast Asia. In 1996 he was promoted to V.P. Customer Development for Central East European Business Unit, based in Budapest, Hungary, and covering France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Hungary, Czech/Slovak and Poland.

In November 2001, after spending over 7 years overseas, Ravi joined Bennett Coleman, the largest Media Group in India as an Executive Director on their Board. During the last 5 years, significantly Times of India has become the world's largest broadsheet English daily and Economic Times, the world's second largest business paper.

In November 2006, Ravi was appointed CEO of Bennett Coleman responsible for all its Print business, nearly $900 million in turnover, and over 8000 employees.

Dr. Andreas Weigend, PhD, Former Chief Scientist, Amazon.com and Lecturer, Stanford University

Dr. Andreas Weigend is an expert in measuring user behavior and in leveraging the fundamental principles underlying human communication. He helps his clients understand how they can fully utilize data and shows them how to respond to the most important web and mobile trends of today's fast changing world. He was the chief scientist of Amazon.com, and now works with exciting, innovative startups and with the leaders of visionary multinationals. He also teaches at Stanford, Berkeley and Tsinghua/INSEAD, and is a sought-after speaker at international events and conferences.

 

Chris Pinkham @nimbula, co-Founder and CEO, Nimbula

Andrew Mason is the founder and CEO of Groupon, the local shopping website that uses collective buying to offer a daily deal on the best stuff to do, eat, see, and buy in more than 50 cities across the U.S., with plans to serve 100 markets by the end of 2010, including Canada and Europe.

With more than four million subscribers nationwide, Groupon has saved its customers more than $150 million. A native of Pittsburgh, Mason moved to Chicago in 1999 and graduated from Northwestern University in 2003 with a degree in music.

Andrew Mason @andrewmason, CEO, Groupon

Andrew Mason is the founder and CEO of Groupon, the local shopping website that uses collective buying to offer a daily deal on the best stuff to do, eat, see, and buy in more than 50 cities across the U.S., with plans to serve 100 markets by the end of 2010, including Canada and Europe.

With more than four million subscribers nationwide, Groupon has saved its customers more than $150 million. A native of Pittsburgh, Mason moved to Chicago in 1999 and graduated from Northwestern University in 2003 with a degree in music.

Mike Abbott, Lead Engineer, Twitter

Michael leads the engineering team at Twitter. Before joining Twitter, he built and led the Software and Services team at Palm developing the next-generation Palm webOS platform. Before joining Palm, Michael was the general manager of .NET Online Services at Microsoft (now known as Azure Platform), where he led efforts to deliver a services platform that enabled the development of large-scale Internet-based services.

Prior to Microsoft, he co-founded Passenger Inc., where he served as chairman and led the development of the company's consumer marketing SAAS platform. Michael also founded Composite Software, creator of industry-leading data virtualization software, where he served as the CEO/CTO. He has extensive experience in building technically challenging web-based applications and services.

Michael holds a bachelor's degree from California Polytechnic State University, and has work towards a Ph.D. at the University of Washington.

Omar Hamoui, CEO, AdMob

Omar Hamoui is the Chief Executive Officer of AdMob and a member of the company's board of directors. He founded AdMob in January 2006 while in the MBA program at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, Omar started and ran several companies in the mobile, Internet, and computer software industries including Vertical Blue, GoPix and fotochatter, a mobile to mobile image sharing network. Omar holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles and is on leave from The Wharton School.

 

David Flynn, President and CEO, Fusion-io

As chief executive officer of Fusion-io, and one of the company's founders, David Flynn sets the company's strategic direction, oversees all of its operations, and is the visionary behind Fusion-io's innovative technology and market strategy.

Mr. Flynn has a history of successfully architecting complex computer-related solutions, including some of the world's largest and fastest supercomputers and the world's smallest personal Linux servers; embedded Web 2.0 interactive TV; image processing; relational databases; file systems; and thin-client computing products.

Prior to joining Fusion-io, Mr. Flynn served as Project BlackDog's chief scientist and vice president, engineering. He has also held positions at Linux Networx and Network Computer Incorporated (NCI), a spin-off of Oracle Corporation.

Mr. Flynn holds a B.S. in Computer Science and serves on the Technology Advisory Boards for the College of Information Technology at Brigham Young University and Techniscan Medical Systems.

Mr. Flynn embraced technology at an early age. While attending Brigham Young University, Flynn created 3D-GIS (graphics information systems) for noise control at Boston Logan International and Salt Lake International airports as technical lead at Larson Davis Laboratories. At 16, he designed and authored 3D flight simulation and image processing software for the Department of Defense, while working for Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). Prior to that, he created and marketed flight-planning software for general aviation pilots.

Jeff Hammerbacher @hackingdata, Chief Scientist and VP of Products, Cloudera

Jeff was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Accel Partners immediately prior to Cloudera. Before Accel, he conceived, built, and led the Data team at Facebook. The Data team was responsible for driving many of the applications of statistics and machine learning at Facebook, as well as building out the infrastructure to support these tasks for massive data sets. The Data team produced open source projects such as Hive and Cassandra and their work was recognized at conferences such as CHI, ICWSM, SIGMOD, and VLDB. Before joining Facebook, Jeff was a quantitative analyst on Wall Street. Jeff earned his Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics from Harvard University and recently served as a Managing Editor for O'Reilly's "Beautiful Data".

Tim Cadogan, CEO, OpenX

Tim Cadogan is the Chief Executive Officer of OpenX. OpenX's purpose is to help businesses worldwide grow by providing compelling, open online advertising products and services that drive revenues. OpenX is headquartered in Pasadena with offices in London and Poznan, Poland.

From 2003-2008 Tim was at Yahoo!, most recently as Senior Vice President of Global Advertising Marketplaces overseeing the primary advertising product lines at the company – including Display, Search and Video. Previously at Yahoo!, Tim was Vice President of Search where he was responsible for both the consumer search and paid search businesses.

Prior to Yahoo!, Tim was Vice President of Search at Overture (formerly GoTo.com) where he spent four years (1999-2003). At Overture, Tim played several roles, including driving product development and evangelizing the paid search model to the global search and portal industry. During 1999-2002, Overture transformed online advertising by pioneering the paid search auction marketplace model, securing landmark partnerships with AOL, Yahoo!, Microsoft and many others and thus successfully building the largest search ad network in the world at the time.

Before GoTo, Tim was a strategy consultant at The Boston Consulting Group in London and McKinsey & Co in Palo Alto. Tim earned his B.S. from The London School of Economics, his M.Phil from Oxford University and his MBA from Stanford University.

Drew Houston, Founder and CEO, Dropbox

Drew Houston is cofounder and CEO of Dropbox, the leading way to store and share files online. Dropbox helps millions of people across the world access and share their important files from anywhere.

Before starting Dropbox, he cofounded an online SAT prep company and has held a variety of engineering roles in other startups since age 14. Drew was named one of the top "Twentysomething Entrepreneurs" by BusinessWeek in April 2008 and received his S.B. in computer science from MIT.

 

Ilja Laurs @GetJar, Founder and CEO, GetJar

Born in 1976 in Lithuania, Ilja attended school at a time when the country was part of the Soviet Union. Ilja enrolled in an American student exchange program and graduated from Jackson high school in Ohio in 1994. He came back to Lithuania to attend Vilnius University where he studied Economics, financing his education by teaching English to school students. Serial entrepreneur since 1999, Ilja's launched over 20 successful projects, as diverse as Lithuania's largest hotel reservation system LithuanianHotels.com mobile payments service MicroPay.lt and mobile games studio Gaxo Interactive. In 2009, Informa Telecoms & Media included Ilja in the Top 40 most influential people in mobile communications.

Jim Bankoff @Bankoff, Chairman and CEO, SB Nation

Jim runs all aspects of SB Nation, the fastest growing online sports media company. SB Nation, which is backed by Accel Partners, Comcast Interactive Capital and Allen & Company among others, boasts over 275 individually branded, fan-centric web communities, each focused on a specific professional or college team, region, league or sport. A fifteen year veteran of the online industry, Jim developed and led dozens of the most popular websites on the internet including AOL.com, Mapquest, Moviefone, AOL Music, Netscape and AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) as an Executive Vice President at AOL. He initiated and oversaw the drive to open up AOL's content and services onto the web and was the first executive of a major portal to embrace professional blogging with his acquisition of Weblogs Inc. and development and leadership of sites such as TMZ, Fanhouse, BloggingStocks and Engadget.

His accomplishments have earned him wide recognition, most notably the first Emmy ever awarded to a webcast, for his role as Executive Producer of the Live 8 concerts online. Jim also serves as a Senior Advisor at Providence Equity Partners, the largest private equity firm focused on media and communications as well as the Board of Ulocate. He holds an MBA from The Wharton School and a BA from Emory University.

 

Past Speakers Included:

  • John Donahoe, CEO, eBay Inc.
  • Sir Martin Sorrell, Chairman and CEO, WPP
  • Jeremy Allaire, CEO and Founder, Brightcove, Inc.
  • Adam Bain, President of Audience Network, Fox
  • Jim Bankoff, CEO, SB Nation
  • Matthew Barzun, National Finance Team for Barack Obama and Former Chief Strategy Officer, CNET Networks, Inc.
  • John Battelle, Chairman and CEO, Federated Media
  • Rob Bearden, President, Springsource, Former President, JBoss
  • Dave Berman, President of Worldwide Sales and Service, WebEx
  • Jonathan Bryce, Founder, Mosso
  • Tim Cadogan, CEO, OpenX
  • Duke Chung, CEO, Parature, Inc.
  • Scott Dietzen, SVP of Communications and Products, Yahoo!
  • Curt Hecht, President, VivaKi Nerve Center

  • Chris Hughes, Facebook, and Architect of Obama's Digital Campaign Strategies
  • Scott Moore, General Manager and US Executive Producer, MSN
  • Bob Muglia, President Server and Tools Business (STB), Microsoft Corp.
  • John Newton, CTO and Chairman, Alfresco
  • Mike Olson, CEO, Cloudera
  • Raghu Ramakrishnan, Chief Scientist for Audience and Research Fellow at Yahoo! Research
  • Mark Read, Strategy Director, WPP
  • Jack Rotolo, EVP, North American Sales, Glam Media, Inc.
  • Mike Schroepfer, VP Engineering, Facebook
  • Quincy Smith, President, CBS Interactive
  • David Thompson, CEO Genius Inc., Former CMO Webex
  • Jayshree Ullal, President and CEO, Arista Networks, Former SVP Datacenter, Switching, and Security Group, Cisco Systems
  • Zack Urlocker, VP of Products, Sun Microsystems
  • Maynard Webb, CEO, LiveOps, Former COO, eBay, Inc.
  • Jeff Weiner, COO, Linked In, EIR Accel Partners and Greylock
  • Dr. Rich Wolski, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara and CTO, Eucalyptus Systems Inc.