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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.

Raymie Stata, CTO, Yahoo!

Raymie Stata is the Chief Technology Officer of Yahoo! In his role as CTO, Stata is responsible for managing the company's technical strategy and long-term direction. He also plays an instrumental role in the ongoing development and implementation of Yahoo!'s cloud infrastructure and open source strategy. Previously, Stata was Chief Architect for Yahoo! and prior to that, he was Chief Architect of the Search and Advertising Technology Group. In that role, he helped initiate the Hadoop project, provide technology leadership for numerous efforts in Search, and was the founding architect for Yahoo!'s APT platform.

Prior to joining Yahoo!, Stata founded Stata Laboratories, maker of the Bloomba search-based e-mail client, which he sold to Yahoo! in 2004. He's also worked for Digital Equipment's Systems Research Center, where he contributed to the AltaVista search engine, and was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UC Santa Cruz. Stata received his PhD in Computer Science from MIT in 1996.

Cadir Lee, CTO, Zynga

Cadir oversees the development and innovation of the company's technology platform and data warehouses. He focuses on large-scale web systems and delivering technology to millions of users every day. He also manages the analytics, network operations, and security teams. Cadir built software to measure and track the success of Zynga's games in real-time. Before joining Zynga, he spent 11 years as the CTO of SupportSoft (now Consona CRM), an online technology support company he co-founded with Zynga founder Mark Pincus. Prior to that, he spent two years as an engineering consultant for Hewlett Packard. Cadir got his start as an entry-level programmer at SpaceWorks, a technology company in Washington, D.C., where he met Mark.

Cadir earned his bachelor's degree in biology and music and graduated with honors and distinction at Stanford University.

David Lawee, VP Corporate Development, Google

As vice president of corporate development, David manages a worldwide team responsible for all of the company's acquisitions and investments. Previously, David was vice president of marketing, where he managed all of Google's consumer, advertiser and partner marketing, globally.

David brings a unique blend of entrepreneurial, general management, and investment experience to his role. Before joining Google, David co-founded 4 start-ups, the most recent being Xfire, a fast growing social gaming service that was sold to Viacom in early 2006. Previously, David co-founded Mosaic Venture Partners, a leading Toronto-based venture capital firm. He also worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company.

David holds degrees in law and philosophy from McGill University and the University of Western Ontario respectively, as well as an MBA from University of Chicago.

Charles Carmel, VP Corporate Business Development, Cisco Systems

Charles Carmel is the Vice President of Corporate Business Development at Cisco. In this role, he leads a team responsible for setting and executing Cisco's worldwide acquisition and venture capital investment strategy. Charles has been a driving force in defining Cisco's acclaimed business development activities which focus on accelerating the company's growth by entering new markets and integrating innovative, new technologies into Cisco's core businesses.

Charles has led the development and execution of more than 20 acquisitions totaling over $15 billion during his time at Cisco. These include some of Cisco's largest and most successful transactions such as Linksys and Pure Digital, which propelled Cisco into a leading role for the Consumer technology market; Scientific Atlanta, which positioned Cisco as the leader in the delivery of digital video; and Webex and Tandberg, which established Cisco's leadership in the Collaboration market. Transactions led by Charles have resulted in more than $10 billion in incremental revenue to Cisco since 2002.

Prior to joining Cisco in 2001, Charles was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs where he was an early member of the Technology Investment Banking group. During his time at Goldman, Charles was involved with over $2.5 billion of financings and M&A transactions across a diverse set of industry leading technology companies.

Charles holds an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor's degree from Tufts University.

Paul-Bernhard Kallen, CEO, Hubert Burda Media

Since 1999 Dr Paul-Bernhard Kallen is Member of the Board (Technology, Treasury) at Hubert Burda Media. Amongst others he has been in charge for Burda Digital where a variety of Internet companies have been built and acquired. Dr Kallen has overseen the creation of a digital venture portfolio which today comprises numerous market leaders.

Before joining Burda in 1996 as managing director of a variety of group companies, he worked for McKinsey & Company, Inc. where he became partner in 1993. From 1986 - 1988, he served as assistant to the CEO at PHB Weserhütte AG. Dr Kallen holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Cologne, and received a Master of Economics at the University of Bonn.

Jayant Kadambi, Co-Founder and President, YuMe

Jayant Kadambi has over 18 years of experience in the areas of networking, hardware architecture and semiconductors. Prior to co-founding YuMe in 2004, Jayant was Vice President R&D and Officer of Netopia, Inc., a publicly held manufacturer of DSL equipment and service provider for ISP's and carriers. Jayant joined Netopia upon its acquisition in 1999 of StarNet Technologies, a VoDSL company he had co-founded. Prior to co-founding StarNet, Jayant held various technical and marketing positions in AMD's networks division, and AT&T Bell Labs, where he worked on high-speed LAN systems, hardware and DSL technologies.

Jayant received his BSEE and Masters in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic. Jayant is the co-author of a book on Gigabit Ethernet and the holder of several patents in the networking arena.

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.

Dr. Andreas Weigend @aweigend, 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

Chris is a senior technology executive and entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience building Internet and large infrastructure environments. Chris started his career co-founding South Africa's first ISP, TICSA/Internet Africa, which was sold to UUNET in 1996. Most recently Chris initiated and managed the development of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), which has emerged as the undisputed leading public Cloud Infrastructure. Prior to that, Chris was Vice President of Engineering at Amazon.com, responsible for global IT infrastructure. Chris is a graduate of the University of Cape Town.

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, VP Engineering, 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, Vice President, Mobile Ads - Google

Omar Hamoui is responsible for the development and innovation of Google's mobile advertising products. He joined Google in May 2010 through the acquisition of AdMob, the company he founded in 2006. He previously served as AdMob's CEO and a member of the company's board of directors.

Prior to AdMob, 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. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of California, Los Angeles and is on leave from the MBA program at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

 

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".

John Hering, Co-Founder and CEO, Lookout

John is a successful entrepreneur with a passion for solving consumer problems. He co-founded Lookout (formerly Flexilis), along with James Burgess and Kevin Mahaffey, after extensive research into mobile security threats. Lookout's award-winning mobile security app protects smartphones from digital threats, data loss or device loss and is used by over 2 million users. Prior to Lookout, John founded Unwire Iraq, a non-profit providing wireless networks to U.S. combat troops, and Daily Wireless, an online news and information source covering all aspects of the wireless marketplace for business (acquired by Focus Research, Inc.). His Bluetooth Sniper project resulted in a world-record-setting attack on a Bluetooth-enabled mobile device from a distance of more than 1.2 miles.

John is a frequent speaker at industry events, including Black Hat Technical Security Conference, DEFCON, Microsoft's Bluehat Security Conference and was recently selected by BusinessWeek as a Best Young Tech Entrepreneur for 2010. John studied at the University of Southern California and has extensive experience with information security and wireless communication technologies.

James Phillips, Co-founder and SVP Products, Membase

A twenty-five year veteran of the software industry, James Phillips started his career writing software for the Apple II and TRS-80 microcomputer platforms. In 1984, at age 17, he co-founded his first software company, Fifth Generation Systems, which was acquired by Symantec in 1993 forming the foundation of Symantec's PC backup software business. Most recently, James was co-founder and CEO of Akimbi Systems, a venture-backed software company acquired by VMware in 2006.

Book-ended by these entrepreneurial successes, James has held executive leadership roles in software engineering, product management, marketing and corporate development at large public companies including Intel, Synopsys and Intuit and with venture-backed software startups including Central Point Software (acquired by Symantec), Ensim and Actional Corporation (acquired by Progress Software). Additionally, James spent two years as a technology investment banker with PaineWebber and Robertson Stephens and Co., delivering M&A advisory services to software companies.

James holds a BS in Mathematics and earned his MBA, with honors, from the University of Chicago. He currently serves on the board of directors of Teneros and as an investor in and advisor to a number of privately-held software companies including Delphix, Replay Solutions and Virsto.

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.

Susan Gregg Koger, Chief Creative Officer and Co-founder, ModCloth

Susan Gregg Koger is the Chief Creative Officer and Co-Founder of ModCloth, an eRetailer selling independent designer fashion and decor. Susan started ModCloth when she was just 17, taking her love of thrifting and starting an online business. ModCloth was operated out of dorm rooms and basements for four years, and after graduating from Carnegie Mellon University in 2006, Susan and husband/co-founder Eric Koger, made the decision to expand and sell vintage-inspired clothing from talented indie designers all over the world.

Today ModCloth has grown into a thriving business of close to 200 employees, and the company has quickly gained attention for its dedication to customer engagement on the site and for its rapid growth. Inc. Magazine recently named ModCloth the #2 Fastest Growing Private Company in America. Their goal is to democratize fashion and build a social shopping community that empowers both indie designers and customers. Susan was recognized by Inc. Magazine as the #2 "Top Entrepreneur under 30" and named to BusinessWeek's 2010 list of the "Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs." Most recently, she was on the cover of the September issue of Entrepreneur Magazine.

Susan is living her dream and now she has made it her mission to build a community that allows her customers to do the same.

Garrett Camp, Founder & CEO, StumbleUpon

Garrett has guided StumbleUpon's development since 2001, from inception to 10M registered members. StumbleUpon is now the largest personalized content discovery engine on the web, delivering over 500 million personalized recommendations per month from its index of 45 million human-submitted pages. Garrett completed his Masters in Software Engineering at the University of Calgary, where he researched interfaces for collaborative systems, evolutionary algorithms and information retrieval. He is also a 2007 recipient of MIT Technology Review's TR35 award.

 

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.