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Wireless Home Networking: Challenges and optionsWhat is the future holding for us in? Wireless Home Networking? Are we getting into too many challenges because of too many options to choose from? Or are they converging to take us to the holy land of plug and forget? As the computer is going to disappear in the near future to become like electricity, with all these electronics gadgets becoming more powerful than ever and smarter, the home networking will become inevitable. It is not if, but when. Are we smart enough to choose the right technology to connect all these smart components at home? How beneficial to us? Will these home appliances and components become taciturn to create a major catastrophic? Many industry leaders vie for this fast growing market. Join us, along with industry leaders, for presentation and discussion on this exciting wireless home networking technology and options. Let us hear their sagacious comments through the power of collegial discussion, maybe not. Still cogitating? Don?t, let us hear it from the source. Questions to be addressed:
Date: July 14th, 2007 (Saturday) Time: 1:00 - 4:00 pm (Registration starts at 12:30pm) Venue: Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw Pittman LLP, Palo Alto 2475 Hanover St., Palo Alto, CA 94304 Tel: (650) 233-2736 Light refreshment will be provided. Moderator: Sheridan Tatsuno, Dreamscape Global Panelists:
Language: English Seminar Agenda: 12:30 - 01:00 PM: Registration and Networking (Light refreshment will be provided) 01:00 - 04:00 PM: Panel Discussion 04:00 PM: Adjourn Admission: Regular member: Free Associate member: $20 RSVP, $25 at the door Non-member: $20 RSVP, $25 at the door Student: $5 (Student ID required) RSVP: rsvp@svcwireless.org with the following subject line: "7/14: Your Name" Contact and More Information: Selvan V. Rajan, selvan.rajan@svcwireless.org 510-396-2953 Jenny Oshima, jenny.oshima@svcwireelss.org Speaker Bios: Sheridan Tatsuno, Dreamscape Global Sheridan Tatsuno, a graduate of Yale University and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, is a corporate strategy consultant and developer of a venture accelerator. He has advised both Silicon Valley startups and large companies in new technology development, business planning and fundraising, market research, new product concepts and business plans for companies entering E-commerce, home networking, digital video, and information technology markets. Previously Mr. Tatsuno worked at Bechtel in civil infrastructure planning, international project financing, and environmental assessment. He co-founded Dataquest's Japan and Asian semiconductor groups and served as industry liaison manager at Stanford University's U.S.-Japan Technology Management Center. Mr. Tatsuno is the author of two books produced for television: The Technopolis Strategy (Prentice-Hall, 1986) and Created in Japan (HarperCollins, 1990). Vineet Buch, Principal at BlueRun Ventures Vineet Buch, Principal at BlueRun Ventures, focuses on Consumer Internet and Mobile Services, Enterprise Software, including Open Source, and on BlueRun Ventures' investments in India. Vineet joined BlueRun Ventures in 2005. Immediately before that, he co-founded Riya, a Consumer Internet company funded by BlueRun. Vineet is involved with BlueRun's investments in Coupa, Deeya Energy, Riya, Slide, Ugenie, and Zmanda. Prior to joining BlueRun, Vineet was a Director with Product Management and Software Development responsibilities in Oracle Server Technologies, the organization that develops the Oracle Database and Application Server. Before Oracle, Vineet was co-founder and CTO of Karient, a provider of systems management software. Vineet started Karient after serving as Senior Director of Engineering at Corio, a leading Application Service Provider since acquired by IBM. Before joining Corio, Vineet was a Practice Manager in Oracle Consulting, running a consulting practice focused on Enterprise System Architecture. Vineet has an MS in Computer Science from Cornell University and a B.Tech. in Computer Science from IIT, Kanpur. Liza Loop, Director, History of Computing in Education Project, Executive Director, LO*OP Center, Inc. Liza Loop's interest in ecological systems began as a small child in the 1950's watching the interactions in the family's self-contained indoor fish tank. Today she is a philanthropist, investor, educator and business consultant. She is founder, treasurer and executive director of LO*OP Center, Inc., the umbrella nonprofit that incubates the Senior GLOBE Project. She serves as COO of GoQuiet.com, a for-profit business development and computer systems integration firm and as a principal, with her son, in Big Red Pixel Productions, Inc., a film production company that provides visual effects and direction to the film industry. Liza studied for her doctorate in Design and Evaluation of Educational Programs at Stanford University School of Education and the Fielding Institute. Before that, she pursued natural science, mathematics, and philosophy at Cornell University completing her Bachelor of Arts Degree in philosophy and psychology at California State College, Sonoma. Her graduate work includes psychometrics, counseling, and international management. She holds a Masters Degree in Education from Stanford University. Lianne Caetano, Executive Director, WirelessHD, LLC Director, Marketing SiBEAM, Inc. Lianne Caetano has been working in a strategic marketing capacity for top tier high tech companies since 1989. Prior to joining as Director of Marketing for SiBEAM, a founding member of WirelessHD, Lianne served as the Product Line Manager for Netgear's first 802.11 wireless and VPN security product lines. Previously, Lianne was the Director of Product Marketing at Filanet Corporation, a manufacturer of Linux-based Internet appliances purchased by uRoam in 2002. She also held several positions at 3Com including Senior Product Marketing Manager for both the Home Networking and the U.S.Robotics 56K Desktop Modem group; where she managed the strategic direction for products, pricing, promotions and channels of distribution. Prior to joining U.S. Robotics in 1996, Lianne held positions at Apple Computer, Inc. in Sales, Channel Marketing and Communications. Lianne graduated with her Masters in Management from the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University. David Callisch, VP of Marketing, Ruckus Wireless. With over 15 years of experience in Marketing and Marketing Communications, Mr. Callisch has focused his efforts on the networking hardware industry. He has extensive experience helping early stage (Series A) networking startups identify the market opportunities, establish defensible differentiation, and create a unique brand. Most recently, Mr. Callisch was the Director of Communications at Aruba Networks, helping Aruba launch the company and build the wireless LAN switching market segment. Prior to that Mr. Callisch was the Director of Communications at Allegro Networks, a failed supplier of carrier routing equipment. Mr. Callisch has also held marketing positions at Alteon WebSystems, StrataCom, SynOptics/Bay Networks and BT North America. He has David Cassidy hair issues and believes that he could get Scarlett Johansen to date him if he had the opportunity. |
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