Current Sponsors

Platinum Corporate Sponsor

LitePoint Corporation, based in San Jose, California, designs, develops, markets, and supports advanced wireless test solutions for developers and marketers of branded wireless products, for consumer electronics and contract manufacturers, and for wireless IC designers.

By leveraging its in-house expertise in the design of wireless systems and ICs, LitePoint has developed innovative test solutions to assure product conformance to specifications, interoperability with other compliant products, and overall product quality. LitePoint's test products address both R&D and high-volume production, providing its customers with superior ROI, accelerated time-to-market, improved manufacturing yields, improved product quality, and increased profitability.

MobiTV is a strongly positioned, extremely successful, privately held mobile company on the verge of exponential growth. We are at the forefront of technology and blazing new ground with our Emmy award-winning service that combines the most popular consumer items in history; TV/Radio streaming on Mobile Phones and PCs. We just received a round of series C funding worth $70 million from the VC firm, Oak Venture Partners. We currently have an unbelievably talented group of engineers from a diversity range of experiences and looking to add more to round out the team. Come join us in developing Next Generation technologies that will continue to lead and drive the industry.

MobiTV, Inc. (formerly known as Idetic, Inc.) is the first global mobile television and radio service provider targeted at reaching the 2 billion mobile phone users worldwide. The MobiTV® service is available in the US through Sprint, Cingular and several regional carriers; in the United Kingdom through 3 and Orange UK; and is now available to Canadian customers through Bell Canada, Rogers and TELUS Mobility. The Emmy® Award winning service now reaches more than a million subscribers and offers many popular TV channels from content providers such as MSNBC, ABC News Now, CNN, Fox News, Fox Sports, ESPN 3GTV, MLB, NBC Mobile, CNBC, CSPAN, The Discovery Channel, TLC, The Weather Channel and others that deliver cartoons, music videos and comedy. MobiTV also has a full line up of geographically specific channels. Founded in 1999, MobiTV is a privately-held company headquartered in Emeryville, CA. For more information on the company, its products, technology and press, please visit www.mobitv.com. The company has an amazing startup culture where innovation and creativity are highly rewarded.

Gold Corporate Sponsors

Palm, Inc. -- a leader in handheld computing and communications solutions -- strives to put the power of computing in people's hands so they can access and share their most important information. The company's products include Treo(TM) smartphones, Zire(TM) and Tungsten(TM) handhelds, and software and accessories.

There is no place quite like Silicon Valley. Whether an idea starts in a garage, is incubated in a venture capitalist's office, or is scratched out on a napkin in a local restaurant, new businesses are born here every day. And products of every kind are unleashed into the market at a dizzying pace. What used to take years now takes just months. This fast-track growth requires specialized legal counsel.

Having done cutting-edge legal work for hundreds of Silicon Valley success stories, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman's Silicon Valley office understands the key challenges and opportunities facing emerging growth companies. Our attorneys have extensive experience in corporate transactions including initial public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, complex commercial and corporate arrangements, and securities litigation. We also offer considerable knowledge and experience in all aspects of intellectual property law – both prosecution capabilities and trademark and patent litigation.

The Silicon Valley office provides counsel to a range of clients, from emerging companies – the Fortune 500 companies of tomorrow – to large public companies and major institutions.

Our Silicon Valley office has extensive experience in:

• Technology-based businesses, Internet, e-commerce, computers, software, semiconductors, communications, and biotechnology.
• Corporate transactions and advice including, public offerings, private placements, mergers and acquisitions, complex commercial and joint venture transactions, and tax planning.
• Intellectual property issues, such as patents, trademarks, and trade secrets.
• Domestic and international licensing and product distribution.
• Commercial, securities, intellectual property, and general business litigation.
• Employment law counseling and litigation.
• Antitrust advice, as well as government and private litigation and alternative dispute resolution.
• Environmental issues and land use planning.

Skadden offers solutions to the most challenging legal issues in virtually every area of corporate law, providing the specific legal advice clients need to compete most effectively in a global business environment. For more than 55 years, the firm has advised on many of the most significant corporate and litigation matters worldwide.

Silver Corporate Sponsors

McDermott Will & Emery is a premier international law firm with a diversified business practice. Numbering more than 1000 lawyers, the Firm has offices in Boston, Brussels, Chicago, Düsseldorf, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Milan, Munich, New York, Orange County, Rome, San Diego, Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. The Firm has served the broad scope of our clients' interests for nearly 70 years and has positioned our lawyers to handle the gamut of legal challenges in every aspect of law practices around the globe.

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Microsoft China R&D Group -- Success Awaits You
Combine one of the nation’s largest technical companies with one of the world’s fastest growing economies and you’re presented with the exciting opportunity to take an active role in driving innovation with Microsoft China R&D Group.

For centuries, China’s culture has attracted many people from all over the world. It is unique and one-of-a-kind as well as elegant and inspiring. It is no wonder that Microsoft China R&D Group has already more than 1,000 researchers and engineers in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen working on a wide range of projects, from conducting cutting-edge research, to shipping products to millions of users, to incubating new scenarios, features and collaboration opportunities for the China market.

Microsoft is currently expanding throughout China, and we understand our success depends heavily on the talented minds and ideas of individuals just like you. If you’re in search of adventure and a wonderful career opportunity, we would like to share with you our vision of China R&D, as well as discuss available positions and life in China. Many have already realized their dreams of living in China. We invite you to consider the following areas of opportunity:

• Program Manager
• Development Lead/Manager
• Test Lead/Manager

Media Sponsors

ALWAYSON is transforming the communication business with its online blogging network, establishing it as a leader in the Open Media revolution. Borrowing from the underground traditions of blogging and social networking, ALWAYSON (http://www.alwayson-network.com/) was launched in 2003. Today, AO's annual Summit @ Stanford and OnHollywood events, print "blogozine" and online services encourage direct collaboration between global thought leaders and technology insiders.