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- Innovative Business Models in Technology
Innovation in high-tech occurs not only on the product side, but also in the way how companies conduct business. In order to create new growing opportunities, technology companies need to promote their products, acquire new customers and change customer behavior. The emergence of new business models has allowed high-tech companies to reap huge benefits. There are many companies that owe their existence to the shifting paradigm of customer behavior.
Senior executives from the world’s leading technology companies will discuss new business models in high-tech and their vision for the future of business innovation. They will cover topics ranging from the best available user experience to novel business concepts and principles. The panel will explore the strengths and weaknesses of new business models in high-tech, and give a glimpse of what the future may hold.
- Mareza Larizadeh, co-founder of Doostang, Inc. (Moderator)
- Drew Denbo, Director of Business Development, Music, RealNetworks
- Reid Hoffman, CEO, LinkedIn
- Kim Malone, Director of AdSense Online, Google
- Kaiser Mulla-Feroze, Director of Product Marketing, salesforce.com
Organizer: Milan Kovacevic, MBA '05
- The Uncharted Territory of Enterprise Software
Is the enterprise software industry stagnant? Absolutely not. Many experts believe that process automation has been the dominant approach among software vendors to address business problems. They are just starting now to tap into the real potential of technology and build innovate software or services that solve business problems in brand-new ways.
This panel will give you a glimpse into what these initiatives are and where they are headed, be it social networking meeting enterprise knowledge management, RFID revolutionizing supply chain management or security software addressing rampant IT intrusion. Our distinguished panelists will share with you their uncensored insight.
- Ravi Mhatre, Founding Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners (Moderator)
- Tom Cole, General Partner, Trinity Ventures
- John E. Derrick, Chief Executive Officer, Conformative Systems
- Amar Singh, Vice President, Business Development, SAP Labs
Organizer: Jimmy Yu and Yan Zhu, MBA '05
- The Mobile Data Revolution
Advances in processor speed, memory, and bandwidth led to the establishment of the PC as the dominant computing platform of the 90’s. Today’s wireless devices are only now achieving the processing speeds and memory capacity that made PCs truly powerful business and entertainment machines in the last decade. The rollout of high speed wireless data services positions wireless as the next dominant platform of computing. In this panel we will discuss the promise of new hardware and infrastructure advances. We will also examine the new role of wireless in the corporate enterprise, as employees at all levels begin to access enterprise applications. Finally, we will examine the world of the consumer, as new content and search capabilities promise to fundamentally change the way consumers receive and use information.
- Derek Kerton, Principal,The KERTON Group (Moderator)
- John Friend, Chief Technology Officer, Good Technology
- Mark Jacobstein, President of Publishing, Digital Chocolate
Organizer: Darren Shimkus, MBA '05
- Digital Home: The Battle for Control of the Living Room
For years, incumbent technology heavyweights and start-ups alike have been vying to dominate the emerging "digital home" space. Despite much energy and investment, the reality of what is possible today still falls short of the promised vision of a connected digital home where media can be easily stored, shared, and viewed across a number of devices . Now that early adopters have validated the market demand to share and consume digital content within the home, firms must solve the technical and business challenges required to make this technology suitable for the masses. Our panel of industry experts will discuss the challenges and opportunities associated with moving from a world in which digital content lives in silos to the vision of an integrated, networked digital media experience in the home.
- Gary Little, Managing Director, Morgenthaler Ventures (Moderator)
- Steve Bush, Co-Founder and CTO, Pure Networks
- Smita Hashim, Group Program Manager, Microsoft IPTV
- Stanley Kim, Principal, Samsung Ventures
- Bill Kish, co-founder and CTO, Video54
- Vivek Pathela, Senior Director of Product Management and Marketing for Home Products, Netgear
Organizer: Charles Hudson, MBA '05
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