Events
May 10, 2012 SVForum Grid Level Energy Storage
On Thursday, May 10, 2012, in San Francisco at Nixon Peabody, SVForum presented a Clean Tech Breakfast “Market Opportunities for Grid Level Energy Storage.” Khaled Shami of Nixon Peabody moderated panelists Hanns Anders of Claremont Creek Ventures, Lee Burrows of … Continue reading
May 9, 2012 SVForum Startup Up And Running
On Wednesday, May 9, 2012 in Palo Alto At Cooley LLP, SVForum presented “Main Event: Getting your Startup Up & Running in 2012.” Chris Minunni of Cooley moderated panelists Manish Chandra of Poshmark, Mary Curtis of Pacifico, Eric Johnson of … Continue reading
May 9, 2012 IEEE Mobile Patent Wars
On Wednesday, May 9, 2012 in Santa Clara at Texas Instruments, the IEEE Communications Society of Santa Clara Valley Chapter (SCV) presented “Mobile Patent Wars.” A powerful panel of legal experts discussed the increasingly complex world of mobile patents, the … Continue reading
May 9, 2012 BayBrazil Peixe Urbano Alex Tabor And Julio Vasconcellos
On Wednesday, May 9, 2012 in Santa Clara at Silicon Valley Bank, BayBrazil presented “Brazilian Founders Evening.” Vicente Silveira of LinkedIn talked with Peixe Urbano founders Alex Tabor and Julio Vasconcellos about how they brought the Groupon model to Latin … Continue reading
May 9, 2012 ARE 2012 Bob Ketner And Chris Stapleton
On Wednesday May 9, 2012, the Santa Clara Convention Center hosted the Augmented Reality Event (ARE 2012). Two talks focused on Experiential AR, showing the new strategies and technologies for museums. Bob Ketner of The Tech Museum presented “Ubiquitous: A … Continue reading
May 1, 2012 OpenCloudConf
On May 1, 2012 in Sunnyvale, the Silicon Valley Cloud Center hosted the OpenCloudConf, a Conference for Open Cloud Builders and Developers. This was big three day event covering almost every aspect of cloud development: IaaS, Compute Storage, Virtualization Hypervisor, … Continue reading
Apr. 27, 2012 Stanford Vietnamese-American Art
On Friday April 27, 2012 in Palo Alto, Stanford University presented “California And Beyond: Conversations with Vietnamese-American Artists, Filmmakers and Writers.” Professor in Arts, Humanities and Medicine Stephen Murphy-Shigemasu moderated panelists Bin Danh, Troung Tran and Trinh Mai. They talked … Continue reading
Apr. 26, 2012 US Sec. Treasury Timothy Geithner
On April 26, 2012, in San Francisco at the Mark Hopkins Hotel, the Commonwealth Club hosted US Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner. Adam Lashinsky of Fortune magazine asked him about the state of U.S. and Global Economies before he … Continue reading
Apr. 25, 2012 SVEC Anderson Emergency Wireless
On April 25, 2012 in Santa Clara at Santa Clara University, the SVEC held its quarterly meeting. Craig Anderson presented “Santa Clara Emergency Wireless Network.” Experts know that another big earthquake is coming and wanted to find a way to … Continue reading
Apr. 25, 2012 SVForum Health Care Delivery
On April 25, 2012 in San Francisco at Nixon Peabody, SVForum presented a Health Tech Breakfast “Breakthrough Health Care Delivery Partnerships.” Greg Schopf of Nixon Peabody moderated panelists John E. McCreedy of Partnera, Dr. Samir Qamar of MedLion and Pamela … Continue reading
Apr. 19, 2012 STC DJ Cline Photographing The Future
On April 19, 2012 at Harry’s Hofbrau in Redwood City, the STC Silicon Valley Chapter hosted STC Fellow DJCline’s presentation “Photographing the Future: A Retrospective.” The conversation with a smart, funny crowd covered photography, emerging technology, the future of technical communication … Continue reading
Apr. 11, 2012 Future Salon Howard Rheingold Net Smart
On April 11, 2012 in Palo Alto at SAP, the Future Salon hosted Howard Rheingold’s talked about his new book “Net Smart: How to Thrive Online.” While social networks are transforming the business and politics, Rheingold shows how to interact … Continue reading
Apr. 11, 2012 SVForum Creating Killer Products
On Wednesday, April 1, 2012 in Palo Alto at Cooley LLP, SVForum held its Main Event “Creating a Killer Product – Do you want to be Steve Blank or Steve Jobs?” Gregory Clark of Cooley LLP moderated panelists Joe Beninato of … Continue reading
Apr. 10, 2012 SVForum PWC
On Tuesday April 10, 2012 in Palo Alto at Pillsbury Winthrop, SVForum presented the SVForum Quarterly Venture Breakfast with Pillsbury Winthrop and PricewaterhouseCoopers. The topic was of course “The Cloud.” Stanley Pierson of Pillsbury Winthrop moderated panelists Osman Ahmed of … Continue reading
Mar. 29, 2012 SVForum Quebec Smart Energy
On Thursday, March 29, 2012 in Palo Alto at SAP, SVForum presented “Clean Tech Breakfast Series: Smart Energy in Everyday Living – Innovative Technologies from Quebec, Canada.” Rami Branitzky of SAP moderated panelists Gary Dillabough of The Westly Group, Stephane Labelle … Continue reading
Mar. 28, 2012 SVForum Health Data Decisions Dollars
On March 28, 2012 in San Francisco at Nixon Peabody, SVForum presented “Health Tech Breakfast Series: 3D Health – Data, Decisions And Dollars.” Khaled Shami of Nixon Peabody moderated panelists Vineet Gulati of Health Expense, Niraj Katwala of Healthline Networks, … Continue reading
Mar. 22, 2012 STC Elisa Sawyer Tech Writer Trip To Hollywood
On March 22, 2012 In Santa Clara the STC Silicon Valley Chapter hosted Elisa R. Sawyer’s presentation “A Technical Writer’s Trip to Hollywood.” Sawyer talked about how earning a certificate in screen writing through UCLA Extension improved her technical writing. … Continue reading
Mar. 17, 2012 STC Silicon Valley Election Now Online
The annual STC-SVC Admin Council election is now under way. The candidates are: President Daniel Doornbos Vice President David Hovey Treasurer Gillian Flato Secretary Donald Himes To vote, visit Ballot. Copyright 2012 DJ Cline All rights reserved.
Mar. 14, 2012 SVForum Social Location Mobile
On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 in Palo Alto at Cooley LLP, SVForum presented “SoLoMo: Social, Location, and Mobile). Sam Coates of Cooley LLP moderated panelists Matt Miesnieks of Dekko, Sunil Nagaraj of Bessemer Venture Partners and Eghosa Omoigui of EchoVC. This combination … Continue reading
Mar. 7, 2012 Apple New iPad
On March 7, 2012 in San Francisco at Yerba Buena Center, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook announced its third new iPad for $499. It has a sharper 2048 x 1536 retina display, faster A5X quad-core graphics and an six hour battery … Continue reading
Mar. 1, 2012 ASAP Steve Steinhilber And Adrian Ott
On Thursday, March 1, 2012 at Michaels in Mountain View, the Silicon Valley Chapter of ASAP presented “Beyond Alliances: Aligning Partner Ecosystems with Corporate Strategy.” The speakers were Steve Steinhilber, VP of Emerging Solutions Ecosystems at Cisco Systems and author of … Continue reading
Feb. 24, 2012 SVEC Banquet
On February 24, 2012 in San Jose at the Doubletree, the Silicon Valley Engineering Council (SVEC) held its 2012 Silicon Valley Engineers Week. This year the keynote speaker is Patrick Lo, Chairman and CEO of NETGEAR. His speech was “Everything … Continue reading
Feb. 23, 2012 STC Randall Bolten Painting With Numbers
On February 23, 2012, the February STC Silicon Valley Chapter Meeting was held at the Hola! Mexican Restaurant & Cantina in Belmont. Experienced financial executive Randall Bolten of Lucidity presented “Learning How to Communicate Better with Numbers.” Bolten thinks rules … Continue reading
Feb. 21, 2012 SVForum Pervasive Database Decisions
On February 21, 2012 in Palo Alto at SAP, SVForum’s Business Intelligence SIG Chair Corrinne Kahler introduced John Akred of Accenture. His topic was “Pervasive Data-Based Decisions.” Despite talk about SQL versus noSQL, the rise of big data does not … Continue reading
Feb. 13, 2012 US Brazil Export Opportunities
On Monday February 13, 2012 in San Jose, the U.S. Department of Commerce Commercial Service, City of San Jose, San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce, Consulate General of Brazil in San Francisco, BayBrazil and the US-Brazil Business Council presented … Continue reading
Feb. 10, 2012 STC Fellow DJ Cline And Associate Fellow Nathaniel Lim
On Feb. 10, 2012, Mary Wise of the Society for Technical Communication Fellows Committee announced this week from Washington DC that two members of the Silicon Valley Chapter have been honored for their professional excellence and service to STC. DJ Cline … Continue reading
Feb. 7, 2012 SVForum PWC
On Tuesday February 7, 2012 in Palo Alto at Pillsbury Winthrop, SVForum presented the SVForum Quarterly Venture Breakfast with Pillsbury Winthrop and PricewaterhouseCoopers. The topic was “2011 The Year In Review.” Allison Leopold Tilley of Pillsbury Winthrop moderated panelists Steve … Continue reading