International Investment Summit in Israel
June 20-21 Hertzelia
June 22 Weizmann Institution
June 23 Jerusalem

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Monthly Meeting
May 19th - Cybersecurity

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Monthly Meeting
February 9th - Data Protection

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Technology Conference
January 19th-20th - Two-day Personalized Medicine Conference

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VIP
January 19th - Honoring Dr. Lee Hood

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Keynote Speaker:
• Dr. Alon Konchitsky Founder, CTO & VP NoiseFree Networks

Panelists:
• Mark Boslet Journalist, TechPulse360.com (Moderator)
• Bob Borchers General Partner, Opus Capital
• Tim Danford Managing Director, Storm Ventures
• Jeff Smith Co-founder and CEO, Smule
• Guy Goldstein Co-founder and CEO, PageOnce

Keynote Speaker:
• Ilan Zorman Founder, AdYouNet

Keynote Speakers:
• Marissa Mayer VP Search & User Experience, Google
• Anne Korin Author of Turning Oil into salt

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Speaker:
• Chi-Foon Chan, Ph.D. President & COO, Synopsys

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Panelists:
• Bill Niemeyer New Video Strategist & Tactician (Moderator)
• Bill Bradford CPO, Fox Digital Media Broadband Channels Group
• Gary Lauder Managing Partner, Lauder Partners LLC
• Alexander Marquez Director Strategic Investments, Intel Capital
• Daniel Scheinman Sr. VP & General Manager, Cisco Media Solutions Group
• Anthony Wood CEO, Roku

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Speakers:
• Amos Barzilay, Ph.D. President & CEO, CollabRx
• Michael Goldman, Ph.D. Professor & Chair, SFSU Department of Biology
• Joe Gray, Ph.D. Associate Lab Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Hugh Martin Chairman & CEO, Pacific Biosciences

June 3rd: Summit
• Keynote: Trip Hawkins - The Omni Media Revolution
• Panel: Consumer Media: What's Next?
• Panel: Breakthrough Tech for truly cost-effective Alternative Energy
• Panel: Investing in Health Care
• Panel: Early Stage Investments, Where do we go from here?
• Panel: Mergers and Acquisitions Opportunities for Startup Companies
• Panel: Search: The user experience of the future
• Keynote: David Perlmutter - Mobile Vision
• Keynote: Polly Sumner - Building Your Business in the Cloud
• Most Promising Early Stage Company Award

June 2nd: Entrepreneur's Boot Camp
• Featuring interactive workshops for entrepreneurs, designed to improve presentation skills. For entrepreneurs only - space is limited.

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Keynote Speaker:
• Judy Estrin CEO, JLABS, LLC, Author, Closing the Innovation Gap

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Presented by:
• Shikun & Binui - Arison Group - Israel

Keynote Speaker:
• Udi Manber Vice President of Engineering, Google

Personal Tour
• Maydan Technology Center, Applied Materials

Panelists:
• Ken Elefant General Partner, Opus Capital (Moderator)
• John Keagy CEO and Co-Founder, GoGrid
• Stephen McHenry Chancellor of Site Reliability Engineering, Google
• Steve Petrevski Director, IT Expertise, UBS Investment Bank
• Issac Roth CEO, WebApp VM

Keynote Speaker:
• Dr. Dileep George Co-founder & Principal Architect, Numenta

Keynote Speaker:
• Nolan Bushnell Founder, Uwink, Chuck E. Cheese, Atari

Keynote Speaker:
• Joe Morgan, SVB "Capitulation or Head Fake?"

Panelists: "Venture-Backed Technology Companies Outlook"
• Greg McAdoo Venture Capitalist, Sequoia Capital
• Chris Rust General Partner, USVP

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Panelists:
• Shmuel Shottan CTO, BlueArc (Moderator)
• Eli Harari Founder, Chairman & CEO, SanDisk
• Ryan Floyd General Partner, Storm Ventures
• Narbeh Derhacobian President & CEO, Adesto Technologies

Company Tour
December 4th - Tesla Motors

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Speaker: Dipender Saluja Partner, Capricorn Investment Group

Speaker: Dr. Laurence Marton Chief Scientific Officer, Progen Pharmaceuticals

Speaker: Paul Romer Renowned Economist

Panelists:
• Pete Dailey Integrated Program Manager, Stratecast (Moderator)
• Marc Davis Chief Scientist, Connected Life, Yahoo!
• Samir Kumar Group Product Planner, Windows Mobile, Microsoft
• Larry Lang VP & GM, Services Mobility, Cisco
• Stephen Saltzman Sr. Director of Strategic Investments, Intel Capital
• Rick Segal Co-Manager of Blackberry Partners Fund, JLA Ventures

Panelists:
• Carl Wright Former VP of Sales, Kidaro (Moderator)
• Dan Avida General Partner, Opus Capital Ventures
• Ken BerrymanVP Endpoint Virtualization, Symantec
• Steve Kaplan VP Data Center Virualization Practice, INX, Inc.
• Ophir RachmanR&D Director for Security Products, VMware

Speaker: Thomas Korte Evangelist, Google

Panelists:
• Charles Cooper Executive Editor, CNET News.com (Moderator)
• Tom Baruch Founder & Managing Director, CMEA Capital
• Barry Cinnamon Founder & CEO, Akeena Solar
• Josh Green Parner, Mohr Davidow Ventures
• Lyndon Rive Founder & CEO, Solar City

Day One
• Keynote: Richard Jones – Economic Future of Israel
• Keynote: John Harris – US-Israel Ventures: A Winning Combination
• Keynote: Moshe Arens – Hi-Tech in Israel: The Past and the Future
• Keynote: Tom Baruch – Moving the Needle in Alternative Energy
• Panel: The Future of Clean-Tech – Myths, Realities & Opportunities
• Keynote: Gal Luft – Israel's Role in the New Energy Revolution
• Keynote: Isaac Berzin – Why Israel Holds the Key for Next-Gen Biofuels
• Keynote: Daniel Zajfman – The Role of Basic Research for Alternative Energy
• Keynote: Eric Benhamou – 10 Lessons I learned as CEO
• Panel: Israeli Biotech – Therapeutic Developments
• Keynote: Uzia Galil – Opportunities in IT for Life Sciences
• Award Ceremony: Stef Wertheimer – Life Achievement

Day Two
• Keynote: Chemi Peres – Israeli Hi-tech: The Long-Term Prospects
• Keynote: Yair Shamir – Israel & Globalization
• Panel: Cooperation Between US & Israeli Companies
• Keynote: Rajeev Madhavan – The Future of Chip Design
• Keynote: Kamran Elahian – Digital Unite
• Panel: Internet and New Media – Where Are We Heading?
• Keynote: Eli Opper – Research & Development as a Growth Engine
• Panel: From Basic Research to the Market Place
• Panel: The Role of Intellectual Property in Enhancing Business Strategy
• Keynote: Ted Hoff – The Birth of the Microprocessor
• Panel: The Weakening Dollar: Root Causes, Symptoms & Antidotes
• Award Ceremony: Most Promising Early Stage Company 2008

Day Three
• Company Tours & Sightseeing – Jerusalem

Day Four
• Company Tours & Sightseeing – Northern Israel

Speaker: Joseph Stagner Exec. Director of Sustainability, Stanford University
Speaker: Shelley Hebert Exec. Director of PA, Stanford Hospital & Clinics


Panelists:
• Moryt Milo Editor, SV/SJ Business Journal (Moderator)
• Jim Baer CEO, Premier Properties
• Linda Law Founding Partner, Law & Associates
• Sean O'Toole Founder & CEO, ForeclosureRadar
• Carl Shannon Managing Director, Regional Director SV/SF, Tishman Speyer

Panelists:
• Daniel Chatelain VP Operations & Strategic Alliances, QSecure (Moderator)
• John Muir Managing Partner, Trusted Strategies
• Didier Serra Executive VP Sales & GM, INSIDE Contactless US
• Kerry Brown Founder & CTO, QSecure

Panelists:
• Emanuel Rosen Author, "The Anatomy of Buzz" (Moderator)
• Jennifer Reynolds Director, Worldwide Advertising, Adobe
• Brian Axe Director of Product Management, AdSense, Google
• Jed Nahum Business Integration Director, AdECN, Microsoft
• Amir Ashkenazi CEO & Co-founder, adap.tv

Speaker: Alon Konchitsky CEO & Chairman, Noise Free Wireless

Speaker: Ronald Levy Professor of Medicine & Chief of Oncology, Stanford Univ.
Speaker: Nadir Arber Head of Integrated Cancer Prevention Center, Tel Aviv Univ.

Speaker: Doug Engelbart Father of the Mouse

Speaker: Ishai Naveh Co-founder & VP Marketing, Adesto Technologies

Panelists:
• J. Christopher Moran VP/GM, Applied Ventures, LLC (Moderator)
• William Miller Founder & Chairman, Nanostellar & Lumiette, Inc.
• Jonathan Trent Senior Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center
• Stuart Parkin Fellow & Manager, Magnetoelectronics Group, IBM

Speaker: Douglas Osheroff Nobel Prize Laureate, Physics (1996)

Panelists:
• Dean Takahashi Tech Talk Columnist, SJ Mercury News (Moderator)
• Ed Fries Former VP of Game Publishing, Microsoft
• Michael Pole CEO, Trilogy Studios
• Colin Sebastian Senior Research Analyst, Lazard Capital Markets
• John Welch President & Chief Executive Officer, PlayFirst

Speaker: Tom Perkins Co-founder, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Speaker: Kenneth Arrow Nobel Prize Laureate, Economics

Panelists:
• Lee Bruno Editorial Director, The 451 Group (Moderator)
• David Aslin Managing Director, AslinVC
• Tom Baruch Founder & Managing Director, CMEA Capital
• Jeff Barnes General Partner, Clean Pacific Ventures
• Doug Cameron Chief Scientific Officer, Khosla Ventures
• David Dreessen Partner, Battery Ventures

Speakers
• Joseph Bach - Intellectual Property
• Raffy Chatav - How Silicom Ventures Helps Startups
• Israel Niv - A Business Plan for Success and Venture Fundraising
• Hagi Schwartz - How Investment Decisions are Made

Speaker: Dan'l Lewin Corporate VP of .NET Business Development, Microsoft

Panelists:
• Amos Barzilay Venture Consultant, Walden International (Moderator)
• Andrew Braccia Partner, Accel
• Steve Larsen Co-founder & CEO, Krugle
• Louis Monier Founder of Internet Search Engine AltaVista
• Barney Pell Founder & CEO, Powerset, Inc.

Panelists:
• Orna Shulman Founder, OLS Ventures LLC (Moderator)
• Doug Krah President, Northern California Standard Pacific
• Robert Scanlan Chairman, CEO & Principal, ScanlanKemperBard
• Ken Rosen Chairman, Rosen Consulting Group

Panelists:
• Sarah Jane Tribble Business reporter, San Jose Mercury News (Moderator)
• Brady O. Bruce Senior VP, Telecom Products and Services, promptu
• Bernd Girod Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
• Larry Marcus Managing Director, Walden Venture Capital
• Farshid Sabet VP and GM of Mobile Network Operator products, SanDisk

Speaker: Shai Agassi President Product & Technology & Board Member, SAP AG

Speaker: Ted Hoff Inventor of the Microprocessor

Panelists:
• Gerald Jay Sanders San Francisco Science™
• Dana Mead Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
• Scott Wolf Partner, Prospect Venture Partners
• Vance Vanier Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures
• Jay Watkins Managing Director, De Novo Ventures

Speaker: Irving Weissman Director, Institute for Cancer & Stem Cell Biology, Stanford University
Speaker: Ray Rothrock Managing Partner, Venrock Associates

Panelists:
• Mark Boslet Special Writer, Dow Jones
• Ray Bingham Managing Director, General Atlantic LLC
• Spencer Greene VP Corporate Development, Juniper Networks
• Kamran Elahian Chairman & Cofounder, Global Catalyst Partners
• Doug Gonsalves Managing Director, SVB Alliant

Speaker: Ben Shelef Founder & CEO, Spaceward Foundation

Speakers
• José Maria Blanc – Managing Director of Intel Capital
• Andrés Solimano – Regional Advisor at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
• Gadi Behar – Founder & Managing Director of Silicom Ventures

Panelists:
• Ron Wilson Executive Editor, EDN
• Andy Rappaport Partner, August Capital
• Lip-Bu Tan Chairman, Walden International
• Jim Plummer Dean, School of Engineering, Stanford University
• J. Christopher Moran VP, General Manager, Applied Ventures LLC
• John Oxaal General Partner, Sevin Rosen Funds

Speaker: Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister of Israel

Speaker: Alex Padva Scientist, Key Administrator, Consultant & Researcher

Speaker: Lorry Lokey Founder & CEO Emeritus, Business Wire
Speaker: Andy Kessler Author, "The End of Medicine"
Speaker: Jerry Kaplan "The Biggest Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make"

Panelists:
• Falguni Bhuta Reporter, Red Herring
• Mary Coleman Managing Director, Walden International
• Benoit Schillings CTO, Trolltech
• Chris DiBona Open Source Program Manager, Google
• Ken Drachnik Open Source Group, Sun Microsystems Inc.
• Steve Gerdt Open Source Program Director, IBM

Speaker: Arnon Amir Research Staff Member, IBM Almaden Research Center

Speaker: Richard Muller Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley
Speaker: Moshe Handelsman Founder of Advanced Forecasting

Day One
• Seminar: Joseph Bach – Patent Pending: What is all the fuss about?
• Seminar: Nir Zuk – Fund Raising: Lessons I've Learned
• Seminar: Sam Haddad – My experience advising Silicon Valley entrepreneurs
• Seminar: Adrie Reinders – Networking: A Two-Way Street
• Master of Ceremony: Ram Banin
• Keynote: Atiq Raza – Challenges & Opportunities in Global Hightech Economy
• Panel: Infrastructure, Enablers and Accelerators
• Keynote: Ed Mlavsky – Israeli High Tech: One more miracle
• Panel: Investment Community View: Angel, VC & Corporate Funding
• Panel: Entrepreneur View: What Makes it Worthwhile?
• Keynote: Richard H. Jones

Day Two
• Company Tours & Sightseeing – Jerusalem
• Keynote: Ophir Pines-Paz – Israeli Parliament
• Keynote: Eli Hurvitz – Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Facilities

Day Three
• Company Tours & Sightseeing – Haifa
• Keynote: Uzia Galil – Welcoming at the TEIC
• Keynote: Dan Maydan – Welcoming at the Dalia Maydan Center
• Keynote: Oded Shmueli – Welcoming at the Technion, Computer Science

Panelists:
• Charles Cooper Executive Editor, CNET News.com
• Erik Straser General Partner, MDV
• Gal Luft, Ph.D. Co-Director, Institute for the Analysis of Global Security
• Ajit Nazre, Ph.D. Partner, KPCB
• Tom Baruch Founder & Managing Director, CMEA Ventures

Speaker: Israel Hernandez US International Trade Strategies
Panelists:
• Juan G. Santiago Stanford University (moderator)
• Chris Rust General Partner, USVP
• Gregory C. Gretsch Managing Director, Sigma Partners
• Josh Stein Partner, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Speaker: Jonathan Trent, Ph.D. Senior Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center
Speaker: Cliff Reeves GM .NET Platform Strategy, Microsoft

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Panelists:
• Adam Lashinsky Senior Writer, Fortune Magazine (moderator)
• Eli Harari Founder and CEO, SanDisk
• Richard Atkinson Anti-Piracy Strategy & Operations, Walt Disney Studios
• Dan Sheeran Senior VP Music and Video, RealNetworks, Inc.
• Russell Siegelman Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
• Jonathan Sasse President and CEO, iriver America
• Jan Jannink, Ph.D. Founder, CTO & President, Imeem
Speaker: Thomas Meredith Founder & CEO, P2P Cash

Speaker: Kumar Malavalli Chairman & CEO, Inmage

Speaker: Walden Rhines Chairman & CEO, Mentor Graphics

Speaker: Benny Schnaider CEO, Qumranet
Speaker: Leonard Shustek Chairman, Computer History Museum

Speaker: Mark Egan CiO & VP of Information Technology, Symantec Corporation
Speaker: Jerry Weissman Founder & President, Power Presentations Ltd.

Speaker: Joseph Bach Partner, Sughrue Mion

Speaker: William J. Perry Former Secretary of Defense, United States

Speaker: Sam Gill Professor & Chair of Information Systems, SFSU

Speaker: Kris Pister Inventor, SmartDust

Speakers:
• Lawrence Hayward Senior Foreign Exchange Advisor, SVB
  
• Roel Pieper Founder & Managing Director, Favonius Ventures
• Christine Mummery, Ph.D. Head of Stem Cell Research, University of Utrecht
• Bas Verhart CEO, Mediarepublic
Panelists:
• Bill Reichert Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures (moderator)
• Warren Packard Partner, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
• Ajit Nazre Partner, KPCB
• Paul Holland General Partner, Foundation Capital
• Howard Hartenbaum Partner, Draper Richards

Speaker: Dave Courtney CFO, TiVO

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Speaker: Larry Boucher Founder & CEO, Alacritech
Speaker: Joe Davis President & CEO, Coremetrics

Speaker: Benjamin Friedlander, Ph.D. Professor of Electrical Engineering, UCSC

Speaker: Eric Benhamou Chairman & CEO, Benhamou Global Ventures
Panelists:
• Matt Marshall Columnist, San Jose Mercury News (moderator)
• David Ladd Managing Director, Mayfield
• Amos Barzilay Partner, Walden International
• Navin Chaddha General Partner, Gabriel Venture Partners
• Ajit Nazre Partner, KPCB
• Oren Zeev Partner, Apax Partners

Speaker: Israel Beinglass, Ph.D. CMO Thin Films Group, Applied Materials

Speaker: Gianluca Rattazzi Chairman & CEO, BlueArc
Speaker: Ellen Siminoff President & CEO, Efficient Frontier

Speaker: Ichak Adizes Founder & Professional Director, Adizes Institute

Speaker: Sheldon Breiner, Ph.D. New Ventures West

Speaker: Ray Lane General Partner, KPCB
Speaker: Zvi Yaniv President & CEO, Applied Nanotech

Speaker: Jeff Wildfogel, Ph.D. Founder & President, The Mental Edge

Speaker: Timothy Draper Founder & Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Speaker: Zvi Slonimsky CEO, Alvarion

Speaker: Uri Sivan, Ph.D. Professor Nanoelectronics, Technion Israel

Speaker: Richard Levy, Ph.D. Chairman & CEO, Varian Medical Systems, Inc.
Speaker: Nir Zuk Chief Security Technologist, Juniper Networks

Speaker: Ram Shriram Founding Board Member, Google
Speaker: Jeff Ullman Professor of Engineering, Stanford University

Speaker: Thomas Siebel Founder & Chairman, Siebel Systems
Speaker: Saiyed Atiq Raza Founder, Chairman & CEO, Raza Microelectronics

Speaker: Kevin Coleman Chief Strategist, Netscape Division of AOL iPlanet

Speaker: Udi Manber VP & Chief Algorithms Officer, Amazon.com

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Speaker: Vinod Khosla General Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Moderator: Tony Perkins Former Creator & Editor in Chief, Red Herring

Speaker: J. Gerry Purdy Principal Analyst, MobileTrax LLC

Speaker: Henry Chesbrough Executive Director, Haas School of Business

Speakers:
• Philip Black President & CEO of LightSand Communications
  
• Avi Katz President & CEO, Intransa
• Silvano Gai Fellow, Cisco Systems
• Kevin Fong Managing Director, Mayfield
• Greg McAdoo Partner, Sequoia Capital
  Panelists:
• Shmuel Shottan Sr. VP Product Development, BlueArc (moderator)
• Chris Schaepe General Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners
• Tom Buiocchi VP Marketing, Brocade
• John Mascarenas Director & Sr. Investment Manager, Intel Capital
• Bruce Hillsberg Director Federal Storage Solutions, IBM
• Mohsen Moazami VP & Global MD Internet Business Solutions, Cisco Systems
• Eric Burgener VP Marketing, Topio
• Daniel Appelman Shareholder, Heller Ehrman

Speaker: Claude M. Leglise VP, Intel Capital Director International Sector, Intel