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Raj Apte, Area Manager, PARC. Raj B. Apte manages the Prototype Devices and Circuits team at PARC. His current work focuses on materials, fabrication, circuits, and systems using a-Si, p-Si, and novel inorganic semiconductors. Raj has 37 issued US patents and 76 publications in the areas of spread spectrum coding, semiconductor lasers, micromachined light valves, micromachined displays, scanners, x-ray imaging components, amorphous and polysilicon circuits and systems, printed organic electronics, active matrix testing, and large-area acoustics. Technology Raj has worked on has been licensed to Xerox, dpiX, Sony, Cypress, UniPixel, UltraScan, and Stanford University.
Denis Browne, Senior Vice President, SAP Imagineering. Denis joined SAP in 2006 to establish the team and brings over 19 years of industry experience to his role as an entrepreneur and business leader. Through his leadership, SAP Imagineering is exploring disruptive technologies, business models and market opportunities across the many industry sectors SAP services today and beyond to those markets that SAP may serve in the future. Prior to SAP, he spent several years as an entrepreneur, as a founder/co-founder and leader of 3 startup companies where he held senior level positions as Chief Technology Officer, VP of Product Management and Development.
Mike Cassidy, Business Columnist, San Jose Mercury News. Mike is a business columnist at the San Jose Mercury News who writes about the distinctive culture of Silicon Valley. His Silicon Valley Dispatches column has for years looked at the entrepreneurship, diversity and risk-taking tradition that make the valley a place like few others in the world.
Christine Crandell, Senior Vice President, Accept Corporation. Accept Corporation is a SaaS-based product innovation management suite. Previously, she was Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President of Alliances and Business Development for Egenera, where Christine was instrumental in leading the company’s transformation to a software-centric business model and expanding the Dell OEM partnership globally. Her approach to marketing and strategy has led to recognition as one of Silicon Valley’s Most Influential Women for 2010 by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal.
Padmanabh Dabke, CTO and Co-Founder, Spigit. Spigit's CTO and Co-Founder is an innovator and an entrepreneur with a passion for transforming concepts into real products. At present, he is primarily focused on defining the vision for the Spigit’s social innovation platform. Padmanabh has published several journal and online articles on information technology. He also consults with several Fortune 500 companies on best practices and strategies for managing collaborative innovation.
Padmanabh has a PhD from Stanford University, his M.S. from Clemson University, and B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
Judy Estrin, CEO, JLabs, LLC and author, Closing the Innovation Gap. Judy is a three-time member of Fortune's Fifty Most Powerful Women In Business, and author of "Closing the Innovation Gap: Reigniting the Spark of Creativity in a Global Economy", Judy is regarded as one of the "Pioneers of Silicon Valley." Currently CEO of her third venture backed start-up JLABS, LLC, formerly known as Packet Design Management Company, LLC., she has also served as CTO of Cisco until April of 2000 and currently sits on the boards of directors of The Walt Disney Company and FedEx Corporation and various advisory councils including Stanford's School of Engineering and Stanford's BioX initiative.
Pascal Finette, Director, Mozilla Labs. Pascal is the Director of Mozilla Labs, where he works with an incredibly talented team of engineers on inventing the future of the Web. He is an entrepreneur, tech-enthusiast & evangelist, seed investor and consultant. He got started on the Net before there was a web browser, founded a couple of companies on the Internet, led eBay's Platform Solutions Group, consulted a bunch of entrepreneurs on their strategy & operations and invested into startups.
Rich Friedrich, Director of Strategy and Innovation Office, HP Labs. Rich reports directly to the Senior Vice President of Research. Leading a global team, he is responsible for the strategy and portfolio management of HP’s central research organization, applying Open Innovation to amplify and accelerate research results, and technology transfer to effectively monetize these technologies. HP’s Open innovation program is recognized for its uniqueness as the only global, open, competitive innovation program that has established deep and impactful research collaborations between HP and academia.
Riley Gibson, Co-founder and CEO, Napkin Labs. Napkin Labs is a collaborative innovation platform that enables companies to meaningfully engage external communities of customers and experts. Prior to founding Napkin Labs, Riley worked as a new product development and
brand-positioning consultant for companies such as Intel Corp, Schick, SC Johnson, Wal-Mart, Starbucks, Kraft, and Pepsi. Riley has worked at both start ups and large corporations on innovation projects and has a passion for developing and applying open innovation practices to help companies accelerate the innovation process.
Ping Li, General Partner, Accel. Ping joined Accel in 2004 and focuses primarily on Information Technology Infrastructure and Digital Media platforms. His specific areas of interest also include cloud computing (see below), datacenter virtualization, distributed data management/storage, internet datacenter scalability and gaming. He currently is an investor/Board Member of BitTorrent, Cloudera, Lookout, Ludic Labs, Mu Dynamics, Raptr, Verivue and YuMe; and he is actively involved in Imperva. Ping holds an A.B. from Harvard University, with honors, and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
Deborah Magid, Director of Software Strategy, IBM Venture Capital Group. Deborah Magid represents IBM’s $22B software business in the company’s 9-year old Venture Capital Group. Her expertise spans several industries. Deborah is responsible for building ecosystems for IBM by sharing insights about emerging markets, technologies, and business models with venture firms and entrepreneurs around the world. Deborah holds degrees in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Connecticut.
Guy Martin, Senior Strategic Business & Community Consultant, CollabNet. In addition to helping customers build collaborative communities using Open Source best practices, he provides high-level strategic guidance in the cultural & organizational changes necessary to best take advantage of CollabNet's Agile ALM tools. He has over 15 years of experience in software engineering, technical marketing, community management, and is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM). Prior to CollabNet, he helped develop collaborative communities for Motorola and Sun Microsystems.
Mike Olson, CEO, Cloudera. Mike was formerly CEO of Sleepycat Software, makers of Berkeley DB, the open source embedded database engine. Mike spent two years at Oracle Corporation as Vice President for Embedded Technologies after Oracle’s acquisition of Sleepycat in 2006. Mike has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Ted Shelton, CEO, Open-First. Open-First is a consulting firm based in Palo Alto and London. Ted has spent the past 20 years working in the high tech industry, as a software developer, in product development, marketing, and as a senior executive in both public and privately held
companies. Shelton developed the principles guiding Open-First while working with Technorati in 2007. Previously Shelton served as the Chief Strategy Officer of Borland Software and Senior VP of Sales and Marketing for WhoWhere (acquired by Lycos in 1998) and several other software and Internet start-up companies.
Henry Tirri, Senior Vice President and Head of Nokia Research Center (NRC).
NRC drives breakthrough technology exploration for Nokia. Henry oversees 12 labs worldwide that pursue disruptive innovation and work closely with Nokia operating units promoting collaboration with global universities and research institutes. Henry joined Nokia in 2004 and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Helsinki. Previous positions include working at AT&T Bell Laboratories, and NASA AMES, where he contributed to the Mars Rover for the 2003 mission. He is the author/co-author of over 175 papers on computer science, social sciences and statistics, and holds five patents.
Doug Solomon, Chief Technology Officer, IDEO. Doug leads technology strategy efforts at IDEO, working with clients to effectively leverage technologies that create both business and social value. With more than twenty-five years of leadership experience in the information technology industry, Doug has a particular interest and experience in collaborative
technologies that enable greater community engagement and participation. Doug earned a Masters Degree from the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii and a Ph.D. in Communication Research from Stanford University. He is a member of the Board of Industry Leaders of the Consumer Electronics Association.
Anthony I. Wasserman, Professor, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley.
Anthony I. (Tony) Wasserman is a Professor in the Software Management program at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, and the Executive Director of its Center for Open Source Investigation.
His work focuses on the evaluation and adoption of open source software, and on software engineering for mobile applications. Tony has divided his career between academia and startups.
John Wolpert, CEO, UpStart Mobile, Inc. John has twenty years experience managing teams of creative talent in the entertainment, media, and computer industries. He is currently the CEO of UpStart Mobile Inc, a new startup in the transportation industry, created inside an experimental corporate entrepreneurship program that John ran for Best Buy in 2008. The company was successfully spun out of Best Buy in 2009, then received Series A funding from Sand Hill Angels, Band of Angels and North Bay Angels, and began operations in 2010. Cabulous (http://cabulous.com) is the company's first product for the taxi industry.
Chris Yeh, Marketing Director, PBWorks. Chris has been building Internet businesses since 1995. He is the VP Marketing for PBworks, the world's leading provider of hosted collaboration solutions. PBworks serves over 85,000 businesses, including 1/3 of the Fortune 500. Previously, he was the first investor in and interim CEO of Ustream.TV, which provides an open and distributable platform for live interactive online video. Chris earned two degrees from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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