OPEN FORUM 2009: Winning Tomorrow

8 AM - 7 PM, Saturday, June 13, 2009

Computer History Museum - 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, CA 

8 am - Conference Opens

Networking over Breakfast

9 am - Opening Address by Dilawar Syed, OPEN SV President

9:30 am to 10:15 am

MORNING KEYNOTE

Warren Packard, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson

 CLEANTECH TRACK
 GLOBAL AFFAIRS TRACK
 TECH & MEDIA TRACK

10:20 am to 11:20 am

 PANEL

Where is the Green in Clean? Investment Opportunities, Valuations and the Funding gaps in Cleantech

  PANEL

How Social Media is Shaping our World

PANEL

Cloud Computing and Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

11:25 am to 12:30 pm

 

PANEL

Innovations in Energy: Viable Business Propositions after Market Corrections 

PANEL

PANEL

A Fistful of Dollars: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Fundraising in a Hostile Environment

 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm

General Networking Over Lunch 

 

Invitation Only Lunch:

Fundraising for a Cleantech Startup?  Cleantech Pitch Lunch with a Room Full of Investors
Co-hosted by MIT Angels and MIT Club of Northern California

2:00 pm to 2:45 pm

CONFERENCE KEYNOTE

MASOOD JABBAR, former Sun Microsystems Executive

3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

PANEL

The Stimulus Act: The Impact of Government Policy on Cleantech Start-ups and their Investors

PANEL

Entrepreneurial Opportunities in the Health Care Sector 

 

CONTEST

Entrepreneurial Idol - Season III

4:00 pm to 4:30 pm

High Tea


4:30 pm to 5:30 pm


WORKSHOP

Crafting your personal brand to transition into the Cleantech sector 

WORKSHOP

 

PANEL

The Business of Gaming

  

5:45 pm to 6:45 pm

FORUM '09 KEYNOTE

TOM CAMPBELL