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Like its sister event in Silicon Valley, Venture Summit East is a two-day gathering that highlights the significant economic, political and technology trends impacting the global growth investor. Venture Summit East features the most influential institutional investors, venture capitalists, corporate buyers, investment bankers and research analysts in the Eastern US in keynote presentations and panel debates. Venture Summit East will also host 14 “Best of Breed CEO Showcases” handpicked from the AlwaysOn annual top 100 private company list, and 36 other qualified six-minute CEO pitches from companies seeking later-stage capital or potential acquirers.


The goal of Venture Summit East is to match growth-company buyers and sellers and identify the most promising innovation-driven, growth investment opportunities. At the Venture Summit, our editors will also honor the “AO Northeast Top 100 Companies” and the annual “AO Industry Analyst All-Star Team.”


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Who Attends Venture Summit East
Five hundred institutional investors, venture capitalists, investment bankers, research analysts and corporate buyers will attend Venture Summit East. The most influential members of the financial and technology media and blogging community will also be on hand to moderate debates and cover the action. Executives attend Venture Summit East to identify and debate emerging investment opportunities in venture and private equity funds and private growth companies, and to build high-level relationships with technology and greentech CEOs and corporate buyers.


Venture Summit East 2008 Current Program & Invited Speakers:  

Monday, April 7, 2008
6:00pm --
8:00pm
 

Reception at Google's Cambridge Mass Research Center
5 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA  02142

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Transportation is not being provided.  The cab fare is approximately $9

Tuesday, April 8, 2008
8:45am
Salon A
 

The State of the Tech IPO Buyers & Sellers
The IPO market picked up steam in 2007, but is the "window" still open? Top investors discuss why they still care about IPOs in a turbulent market and delineate what makes them say "buy" instead of "pass."
    Moderator: Lise Buyer, Founder, Class V Group
    Leslie Pfrang, Managing Director, Deutsche Bank Securities
    Beau Coash, Head Primary Trader, Fidelity Management and Research
    Robin Weiss, SVP, Investment Banking Services, NYSE
    Sean Madnani, Vice President, The Blackstone Group
    Andrew J. Neff, Senior Managing Director, Bear Stearns

8:45am
Salon B
Introducing the AO All Star Analyst Team
Security analysts and media pundits lost their credibility by not calling the Internet stock bubble.  Is there a road back to credibility?
    Moderator: Bambi Francisco, Founder, Vator.TV
    Youssef Squali, Managing Director, Jefferies & Company
    Tom Watts, Managing Director, Cowen & Company
    Mark May, Principal, Investment Research, Needham & Company
 
9:45am
Salon A

The Boutiques Versus the Bulge Bracket Firms
In the technology IPO glory days, there was a bulge bracket firm name on the left side of the prospectus and a boutique name on the right. By the end of the 1990s, the boutiques had all been acquired. Will we see the emergence of a new class of boutiques and will they be able to successfully compete?  
    Moderator: Tony Perkins, Founder, AlwaysOn
    Anthony Florence, Managing Director, Investment Banking, Morgan Stanley
    Paul Deninger, Vice Chairman, Jefferies & Co
    Aaron Hill, MD, Head of Telecom. Investment Banking, Cowen & Company
    James Montgomery, CEO, Montgomery & Co
 
9:45am
Salon B
Is There Still Upside in the Internet?
Venture capitalists have been funding Internet startups since 1994 and continue to do so with gusto, in what some would argue is an overinflated market. How many more big Internet brands does the future hold?
    Moderator: Kara Swisher,
Co-Executive Editor, AllThingsD.com
    David Kidder, CEO, Clickable
    Waikit Lau, Co-Founder, ScanScout
    Bob Davis, General Partner, Highland Capital Partners
    David Beisel, VP, Venrock 
    Eric Hippeau, Managing Director, Softbank Capital

10:45am Break
 
11:00am
Salon A
Corporate Buyers -- What's Whetting Their Appetite?
The biggest corporate brands are actively investing in companies that drive their strategies and profitability.  Are they continuing to gorge on startups as their primary source of R&D and new product innovation?
    Moderator: David Lavallee, Managing Director, Revolution Partners
    Jacqueline Hampton, Executive Director, Strategic Planning , Time Inc
    JD Sherman, CFO, Akamai
    Andrew Cohen, Senior Director, Strategic Development, Citrix

11:00am
Salon B
 
CEO Presentations -- Consumer & Media
Presentations by CEOs of the hottest companies in this sector, emceed by Ezra Roizen, Contributing Editor, AlwaysOn.
   
Tom Wilde, CEO, EveryZing
    Ben Kartzman, CEO, Spongecell
    Martin Knestrick, CEO, ioglobal inc
    Mark Moran, CEO, Finding Dulcinea
    David Kidder, CEO, Clickable
    Duncan Perry, COO, Treedia Labs
    Lon Otremba, CEO, Access 360 Media
Immediately following these CEO presentations, industry experts will comment:
    Church Lewis, Managing Director, Needham & Company
    Christopher Farmer, VP, Bessemer Venture Partners
Following this session, the CEOs will be available for demos in the lobby for 30 minutes.
 
11:45am
Salon A
Corporate Investors-- What's Whetting Their Appetite?
The biggest corporate brands are actively investing in companies that drive their strategies and profitability.  Are they continuing to gorge on startups as their primary source of R&D and new product innovation?
    Moderator: Victor Boyajian, National Chair, Sonnenschein
    Allison Goldberg, Executive Director, Time Warner Investments
    David Horowitz, Principal, Comcast Interactive Capital
    Scott English, VP Strategic Investments, Hearst Interactive Media
    Alan Spoon, Managing General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners
    Julie Gerstenberger, Head of External Alliances, Kodak
 
12:30pm
 
Lunch
1:15pm
Salon A
 
CEO Presentations -- Mobile
Presentations by CEOs of the hottest companies in this sector, emceed by Ezra Roizen, Contributing Editor, AlwaysOn.
   
Dan Olschwang, CEO, JumpTap -- OM100 2007 & AO100 2007
    Andrew Miller, CEO, Quattro Wireless
    Erik Schwartz, Founder and CEO, Foneshow
    Jack Philbin, Co-Founder and President, Vibes
    George Grey, CEO, Mobicious
    Arthur Goikhman, CEO, Cellufun
Immediately following these CEO presentations, industry experts will comment:
    John Cooper, Managing Director, Montgomery & Company
    Ajay Bam, Co-Founder, MobileLime
Following this session, the CEOs will be available for demos in the lobby for 30 minutes.    
 
1:15pm
Salon B
Will The Real Seed Investors Please Stand Up
Many entrepreneurs believe that traditional VCs have gotten out of seed investment. Has the change in venture economics made it difficult for the blue chip investors to play the seed investment game?
    Moderator: Woody Benson, General Partner, Prism VentureWorks
    Jonah Goodhart, Managing Member, Point Ventures Group
    Allen Miner, Chairman & CEO, SunBridge Group
    James Geshwiler, Managing Director, CommonAngels
    John Hession, Partner in Charge, Cooley Godward Kronish

2:15pm
Salon A
 
Where's the Money Moving in Mobile?
    Moderator: Adam Zawel, Chief Collaboration Officer, INmobile.org
    Bob Geiman, General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners
    Ron Elwell, Senior Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners
    Nilanjana Bhowmik, Partner, Longworth Venture Partners 
    Murali Aravamudan, CEO, Veveo

2:15pm
Salon B
 
CEO Presentations -- Enterprise
Presentations by CEOs of the hottest companies in this sector, emceed by Ezra Roizen, Contributing Editor, AlwaysOn.
   
Richard Nacht, CEO, Blogging Systems
    Gary Miliefsky, Founder, NetClarity
    Mark Atkins, CEO, Invention Machine
    Gordon Burnes, VP Marketing, Open Pages
    Glen Solimine, Founder and CEO, Speranza Systems
    Steve Papa, CEO, Endeca Technologies
    Steven Siegel, CEO, NPPI Development Corp
    Rich Garnick, CEO, Conjoin Group
Immediately following these CEO presentations, industry experts will comment:
    Scott Friend, Venture Partner, Bain Capital Ventures
    Noah Gellman, Director & Columnist, AlwaysOn
Following this session, the CEOs will be available for demos in the lobby for 30 minutes.
 
3:15pm

Break
 
3:30pm
Salon A
 
CEO Presentations -- Consumer & Media
Presentations by CEOs of the hottest companies in this sector, emceed by Ezra Roizen, Contributing Editor, AlwaysOn.
 
    Venkat Kolluri, CEO, Chitika
     Steve Rosenbaum, CEO, Magnify.net
     Darren Chuckry, COO, MEN7
     Gerry Wilson, CEO, Yoonew
     Rogier Visser, President, Swoot
     Kelly Conlin, CEO, NameMedia
Immediately following these CEO presentations, industry experts will comment:
     Christopher Farmer, VP, Bessemer Venture Partners
     Ed Lambert, SVP, Bridge Bank
Following this session, the CEOs will be available for demos in the lobby for 30 minutes.
 
3:30pm
Salon B
 
Out of the Dorm and Into the Marketplace
These entrepreneurs didn't wait until they graduated from college.  They built their successful companies as undergrads.
    Moderator: Ken Zolot, Senior Lecturer, MIT School of Engineering
    Jonathan Seelig, Managing Director, Globespan Partners
    Eric Paley, General Manager, Brontes Technologies, a 3M Company
    Seth Coe-Sullivan, CTO, QD Vision
    Alexei Erchak, CTO, Luminus Devices

4:15pm
Salon A
 
Why Take Venture Capital at All?
Why spend six months sucking up to venture capitalists when it’s (a) so cheap to start a company these days and (b) there are many ways to kick start cash flow? This is a contrarian panel featuring companies that achieved success without outside capital.
    Moderator: Tony Perkins, Founder, AlwaysOn
    Ramu Yalamanchi, CEO, hi5
    David Skok, General Partner, Matrix Partners
    Nick MacShane, Senior Managing Director, Progress Partners
    Venkat Kolluri, CEO, Chitika
 
4:15pm
Salon B
 
Next Generation Life Sciences
    Moderator: Thomas Meyers, Partner, Cooley Godward Kronish
    Terry McGuire, Managing General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners
    Omid Farokhzad, Assist. Professor of Anesthesioligy, Harvard Medical School
    Christoph Westphal, M.D., Ph.D., CEO & Vice-Chair, Sirtris Pharmaceuticals

5:10pm
Salon A
Fireside Chat with Desh Despande
    Moderator: Jeff McCarthy, General Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners
    Desh Deshpande, Co-Founder and Chairman, Sycamore Networks
 
5:30pm
Salon A
VC Survey -- What You're Telling Us
    Ed Sullivan, Partner, KPMG
    Tony Perkins, Founder, AlwaysOn
 
5:45pm
Salon A
Introducing the AO Northeast Top 100 Companies
    Brian Hughes, Partner, KPMG
    Tony Perkins, Founder, AlwaysOn
 
6:30pm --
8:30pm
 

Reception -- Artists for Humanity EpiCenter
100 West Second St., South Boston
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Transportation will be provided to and from the event

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

8:45am
Salon A
Presentation -- The EnerNet
Lessons from 50 years of building the Internet for how to meet the world's accelerating needs for cheap and clean energy.
     Dr. Robert Metcalfe, General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners

9:15am
Salon A
East Coast VCs Go Green
Greentech has become the third largest class of VC investment.  Can the upside of investing in greentech rival the potential ROI of the internet. 
    Moderator: Bill Schnoor, Partner, Goodwin Procter LLP
    Jon Sakoda, Principal, NEA
    Jim Matheson, General Partner, Flagship Ventures
    Chuck McDermott, General Partner, Rockport Capital Partners
    Tucker Twitmyer, Managing Partner, EnerTech Capital

9:15am
Salon B
 
So You Wanna Raise a New Fund
    Moderator: Michael Greeley, General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners
    Clinton Harris, Managing Partner, Grove Street Advisors
    Greg Stento, Managing Director, Harbourvest Partners
    Edwin Poston, General Partner, TrueBridge Capital Partners
    Patricia Dinneen, Managing Director, Siguler Guff & Company

10:00am Fireside Chat with Nicholas Negroponte
    Moderator: Larry Weber, Chairman, W2 Group, Inc.
    Nicholas Negroponte, Founder and Chairman, One Laptop per Child
 
10:30am
Break
 
10:45am
Salon A
CEO Presentations -- Greentech
Presentations by CEOs of the hottest companies in this sector, emceed by Ezra Roizen, Contributing Editor, AlwaysOn.
    Steve Hauser, VP Strategy, GridPoint, GG100 2007
    Peter Antoinette, Founder and CEO, Nanocomp Technologies
    Kamal Hassan, CEO, Skymeter Corp
    Rick Steele, CEO, NuRide
    Bridget Croke, Director of Strategic Relationships, RecycleBank
    Dr. Per Onnerud, CTO, Boston-Power
Immediately following these CEO presentations, industry experts will comment:
    Paul Gibson, SVP, Bridge Bank
    Jim Matheson, General Partner, Flagship Ventures

Following this session, the CEOs will be available for demos in the lobby for 30 minutes. 
 
10:45am
Salon B
Why Invest Now In Europe & Israel?
    Moderator: Paul Deninger, Vice Chairman, Jefferies & Co.
    Dan Ciporin, Venture Partner, Canaan Partners
    Christopher Spray, Partner, Atlas Venture
    Lucy McQuilken, Investment Manager, Intel Capital
    Adi Pundak-Mintz, General Partner,  Gemini Israel Fund
 
11:45am
Salon A
Sell Now or Go Public -- What's an Entrepreneur to Do?
In a dramatic shift since the 1990s, entrepreneurs have been choosing to sell rather than go public.  With better IPO market conditions, should entrepreneurs hang tough or go for the IPO gold?
    Moderator: John Simon, Managing Partner, General Catalyst Partners
    David Moore, CEO, 24/7 Real Media
    Jit Saxena, CEO, Netezza
    Greg Strakosch, Co-Founder, Techtarget
    Bob McCooey, Sr. VP of Global Capital Markets, NASDAQ

    Paul Bowen, President, Bowen Advisors
 
11:45am
Salon B
CEO Presentations -- On-Demand Services & Technology Enablers
Presentations by CEOs of the hottest companies in this sector, emceed by Ezra Roizen, Contributing Editor, AlwaysOn.
    Keith Kocho, President & Founder, ExtendMedia
    Chet Kanojia, CEO, Navic Networks
 
  Treb Ryan, CEO, OpSource
    Ernie Riddle, CEO, Astadia
    Brad Ball, President & CEO, LoyaltyMatch
    Bret Gordon, CEO, Wandrian
    Mark R. Bruneau, Chairman, Start Your Tube
Immediately following these CEO presentations, industry experts will comment:
    John Hession, Partner in Charge, Cooley Godward Kronish
    Neeraj Agrawal, General Partner, Battery Ventures
 
Following this session, the CEOs will be available for demos in the lobby for 30 minutes. 
 
12:30pm
Lunch
 
1:15pm
Salon A
The Growing Competition Between Private Equity, Hedge Funds, and VCs
Hedge Funds, private equity firms, VCs and institutional investors all want to be investing your risk capital.  Can private equity work in the tech space?
    Moderator: Bill Sahlman, Harvard Business School
    Warren Lammert, Founder and Chief Investment Officer, Granite Point Capital
    Roger Krakoff, Venture Partner, Sigma Partners 
    Justin Perreault, General Partner, Commonwealth Capital Ventures
 
2:15pm
Salon A
So You Wanna be a VC
After the bubble burst, power consolidated into the hands of the blue chip VC brands. Is there still room for startup VC funds or are the obstacles of breaking into the entrenched establishment too big to overcome?
     Moderator: Scott Kirsner, Innovation Economy columnist, The Boston Globe
     Art Marks, General Partner, Valhalla Partners
     Drew Lipsher, Partner, Greycroft
     Chris Greendale, General Partner, Kodiak Venture Partners
     Bijan Sabet, General Partner, Spark Capital
 
2:55pm
Salon A
Closing Remarks

Important Venture Summit East Information:

Venture Summit East Brand Sponsor Program


Sponsors gain brand exposure and communicate their leadership positions to Venture Summit East's attendees through a powerful combination of video commercials, e-marketing campaigns, print advertising, on-site material distribution and signage, and program exposure. Brand sponsorship is open to technology, service and investment firms, and high-end consumer brands.


To find out how your company can join the Summit's distinguished group of sponsors, contact:


Eastern USA
    Noah Gellman
    noah@alwayson-network.com
    mobile 646.237.3881

    Jennifer Slatkin
    jennifer@alwayson-network.com

    Erin Elton
    erin@alwayson-network.com
    714.474.4761

 

Northern California/ Pacific Northwest
    Ryan Brenner
    ryan@alwayson-network.com
    650.346.4726

    Grant Gunderson
    grant@alwayson-network.com
    916.217.0427

Southern California
    Marc Sternberg
    marc@alwayson-network.com

    Dan Grindlinger
    dan@alwayson-network.com
    917.428.1773

 

CEO Showcase Opportunity
Fifty top CEOs will have the opportunity to present their market strategies and business partnering objectives on the main stage at OnMedia. Qualifying companies are either public or privately held and ideally come from one of the following industry sectors:

  • Online advertising service providers
  • Consumer-generated media
  • Community
  • Technology enablers
  • Web and blog analytics and research
  • Next-generation search
  • Advertising agencies

For detailed information on the CEO Showcase opportunity please contact:


Ryan Brenner
ryan@alwayson-network.com
650.346.4726

Noah Gellman
noah@alwayson-network.com
646.237.3881


Group Ticket Rates
If you want to order your ticket by phone or inquire about group rates, please contact 
Michelle Hughes at 415.367.9538 ext.103 or michelle@alwayson-network.com.


Press Contact
Bill McLaughlin
bill_mclaughin@lpp.com
781.782.5000


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