Save the Date! The AlwaysOn & STVP Summit at Stanford will take place July 22-24, 2008 at the Arillaga Center on the Stanford campus in Palo Alto, CA

The AlwaysOn & STVP Summit at Stanford  is a two-and-a-half-day executive gathering that highlights the significant economic, political and commercial trends disrupting the global technology industries. The AlwaysOn & STVP Summit at Stanford features the most innovative companies, eminent technologists, influential investors and journalists in keynote presentations, panel debates and private company CEO showcases. The AlwaysOn & STVP Summit at Stanford's goal is to identify the most promising entrepreneurial opportunities and investments in the global tech industry.

At The AlwaysOn & STVP Summit at Stanford our editors will also honor the AO Global 250 Top Private Companies. Fifty of the top CEOs from the AO Global 250 will pitch their market strategies to a panel of industry experts in our “CEO Showcase.”

Over a thousand technology, media and entertainment CEOs, business development officers, venture capital and private-equity investors, and leading members of the press and blogging community will attend the The AlwaysOn & STVP Summit at Stanford. Over 20,000 webcast viewers from over 100 countries will also tune in and interact with the program. Executives attend The AlwaysOn & STVP Summit at Stanford to identify and debate emerging trends, build high-level relationships and create new business opportunities.

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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

6:00pm    McCaw Hall

The Going-Public Dating Game

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

9:00am    McCaw Hall	A Thousand Little Googles – Bridging the Eyeball Gap  What can we learn from some of the hottest ad networks who are successfully monetizing  video and mobile and search?  These CEOs will share what they know.     David Kidder, CEO, Clickable     Bill Grossman, CEO, Revenue Science     Jason Glickman, CEO, Tremor Media     Omar Hamoui, CEO, AdMob (invited)
9:45am    McCaw Hall	Big Media's Big Comeback It sure took them long enough, but it looks like big media has finally begun to enthusiastically embrace the web as a means to distribute and market its content.     Bill Gurley, General Partner, Benchmark Capital     John Edwards, CEO, Move Networks     Michael Montgomery, President, Montgomery & Co     Michael O'Donnell, President, Social Media, Media Solutions Group, Cisco     Thomas Lesinski, President, Digital Entertainment, Paramount Pictures
11:00am    McCaw Hall	What is “Green” – Navigating the Hype  Discussing challenges to conventional wisdom on the size and complexity of issues associated with "greentech."     Moderator: Paul Deninger, Vice Chairman, Jefferies & Co     Al Fohrer, President & CEO, Southern Cal Edison     Thomas Sowell, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution (invited)     Ripu Malhotra, Fossil Fuel R&D, SRI International
Noon    McCaw Hall	Mobilizing Your Social Network Are social networks merely features of existing applications and services, or are they a more fundamental element of the mobile ecosystem architecture?    Moderator: Adam Zawel, Chief Collaboration Officer, INmobile.org     Serena Glover, Head of Communitiies,  Nokia     Mauro del Rio, Chairman, Buonjiourno     Dustin Moskowotz, CTO, Facebook (invited)     Chris DeWolfe, Co-Founder, MySpace (invited)     Neil Lindsay, VP Product Development, Boost Mobile
12:45pm	Lunch
1:45pm    McCaw Hall	Where's the Leverage in Greentech?     Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson     Erik Straser, Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures     Bill Green, Partner, Vantage Point Venture Partners (invited)
2:30pm    McCaw Hall	Will SaaS Disappear in the Cloud?     Polly Sumner, President, Platforms & Alliances, Salesforce.com     Adam Selipsky, VP Web Services, Amazon.com (invited)     Juergen Rottler, EVP Customer Services, Oracle (invited)
3:15pm    McCaw Hall	CEO Presentations     Don Mathis, CEO, Epic Advertising     Jay Hallberg, Co-founder & CMO, Spiceworks     Ted Murphy, CEO, Izea     David Saad, CEO, Clupedia
4:15pm    McCaw Hall	The Geek Chiefs -- Setting the Technology Roadmap     Al Delattre, Global Partner, Accenture
5:00pm    McCaw Hall	The Open Mobile Competition Begins If anyone can connect any device to open wireless networks using any OS—just like any user can connect via any application to the Internet—what’s to keep this from being a chaotic, fragmented, un-interoperable mess?    Moderator: Adam Zawel, Chief Collaboration Officer, INmobile.org     Matt Murphy, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers     Rich Miner, VP Mobile, Google (invited)     Lee Williams, SVP Software Platforms, Nokia     Anthony Lewis, VP Open Development, Verizon Wireless

Thursday, July 24, 2008

9:00am   McCaw Hall	Will the Next Salesforce.com Please Stand Up?
9:45am    McCaw Hall	The Two-Year Outlook for Tech M&A and IPO The IPO market has been slowed by the choppy waters of the financial markets, but what do top investment bankers see  for the longer term prospects for IPO and M&A?     Jamie Montgomery, CEO, Montgomery & Co     Paul Deninger, Vice Chairman, Jefferies & Co     Drew Guevara, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley (invited)     George Lee, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs (invited)     Chris Pasko, Senior Managing Director, The Blackstone Group     Lise Buyer, Principal, Class V Group
10:45am    McCaw Hall	Who Will Make the Most Money from Location-Based Services?     Moderator: Rajeev Chand, Managing Director, Rutberg & Co.
11:30am    McCaw Hall	The No-Asshole Rule     Bob Sutton, Professor, Mngmt, Science & Engineering, Stanford University
Noon	Lunch
12:45pm    McCaw Hall	Forging a Middle Path Between iTunes and the Pirates     Peter Gabriel, musician & entrepreneur     Steve Purdham, CEO, WE7
1:30pm    McCaw Hall	CEO Presentations
2:15pm    McCaw Hall	The Role of Foundations in Setting the Agenda     Moderator: Tina Seelig, Executive Director STVP, Stanford University
3:15pm    McCaw Hall	Best of Broadband Content… Bridging the Creative Gap     Matt Bowman, Managing Editor, AlwaysOn     Tony Perkins, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, AlwaysOn     Bill Cleary, Founder, Cleary Partners
4:00pm    McCaw Hall	Where are the Blue-Chip VCs Placing Their Bets?      Moderator: Tom Byers, Professor, Stanford University      Geoff Yang, Founding Partner, Redpoint Ventures
4:45pm    McCaw Hall	What Year Will the World End?      Moderator: Paul Saffo, forecaster & essayist

If you have feedback on our program or would like to suggest speakers or panel topics, contact Rich Seidner, richs@alwayson-network.com

Important AlwaysOn & STVP Summit at Stanford Information:

AlwaysOn & STVP Summit at Stanford Brand Sponsor Program
Sponsors gain brand exposure and communicate their leadership positions to AlwaysOn & STVP Summit at Stanford'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.

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

Consumer and Entertainment
Devices and Components
Enterprise
Mobile and Wireless
Network and Infrastructure
Services and Enablers
Greentech

To find out how your company can join the AlwaysOn & STVP Summit at Stanford's distinguished group of sponsors or join the CEO Showcase, contact:

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