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A Review on VentureWire Technology Showcase 2008!

By Amarendra Bhushan for CEOWORLD Magazine Updated:November 17, 2008

VentureWire Technology Showcase 2008

Start-ups are consistently at the forefront of technology innovation, but the road to adoption and profit is not easy. For this reason, firms that invest in, acquire or partner with start-ups exhaustingly evaluate companies’ likelihood of success before getting involved.

To take some of the leg work out of this process, the readers and editors of VentureWire have voted for the start-ups they view as the most innovative and promising in the tech industry today. After compiling their votes, only the top selections were invited to present at the Dow Jones VentureWire Technology Showcase.

The Technology Showcase not only features 75 top U.S. start-ups, vetted by your peers and the VentureWire editors, but also showcases 50 European start-ups looking to expand in the U.S.

That’s 125 of the tech industry’s leading U.S. and European start-ups all in Redwood City this November!

In addition to presentations from start-ups CEOs, top analysts, corporate players and venture capitalists will also be on hand to share their perspectives on key topics, including:

- Where the IT industry is heading in 2009
- Which breakthrough technologies are driving adoption
- How corporations are working with start-ups and what they’re looking for in acquisition targets
- The outlok for the IPO and M&A markets and what start-ups should be doing to prepare themselves for a liquidity event
- And more!

For additional details, check out the agenda and the start-up presenters already confirmed.

Keynote Speakers

Prith Banerjee
SVP, Research & Director, HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard

In his current positions, Mr. Banerjee assists in charting technical strategies for the Hewlett-Packard (HP). He is also the founder, chairman and chief scientist for BINACHIP. Prior to HP, Mr. Banerjee was dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Previously, he was the Walter P. Murphy professor and chairman of electrical and computer engineering at Northwestern University. Earlier, Mr. Banerjee was the director of the computational science and engineering program and professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also founded AccelChip. Mr. Banerjee earned a bachelor’s of technology in electronics and electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur and an MS and PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Andrew Jassy
SVP, Web Services, Amazon.com

Mr. Jassy is responsible for building Amazon’s developer and payments businesses. Andy has been a member of Amazon.com’s senior executive team since 2002 and with the company since 1997. Prior to his current position, he held several key leadership positions including director of product management and general manager for the Amazon music business, director of marketing, and technical assistant to founder and chief executive officer, Jeff Bezos. Mr. Jassy received a bachelor’s degree and MBA from Harvard University.

Walter Mossberg
Personal Technology Columnist, The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Mossberg has been a reporter and editor at The Wall Street Journal since 1970. He is the author and creator of the weekly Personal Technology column in the Journal, which has appeared every Thursday since 1991. He is also the author of two other weekly columns in the Journal: Mossberg’s Mailbox and The Mossberg Solution. His column, The Mossberg Report, is featured in Smart Money, where he is a contributing editor. Mr. Mossberg received a bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.

Agenda

Coming off a seven-year investment high, when IT companies raised nearly $15 billion, Web technologies continue to rake in investment, while mobile communications and business software have also been popular. Will these technologies continue to shine in the coming years? Get a handle on where the industry is going, what technologies and the type of companies investors are interested in, and how new sectors and innovations are changing the tech landscape.

Panelists

Steven N. Baloff
General Partner, Advanced Technology Ventures

Tim Chang
Principal, Norwest Venture Partners

David Cowan
Managing Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners

John DiFucci
Managing Director, JP Morgan

Valerie Foo
Research Manager, VentureOne, Dow Jones & Company

Robert Hayes
Partner, First Round Capital

Basil Horangic
General Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners

Maha Ibrahim
General Partner, Canaan Partners

Mike Kwatinetz
General Partner, Azure Capital Partners

David Lawee
VP, Corporate Development, Google

Scott Levine
SVP, Corporate Development, Global Digital Business Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment

Mark Mahaney
Analyst, Citi

Matt McIlwain
Managing Director, Madrona Venture Group

Ryan McIntyre
Managing Director, Foundry Group

Ravi Mohan
Managing Director, Shasta Ventures

Didier Moretti
VP, Emerging Technologies/Business Incubation, Cisco Systems

Doug Pepper
General Partner, InterWest Partners

Santo Politi
General Partner, Spark Capital

Tom Reilly
President & CEO, ArcSight

Michael Shepherd
Managing Director, Growth Point Technology Partners

William P. Tai
General Partner, Charles River Ventures

Paul Weiskopf
SVP, Corporate Development, Adobe Systems

Scott Weiss
CEO & Co-founder, IronPort Systems
Moderators

Kenneth M. Andersen III
Editorial Director, Financial Information Services, Dow Jones & Company

Scott Austin
Editor, VentureWire, Dow Jones & Company

David G. Barry
Managing Editor, Financial Information Services, Dow Jones & Company

Russell Garland
Editor, Dow Jones & Company

Paul Sieben
Partner, O’Melveny & Myers

Emily Westhafer
Events Editor, Financial Information Services, Dow Jones & Company

Venue

Sofitel San Francisco Bay
223 Twin Dolphin Drive
Redwood City, CA 94065

Phone: 650-598-9000
Fax: 650-598-9383

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