- Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24 1955) is the co-founder and CEO of Apple and was the CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney. He is currently the largest Disney shareholder and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. He is considered a leading figure in both the computer and entertainment industries. Jobs' history in business has contributed greatly to the mythos of the quirky, individualistic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, …
- Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki , who was Apple's software evangelist, is passionate about the idea that products and services reach critical mass 'because mere mortals spread the word for you.' He also has noted that the people who developed the original Macintosh didn't really have any idea of what people would do with the machine-and thus how its users would influence its development. We're wired to create patterns, but that doesn't mean the first patterns are necessarily useful.
- Mike Markkula
Armas Clifford "Mike" Markkula Jr. (born 1942) is a legendary venture capitalist who provided early critical funding for Apple. After his stint there, he continued on to found Echelon Corporation, ACM Aviation, San Jose Jet Center and Rana Creek Habitat Restoration and to endow the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, where he now chairs the Board of Trustees.
- Donna Dubinsky
Donna Dubinsky, president and CEO of Handspring, Inc. and former president of Palm Computing, speaks about her career. Topics include: early...
- Jean-Louis Gassée
Jean-Louis Gassée was an executive at Apple Computer from 1981 to 1990. He is most famous for founding Be Inc., creators of the BeOS computer operating system. After leaving BeOS, he became Chairman of PalmSource, Inc. in November, 2004.
- Jonathan Hoefler
Jonathan Hoefler is a typeface designer and an armchair type historian who specializes in the design of original typefaces. Named one of the forty most influential designers in America by I.D. Magazine, Hoefler's publishing work includes award-winning original typeface designs for Rolling Stone, Harper's Bazaar, The New York Times Magazine, Sports Illustrated, and Esquire; his institutional clients range from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum to the rock band They Might Be Giants.
- Michael Moritz
Michael Moritz (born Cardiff, Wales, 1954) is a venture capitalist with Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, California in the Silicon Valley, and a former member of the board of directors of Google inc. He was educated at Howardian High School, Cardiff before moving on to Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated as a Master of Arts in history. In 1978, he received a Master of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
- Steve Perlman
Steve Perlman is an entrepreneur and inventor with over 70 patents in an array of multimedia and communications technologies. Perlman initially attracted notice as a principal scientist of Apple Computer, Inc., where he led the development efforts for much of the underlying multimedia technology incorporated into the color Macintosh, including the underpinnings of QuickTime technology. Perlman left Apple with other employees to join General Magic, …
- John Sculley
Mr. Sculley is currently a Venture Partner with Rho Capital Partner. Prior to joining Rho in 2004, Mr. Sculley worked at Sculley Brothers LLC, a private investment firm that he founded in 1995. Previously, Mr. Sculley was CEO of Apple Computer from 1983 until 1993. For five years prior to joining Apple, Mr. Sculley was President and CEO of PepsiCo, Inc. He a is co-founder and board member of companies such as InPhonic, Identrust, Radiospire, TelloCorp and Verified Person.
- Trip Hawkins
William M. 'Trip' Hawkins III (born 1953) is a Silicon Valley American entrepreneur and founder of Electronic Arts, The 3DO Company and Digital Chocolate. Hawkins was the Director of Strategy and Marketing at Apple Computer in 1982 when he left to found Electronic Arts (EA), a video game publisher. Electronic Arts had a successful run for many years under Hawkins' leadership. It is now the world's largest video game publisher.
- Don Valentine
Donald T. "Don" Valentine is an influential venture capitalist who concentrates mainly on technology companies in the United States. He has been called the "grandfather of Silicon Valley venture capital". The Computer History Museum credited him as playing "a key role in the formation of a number of industries such as semiconductors, personal computers, personal computer software, digital entertainment and networking."
- Robert Dilts
Mr. Dilts is also the co-inventor of a unique biofeedback device known as the NeuroLink , which simultaneously monitors and records activity in heart rate, body temperature and the electrical activity on the left and right sides of the body. Dilts' State Enhancement Coach software combines these key measurements of nervous system activity with artificial intelligence and NLP methods and principles to help people achieve optimal states of health, learning and personal performance.
- Rob Malda
Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda is the director of Slashdot.org. Join him in this BoF for a lighthearted discussion of all things Slashdot. From Trolls to Architecture. From story selection to hate mail. Rob will answer your questions, or just lie. Either way it'll be fun.
- Henri Poole
Henri Poole is a political campaign technologist and founder/director of CivicActions, co-founder of the AdvoKit project, serves on the Board of the Free Software Foundation and Affero, Inc. (In 2002, Affero published the Affero General Public License (AGPL) which is the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) with a web services provision added. The new provision was written by Eben Moglen.) As co-founder and CEO of Vivid Studios in 1993, …
- Ed Niehaus
Ed Niehaus was an important pioneer in the movement to commercialize the Internet. Along with partners Bill Ryan and Melody Haller, Niehaus founded Niehaus Ryan Haller (NRH) which was the dominant public relations firm in the Internet industry during the rapid growth period of the 1990s.
- Benoit Schillings
Benoit joined Qt Software (originally Trolltech) in October 2005 serving as Chief Technologist responsible for leveraging Qt Software's existing technologies and services in addition to strengthening the company's ability to bring new technologies quickly to market. Mr. Schillings was a principal contributor to the launch of Be Incorporated, where he designed, developed and implemented the technically acclaimed BeOS.
- Samir Arora
Samir Arora is the Chairman of Information Capital LLC, a venture capital fund. Information Capital, based in Woodside, California, invests in leading-edge big idea companies in consumer publishing, media & technology that help change the lives of millions of people.
- Randy Komisar
Randy Komisar with Kent Lineback. HC102.5.K66A3 2000. Randy Komisar is a "Virtual CEO" who provides "leadership on demand" for several renowned companies. Komisar was recently described by the Washington Post as a "combined professional mentor, minister without portfolio, in-your-face investor, trouble-shooter and door opener."
- James Bressi
Disruptive Innovator Serial Entrepreneur Visionary and Philanthropist in the thirteenth generation.
- Marc Benioff
Marc Benioff , Chairman & CEO
- Steve Wozniak
I'm a musician first and foremost...check out my band: www.myspace.com/tripwiresounds (www.tripwiresounds.com) I'm also breaking into the audio engineering field. Need a demo? Hit me up. I love hanging out with my family and my girl, Heather.
- Warren Saire
Warren Saire, Editor Warren was born just outside London, England in 1968. From the age of four he has worked professionally in the television and film business. As an actor Warren has appeared in movies, television and theatre, including Lady Jane, Revolution, The Shooting Party, Salome’s Last dance, Sharpe’s Mission Another Country to name a few. He continues to work as an actor on occasion, but has concentrated more on the production side of his career in recent years.
- Alain de Vera
MISSION: Business Council for Operational Strategies, Customer Performance, Alliances & Enterprise Management; FOCUS: - International Investments Projects, Enterprise Transition, Start up activities (subsidiaries, JV) and M&A (Build-up, LBO,...); - Definition of sales strategies and operational implementation of multi-channel marketing and distribution; - Business Development through Strategic Alliances and Sales Channels; - Sales organization, account management and people . . .
- Scott Jenson
Scott Jenson Scott Jenson is a leading authority on user interface and navigation design for software applications on both handheld devices and desktop computers, with over 15 years of experience at organizations such as Apple Computer and Symbian DesignLab. Mr. Jenson is currently at Google, where he serves as lead User Interface designer for Google's mobile applications. Previously, he was President and Founder of Jenson Design, a
- Heidi Roizen
Heidi Roizen is a managing director for Mobius Venture Capital. She joined the fund in April 1999. Ms. Roizen serves as a director of AuctionDrop, Ecast, InStoreCard, MessageCast, Perpetual Entertainment, Planitax, and Reactrix. She is also a board member of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Her notable prior board service includes Great Plains Software, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2001.
- Adam Grosser
Adam brings a fresh focus, entrepreneurial verve and substantial experience to the Foundation Capital team. With a primary emphasis on Telecommunications and Data Communications, Adam currently serves on the boards of Silver Spring Networks, Oluma, Peribit Networks, Hammerhead Systems, Calypso Networks and Synfora. In addition, he has previously served on the boards of Alteon WebSystems (now part of Nortel Networks), Skystream Networks and @Home Australia.
- Mike McGrath
Apple Computer 1985 - 1989 Manager, User Education; Managed staff that created all Apple product documentation. Licensed Videoworks Interactive from Macromind for interactive guided tours. Grafica Multimedia 1989 - 2000 Principal; Award winning developer of multimedia communications products and Internet applications. Sapient 2000 - 2002; Director of Business Development. Exceeded my $10 million quota in a decidedly down year for IT spending, 2002. Yosho 2003 - 2006; Consulting with . . .
- Scott Converse
15 years in Silicon Valley and Hollywood doing software and media development and another 10 years in carrier class communication environments developing products and services give me insights into the full spectrum of how technology is used in real world consumer and business applications.
- Steven Spielberg
I am is the most financially successful motion picture director of all time. I have directed and/or produced an astounding number of major box-office hits, giving me enormous influence in Hollywood. As of 2004, I have been listed in Premiere and other magazines as the most powerful and influential figure in the motion picture industry. In 2005, Empire magazine created a list of the 50 greatest film directors of all time. I was number one on the list.
- Joel A. Katz
Joel Katz , 60, Atlanta, GA, Music Industry Representative- Katz is the Co-Managing Shareholder for the Atlanta Office of Greenberg Traurig, LLP. He is the past Chairman of the American Bar Association's Entertainment and Sports Law Section and represents over fifty artists and Fortune 500 companies. Katz is the General Counsel, former Executive Entertainment Counsel, and former Chairman of The Recording Academy.
- Douglas Sleeter
Doug Sleeter is the Founder of The Sleeter Group. Doug spent his early childhood in Fresno, CA moving to Santa Cruz, CA in 1974. In 1979 he attended the University of California Santa Cruz where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer and Information Science. Doug worked for several years as a staff accountant for several accounting firms.
- Rick Lefaivre
Over thirty years of accomplishment as a computer scientist, professor, R&D executive and venture investor working at leading universities, high technology companies and venture firms. Former VP of Advanced Technology at Apple Computer, founder of a venture incubator in San Diego, executive director of the von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism at UCSD. Currently venture partner at OVP Venture Partners in the Seattle and Portland areas.
- Pierre Lamond
Pierre R. Lamond Pierre Lamond focuses on semiconductor, systems and software investments. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 1981, Pierre was a founder and technical director of National Semiconductor and the general manager of Fairchild's Integrated Circuit Division. He has also been the president of Advent, a consumer electronics company and Coherent, a manufacturer of lasers.
- Ken Wirt
Ken Wirt palmOne, Inc. As senior vice president, Worldwide Marketing, Ken is responsible for all palmOne marketing activities, including product marketing. Prior to joining the company, Ken was the founder and chief executive officer of Riffage.com, a venture capital-funded music media company backed by Mayfield Fund, Bertelsmann and AOL.
- Joe Nevin
Nevin spent 30-Plus years in corporate America and Silicon Valley in various senior management roles with Citicorp/Citibank, Bank of America, Intel, and Apple Computer.
- James Bach
Hey lookie here. I can dig grease 'n chompin' on some butter and draggin' through the garden.
- Roberto Guerrieri
Roberto has a proven career in innovation. Prior to co-founding Incentive Logic in 1998, Roberto held several leadership roles in Silicon Valley companies Hewlett-Packard and Apple Computer, including product line marketing for the U.S. home PC Pavilion brand and Apple Computer's Macintosh Performa brand. He holds a Bachelor Arts degree in Business and Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh and an M.B.A. from the University of Arizona.
- Seymour Cray
Seymour regarded every system he worked on as a stepping stone to the next. And most of them were foundations for other systems built by others using his basic designs. It is ironic that most of the competition for Seymour's machines came from companies that he had been instrumental in making successful. Seymour has greatly influenced and affected everyone who has been aware of him and his achievements. He was a born optimist and his optimism was infectious.
- Horace Lim
Horace Lim Executive Director and Chief Marketing Officer Horace Lim is a technology evangelist and marketer with 25 years experience. Horace Lim is a technology evangelist and marketer with 25 years experience. He has held various technical, marketing and management roles with companies such as Xedoc, Fujitsu, BHP , ICI and Infobank. He has held various technical, marketing and management roles with companies such as Xedoc, Fujitsu, BHP , ICI and Infobank.
- Keith Yamashita
Keith Yamashita is a leading expert on innovation, change management and technology. Starting out as a design major at Stanford University, Keith switched to economics, believing he wanted to pursue a career as an economist. (What was he thinking?) He stayed on at Stanford to complete a master of arts in organizational behavior. The founder of Stone Yamashita Partners , Keith has worked with business leaders to drive significant change.