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| | Under the Radar: Mobility
November 12, 2008 | 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Microsoft Campus | 1065 La Avenida Street | Mountain View, CA | 
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Judges:
| Joe Sims
VP & General Manager, Broadband Products and Services & Business Development
T-Mobile USA
Joe is responsible for Broadband services such as T-Mobile HotSpot, HotSpot@Home and T-Mobile's Web and content businesses. He also heads up Business Development and strategic partnerships. Joe has over 20 years of senior management, consulting and business development experience in electronic commerce; software, systems integration; telecommunications and Internet related businesses.
|  | Rupert Young
Director Strategic Business Development and Ventures
AT&T
Chartered with finding new businesses for AT&T to enter both quickly and profitably, Rupert focuses on looking for emerging opportunities that can be quickly translated into new, market facing offers. Also responsible for AT&T's Equity Alliances - from strategy to governance through life cycle management. Rupert joined PacBell in 1995 after graduating from a co-op master's program at BellCore/MIT and has had various roles in R&D and Corporate Strategy before starting his current role in 2006.
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| Jeff Sellinger
Executive Vice President, General Manager
CBS Mobile
Jeff is responsible for CBS Mobile business across News, Sports and Entertainment. While at CBS, Jeff was also responsible for creating the business model and helping launch CBS Records including bringing artists Senor Happy, Will Dailey and Karmina. Prior to joining CBS, Jeff was a founder of GoldPocket Wireless and produced GoldPocket’s Emmy Award winning application for DIRECTV’s NFL GAMETRACKER.
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| Jennifer Byrne
Director, Digital Media
Verizon Wireless
As Director, Digital Media at Verizon, Jennifer Byrne is responsible for cross-platform business development, social networking, user-generated content, LBS, and virtual world applications along with content development for Verizon’s "fourth" screen called The hub. In her prior role at Verizon, she was responsible for the on-demand mobile video service called V CAST Videos, which grew to over 3 million subscribers, as well as V CAST Mobile TV linear video service, for which services she secured and launched a number of key exclusives for Verizon. Jennifer has over 15 years of experience in business development and content distribution across various media platforms including cable, satellite, broadband, and wireless.
|  | Jeff Giard
Vice President of Business Development
Alltel
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| Dave Williams
Senior Vice President of Wireless and Technology
Comcast
Dave is responsible for the evaluation and strategy of wireless technology options. Additionally, his expertise serves the boards of the GSM Association and Vantage Point. Most recently, Dave was Telefonica O2’s CTO, where he merged Telefonica and O2’s networks. His experience has included running all the technological operations for Cingular Wireless and involvement in several mergers. Through the merger of BellSouth Cellular and SBC Wireless in the Western Region, as VP of Operations, he was involved with their network build-out.
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| Stephan Noll
Managing Director
T-Mobile Venture Fund
Stephan is heading T-Mobile’s corporate venture activities in North America since 2004. He is based in Bellevue, WA. Stephan brings along many years of experience in the financial and telecommunication industry. He has been with T-Venture since 2000 and joined the management of the T-Mobile Venture Fund at its inception.
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| Chi-Hua Chien
Partner
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (iFund)
Chi-Hua Chien joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 2007. At KPCB he focuses on investments in the iFund (mobile applications), consumer internet, and digital media infrastructure. Prior to KPCB, Chi-Hua worked with Accel Partners as a Venture Advisor and Associate focusing on software as a service, consumer Internet, and online advertising infrastructure. Chi-Hua was instrumental in Accel's investments in AdECN (acquired by MSFT) and Facebook, while also working on the firm's investments in BitTorrent, fbFund, Glam, Trulia, and YuMe Networks.
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| Harshul Sanghi
Managing Director
Motorola Ventures
Harshul manages the Silicon Valley office of Motorola Ventures, based in Sunnyvale, California. Harshul’s role includes identifying, executing, and managing strategic investments in startup companies that will drive the realization of Motorola’s strategy. He is also responsible for managing the Venture group’s investment activities in India. Harshul has extensive experience in the digital media convergence, consumer electronics, and semiconductor industries. Harshul, himself an entrepreneur, enjoys working with entrepreneurs to drive the adoption of disruptive market technologies.
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| Rick Witham
Head of Channel and VC Relations
Nokia
Rick Witham joined Forum Nokia, Nokia’s global developer support organization, in 2005. Currently, he is responsible for developing channel strategies for Nokia’s developer partners to increase Nokia’s customer value proposition. In addition, he engages with members of the venture capital community to help source financial capital for selected partners and direct Forum Nokia services to qualified VC targets and portfolio companies. Prior to this role, Rick was responsible for identifying and building relations with companies developing innovative mobile applications, content and services for Forum Nokia Americas.
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| Richard Ting
VP & ECD, Mobile and Emerging Platforms Group
R/GA
Richard has over 13 years of interactive experience and is currently the VP & Executive Creative Director of R/GA Mobile and R/GA Emerging Platforms. Richard's focus is on creating integrated interactive user experiences across the web, mobile, and physical space. In his 7+ years with the Interpublic Group agency, Richard has worked on key R/GA accounts such as Nike, Nokia, Avaya, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, and Reuters.
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| Dan Schiappa
GM - Mobile & Gaming Advertising Experiences Platform
Microsoft
Dan is currently the General Manager for Mobile and In Game Advertising for Microsoft Corporation. In this role Dan leads the development efforts of the mobile advertising business and the Massive in game advertising team. Dan was previously the GM of Strategy and Corporate Development for the Entertainment and Devices division where he led strategic efforts around mobility, gaming, music and video. Dan also served as General Manager of Windows Security where he led the core security efforts for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Prior to Microsoft Dan was the CEO of Vingage Corporation, a Sony funded company.
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| Tim Chang
Principal
Norwest Ventures
Tim joined NVP in 2006 and focuses on investments in wireless and digital media as well as business development initiatives in Asia-Pacific. Tim led NVP's investment in 3jam and serves on the company's board of directors. Prior to joining NVP, Tim was a principal at Gabriel Venture Partners. Tim built Gabriel's wireless sector practice and helped establish business development capabilities, particularly in Asia-Pacific. Tim also worked in Japan for Gateway Inc. and General Motors.
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| Rudy de Waele
Strategist on Next Generation Web & Mobile Services
mTrends
Rudy (based in Barcelona, Spain) has been working in internet media since 1995 and in mobile since 1999. Often invited as a speaker and contributing writer to a number of professional publications, his visionary thoughts on Mobile 2.0 have gone around the world. Currently he works with dotopen, an open innovation consulting firm he co-founded in 2007, advising start-ups and established companies with their strategic positioning, defining business models, creating alliances, and identifying market and funding opportunities. He is also part of the Mobile 2.0 organizing committee and the founder of MobileMonday Barcelona and Madrid. His blog is at m-Trends.org
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| Martin Duval
CEO
Bluenove
Since 2001 at Orange, Martin has been developing and managing innovative projects and services most of them partnering with startups worldwide, ranging from mobile applications, LBS, contact-less, convergence, digital entertainment & media. In 2006, he built a 'Corporate Open Innovation' programme at Orange, the 'Orange Start Up Programme' focusing on innovative mobile/web 2.0 services. Martin holds a Master in Physics, a Master in Telecommunications and an MBA (Chicago). He started his career in the aerospace industry, followed by management roles in Change Management consulting and Venture Capital.
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| Jonathan Ebinger
General Partner
BlueRun Ventures
Jonathan serves on the Board of Directors of Availink, Coupa, Innofidei, MyHollywood and Vusion. Past board experience includes Avesair (INPC), Enpocket (NOK), Lightningcast (TWX). Jonathan has 15 years of marketing and finance experience in the telecommunications industry, including VP of Marketing for Qwest Communications, and senior level positions at Bell Atlantic Internet Solutions and MCI Communications. Jonathan also founded and successfully exited Simply Savings, Inc., an Internet shopping service. He received his M.B.A. from Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia, and holds a B.S. in Finance from Virginia Tech.
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| Ken Gullicksen
General Partner
Morgenthaler
Ken is a venture capitalist at Morgenthaler Ventures in Menlo Park, California. Investment interests include software, web-based services, and digital media. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of imeem, blist, Danal, Digital Railroad, Nominum, and Voltage Security. Ken led the series A investments for these firms. He continues to focus on first institutional round investments. Ken has several years experience in Silicon Valley high-technology as a leader in business strategy, market development, and engineering management at Nortel Networks, Hitachi-Raychem Display Systems, and Sun Microsystems.
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| Eric Ver Ploeg
Managing Director
VantagePoint Venture Partners
Eric spearheads VantagePoint's investment activities in the mobile area and leads the Wireless Advisory Council on behalf of the Firm. He joined VantagePoint in 2001 and has broad experience as an entrepreneur, senior executive, and research engineer. He Co-Founded AdKnowledge, the first Internet ad serving company, which was sold for $193 million. He was also the Founding CEO of Angara, the first hosted website personalization company. Eric is a graduate of Case Western University (BS) and Stanford University (MS, PhD, MBA), and is a board member of OZ, InnoPath, YouMail, RadioFrame, and Bluepulse.
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| Quinn Li
Director, Ventures
QUALCOMM Ventures
Quinn's investment interest and expertise include semiconductor, wireless technology and applications. He represents Qualcomm as a board observer for A123 Systems, AMEC, Digit Wireless, Discera and InvenSense. Quinn has over 10 years of experience in the telecommunicaitons and semiconductor industry and has worked in various engineering and management capacities at Lucent, broadcom and IBM. At Lucent, he played a key role in 3G wireless technology development and standardization efforts. Prior to joining Qualcomm Ventures, he spent several years in product management at IBM, responsible for ASIC offerings and business development activities in China.
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| MG Siegler
Technology Writer
Venture Beat
MG Siegler is a technology writer for VentureBeat - Mobile. VentureBeat provides insider news and data about the entrepreneurial and venture community that is useful to decision makers. MG has also been writing on tech and new media on his blog, ParisLemon, since 2004.
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| Ain Indermitte
Head of Developer Relations and Business Development
Forum Nokia Americas, Nokia Inc.
Ain Indermitte has more than sixteen years of experience in the wireless communications and software development industries and is currently heading developer relations and business development team at Forum Nokia. Ain's team is evangelizing Nokia's developer programs and ensuring commercial success of Nokia partners. Joining Nokia in 1997, Ain has been holding various positions within the company, like heading a software development team in S60 platform and building Nokia's broadband media business. Before joining Nokia, Ain served as an assistant professor of computer science. Ain holds a master's degree in computer engineering and a master of business administration degree in international business.
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| Chip Heath
Professor, Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
Chip Heath is a professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business, teaching courses on business strategy and organizations. He is the co-author (along with his brother, Dan) of Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, which has been a New York Times and Business Week bestseller, and was an Amazon Top 10 Business Book for 2007 for both editors and readers. It has been translated into 23 languages including Thai, Arabic, and Lithuanian. His parents are just happy that their sons are playing well together.
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Whether you're in mobile or any other industry, we all have to pitch our ideas.
As part of a special Under the Radar session, watch 3 companies from outside Silicon Valley give 1-minute elevator pitches and learn the secret formula for "blow-em-away pitches" from the King of Sticky Ideas himself: Chip Heath. He and fellow judges will explain how getting buy-in from the folks that count requires the same elements; no matter who or what you're pitching.
Moderator: Jeremy Toeman | Marketing Consultant | Stage Two Consulting
Judges:
Rafe Needleman | Editor | CNET/Webware Chip Heath | Professor, Graduate School of Business | Stanford University
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