Bernie Maloney
Liberating Latent Potential

 

Speakers: Lyssa Adkins, Michael Spayd

 

Moderator: Stacey Louie

 

Pathways to Mastery: Developing Ourselves as Agile Coaches

There are multiple paths we can take to become great agile coaches: finding a mentor, intensive training, pursuing certifications, or development of ourselves as the tool of coaching. The more we...

 

Please make sure to RSVP before noon this Wed or the security at Comcast may not let you in.

 

Agenda:

- Farhad Massoudi, CEO of adRise (Welcome note)

- Satish Ramakrishnan, VP, Technology Development at Comcast

- David McIntosh, CEO of Redux

- Luke Lam, VP Business Development, USA at PlayJam

- Dan Eakins, CEO of Zeitera

 
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6:30pm - 7pm

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Enjoy the food! Sponsored by Good.com (David Bacon/Bernie say a word from our sponsor)
Networking Game: find out who you all are and what you're into

7pm - 8:10pm

Speaker Tom Looy -The Path of Servant Leadership (see below for description)

8:10pm  - 8:30 pm

ROTI or What did...

Saleae LLC is a Startup founded by two brothers, Joe and Mark. We make logic analyzers - test equipment for engineers and developers working on hardware projects.

We’ll talk about our humble beginnings, our biggest challenges, and what we’ve learned. It’s a story of a startup without funding on a quest to design a product that could...

Sizing and Designing a Hybrid Cloud

Adrian Cockcroft, Director, Cloud Architecture

Jeff Dickey, Redapt, VP of Cloud Technologies

Come and learn what it takes to put together a private cloud by those who've done it many times.

 

We welcome Pinterest's own Kent Brewster as our keynote speaker!

Hacker, writer, speaker, dad. Not necessarily in that order. Kent built the front end for Netflix's iPhone app from scratch, using nothing but HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Netflix's open APIs.

His favorite topics: securing Web 2.0 sites; JavaScript badges; front-end...

 

 

Book Swap: Don't forget to bring a book on technology, leadership, or project management to donate to the book swap. We are running low on inventory and need more donations to keep it going.

Share your insights! Participate in the peer-to-peer roundtable from 6:31 to 6:59! Make friends!

 

Title: Balancing Innovation and...

6:30-7:00 PM 

The pizza's on us!   

 

7:00 - 8:00 PM - Presentation -

The Process Improvement Challenge with Steve Bockman

You already have a process in place where you work. It may or may not be clearly defined. It may or may not be well understood. But you have a process of some kind by which you develop your product. The...

6:30-7pm Food, Drink and Networking Reception sponsored by SolutionsIQ

7pm-7:15pm Welcome (Brian Drummond)

7:15pm -8:15pm Creating Influence on Demand by Bernie Maloney

Learn some simple, yet subtle techniques to shift communication effectiveness by a factor of 5 or more with exercises enough to come away with a practicable skill

8:30pm-8:40pm...

We are pleased to welcome Steve Blank to the Startup Grind stage as we talk about his startup experience and his most recent book The Startup Owners Manual. Steve co-founded E.piphany, in his living room in 1996. His other startups include two semiconductor companies, Zilog and MIPS Computers, a workstation company Convergent Technologies, a...

Are you interested in experiencing the next great app platform opportunity, Windows 8? Do you want to learn how to get started building apps for this new platform?   We are inviting the Silicon Valley startup community to a full-day, knockout, deep dive event taking place on our Silicon Valley Campus. Developers and designers alike will take the...

Netflix Night:

Netflix is the exemplar of cloud computing done right. The company runs nearly all of their computing in Amazon Web Services and does such a good job that it came through last April's AWS outage unscathed.

We have three key Netflix employees with us, who will present on how Netflix does cloud computing:

Adrian Cockcroft,...

 Registration has closed

6:30-7:00 PM

The pizza's on us!

7:00 - 8:00 PM -

Presentation - Lessons Learned in a Large Scale Scrum Adoption

Description:

Bruce Winegarden will share lessons learned from a large scale Scrum adoption that expanded over two years from a handful of pioneering teams to become the standard development approach across a 300+ product...

This will be a circle discussion - as Ted Young had suggested last year -we just get together and share our learnings and challenges. This was really fun and interesting last time - so let's see where it takes us... We will have Tacos and snacks - hope to see you there

There is a possibility that Michael Spayd *might* join us...

...Michael...

Book Swap: Don't forget to bring a book on technology, leadership, or project management to donate to the book swap. We are running low on inventory and need more donations to keep it going.

Share your insights! Participate in the peer-to-peer roundtable from 6:31 to 6:59! Make friends!

TITLE: State of Agile: XP, Scrum and now Kanban: What...

We are meeting @ PayPal HQ (2211 North 1st Street, San Jose). We'll meet @ Town Hall (Room Fireside A & B) which is the conference center along 1st Street.

Bring your ID to enter building (e.g. Driver's License).

IF LOST - call Stacey Louie @ 925-212-2606.

Speaker Ainsley Nies

Topic: Launching Agile Teams and Projects

Ainsley...

In 2009, Marc Andreessen remarked "banking is just information science." Inspired by these words, TEDxNewWallStreet aims to explore the empowerment of the new reality -- a banking system different than the Industrial Age system we inherited. As compared to pundits who portray bankers and banking as forever unhealthy, or constraints that...

Basel, Brussels & NYC haven't. Occupy tried. Silicon Valley will: Re-imagine banks built for the Information Age.

In 2009, Marc Andreeessen remarked "banking is just information science." Inspired by these words, TEDxNewWallStreet aims to explore the empowerment of the new reality -- a banking system different than the...

Learn about hot new web technologies and mingle with 200+ fellow entrepreneurs, investors, bloggers, and tech enthusiasts. This meetup fills up quickly, so be sure to RSVP two weeks early each month.
We announce the lineup the day of the meetup, and we always feature four interesting companies.
The first hour of the meetup will be demos (actual...

The

Kevin Rose in an entrepreneur, angel investor, and one of technology's most well-known faces. He's founded many companies including Digg, Revision3, WeFollow, and now Oink. He has invested in companies including About.me, Path, Square, Foursquare, ngmoco, Twitter, Zynga, Formspring, Fab, Dailybooth, Foodzie, and many more. Startup Grind...

XYZ Interactive - Maker of IR sensors for 3D gesture recognition invites you to hear about their product and give feedback on possible applications.
The co-founders talk about the company, the technology and do a live demo of the product itself.
They share the experiences they have had so far, and look forward to tapping the collective Solid State...