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Normal
$95 - Non-members
$65 - OPEN SV members
$30 - Students
$120 - Membership + Registration
Onsite Registration
$120 - Non-members
$90 - OPEN SV members
$55 - Students
$145 - Membership + Registration
Sign up today to save 60% over onsite registration:
http://www.opensiliconvalley.org/of11/ to register today!
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OPEN Silicon Valley is proud to present the OPEN Forum 2011 to be held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA on June 4th 2011. OPEN Forum, the flagship conference of OPEN Silicon Valley, annually attracts hundreds of Professionals and Entrepreneurs from top technology companies, exciting start-ups, global service providers and leading venture firms. This one day conference will give you the unique opportunity to network with and learn from seasoned CEOs, Venture Capitalists, Financial Market Experts, Government Policy Makers and Professionals from the Silicon Valley.
OPEN Forum 2011 will feature panel discussions and hands-on workshops to complement keynote addresses from:
Aaref Hilaly - President & CEO, Clearwell (Sold to Symantec for $410M on May 19th, 2011)
Raymie Stata - CTO Yahoo!
Wendy Chamberlin - Former US Ambassador to Pakistan and President Middle East Institute
Faran Tahir - Entrepreneur and star of Hollywood blockbusters Star Trek and Iron Man.
Track I
-Opportunities in Gaming and Digital Media: The Rise of the Tablet
Riaz Karamali - Partner, Sheppard Mullin Law Firm
Omar Javaid - Vice President, Converged Media, Motorola
Faraz Hoodbhoy - Founder and SVP - Business Development and Alliances, Pixsense, Inc.
Shahid Khan - Chairman and Chief Strategist, MediaMorph, Inc.
-Innovation and Disruption in ECommerce
Faisal Qureshi: Co-Founder & CEO Offermatic
Aileen Lee - Partner Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Manish Chandra - CEO & Co-Founder Kaboodle
K. V. Rao - Founder Zuora
Tomas Campos - VP of Mobile, Online and Emerging Technologies at Blackhawk Network
-Workshop: Secrets of Company Valuation, Legal Formation & Term Sheets for Startups
Ron Star - Partner at Howard Rice Law Firm
Social Media: New Rules in Mobilizing and Driving Impact
Dilawar Syed - President and CEO, Yonja Media Group
Reza Aslan - President and CEO of Aslan Media Inc
Amra Tareen - Founder and CEO, Allvoices (Acquired by Datran Media last month)
Saad Khan - Partner CMEA Capital
Track II
-CLOUD: The Next Great Opportunity in Hi-Tech
Waqas Khan - AGM, TowerJazz
Sendur Sellakumar - VP Morgan Stanley, Investment Banking Division
Shahed Latif, KPMG Partner, Executive Member of KPMG Global Cloud Computing Steering Committee
Khalid Raza - Distinguished technologist, HP
Hasan Rizvi - Hasan Rizvi, Senior Vice President, Oracle
-Launching Non-Corporate Careers - It Pays to be Creative
Nabeela Khan, Director of Business Development at Monsoon Ads
Rafae Bhatti, Software Engineer, Author, and part-time Educator
Syed Shahzad Hasan (Shahi) - Founder, Chief Music Director, Indus World Music - (Ex-Vital Signs group)
Malika Junaid - Founder and Principal of M. Designs Architects, Planning Commissioner City of Los Altos.
Chef Brandon - Founder Mission Minis, Contestant Food Network
Jennifer Anastasoff - President, EnCorps
T-he New Face of Funding: How accelerators/incubators are changing the rules
Rick Rasmussen - Founder and Principal of Rasmussen Consulting Group
John McIntyre - Managing Director of the Citrix Startup Accelerator
David Weekly, Founding Director of HackerDojo
-Workshop: 8 Essential Skills to Accelerate Your Career
Naeem Zafar - President and CEO Bitzer Mobile, Faculty Haas School of Business, President OPEN SV
Youth Track
-Gen Y Entrepreneurs
Zahra Siddique - Founder eZahra.com Student & Entrepreneur
Aisha Thiessen - Webcomic Creator
Jabez LeBret - Entrepreneur and Speaker (Creating Gen Y Leaders)
Wajahat Ali - Playwright, Attoney
Vikas Khanna - Managing Director, Zoovee Ventures
-Workshop- Pitch to Win: The Art of Fundraising
Brad Zielinski - Media Initiatives, Sprint Executive Center
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Conference Theme: Launch
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OPEN Forum 2011 will feature three tracks:
Entrepreneurial
Corporate
Youth
OPEN FORUM 2011 will feature multiple parallel tracks and keynote speakers. For more details, visit our website at
http://www.opensiliconvalley.org/of11/ . Join us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter @OPENSV as we announce more details on the sessions, speakers and your opportunity to participate in the days and weeks to come.
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Volunteer at OPEN FORUM 2011
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We invite you to volunteer and join our team for the OPEN Forum 2011, the annual flagship event of OPEN Silicon Valley. Sign up today and be a part of the team organizing one of Silicon Valley's finest event. To volunteer send an email to
volunteer@opensiliconvalley.org and indicate your interests and preference for the activity you would like to help out with. We will fill all volunteer positions on first-come first-served basis in order of preference indicated. To volunteer for the event, please sign up at the Call For Volunteering:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=157053591024311
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Sponsor OPEN FORUM 2011
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We invite you to sponsor OPEN FORUM 2011 and support our efforts to promote entrepreneurship in our community. As a sponsor, your brand will benefit from invaluable exposure to the several hundreds in the audience during a day-long gathering of world-class entrepreneurs, executives, investors, social leaders from Silicon Valley and across the world. Please contact us to find out more about sponsorship opportunities at OPEN FORUM 2011.
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