Keynotes
Kevin Efrusy
Partner
Accel Partners
Guido Jouret
CTO Emerging Tech. Grp.
Cisco Systems
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| Fall EXPO 2010 | University EXPO 2010 | ||||
| Thursday, September 30 | Friday, October 1 | ||||
| Fall EXPO 2010 features 40 startups pitching to an audience of 500 Silicon Valley influencers, including 80 investors looking for the next big idea! The investors in attendance will select the top three startups who will get an additional 10 minutes to impress the audience. One of our biggest events of the year, EXPO is an exciting day filled with innovation, investors, and pitches and demos from some of the most promising startups in Silicon Valley. Expect some great presentations, some great demos, and some great networking opportunities. |
Startups formed by current students or recent graduates will have the opportunity to pitch to a panel of Venture Capitalists, Angel Investors, and potential Corporate Partners in an Elevator Pitch format. Each start-up gets three minutes to pitch their company to the panel with a two minute Q&A session with the VC panel. This Elevator Pitch style event provides a tremendous amount of value to the venture firms, the audience, and especially the start-up companies. The start-up company gets exposure, public speaking practice and feedback from an experienced and wise panel of VC's. It also lets investors gauge their interest in targeting the companies they would continue the conversation with to see a more in depth demo at the startup's booth during the networking event. | ||||
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Kevin Efrusy, Accel Partners | |||||
| Kevin joined Accel in 2003. His background is primarily as an entrepreneur and operating executive. He served two stints as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers where he started Corio, an ASP/SaaS pioneer which went public on Nasdaq and was acquired by IBM in 2005. Later he built and served as the first CEO of IronPlanet, an online marketplace for heavy equipment with current annual gross sales over $500M. Prior to KPCB, Kevin worked at Zip2 and Bain & Company. Kevin focuses primarily on two areas for investment: consumer internet services and SaaS/open source software. Within consumer services, he sourced Accel's investment in Facebook, and led Accel's investments in Groupon, Tumri, RAMP, Metacafe, Medio Systems, and Mig33. Within SaaS/open source software, he led investments or serves on the boards of Xensource (acquired by Citrix for $500M), Genius, SpringSource (acquired by VMWare for $420M), Terracotta, Aptana, and NorthScale. He also served on the board of BBN Technologies (acquired by Raytheon). Kevin has an MSEE, BSEE, and BA in Economics all from Stanford University, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller scholar. | |||||
Guido Jouret, Cisco Systems | |||||
| Based in San Jose, California, Guido Jouret is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Cisco's Emerging Technologies Group (ETG), which is responsible for incubating Cisco's future billion-dollar businesses. In this role, he evaluates new product and market opportunities, ensures architectural tie-in between the emerging technologies and Cisco's core products, and is responsible for developing and communicating Cisco's thought leadership on new technologies. He is also the general manager for early-stage business units, leading them through initial product development. He also developed the company's Video and Smart Grid strategies. He is a dynamic and engaging speaker, rated among the company's top 5 presenters and is frequently asked to present the company's strategy and vision to top customers and conferences. Prior to his role as CTO, Guido was the global head of the Innovation Team of Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG). His team was responsible for developing new methods, architectures, and business cases to help Cisco's key customers successfully adopt Internet-based technologies. Prior to this role, Guido held a similar position for the Asia Pacific region, where he worked with Asia's leading corporations and governments, advising them on how they could best develop IT strategies to leverage the latest technologies. Prior to his position in IBSG, Guido was responsible for information systems for Cisco's sites in EMEA (Europe Middle-East and Africa), heading up a team of 600 IT specialists, with budget responsibility of 100M$. His team was responsible for delivering all IT infrastructure and applications for Cisco in EMEA. Specific areas of responsibility included: Networking & Telecoms, Datacenter, Security, Help Desk, Desktop, Operations, and applications areas (Sales, Marketing, Finance, HR). Guido was in charge of defining Cisco EMEA's IT strategy, communication, implementation and coordination of the activities of a distributed multinational team. Global application implementations included Oracle Financials, PeopleSoft, and Siebel. He also out-tasked application development, desktop services, and various other IT functions using a core vs. context analysis methodology. Prior to joining Cisco, Guido was responsible for IT in the R&D division of Beaufour-Ipsen Pharmaceutical Group. Before that, Guido worked as software co-ordinator at the London Parallel Applications Centre, where he developed software strategy. He commenced his career as a research associate at the Imperial College for Science, Technology and Medicine, London. Guido has a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (MA, USA), a DIC (Diploma of Imperial College), and PhD in Computing from Imperial College (UK). | |||||
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