TechNW: North to Innovation 2012

2012 Speakers

Next Generation Ecommerce Panel
Eric Best, Founder & CEO, Mercent (moderator)
Kelly Dachtler, Co-Founder and President, The Clymb
Chris Teso, CEO & Founder, Chirpify
Jeff Warren, VP of Partner Marketing, Expedia
Maria Zhang, CEO & Founder, Alike

Morning Keynote

Spencer Rascoff, CEO, Zillow 

Early Stage VC Panel
Bill Bryant, Venture Partner, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (moderator)
Bob Abbott, General Partner, Norwest Venture Partners
Ray Bradford, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Neil Sequeira, Managing Director, General Catalyst Partners

Gaming Panel
Ed Fries, CEO, Halcyon (moderator)
Pete Parsons, COO & Board Member, Bungie
Paul Thelen, Founder & CEO, Big Fish Games
Jordan Weisman, CEO, Harebrained (Co-Founder, Serious Play)

Growth Stage VC Panel
Michelle Goldberg, Partner, Ignition Partners (moderator)
George Bischof, Managing Director, Meritech Capital
Stewart Gollmer, Managing Director, Tenaya Capital
Scott Hilleboe, Managing Director, Revolution Growth
Glenn Solomon, Senior Partner, GGV Capital

Big Data Analytics Panel
Kate Matsudaira, VP of Engineering & CTO, Decide (moderator)
Larry Drebes, CEO & CTO, Janrain
Asa Kalavade, Founder, CTO & SVP of Engineering, Umber Systems
Aaron Kimball, Founder & CTO, Wibidata
Stephen Purpura, CEO & Co-Founder, Context Relevant

Cloud Fireside Chat 1
John Connors, Partner, Ignition Partners (moderator)
Simon Crosby, Co-Founder and CTO, Bromium (Founder, Xensource)  

Cloud Panel
John Connors, Partner, Ignition Partners (moderator)
Simon Crosby, Co-Founder and CTO, Bromium (Founder, Xensource) 
Charlotte Yarkoni, Sr. VP of Cloud Services, VMWare

Cloud Fireside Chat 2
Matt McIlwain, Managing Director, Madrona Venture Group (moderator)
Andy Jassy, SVP, Amazon Web Services




Outlook Outlook
iCal iCal
Google Google
Yahoo! Yahoo!
MSN MSN
Top