Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford has attracted speakers from over 40 of the world’s most well known companies, from start-ups to established players, to organisations whose goal is to nurture entrepreneurship; these include: Craig’s List, Samsung Ventures America, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, PayPal, Skoll Foundation and Wired Magazine.
2005-08
Giles Andrews, ZOPA
Albert Bruno, Santa Clara University
Jim Buckmaster, Craig’s List
Bill Byun, Samsung Ventures America
Martin Chilcott, 2degrees
Matt Cohler, Facebook
Mark Cowan, Happen
Joe DiNucci
Tom Esselman, Altran USA Holdings, Inc
Matt Fix, Vodafone Ventures
Pete Flint, Trulia, Inc.
Mark Fricker, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford
Bob Goodson, YouNoodle
Paul Graham, Y combinator
Ian Goldin, James Martin School, University of Oxford
Susan Greenfield, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford
Julie Hanna Farris, Actuate Corporation
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn
Pat House, Siebel Systems
Will Hutton, The Work Foundation
Andrew Keen, Cult of the Amateur: how the internet is killing our culture
Saul Klein, Index Ventures
Jessica Livingston, Y combinator
Susan MacTavish, Best Best Public Relations
Kirill Makharinsky, YouNoodle
Michael Malone, Malone-Grove Productions Inc.; ABCNews.com “Silicon Insider”
Julie Meyer, Ariadne Capital
Allen Morgan, Mayfield Fund
Elon Musk, Tesla Motors and Space X
Victoria Nash, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
Craig Newmark, Craig’s List
David Nordfors, Stanford Centre for Innovation in Learning
Kim Polese, Spikesource
Felix Reed-Tsochas, Said Business School, University of Oxford
Torsten Reil, NaturalMotion
Stephen Roberts, Department of Engineering, University of Oxford
Philip Rosedale, Linden Lab founders of Second Life
Christopher Sacca, Google Inc.
Jerry Sanders, San Francisco Science
Maria Sendra, Baker & McKenzie, San Diego
Reshma Sohoni, Seedcamp
Biz Stone, twitter, Inc
Godfrey Sullivan, Hyperion
Harjeet Taggar, Auctomatic.com
Kulveer Taggar, Auctomatic.com
Villy Wang, BayCat
Alex Welch, Photobucket
Evan Williams, Blogger
Angela Wilkinson, Said Business School, University of Oxford
Robert Young, Lulu Enterprises, Inc
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2002-04
Steve Cinelli, Prestwick Partners, Inc
Daniel Harris, Clifford Chance LLP
James Hong, Hot or Not
Santosh Jayaram, Google Inc.
Max Levchin, Slide; PayPal
Michael Malone, Malone-Grove Productions Inc.; Editor of ABCNews.com “Silicon Insider”
Jim Matheson, SmartOrg, Inc.
Isabel Maxwell, Commtouch Software, Ltd (CTCH)
Steve Millard, Silicon Valley Band of Angels
Elon Musk, SpaceX; PayPal
Raymond Nasr, Google Inc.
Sally Osberg, Skoll Foundation
Kim Polese, Spikesource
Jerry Sanders, San Francisco Science
Maria Sendra, Baker & McKenzie, San Diego
Jeff Skoll, Ebay; Participant Productions
Mary Walshok, University of California, San Diego
John Warnock, Adobe Systems
Bob Weinschenk, Britestream Networks, Inc.
Evan Williams, Blogger
Blaise Zerega, Wired Magazine
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