Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford
at the Oxford Said Business School
SILICON VALLEY COMES TO OXFORD 2009
Silicon Valley comes to Oxford 2009 once again has a brilliant line up of visiting VIPs from the Valley drawn from the areas of start-up, venture capital, academic study of entrepreneurship, clean energy technology, serial entrepreneurship. The overlap of these technologies and trends provides the opportunity to fully explore future directions.
This year there is a strong focus on Social Networks and the Evening Panel will address the topic – “Social Networks: What Now?”
Confirmed attendees from the Valley for 2009:
| Albert Bruno | Founder, Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, University of Santa Clara |
| Rajeeb Dey | CEO, Enternships.com |
| Joe DiNucci | Director, Coulomb Technologies (recently appointed by Smart USA to produce electric charging points for electric cars) |
| Tony Fadell | Special Adviser to CEO, Apple Inc |
| Bob Goodson | CEO, and co-founder YouNoodle |
| Reid Hoffman | Executive Chairman and co-Founder, LinkedIn |
| Saul Klein | Partner, Index Ventures |
| Jorn Lyseggen | CEO and Founder, Meltwater Group |
| Mike Malone | Silicon Insider columnist, ABCNews.com |
| Malcolm McCulloch | Oxford Electronic Power |
| Allen Morgan | Venture Partner, Mayfield Fund |
| Greg Novak | Novak Druce, LLP |
| Kim Polese | CEO and Founder, SpikeSource |
| Dave Rosenheim | Founder, JamBase |
| Chris Sacca | venture investor, private equity principal, company advisor, and entrepreneur |
| Maria Sendra | Partner, BakerMckenzie |
| Ram Shriram | Founder, Sherpalo Ventures |
| Biz Stone | Co-Founder, and Creative Director of Twitter |
| Harjeet and Kulveer Taggar | Co-founders, Auctomatic |
| Peter Thiel | President, Clarium Capital Management |
“For centuries, Oxford has been known as a place of conversation about ideas and how ideas fit into the wider world.”
Victor Seidel, University Lecturer, Entrepreneurship, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
