Global Technology Symposium Silicon Valley
Speakers
Igor Agamirzian
Igor Agamirzian has been CEO and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Russian Venture Company since May 2009. From 2007-09, he was General Manager of EMC Corporation's software development center in St. Petersburg. From 1995-2007, Igor worked at Microsoft Russia in several capacities, including as a National Technology Officer, a member of the board of advisors...
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Dmitry Akhanov
Before joining RUSNANO, Mr. Akhanov was the Head of the Russian Federal Energy Agency, implementing government policy and managing Russian government assets in oil & gas, coal and electricity.
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Craig Barrett
Dr. Craig Barrett is a leading advocate for improving education in the U.S. and around the world. He is also a vocal spokesman for the value technology can provide in raising social and economic standards globally. In 2009, he stepped down as Chairman of the Board of Intel Corporation, a post he held from May 2005 to May 2009.
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Edward Crawley
Dr. Crawley received an Sc.D. in Aerospace Structures from MIT in 1981. His early research interests centered on structural dynamics, aeroelasticity, and the development of actively controlled and intelligent structures. Recently, Dr. Crawley's research has focused on the domain of the architecture and design of complex systems.
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Peter Dindial
Peter is a Telecommunications Senior Executive with more than 20 years extensive experience with National and Multi-National Operators, Start-ups, and Equipment Vendors. As an effective planner and achiever, Peter is able to communicate at all levels within commercial organizations and with government bodies.
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Claudia Fan Munce
Claudia Fan Munce has been the Managing Director of the IBM Venture Capital Group since March 2004. In addition to this role, she is also Vice President of IBM Corporate Strategy. Claudia joined IBM Research Division in 1985 and held many technical and business leadership positions.
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Steven Lawrence Geiger
Steven Geiger is the COO of Skolkovo Foundation, the Russian government's strategic program for innovation and technology. At Skolkovo, he is part of a team actively building five technology clusters (Energy; IT; Space; Nuclear; and Bioscience), establishing a full-service Technopark housing start-ups and R&D labs of global technology majors, and creating a world-class research university in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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Craig Hanson
Craig is a General Partner with Next World Capital (NWC), an international venture capital firm operating in the U.S. and Europe and focused on emerging leadership technology companies. Craig also explores economic development programs to foster entrepreneurship and innovation as an integral part of U.S. foreign policy.
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Lorraine Hariton
Lorraine Hariton was sworn in as the State Department's Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs on September 14, 2009. Her experience in innovation and entrepreneurship will provide a unique perspective in addressing our global economic growth challenges. She will be responsible for State Department outreach to the business community and commercial advocacy efforts.
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Pitch Johnson
Franklin Pitcher (“Pitch”) Johnson co-founded Draper and Johnson Investment Company, a venture capital company, in 1962, and he founded Asset Management Company in 1965. Asset Management Company has made over 250 venture investments during its more than 43 years of operation. These investments include Amgen, Applied Bio Systems, Applied Micro Circuits, Conductus, Hybritech, IDEC Pharmaceuticals, Octel, Qume, Red Brick Systems, Remedy, Sierra Semiconductor, Tandem Computer, Teradyne, and Verity.
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Leslie A. Jump
Leslie Jump has twenty-five years experience building, advising and investing in new companies, products and brands, in the US and across the globe. She is the co-founder of Cazeema Partners, a consulting firm which offers market, risk, and financial assessments to companies and organizations seeking to do business in the Middle East.
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Steve Jurvetson
Steve Jurvetson is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a leading venture capital firm with affiliate offices around the world. He was the founding VC investor in Hotmail (MSFT), Interwoven (IWOV), Kana (KANA), and NeoPhotonics (NPTN). He also led the firm's investments in other companies which were then acquired for $12 billion in aggregate.
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Bahadir Kuru
Bahadir Kuru was born in 1972 in Istanbul, Turkey. He received his degree in Computer Engineering from the Bosporus University in 1997. He started his professional career as a planning and optimization engineer at Turkcell. He continued his professional life in consulting with a focus on wireless telecommunication technologies working internationally with operators in UAE, China, Mexico and USA.
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Dan'l Lewin
Dan'l Lewin leads Microsoft's global engagement with startups, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists, and business relationships with strategic industry partners. His team focuses on supporting the startup ecosystem developing on the Microsoft platform while fostering local software economies worldwide through the Microsoft BizSpark and Microsoft Innovation Center programs.
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Manoj Saxena
Manoj Saxena is General Manager, Watson Solutions, IBM Software Group. He has overall responsibility for directing all commercial, operational and strategic initiatives to commercialize industry solutions based on the IBM’s transformative Watson technology.
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