OPEN FORUM

June 5, 2010

Computer History Museum, Mountain View

On Saturday, June 5, 2010, the OPEN Forum will be held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. The OPEN Forum is OPEN's premier event, and the seventh in a series of highly successful annual national conferences.

OPEN Forum attracts hundreds of professionals and entrepreneurs from top technology companies, exciting start-ups, global service providers and leading venture firms. This one-day conference will give you the unique opportunity to network with and learn from seasoned CEOs, venture capitalists, financial market experts, policymakers and other professionals from the Silicon Valley.

Check out the "Entrepreneurial Idol," a contest between exciting startups or create your own mini-conference at Forum by submitting an idea for discussion at one of the "Birds of a feather" sessions by emailing us at birds@opensiliconvalley.org.

OPEN has partnered with the Global Technology Symposium to offer Symposium alumni a registration discount for the OPEN Forum. To claim the discount, register for OPEN FORUM at www.opensvforum.org, and enter the code "bayarea" when prompted.

Please reach out to info@opensiliconvalley.org if you have any questions about OPEN SV or the agenda. Register today.

Speakers:

• Faysal Sohail, Managing Director, CMEA Capital


• Rafiq Mohammadi, CEO, Interwoven (a division of Autonomy)


• Professor Iqbal Z. Quadir, Founder and Director, The Legatum Center, MIT


• Mark Gorenberg, Managing Director,Hummer Winblad Venture Partners


• Salman Ullah, Managing Partner, Merus Capital - Formerly Head of Corporate Development at
  Google.


• Riaz Karamali, Partner, Sheppard Mullin


• Osman Rashid, Founder Chegg Inc, CEO & Co Founder, Kakai, Inc - Entrepreneur of the year 2009


• Zia Yusuf, past SVP SAP, EIR at Sutter Hill Ventures and Norwest Venture partners


• Rehan Jalil, President, Wichorus


• Safwan Shah, President, Infonox


• Idris Kothari, VP of Engineering, Vertical Systems, Inc.


• M. Raghib Hussain, Co-founder, Cavium Networks


• Dr. Ahmad Jan Durrani, Vice Chancellor & Professor of Engineering at LUMS


• Monis Rahman, Chairman & CEO, Naseeb Networks


• Dr Jahanzeb Sherwani, Founder and CEO of iTeleport LLC


• Prof. Dr Arshad Ali Director General, NUST School of Electrical Engg. and Computer Science


• M. Raghib Hussain, Co-founder, Cavium Networks


• Faysal Sohail, Managing Director, CMEA Capital


• Maurice Gunderson, Senior Partner, CMEA Capital


• Richard Lowenthal, Founder and CEO, Coulomb Technologies


• Omar Khan, Founder, Carbonated.tv


• Amy Plemons, TV Producer


• Awais Khan, Partner, Ackrell Capital


• Mir Ibrahim, Founder GEO TV


• Sumaya Kazi, CEO & Editor-in-Chief, YoProCo.com


• Saad Khan, Partner, CMEA Capital


• Leila Chirayath Janah, CEO, SamaSource


• Salman Khan, Founder, Khan Academy


• Umair Khan, Founder & CEO, SecretBuilders.com


• Jeff Clavier, Founder & Managing Partner, SoftTech VC


• Michael Tanne, Founder & CEO, Wink


• Sean C. Dempsey, Co Founder, Merus Capital


• Elon Boms, Founder and Managing Director, Launch Capital LLC


• Ann Muira-Ko, Partner, FLOODGATE


• Dilawar Syed, CEO, Yongja Media Group


• Babur Ozden, CEO of Berggi


• Faraz Hoodbhoy, Founder and CEO of PixSense


• Menekse Gencer, Founder, mPay Connect


• Stephen Ciesinski, VP, Corporate Strategic Programs, SRI International


• Zainab Jeewanjee, Sales Director, Go One Global Corp


• Rajesh Setty, Entrepreneur, Speaker, Author, Investor


• Ethan Casey, Author


• Wajahat Ali, Playwright, Essayist, Humorist


• Omar Ahmad, Co-founder and CEO of SynCH Energy Corporation


• Azhar Zeeshan, Entrepreneur


• Cindy McCreery, Hollywood Writer


• Kate Fiandaca, Recruiter, GreeneSearch


• Ellen Shulman, Associate, Lee Hecht Harrison & Career Coach, Careers In Touch