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June 24, 2009 American Pie - Apple iPhone App Store Speaker: Sean Galligan, VP Business Development, Flurry, Inc Anu Shukla, Founder and CEO, Offerpal Media Mike Fyall, Product Marketing Manager, Admob Christopher Allen, Co-Author of iPhone in Action: Introduction to Web and SDK Development May 19, 2009 Leadership in a Downturn Economy Speaker: Jean-Louis Gassée, Partner, Allegis Capital, Charles Chi, Partner, Greylock Partners, C. K. Cheng, General Partner, Harbinger Venture USA Victoria Livschitz, CEO, Grid Dynamics Bettina Jetter, Founder, Mindjet Tom Chaffin, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP(moderator) January 28, 2009 Reality Check by Guy Kawasaki Speaker: Guy Kawasaki, Founder & Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures Ron Conway, Founder & Managing Partner, Angel Investors LP Jacqueline Kessel, Silicon Valley Office Head, Hanson Bridgett LLP January 13, 2009 VC Outlook 2009: Looking Down the Money Trail Speaker: Steve Bengston, Managing Director of Emerging Company Services (ECS), Prashant Shah, Managing Director, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners Ashmeet Sidana, General Partner, Foundation Capital John Steuart, Managing Director, Claremont Creek Ventures Gus Tai, General Partner, Trinity Ventures Event Presentations December 1, 2008 China (Silicon Valley) Symposium on Software and Outsourcing Speaker: various speakers October 1, 20008 Cloud Computing and Beyond: The Web Grows up (finally) Speaker: Edgard Capdevielle, Vice President of Product Management, Nirvanix Trae Chancellor, Vice President, Enterprise Strategy, SalesForce.com Stuart Charlton, Chief Software Architect, Elastra Alan Chhabra, Sr. Director of Systems Engineering, Egenera, Inc. Russ Daniels, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Cloud Services Strategy, Hewlett-Packard Company Sanjog Gad, Senior Vice President of Advanced Technology, SAP Labs Jason A. Hoffman, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Joyent John Keagy, CEO and Co-Founder, GoGrid Adam Lashinsky, Senior Writer, FORTUNE Lars Leckie, Principal, Hummer Winblad Dave Neilsen, Co-Founder, CloudCamp; Principal Consultant, Platform D Oren Michels, CEO, Mashery Chris Preimesberger,Senior Writer, eWEEK Chris Richardson, Developer, Cloud Tools Tim Schigel, CEO, Sharethis Richard See, Investment Partner, Mitsui & Co. Venture Partners Praful Shah, Vice President, Strategy, RingCentral Rajen Sheth, Senior Product Manager, Google James Staten, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research Dr. Jay Subrahmonia, Director, Adavanced Customer Solutions,IBM Lew Tucker, Vice President and CTO of Cloud Computing, Sun Microsystems John Vrionis, Principal, Lightspeed Venture Partners Andy Vitus, Principal, Scale Venture Partners August 16, 2008 CSPA @Venture Series 2: Show Me the Money Speaker: Milton Chang, Managing Director, Incubic (Member, Band of Angels) David Lee, Partner, Baseline Ventures Don Jones, CEO, Venture Deal John Steuart, Managing Director, Claremont Creek Ventures Mark Gorenberg, Managing Director, Hummer Winblad Dan Ahn, Managing Director, Voyager Capital Larry Low (moderator), Partner, Orrick July 15, 2008 Managing Global Teams for Success Speaker: Tom Chaffin, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop (Moderator) Philippe Courtot, Chairman & CEO, Qualys, Inc. Farzad Naimi, Founder & Chief Corporate Development Officer, LiteScape Pascal Pinck, Idea Director, USA at BrainStore Voytek Siewierski, Investment Partner, Mitsui & Co, Venture Partners Udo Waibel, Senior Vice President, SAP Labs June 28, 2008 CSPA @Venture Series 1: Preparing for Launch Speaker: Craig Kaufman, Partner, Orrick David Lee, Partner, Orrick Anthony Chang, Managing Director, TL Ventures Keng Lim, Founder & CEO, NextLabs Ken Rudin, CEO, LucidEra Treb Ryan, Co-Founder & CEO, OpSource Prashant Shah, Managing Director, Hummer Winblad June 17, 2008 Presenting Guy Kawasaki: the Art of the Start Speaker: Guy Kawasaki, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures Damon C. Matteo, Vice President, Intellectual Managment, PARC May 6, 2008 Zero2IPO’s 3rd Annual Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Forum: The Road Ahead Speaker: Hugo Shong, CVCA, Chairman / IDG VC, Founding General Partner Dick Kramlich, NEA, General Partner and Co-Founder Feng Deng, Northern Light Venture Capital, Founding Managing Director Lip-Bu Tan, Walden International, Founder and Chairman Kathy Xu, Capital Today, Founder and Managing Partner Eric O' Brien, Lightspeed Venture Partners, General Partner William A. Chen, Managing Director, DT Capital Partner Yan Huang, General Partner, CDH Ventures Sonny Wu, Founder & Managing Director, GSR Ventures Geoff Yang, Managing Director, Redpoint Ventures Gary Rieschel, Managing Director, Qiming Venture Partner Xia Yang, Managing Director, Legend Capital Don Ye, Managing Partner, TSING Capital April 9, 2008 Succeeding in the Valley Speaker: Angelika Blendstrup, Ph.D., Author of “They Made It!”(Moderator) Tom Chaffin, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop (Moderator) Eric Benhamou, CEO, Benhamou Gobal Ventures Guy Gecht, CEO, Electronics for Imaging Kamran Elahian, Chairman & Co-Founder, Global Catalyst Partners Samba Murthy, Entrepreneur at Large Henry Wong, Venture Partner, Garage Technology Ventures March 10, 2008 2008 New Year Guanxi Mixer Speaker: Steve Westly, Founder and CEO of the Westly Group, Former California State Controller, and a member of the board of Tesla Motors January 15, 2008 VC Outlook 2008: Looking Down the Money Trail Speaker: Steve Bengston, Managing Director, Emerging Company Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers (Moderator) Dr. Juan Antonio Carballo, General Partner, Argon Venture Partners Curtis Feeny, Managing Director, Voyager Capital Mark Gorenberg, Managing Director, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners John Hall, Managing Director, Horizon Venture Capital Vish Mishra, Senior Venture Partner, Clearstone Venture Partners Michael Song, Partner, Rustic Canyon Partners December 13, 2007 Toys For Tots Holiday Mixer Speaker: Various November 28, 2007 One-on-One: An In-depth Chat with Serial Entrepreneur, Bill Nguyen Speaker: Bill Nguyen, Founder, Lala.com (Moderator) ** Updated ** Tom Chaffin, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman September 25, 2007 Blessed by Angels Speaker: ** Updated **John Matthesen, Enthiosys Catherine Ngo, General Partner, Startup Capital Ventures Bill Reichert, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures ** Updated **Prashant Shah, Principal, Hummer Winblad Angelika Blendstrup, Ph.D., Founder & Principal, Blendstrup & Associates July 12, 2007 Business Ethics - "Doing no evil" in the Global Landscape Speaker: David J. Blumberg, Managing Partner, Blumberg Capital (Moderator) ** Updated **Jim Balassone, Executive-in-Residence, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University Tom Chaffin, Partner, Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw, Pittman, LLP ** Updated **Venky Ganesan, Managing Director, Globespan Capital Partners John Vigouroux, Chairman & CEO, Cranite Systems May 29, 2007 Games Industry 3.0 Speaker: James Hursthouse, CEO, Online Game Services Inc. (Moderator) Don Daglow, President and CEO, Stormfront Studios Tom DuBois, Lead Producer, Global Online Studio, Electronic Arts Gus Tai, General Partner, Trinity Ventures Jeff Yates, Vice President Product Management, Havok Inc. April 26, 2007 "Vietnam - The Emerging Market" Business Seminar Speaker: Aloysius Chew, Vietnam Singapore Investment Park Management Robert Wu, Far East National Bank Mr. Chien Nguyen, President, Acronics Systems, Inc. Mr. Tuan Tran, Trade Consul, Head of Trade Office, General Consulate of Vietnam (Guest of Honor) April 24-25, 2007 China Venture Capital Forum, Silicon Valley Speaker: Angela Biever, Vice President, Intel Capital Jim Breyer, Managing Partner, Accel Partners Alan Chang, General Director, Capricorn Management, LLC York Chen, President & Managing Partner, iD TechVentures Ltd. John Dean, Chairman, Zero2IPO Group James Fong, Director of Strategy, Investments & Business Operations, Microsoft Greater China Region Aaron Gershenberg, Managing Partner, SVB Capital Yan Huang, Partner, CDH Ventures Guy Kawasaki, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures James L. Kochman, Senior Managing Partner, Pagemill Partners Rocky Lee, Partner, Head of China Venture Capital & Private Equity Practice, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary Charles Lu, CEO & President, United Automobile Association Gavin Ni, Founder, President & CEO, Zero2IPO Group Xiangyu Ouyang, Managing Director, Legend Capital Daniel R. Quon, Senior Vice President, Silicon Valley Bank Hugo Shong, Managing Director, IDGVC Kyung H. Yoon, Vice Chairman, Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc. David Zhang, Managing Director & Head of China, WI Harper Group Lee Zhang, Chairman and CEO, ShanghaiMed iKang, Inc. February 5, 2007 CSPA, Monte Jade, SABA New Year GuanXi Mixer Speaker: Kevin Fong, Managing Director, Mayfield Fund Photos Set 1 Photos Set 2 Event Writeup January 17, 2007 VC Outlook 2007: Looking Down the Money Trail Speaker: Steve Bengston, Managing Director of Emerging Company Services (ECS), PricewaterhouseCoopers (Moderator) Eric Dunn, General Partner, Cardinal Venture Capital Paul Koontz, General Partner, Foundation Capital Pete Moran, General Partner, DCM Doll Capital Management Tom Rosch, General Partner, InterWest Partners John Steuart, Managing Director, Claremont Creek Ventures Gus Tai, General Partner, Trinity Ventures Event Slides Event Writeup December 12, 2006 CSPA AAMA End-of-the-Year Mixer Speaker: Various November 6, 2006 The New Age of Influence: The Impact of Social Computing on Media and Marketing Speaker: Rob Enderle, President and Principal Analyst, Enderle Group (Moderator) David Hornik, General Partner, August Capital David L. Sifry, Founder and CEO, Technorati Kay Luo, Director of Communications, LinkedIn Robert Scoble, VP Media Development, PodTech.net Sam Whitmore, Founder and Editor, Media SurveyProfessor, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania; Corporate Partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati September 28, 2006 The Globalization of Venture Capital – Where is it going, and why should we care? Speaker: Daniel Zimmerman, Cooley Godward LLP (Moderator) Dr. Claas Heise, Managing Director T-Ventures Aymerik YC Renard, General Partner Innovacom Venture September 13, 2006 Seeking Penguin Gold: Open Source Business Models Speaker: Fred Greguras, Of Counsel, Corporate Group, Fenwick & West Paul Doscher, President & CEO, JasperSoft John Matthesen, Keiretsu Angel Forum Murugan Pal, Co-Founder & CTO, SpikeSource Prashant Shah, Principal, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners Ray Wu, Director, Investment Group, Hewlett Packard August 15, 2006 21st Century Challenges for the Internet: an Evening with Vinton Cerf Speaker: Vinton Cerf Vice President & Chief Internet Evangelist, Google August 8, 2006 Outsourcing Strategies in China: Perceptions, Realities and Best Practices Speaker: Dave Burlington, VP, Taleo John Cestar, Co-CEO, Freeborders (Moderator) July 25, 2006 Blessed by Angels Speaker: Bill Reichert Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures Stewart Sonnenfeldt, Board Director, Sand Hill Angels John Matthesen, Keiretsu Angel Forum Henry Wong, Founder & Managing Director, Diamond TechVentures LLP Angelika Blendstrup, Ph.D.. Founder & Principal, Blendstrup & Associates June 29, 2006 CSPA & SABA Summer Mixer Speaker: CSPA and the Singapore American Business Association (SABA) have combined forces again for a summer professional mixer. Join us for a great evening of networking and camaraderie - catch up with old colleagues, make new friends, expand your contacts, form new business ventures, and share some laughs. April 18, 2006 SAP Business Forum '06 Speaker: Join NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Steve Young and SAP Americas President and CEO Bill McDermott to learn about the technology best practices of successful businesses (of all sizes) at the complimentary SAP Business Forum '06 in San Jose, April 18, 2006, at The Fairmont San Jose. Register early and reserve your place. March 23, 2006 Leadership in a Multi-Cultural World Speaker: Joel Dreyfuss, Editor-in-chief, Red Herring (Moderator) Dr. Carlos Baradello, Partner, Sienna Ventures Nicolas de Kouchkovsky, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, Genesys Gautam Godhwani, CEO, SimplyHired Keng Lim, Chairman and CEO, Blue Jungle Dr. Ralf Rieken, CEO Fujitsu Siemens Computers Inc. March 9, 2006 Internet Search - How it has revolutionized the advertising business and created new business opportunities for innovative start-ups Speaker: Jeff Clavier, Founder and Managing Partner, SoftTech Venture Consulting (Moderator)Ani Kortikar, Founder and CEO, Netramind Jorn Lyseggen, CEO, Magenta News Steven E. Marder CEO, Eurekster, Inc. February 27, 2006 Preparing Your Startup for Acquisition: Trends in M&A Speaker: Steve Bengston, Managing Director of Emerging Company Services (ECS), PricewaterhouseCoopers (Moderator) Michael S. Barker, Managing Director, Revolution Partners Charles Chi, Partner, Greylock Partners Jacqueline B. Kessel, Founder and Partner, HiTech Law Curtis Mo, Partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP John Scull, General Partner, Draper Fisher Jurvetson Southern Cross Fund Event Slides January 24, 2006 VC Outlook 2006: Looking Down the Money Trail Speaker: Steve Bengston, Managing Director of Emerging Company Services (ECS), PricewaterhouseCoopers (Moderator) Alain Azan, Managing Director, Sofinnova Ventures Michael Brownrigg, Partner, ChinaVest Tom Cole, General Partner, Trinity Ventures Greg Gretsch, Managing Director, Sigma Partners Vish Mishra, Senior Venture Partner, Clearstone Venture Partners John Stockton, Venture Partner, Mayfield Fund Event Slides December 5, 2005 Blessed by Angels Speaker: Wu-Fu Chen Managing Member & Co-Founder, Acorn Campus Bill Reichert Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures Stewart Sonnenfeldt, Board Director, Sand Hill Angels October 24, 2005 State of Play: China's Online Game Explosion Speaker: James Hursthouse, CEO, Online Game Services Inc. (Moderator) Dr. Lars Buttler, PhD, Vice President Global Online, Electronic Arts, Inc. Erik Bethke, CEO, GoPets Inc. Monte Singman, Chairman, China Game Developers Association Feng (Frank) Chen, Senior Vice President, Executive Director of NetDragon WebSoft Inc. Event Slides October 13, 2005 Social Networking 2.0: Going Mobile Speaker: Jonathan Abrams Founder, Friendster Craig Callé, Founder and CEO, COMMON.net Kevin Efrusy, Partner, Accel Partners Anu Nigam, Founder, Party Sync Mike Rowehl, Founder, Bitsplitter (moderator) September 24, 2005 CSPA Annual Conference - Dragon Rising: The Impact of China on the Global Landscape Speaker: Lip-Bu Tan, Founder and Chairman, Walden International Dixon Doll, Co-Founder and Managing General Partner, DCM - Doll Capital Management Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Vice President, Asia-Pacific and Latin America Operations, Google N. Chandrasekaran, Executive Vice President and Head of Global Operations, Tata Consultancy Services Katherine Jen, Founder and Managing Partner, AsiaTech Management Junbo Liu, Executive Vice President, WORKSOFT Creative Software Technology Ltd. Dr. Hong Chen, Chairman and CEO, The Hina Group Derek Ling, Founder and CEO, Tianji.com Qi Lu, Vice President, Engineering, Search and Marketplace, Yahoo! Scott Sandell, Partner, New Enterprise Associates Gus Tai, Partner, Trinity Ventures; Chairman CSPA David A.M. Wallerstein, Senior Executive Vice President, International Business, Tencent Chris Wong, Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer, Agile Software Corporation Enwei Xie, Director of Advanced Technology Center Shanghai, Microsoft September 14-15, 2005 Forbes CIO Forum 2005 - West Speaker: Various August 31, 2005 Next Generation Web - Interactive Broadband Web Experience On the Fly and On the Go! Speaker: Reynaldo Gil, Chief Executive Officer, Commendo Software Marc Hebert, Executive VP of Marketing and Partner Relations, Sierra Atlantic Ray Wu, Director, Investment Group, Hewlett-Packard August 13-14, 2005 Entrepreneur Boot Camp 2005 Speaker: Various Hong-Tai Chou, Ph.D., Chairman and Founder of TVBN (moderator) July 27, 2005 CSPA & SABA's First Joint Southeast Asian Mixer: "The Secret Sauce to China's Power" Speaker: Various July 21, 2005 Mobile Games - A Global Perspective - Asia, United States, Europe Speaker: Stewart Alsop Venture Partner, New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Director, Glu Mobile Lars Buttler Vice President Global Online, Electronic Arts Neil Trevett Vice President Embedded Content at nVIDIA, President at Khronos Group and Chairman of OpenGL ES Working Group Mark Jacobstein President of Publishing, Digital Chocolate Robert Sears Director, Community Technology Management, Nokia Multimedia, Entertainment Products Business Unit Michael Nelson Co-Founder, Timelapse Mobile (Moderator) June 27, 2005 Entrepreneurship in a Time of Change Speaker: Hong-Tai Chou, Ph.D., Chairman and Founder of TVBN June 8, 2005 Distinguished Speaker Series: What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry Speaker: John Markoff, Senior Writer, New York Times, Author, Three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee Dan Gillmor, Former Technology Columnist, San Jose Mercury News, Author June 8, 2005 The Enterprise Services Forum for ISVs Speaker: Shai Agassi, President, Product and Technology Group, Member of the Executive Board, SAP AG George Paolini, Senior Vice President, Platform Ecosystem Development, SAP Nils Herzberg, Senior Vice President, Industry Solutions, SAP Peter Graf, Senior Vice President, Solution Marketing, SAP Geoffrey Moore, Technology visionary and best-selling author May 31, 2005 One-on-One with Cliff Higgerson Speaker: Cliff Higgerson, Co-Founder & Partner ComVentures Zhiyi Yu, Program Chair, CSPA, Founder and Principal BrightSpot May 25, 2005 Financial Planning for Startups Speaker: Douglas H. Collom, Professor, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania; Corporate Partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati George Koo, Director of Chinese Services Group at Deloitte & Touche LLP Judy Wang Former Controller at Silicon Storage Technology and VP of Finance at Pine Photonic Communications May 19, 2005 Distinguished Speaker Series: The Linux Kernel Development Process Speaker: Andrew Morton, Lead Production Linux Kernel Maintainer, Open Source Development Labs May 4, 2005 How to Sell a Startup Speaker: Paul Graham, Founder, Viaweb (acquired by Yahoo!); Author, Hackers & Painters April 26-27, 2005 Software 2005 - Sandhill Group's Enterprise Computing Conference Speaker: Various April 21, 2005 Distinguished Speaker Series: The Emerging Economic Paradigm of Open Source Speaker: Bruce Perens, Senior Scientist for Open Source, Cyber Security Policy Research Laboratory, George Washington University April 19, 2005 ATRE 2005 - The Asia Technology Roundtable Exhibition Speaker: Various April 19, 2005 SALES ENGINEERING - Selling Your Way To Entrepreneurial Success Speaker: Reynaldo Gil, Chairman & CEO, Commendo Software Ravi Subramanian, Ph.D., President & CEO Berkeley-Design Henry Wong, Founder & Managing Director, Diamond TechVentures; Founder, SS8 Networks, XaQti, Cnet, and Combinet; Advisor, CSPA Joon Choi, Founder & President, Sales Entrepreneur & Co (Moderator) April 14, 2005 US Venture Capital is going Global Speaker: George Chen, Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Advisor, H&Q Asia Pacific Christopher Chu, Partner, Pacific Venture Partners John Scull, General Partner, DFJ Southern Cross Fund Alain Azan, Managing Director, Sofinnova Ventures Tom Cervantez, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP (Moderator) March 30, 2005 Mining Your Data for Business Success Speaker: Dr. Usama Fayyad, Chief Data Officer and Sr. VP of Strategic Data Solutions, Yahoo! March 21, 2005 China Market Entry for Small & Medium-sized Companies Speaker: Howard Lee, Founder Diamond TechVentures Jason Ma, Founder and CEO of Congruent Partners Joon Choi, Founder & President, Sales Entrepreneur & Co March 17, 2005 Distinguished Speaker Series: Toward A Literacy of Cooperation Speaker: Howard Rheingold, Author of "Smart Mobs" February 28 - March 3, 2005 EclipseCon 2005 - Presented by the Eclipse Foundation Speaker: Various February 24, 2005 2005 Lunar New Year Mixer Speaker: Kevin Fong, Managing Director, Mayfield writeup of the event February 17, 2005 Distinguished Speaker Series: Python: Building an Open Source Project and Community Speaker: Guido van Rossum, Creator of Python January 20, 2005 Distinguished Speaker Series: What's Craigslist About: What Have We Learned? Where Are We Going? Speaker: Craig Newmark, Creator of Craigslist Maya Draisin, Co-founder, The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences January 12, 2005 The NetScreen Story as Told by Co-Founder Feng Deng and Investor Katherine Jen Speaker: Feng Deng, Co-Founder, NetScreen Katherine Jen, Managing Partner and Founder, AsiaTech Management; Former Board Members, NetScreen and TSMC January 5, 2005 The Medici Effect - Frans Johansson Speaker: Frans Johansson, Author of "The Medici Effect" December 16, 2004 Distinguished Speaker Series: Universal Access to all Knowledge Speaker: Brewster Kahle, Founder of Internet Archives,WAIS and Alexa Internet December 15, 2004 One-on-One with the President of Cisco China Speaker: Jia-bin Duh, President, Cisco China; Former President, Microsoft China Zhiyi Yu, Program Chair, CSPA, Founder and Principal BrightSpot December 7, 2004 Spinning a Global Web - Challenges of Global Trends for the Silicon Valley Innovator Speaker: Jeff Clavier, Managing Partner, SoftTech VC (France) Ranjan Das, Vice President of Market Development, SAP xApps, SAP Labs (US) Yorgen H. Edholm, President and CEO, Accellion (Sweden) Jennifer Zanich CEO, Wedgetail Communications (Australia) Angelika Blendstrup, Moderator, Multi-cultural Expert, Founder of Blendstrup and Associates David Cannington, Moderator, Australian Executive Director, Anzatech (Australia) November 18, 2004 Distinguished Speaker Series Speaker: Steven Weber, Director of the Institute of International Studies UC Berkeley Jerry Fiddler, Founder - Wind River October 16, 2004 CSPA Annual Conference: Connectivity - The convergence of technology and living Speaker: Various October 13, 2004 Global Briefing: The Outlook For China and Its Impact on Silicon Valley Speaker: Dr.Ta-lin Hsu, Chairman and Founder, H & Q Asia Pacific William P Tai, General Partner, Charles River Ventures Dr. David Wang, Executive Vice President, Applied Materials; President, Applied Materials Asia Dr. William Perry Moderator, 19th United States Secretary of Defense September 27, 2004 The Future of Enterprise Software Speaker: Roman Bukary, Vice President of Composite and Analytic Applications Product Marketing SAP Mark Hilderbrand, General Partner & Software Practice Leader, ONSET Ventures Dan'l Lewin, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft .NET Business Development Tien Tzuo, SVP of Marketing and Chief Marketing Officer, Salesforce.com Jeffrey Walker, Founder, Chairman & CTO, TenFold; Former EVP & CFO, Oracle; Founder, Oracle Applications Division M.R. Rangaswami Moderator, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Sand Hill Group September 23, 2004 Distinguished Speaker Series: The Comedy of the Commons Speaker: Lawrence Lessig, professor at Stanford Law School August 10, 2004 Partner Event The 2004 Invest in Taipei & Business Alliance Forum Speaker: Various July 15, 2004 Beyond the Cashless Society: A New Era for the Exchange Of Capital Speaker: Various June 24, 2004 Technology Thought Leadership Series: Remaking the Enterprise Datacenter: Storage Opportunities on the Horizon Speaker: Kevin Brown, Vice President of Marketing, DeCru Buck Gee, Vice President/General Manager, Cisco; Former President & CEO, Andiamo Doug Hickey, Partner, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners Phillip Hoare, CIO & Vice President, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Matt Kesner, Chief Technology Officer, Fenwick & West LLP Guru Pangal, Vice President, Brocade Communications; Founder, Rhapsody Networks Srihari Kumar Moderator, Co-Founder & Vice President of Business Development, Abhai Systems; Co-Founder, Yodlee June 17, 2004 Distinguished Speaker Series Speaker: Jerry Fiddler, Founder, Board Member - Wind River, Ann Winblad, Co-founding Partner of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners May 20, 2004 Distinguished Speaker Series Speaker: Dan Gillmor Columnist, San Jose Mercury News May 19, 2004 The Five Biggest Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make Speaker: Jerry Kaplan Former Co-Chairman, Egghead.com; Co-Founder, Onsale & GO; Author Apr 22, 2004 Are Foreign Wireless Innovations Driving Developments in the US? Speaker: Various Apr 13, 2004 An Evening with S. Ramadorai, CEO of Tata Consultancy Services Speaker: S. Ramadorai CEO Tata Consultancy Services Apr 8, 2004 Distinguished Speaker Series Speaker: Dr. Fred Brooks ACM Turing Award winner and author of "The Mythical Man-Month" Mar 11, 2004 One-on-One with Wufu Chen Speaker: Wufu Chen Partner, Acorn Campus, Genesis Campus, and Crimson Ventures; Co-Founder, Cascade, Arris, Ardent, and Shasta Zhiyi Yu, Program Chair, CSPA, Founder and Principal of BrightSpot Feb 19, 2004 MyLifeBits Speaker: Gordon Bell Jim Gemmell Microsoft Media Presence Research Group Feb 18, 2004 Career Success in Silicon Valley and Greater China Speaker: Various Feb 10, 2004 EachNet - eBay in China's Image Speaker: Yi Bo ShaoFounder and Chairman EachNet Feb 4, 2004 Technology Opportunities for Humanity - Beyond the Digital Divide Speaker: Various Stanford Digital Vision Program Jan 27, 2004 2004 Lunar New Year Mixer Speaker: Various Jan 7, 2004 Inside Intuit: How the Makers of Quicken Beat Microsoft and Revolutionized an Entire Industry Speaker: Mari Baker SVP/GM BabyCenter (Former VP International, VP/GM of Quicken, SVP of Consumer Division, SVP of HR and Corporate Communications, Intuit) Eric Dunn General Partner Cardinal Venture Capital (Former CFO, VP/GM, SVP/CTO, Intuit) Suzanne Liu Taylor Moderator Marketing Strategy Consultant, Co-Author of 'Inside Intuit' (Former Group Manager, Intuit) Dec 18, 2003 The Impact of Future Technology on Society Speaker: John Gage Chief Researcher and Director of the Science Office Sun Microsystems Dec 9, 2003 Mini Workshop: Developing an Effective Pitch & Presentation to VCs Speaker: Various 3rdWave Nov 20, 2003 Lessons from Game Design Speaker: Will Wright Founder (Creator of The Sims) Maxis (Electronic Arts) Nov 12, 2003 Entrepreneurship: The Chinese Way Speaker: Tony Huang Director, International Venture Capital Group Silicon Valley Bank Dr. Robert P. Lee Chairman & CEO, Achievo (President & CEO Accela; Chairman, AAMA; Former EVP, Symantec) Joseph Roan Board Director & SVP CS&S HT (ChinaSoft HT) Dr. Brian Tien Board Director & Former CEO AcornSoft Dr. QR Wang President & CEO ExpertExchange (Advisor, Torch Center, China Ministry of Science and Technology) Frank Yu President and COO Augmentum (Former SVP of Engineering, Vitria) Nov 3, 2003 From Tech to Non-tech - The Myth of China Markets Speaker: Various Stanford Graduate School of Business Oct 23, 2003 Ubiquitous Open Source Speaker: Mitch Kapor Founder Open Source Applications Foundation (Founder, Lotus and Designer, Lotus 1-2-3) Oct 20, 2003 Negotiating Term Sheets: The Real Deal Speaker: Doug Collum Senior Partner Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Gus Tai General Partner Trinity Ventures Sept 25, 2003 2003 Mid-Autumn Guan Xi Professional Mixer Speaker: Various Sept 18, 2003 Distributed Computing Economics Speaker: Jim Gray Distinguished Engineer Microsoft (ACM Turing Award Recipient) August 13, 2003 Innovation Insourcing: ">Commercializing Global IP in the US Speaker: Various July 08, 2003 An Entrepreneur's Journey: Building E-LOAN from Concept through IPO Speaker: Chris LarsenCo-founder, Chairman & CEO E-LOAN, Inc. June 28, 2003 2003 CSPA Annual Conference: The Evolution of Software and Entrepreneurship Speaker: Various May 20, 2003 Outsourcing and Innovation: The real impact to Silicon Valley Speaker: Surendra Saxena President & CEO OutsourceMethods Patrick Yvon Senior Director, Operations Wind River Francois G. Koutchouk President & CEO Atlantic Decisions, Inc Dr. Toshiharu Mogi Head, Strategic Solutions, Americas Wipro Technologies Finn McClain Business Development Manager Infosys Mark Slauson Director of Business Development Flextronics International April 2, 2003 Web Services and the Real Time Enterprise Speaker: Dan'l Lewin Corporate Vice President, .NET Business Development Microsoft March 12, 2003 Winning the Enterprise Software War in China and Beyond Speaker: Shao KaiCEO & President UFSOFT Resource Co., Ltd. Feb 26, 2003 Secrets of Silicon Valley: From Past& Present Entrepreneurs Speaker: Aneel Bhusri General Partner Greylock Phillipe Courtot CEO Qualys (Former CEO, Signio; Former CEO, Verity) Subrah Iyar CEO & Founder WebEx Ching Hwang Executive Chairman Symphoniq (Former President/CEO NetIQ) Keng Lim CEO & Founder Escalate (Founder, Kiva; Former VP, Netscape; Director, CSPA) Plus others Feb 12, 2003 2003 Silicon Valley Lunar New Year Professional Mixer Speaker: Steve Westly Controller State of California (Former SVP Marketing, eBay) Mark Stevens Partner Sequoia Capital Plus 30 VIP guests Jan 22, 2003 Entrepreneurship and Fund Raising in the Downturn Speaker: Jin Byun Chairman AirPrism Dec 12, 2002 Succeeding in Billion-Dollar Corporations Speaker: Philip Fok Senior Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer and Corporate Secretary Solectron James Lau Founder, Executive Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer Network Appliance Patrick Lo Chairman & CEO NETGEAR Robert Yung Chief Technology Officer, Enterprise Processors, Enterprise Products Group Intel Nov 13, 2002 Bad Time? Good Business! Speaker: Yan Ke Co-Founder, Vice President, and Chief Architect NetScreen Technologies Oct 16, 2002 CSPA-Brobeck Series: Professional Mixer 2002 Speaker: C. D. Tam, JP Chief Executive Officer Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks (HKSTP) Sep 18, 2002 Expanding the Silicon Canvas - Industry Opportunities and Challenges Speaker: Patrick Gelsinger VP and CTO Intel Aug 27, 2002 CSPA-SDForum Special Joint Meeting on Web Services Speaker: Alan Karp Principal Scientist HP Labs Kannan Govindarajan Software Architect HP Labs Aug 14, 2002 Achieving Competitive Advantage through Innovative Support Strategies Speaker: Mel Gadd Director of Customer Satisfaction PeopleSoft June 22, 2002 2002 CSPA Annual Conference: Value Creation with Distributed Computing and Web Services Speaker: Various May 8 , 2002 Trusted e-Business:Web Services and Beyond Speaker: Anil Pereira EVP VeriSign April 23, 2002 Structuring Your Company for Success - Legal Start-Up Strategies for 2002 Speaker: Curtis Mo Partner William Chuang Partner Brobeck, Phleger and Harrison LLP April 10, 2002 Security Trends and Neoteris Innovation Speaker: Kittu Kolluri President & CEO Neoteris February 20, 2002 CSPA Brobeck Series: How to write a winning business plan Speaker: Sumit Rai Associate Crosslink Capital February 13, 2002 From Vertical to Virtual: The Manufacturing World Has Changed (Again) Speaker: Vani Kola President & CEO nthOrbit January 9, 2002 Enabling Mobile Data Access for the Enterprise Speaker: Bill Nguyen President, Chairman & Founder SEVEN December 12, 2001 Leveraging Silicon Valley and China Synergies for Start-up Opportunities Speaker: Min Zhu President & CTO WebEx November 14, 2001 Building a Company Through Ups and Downs - An Entrepreneurial Journey Speaker: Punita Pandey President & CEO netCustomer October 17, 2001 Antidote to a Downturn: ‘Must Haves’ for Startups - A VC's Perspective Speaker: Daniel Ahn Managing Director Woodside Fund Slides Available September 19, 2001 Asia’sBroadband Boom Speaker: Eric Li Vice President, Product Strategy & Business Development EnReach Technology August 8th, 2001 Strategic Partnerships - Importance in Today's Economy Speaker: Sarah Gerdes Founder & CEO BMG June 30th, 2001 2001 CSPA Annual Conference: The Convergence of Media Speaker: Various CSPA May 9th, 2001 The Emergence of Self-Service Portals Speaker: Jonathan Harding President, CEO Viador April 18, 2001 Distributed Computing: Evolution or Revolution? Speaker: Bill Burnham Principal Managing Director SOFTBANK Venture Capital March 14, 2001 The Mobile Internet -- Is It an Oxymoron? Speaker: Sunir Kapoor Chairman & CEO Tsola February 7, 2001 There's Software in Cisco's Future Speaker: Eugene Lee VP Marketing Cisco Systems January 10, 2001 The Critical Choice: An E-Business Platform for the Internet Economy Speaker: Alfred ChuangCo-Founder, President & CEO BEA Systems December 13, 2000 The New Reality: Raising Money in Harder Times Speaker: Susan Mason Partner ONSET Ventures November 8, 2000 Beyond B2B & B2C: Shifting Traditional Business Boundaries with the Expanded Reach of Wireless Content Speaker: John Dolan Chief Strategy Officer OracleMobile October 11, 2000 The Internet and the Startup Speaker: Kenneth Ng VP Engineering & Co-founder Asera September 13, 2000 China's Digital Future Speaker: Andrew Miller President, Americas Chinadotcom August 9, 2000 Lessons for Startups from the Recent Nasdaq Correction Speaker: Craig Johnson Chairman & Co-founder Venture Law Group June 17, 2000 2000 CSPA Annual Conference: Wireless Internet: The Emerging Landscape Speaker: Various May 10, 2000 Partner-Inclusive Selling - The Next Wave of eCommerce Speaker: Dennis Ryan President & CEO Allegis May 03, 2000 Silicon Valley: The Chinese Contribution to the technology Revution Speaker: Peter Chu Managing Directors AsiaTech Ventures April 12, 2000 Linux in Asia: The Business Case Speaker: Cliff Miller Co-founder, CEO & President TurboLinux March 08, 2000 eBay for Asians Speaker: Susanna Kass COO, International Operation eBay February 09, 2000 The Story of RemarQ Communities Speaker: Bill Lee CEO & Co-founder RemarQ Communities January 12, 2000 Beyond.com: Digital Download in the New Millennium Speaker: Mark Breier President & CEO Beyond.com December 08, 1999 Pioneering Customer Lifetime Value on the Net: Relationship Marketing That Works Speaker: Eric Tilenus Co-founder Netcentives November 01, 1999 Hong Kong: 'Cyberport of the 21st Century' Speaker: K. C. Kwong Secretary for Information Technology & Broadcasting Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government October 13, 1999 The Thrills And Spills of Raising A New Silicon ValleyVenture Capital Fund Speaker: Tom Toy Managing Director PacRim Venture Partners September 25, 1999 CSPA Seminar Workshop: Financial Strategies for Building Wealth Speaker: Mark Swartz AXA Financial Advisors September 15, 1999 eBusiness Trends in the Front Office Speaker: Steve Mankoff VP of Technical Services Siebel Systems August 11, 1999 Building a Web Infrastructure Company Speaker: Peng Ong Founder & Chairman Interwoven June 12, 1999 1999 CSPA Annual Conference: The Internet: Changing the Way We Live and Work Speaker: Various May 12, 1999 From a Bell Labs Researcher to a CEO Speaker: JoMei Chang CEO Vitria Technology April 14, 1999 Rules for Revolutionaries (HarperCollins) Speaker: Guy Kawasaki CEO Garage Technology Ventures March 10, 1999 The Entrepreneurial Roller Coaster Speaker: Vinod Khosla General Partner Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers February 10, 1999 How the Internet is Revolutionizing US HealthCare Speaker: Pavan Nigam Co-founder, Executive VP Strategic Development Healtheon January 13, 1999 Year 2000 Bomb Will You Beat the Clock? Speaker: Paul Wang President and Founder SolutionSoft Systems (3S) December 9, 1998 Business Intelligence Applications Speaker: Warren Weiss Chairman, CEO, & President Prism Solutions November 11, 1998 Venture Capital and Entrepreneurs -- What makes a good partnership? Speaker: Darlene Mann Partner ONSET Ventures October 14, 1998 Internet Computing: The Next Generation Application Platform Speaker: Gary Bloom Executive Vice President Oracle September 9, 1998 Navigating Turbulence: High Tech Management in the Pacific Century Speaker: Gil Amelio Former Chairman & CEO Apple Computer August 12, 1998 Data Warehousing: So,who needs the Internet for opportunity and fast change? Speaker: Chris Erickson CEO & Co-founder Red Brick System June 27, 1998 1998 CSPA Annual Conference: Cool & Promising Apps on the Web< Speaker: Various June 10, 1998 New Business Opportunity in the Pearl River Delta: Establishment of a New Information Technology Coummunity Speaker: Prof. Otto Lin VP, Research & Development Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) May 13, 1998 Enterprise Business Intelligence - Secret Weapon for Success Speaker: Katherine Glassey Co-founder and Chief Technology Officier Brio Technology April 8, 1998 Surviving Hypergrowth Speaker: Stuart Phillips General Partner US Venture Partners March 11, 1998 Why the world should be excited about Excite Speaker: Mark Van Haren Co-Founder Excite February 11, 1998 Silicon Valley's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs Speaker: AnnaLee Saxenian Professor University of California, Berkeley January 14, 1998 My Perspective on Navigating through a High-Tech Career Speaker: Ellen M. Hancock Former EVP & CTO Apple Computer

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