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2010
Events with Member Discounts:
Members get an email with the
discount code and instructions for registering for events with member
discounts. As they are added, events
for 2010 with discounts will be communicated to members by email.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Esther Dyson, Chairman, EDventure
Homebrew Health
When
famed venture capitalist Esther Dyson starts exploring a new market,
seasoned investors pay attention. In 1995,
she wrote about the impact of the Internet on intellectual property and
later invested in start-up companies sold to Symantec, Google, Microsoft
and Yahoo! Her most recent adventure
was spending six months training as a cosmonaut in Russia.
Now Dyson looks at how individuals can manage their own health using online
tools and services.
Time: 6:30pm
Check-in, 7 pm Program
Location: Microsoft,
Building 1 - 1065 La Avenida, Mountain
View 94303
Price: $12 Members; $20
Non-Members; $7 Students (18 and under)
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Content Monetization: What's
Working?
Which business model works best to bring in the bucks?
Hilary Schneider Executive Vice
President, Yahoo! Americas
Evan Hansen Editor-in-Chief,
Wired.com
Brian Pass Partner, Sheppard Mullin Richter
& Hampton
Mitch Galbraith COO, Funny or Die
Brent Weinstein Head of Digital Media, United Talent
Agency
Martine Paris Editor, Content Now - Moderator
Content
Conundrum: Where's the Money?
Digital content will continue to transform
traditional media. How old and new
media make money during and after this transformation, however, remains
uncertain - even as more and more content comes online, from traditional
sources, independent producers and users themselves. Which business models are working now, and
what will work in the future? How
will emerging distribution models and new platforms affect the ways that
new content is created? Some of the
best minds in the industry examine the new business models for content
creation, distribution and monetization.
Co-hosted with The Sheppard Mullin Digital Media Law Forum.
Time: 6:00 pm Networking
Reception, 7 pm Program
Location: Computer
History Museum,
1401 North Shoreline Blvd,
Mountain View 94303
Price: $12 Members; $20
Non-Members; $7 Students (18 and under)
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Kevin Dobbs - Founder of Montclair Advisors and
SaaS Smart blogger
Making SaaS Strategies Work
for Your Business
Software as a
Service (SaaS) is a rapidly growing part of
what is now called cloud computing.
Customers purchase the rights to access software from multiple
computers only as needed. It can be
a low-cost and effective way to implement software applications, but only
when the proper strategy is used for a business. Otherwise there can be technical and user
acceptance problems, and the potential cost
savings can disappear. Learn how to
make SaaS work for your business.
Time: 6:30pm
Check-in, 7 pm Program
Location: Silicon Valley Bank, 3005 Tasman, Santa
Clara
Price: $9 Members; $15
Non-Members; $7 Students (18 and under)
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Louann Brizendine, '81 M.D. - Founder, Women's Mood and Hormone Clinic,
UCSF
Author, The Female Brain and The Male
Brain
For all those times you've wondered
"Why?" Brizendine
has the answers. A neurobiologist, Brizendine has
studied why our brains lead us to act and react the way we do. Founder of the Women's Mood and Hormone
Clinic, Brizendine first focused on the female
brain, studying the neurology behind the emotions and actions of women, and
coming to conclusions that helped answer many of those "why"
questions that females kept asking her.
Now she has answers for the other half. Brizendine
explores the male brain, showing how, through every phase of life, the
"male reality" is fundamentally different from the female one.
Time: 6:30pm
Check-in, 7 pm Program, 8 pm Book Signing
Location: Historic Hoover
Theatre, 1635 Park Ave., San Jose
Price: $10 Members;
$15 Non-Members; $5 Students (18 and under)
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Jamie Hyneman
and Adam Savage, Hosts - MythBusters
Special effects experts Jamie Hyneman and Adam
Savage share their secrets, discuss how to separate fact from fiction, and
reveal what is behind the scenes of their extremely popular science
program.
Time: 12:30 p.m.
Check-In; 1:00 p.m. Program
Location: Cubberley
Community Theatre, 4000 Middlefield Drive, Palo Alto
Price: $12 Members;
$18 Non-Members; $7 Students (18 and under)
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Dr. Jill Tarter –
Director, Center for SETI Research
As the recipient of the 2009 TED prize, Dr.
Jill Tarter hopes to empower a new generation of SETI
enthusiasts. She currently leads the efforts to build and operate the
Allen Telescope Array. The Jodie
Foster character in the movie Contact
is largely based on Dr. Tarter.
Dr. Tarter will discuss her plans to assemble a group of engineers to
advise, create, and facilitate a system of mass collaboration over the web
and incorporate innovative data processing methods. And through this
system, Dr. Tarter predicts that we will be able to globalize the search
for extra-terrestrial intelligence.
Time: 6:30pm Check-in,
7 pm Program
Location: Silicon Valley Bank, 3005 Tasman, Santa
Clara
Price: $9 Members; $15
Non-Members
October -
December 2009 Events with Member Discounts:
Wednesday, December 9,
2009
Twyla Tharp, author of The
Collaborative Habit. Tharp is one of America's greatest
choreographers. She has created more than 130 dances for her company
as well as for the Joffrey Ballet, the New York
City Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, London's
Royal Ballet, and American Ballet Theatre. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a member of the American Academy
of Arts & Sciences, and an honorary member of the American Academy
of Arts and Letters.
Says Tharp: “In my last book, The Creative Habit, I wrote
about the process of making new things. My aim was to take
‘creativity’ out of the artistic ghetto and inspire the widest
possible range of readers --- even and especially those who have no
interest in dance. The Collaborative Habit is a logical next step;
it's everything I've learned from working with some of the most gifted
people on the planet. And, again, I show how those lessons aren't limited
to the arts --- they're the building blocks of collaboration in any
field.”
Time:
6:30pm Check-in, 7 pm Program
Location:
New Jewish Community Center, 3921
Fabian Way, Palo Alto 94303
Tickets:
$12 Members; $18 Non-Members; $7 students
Monday, November 16, 2009
Smarter TV
Mitchell
Berman, Co Founder & CEO, ZillionTV
Anthony Soohoo, SVP General Manager,
Entertainment & Lifestyle, CBS Interactive
Jim Denney, VP Product Marketing, TiVo, Inc.
Jim Funk, VP Business Development, Roku
Russ Schafer, Senior Director Product Marketing, Yahoo! Connected TV
Martine Paris, Editor, Content NOW (Moderator)
Welcome to Smarter TV. Now
with a simple click of the remote, we can watch our favorite shows, tweet
about it live onscreen, shop for the holidays, play games, and even have
dinner delivered to the door. Hear from the industry innovators who
have made it their mission to usher in the greatest entertainment era
we’ve ever known. The future is here!
Time:
6:30pm Check-in, 7 pm Program
Location:
Silicon Valley Bank, 3005 Tasman, Santa Clara
Tickets:
$15 members, $20 non-members
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Jonathan Zittrain
'91 - Professor of Internet Law, Harvard Law
School
Networks connect people as well as devices, and when they are cheap and
easy to use, intellectual tasks can be broken out and performed elsewhere
by other people. We are in the initial stages of distributed human
thinking that can be directed at mental tasks the way that surplus remote
server rackspace or Web hosting can be purchased
to accommodate sudden spikes in Internet traffic. Imagine a future in which passengers on a
subway train stare into screens even for just a few minutes and earn as
much money in that time as their respective skills and stations allow.
Time: 6:30pm Check-in; 7:00 pm Program; 8:00 pm
Book Signing
Location: Palo Alto Art Center,
1313 Newell Road,
Palo Alto 94303
Tickets:
$12 Members; $20 Non-Members; $7 students
Wednesday, October 28,
2009
Rick Steves – PBS Travel Host & Author of “Travel as a
Political Act”
PBS Travel Host, Rick Steves shares why traveling
should be more than just a relaxing trip. Spending four months a year
overseas, Steves believes that thoughtful travel
can expand our world view and shape how we address the political challenges
that confront our country. Steves will discuss
how the other 96% of humanity view our country and why we should
“challenge truths we were raised to think were self evident” to
become citizens of the planet.
Time:
6:30pm Check-in; 7:00 pm Program; 8:00 pm Book Signing
Location: Cubberley Theatre, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo
Alto 94303
Tickets:
$12 Members; $18 Non-Members; $7 students
Wednesday, October 21,
2009
Dr. Tim Flannery –
Chairman of the Copenhagen Climate Council and Author of Now or
Never: Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable
Future
2009 has been a critical year in the climate change movement. Flannery, one
of the world's pioneering paleontologist and biologist offers a pragmatic
roadmap of the environmental challenges we face in dealing with climate
change and the potential solutions toward sustainability. Rather than
looking backward and assigning blame, Flannery offers a powerful argument
for immediate action and highlights some of advancements made by
wind-energy companies and automobile manufacturers to create electric cars
that will end the reign of oil.
Time:
6:30pm Check-in; 7:00 pm Program; 8:00 pm Book Signing
Location: Cubberley Theatre, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo
Alto 94303
Tickets:
$12 Members; $18 Non-Members; $7 students
Thursday, October 15,
2009
Stewart
Brand – Co
Founder & President of The Long Now Foundation & Author of Whole
Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
Maverick thinker, Brand believes it’s time to reexamine the
romanticism behind the Green Movement and reframe the environment and
global warming debate. He advocates that a fundamental philosophical change
is needed and provides further insight to innovative design-based solutions
that would be beneficial for our planet. In addition to natural-system
restoration, Brand will discuss how urbanization, nuclear power,
biotechnology, and geoengineering could be the
keys to saving our world. Brand is best known as the Founder, Editor, and
Publisher of The Whole Earth Catalog, which championed environmental
agendas and techniques, with a pro-technology twist.
Time: 6:30pm Check-in; 7:00 pm Program; 8:00 pm
Book Signing
Location: Cubberley Theatre, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo
Alto 94303
Tickets:
$12 Members; $18 Non-Members; $7 students
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