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Expo Fall'08

Plug and Play Tech Center
440 N. Wolfe Road
Sunnyvale, CA 94085

Thursday, September 25, 2008
11:30am to 8:00pm

Contact Ryan Stevenson or
Rachel Morrissey

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Companies Registration

Attendees Registration

Sponsorship Opportunities

PlugandPlay Expo Fall 2008
Sponsors

Microsoft

Sun Microsystems

Silicon Valley Bank

Orrick

Greenberg Traurig

Northwest

Foundation Capital

Corefino


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Media Sponser

VentureBeat



Agenda

11:30am – 12:45pm     Registration, Networking and Lunch

12:45pm – 1:00pm     Welcome / Introductions

 1:00pm – 1:15pm      First Keynote Speech - Scott McNealy (Sun Microsystems)

 1:15pm – 2:00pm      "Extreme Pitching" 20 companies

 2:00pm –  3:30pm       Exhibition

 3:30pm –  4:15pm       "Extreme Pitching" 20 companies

 4:15pm –  5:00pm       3 Power Point Presentations + Awards

 5:00pm –  5:15pm       Second Keynote Speech - Tim Draper (DFJ)

 5:30pm –  8:00pm       Reception / Cocktail


The Keynote Speakers

Scott McNealy
Chairman and Co-Founder
Sun Microsystems

Scott McNealy, 53, is chairman of the board of directors of Sun Microsystems, a company he co-founded in 1982 and chairman of Sun Federal Inc. From 1984 to 2006, McNealy served as chief executive officer and chairman at Sun, steering the Company to constant innovation in open, network computing.
In his 22 years at the helm, McNealy grew Sun from a Silicon Valley start-up to a leading provider of network computing infrastructure with 37,900 employees worldwide, all while positioning the Company as the model of corporate integrity. In 1986, he took Sun public, creating one of the most notable publicly traded technology companies.
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Timothy C. Draper
Founder, Managing Director
Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Timothy C. Draper is the Founder and a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. His original suggestion to use "viral marketing" in web-based e-mail to geometrically spread an Internet product to its market was instrumental to the successes of Hotmail and YahooMail, and has been adopted as a standard marketing technique to hundreds of businesses. On behalf of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Mr. Draper serves on the boards of Glam, Flux, SocialText, decentral.tv, Meebo, Lund 3 Aps, Wigix, Increo, and Chroma Graphics. Previous successes include: Skype (EBAY), Overture.com (YHOO), Baidu (BIDU), Parametric Technology (PMTC), Hotmail (MSFT), PLX Technologies (PLXT), Preview Travel (TVLY) and Digidesign (AVID), among others.
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