The Emerging Wireless and Wireless Content & Application SIGs
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Facebook: Social Networking Giant Goes Mobile
Facebook Stats:
100,000 new members each day
1-2 million on Facebook simultaneously at any given moment
1% of the total Internet traffic is Facebook
30 billion page views per month
Just how big could mobile social networking get? This application's usage could become as big or bigger than online social networking. Facebook revenues are booming and third-party software program integration on these websites have surged. Partnerships are being formed between these networking websites and mobile companies, including MySpace with Cingular with Helio and Facebook with Virgin Mobile USA to name a few. The significance and attention to these partnerships is only growing from the new ventures, with opportunities for the future including mobile marketing and advertising, preloading phones with the network's mobile applications, or Silicon Valley acquisitions.
Join senior executives from Facebook and Staccato Communications for this discussion on the future of social mobile networking.
PANELISTS
Jed Stremel, Director, Facebook
Jed Stremel oversees Facebook's mobile strategy transforming how individuals find and express information relevant to their life. Prior to Facebook, Jed played key partnership, business operations, and strategic roles at high-growth businesses. He spearheaded mobile initiatives for Yahoo! building the company's efforts to empower seamless communications across SMS, WAP, Java, BREW, and other mobile technologies. At Tellme Jed managed distribution, promotion, and licensing relationships with leading online and telecommunications partners. Jed holds a law degree from Santa Clara University and a bachelor's degree in economics and public policy from Duke University.
Mark Bowles, Founder & Vice President of Business Development & Marketing, Staccato Communications
Mark Bowles has more than 19 years in the semiconductor industry. He has been involved in the formation and funding of five technology start-ups and has successfully raised 12 rounds of Venture Capital financing, totaling more than $130M raised from more than two dozen VC funds. Prior to co-founding Staccato in 2002 he was most recently co-founder, president, COO and director of BOPS, Inc. (sold to Altera), a broadband DSP cores and tools company. Prior to BOPS, he was instrumental in forming and funding a number of successful start-ups including Power Computing (sold to Apple in 1996); Panorama Designs (sold to Motorola in 1996); and BlueSteel Networks (sold to Broadcom in 2000). Mr. Bowles also spent six years at Motorola Semiconductor where he held various distribution management, sales and market development positions; he left in 1996 as vice president of MSPI, and PowerPC market development. He is currently very active in UWB standards-setting bodies and is involved in IEEE 802.15.3a (voting member), 802.15.4a (founding member), MBOA (founder and marketing committee chair) WiMedia Alliance (Board member, Liaison to WiMedia China), and the Wireless USB Promoter Group (active member, key contributor). Mr. Bowles has 3 patent applications in UWB technology. He holds an undergraduate engineering degree from Texas A&M and a Master of Science degree in technology management (E-MBA) from Pepperdine University.
MODERATOR
Ram Gollamudi, Mission Ventures
Ram has more than seven years of product development and operational experience in early stage hi-tech companies. More recently, Ram was at Entropic Communications, a Mission Ventures portfolio company, where he was part of the founding team and co-inventor of MoCA technology (Multimedia over Coax Alliance). He also worked very closely with the executive team assisting them in market analysis and product management. Before Entropic, Ram was the lead software engineer at RC Networks where he built advanced DSL access products for MTU and MDU applications. He started his career at Advanced Computer Communications (ACC), Santa Barbara, where he developed ISDN and dial-up remote access products. ACC was acquired by Ericsson for $285 million in 1999. Ram also has some prior venture experience from his time as a summer associate at Enterprise Partners Venture Capital, San Diego. Ram received his MBA from the Anderson School of Management of UCLA, where he was a Venture Fellow. He also has a Masters in Electrical Engineering from the Iowa State University and an undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
WHEN
Thursday, June 21, 2007
AGENDA
7:00AM - Registration & Continental Breakfast
7:30AM - Event Begins
9:00AM - Event Ends
EVENT HOST
12531 High Bluff Drive, Suite 100, San Diego, CA 92130
COST
$ 10.00 Pre-registration
$ 20.00 At-the-door
Space is limited, so please pre-register!
**If you have problems registering, please call us at 858-546-4150**
SIG CO-CHAIRS
Emerging Wireless SIG:
Jonathon Cheah
Eric DaVersa, Netlogix
Jeff Harris, Trellisware
Sandeep Mehta
David Readman
Franz Birkner, Express Ventures
Jason Ellis, Staccato Communications
Peter Pardee, Hughes Network Systems
Jasper Bruinzeel
Wireless Content & Applications SIG:
Jacob Conway, Kineticom
Amir Farivar
Pattric Rawlins, Procopio
Atul Suri, Qualcomm
Doug Schneider
Date:
Thursday, June 21, 20077-9am
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