PlugandPlayEXPO 2008 - Get Exposed for funding

This is an excellent opportunity for startups in or who can be present in Silicon Valley next Thursday. The Sunnyvale based PlugandPlayTechcenter For those of you who do not know who these people are; PlugandPlayTechcenter is a Silicon Valley business incubator company with buildings in Sunnyvale and Redwood City. The building in Sunnyvale where this event will take place next Thursday, September 25th, 2008 is housing about 120 startups.

According to PnP staff, an average 4 of the EXPO presenting companies have received term sheets after getting “EXPOsed” at each of our events.

Keynote speakers will be Scott McNealy, Chairman and Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems and Tim Draper, Founder and Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

Agenda Fall 2008
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

Please feel free to contact Ryan Stevenson (email to ryan at plugandplaytechcenter.com) or visit website to register. Last day to register is September 19th, 2008.

http://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com/events/expo.php

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Mobilize 2008 - 4G wireless and Ajax devices

Are your plans taking you to San Francisco in September? If so, don't miss the opportunity to participate in GigaOM's Mobilize conference which is taking place at the beautiful Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco on Sep. 18. Here's the interesting list of speakers;

Ian Freed - VP of Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com
John Roese - CTO, Nortel
Fred Kitson - Corporate Vice President, Applied Research and Technology Center, Motorola, Inc.
Russ McGuire - VP of Corporate Strategy, Sprint
Lee Ott - Global Director, Yahoo! oneSearch, Yahoo!
John O'Rourke - GM of Mobile, Microsoft
Marc Davis - Chief Scientist of Yahoo! Connected Life, Yahoo!
Matt Murphy - Partner on iFund, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
John Forsyth - VP Strategy, Symbian Software
Dan Mason - Sr. Product Mgr, ESPN Mobile Web
Ted Morgan - CEO, SKYHOOK Wireless
Clint McClellan - Sr. Dir of Market Dev, Health & Life Sciences, Qualcomm
Rachel Hinman - Mobile Design Strategist, Adaptive Path
Jason Devitt - CEO, Skydeck
Ryan Block - Editor-at-large, Engadget
Rich Miner - Co-founder, Google's Android
Padmasree Warrior - CTO, Cisco Systems
Scott Richardson - Chief Strategy Officer, Clearwire
Richard Wong - Partner, Accel Partners
John SanGiovanni - Co-founder and VP, Product Design, Zumobi
Scott Raney - Partner, Redpoint Ventures
Jake Seid - Managing Director, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Rick Segal - Partner, JLA Ventures
Paran Johar - CMO, JumpTap
Jeff Belk - Managing Director, ICT168 Capital, LLC
Rick Robinson - VP, Products & Services, XOHM
Vincent Rerolle - Sr. VP & GM, Linux Product Division, Wind River
Raven Zachary - Research Director, Open Source, The 451 Group
Greg Sterling - Analyst, Sterling Market Intelligence/Local Mobile Search
Gary Kovas - Vice President and General Manager, Mobile and Devices, Adobe
Ken Kershner - Senior Vice President of Engineering, Dash Navigation, Inc.
Michael Copeland - Senior Writer, Fortune
John Koller - Director of Hardware Marketing, Sony Computer Entertainment America
Ken Fisher - Founder and Editor-in-chief, ArsTechnica
Chetan Sharma - President, Chetan Sharma Consulting

And finally (I am late posting this blog), today is the final day for the $100 early bird special.

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