Impact of Ubiquitous Bandwidth and Connectivity: A Multi-Perspective Panel Discussion

August 16, 2010 – 7:57 pm

Turning Vision into Value

If you are based in the San Francisco Bay Area, or if you’re visiting, please invite your friends and colleagues and join us for the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute’s Innovation Society 2010 Series…

SVII “First Wednesday” Innovation Society Meeting

Wednesday, September 1, 2010
6:00-9:30 p.m.

Bay Cafe & Restaurant
1875 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto (directions below)

Program:

Impact of Ubiquitous Bandwidth and Connectivity
A Multi-Perspective Panel Discussion

“Billions of connected individuals can now actively participate in innovation, wealth creation, and social development in ways we once only dreamed of. And, when these masses of people collaborate, they can advance the arts, culture, science, education, government and the economy in surprising but ultimately profitable ways.”
- Dan Tapscott

UPDATE, August 19, 2010: The distinguished panelists include:

Alexander J. Field

Professor Field is the Michel and Mary Orradre Professor of Economics at Santa Clara University and Executive Director of the Economic History Association.

His research focuses on two main areas. The first is U.S. macroeconomic history with a focus on technology and productivity. His book, A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth, will be published by Yale University Press this fall. The second, aimed at better integrating the human sciences, is reflected in his 2001 book, Altruistically Inclined? The Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, and the Origins of Reciprocity, which won the 2003 Alpha Sigma Nu National Book Award in the Social Sciences. Professor Field has published more than 50 scholarly articles.

Brinda Dalal

Brinda Dalal is an anthropologist who worked with PARC, Xerox and many of Xerox’s clients. She co-founded PARC’s Clean Technology Initiative in 2003. She earned her PhD from University of Cambridge in social anthropology. She founded Dhoopa Ventures and is driven by two questions: How do we systematically understand change as it occurs in human society? How might we build innovations that radically shape the future?

Ray Abrishami

Ray Abrishami is the Co-Founder and Principal of InLinx Communication. He is the founding member of the WiMAX Forum, which promotes the standards based broadband access technology. Earlier, he was the Senior Director of Engineering at Fujitsu, and he brings perspective from technology and enterprise to the discussion.

Some points for discussion:

* What interesting problems, ideas and solutions have emerged from the promise of unlimited bandwidth and such connectivity?

* In the midst of Foursquare and Groupon, what does it mean to be always online? ‘Real-time’ may be nice for search engines, but what about personal lives? For example, how do we address the Location paradox: On one hand, it does not matter where you are, as long as you are connected. On the other hand, it is more critical than ever for targeting information, announcements, marketing and even public service.

* In the Yottabyte era, companies (like Google, Amazon, Facebook) collect huge amounts of data. Data can be a double-edged sword: it can provide enormous benefits to consumers in terms of intelligence, experience, and engagement and can also prove to be problematic when privacy and data breaches happen.

* How are businesses dealing with this? What new business models are emerging? Today 2% of enterprise is on cloud, 16% virtualized. By 2015, 20% will be on cloud, 45% virtualized.

* Who owns the bandwidth and the connectivity? How do we provide equitable distribution and access in a responsible manner? What are the ethical, legal and moral issues that arise?

Program Schedule:

6:00 – Doors open for registration and networking.

6:30 – Dinner is served.

7:00 – Education Initiative Update

7:30 – Feature Presentation

Location

Bay Cafe, Bayshore Ballroom
1875 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto
www.BayCafeRestaurant.com
650-856-0999

In Palo Alto, take Embarcadero East past Ming’s restaurant, then turn left into the Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course driveway; from the parking lot, walk up the wide path toward the golf course buildings; the restaurant will be on the right.

You can pre-pay using PayPal.

REGISTER
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Education Initiative

The July 7th SVII event featured an excellent, in-depth panel discussion on technology and innovation barriers in K-12 education. Our expert panelists discussed some of the barriers that prevent modern classrooms from utilizing the vast technological resources currently available, and what we might do to reduce those barriers. Based on the exciting and challenging dialog that resulted, SVII has started work on an Education Initiative that will tackle some of the problems discussed.

The SVII Education Initiative is off to a great start! We have used Ken Ketch’s Group Mind Express tool to create a collaborative space to work on this initiative. If you attended the session and had further insights to add, head over to the SVII Collaboration Center and make your voice heard. We will be adding more tools to that space as the initiative develops, so stay tuned.

Building on the insights gathered, we hope to make a concrete, positive contribution to the world of education in the Silicon Valley. If you’d like to receive all updates about the education initiative, please email brenna@svii.org to be added to the list.

Preview of October 6th Silicon Valley Innovation Institute Event

Improvisation & Innovation:
A Powerful Duet in Art, Science & Business with Jeremy Sutton

Artist, author, educator and digital painting pioneer Jeremy Sutton demonstrates through spontaneous, improvised live art-in-action how he harnesses the creative power of improvisation to generate innovation on his digital canvas. During this exciting presentation, using state of-the-art digital paint technology, Jeremy will create a live digital portrait of musician, technologist and entrepreneur Howard Lieberman, as Howard plays improvised music. Throughout the process Jeremy will share his decision-making strategies and provide insights into how the same principles can be applied in other arts, in science and in business.

Jeremy Sutton—world-renowned artist, author, educator, digital painting pioneer and Corel Painter Master—has drawn and painted for over forty years, and worked with digital painting media for the last eighteen. Please visit www.JeremySutton.com to see more of his artwork, and www.PaintboxJ.com for his online training materials.

Archives and Outlook

Please note that the SVII Ning group has been replaced by the following social networks:

You can now follow SVII on Twitter @sviihq

Join the new SVII Facebook group and the LinkedIn group.

You can also use Eventbrite to register.

Stay in Touch

For more information, and to join the e-list, email friends@svii.org. Plan to join the SVII Innovation Society each “first Wednesday” of the month.

Keep checking here for program updates.
SVII is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational organization.
Cathryn Hrudicka, Founder, CEO and Chief Imagination Officer of Creative Sage™, is a member of SVII.

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Off the Stage and into Your Life! How Using Theatrical Improv Skills Can Help Create a More Innovative Culture at Work

July 31, 2010 – 6:43 pm

Turning Vision into Value

If you are based in the San Francisco Bay Area, or if you’re visiting, please invite your friends and colleagues and join us for the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute’s Innovation Society 2010 Series…

SVII “First Wednesday” Innovation Society Meeting

Wed, Aug 4, 2010
6:00-9:30 p.m.

Bay Cafe & Restaurant
1875 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto (directions below)

Program:

Improv: Off the Stage and into Your Life

SVII’s August 4th Society dinner will feature Chris Miller, co-founder of LifePlays—a company “created to bring the transformative skills of connective, embodied improvisation to communities and innovative workplaces.”

LifePlays’ corporate improv workshops have fostered creativity, innovation, team development, and leadership at many companies, including Google, Microsoft, Genentech, and Whole Foods Markets.

Chris Miller on Creativity and Innovation:

Innovation often involves a leap, trust, and risk. A leap of making new connections. Trust that support and encouragement are there. And the risk, that it might not work. To function in this way, you need to grow a culture that supports it.

In this ideal culture your aim is to bring out the best in everyone else; you listen to in order to support; you know that critical thinking is crucial and valuable, but there’s a time to suspend it and purely explore ideas; everyone sees the larger goal, not just personal gain. This is a generative, innovative culture. This is the culture and skill-set of improv.

Improv is a skill-set way beyond “being funny,” or just “making it up.” Come see how the skills that allow improvisers to create seamlessly on stage can be applied to creating seamlessly in other domains.

This will be a fun and highly participatory session.

Education Initiative: Moving Forward

Because of the high level of interest, we will dedicate a portion (7:00-7:30) of our August 4th event to sharing some of the insights we’ve gathered so far about the current state of education and the impact that we can make as innovators.

6:00 – Doors open for registration and networking.

6:30 – Dinner is served.

7:00 – Education Initiative Update

7:30 – Feature Presentation—Improv: Off the Stage and into Your Life.

Location

Bay Cafe, Bayshore Ballroom
1875 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto
www.BayCafeRestaurant.com
650-856-0999

In Palo Alto, take Embarcadero East past Ming’s restaurant, then turn left into the Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course driveway; from the parking lot, walk up the wide path toward the golf course buildings; the restaurant will be on the right.

You can pre-pay using PayPal.

REGISTER
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July Event Recap

The July 7th SVII event featured an excellent, in-depth panel discussion on technology and innovation barriers in K-12 education. Our expert panelists discussed some of the barriers that prevent modern classrooms from utilizing the vast technological resources currently available, and what we might do to reduce those barriers. Based on the exciting and challenging dialog that resulted, SVII has started work on an Education Initiative that will tackle some of the problems discussed.

Education Initiative

Our education initiative is off to a great start! We have used Ken Ketch’s Group Mind Express tool to create a collaborative space to work on this initiative. If you attended the session and had further insights to add, head over to the SVII Collaboration Center and make your voice heard. We will be adding more tools to that space as the initiative develops, so stay tuned.

Building on the insights gathered, we hope to make a concrete, positive contribution to the world of education in the Silicon Valley. If you’d like to receive all updates about the education initiative, please email brenna@svii.org to be added to the list.

Archives and Outlook

Please note that the SVII Ning group has been replaced by the following social networks:

You can now follow SVII on Twitter @sviihq

Join the new SVII Facebook group and the LinkedIn group.

You can also use Eventbrite to register.

Stay in Touch

For more information, and to join the e-list, email friends@svii.org. Plan to join the SVII Innovation Society each “first Wednesday” of the month.

Keep checking here for program updates.
SVII is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational organization.
Cathryn Hrudicka, Founder, CEO and Chief Imagination Officer of Creative Sage™, is a member of SVII.

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Technologist’s Perspective: Breaking the Software Glass Ceiling for Educators—Where is the “Innovative” Software Infrastructure for Education?

July 6, 2010 – 6:04 pm

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If you are based in the San Francisco Bay Area, or if you’re visiting, please invite your friends and colleagues and join us for the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute’s Innovation Society 2010 Series…

SVII “First Wednesday” Innovation Society Meeting Topic:

Technologist’s Perspective:
Breaking the software glass ceiling for educators. Where is the “innovative” software infrastructure for education?

July 7, 2010
6:00-9:30 p.m.

Panel Presentation:

The speaker panel, focused upon specific software implementations, not abstractions, will bring to light barriers that have kept this from happening at the faster pace technology is adopted in commercial sectors.

K-12 and higher education applications are both lacking, except in specialized areas of research that have “practical” applications (e.g., Genomics).

Is it just a matter of money? What are the success stories (e.g., Tuft’s Perseus)? What are the blockers and why can’t we unblock them?

Please bring your laptops for an interactive discussion.

Please email questions for the panel to Howard at hlieberman@svii.org.

Moderator:
Howard Lieberman, Founder of the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute

Panelists:

Ruben Kleiman of Netflix
A software developer, philosopher, artist, linguistics scholar, and math wizard, Ruben joined Apple in 1987 where he was part of Apple’s Advanced Technology Group, developing multimedia systems, creating the first interprocess-communication module, and co-designing and prototyping the Applescript language. He has also worked at SGI, Commerce Games, Climbin’ Design, and most recently Netflix where he works with metadata to develop movie matching and movie categorization rule systems.

Murugan Pal of CK-12 Foundation

Murugan is the Co-Founder and President of CK-12 Foundation, a non-profit that aims to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market worldwide. Prior to CK-12, Murugan was the Entrepreneur-In-Residence for the Foundation Capital. He has also founded SpikeSource and worked at the software companies Asera, Inc. and Oracle, and was one of the lead developers of Versant Corporation’s Object Database.

Mark Miller of The Miller Institute for Learning with Technology
Mark is the Founder, President, and Executive Director of The Miller Institute, an organization aimed at helping children use technology more effectively for learning. Prior to founding the Institute, Mark served as Lab Director for Learning and Tools at Apple Computer where he was head of educational technology investigations. Mark has also worked at Texas Instruments, Inc., Central Research Labs and taught courses at the University of Texas and Southern Methodist University.
Blog: http://blog.thatshouldntmatter.com/

Jim Spohrer of IBM
Director of IBM University Programs (IBM UP) since 2009, Jim founded IBM’s first Service Research group in 2003 at the Almaden Research Center with a focus on STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) for Service Sector innovations. He led this group to attain ten times return on investment with four IBM outstanding and eleven accomplishment awards over seven years. Working with service research pioneers from many academic disciplines, Jim advocates for Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Design (SSMED) as an integrative extended-STEM framework for global competency development, economic growth, and advancement of science.

UPDATE, July 6, 2010

A message from Howard Lieberman:

Wednesday night’s program has taken on a life of its own, and in a departure from the traditional presentation/dialog, our panel members have driven the decision to begin a working group on education to accomplish something concrete in the form of an innovation initiative. They want results, in addition to conversation. This has resulted in two additions to our program:

Cameron Curry. Cameron is the Executive Director of a group of three Independent Study Charter Schools. These schools use an approach to home schooling that tries to balance traditional schooling with the flexibility of independent study at home, including strong parental involvement. This group of schools also happens to do a lot with technology. Even though Cameron is based in San Diego, he is flying up here to join our panel.

Ken Ketch, who presented Group Mind Express, a wonderful cloud-based collaboration tool earlier this year, has generously offered to help us capture, prioritize, and organize some of the insights this dialog will yield for the purpose of turning the rich conversation into an initiative. Please bring your laptop for this interactive portion of the evening.

Five panel members and a Group Mind capture session require a bit more time, so we have expanded the program to two full hours, from 7:00-9:00 p.m. This means we will begin serving dinner at 6:30 so the program can begin at 7:00.

The flexible new program structure for tomorrow is:

6:00 – Doors open for registration and networking. Please pre-register at our website at svii.net!

6:30 – Dinner is served.

7:00 CALIBRATION – Program begins with calibrating panel presentations to set the stage for the following conversation about technology innovation and education.

7:45 CONVERSATION – Begin an interactive group dialog or conversation, of which Jitendra will try to capture significant portions with a digital flip chart built into Group Mind Express.

8:30 CAPTURE – Group Mind session to capture insights from the group, which we will evolve into an innovation initiative.

Please register here.

Location

Bay Cafe, Bayshore Ballroom
1875 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto
www.BayCafeRestaurant.com
650-856-0999

In Palo Alto, take Embarcadero East past Ming’s restaurant, then turn left into the Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course driveway; from the parking lot, walk up the wide path toward the golf course buildings; the restaurant will be on the right.

Archives and Outlook

Please note that the SVII Ning group has been replaced by the following social networks:

You can now follow SVII on Twitter @sviihq

Join the new SVII Facebook group and the LinkedIn group.

You can also use Eventbrite to register.

Stay in Touch

For more information, and to join the e-list, email friends@svii.org. Plan to join the SVII Innovation Society each “first Wednesday” of the month.

Keep checking here for program updates.
SVII is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational organization.

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Trim the Fat: Applying Lean Startup Concepts to Entrepreneurship, Life, and the Creative Process

May 24, 2010 – 11:44 pm

Turning Vision into Value

If you are based in the San Francisco Bay Area, or if you’re visiting, please invite your friends and colleagues and join us for the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute’s Innovation Society 2010 Series…

SVII “First Wednesday” Innovation Society Meeting

June 2nd, 2010
6:00 – 9:30 pm

Featuring a Panel Discussion on:

Trim the Fat: Applying Lean Startup Concepts to Entrepreneurship, Life, and the Creative Process

“Every entrepreneur must learn how to run a lean startup. It’s how you do more with less money.”
-Babak Nivi

The Lean Startup movement is taking Silicon Valley by storm, following the recent recession. (Some might say this should have been normal operating procedure all along.) Its concepts, such as “minimum viable product” and “customer development,” have helped startups turn their vision into a profitable reality faster.

But do they have a broader relevance? How could they apply to personal growth?

Does such a rigorous methodology have its place in the creative process?

Join SVII for an engaging conversation on June 2nd—the discussion is usually interactive, and audience questions and comments are encouraged.

Panelists:

Dr. Bernard Mont-Reynaud

After graduating from Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France, Bernard Mont-Reynaud did research at INRIA, then left for Stanford University, where he obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science. He taught CS at UC Berkeley, until called to join research in music analysis at CCRMA. The analysis, visualization and perception of music and audio have been major themes of his work over the years, along with image processing, real-time systems and advanced UI design. Places he has worked include Lucasfilm, TDW, Xerox PARC, Studer Editech and FXPAL. He is also the former Chief Software Architect at Sony’s “Super Audio Project” R&D facility in San Francisco.

Jordy Mont-Reynaud

After becoming the youngest ever chess master in the United States at the age of 10, Jordy attended Stanford University, where he received a B.S. in Symbolic Systems. After graduating he worked as a Software Engineer/Product Manager for Digital Chocolate. Jordy is currently the Mobile Developer for the social networking site Bebo, located in San Francisco.

Lukas Biewald

Lukas founded CrowdFlower, a “labor on demand” startup, in 2007. Prior to that he was a Senior Scientist and Manager within the Ranking and Management Team at Powerset, Inc., a natural language search technology company that was acquired by Microsoft. Lukas has also led the Search Relevance Team for Yahoo! Japan. He graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Computer Science. He is an expert-level Go player.

Please pre-register for this event here.

Program Schedule

6:00   Arrival and networking
6:45  Community buffet dinner
7:15   SVII Business—Howard Richard Lieberman, Chairman
7:30  Feature Panel Presentation
8:30  Followup discussion, showing up as an Innovation Advocate
9:30 Closing

Event fee: $35 drop-ins, and $25 members.

Drinks are available on a no-host basis.

If you do not pre-register, please be sure to RSVP at friends@svii.org.

SVII accepts cash, checks and credit cards on-site.

Or, you can pre-pay using the PayPal drop down button below.

Memberships have recently become available and can also be purchased using the same secure PayPal cart below.

SVII Society Offerings
Enter email address

Location

Bay Cafe, Bayshore Ballroom
1875 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto
www.BayCafeRestaurant.com
650-856-0999

In Palo Alto, take Embarcadero East past Ming’s restaurant, then turn left into the Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course driveway; from the parking lot, walk up the wide path toward the golf course buildings; the restaurant will be on the right.

Archives and Outlook

For developing Archives, check out the
SVII “First Wednesday” group at
SVII Society Online.

Please note that the SVII Ning group is being replaced soon by the following social networks:

You can now follow SVII on Twitter @sviihq

Join the new SVII Facebook group and the LinkedIn group.

You can also use Eventbrite to register.

Stay in Touch

For more information, and to join the e-list, email friends@svii.org. Plan to join the SVII Innovation Society each “first Wednesday” of the month.

Keep checking here for program updates.
SVII is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational organization.

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From the Entrepreneurial Trenches: The Search for Funding, Unicorns and other Imaginary Creatures

May 2, 2010 – 5:37 pm

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If you are based in the San Francisco Bay Area, or if you’re visiting, please invite your friends and colleagues and join us for the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute’s Innovation Society 2010 Series…

SVII “First Wednesday” Innovation Society Meeting
May 5th, 2010
6:00 – 9:30 p.m.

Program:

From the Entrepreneurial Trenches: The Search for Funding, Unicorns and other Imaginary Creatures

Guest Speaker:

Vitaly Golomb, Entrepreneur, Designer and Information Architect

Most people choose the corporate route in their careers. Some branch out and start lifestyle businesses. But true innovations are brought to market by scrappy entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneurs sometimes stumble on to a problem, and other times they will go looking for problems to solve. The resulting solutions they develop create new companies, categories, and sometimes, industries. Many things have to go right for these new ventures to succeed, and it takes a special group of people who have the perspective and tenacity required to lead the charge.

Vitaly Golomb is an entrepreneur who has been involved with a number of software and professional services start-ups throughout his career. He has spent the few years building an innovative software company to disrupt one of the oldest industries in the world: print. He will discuss latest lessons he has learned in the areas of venture fund-raising, hiring talent, finding the right partners, and bringing software products to market.

About Vitaly M. Golomb

Vitaly began his career in the graphic arts industry when he was hired in one of Kinko’s first computer services departments as a teenager. Soon after, he co-founded a graphic design service bureau and commercial printing company with his father.

While still in college, Vitaly additionally juggled design clients and a technology leadership role at an enterprise software start-up. He returned to the family print business as President during the dotcom nuclear winter and managed to greatly improve both sales and productivity. During this time he was involved with several early stage software start-ups in the mobile, health, and social media sectors. Upon selling the print business in 2005, Vitaly started a branding, web design, and online marketing firm that quickly landed a number of big name clients and expanded operations to Southern California.

In late 2007, Vitaly began development on a next-generation e-commerce solution for the printing industry, which later became Keen Systems. Currently in private beta, the company has already received industry acclaim after its announcement at the DEMOfall ‘09 conference.

Vitaly is an expert on branding, analytics-driven online marketing, e-commerce, information architecture, and software interface design. He is an award-winning web, multimedia and print designer. In the past, he has guest lectured at Northwestern Polytechnic University, Cal State Hayward, and UC Berkeley. He is currently the Communications Director for the non-profit Silicon Valley Innovation Instituteand is an active member of the Bay Area start-up ecosystem. Vitaly studied Communications at Santa Clara University and holds a BA in Computer & Video Imaging from Cogswell Polytechnical College. He lives in San Francisco with his wife Joyce, son Ari, and has a daughter on the way.

Blog: www.vitalyg.com Twitter: @vitalyg

Program Schedule

6:00 Arrival and networking
6:45 Community dinner
7:15 SVII Business
7:30 Feature Presentation
9:30 Closing

Event fee: $35 drop-ins, and $25 members.

Drinks are available on a no-host basis.

Please be sure to RSVP at friends@svii.org.

SVII accepts cash, checks and credit cards on-site.

Or, you can pre-pay using the PayPal drop down button below.

Memberships have recently become available and can also be purchased using the same secure PayPal cart below.

SVII Society Offerings
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Location

Bay Cafe, Bayshore Ballroom
1875 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto
www.BayCafeRestaurant.com
650-856-0999

In Palo Alto, take Embarcadero East past Ming’s restaurant, then turn left into the Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course driveway; from the parking lot, walk up the wide path toward the golf course buildings; the restaurant will be on the right.

Archives and Outlook

For developing Archives, check out the
SVII “First Wednesday” group at
SVII Society Online.

Please note that the SVII Ning group is being replaced soon by the following social networks:

You can now follow SVII on Twitter @sviihq

Join the new SVII Facebook group and the LinkedIn group.

You can also use Eventbrite to register, and subscribe to Vitaly Golomb on Plancast.

Stay in Touch

For more information, and to join the e-list, email friends@svii.org. Plan to join the SVII Innovation Society each “first Wednesday” of the month.

Keep checking here for program updates.
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What Makes Innovation Stick?

April 3, 2010 – 4:50 pm

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If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, or if you’re visiting, please invite your friends and colleagues and join us for the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute’s Innovation Society 2010 Series…

SVII “First Wednesday” Innovation Society Meeting
April 7th, 2010
6:00 – 9:30 p.m.

Program: What Makes Innovation Stick?

Guest Speaker: Ken Ketch

Of course innovation occurs, but what sticks—and the effects of innovation—are always unpredictable. Creating innovation that sticks is hard work! “The path of least resistance” most often prevails. Despite the popular view that we live in a complex, high technology world where innovation is accepted, the facts are that behavioral patterns run deep, and most innovation fails.

In this interactive session we will explore three important questions about innovation:

1) What stimulates innovation to occur?

2) What is necessary for innovation to stick?

3) Why does innovation often not stick?

Participants should bring their laptops to this session. There will be web-based software available to interactively explore these questions through the collective intelligence of all participants. Guest Speaker Ken Ketch has studied these questions and has worked with many clients to improve their planning and innovation processes. Ken will lead participants through a process based on collaborative intelligence to identify answers to these questions.

Ken Ketch is a serial entrepreneur and innovator and serial entrepreneur who has founded, managed and sold several manufacturing and retail companies and has also served as CEO of two publicly traded companies.

He founded the Sound Room, a high-end audio chain in 1968, and a retail computer chain in 1977. The Sound Room was named Dealer of the Year many times because of the retail innovation that his team created. The computer stores were an early Apple Dealer and the first IBM PC dealer. Ken sold his audio and computer stores in 1983 and then served as CEO of O’Neill until 1991, where he assembled and led a team through a period of dramatic growth and innovation.

He also founded MontBell Sportswear in 1990 and sold it to Land’s End in 1996. He then joined Catalyst Consulting as a partner and led a team to create GroupMind Express, a decision-support software application, which was launched as an ASP service in 1997. Ken is currently founding partner in GroupMind Solutions, CEO of Elements Manufacturing, on the Board of the Association for Strategic Planning.

Program Schedule

6:00 Arrival and networking
6:45 Community buffet dinner
7:15 SVII Business: Howard Richard Lieberman, Chairman of SVII
7:30 Feature Presentation: What Makes Innovation Stick?
8:30 Follow-up discussion: Showing Up as an Innovation Advocate.
9:30 Closing

Event fee: $35 drop-ins, and $25 members.

Drinks are available on a no-host basis.

Please be sure to RSVP at friends@svii.org.

SVII accepts cash, checks and credit cards on-site.

Or, you can pre-pay using the PayPal drop down button below.

Memberships have recently become available and can also be purchased using the same secure PayPal cart below.

SVII Society Offerings
Enter email address

Location

Bay Cafe, Bayshore Ballroom
1875 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto
www.BayCafeRestaurant.com
650-856-0999

Embarcadero East, past Ming’s, turn left into the Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course; from the parking lot, walk up the wide path toward the golf course buildings; the restaurant will be on the right.

Archives and Outlook

For developing Archives, check out the
SVII “First Wednesday” group at
SVII Society Online.

Stay in Touch

For more information, and to join the list, email friends@svii.org. Plan to join the SVII Innovation Society each “first Wednesday” of the month.

Keep checking here for program updates.
SVII is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational organization.

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Inventors Must Improvise to be Successful

March 1, 2010 – 5:43 pm

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If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, or if you’re visiting, please invite your friends and colleagues and join us for the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute’s Innovation Society 2010 Series…

SVII “First Wednesday” Innovation Society Meeting
March 3rd, 2010
6:00 – 9:30 p.m.
Program: Improvising Inventors: A Moderated Panel Discussion

Panelists:

Ed Austin — Flings

SVII member Ed Austin developed the pop-up recycling and trash containers known as Flings. An inventive way to make recycling easier, Flings are now available at Safeways across the country. More information can be found here.

Joy Mountford — QuickTime

During her time at Apple Computer, Joy Mountford managed the Human Interface Group; the group that developed QuickTime, AppleSearch, and Macintosh Finder, among other software programs. She was also the founder of Apple’s International Interface Design Project. An interview with Joy Mountford can be found here.

Barbara Carey — Hairagami

Barbara Carey has brought over 100 products to the market including the popular hair accessory Hairagami, launched seven companies, and is the author of The Carey Formula. Additional information can be found at her website.

Todd Basche — Wordlock

As CEO of Wordlock, Inc., Todd Basche invented the Wordlock padlock because he could never remember number combinations. Prior to developing Wordlock, Todd was VP of Software Applications at Apple, responsible for creating iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD. Information about Wordlock can be found here.

Program Description

As most inventors and entrepreneurs discover early in their careers, reality generally throws a few curve balls at them. Decisions usually need to be made without complete knowledge of the technology or of the marketplace. Perhaps this is why only a fraction of inventions achieve any form of success.

This event will feature an open panel discussion with local inventors that focuses on the relationship between improvisation and invention. Often, successful activities do not turn out as anticipated; adapting and improvising are core competencies for innovators. The program will bring together several inventors for a discussion concerning the types of improvisation they have utilized to achieve progress and become successful. Bring your questions to our panel of distinguished inventors who against all odds have managed to get their inventions out into the world.

Program Schedule

6:00 Arrival and networking
6:45 Community buffet dinner
7:15 SVII Business: Howard Richard Lieberman Chairman
7:30 Feature Presentation: Improvising Inventors — Panel Discussion
8:30 Follow-up discussion: Showing Up as an Innovation Advocate.
9:30 Closing

Event fee: $35 drop-ins, and $25 members.

Drinks are available on a no-host basis.

Please be sure to RSVP at friends@svii.org. We are collecting questions for the panelists in advance, so please email your questions ahead of time, if possible.

SVII accepts cash, checks and credit cards on-site.

Or, you can pre-pay using the PayPal drop down button below.

Memberships have recently become available and can also be purchased using the same secure PayPal cart below.

SVII Society Offerings
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Need to reach us at the last minute? Call: 650-712-8100.

Location

Bay Cafe, Bayshore Ballroom
1875 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto
www.BayCafeRestaurant.com
650-856-0999

Embarcadero East, past Ming’s, turn left into the Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course; from the parking lot, walk up the wide path toward the golf course buildings; the restaurant will be on the right.

Archives and Outlook

For developing Archives, check out the
SVII “First Wednesday” group at
SVII Society Online.

Stay in Touch

Wish to join our mailing list? Email friends@svii.org. Plan to join the SVII Innovation Society each “first Wednesday” of the month.

Keep checking here for program updates.
SVII is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational organization.

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The Art of Raising Venture Capital in 2010: Don’t Forget to Do Your Homework!

February 1, 2010 – 12:00 am

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If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, or if you’re visiting, please invite your friends and colleagues and join us for the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute’s Innovation Society 2010 Series…

SVII “First Wednesday”

Innovation Society Meeting

February 3rd, 2010
6:00 – 9:30 p.m.

Featured Program: The Art of Raising Venture Capital in 2010:

Don’t forget to do your homework!

Guest Speaker: Steve Goldberg of Venrock Associates

During the 1990s, the steady and monotonic upward growth of the overall economy and the dramatic growth and availability of venture capital created a clear and easily definable path for entrepreneurs to find capital. After the Internet and telecom bubbles burst in 2001 and the most recent economic downturn starting in 2008, the art of funding (on the VC side) and fund-raising (on the entrepreneur side) for early stage high tech companies has been difficult to quantify. Techniques and metrics that had worked well in the 1990s are either no longer valid, or are no longer sufficient.

With our overall economy in the processes of stabilizing, although arguably still quite fragile, both VC firms and entrepreneurs are back to the business of creating new ventures. Not surprisingly, the mindset on both sides has changed dramatically.

This presentation will summarize the current state of venture investing and fund-raising from both perspectives. The focus will be on the soft side of the decision processes including what makes a winning management team, what to look for in board members, why a no doesn’t always mean a no, and, generally, why some deals happen and other don’t.

About Steve Goldberg

Steven Goldberg is a Partner at Venrock Associates, where he supports investments in wireless, semiconductors, security, and energy markets. Prior to joining Venrock, he was CEO of several early stage wireless companies, including DataRunway, Arcwave, and CoWave Networks. He was also CEO of Vidient System, a provider of video analytics solutions.

Additionally, he was Vice President of Research and Development at Nokia Internet Communications, and V.P. and G.M. of the Wireless Communications Division at Cylink Corporation, which, after going public, was later sold to P-Com. Steve has also held senior management and engineering positions at Trimble Navigation and Hewlett Packard.

Coincident with that experience, he had a practice as a Marriage and Family Therapist for about ten years. He still sometimes lectures at Stanford and other Bay area schools on relationship issues.

Steve holds a Ph.D. E.E. from the University of California at Santa Barbara and M.S.E.E. and B.S.E.E degrees from Washington University in St Louis, Mo. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a past president of the IEEE Communications Society, Santa Clara Section and holds 2 U.S. patents. He is currently a director of Quantenna Communications, Teranetics, Newport Media, Neoconix, Apacewave, Canesta, and Asoka. Steve enjoys ice skating, amateur radio, and is a USSF soccer referee.

Program Schedule

6:00   Arrival and networking
6:45   Community buffet dinner
7:15   SVII Business: Howard Richard Lieberman Chairman
7:30   Feature Presentation: Steve Goldberg, Venrock Associates
8:30   Follow-up discussion: Showing Up as an Innovation Advocate.
9:30   Closing

Event fee: $35 drop-ins, and $25 members.

Drinks are available on a no-host basis.

Please be sure to RSVP at friends@svii.org.

SVII accepts cash, checks and credit cards on-site.

Or, you can pre-pay using the PayPal drop down button below.

Memberships have recently become available and can also be purchased using the same secure PayPal cart below.

SVII Society Offerings
Enter email address

Need to reach us at the last minute? Call: 650-712-8100.

Location

Bay Cafe, Bayshore Ballroom
1875 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto
www.BayCafeRestaurant.com
650-856-0999

Embarcadero East, past Ming’s, turn left into the Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course; from the parking lot, walk up the wide path toward the golf course buildings; the restaurant will be on the right.

Archives and Outlook

For developing Archives, check out the
SVII “First Wednesday” group at
SVII Society Online.

Stay in Touch

Wish to join our mailing list? Email friends@svii.org. Plan to join the SVII Innovation Society each “first Wednesday” of the month.

Keep checking here for program updates.

SVII Sustaining Innovation Program

Is sustaining innovation important to you? Consider a support gift, supporting or sustaining membership, or event sponsorship for the SVII Innovation Society. See Sustaining Innovation for details. SVII is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational organization.

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Puzzles, Mysteries, and Muddles: Problem Solving and Innovation

January 5, 2010 – 4:31 pm

Turning Vision into Value

If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, or if you’re visiting, please invite your friends and colleagues and join us for the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute’s Innovation Society 2010 Series…

SVII “First Wednesday” Innovation Society Meeting

January 6th, 2010
6:00 – 9:30 p.m.

Program: Puzzles, Mysteries, and Muddles: Problem Solving and Innovation

Guest Speaker: Jerry Talley, Organizational Development Consultant

We live in a world filled with problems that are more complex, more conflicted, and more interconnected than ever before. And yet we bring to this daunting challenge the same, linear problem solving model articulated in the 1950’s. Over the last 20+ years of consulting, some consultants have come to believe there are 6 types of problems in the world—not just one! And each type requires a different strategy for successful resolution. The “one size fits all” strategy we have grown up with will not suffice, if we are to address the volume and difficulty of modern day problems.

This limited view of problem solving has also limited our understanding of the role of innovation in problem solving. Each problem type calls for a different innovative focus.

When you discern the essential nature of any problem situation, you can pinpoint the most powerful strategy for addressing it, the point where innovation will add dramatic value rather than just variety, and the best role you can play in facilitating the process which often, if not usually involves improvisation.

Jerry Talley is the veteran of three careers. His first venture was on the faculty of Stanford University teaching in the Sociology Department for 18 years. Stanford was also the source of his PhD.

Coincident with that experience, he had a practice as a Marriage and Family Therapist for about ten years. He still sometimes lectures at Stanford and other Bay area schools on relationship issues.

Starting in the late 1970’s, he moved into organizational development consulting, accumulating over 250 client engagements since that time. For 16 years he managed the South Bay Organizational Development Network, a 500-member professional development group for HR, Training, and OD practitioners.

His clients have included companies in high tech R&D, hospitality, health care, the military, manufacturing, insurance, banking and credit unions, education, publishing, entertainment, mental health, city and county government, not-for-profits, and large consulting houses…and one organic grocery store.

Through all these experiences, his common focus was on how people think about and manage complex and troubling situations, and how they form relationships with each other (or not) in the process.

For more information, visit: http://jltalley.com/pages/aboutJLT.html.

Program Schedule:

6:00 Arrival and networking
6:45 Community buffet dinner
7:10 SVII Focus in 2010: The relationship between Improvisation and Innovation—brief discussion facilitated by SVII Founder Howard Richard Lieberman
7:30 Feature Presentation
8:30 Showing Up as an Innovation Advocate
9:30 Closing

Event fee – $30. Pay at the meeting or use PayPal to pre-pay by credit or debit card.


Location:

Bay Cafe, Bayshore Ballroom

1875 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto
www.BayCafeRestaurant.com

Drive down Embarcadero East, past Ming’s, turn left into the Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course; from the parking lot, walk up the wide path toward the golf course buildings; the restaurant will be on the right.

Restaurant direct line: 650-856-0999

Please be sure to RSVP at friends@svii.org.

Need to reach us at the last minute? Call 415-307-0645.

Archives and Outlook

To find past program archives, and the current outlook for future programs, see the SVII “First Wednesday” group of SVII Society Online. While you’re there, sign up as a member of our online community of Innovation Advocates.

Stay in Touch

Wish to join our mailing list? Email friends@svii.org. Plan to join the SVII Innovation Society each “first Wednesday” of the month.

Keep checking here for program updates.

SVII Sustaining Innovation Program

Is sustaining innovation important to you? Consider a support gift, supporting or sustaining membership, or event sponsorship for the SVII Innovation Society. See Sustaining Innovation for details. SVII is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational organization.

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Masdar City, UAE: World’s First Carbon-Neutral, Zero-Waste Community

December 1, 2009 – 11:12 pm

Turning Vision into Value

Invite your friends and colleagues and join us for the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute’s Innovation Society 2009 Series…

Next Meeting:

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
6:00 – 9:30 p.m.

Masdar City, UAE:
World’s First Carbon-Neutral, Zero-Waste Community

Guest Presenter: Karin Larsen, Masdar City Project

Masdar City is the expression of a vision. It represents Abu Dhabi’s multifaceted response to the challenges facing a sustainable future. The Masdar Initiative and Masdar City are positioning Abu Dhabi as a global leader and hub for the research and development of renewable energy and sustainable technology. The funding for Masdar comes from the Abu Dhabi government.

Masdar City’s aim is to become the Silicon Valley equivalent for clean, green and alternative energy; a global centre where over 1500 companies will converge to address one of man’s greatest challenges; a city where current and future technologies will be funded, researched, developed, tested and implemented. Masdar’s mandate is to champion renewable energy technologies, and to contribute to the diversification and sustainable growth of the Abu Dhabi economy into one that is industry-led and knowledge-based.

For more information, see www.masdarcity.com and www.masdar.ae.

Karin Larsen is the US Sales Representative for the Masdar City Property Development Unit, where she develops cross-border strategic partnerships and business relationships between Masdar City and US companies. Prior to this, she was a Senior Vice President at Gulf Capital Private Equity in the UAE, where she analyzed and executed investment opportunities in energy services, alternative energy, and technology/media. Previously, she established i2i Capital in Hong Kong, a boutique private placement and investment firm serving SMEs in Asia. In the cleantech sector, she has worked with companies active in electric vehicles, coal gasification, plastics recycling, nanomaterials, and water filtration.

Program Schedule:

6:00: Arrival and networking
6:45: Community buffet dinner
7:10: Appetizer Story—Developing Green Innovative Communities: Dr. James Caldwell
7:15: Introductions
7:30: Feature Presentation
8:30: Showing Up as an Innovation Advocate (optional sharing of innovation stories)
9:30: Closing

Event fee – $30. Pay at the meeting or use PayPal.


Location:

Bay Cafe, Bayshore Ballroom

1875 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto
www.BayCafeRestaurant.com

Drive down Embarcadero East, past Ming’s, turn left into the Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course; from the parking lot, walk up the wide path toward the golf course buildings; the restaurant will be on the right.

Restaurant direct line: 650-856-0999

Please be sure to RSVP at friends@svii.org.

Need to reach us at the last minute? Call 415-307-0645.

Archives and Outlook

To find past program archives, and the current outlook for future programs, see the SVII “First Wednesday” group of SVII Society Online. While you’re there, sign up as a member of our online community of Innovation Advocates.

Stay in Touch

Wish to join our mailing list? Email friends@svii.org. Plan to join the SVII Innovation Society each “first Wednesday” of the month.

Keep checking here for program updates.

SVII Sustaining Innovation Program

Is sustaining innovation important to you? Consider a support gift, supporting or sustaining membership, or event sponsorship for the SVII Innovation Society. See Sustaining Innovation for details. SVII is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational organization.

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Invest in Innovation by Growing Creativity: How to Love and not Fear the “C” Word Behind Innovation

November 1, 2009 – 1:00 am
Creativity, a presentation by Jakob Denk

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In a recent Silicon Valley Watcher post, Founder/Publisher Tom Foremski blogged about “10 Reasons Why This is a Great Time to Invest in Innovation.” At the end of his post, which listed many excellent reasons why now, in an economic downturn, it is an excellent time to innovate, Tom concluded with: “The next upturn will be led by what I call New Rules Enterprises, these are organizations that are highly efficient and have made the most of the economies of Internet 2.0.”

I agree with the ideas in Tom’s post, but I feel the need to add a few important thoughts to his last statement. Being highly efficient is often desirable, but only when accompanied by an allowance for creativity and free thinking that cannot always be timed precisely to the minute and packed neatly into a box.

The severity of our economic circumstances pressures organizations and their managers into cutting costs—and time—in many ways, often in what turns out to be a short-sighted attempt to sustain the company; but in the longer term, this damages its future by reigning in—or stifling—innovation. This not only bankrupts an organization’s future; it causes severe loss of employee morale, especially when coupled with lay-offs and stacking extra responsibilities on the shoulders of the employees that remain. Employees often end up feeling anxious, yet apathetic, which is the antithesis of what we think of as the “flow” state required to create, to enjoy one’s life and work, and to feel fulfilled.

Following are two video clips from the TED Talks, from a best-selling author, and a psychologist who has devoted his life’s work to the study of creativity and innovation in business. I hope you’ll feel inspired and renewed by watching them. They each passionately remind us that creativity is the main ingredient in innovation, and instead of being afraid of the “C” word, which often seems to suggest images of being too wild and out of control compared to the tamer “innovation”—we must embrace creativity and encourage creative thinking in all employees to gain the most benefit for our organization’s or project’s development and sustainable growth.

First, here is Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the best-seller, Eat, Pray, Love, who both moves and humors us about our fears of creativity and teaches us something valuable about how to cope with both “successes” and “failures”:

Next, a TED video from a master of creativity—the psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi talks about the concept of Flow, also the name of his first classic book on the creative process, and being engaged in a focused state of ecstasy. Using examples from his studies of creativity and innovation in composers, authors, corporate CEOs and his own students, he discusses how human happiness is related to creativity and living in the state of flow, and how to achieve it:

We might remember this quote from one of our most creative advertising trailblazers:

“The majority of businessmen are incapable of original thought because they are unable to escape from the tyranny of reason.” — David Ogilvy

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