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The French-American Chamber of Commerce of San
Francisco
cordially invites you to join us for a:
High-Tech Exchange Panel
Discussion
Who pays for
software: new and old software business models - What's next?
A panel discussion on the state of the software business
Thursday, May 11th
from 6pm
At Bingham McCutchen,
1900 University Avenue
East Palo Alto, CA 94303
See Directions
Two years ago, the FACCSF
organized a panel discussion titled "Is Software dead?" with
George Kadifa, CEO of Corio , Marc Benioff, CEO of
salesforce.com, Heinz Ulrich Roggenkemper, executive VP at SAP,
Brian Behlendorf, CTO of CollabNet, and Director, of the Apache
Software Foundation, and Donna Boyer, VP Product Management at
DigitalThink Inc.
Corio has been acquired by IBM.
salesforce.com is now a driving force in on-demand enterprise
software, and lead giants like SAP to launch competing on-line
CRM offerings. Open source is everywhere. Software delivered as
a service is --at last-- a viable business model. We have seen
renewed dynamism in the software industry over the last two
years, albeit not for every software company. New channels, new
business models have reshaped the business.
In that context, we are asking the questions :
. What is a software company today?
. What's next for software as a service?
. How far will open source go to reshape the industry?
. Is the traditional licensed based software business dead?
. What is the value of intellectual property in this new
landscape? . Does digital rights management have a role to play?
. Web 2.0 is all about software: fad or must-have? . How
will software continue to be this incredible melting pot for
technical and business innovation?
. What is the future of software?
Join an exceptional group of software executives who will :
. share their vision of the current state and future of the
software business,
. answers your questions to understand what is at stake in the
industry
The event will start with a short presentation of each
panelist's opinion on the state and future of software, and will
be followed by an hour of discussions and questions and answers
with the audience.
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This
event is a unique chance to meet top executives with insights
into market opportunities, competitive threats, technical
trends, emerging markets, and development strategies. Each
conference attracts upwards to 50 attendees and decision makers
in their field, and each conference represents a new opportunity
for networking and
meeting potential partners and opinion makers. Over the past 5
years, the conferences from the High Tech Committee have brought
dozens of key people from the Bay Area together. Typical
attendees include CEO, CIO, Vice Presidents (IT, Business
Development, Marketing), Partners and Consultants. Usual
industries represented include Venture Capital, Law firms,
International Development and Management Consulting, Software
and Hardware vendors, and Governmental Representation.
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Moderator:
Josh Stein is a Director and Kauffman Fellow
at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, where he focuses on investments in
wireless communications, software infrastructure/applications
and consumer services. His current board responsibilities
include EVDB, Pictureal, Polaris Wireless, SugarCRM and ViVOTech.
Prior to joining DFJ, Josh was a Vice President at Telephia,
where he managed a group providing strategic analysis and
information to the nation’s largest wireless carrier.
Previously, Josh was a co-founder, Director and the Chief
Strategy Officer for ViaFone (XTND), a leading provider of
wireless applications to Fortune 1000 enterprises. Josh has
previously held positions in product management at Microsoft and
NetObjects and was a management consultant in the San Francisco
office of The Boston Consulting Group. Josh has been engaged as
a strategic consultant and advisor by Tripath Technologies (TRPH),
Mikohn Inc (MIKN), E-Quill (MSFT) and FutureDial. Josh holds a
BA from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the Stanford
University Graduate School of Business.
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Speakers:
Brian
Behlendorf,
founding member of the Apache Group, founder and CTO of
CollabNet.
Brian Behlendorf founded CollabNet, with O'Reilly & Associates, in July 1999.
The company provides tools and services based on open source methods. Before launching CollabNet, Behlendorf was co-founder and CTO of Organic Online, a Web design and engineering consultancy located in San Francisco. During his five years at Organic, Behlendorf helped create Internet strategies for dozens of Fortune 500 companies.
During that time, he co-founded and contributed heavily to the Apache Web Server Project, co-founded and supported the VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) effort, and assisted several IETF working groups, particularly the HTTP standardization effort. Before starting Organic, Behlendorf was the first Chief Engineer at Wired Magazine and later HotWired, one of the first large-scale publishing Web sites.
Brian is currently a Director of the Mozilla Foundation and a retired Director and President of the Apache Software Foundation.
Philippe Courtot, Chairman and CEO,
Qualys.
Demonstrating a unique mix of technical vision, marketing and
business acumen, Philippe Courtot has repeatedly built
innovative companies into industry leaders. As CEO of Qualys,
Philippe has worked with thousands of companies to improve their
network security. In 2004, Philippe received the SC Magazine
Editor's Award for bringing on demand technology to the network
security industry and for co-founding, with former White House
advisor Howard Schmidt, the CSO Interchange to provide a forum
for sharing information in the security industry.
Before joining Qualys, Philippe was the Chairman and CEO of
Signio, an electronic payment start-up that he repositioned to
become a significant e-commerce player. In February 2000,
VeriSign acquired Signio for more than a billion dollars. Prior
to Signio, Philippe was President and CEO of Verity, where he
re-engineered the company to become the leader in enterprise
knowledge retrieval solutions. Under Philippe's direction, the
company completed its initial public offering in November 1995.
Philippe also turned an unknown company of 12 people, cc:Mail,
into the dominant e-mail platform provider, achieving a 40%
market share while competing directly against IBM and Microsoft.
Acknowledging the market leading position of cc:Mail and the
significance of e-mail in corporate environments, Lotus acquired
the company in 1991. In 1986, as CEO of Thomson CGR Medical, a
medical imaging company, Philippe received the Benjamin Franklin
award for his role in the creation of a nationwide advertising
campaign promoting the life-saving benefits of mammography.
Philippe served on the Board of Trustees for The Internet
Society, an international non-profit organization that fosters
global cooperation and coordination on the development of the
Internet. French and Basque born, he holds a Masters Degree in
Physics from the University of Paris, came to the US in 1981 and
has lived in Silicon Valley since 1987.
Marten Mickos,
CEO MySQL.
A native of Finland, Mårten Mickos holds a strong track record of leadership in global high-tech companies. Since joining MySQL in 2001, he has developed a profitable, sustainable business based on both open source values and support for corporate customers' needs.
The company's eponymous flagship database is now the world's most popular open source database, with more than 6 million active installations.
Prior to MySQL, Mickos was CEO at MatchON Sports, which he grew to become one of the hottest e-businesses in Europe at the time. He was previously CEO at telecom software vendor Intellitel Communications.
Prior to that, he directed worldwide sales efforts at several technology companies.
Bernard
Pech,
CTO of Salesforces.com.
Bernard Pech is the Chief Technology Officer of worldwide operations at salesforce.com. Pech is responsible for launching the salesforce.com CIO Advisory Board, engaging enterprise customers in their Salesforce CRM deployments as well as adoption of salesforce.com’s AppExchange on-demand platform, collaborating on development of the company’s on-demand roadmap, and evangelizing the on-demand model amongst the CIO community.
Pech joins salesforce.com with more than 25 years of experience in information systems and expertise in the design, definition, program management, selling and implementation of solutions. Most recently, he was the Chief Technology Officer at Siebel Systems where he developed and
promoted Siebel’s next generation technology, leveraging years of customer relationships and working closely with engineering to ensure a high level of service delivery. During his seven-year tenure at Siebel, Pech also managed the “Infrastructure and Technology” product marketing and product management organization and helped define and position the Siebel eBusiness Platform. Prior to that, Pech held a variety of executive-level engineering and business strategy positions at IA Corporation, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Systems Industries.
Pech is a graduate from University of Paris, with a degree in Mathematics and holds an advanced degree in Telecommunications Civil Engineering from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley.
John Robb, VP of Marketing and Product
Management, Zimbra
John Robb is currently the VP of Marketing and Product
Management at Zimbra where is supervises the go to market plans
for the Zimbra Collaboration Suite. Prior to Zimbra, John was
the Director of Messaging Products at Openwave Systems (OPWV).
John managed the business and product strategy for the mobile
messaging group which included the multimedia messaging (MMS),
voice mail and instant messaging product lines. Prior to
Openwave, John held director-level roles at Mspect (acquired by
Telephia) and Cellmania where he was responsible for leading the
teams that defined product strategy and go to market planning.
John has also worked at McKinsey in Europe, Chase Bank in online
banking and brokerage and at SBC in new product development.
John has an MBA from Chicago GSB, as well as a B.A. in Political
Science and a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from
Northwestern University.
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French American Chamber of Commerce
info@faccsf.com
Tel:
415 442 4717 / Fax: 415 442 4621
703 Market Street, Suite 450 - San Francisco, CA 94103
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Prior to the
event
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Any cancellation within a 5-day period of the scheduled date will
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