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THURSDAY, MAY 17
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Registration and Networking
2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Welcome
Emcee: Bob Metcalfe, Professor of Innovation, UT Cockrell School of Engineering
Opening Remarks by:
- The Honorable, Sen. John Cornyn
- Joel Trammell, CEO, CacheIQ, Chairman, ATC
- Mike Rollins, President, Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce
- Bryan Jones, Chair, GACC Technology Partnership
2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Opening Keynote, The Vision of Tech for Texas
- Graham Weston, Chairman, Rackspace
2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Why Texas
- Ketan Patel, Group Head, Enterprise Americas, Google
3:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Creating Lasting Value Tech Companies
- Brett Hurt, CEO, Bazaarvoice
- Mark Settle, CIO, BMC
3:45 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Top Three Things Every Tech Leader Should Know
- Trevor Schulze, VP of IT, AMD
- Lance Obermeyer, CTO, Digby
- Kevin Meek, Partner, Baker Botts L.L.P.
- Moderator: Janelle Monney, CEO, Monney Group
4:30 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Setting the Compensation Trend
- Bill Arend, GM, Oracle Corporation
- Kip McClanahan, Partner, Silverton Partners
- Matt Chasen, CEO, uShip
- Kevin Reinis, CEO, Flocasts
- Moderator: John Price, CEO, Vast
5:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Special Presentation, Gibson Guitar
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Executive Mixer
FRIDAY, MAY 18
8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
Networking Breakfast
8:30 a.m.
Welcome Remarks & Emcee: Manoj Saxena, General Manager, IBM Watson Solutions
8:30 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
Why I Moved My Company To California
- James Beshara, Co-founder, Crowdtilt
- Frank Coppersmith, COO, GameSalad
- Matt Pfeil, Co-founder, DataStax
- Tom Serres, CEO, Rally
- Moderator, Laura Beck, Stripedshirts.com
9:15 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Outsourcing 2.0: Europe & Mexico
- Mauricio Antunez, President, Axen
- Paul Walsh, CFO, Silicon Labs
- Ross Buhrdorf, CTO, Homeaway
- Kenneth Cho, CSO/Co-founder, Spredfast
- Moderator: Linhard Stepf, President, Frankfurt RheinMain Corp.
10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
The Impact of Open Source Cloud
- Todd Moore, Director Infrastructure Standards and Partnerships, IBM
- Cole Crawford, Director of Technology, Nebula
- Joseph George, Director of Product Strategy and Marketing for Cloud and Big Data Solutions, Dell
- Mark Interrante, VP of Cloud Products, Rackspace
- Moderated by: Jim Curry, Founder, OpenStack
10:45 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
“Outside Perspective- The Investor’s Perception of Tech in Texas”
- Jimmy Treybig, Venture Partner, NEA
- David Orlandella, Principal, ORIX Ventures
- John Stockton, Venture Partner, Mayfield Fund
- Moderator: Michael Rosenberg, Northside Advisors
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Startup Showdown
Judges to-date include:
- Austin Ventures
- DFJ Mercury
- Silverton Partners
- G51
- NEA
- ORIX Ventures
- Mayfield



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