Special Events
Monday, August 23
11:00-12:00 Mars Exploration Robers -- A View from the Inside
Keynote: Robert Denise, JPL
Robert Denise was a member of the Flight Software Development Team for the Mars Exploration Rovers, and is currently on the Rover Engineering Team supporting mission operations. He has been with Jet Propulsion Laboratory for about a dozen years working on four missions to Mars, and one of the instruments on the Cassini mission to Saturn.
6:45-8:45 Outsourcing Engineering Development Offshore
Panel Discussion
John Nickolls of NVIDIA will moderate this panel discussion. Panelists include T.J. Rodgers (Cypress Semiconductor), Vinod Dham (NewPath Ventures), Natasha Humphries (TechsUnite), Ron Hira (IEEE-USA, Rochester Inst. Technology), and Carl Everett (Accel Partners.)
Tuesday, August 24th
10:30-11:30 Nanotech and the Future of Moore's Law
Keynote: Steve Jurvetson, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Steve Jurvetson is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He was the founding VC investor in Hotmail (MSFT), Interwoven (IWOV), and Kana (KANA). He also led the firm's investments in Tradex and Cyras (acquired by Ariba and Ciena for $8B), and most recently, in pioneering companies in nanotechnology and molecular electronics.