Past Speakers

SVOD 2009

Keynote Speakers

Sergei Beloussov, CEO, Parallels
Steve Blank, Serial Entrepreneur; Founder, Epiphany, Lecturer, Stanford University, Graduate School of Engineering
Charles Giancarlo, Managing Director, Silver Lake
Guy Kawasaki, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures
Vinod Khosla, Founding Partner, Khosla Ventures

Speakers

Saeed Amidi, CEO, President &Founder Plug and Play Tech Center Founding General Partner, Amidzad
Alexei Andreev, Ph.D. Executive Vice President/Managing Director, Harris & Harris Group; Co-Founder, AmBAR
Eric Buatois, General Partner, Sofinnova Ventures
Ron Conway, Founding General Partner, Angel Investors LP
Konstantin Demetriou, Managing Director, RUSNANO
Dmitry Dubograev, Partner, Femida LLP
Anna S. Dvornikova, President, AmBAR
Esther Dyson, Director, 23andMe
Alexander Egorov, CEO & Co-Founder, Reksoft
Isaac Fehrenbach, Principal, Greylock Partners
David Feinleib, Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures
Joshua Goldman, General Partner, Norwest Venture Partners
Leonid Gozman, Board Member, RUSNANO
Doug Hamilton, Managing Director, SVB Capital
Franklin Pitch Johnson, Founding Partner, Asset Management Company
Kittu Kolluri, General Partner, New Enterprise Associates
Adam Lashinsky, Editor at Large, Fortune Magazine
Ping Li, General Partner, Accel Partners
Phil Libin, CEO, Evernote
Gary Little, Partner, Morgenthaler Ventures
Peter Loukianoff, Partner, Almaz Capital Partners
Vivek Mehra, General Partner, August Capital (Internet)
Bo Parker, Managing Director, Center for Technology and Innovation, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Pavel Pogodin, Partner, Sughrue Mion LLP
Ilya Ponomarev, Chairman, Hi-Tech Development Subcommittee, Russian State Duma
Jason Pressman, General Partner, Shasta Ventures
Mike Selfridge, Northern California Region Manager, Silicon Valley Bank
Aydin Senkut, GP from Felicis Ventures
Vimal Solanki, Vice President, McAfee
Matthew Trevithick, General Partner, Venrock
Evgeni Utkin, CEO, Kvazar-Micro, voted the Best Ukrainian Entrepreneur
Dmitry Vasyutinsky, Managing Director Private Equity&Venture Capital, Allianz ROSNO

SVOD 2008

Keynote Speakers

Peter Ciurea, Chief Technology Officer, Visa
Esther Dyson, Director, 23andMe, Principal, EDventure Holdings (sold to CNet), investor in Flickr and del.icio.us (both sold to Yahoo!) & Medstory (sold to Microsoft)
Guy Kawasaki, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures
Daniel Rosensweig, Operating Principal, Quadrangle Group LLC; formerly COO of Yahoo!; President of CNET Networks; CEO of ZDNet, Inc.

Speakers

John Balbach , Managing Partner, Cleantech Group
Dmitry Balin, CEO, DB Best Technologies LLC and Pikaba.com
Arkady Borkovsky,CTO, Yandex Labs
Peter Burris, Principal Analyst, Research Director, Forrester Research
Jeff Clavier, Founder & Managing Partner, SoftTech VC
Matt Cohler, General Partner, Benchmark Capital; formerly VP of Product Management, Facebook; Vice President & General Manager, LinkedIn
Barry Cowan, Manager International Brand Strategies, Cisco
Dmitri Dubograev, Founder & Managing Partner, femida.us
Anna Dvornikova, President, AmBAR; CEO, Entana Corp
Richard Guha, President, MENG, Partner, MaxBrandEquity
Pitch Johnson, Founding Partner, Asset Management Company
Stas Khirman, Founder and CTO, Khirman & Son LLC
Natasha Krol, Managing Partner, Alexander & Krol Executive Search
Dmitry Lisenkov, Managing Director, Investments, Rusnano
Peter Loukianoff, Managing Partner, Almaz Capital Partners
Kirill Makharinsky, Co-Founder, YouNoodle
Mickey Mantle, SVP of Development, Gracenote Inc.
Bill Mirbach, VP, Innovation and Marketing Processes, Intuit Inc.
Nikolay Mitushin, Investment Director, ABRT Venture Fund
Christine Peterson, President, Foresight Institute
Pavel Pogodin, Partner, Sughrue Mion PLLC
Julia Pogodina, Principal, IBCI Law Group
Amy Rubin, Head of Brand Strategy, SanDisk Corporation
Ilya Shirokov, Co-Founder, MoiKrug
Dmitri Simonenko, President and CEO of Innalabs Inc, Founder & CEO, Plesk
Evgeny Zaytsev, M.D., Ph.D., Partner, Asset Management Company

SVOD 2007

Speakers

Yuri Ammosov, Senior Policy Officer, Russian Government
Dan Avida, General Partner, Opus Capital
Richard M. Brenner, President & C.E.O., The Brenner Group, Inc.
Peter Buhl, Partner, Blue Run Ventures
Rudi Burger, Managing Partner, Woodside Capital Partners
Peter Burris, Founding Member, Wikibon Project
Sondra Card, Founder & Managing Director, Retained Search & Recruiting Strategy Consulting
Baris Cetinok, Director of Product Management and Marketing, Microsoft Office Live Small Business, Microsoft
Albert Cha, Managing Partner, Vivo Ventures
Stan Chudnovsky, Co-Founder of Ooga Labs; Former Co-Founder of Tickle, SVP of Monster
Kelly DePonte, Partner, Probitas Partners
Salil Deshpande, Partner, BayPartners
Dr. Rafiq Dossani, Senior Research Scholar, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Reseach Center, Stanford University
Tom Fountain, Principal, Mayfield Fund
Alan I. Fraser, President and Chief Executive Officer, Astoria Software
Alexander “Sasha” Galitsky, Managing Partner, Almaz Capital Partners
Naren Gupta, Founding Managing Director, Nexus India Capital
Quentin Hardy, Silicon Valley Bureau Chief, Forbes magazine
Vladimir Jacimovic, Partner, New Enterprise Associates
Franklin "Pitch" Johnson, Founding Partner, Asset Management Company
Kip Knight, Vice-President of Marketing, eBay
Natasha Krol, Managing Partner, Alexander & Krol Executive Search
Alexis Langagne, Program Office Director, World Wide Technology Solutions Group, Hewlett Packard
Gene Linetsky, Founder and CEO, CBMS Networks, Inc.; Founder and CEO, PaintPoker, Inc.
Peter Loukianoff, Partner, Alloy Ventures
Avery Lyford, President and Chief Executive Officer, Digisense Inc.
Matt Marshall, Co-founder, VentureBeat
Andy Mattes, Senior Vice President and Chief Sales Officer, Technology Solutions Group, Hewlett-Packard
Ron Moritz, Managing Director, Moritz Technology Corporation
Will Price, Managing Director, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
Peter Redford, CEO and Chairman, TV Interactive Corp
Yan Ryazantsev, Investment Director, Russian Venture Company
Mike Selfridge, Head of Global Products Division, SVB Financial Group
Aydin Senkut, Founder and President, Felicis Ventures
Steve Stephansen, President, Sand Hill Angels, Inc.
Bill Tai, Partner, Charles River Ventures
Eldad Tamir, President and Joint CEO, Tamir Fishman Group
Mark Tsimelzon, Founder, President and CTO, Coral8
James M. Vickery, Partner, DLA Piper
Tony Wasserman, Director of the Software Management MS Program, Carnegie Mellon West; Executive Director, Center for Open Source Investigation (COSI)
Randy Williams, Founder and CEO, Keiretsu Forum
Don Wood, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Jeffrey Yu, Managing Director, The Angels' Forum
George Zachary, Partner, Charles River Ventures

SVOD 2006

Speakers

Yuri Ammosov, Senior Policy Officer, Russian Government
Dan Avida, General Partner, Opus Capital
Vladimir Bilodid, Director General, United Software Corporation
Allen Blue, Co-Founder and VP Product Strategy, LinkedIn
Oleg Byakhov, Head of Information Society Department, Ministry of ICT, Russia
Tom Byers, Professor Faculty Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program
Shlomo Caine, Managing Director of Strategic Investments Intel Capital
Navin Chaddha, Managing Director, Mayfield Fund
Philippe Cases, Partner, Partech International
Chuck DeVita, Partner, Growth Process Group
Timothy C. Draper, Founder, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Kirk Dunn, CEO, PowerFile
Ira Ehrenpreis, General Partner, Technology Partners
Alexander Galitsky, Partner, RTVP, Private investor and Entrepreneur
Olena Hantsyak-Kaskiv , Deputy Director of InvestUkraine
Franklin 'Pitch' Johnson, Founding Partner, Asset Management
Anatoly Karachinsky, Founder & CEO, IBS Group
Paul Koenig, VP of Marketing, Transparency Software
Edward Kozel, President and CEO, Skyrider
Gene Linetsky, Vice President, Endpoint Products for Check Point Software Technologies
Serhiy Loboyko, Managing Director, Techinvest
Peter Loukianoff, Partner, Alloy Ventures
Lydia Mazzie, Senior Program Manager, Google
John P. Morgridge, Chairman of the Board, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Albina Nikkonen, Executive Director, Russian Venture Capital Association (RVCA)
Sergey Plotkin, Venture Partner, Opus Capital
Hans van Rietschote, Senior Director, Technology Scouting Group, Symantec
Jake Seid, General Partner, Lightspeed Venuture Partners
Beth Seidenberg, MD, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Leon Shklar, Head of technology, Reuters Media
Andrew Sviridenko, SPIRIT Founder and Chairman
Rob Theis, General Partner, Doll Capital Management

SVOD 2005

Keynote Speakers

Franklin "Pitch" Johnson, Founding Partner, Asset Management Company
John P. Morgridge, Chairman of the Board, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Alexander Stepanov, Principal Scientist, Adobe Systems

Panelists

Alexei Andreev, Ph.D., Managing Director and Executive Vice President, Harris & Harris Group
Daniel L. Appelman, Partner, Heller, Ehrman, White, & McAuliffe
Serguei Beloussov, CEO, SWsoft
Gary Benton, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Vladimir Bilodid, CEO, United Software Corporation
Charles Breed, Senior Director, Business Development M&A, Symantec
Dr. Albert Cha, Managing Partner, Vivo Ventures
Brad W. Crawford, Director Licensing, Amgen, Inc.
Juha Christensen, ex-vice president of Microsoft, President of Sonopia Inc.
Byron Deeter, Venture Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners
Kirk Dunn, CEO, PowerFile
Esther Dyson, Founder, EDventure Holdings
Chuck Erickson, Managing Director, San Jose Software Business Cluster
Sergey Filippov, Head of Press Service, AFK "Sistema"
Dave Girouard, General Manager, Google Enterprise
Michael Herne, Director of Engineering, Cisco Systems
Charles A. Holloway, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers Professor of Management, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Christopher Hummel, Vice President, Services Marketing and Business Development, Oracle Corporation
Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Igor Y. Khandros, CEO, FormFactor
Mark Kvamme, Partner, Sequoia Capital
Roman Kyzyk, Managing Partner, DFJ Nexus
Max Levchin, Founder and CEO, Slide; co-founder and former CTO, PayPal
Boris Lipkin, President and CEO, Therma-Wave, Inc.
Serhiy Loboyko, Managing Director, TECHINVEST
Peter Loukianoff, Partner, Alloy Ventures
Kira Makagon, President of Ventures and Alliances, Exigen
John Malloy, Managing General Partner, BlueRun Ventures
Alec Miloslavsky, Chairman, Head of Product Development & Strategy, Exigen
Alexander Miroshnichenko, Vice President of Engineering, PowerFile
Anurag Mendhekar, Founder and President, Blue Vector Systems
Rajeev Motwani, Founder, Dot Edu Ventures; Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
Chris Nadan, Associate General Counsel and Director for Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Jason Rao, Director BioIndustry Initiative
Nikolay Savchuk, President, ChemDiv Inc.
Barry M. Sherman, Executive Vice President, Development, BiPar Sciences, Inc.
Ilya A. Strebulaev, Assistant Professor of Finance, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Krishna Subramanian, Sr. Director, Software, Corporate Strategy & Development, Sun Microsystems
William Vass, Chief Information Officer, Senior Vice President, Information Technology, Sun Microsystems
Maria Villani, Founder and CEO, Villani R&D, Villani-MD, and Villani-MD Skin Therapeutics
Artiom Yukhin, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, A4Vision, Inc.
George Zachary, Partner, Charles River Ventures
Dr. Evgeny Zaytsev, Principal, Asset Management Company