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
     

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