SVCWireless seminar-- "Mobile In Crisis: How to Survive and Thrive through the Economic Tsunami", on March 10th, 2009 March 10, 2009

We are pleased to announce a seminar, "Mobile In Crisis: How to Survive and Thrive through the Economic Tsunami", on March 10th, 2009. The seminar details are as follows.

Date: Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Time: 6:30 -- 7:00 pm Registration and Networking
7:00 -- 9:00 pm Panel Discussion
Location:
Plug and Play Technology Center
440 N. Wolfe Road, Sunnyvale, CA 94085

Registration: https://www.123signup.com/register?id=zdsrx

Advanced Registration (By 12 pm, March 10th, 2008):
Regular Member: Free
Associate/Non-Member: $20
Student: $5
On-Site Registration:
Regular Member: $10
Associate/Non-Member: $30
Student: $15

Contacts:
Qiming Huang, [email protected]
Yuan Tian, [email protected]

With the latest finance crisis and stock market crash, both business and individuals are facing significant challenges: Big corporations are cutting cost and downsizing workforce while startups are struggling with shrinking market and drying capital sources. The soft job market makes people more cautious about the future.

However, the storm and darkness should not prohibit us from looking for brightness and opportunities. The old wisdom tells us that crisis is always accompanied by opportunities. Google is Google because it survived and thrived through the internet bubble burst. In the upcoming era of Mobile Internet, who will be the next Google? How will the landscape of mobile ecosystem look like after the storm retreats? What will be the next killer apps to drive the changes?

For this panel discussion, we invite high-level executives and entrepreneurs from industry leaders, carriers, end devices manufactures, mobile application providers, venture capitalists and analysts to discuss various aspects of the mobile ecosystem in this lifetime challenging time.

Moderator:
Earl Lum, President, EJL Wireless Research LLC

Speakers:
Richard Lim, Managing Director, GSR Ventures
Junbo Liu, Executive Vice President, VanceInfo Technologies
Michael Mace, Principle, Rubicon Consulting
Bill Maggs, Head of Developer and Partner Engagement, Sony Ericsson

Speaker Bios:

Richard Lim, Managing Director, GSR Ventures

Richard manages the GSR Silicon Valley office, and focuses on investments in the Internet and green technology.

Prior to GSR, Richard founded three venture-backed Internet and software companies in the United States. He was also an executive at
Lotus Development Corporation.

Richard grew up in Singapore and has a MBA from Stanford University
(Arjay Miller Scholar) and a Bachelor degree from National University of Singapore.

Richard is a Charter member of Asia America MultiTechnology Association
(AAMA).

Earl Lum, President, EJL Wireless Research LLC

EJL Wireless Research is managed by Earl Lum. Mr. Lum has 16 years of experience within the wireless industry. Prior to starting EJL Wireless Research, Mr. Lum was the Managing Director of the Wireless Technology Equity Research sector for Montgomery & Co. Before joining Montgomery & Co., Mr. Lum spent 7 years as the Executive Director for the Wireless Technology Equity Research group at CIBC World Markets. His team pioneered the methodology of supply chain analysis for equity research within the wireless sector. Mr. Lum also established core research areas focusing on compound semiconductor technologies including: GaAs, SiGe, InP, SiC and GaN.

Prior to joining Wall Street, Mr Lum also served as senior research analyst at Gartner Group/Dataquest. He established the wireless semiconductor research platform and pioneered research in the emerging GaAs compound semiconductor market.

Mr Lum also worked as Senior RF Design Engineer for Tyco Electronics
M/A-Com, RF Transistor R&D Engineering Manager for Spectrian
Corporation and Product Engineer at National Semiconductor Corporation.

Mr. Lum holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of
California, Santa Barbara

Junbo Liu, Executive Vice President & Chief Business Development
Officer, VanceInfo Technologies Inc.

Dr. Junbo Liu is Executive Vice President and Chief Business
Development Officer in charge of Global Sales and Marketing at VanceInfo Technologies Inc. His duties include global business development, worldwide marketing planning, and strategic management.

Dr. Liu has deep expertise and rich experience in the IT industry.
Prior to his appointment as CBO, Dr. Liu was the head of VanceInfo's R&D Services business unit. Before joining VanceInfo in 2005, he served as senior VP at IT service provider SureKAM. He also has over 18 years of overseas product development experience where he worked at various Silicon Valley companies in the role of founder, CEO, VP of technology, and other management positions.

Junbo is also socially active in helping communities leverage and promote new technologies. He has served as chief representative for China Ecommerce Association in the Silicon Valley, and as a member of the selection committee of California Next Generation Internet (NGI) program in 2002.

Dr Liu's background includes degrees from China and Germany. He graduated from Tsinghua University with a Bachelor degree, received a Master of Science degree from the Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Science, and received his PhD in Computer Science from University Bremen, Germany. He also obtained a U.S. Air Force software award for his outstanding work in building a high performance resource allocation system.

Michael Mace, Principal, Rubicon Consulting

Michael Mace is the Principal of Rubicon Consulting, a high tech consultancy specializing in market and product definition, go-to-market planning, business model optimization, and competitive war-planning.

Prior to joining Rubicon consulting in 2005, Michael was the Chief Competitive Officer / Vice-President of Strategic Marketing of PalmSource, where he led a worldwide initiative to define the market potential for handhelds and smartphones. Michael was Vice-President of Product Planning and Chief Competitive Officer of Palm Inc. from 1999 to 2001. Before Palm, Michael also served as Director of Mac Platform
Marketing and a lot of other management roles at Apple. He also founded Century Software, the world's first downloadable PostScript font company.

Michael got his BA in International Relations, with departmental honors from UCLA.

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