• 01/13/09 VC Outlook 2009 event
• [SDForum] State of the Clean Green Industry
  
• [Monte Jade] Chancellor Tien Forum: The Power of Failure

Slides from the 1/13/09 event are here.

State of the Clean Green Industry

Location: Sun Microsystems, 4030 George Sellon Circle in Santa Clara
Date: January 30, 2009
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m

Register:  Online at www.sdforum.org/cleanenergy

Entrepreneurs, tech executives, investors, policy-makers, and other stakeholders have been analyzing the burgeoning clean energy industry, both from the technology side and from the business opportunity side. From the technology side, we are leveraging learning’s and successes from many industries, from the semi-conductor and automobile industry to the nanotechnology and life science industries, to the chemistry and geology industries. From the business side, we are seeing the potential global impact of clean energy solutions, identifying the need for partnerships locally and globally, and examining the implications of policy on clean energy entrepreneurs. This annual event will bring together policy-makers, corporate executives, entrepreneurs and investors, presenting differing perspectives on the ‘State of the Clean Green Industry’.

Opening Keynote: Mayor Chuck Reed, City of San Jose

"Where’s the Green in Clean"
Kjerstin Barley, GE Commercial Finance
Steve Eichenlaub, Intel Capital
Nancy Pfund, CalCEF
Laurie Yoler, GrowthPoint Technology Ventures
Moderated by Silicon Valley Bank

"Doing Well While Doing Good"
Annette Finsterbusch, Applied Ventures, LLC
John Skinner, Intel Corporation
Rich Lechner, IBM
TBD, Hewlett Packard
TBD, SAP
TBD, Sun Microsystems

“Clean Green Success Stories”
Tom Balkum, Balkrete
Donnie Foster, Power Assure
Matt Golden, Sustainable Spaces
Peter Kim, Telio Solar
Jason Wolf, A Better Place
Moderated by Dan Lankford, Wavepoint Ventures

To register please visit the following link: www.sdforum.org/cleanenergy

** Discount Code (CSPA Members): SDFP09 **

Price: Non-Member $85, Member price $65, Platinum Pass $25
Price at the door $100

The Power of Failure

Speaker:  Mr. Chih-Kai Cheng, Co-Founder and General Partner, Harbinger Venture

Date:    February 12 (Thursday), 2009
Time:    6:30-8:30pm
Place:   ITRI, 2870 Zanker Road, Suite 140,
             San Jose, CA 95134

Register: please visit www.montejade.org
Please register in advance and pay on site;

Fee: Member & Student $5, Non-Member $10,
extra $5 for site registration

Speech is delivered in English
Tea, coffee, water and snacks are provided

Mr. Cheng is the co-founder and General Partner of Harbinger Venture, a pan-Pacific venture capital firm actively investing in US, Taiwan, and China.
 
Mr. Cheng currently sits on the boards of Cardiva, Envivio, General Photonics, and Quintic. His previous investment includes Actrans (acquired by SSTI), Arques (acquired by California Micro Devices), Celestry (acquired by Cadence), Centrality (acquired by SiRF), Paxera (acquired by NeoPhotonics), Plaxo (acquired by Comcast), Synnex (listed in NYSE), and Tasman Networks (acquired by Nortel).
 
Prior to founding Harbinger Venture in 2000 with the anchor investment from MiTAC/Synnex Group, Mr. Cheng was Senior Vice President of Product Marketing at Synnex (NYSE:SNX). In his 8-year tenure with Synnex, he held various management responsibilities ranging from product line management, engineering, manufacturing operations, new business development, to corporate development. Prior to joining Synnex, Mr. Cheng was in charge of American MiTAC, MiTAC’s US operations which later became a business unit under Synnex.
 
In the area of community service, Mr.Cheng was the Chairman of Monte Jade Science and Technology Association, a prominent Chinese association of technology and business professionals in Bay Area, in 2007. He also writes regularly for several magazines on business thoughts, trends, and philosophy. 
 
Mr. Cheng received his MBA from National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, and B.S.in Physics from National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan.