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Join the leaders of the Social Data Revolution and create amazing possibilities for your startup!

It’s time to drop the ancient mindsets about what products should look like, and focus on the next generation of killer apps!  It is DAY ONE of exploring and exploiting what is possible in this new era of social data.

Join us as SF New Tech peels back the curtain on the “Social Data Revolution” to learn why life as we know it will never be the same.

On February 23rd, Andreas Weigend, former Chief Scientist for Amazon, will keynote and lead an all-star panel about the life- and business-changing ramifications of the proliferation of social data — the Social Data Revolution.

Panelists:

• Eric Ly, Founder & CEO, Presdo; Co-Founder, LinkedIn
• Christian Wiklund, CEO, Skout
• Joe Stump, Co-Founder & CTO, SimpleGeo
• Lars Leckie, Partner, Hummer Winblad
• Michael Sha, CEO, Wikiinvest

Every day, we are being trained to share more-and-more information about ourselves.  And now, more than ever, information about your location, relationship status, and even your medical history and banking habits, are joining your emails, texts, clicks, searches, IMs, purchasing habits, and more in an ever-growing river of data that is freely flowing into the darkness.

Or is it flowing into the light?

Data mining is no longer the process of digging through data morgues to uncover scraps of still-viable information.  There’s gold in them thar hills and success in the online marketplace now hinges on understanding how and why people create and share their data.

Get a front row seat to the Revolution!

We’ll tackle these important questions:

• How will you build a customer-centric, customer delighting product, that takes full advantages of the possibilities that social data provides (customer intent, social distribution, and individual context)?
• How do you get your users, and how to you get them to do what you want (spread the word for you, share with you data about themselves), aligning with what’s best for them?
• How do you create the magic and give your users what they want, before they even know it themselves?
• How do you collect, read, interpret social data?
• Yesterday’s metrics were designed for clicks and pages, poor proxies of the person, their intent, and situation. What metrics do you need that focus on the user and their context (mobile and social)?

The opportunity beckons build things from social data to make life better … or not.

There’s a revolution afoot — a Social Data Revolution.

Who wins??

Let’s find out!

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ANDREAS WEIGEND, Ph.D.
Dr. Andreas Weigend directs the Social Data Lab and teaches at Stanford. He works with companies helping them understand the Social Data Revolution and its irreversible impact on how we express our identity, relate to each other, and make purchasing and lifestyle decisions. Previously, as Chief Scientist of Amazon.com, he helped build the customer-centric, measurement-focused culture, important for Amazon’s success.  Andreas is currently an advisor or board member of RocketFuel, Skout, Solvate, VillageVines, eCommera, and Peerius, as well as a limited partner at Founders Fund. Startups he co-founded or advised that had successful exits include Moodlogic (music crowdsourcing, to All Media Guide), Cleverset (recommendation technology, to ATG), Agoda (hotel reservations, to Priceline.com), Xiaonei (Facebook clone in China, to Renren), and Nugg.ad (behavioral targeting, to Deutsche Post).  Combining his focus on true customer-centricity with his expertise on consumer behavior and vision for social and mobile technologies, his also advises large organizations including Best Buy, Lufthansa, Thomson Reuters, and the World Economic Forum.  Andreas received his Ph.D. from Stanford in physics. His career as a data scientist combined with his deep startup and industry experience allows him to successfully bridge the gap between academia and industry. He lives in San Francisco, Shanghai, on Facebook, and on weigend.com.

ERIC LY
Eric Ly is Founder and CEO of Presdo Inc.  Presdo provides a new event social networking product called Presdo Match, which enables exhibitors, sponsors and attendees connect with each other at conferences and trade shows.  Prior to that, Eric was a co-founder at LinkedIn as its founding CTO, where he helped create some of LinkedIn’s core product features.  He launched the team which created LinkedIn’s platform.  He helped the company to achieve a quickly growing user base now reaching more than 85 million and enabled the company to reach profitability.

JOE STUMP
Joe Stump has been scaling large websites for more than ten years. After spending a few years as Digg’s Lead Architect, he struck out on his own, with Matt Galligan, to found SimpleGeo. Currently as CTO of SimpleGeo, he’s responsible for architecting and scaling a robust GIS infrastructure for developers around the world.  Prior to working at Digg, Joe was the Director of IT at eNotes.com, where he architected a content management system capable of handling content from numerous sources and providers, including simple database records, XML/XSLT and PDF documents. Prior to that, he was a Web Developer/Systems Administrator for Care2.com, Inc.  Joe has spoken at numerous conferences, including Web 2.0 Expo, Future of Web Apps, Future of Web Design, Q-Con, South by Southwest, MySQL Conference and PHP-Con.  Joe is an expert in the LAMP stack and graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a BA in Computer Information Systems.

LARS LECKIE
Lars is a Partner at Hummer Winblad and has played a key role in the firm’s investments in Aria Systems (SaaS billing and customer management), vKernel (Virtualization Infrastructure), Karmasphere (Big Data Analtyics) and NimbusDB (Scalable SQL database).  Prior to joining Hummer Winblad Venture Partners in 2006, Lars was involved in founding and operational roles at start-up companies. He was a co-founder of AutoFarm (now Novariant), a company focused on GPS and robotics. Lars was in charge of strategy, product marketing, business development and building the sales team across three continents. While Lars spends less time programming now, he started his technical career coding and hacking computer games. He is the holder of several US patents.  Lars is an avid sailor and a former member of the Canadian Sailing Team. He represented Canada sailing Snipes in the Pan American Games as well as other international events.  Lars has a Masters of Science (Engineering) from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of business. He also holds an Engineering Physics degree from Queen’s University (with Honors).  Lars currently sits on the board of Pancetera Software and Strobe.

CHRISTIAN WIKLUND
Christian Wiklun is the founder of the mobile people discovery app Skout. Skout is the first location based app for meeting new people nearby. The free app works like a dating gps, connecting like-minded people to one another based on proximity. Christian came up with the idea for Skout because he wanted to find a way to connect the real world with what was happening in the online space. Today, Skout boasts over 3 million members. As pioneers in the location social space, the company is expanding rapidly and Christian intends to keep pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in the space. Skout has been featured on ABC World News, Good Morning America, CNN, and the New York Times.

MICHAEL SHA
Mike is the co-founder and CEO of Wikinvest.  Wikinvest is building technology that helps people make better, more informed decisions about their investments.  Their platform tracks over $10 billion in real assets and reaches an audience of over 10 million people a month.  Prior to creating Wikinvest, Mike held key positions at Amazon.com where he launched the Amazon Visa Card business, led product for Amazon Payments, and built a skunkworks team focused on building new strategic partnerships and initiatives. He received a BA in Applied Math and a MS in Computer Science, both from Harvard University.

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

DEMOS!  TACOS! DRINKS!

WITH…

Jonathan “@smileyj68″ Smiley, Design Lead at ZURB.
Verify is an app to help people get quick proof of a concept or an idea they have by uploading a mockup or screenshot, adding a question, and creating a quick test to ask people for their opinion. http://verifyapp.com

Fabrice Henrion, Business Development Dir. Americas
OpenERP ‘s integrated suite of business applications covers a wide range of functional areas: CRM, sales management, inventory management, warehouse management, accounting, HR, document management, production, and more. http://www.openerp.com

Aaron Michel & Brandon Small, Co-Founders
InvestedInterests.com empowers people to learn whether their investments reflect their values – for free. People use our proprietary tool to screen their investments and divest from destructive companies.  http://www.investedinterests.com

Tony Westfall, CEO & Danielle Wein, CMO
Invino is the first private sale site dedicated to wine, bringing consumers access to the lowest wine prices available on the web through offerings that focus on limited availability and other specific parameters. The result is a compelling call to immediate action for members who are seeking a world of wine at high value, while speaking to their unique wine styles.  Log on to www.invino.com to sign up for free membership and use the promo code “sfnewtech” to receive $10 credit toward your first order.

Jack Mardack, VP Marketing
Mingleverse is a new communication service that lets up to fifty people from anywhere in the world talk live and share content together as naturally as being together in the same space.  A “MingleRoom” is your own personal virtual venue, into which you can invite friends for casual conversation while looking at Facebook photos or YouTube videos, colleagues for professional collaboration, or students if you have something to teach.  You can even sell tickets to virtual events you host in your MingleRoom!  http://www.mingleverse.com

Lydia Sugarman, CEO
Venntive is a unique comprehensive digital marketing management platform.  No more multiple accounts. No more databases out of synch. One login. One dashboard. One price based on # of contacts.  http://venntive.com/

Eduardo Llach, CEO
Krome Photos is a personal photo manager service offering editing, enhancing, sharing, and back-up of your favorite memories. With Krome, photos are edited by a professional photo editor for color correction, red-eye correction, cropping, and artistic retouching. The service saves you time in editing photos and choosing the perfect ones for sharing and tagging via social networks and online photo sites for printing.  http://www.kromephotos.com

RINGING IN THE NEW YEAR

WITH HOT, NEW

TECH DEMOS!

WITH AWESOME LIVE DEMOS FROM . . .

Ellie Cachette, CEO & Founder
ConsumerBell will be showing how its system organizes groups and allows for affective consumer collaboration and well as effective marketing for companies.  http://www.consumerbell.com

DemDash

Jen Ancona, VP Strategy

DemDash is a social channel for politics that makes democratic participation easy, sociable and fun.  http://demdash.us/

Melih Onvural, Technical Product Manager
TokBox’s OpenTok API gives the freedom and flexibility to weave live group video communication into any online experience. http://www.tokbox.com

Roland Siebelink, CEO
Topicmarks is a web service that lets you take heaps of text and extract the key points in just a few seconds. It’s like having CliffNotes for any text you want. http://www.topicmarks.com

Bruce Carlisle, Founder & CEO
Conference Hound is an attendee-friendly brand disrupting the $100 billion plus conference industry through  advanced vertical search, community, personalization, trend-watching, organizer and exhibitor services and our embrace of the entire conference going experience.  http://conferencehound.com/

DRINKS!

DEMOS!

DISCUSSIONS!

With . . .

James Tamplin, CEO & Co-founder
Envolve provides Facebook-style chat for your online community. http://www.envolve.com

Eric Roach, CEO & Co-Founder
XYDO is a continuously improving collection of news, knowledge, and opinion, organized and recommended by the people who use it. http://xydo.com

Cheryln Chin, VP, Marketing

Cloud Telecomputers is a software company that has built a modified version of Android to handle VoIP calls and calling features that has come to form in their product, Glass, the smart-phone for your desk. http://www.cloudtelecomputers.com

Kei Kubo, Founder & CEO

Fluxflex develops a scalable shared web hosting service for LAMP applications with automated file sync system between user’s local computers and our ready-to-use testing servers to let users prepare for nothing to start developing web services. Also, the user can reflect the modification of his application to its production environment of auto-scaling distributed multi-layered servers with just one single command. http://fluxflex.com

David McIntosh, Founder & CEO, Redux
Redux will be launching Redux Discover for Google TV – a fun, beautiful way to discover the videos your friends and relevant tastemakers are watching in an effortless lean-back experience. http://redux.com

AND… FREE TACOS!!

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It’s Party Time!

Our friends at Alcatel-Lucent are helping us pull of our holiday bash in December… and they’re a glutton for punishment!

It looks like we’re in for a hellauva night! Yep, we’re gearing up for a holiday bash like only SF New Tech can deliver (We hope!).

To keep things interesting, we’re looking for a few other brave companies who’d like to also sponsor the bash. Get in touch and get in on the fun!

And crazier still, we want to provide one lucky company the opportunity to host our little party at their offices… Imagine 100′s of the Bay Area’s digerati to descending upon your workspace! Whoa!

Interested? Email tips@sfnewtech.com and tell us why we should party down with you this year. Who knows?! You may get lucky!

DRINKS, DEMOS & DISCUSSIONS

WITH

Wonder Shake
Satoshi Suzuki, CEO

Wonder Shake connects you with people who shares similar tastes and experiences around your favorite spot! http://www.wondershake.com/

One Medical
Michael Klieman, Vice President, Product

One Medical Group’s iPhone app allows patients to remotely triage issues, reorder prescriptions, book appointments, and access all other patient-facing capabilities of our web site. http://www.onemedical.com

WikiSeer
Sameer Yami, Founder

WikiSeer’s Firefox add-on finds the most informative content of any page instantly; shrinking the original up to a 99%. Using WikiSeer, you can browse/search faster and smarter, as you gain insights into web pages. http://www.wikiseer.com

Quizlet
Phil Freo, Product Manager / Developer

Quizlet is the largest and fastest growing educational flashcards site on the web, providing powerful online study tools and games to millions of students. http://quizlet.com

Curate.us
John Pettitt, CEO

Curate.Us gives end users a simple and visually compelling way to repost content, instantly boosting the impact of blog posts, e-mail, websites, and social networks. For publishers, Curate.Us clips and quotes maintain brand and context, and drive traffic through reliable attribution and backlinks. http://www.curate.us

FREE TACOS!!

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Red Vines
Mike Kelly, Consumer Communications Manager
American Licorice Company began making Red Vines in San Francisco in 1920. While the process used to make Red Vines hasn’t changed much in nearly 100 years, the technology used to market the brand is changing dramatically. Introducing the Red Vines World of Sharing, a social media platform engineered to spread goodwill and happiness from the Bay Area to the world. http://www.redvines.com

EasySign Sunil Patro, Founder

EasySign enables you to sign any document using your iPhone or iPod Touch without any need for printing, scanning and/or faxing. http://www.easysignmobile.com

AdRoll
Adam Berke, Co-Founder & Head of Accounts
AdRoll has created an array of advanced display advertising techniques for small and medium-sized businesses. These include, personalized retargeting, sequenced ads, contextual targeting, and other methodologies that had previously only been available to the largest brands and agencies. We offer all of these techniques with powerful campaign and reporting tools that empower any marketer. http://www.adroll.com

Nimbb
Benjamin Berube, President, D2Soft Technologies Inc.
Nimbb is a webcam API for integrating video recording in any website. Use it in your site for anything that needs quick users video (testimonial, video blog, information video, video contest, etc.) http://nimbb.com

VideoGenie

Justin Nassiri, Founder & CEO
VideoGenie helps
brands broadcast their fans across the web, through constrained video
recording (no editing!), social sharing, and targeted display. http://www.videogenie.com

FREE TACOS!!

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WITH FREE TACOS

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