Who: Calling All Software Entrepreneurs
What: NY Digital Basins Software Forum 2008
When: Thursday May 22 - Friday May 23, 2008
Where: Auburn Public Theater 108 Genesee Street
Why: Discuss important trends affecting software firms
Cost: $225 - Price includes dinner and lunch
You are invited to join other software entrepreneurs, financiers, social networking executives and other industry experts at the NY Digital Basins Software Forum 2008. Seating is limited to the first 100 attendees to register.
For those traveling in from out of town, a block of rooms have been reserved at Inn at the Finger Lakes in Auburn. The forum rate is $79 + tax for Thursday night. The inn is also offering a weekend rate of $119 + tax per night Friday - Sunday. Conference attendees are strongly encouraged to spend the weekend and share in Auburn's Memorial Day festivities including the annual parade, the Duck Derby, Soap Box Derby and more!
Click here for accommodations.
The surrounding area boasts picturesque wine trails, hiking trails, as well as great shopping. For details about the area visit: www.tourcayuga.com.
Thursday May 22
4:30 PM Registration
6:00 PM Dinner
Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey Sohl - Director Center for Venture Research Software Trends: Alliances, Bootstrapping and Venture Capital
7:00 PM Wine tasting
9:00 PM Music jam (bring your favorite instrument)
Friday May 23
8:00 AM Late registration & refreshments
8:30 AM Social networking
Speaker: Jason Beckerman - CEO Dank Apps (Facebook)
Speaker: James Gillmore - FaceySpacey
9:30 AM Virtual Worlds
Speaker: Jill Hurst-Wahl - Hurst Associates (Second Life)
10:15 AM Morning break
10:30 AM Hosted Solutions
Speaker: John Turner - COO USA Datanet
11:15 AM Create Award-Winning User Interfaces for Web 2.0 Sites
Speaker: Mike Germano - Carrot Creative
12:15 PM Lunch Interactive Marketing and the Business of Social Networks
Speaker: John Whiteside - Sr. Consultant Communigration
Speaker: J. Sean Branagan - CEO Communigration
1:30 PM Financing Software Firms
Panelist: Scott Murphy - Managing Director Advantage Capital
Panelist: Nasir Ali - Executive Director Seed Capital Fund of CNY
2:30 PM Optional activities
Option 1: "Extended Equity Financing" with Scott & Ali (by appointment)
Option 2: Seward House Tour ($5 admission)
Option 3: Parade of Homes with Lake Country Real Estate
Option 4: Hiking Fillmore Glen (weather permitting)
Option 5: Wine Trail tour departing from Inn at the Finger Lakes (To reserve, contact Sue Rose 315.253.5000 or E-mail srose@harthotels.com.)
Speakers
Jeffrey E. Sohl is Director of the Center for Venture Research and Professor of Entrepreneurship and Decision Sciences at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire.
Read more...
Jason Beckerman is Founder and CEO of Teach The People, a company dedicated to democratizing education by creating a people powered university marketplace.
Read more...
Jill Hurst-Wahl of Hurst Associates, Ltd. is an information consultant, speaker and author/blogger, who frequently focus on social networking tools.
Read more...
Mike Germano is a co-founder of Carrot Creative where he serves as Creative Director.
Read more...
Nasir Ali is the Vice President of New Venture Development for the Greater Syracuse Chamber of Commerce, whose primary mission is to support the creation of an entrepreneurial culture in Syracuse and the Central New York region.
Read more...
J. Sean Branagan is President of Communigration, Inc., a technology marketing firm, headquartered in Syracuse, NY, (in the Syracuse Technology Garden) with technology business clients across the US and UK.
Read more...
For information regarding ticket purchase, the facilities or directions please email forum2008@localnet.com or call (315) 253-6669.
|
