OPEN FORUM 2011 Booklet

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Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA

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WELCOME TO

OPEN FORUM 2011

Umair Hoodbhoy(Marketing Co-Chair, OPEN Silicon Valley)

Abdulrahman Rafiq (Vice President Mentorship, OPEN Silicon Valley)

Shahab Riazi(Vice President Sponsorship, OPEN Silicon Valley)

Gulrukh Ahmed(Operations Manager, OPEN Silicon Valley)

Moazzam Chaudry(General Secretary & OPEN Forum 2011 Chair)

Greetings! As OPEN SV Marketing co-chair, I am excited to present OPEN Forum 2011to you. Every year I experience a high level of energy at the end of our flagship event.It is a fantastic opportunity to meet with leaders of so many industries and schools ofthought. Im excited about OF2011 and look forward to meeting you in person.

Get set to LAUNCH yourself into the magical world of entrepreneurship a worldwhere opportunity knocks many times. Today as you walk the halls of OPEN Forum2011, partaking of the content sessions, networking with your peers, attendingkeynote presentations, I hope you will take the opportunity to submerge yourself inthe experience of this day-long conference. I assure you that you will leave here todaywith a lasting connection made, with something new learnt, and most importantlywith a renewed sense purpose for your entrepreneurial venture, or professionalcareer. Best of luck and have a gainful day today!

On behalf of the Sponsorship Committee for OPEN SV: Welcome to OPEN Forum2011. This year the conference is featuring luminaries from hi-Tech to the world ofdiplomacy to show business. For me, however, the thrill remains to see you, theparticipant, who inspires so much of this in the first place. We hope to keep it this waygoing forward. That is going to be the true measure of our continued success.

Welcome to the 8th Annual OPEN Forum 2011! This conference is a true labor oflove by all the volunteers who are involved. From the most noticeable to the minutestof detail, OPEN SV volunteers took care of it all. Before getting involved with OPENSV, I always wondered how an all-volunteer organization can put on a show as grandas OPEN Forum. Having been involved in it for the past year now, I have a newappreciation for the amazing amount of weight lifting effort volunteers dedicate. Forthe sake of this effort and your participation, I hope that all of us are able to realize all

our goals for this conference and beyond.

Over the past ten years, from joining OPEN SV as an eager young newcomer in2001 to chairing this years event, I have had the immense privilege of working witha phenomenal team. I would like to extend a sincere and heartfelt Thank You toeveryone involved in putting this conference together, without their tireless devotion,dedication, and outstanding zeal OPEN Forum 2011 would not have been possible.Chairing this conference has been one of the most fascinating and compellingexperiences of my life, and I hope it is as memorable for all attending as well! LetOPEN help you LAUNCH yourself in the world of opportunities that awaits you.


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PRESIDENTS

MESSAGE

Naeem ZafarPresident, OPEN Silicon Valley 2009-2011

Welcome to the 8th Annual OPEN Forum in Silicon Valley. Over the

years OPEN has brought thought leaders together to share with ourmembers about what is shaping our careers, lives and the worldaround us. This year is no exception.

The theme this year is LAUNCH - a word that captures the current spirit in SiliconValley. Spring is here and the recession is over - look around you and optimism loomseverywhere. The time of banking crises, stock market crashes, and bursting realestate bubbles is ending and we hold in our hands the seeds of renewal. People areready to launch their startups, their careers, and many fresh graduates are ready to

launch their professional lives.

Today OPEN Forum 2011 presents a multi-track program that will bring thoughtleaders and opinion makers as keynote speakers and panelists covering bothentrepreneurial and professional development aspects. The half-day Youth trackfocuses on Generation Y and features panels and workshops that can help decidethe upcoming generation on choosing a path that matches their ambitions andexposes them to some of the ways to make these choices.

The Annual OPEN Forum is the biggest event that OPEN SV puts together and is aproduct of over 100 volunteers including a core committee of 15 who devote theirtime and resources to make this event a memorable and transforming experiencefor all. I thank our volunteers who have worked tirelessly for several months - withouttheir help this event would not have been possible. I also thank our sponsors whomade generous contributions to allow us to put this rich content in front of you.

Once again, welcome and enjoy the day. I look forward to your active engagementand your continued participation in the future.


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TABLE OF

CONTENTS

Welcome Messages

Presidents Messages

OPEN Forum 2011 Conference Agenda

OPEN SV Charter Members

OPEN SV at a Glance

Keynote Speakers

Parallel Sessions

OPEN Forum 2011Volunteers

OPEN Forum 2011 Sponsors

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OPEN FORUM 2011

CONFERENCE AGENDA

9:00 AM Introduction by Moazzam Chaudry, General Secretary, OPEN SV

9:05 AM Opening Remarks by Naeem Zafar, President, OPEN SV

9:15 AM Morning Keynote Aaref Hilaly President and CEO Clearwell:Zero to $400m: Building an enterprise from scratch

Track 1 Track 2 Youth Track

10:00 AM Opportunities in Gaming

and Digital Media: The Riseof the Tablet

CLOUD: The Next

Great Opportunity inHi-Tech

11:00 AM Tea Break

11:30 AM Innovation and Disruptionin E-commerce

Launching Non-Corporate Careers ItPays to be Creative

12:30 PM Lunch*

1:45 PM Keynote: Raymie Stata, Chief Technology Officer,

Yahoo!: Technologies Catalyzing Digital Media

Youth Keynote: Faran

Tahir: Paths LessTravelled - ConqueringNew Frontiers.

2:30 PM Workshop: Secrets ofCompany Valuation, LegalFormation & Term Sheetsfor Startups

The New Faceof Funding: Howaccelerators /incubators are changingthe rules

Gen Y Entrepreneurs

3:30 PM Social Media: New Rules

in Mobilizing and DrivingImpact

Workshop: 8 Essential

Skills to Accelerate YourCareer

Workshop- Pitch

to Win: The Art ofFundraising

4:30 PM Tea Break

5:00 PM Evening Keynote: Wendy J. Chamberlin - Former US Ambassador to Pakistanand President Middle East Institute: Pushing the reset button on US Pakistan

Relations - How Business could lead the way

5:45 PM Final Remarks & Conclusion by Naeem Zafar, President, OPEN SV

*Tribute to Omar Ahmad, OPEN SV Charter Member and Mayor, City of San Carlos, at 1:35

PM, Hahn Auditorium.


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VISIONARY

SPONSOR


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OPEN SV

CHARTER MEMBERS

SOHAIB ABBASI

BARI ABDUL

ASIM ABDULLAH

FARUQ AHMAD

KAMAL AHMAD

MAHBOOB AKHTAR

NADIR ALI

ASHAR AZIZ

JAVED ELLAHIE

AMMAR HANAFI

AYAZ HAQUE

RAGHIB HUSSAIN

JAFFER HUSSAIN

FARAZ HOODBHOY

MOHAMMAD IRFAN

ASAD JAMAL

ARIF JANJUA

REHAN JALIL

ZAIN JEEWANJEE

AMIR KHAN

AURANGZEB KHAN

OMAR KHAN

UMAIR KHAN

WAQAS KHAN

RIAZ KARAMALI

NAZIM KAREEMI

IDRIS KOTHARI

RAFAT PIRZADA

MAHMOOD PANJWANI

NAYEEM QURESHI

SAFI QURESHEY

WAHEED QURESHI

OSMAN RASHID

HASAN RIZVI

SAFWAN SHAH

AAMIR SHEIKH

FAYSAL A. SOHAIL

SAJID SOHAIL

DILAWAR SYED

FARAZ SYED

NAVEED SHERWANI

AMRA TAREEN

MAHMOOD VIRANI

SHOEIB YUNUS

ZIA YUSUF

NAEEM ZAFAR

FAWAD ZAKARIYA

RAHEEL ZIA


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OPEN SV

AT A GLANCE

About OPEN

Join OPEN

Year at a Glance (2010-2011)

The Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs (OPEN) was launched in 1999 as avoluntary, not-for-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of entrepreneurshipand leadership in the Pakistani-American business community. Over the years OPENhas grown with chapters now in Boston, Houston, New York, Chicago, Silicon Valley,and Washington DC. The OPEN Silicon Valley community is several thousand-strong,and includes corporate professionals, entrepreneurs venture capitalists, bankingprofessionals social leaders, academics and students.

Become a member of the OPEN Silicon Valley community! Here you will find anentire network of entrepreneurs and professionals that will help you in achieving yourprofessional goals. This is done through regular mentoring sessions, networkingevents, and skills and leadership development workshops throughout the year.

All OPEN members are encouraged to lead, create, and participate in programs thatare delivered each year to the community. Those who have demonstrated years ofservice are often invited to become part of the Executive Committee and they set theagenda for new programs. You can also join OPENs Operating Committee and helporganize events.

Access to our 50+ charter members is another way for you to seek mentorship andlearn from those who have been in the trenches. This kind of access will otherwisebe very hard for most people but as part of OPEN you are invited into the communitywho cares about your aspirations and goals.

Women Leadership Forum 2011: Optimize Your Effectiveness - An annual conferencededicated to womens empowerment in the workspace. The one day conferencedesigned exclusively for women, by women from the community had over 150attendees.

Mentorship Breakfasts 2011, with Nadir Ali, President Sysorex; Zia Yusuf, CEOStreetline Inc.; Arif Janjua Managing Director at the Boston Consulting Groupand Aamir Shaikh, Managing Director, Corporate Investments Group at Bank ofAmerica.


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OPEN Events

OPEN SV Programs and Services

Mentorship Breakfast

Starting Online Business on a Shoestring Budget by Naeem Zafar, Faculty memberat Berkeley-Haas Business School and CEO of Bitzer Mobile.

Money Management: A Womans Perspective by Saadia Ahmad, a certifiedfinancial planner.

Quarterly Networking Event with Samir Hoodbhoy, a Pakistani technologist,philanthropist and thought leader was a successful event with over 100attendees.

Joint OPEN and TiE event, Just Between Friends, a successful event withover 200 attendees that addressed the joys and complexities of friends startingcompanies together.

Pakistan Gaming Industry Showcase Companies from Pakistan.

We also conducted OPEN Golf challenge and OPEN Cricket match between ourcharter members and volunteers who create greater engagement and opportunitiesfor informal mentorship.

These are held monthly and open to all OPEN members. It is a great opportunityto meet with experts in a relaxed, informal setting, and build relationships and gainvaluable business and career feedback. This year mentors were Nadir Ali, PresidentSysorex, Zia Yusuf, CEO, Streetline Inc., Arif Janjua, Managing Director, BostonConsulting Group, and Aamir Shaikh, Managing Director, Corporate InvestmentsGroup, Bank of America.

OPEN Silicon Valley Monthly Breakfasts is an excellent opportunity for entrepreneursand industry professionals to meet with experts in their respective field. The event isconducted in a relaxed, informal setting, where participants can build relationshipsand gain valuable business and career feedback.

Participants are asked to deliver a 30 to 60 second elevator pitch, and the guestmentor provides immediate feedback, enabling fast, effective, accessible mentoringand relationship development. Participation in Monthly Breakfasts is available to to allOPEN members free of charge. For details email [email protected]


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Ask An ExpertEver had a question about startups or needed advice on your career growth? OPENsprogram called Ask an Expert - is a free service bringing together industry anddomain experts with professionals or entrepreneurs seeking advice. Members canrequest sessions with experts for career guidance, mentorship, resume critiques,and startup advice.

The service is available to all OPEN members, as well as members from P@SHA(Pakistan Software House Association) our affiliate organization in Pakistan. For

details email [email protected]

Job Board

OPEN SV Board of Directors

Ammar Hannafi

Idris Kothari

Umair Khan

Arif Janjua

Hasan Rizvi

Zia Yusuf

If you are aware of opportunities in your organization or have an opening in the widergroup that you are involved in please submit that job description and as much detailas you may have available via an email [email protected].

The job will be posted on the job board for the OPEN members and the communityat large. You can even connect with OPEN members on this website who may be

good candidates for the job you post providing you with no cost access to talentedand driven individuals that are part of our community.


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KEYNOTE

SPEAKERS

Aaref A. HilalyPresident & CEO, Clearwell

Zero to $400m: Building an Enterprise From Scratch:

In his 11-year career in Silicon Valley, Aarefhas helped to create and sell two software

companies collectively worth close to half a billion dollars. Most recently, as Presidentand CEO of Clearwell, he grew the company from a handful of engineers at the earlystages of product development into a high-growth, profitable company with over$50 million in annual revenue. Clearwell is the leading provider of electronic discoverysoftware, with over 400 customers and 75 partners in 14 different countries. On May19, 2011, Symantec announced that it would acquire Clearwell for $410 million. Thetransaction is expected to close in July.

Prior to Clearwell, Aaref was Founder and CEO of CenterRun, which he led frominception in 2000 to its acquisition by Sun Microsystems for $66 million in August2003. CenterRun was a leading provider of application provisioning software andtoday forms the basis of Suns data center automation product suite.

Aaref earned an MBA from Harvard Business School with high distinction as a BakerScholar. He holds a BA Honors degree from Oxford University, and a Masters degreefrom McGill University, where he was awarded the Arthur Tagge Fellowship. While afull-time student, he completed internships at Linklaters, Slaughter and May, and theUN Center For Human Rights in Geneva.

You can follow Aaref on Twitter at www.twitter.com/aaref and learn more abouthis thoughts about E-Discovery at his blog http://www.clearwellsystems.com/e-discovery-blog/.

Raymie StataChief Technology Officer, Yahoo! Inc.

Technologies Catalyzing Digital Media:Technical forces are converging to unlock the true potential of Digital Media. Tabletsprovide an immersive canvass for interactive experiences that captivate users ofall ages. The proliferation of smart phones and connected televisions, allows us toconnect to users in every possible context. And all of these screens are connectedvia a smart, big-data cloud that supports continuous, contextual, personalized


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Faran TahirActor

Paths Less Traveled Conquering New Frontiers:

Come and be inspired by Faran Tahir as he shares his journey and experiences as hecharted his way to success in a non-traditional career. He has a refreshing perspectivethat can provide invaluable ideas for people at all stages of their lives and how theycan reinvent their careers.

Faran Tahir is a third generation Pakistani/American actor who has shown his talentsequally in film, television and theater. His most recent film credits include the viciousvillain, Raza, in the 2008 Marvel live action blockbuster, Iron Man, starring alongsideRobert Downey Jr., Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow and Terence Howard. In 2009, hefollowed the success of Iron Man with another super hit, Star Trek, as the dashingand heroic Federation Captain. The casting marks a historic moment in the Star Treksaga and for him as well. He played the first Federation Captain of South Asian/Middle Eastern ethnicity. Tahirs vast television resume includes over 40 televisionappearances. He has been seen as guest leads in notable shows like Lost, Chuck,NYPD Blue, NCIS, NCIS- Los Angeles, Cold Case, The West Wing, Warehouse 13etc. Faran also plays a lead role in Shoieb Yunus feature film Two Mothers (now inpost-production).

Faran graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a BA in Theatrebefore acquiring a graduate degree from Harvard Universitys Institute for AdvancedTheatre Training.


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PATRON

SPONSOR

www.qatarairways.com

www.sheppardmullin.com


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10:00am-11:00am

PARALLEL SESSIONS:

TRACK 1

The Rise of the Tablet: Opportunities inGaming and Digital Media

Moderator:

Riaz Karamali (Partner at Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP)

Although tablet laptop computers have been in the marketplace for years, the Kindle,iPad and similar devices have made tablets mainstream and hold the promise of anew age of entertainment.

This panel will focus on the entertainment aspects of tablets, rather than businessrelated applications.The compactness of tablets, together with wireless connectivityand location-based functionality all combine to create a new set of opportunitiesand challenges for entrepreneurs and industry incumbents alike. Consideration willalso be given to opportunities in the larger non-tablet, global mobile entertainmentspace. Please join a panel of industry leaders in a discussion of the current tablet andmobile ecosystems; what to expect in the immediate and medium term future; andthe opportunities available for entrepreneurs.

Riaz has over twenty years of experience in partnering with technology-driven clientsin their most strategic and game-changing transactions. Working closely with a diversearray of clients, including publicly held, private equity backed and venture capitalfinanced companies, Riaz has structured and negotiated numerous complex, long-term technology-based and service-based alliance agreements relating to business

process outsourcing, information technology outsourcing, manufacturing outsourcing,research and development outsourcing, software OEM transactions, internet search anddisplay advertising alliances, university technology transfer and traditional corporate jointventures. Riaz leads Sheppard Mullins Outsourcing Team which was named to the 2010List of Worlds Best Outsourcing Advisors published by the International Association ofOutsourcing Professionals.

Riaz also has extensive experience in domestic and international mergers and acquisitions.Riaz has worked with hundreds of start-up companies, taking them from their pre-foundingstages through their angel and venture capital financing rounds and strategic alliances to

their ultimate exit transactions.Riaz takes pride in being a hands on, responsive counselor who takes the time to understandthe clients business, and is known as a pragmatic, creative, win-win negotiator.


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Shahid Khan (Chairman and Chief Strategist at MediaMorph)

Omar Javaid (Vice President, Motorola Mobility)

Shahid Khan is a recognized thought leader in the media industry. His track recordincludes launching digital media and mobile initiatives for a wide spectrum of media and

entertainment companies from broadband, mobile and cable television to eBooks anddigital music. Prior to joining Mediamorph, Shahid was a Senior Partner at IBB ConsultingGroup. Among his clients were Sony Entertainment, Scholastic, Disney, Hearst, IAC,Showtime, Time Warner Cable, Cablevision and Comcast. Shahid has also held executivepositions at BearingPoint/KPMG Consulting and IBM Global Services. He holds an MBAfrom New York University and is a Fellow at the Wharton School of Business. He is ofteninvited to speak at leading industry conferences and is widely quoted in the press onindustry issues.

Omar Javaid is Vice President, Converged Experiences and Advanced Platforms. In thisrole, he is charged with developing the multi-screen strategy and products for MotorolaMobility.

Previous to his current post, Omar was the managing director of BBO Global, a leadingadvisory and venture firm in the wireless and media space. At BBO, he advised seniorexecutives at leading media, telecommunications, and technology companies ontransformational products, technology trends, acquisitions, and restructuring activities.Mr. Javaid was a successful executive and entrepreneur, bringing more than 15 years

of technology and entrepreneurial experience in the Telecommunications, Media, andInternet industries with leading firms such as Qualcomm and Deloitte. Omar holds degreesin chemistry and cellular & molecular biology from the University of Michigan.

Faraz Hoodbhoy(Founder and Senior Vice President of Alliances at PixSense)Panelists:

Faraz Hoodbhoy is a 3rd generation entrepreneur with unparalleled experience in the Pakistan-Silicon Valley corridor. With 15 years of global business experience gathered in over 40countries, Faraz is, most recently, the founder of PixSense. PixSense is a successfulmobile social media business with deployments across the globe including Indonesia,Malaysia, Norway, Vietnam, and the Philippines. With significant operating experiencegathered in Silicon Valley, Faraz has raised over $15m in venture capital as a Silicon Valleyentrepreneur. His career spans multiple functional roles from software and product design

and development, to business development and sales, to executive management.

An expert in mobile and imaging software, Faraz continues to contribute to professionaland trade publications and co-authored one of the first books on XML, Applied XML AToolkit for Programmers (John Wiley & Sons).


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11:30am-12:30pm

PARALLEL SESSIONS:

TRACK 1

Innovation And Disruption InE-commerceE-commerce is being massively transformed by technology trends such as mobile,social media, user generated content, private sale shopping sites, daily deal sites,behavioral targeting, alternative payments, virtual goods, and other key trends. Come

join us as we discuss the future of eCommerce.

Moderator:

Faisal Qureshi (Co-founder and CEO of Offermatic)Faisal is co-founder and CEO at Offermatic. He got the idea for Offermatic when he wasusing his favorite personal finance website to review his finances. While his personalfinance tool sent him occasional deals on various financial products, he wanted deals &offers on everyday purchases. Offers that were targeted to him and linked directly to his

credit card so he could save money without dealing with coupons or vouchers.

Given his background as an online marketing entrepreneur, Faisal realized he could builda service to help consumers save money while helping retail merchants to stop wastingmoney on poorly targeted marketing campaigns.

Prior to starting Offermatic, Faisal founded a couple of other online marketing ventures beginning in 2005 with his first entrepreneurial venture called TellAPal. Before beingbit by the entrepreneurial bug, he worked as a product line marketing manager at SunMicrosystems. Faisal attended college at Florida International University in Miami.

Aileen Lee (Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byer)

Panelists:

Aileen Lee is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers which - she joined in 1999. Herprimary area of focus is working with consumer-oriented digital companies. Aileen hasworked closely with companies such as ShopKick, Zazzle, Bloom Energy, Miasole, BlueNile (NASDAQ: Nile), Friendster (acquired by MOL Global), Good Technology (acquired byMOT), Tellme (acquired by MSFT). She currently works with companies including CallawayDigital Arts, Offermatic, One Kings Lane, Plum District and RMG Networks (formerlyDanoo), where she was founding CEO for two years. Prior to joining KPCB, Aileen workedat Gap Inc. in various operating roles. These included business development, productmanagement, marketing for Gap Online and special assistant to CEO of Gap Inc. She hasalso worked for Odwalla and North Face in brand and product marketing. Aileen beganher career at Morgan Stanley in technology mergers & acquisitions.

She has a Bachelor of Science from MIT, an MBA from the Harvard Business School, andis a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute.


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Manish Chandra (Founder and former CEO of Kaboodle)

K.V. Rao (Founder of Zuora)

Tomas Campos (VP of Mobile, Online and Emerging Technologies at BlackhawkNetwork)

Manish Chandra is former chief executive and co-founder of Kaboodle, Inc., a shoppingweb site where people recommend and discover new products. He provides strategy andvision for Kaboodle, which Hearst acquired in 2007, while overseeing new product ideasand managing its business operations and revenue.

Prior to Kaboodle, Chandra was vice president of worldwide marketing at VersantCorporation. Prior to Versant, he served in various roles at Versata, including vicepresident of marketing and product strategy; he was part of the executive team that tookVersata public in March 2000. He also spent time in research & development and productmanagement roles at Sybase and Intel.

Chandra holds a bachelors degree from IIT Kanpur, India, an MS in computer sciencefrom the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Haas Business School at theUniversity of California Berkeley.

K.V founded Zuora after five years at WebEx Communications where he reporteddirectly to the founder and President with strategic marketing and business developmentresponsibilities and played a key role in the growth of this successful startup. Prior to

WebEx, K.V worked in sales and customer support at SGI. He started his career as theproverbial rocket scientist (Associate Scientist) at NASA and then spent several yearsdeveloping products at General Motors.

K.V obtained his Ph D in Engineering from Iowa State University, M S from University ofMissouri-Rolla, and B Tech from IIT, Bombay. K.V is a US patent-holder in computingtechnology.

Tomas is the vice president of mobile, online and emerging technologies at BlackhawkNetwork, a billion dollar company doing innovative work in ecommerce solutions. Tomasis a grad of UC Berkeley and started his career at Safeway Corp IT department. He alsoheld engineering title in Blackhawk before taking his current position.


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2:30pm - 3:30pm

PARALLEL SESSIONS:

TRACK 1

Workshop: Secrets of CompanyValuation, Legal Formation & TermSheets for StartupsThe founders of a startup know how to focus on creating great technology, products

or services, but knowing how to build a strong business and legal foundation is justas important. This session will help equip you with tools andinformation on how toanswer questions like: How do we divide the equity among the founders? What kindof entity should we form and when should we form it? How do we make sure thatwe own our initial intellectual property? What does pre-money valuation mean?What are the key issues to negotiate with investors and how do we compare investorproposals? What are the lethal business mistakes that can be made at the startupstage? This program will touch on all of these issues and more. This is a vital andessential session for every entrepreneur.

Ron Star (Partner at Howard Rice Law Firm)

Presenter:

Ron is an attorney at the San Francisco law firm of Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady,Falk & Rabkin, (www.howardrice.com). He focuses on securities law, financings, venturecapital, intellectual property and mergers and acquisitions. He works closely with start-upand private companies on issues related to equity and financings, intellectual propertymatters, the structuring of executive compensation (including stock arrangements),

strategic ventures, acquisitions and management buy-outs.Rons engagements run the gamut from representing startup companies in formation torepresenting major multinational companies in strategic investments. His particular industryspecialties include computer software and hardware, semiconductors, information servicesbusinesses, internet and companies, medical technology, food related companies, retailoperations and financial services companies.

Ron is a frequent lecturer on entrepreneurship, venture capital transactions, acquisitions,computer law, multimedia, strategic partnerships, employment matters and closely heldbusinesses.

Ron received his JD. from Harvard Law School where he was an editor of the Harvard LawReview and an editor-at-large of the Harvard Environmental Law Review). He also receivedan MBA. from Harvard Business School. His undergraduate degree was in Economicsfrom Harvard University.


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3:30pm - 4:30pm

PARALLEL SESSIONS:

TRACK 1

Social Media: New Rules in Mobilizingand Driving ImpactSocial media has changed the manner in which we communicate, share andconsume content. The change has been equally transformative when it comesto social and civic impact in societies around the world. The Arab Spring of 2011

has demonstrated the power and influence of Facebook and Twitter in organizing,mobilizing and sustaining movements. Natural disasters such as the 2010 floods inPakistan and the earthquake and tsunami in Japan show us the power of the newmedium in generating support from across the globe. Did Facebook and Twitter leadto the movements in Egypt and Tunisia or simply enable them? How does the digitaldivide render some segments of the populations unreachable through social media?How must traditional media adjust in the wake of the rise of social media? Our panelwill examine these questions and address others from experiences in news, media,social web and emerging markets.

Dilawar Syed (President and CEO of Yonja Media Group)

Moderator:

Dilawar is President and CEO of Yonja Media Group, a leading emerging markets socialmedia company. Founded in 2003, Istanbul and Silicon Valley-based Yonja Media operatesYonja, Turkeys first and largest local social network. Under Dilawars leadership, YonjaMedia Group is expanding its portfolio of products to social commerce, mobile, educationas well as building an advertising and payment network in the region. Yonja Media Group

is backed by Tiger Global Management. Prior to joining Yonja Media, Dilawar led platformstrategy and operations at Yahoo! and oversaw Yahoos investments in next generationplatforms. Earlier, Dilawar spent several years in leadership roles in enterprise softwareindustry. At SAP Dilawar launched the companys customer relationship managementsolution; and at Siebel Systems, Dilawar grew Siebels integration platform to a multi-million dollar business globally. Dilawar started his career as a management consultant withDeloitte Consulting and Ernst & Young in financial services, energy and communicationindustry practices.

Dilawar has played a leadership role in a broad range of civic efforts. In 2010, President

Barack Obama appointed Dilawar to the Presidents Advisory Commission on AsianAmericans. The Commission advises the President on education, entrepreneurship, civilrights and sustainability policy. As the Commissions Economic Growth Chair, Dilawardrives engagement with the Asian American entrepreneur community across the country.In 2008, Gov. Howard Dean appointed Dilawar National Co-Chair of the DemocraticNational Committees South Asian Leadership Council. Dilawar is past president of OPENSilicon Valley and is steering committee member of the Korematsu Institute for Civil Rightsand Education.


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Reza Aslan (President and CEO of Aslan Media Inc)

Amra Tareen (Founder and CEO, Allvoices)

Panelists:

Dr. Reza Aslan, an internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions, is a contributingeditor at The Daily Beast. Reza Aslan has degrees in Religions from Santa Clara University,Harvard University, and the University of California, Santa Barbara, as well as a Master ofFine Arts from the University of Iowa, where he was named the Truman Capote Fellow inFiction. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Los Angeles Institute forthe Humanities, and the Pacific Council on International Policy. He serves on the boardof directors of the Ploughshares Fund, which gives grants for peace and security issues;Abrahams Vision, an educational, conflict transformation organization; PEN USA, whichchampions the rights of writers under siege around the world; and he serves on the nationaladvisory board of the Levantine Cultural Center, building bridges between Americans andthe Arab/Muslim world.

Aslans first book is the international bestseller, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution,and Future of Islam, which has been translated into thirteen languages, and named one ofthe 100 most important books of the last decade. He is also the author of How to Win aCosmic War (published in paperback as Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting ReligiousExtremism in a Globalized Age), and editor of an upcoming anthology from Norton titledTablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East.

Aslan is President and CEO of Aslan Media Inc, whose holdings include BoomGenStudios, a mini-motion picture and media company focused entirely on entertainmentabout the Greater Middle East and its diaspora communities. Born in Iran, he now livesin Los Angeles where he is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University ofCalifornia, Riverside.

Amra Tareen is founder and CEO of Allvoices, the largest global community offering localto global news and perspectives in one place. Launched in July of 2008, Allvoices is thefastest growing open media site with over 11.6m unique users per month and 440,000citizen reporters from over 180 countries. Prior to Allvoices, Amra was a partner at SevinRosen Funds focusing on investment opportunities in the communications infrastructureand next-generation carriers. Before joining Sevin Rosen, Amra was a product marketingdirector at Ascend Communications (acquired by Lucent Technologies in 1999) where

she was instrumental in growing the DSL business. She was also responsible for productpositioning, competitive analysis and outbound marketing for the remote access business.Earlier she worked as the product manager for Ascends SS7 gateway. Amra has a MBAfrom Harvard Business School and a Bachelor in Electrical Engineering and ComputerScience from University of New South Wales, Australia.

Dilawar holds an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and aB.A. from the University of Texas at Austin.


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Saad Khan (Partner at CMEA Capital)Saad Khan is a Partner at CMEA Capital where he invests exclusively in technologystartups. That includes all seed and early stage investments in the people behind Blekko,Pixazza, Jobvite, and Evolution Robotics. Prior to CMEA, he was a Venture Partner atGarage.com where he helped build Silicon Valleys first startup incubator. In addition to hisday job, he co-founded the Film Angels (working with actors and producers like CarlosSantana and Barrie Osborne, producer of Lord of The Rings); is an Advisor to LendingClub (peer-to-peer lending platform); SamaSource (micro-work for the next billion); anda Charter Member of TiE. He has been a guest lecturer at the Stanford Design Schooland the UC Berkeley Business School. He blogs at SaadWired and has been featured in

Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times.

Muhammad Sajid Farooq (Tech Producer and Lifestyle Editor for NBC)Muhammad Sajid Farooq is currently the Tech Producer and Lifestyle Editor for NBC. Heis an award-winning newspaper, television and web reporter and managed the companyssocial networking sites. He helped redesign and re-brand NBCs local news sites in10 markets. He was named the Society of Professional Journalist Outstanding YoungJournalist of the Year and he has received an Edward R. Murrow award. Sajid received aBA in Journalism and a second BA in Graphic Design and he is currently a JD candidate.


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10:00am-11:00am

PARALLEL SESSIONS:

TRACK 2

CLOUD: The Next Great Opportunity inHi-TechCloud Computing is the next great opportunity in High Tech. A very distinguishedpanel of top experts from Facebook, Google, HP, Cisco and Morgan Stanley willshare their ideas about the opportunities, directions, markets and threats in Cloud

Computing. A must see panel for OPEN Forum 2011.

Waqas Khan (AGM at TowerJazz)

Sendur Sellakumar (VP Morgan Stanley Investment Banking Division)

Shahed Latif (KPMG Partner, Executive Member of KPMG Global Cloud ComputingSteering Committee)

Moderator:

Panelists:

Waqas Khan is AGM at TowerJazz. He has worked in the Silicon Valley for the last 24 yearswith companies like IBM, Via Technologies, Opti, and TowerJazz in various technologyand executive capacities. In addition, Waqas is an inveterate entrepreneur and was theCEO and founder of three Startups: Infonox, eTrango and Cricinfo (Pak). Waqas has adegree from UET in Electrical Engineering, a Masters degree in Electrical and ComputerEngineering from University of Texas and has done graduate work at Stanford. Waqaslives in Fremont, California with his wife and three children.

Sendur Sellakumar currently serves as a Vice President in Morgan Stanleys TechnologyInvestment Banking Group, based in Menlo Park, CA. Sendur focuses on providing

strategic advisory and financing services to leading private and public technologycompanies, focused in particular on software and cloud/SaaS companies. Sendur andteam have had the privilege to work with category-defining companies spanning severalsegments of technology, including Tesla, McAfee, Micron and Fortinet. So far in 2010,Sendur and team helped lead the initial public offerings for ServiceSource and Responsysin March and April, respectively. Prior to investment banking, Sendur spent nearly eightyears in the technology industry, across engineering, product marketing and sales. Sendurholds a BS in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego and an MBAfrom Cornell University.

Shahed Latif has been with KPMG for 24 years and works as a partner in the IT Advisorypractice of Silicon Valley and serves as the Executive Member of the firms Global Committeeon Cloud Computing and serves many of the Major cloud service providers. He also leadsthe information Protection for the Western Region.


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Khalid Raza (Distinguished Technologist at HP)

Hasan Rizvi (Senior Vice President Oracle)

Khalid Raza has architected and designed some of the largest enterprise and serviceprovider networks such as, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Microsoft, Wal-Mart, VISA, AT&T,Verizon Business, Deutsche Telecom, Saudi Telecom, Telstra and Singapore Telecom.

Khalid has deep expertise in IP routing protocols such as OSPF, BGP, ISIS, MPLS andIPv6 routing (OSPFv3). He has been a regular speaker at conferences like NANOG, IPV6Forum, SANOG and Cisco Networkers. Khalid is certified as a CCIE (Cisco CertifiedInternetworking Expert No.1192) and CCDE (Cisco Certified Design Expert). He also hasthe honor of being one of only two people in the world to be certified as a Cisco CertifiedArchitect, which is Ciscos newest and highest level of certification. Khalid has written abook on Large Scale IP Network Solutions and has a patent on BGP multi-homing andone patent-pending on OSPF transit link optimization. Recently he has been focusing ondeveloping cloud strategies for the health industry.

As senior vice president of Oracle Fusion Middleware and Java Products, Hasan Rizviis responsible for the companys Application Server, Service-Oriented Architecture,

Application and Data Integration, Content Management and Portal, Identity Managementand Security and Java product development, product management and architecture.Previously Hasan was vice president of Oracle Enterprise Manager and was responsiblefor the companys Data Center Automation products.

Prior to returning to Oracle in 2001, Hasan was vice president of Engineering for Corio, Inc.where he led the development of key technologies to enable efficient delivery of softwareas a service. Prior to that, Hasan served as director of OLTP technologies for Oracle,where he was instrumental in development of transaction processing, messaging andqueuing and high-end scalability technologies for Oracle Database products.

Hasan has a MS in computer science from Rutgers University and a MS in engineeringmanagement from Stanford University. He also holds 8 patents in the databasemanagement area.


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11:30am-12:30pm

PARALLEL SESSIONS:

TRACK 2

Launching Non-Corporate Careers ItPays to be CreativeEver wonder if you can creatively use your inner talent to launch your own successfulcareer? Yes you can!! Ever wonder if there are alternative non corporate careers thatallow you to follow your dreams and pursue your passion? Yes there are!!

This panel focuses on people who chose the non-traditional career track and enjoysuccessful careers by creatively utilizing their inner talent in arts and non-corporatefields. Our panelists come from the disciplines of music, culinary arts, education,and architecture, and want to inspire you to launch your inner talent and pursue yourpassion just like they did. They inspire those who want to turn these hard economictimes to their advantage by pursuing their own dreams and by carving their ownniches. Non-traditional industry choices, flex work schedules, social media and ado-it all attitude are some of the themes that you will hear. Our panelists haves set a

precedent for you, and want to share their stories so that you can do it too!

Nabeela Khan (Director of Business Development at Monsoon Ads)

Rafae Bhatti (Adjunct Professor at Santa Clara University and Senior Member ofTechnical Staff at Oracle)

Moderator:

Nabeela Khan is the Director of Business Development at Monsoon Ads, the leadingSouth Asian on-line video Ad network. She is Co-Founder of Buddies Without Borders(BWB), and the Producer and Director of BWBs English/Urdu music video which receivedInternational coverage. She has also worked in the media industry in various roles, and isalso a Partner in her family farming business in Northern California. She has a BA in Mass

Communications.

Dr. Rafae Bhatti is a software engineer in his day job and otherwise an author and part-time educator teaching CA graduate students. He has previously worked at a prestigiousindustrial research lab. He has been recognized by the US government in the prestigiouscategory of Individuals with Advanced Degree and Exceptional Ability in the NationalInterest. He earned his doctorate from Purdue University. He regularly engages in

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Manesh Judge (Co-Founder, CFO, and Music Director at Indus World Music)

Malika Junaid (Founder and Principal of M. Designs Architects)

Chef Brandon Arnovick (Founder of Mission Minis)

Panelists:

Manesh Judge has been involved in producing and composing music for over 20 years.He is a master percussionist, and a classically trained tabla player (Punjab Gharana),and has over 2000 shows to his credit. He Co-directed the music for the award winningsoundtrack for the feature film Maya, and has been a TV talk show host in the bayarea for the past 10 years, on Pardes, India Post TV, and WomenNow. Currently, he is afounding partner at Mudplace.com, a professional network for the music industry. He isalso a Co-Founder, CFO, and Music Director at Indus World Music, LLC, a San Francisco

Bay Area-based music production company that produces, creates, and records worldmusic deeply rooted in the classical tradition of the East. IWM also focuses on creating andproducing soundtracks and musical scores for television and film. The company believesin preserving the musical heritage of South Asia and supporting its deserving artistecommunity. IWMs box-set project: Music of Indus: The Essential Raag has been createdto archive, develop, and promote the classical music of Pakistan. Manesh holds degreesin Biochemistry and Microbiology from San Jose State University and the University ofCalifornia, Davis.

Malika Z. Junaid is a Founder and Principal of M. Designs Architects, the firm sheco-founded in 2002. She is currently a Planning Commissioner and member of theArchitectural and Site Review Committee for the City of Los Altos. She is also a founder ofthe Pakistan Green Building Council, Green Learning Institute in 2009, and organizationsthat help communities establish environmentally sustainable building practices. Malika andher company have won several architectural awards for their exceptional work throughoutthe Bay Area. Her work has been featured in local and international TV and print media.Malika has traveled extensively and lived for many years in Europe and Asia studyingdifferent cultures and architectural styles. She worked in an architectural office in Asiafor several years before returning to the United States. Malika received her Bachelor ofArchitecture degree from Louisiana State University in 1998.

Chef Brandon Arnovick is the founder of Mission Minis, a gourmet mini cupcake bakerythat bakes fresh cupcakes daily in San Francisco. Inspired by his love for food, he catersto every sweet tooth in the Mission District and beyond by opening the first mini cupcakebakery to the food friendly neighborhood. Music producer by day, Food Network devotee

by night, Arnovick has always cooked for the bands, artists and friends who come throughhis home and studio. He eventually landed his own appearance on Food Network whenhe competed to have his cupcake featured at a launch for the LA Kings hockey season.Mission Minis has set out to create one specialty - the mini cupcake - and does it reallywell. Mission Minis is now all around San Francisco and the Bay Area, and is activelyinvolved in events, charities, farmer markets, wine tastings and weddings.


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Jennifer Anastasoff (President of EnCorps)Jennifer Anastasoff is President of EnCorps. She has significant experience engagingthe corporate sector in pro-bono projects as well as in education. In her capacity asCEO of BuildingBlocks International (BBI), a San Francisco-based nonprofit that isworking with multinational corporations to develop what Business Week calls a corporatePeace Corps, she created the corporate and programmatic infrastructure to supportprofessionals transitioning into the public sector, conducted a national public educationcampaign, and successfully built strategic relationships with companies like Pfizer, UPS,Cisco and PwC. Her prior work includes teaching through Teach for America and servingas an analyst in the California Legislature. She has spoken and presented papers at

Harvard University and its Business School, the University of California at Berkeley, and theComparative International Education Society Conference. Ms. Anastasoff has a Masters inEducation Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and in Public Policy fromthe Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where she received the prestigious PublicService Fellowship.


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2:30pm - 3:30pm

PARALLEL SESSIONS:

TRACK 2

The New Face Of Funding: How TheAccelerators And Incubators AreChanging The RulesGone are the days when you had to write a business plan and chase VCs on SandHill Road. Angels/Super Angels and over a dozen incubators, accelerators and newplaces have popped up that allow entrepreneurs to get started on a shoestring.These places is where angels come to look for them and hang out with them. Howdo you get into these places and what are the new rules of getting funded. Thispanel will explore the new model and the new rules. Representatives will share howHacker Dojo, Plug and Play, Angels pad, 500Startups, Startup Weekend and Citrixaccelerators are reshaping the landscape.

Rick Rasmussen (Founder and Principal of Rasmussen Consulting Group)

John McIntyre (Managing Director of the Citrix Startup Accelerator)

Moderator:

Panelists:

A lifelong Silicon Valley native, Rick is the Founder and Principal of Rasmussen ConsultingGroup, providing high-level marketing and management consulting services to small andmid-cap companies centered on digital video semiconductor technology supplementedby expertise in telephony infrastructure, internet services and digital media. He served asan Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Institutional Venture Partners, Interim CEO for @Road,President and CEO for BuzMe.com and currently serves as a Director of CritterPix, ananimated feature film startup in Marin County, CA.

Ricks professional experience includes five years at C-Cube Microsystems (LSI) asVP Marketing and GM where he helped drive the digital video revolution in consumer,computer and communications markets. Prior he spent nine years at LSI Logic where hespearheaded new development of RISC microprocessors, DSP and standard cell productlines culminating as the GM of the MIPS Microprocessor Division.

He earned an EECS degree with highest honors from UC Berkeley and completed anexecutive dual MBA degree program from UC Berkeleys Haas School of Business andColumbias Graduate School of Business in New York City with honors.

John McIntyre is the Managing Director of the Citrix Startup Accelerator where he leadsthe team chartered with investing in and developing early stage entrepreneurs globally.Over the last 20 years Johns focus has been on developing innovative ecosystems andlinking entrepreneurs, investors, and mentors internationally.


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David Weekly(Founding Director of HackerDojo)

Mike Hodges (Managing Director of ATA Ventures)

A Boston native and son of a MIT engineer, David has been programming since he was

five and has coded for MIT, Harvard, Stanford, There.com, atWeb, and Legato. Davidwrote the first laymans description of MP3 in early 1997 and graduated in 2000 with a BSin Computer Science from Stanford, where he was a President Scholar and a finalist in theACM International Programming Competition.

David started the company that became [PBworks] in 2003, along the way creatingSingleStat.us and IMSmarter.

David is a Founding Director of Hacker Dojo, a non-profit community center aimed atproviding programmers in the SF Bay Area a place to collaborate and innovate. Thislargely came out of Davids efforts as the co-founder of SuperHappyDevHouse, a monthlyhackathon whose 40+ Saturday gatherings of upwards of 600 programmers haveproduced many projects, companies, and friendships.

Mike Hodges joined ATA Ventures in 2006 and became a Managing Director in 2008. Mikehas built a reputation as a successful CEO and interim CEO and is credited with severalsuccessful turnaround efforts, including Tellium, a Telecom Networking company thatbegan as a technology spinout from Bellcore in 1997 (Tellium completed a public offeringof $1.5B in 2001). Mike provides expert support to the ATA Ventures comprehensive

portfolio of companies, as well as seeking new investments for the firms current and futurefunds. He currently serves as a Director on the Boards of TeleCIS Wireless, PixSense, RedCondor, Billeo and WaveBender. Mike graduated from U.C. Berkeley, receiving BSEE andMSEE degrees.

Prior to joining Citrix John ran the Enterprise Ireland team chartered with driving marketmomentum for Irish software, services, and technology companies in the North Americanmarketplace. He co-founded InnerWorkings, a software company that raised over $10million of venture financing. He also spent time at SmartForce (now Skillsoft) as Directorof Business Development and Strategic Relations. Before SmartForce McIntyre spent 13years at Intel Corp. where, as Director of Business Market Development, he partneredclosely with Intel Capital to fund emerging technology and software companies.


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3:30pm - 4:30pm

PARALLEL SESSIONS:

TRACK 2

Workshop: 8 Essential Skills ToAccelerate Your Career

At school, no one teaches you how to thrive when you first enter the job market. Younotice that some people seem to get all of the promotions and juicy projects even ifyou dont think that they are smarter than you. What do they know that you dontknow? What can you learn that will put your career on a fast track in your current job?What is your career path and how can you reach your goal quickly? This workshopgives you eight essential skills and techniques that are bound to give your career aboost. The instructor has distilled his 25 years of working in corporate America andextensive research on this topic in this three-hour workshop. We will cover:

How to be recognized for your contributions

How to get on the right projects

How to be liked by your managers

How to get a raise

How to chase the next promotion

How to chart a career path

How to work within a culturally diverse workforce

How to be effective and efficient within your work

How to balance work/ life and gain satisfaction

Naeem Zafar (President and CEO of Bitzer Mobile)

Presenter:

Naeem Zafar started out as an engineer, with a degree in electrical engineering, an IEEEmembership card, and not much else. Within a few years, he was enjoying managementtitles and had zigzagged throughout the organization to become president and CEO. Whatmistakes did he make and what did he learn from them? Today, as a part of the businessschool faculty at University of California Berkeley, he advises entrepreneurs and works with

young professionals on what to do to accelerate their dreams. He has authored five books(www.NaeemZafar.com) speakers frequently all over the world. He has held the presidentand CEO title 4 times and is currently running www.bitzerMobile.com, his latest venture.


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2:30pm - 3:30pm

PARALLEL SESSIONS:

YOUTH TRACK

Gen Y Entrepreneurs

Zahra Siddique (Founder of Ezahra)

Aisha Thiessen (Artist and Webcomic Creator)

Jabez Le Bret (Entrepreneur and Speaker -Creating Gen Y Leaders)

Moderator:

Panelists:

Zahra Siddique, a sophomore at Calhigh in San Ramon. She is very active in entrepreneurial

activities since the age of 12. First she built Ezahra to start selling online childrens noveltyschool supplies, goodie bags and gift baskets. Later she started first of its kind club ather school called Investeen to promote entrepreneurial and investment activities amongother teenagers, which is now become part of an international organization called DECA,where she has become the treasurer of her chapter.

Check out the story about her club activities in local news paper San Ramon Patch and ina popular blog. Zahra is an active Toastmaster and runs her club meetings in Pleasantonregularly. She also manages IEEE ComSoc-SCV activities page, and volunteers at OPEN,Walk for Cancer,Spread Kindness, Interact and several other organizations where she

provides active support. Last year during her summer vacation, she helped a new localrestaurant to organize their Grand Opening ceremony where she single handedly invitedcongressmen, state senator, Mayors and city & county officials and other dignitaries,which was very successful and attended by almost 150 people from the Tri-City area. Thecoverage was done in local papers.

Aisha Thiessen is the creator of the site Catching Dreams. After graduating from theUniversity of Colorado at Boulder in May 2010, with a BFA in Film Studies and BA inEnglish, she moved to Silicon Valley to pursue reimagining and relaunching a webcomicshe started in high school. Not only does this involve writing and illustrating the comicitself, but developing the website, marketing the product, and managing the community.She hopes the comics popularity will pull in revenue through ads and merchandise, and, ifit really is successful, eventually launch her career in the entertainment industry.

Jabezs career story started with his first corporate jobelf at Santa lane in downtownSeattle at the flagship Nordstrom store. He took this job, moved his way up the ladder, andbecame financial analyst of that very flagship store. Since then he has traveled the worldas a professional speaker, written books, and had a blast as a marketing consultant. Youcan find more information at http://www.JabezLeBret.com Now days he is partner ofan advertising agency and continues to speak to audiences about advanced SEO, socialmedia conversion, and managing Gen Y employees turning them into leaders.


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It wasnt always that easy. Like most entrepreneurs Jabez will be the first to tell you that hehas failed, lost money, and missed opportunity. That never stopped him from continuingto push his way towards making it work. Today his firm handles hundreds of clients acrossthe US and has a completely virtual staff making it all work. A big fan of non-conventionalmethods, Jabez has built a company that is both successful and freeing.

Wajahat Ali (Playwright, Attorney)

Vikas Khanna (Managing Director, Zoovee Ventures)

Wajahat Ali is a Muslim American of Pakistani descent. The Domestic Crusaders is his firstfull-length play. which premiered in 2005 at the Thrust Stage of the Berkeley RepertoryTheater and San Jose University Theater. In 2009, The Domestic Crusaders premiered

Off-Broadway in New York at the famous Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and broke their box officerecords during its historic 5 week run.

Alis essays and interviews on contemporary affairs, politics, the media, popular cultureand religion frequently appear in the Washington Post, The Guardian, Salon, Slate,McSweeneys,Wall Street Journal Blog, Huffington Post, and, CNN.com, among otheron-line sites. His blog, Goatmilk: An Intellectual Playground is ranked in the top 7% of allpolitical blogs by blogged.com.

Wajahat Ali is a researcher and writer for the Center for American Progress focusing on

Islamophobia in America. Ali was honored as an An Influential Muslim American Artistby the State Department and invited to their 2008 and 2010 Annual Ramadan dinners.He was named a Muslim Leader of Tomorrow for his journalism work and invited toparticipate in the 2009 conference in Doha, Qatar. He is the recipient of Muslim PublicAffairs Councils prestigious Emerging Muslim American Artist recognition of 2009.Wajahat Ali is also an Attorney at Law, practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area. WajahatAli is the proud recipient of the 2010 Otto Award for Political Theater.

Wajahat is currently writing a TV pilot with Dave Eggers for HBO about a Muslim Americancop in the Bay Area, California

Vikas Khanna is the Managing Director of Zoovee Ventures a boutique angel investingand consulting services firm based in Silicon Valley. Prior to founding Zoovee, Vikas waspart of the founding team of NextWeb a VC-backed Wireless Internet Service Providerwhere he was tasked with leading the technology strategy for the company. During histenure, NextWeb grew to dominate its market segment, achieve national recognition asan Inc 500 (#104 in 2005) company, and delivered a successful exit with the acquisitionby Covad Communications in 2006. At Covad, Vikas served as the Vice President ofTechnology where he provided guidance for the companys overall technology growth.In addition, he also serves on advisory boards for venture capital, Internet, Telecom, andnon-profit organizations in Silicon Valley.


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OPEN FORUM 2011

VOLUNTEERS

RIYADH ABDULLAH

NIDA J ADIL

FAREEDA AHMED

SUMEET AHUJA

SABRINA AKHTAR

MELANIE ANANTHARAM

SUMERA ANJUM

GUNEETA SINGH BHALLA

SHAHID BHATTI

AVIJIT CHAKRAVARTY

AZIZ GHADIALI

FAIQ GHATALA

FERMAN HAIDER

SAMEETAH JUNAID

JUNAID

MARYAM HAQ

UZAIR HAQ

NAJWA HUSSAINI

ALVARO ILLANAS

WASI IMAM

FARAZ SYED JAFRI

AMEER KARIM

SHAMA KHAN

NABEELA KHAN

YASSER KHAN

FITCH LI

EMAAN MAJED

AUSAF MASOOD

FARAZ MASOOD

NIDA NAFEES

IRAM NAWAZ

FAHIMA RAHMANZAI

FOUZIA RAFAE

OMER RANA

ZAINAB RANA

AYESHA SAMDANI

AMER SAMIE

NABEHA SHAUKAT

FARHAN SHAHAB

AYESHA SHEIKH

SAIMA S

REZA SHEIKH

TAMARA LEE STOVER

WASIM SUFI

NAZIYA SYED

MERCY TAN

RAHUL VINAY


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