OnMobile 2012

Partner AlwaysOn Event Sponsored by CINA

What: OnMobile 2012

When: June 12-13th, 2012

Where: Fox Theatre and Club Fox, 2223 Broadway Street Redwood City, CA 94063!
      
Registration: CINA Members get 50% discount ($1000 off) http://www.aonetwork.com/cart/add/p69196?destination=cart

Website: http://aonetwork.com/AOEvents/OnMobile/OnMobile-2012

Highlight

OnMobile 2012 is where the top venture capital-backed mobile companies disrupting the consumer and enterprise worlds join forces with the big players pioneering the new mobile device and operating system platforms. This two day executive event features high-level debates on what's hot in the emerging mobile market and how these innovations are disrupting how companies and consumers work, play, advertise, and connect. OnMobile also showcases the top entrepreneurial CEOs who are driving mobile innovation.

Come and mingle with 100 speakers

CINA Entrepreneur Thought Leader Mentor Program on May 29

Speakers:

Tim Wilson, Managing Director, Artiman Ventures;
David Koehn, Board Member, Sand Hill Angels.

Bill Reichert, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures

Shawn Douglass, Managing Director, EMC Ventures
Moderator: John Liu, Of Counsel, Fenwick & West, LLP

When:  May 29, 6:00pm - 8:45pm

Program: 6:00pm - 6:30pm Registration and Networking
                  6:30pm - 7:15pm Presentation
                  7:15pm - 8:00pm Panel Discussion
                  8:00pm - 8:45pm Investor/Entrepreneur Round Table Mentor

Where:  Fenwick & West, LLP, 801 California Street, Moutain View,  CA

Website: www.cina.org

Register:  http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3179121839 

Highlight

In today's high-tech venture environment, there are lots of New Challenges that the startups are facing. By having the killer app or compelling business plan is not enough.
In this special event, we invited several seasoned investors who will share us their vision and compelling stories.

Some of the topics but not limited:
- What are the common mistakes for a new startup?
- What it takes to successfuly build company from ground up?
- What are the most important elements that strike investors decision to fund the company?
- How to Recruit All- Stars?
- How to grow your company into a multi-million dollar company?
- Where Investors are investing?

Come and hear from the industry thought leaders.

About Speakers:

Tim Wilson, Managing Director, Artiman Ventures

Between 2001 and 2011, Tim was a General Partner at Partech International. He continues to represent Partech and serves on the boards of Invensense (NYSE:INVN), Prysm, Five9s, LedEngin, Array Converter, and Acco Semiconductor. Previous investments include Teknovus (Broadcom) and Ario Data (Xyratek).

Between 1997 and 2001, Tim was the Chief Marketing Officer for Digital Island (NASDAQ: ISLD) a Partech portfolio company. The company was acquired in 2001 for $350M. Prior to Digital Island, Tim was a General Manager at Lucent Technology where he led the international voice communications product management team (now Avaya) with P&L for product lines generating over $2B in annual sales. Before Lucent, Tim held a variety of senior management positions within AT&T (North America and Australia) and AT&T Bell Labs from 1983-1995.

Tim graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Bowdoin College receiving his undergraduate degree in Physics. He received his MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business where he was named a Fuqua Scholar.

David Kohen, Board Member, Sand Hill Angels.

David Koehn, Board Members, Sand Hill Angels

David has over 15 years experience focused on entrepreneurship and innovation. David has founded several start-ups including one focused on ecotourism and another focused on enterprise mobility. David has also assisted many start-ups in their growth. David has helped start-ups in many ways from assuming the CEO role and closing a series C, to transforming their business models and market approaches, to acting as a senior advisor.

David has worked for AvantGo, Tailwind (Founder), DKI (Principal), & Saba. In all of his roles across all of the companies he has worked for David has focused on building net new products, solutions and services. David pioneered mLearning at AvantGo. At Tailwind David delivered a product for consuming enterprise online learning and applications while offline. At DKI david helped dozens of clients conceptualize, productize, and take to market a wide range of media, social, unified communications, and games using the cloud, Facebook and mobile as the platform.

David received his Bachelors Degree from Carnegie Mellon, an MFA from the University of Florida, an M.Ed (TFA Cert) from the University of Alaska and is pursuing his MBA through Johns Hopkins.

David looks to invest in start-ups focused on disrupting inefficient markets. He targets, in particular, start ups focused on mid-market social enterprise, location-based solutions for small business, and real-time analytics/intelligence businesses

Bill Reichert - Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures

Bill Reichert has over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur and an operating executive. Since joining Garage in 1998, Bill has focused on early-stage information technology and materials science companies. He sits on the Boards of CaseStack, WhiteHat, ClearFuels, cFares, and ThermoCeramix. Prior to Garage, Bill was a co-founder or senior executive in several venture-backed technology startups, including Trademark Software, The Learning Company, and Academic Systems. Earlier in his career, he worked at McKinsey & Company, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., and the World Bank. Bill earned a B.A. at Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. He was a founding board member and a Chairman of the Churchill Club, and a Charter Member of the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs. Currently he is the Chairman of the Small Fund Roundtable of the VC Taskforce and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.

Shawn Douglass, Managing Director, EMC Ventures.

Shawn runs the Advanced Tech Ventures group for EMC in the CTO Office. Been in the valley for a while and love technology and helping to building new ventures. Responsible for making investments in Big Data/Analytics, Cloud, Virtualization, Security & Information mgt startups. He had been the founder of the high-tech startup.

About CINA

Chinese Information and Networking Association (CINA) is a leading non-profit organization established in 1992, formed by a group of Chinese professionals from the network computing industry. Today, with more than 20,000+ members, CINA is one of the most active and fastest growing professional associations in Silicon Valley . CINA focuses its energy on performing member services that are consistent with our mission by assembling a talented and experienced board, exceeding members' expectations by continually providing quality speakers and seminars.

CINA brings together a diverse group of professionals consisting not only Chinese but also people from different ethnicities and backgrounds. Our goal is to provide a forum facilitating engineers, entrepreneurs, corporate executives (CEOs, CTOs, VPs, directors and managers), angel investor and venture capitalists to share innovative ideas, and connect with opportunities.

Blogging for Businesses and Marketers Workshop

Date / Time: March 28 2012 - 06:00pm to 09:30pm
Register: Space is limited. Register online early to reserve your ticket

Venue: Fenwick & West, LLP.
801 California Street
Mountain View, CA

Highlight

Social media and the internet has dramatically changed how businesses and organizations market themselves. No longer is broadcasting your message an effective way to attract customers. The social web is driven by content and conversations. Businesses are having to become content publishers and trusted resources. Although social networks like Facebook and Twitter garner much of the attention in the marketing world, your blog is a powerful hub that ties your online social presences together.

Attend this hands on evening workshop presented by Adam Helweh, CEO of Secret Sushi Creative, to understand the role blogging plays in your marketing & communications efforts. Additional emphasis will be placed on how to effectively use your time and resources to maximize your blogging efforts in a business context
Overview of what you will learn:

• How blogging fits into your existing marketing efforts
• Picking the perfect blogging platform for your needs
• Set up a blog and optimize it for social media and SEO
• Blogging strategies and best practices for b2b and b2c businesses
• How to promote your blog and generate traffic
• Power tips to generate blog post ideas and create an editorial calendar
• How to customize your blog with original templates ( using wordpress as an example)

Some of the benefits of blogging:

• Increases your online exposure
• Benefits of solo bloggers versus teams
• It's closely connected with your existing web site
• Attract inbound traffic from search engines and social networks
• It acts as a social hub for your existing web site and social networks
• Highly brand-able environment where you can control the experience
• Helps position you as a trusted resource or subject matter expert to your audience
• It's a multimedia platform that supports audio, video, images as well as text.

This event is perfect for:

• Marketing professionals
• Business owners
• Aspiring Social Media Professionals
• Digital Marketing Professionals
• Nonprofits
• Entrepreneurs

Please join this hands-on workshop and learn about blogging from an industry expert. Similar workshops have been priced at as much as $1000. Seating is limited.

About the instructor

Adam is an digital marketer, social media consultant, technologist and the CEO of Secret Sushi Creative a digital marketing and social media company. At Secret Sushi he has worked with such companies as Edelman, Broadcom, Stanford Federal Credit Union, the Thomas Keller Restaurant Group as well as a many small and medium sized businesses.

Adam is also a regular author on the top ranked digital marketing blog SocialMediaExplorer.com, the social media manager for TEDxSanJoseCA, and co-host of the newly launched "SoLoMo Show" [Link to: http://solomoshow.com/] podcast discussing the intersection of social, local and mobile marketing.


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Join this Exciting Soccer Game while Celebrating the Year of the Dragon

CINA is the official non-profit organization for the opening match of this Soccer Game   This would be a great opportunity for our members to get involved in the local community.

Please join this exciting soccer game to celebrate the Chinese heritage in the Year of the Dragon.

When: March 10th, 7:30pm
Where: Buck Shaw Stadium, Santa Clara Univessoty
What: Soccer Game --  Earthquakes vs. New England Revolution
- Live traditional art performance during intermission,
- Children can join the Pre-play march.
Ticket Price: $20 ( free for children 2 and under )
Order by: Feb. 16

Mail Check Payable to CINA to 142 N. Milpitas Blvd., Milpitas CA 95035

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