For three days in late January, more than 300 noted venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and public intellectuals converged on Palo Alto for the Fifth Annual Global Technology Symposium at Stanford University, the West Coast's premiere investor conference on technology and venture investing in emerging markets.
Opportunities in a Global Connected Economy
The Symposium's format encourages interactive dialogue about hottest questions of the day – alternative energy, new media, the role of corporate venture capital and angel investing, and political and economic trends.
Brazil, China, India, and Russia have, in the words of economic guru Clyde Prestowitz, injected "three billion new capitalists" into the world economy. This year's Symposium, which concluded on February 1, 2008, explored how the emergence of new technology corridors impacts the investment environment in Silicon Valley.
Alumni Includes Many of Silicon Valley's Most Respected Names
This year, participants included venture capital luminaries Tim Draper, Mark Gorenberg, Pitch Johnson, Alex Osadzinski, and Ann Winblad; Arno Penzias, Nobel laureate in physics; Mikhail Margelov, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the upper chamber of Russia's legislature; and senior company executives such as kyte.tv CEO Daniel Graf, VMWare CEO Diane Green, and Solar Power Partners CEO Alexander von Welczeck.
The Symposium, which is produced in conjunction with Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institue for International Studies, is hosted annually by Alexandra Johnson, Managing Director of DFJ-VTB Aurora, a fund that helps entrepreneurs in Russia and other former Soviet countries build world-class companies.
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In her words: "Many pundits are questioning whether Silicon Valley still matters," said Johnson. "This year's Symposium answered resoundingly that it does – but that Silicon Valley must learn how to leverage globalization to remain competitive."
We invite you to attend next year's Symposium to learn more about how your company can thrive in this new, globalized world. Stay tuned to this website for more information about next year's Symposium.
We are pleased to announce that the Fifth Annual Global Technology Symposium at Stanford was a resounding success! We owe a great deal of thanks to our esteemed Speakers, Sponsors, Marketing Affiliates, Global Experts and Supporters for making the Symposium possible. We are thrilled to have shared three intense days with over 300 venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and public intellectuals who converged on Palo Alto last month.
Information on the Sixth Annual Global Technology Symposium will be available this fall. Until then, enjoy a few photos from this year's event below, or check out our Photo Gallery for more!
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