August 19, 2015, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—A panel discussed the issues and implications of diversity in the workplace. Roz Hudnell from Intel acted as moderator with panelists Tim Bajarin from Creative Strategies,Caryl Shaw from TellTale Games, and Lisa Lambert, Howard Wright, and Sandra Lopez from Intel. The main issue is a need for greater…
July 23, 2014, Casual Connect Conference, San Francisco—Bertrand Schmitt from App Annie presented some trends and drivers for the casual gaming industry. Although the industry is growing, it is fairly fragmented and volatile. Monthly statistics for the gaming industry are available from http://www.appannie.com/indexes/all-stores/rank/overall/ The page allows for data analysis by publisher, revenue, country, and game…
July 7, 2014, IMEC Technology Forum, San Francisco—A panel considered the likelihood of an inflection point in the semiconductor industry. Debra Vogler from Instant Insights moderated the panel. Panelists were: John Chen from nvidia, Richard Gottscho from LAM Research, Terry Brewer from Brewer Science, Christophe Fouquet from ASML, and Luc Van den Hove from IMEC….
August 26, 2013, Hot Chips Conference, Stanford, CA-Michael Brody from Winston and Strawn discussed the use and abuse of patents in the semiconductor industry. Silicon Valley and patents have been closely linked from the first semiconductor company. After a review of patent law and the rationale for getting patents, Brody noted that the semiconductor industry…
June 13, 2013, Association for Corporate Growth, San Jose, CA—An executive panel considered the issues of innovation in their respective industries. Sharma Banerjee from Socialtext moderated the panel, and panelists were Komathi Stem from Genentech, Stan Rosenschein from BranchTime, Brian Steel from UC Berkeley, and Karoly Nikolich from Circuit Theraputics. While the open innovation movement…
Game Developers Conference, San Francisco—This conference had many technical sessions presenting at the Dev Days. The usual suspects included Intel with their perceptual computing and UltraBook groups, Google, Facebook, Unity Technologies, Imagination Technologies, Microsoft, Samsung, Amazon Web Services, Xsens, ARM, Sony Entertainment, Autodesk, AMD, Nvidia, and Adobe. In these sessions, the sponsors talked about the…
February 11, 2013, Churchill Club Forum, Mountain View, CA—A panel discussed the many facets of trust. Peter Burrows from Bloomberg Business Week moderated the panel. Panelists were Eric Channing Brown from Skype, Mary Dent from Silicon Valley Bank, Richard Edelman from Edelman Public Relations, and Jeffery Pfeffer from Stanford. Trust barometer changes? Edelman produced some…
January 29, 2013, SNIA Non-Volatile Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Mark Peters from the Enterprise Strategy Group reviewed the storage trends and drivers in the non-volatile spaces. Overall, the increases in e-mail-like communications and analytics are the key drivers for increasing storage. The dynamic hierarchies are aided by the changing underlying software. The hardware technologies and…
October 15, 2012, CEA Industry Forum, San Francisco—A panel looked at the issues associated with do-it-yourself healthcare. Apps and new devices enable consumers to track and manage their health by themselves. Scott Stropkay from Essential Design moderated the panel which was comprised of Jody Rank from GigaOm, Rob Lister from AT&T foundry, and Scott Moore…
October 15, 2012, CEA Industry Forum, San Francisco—John Gerzema from Brand Asset Consulting talked about changes in values in consumer space since the great recession, and how these changes affect the way we buy, sell, and live. Through studies crossing brands, values, and behaviors, we are saying significant changes in consumer behavior. Consumers are now…