May 21, 2015, Imagination Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Tony King-Smith of Imagination moderated a panel looking at various aspects of IoT platforms for future developments. Panelists included Curt Moore from TI, Omid Tahemia from Ikanos, and Eren Eshed from Altair. Segments and applicable platforms? Moore noted that developers need rules and should only change real functions….
January 23, 2014, National Association of Music Merchants, Anaheim—Craig Anderson moderated an executive roundtable comprised of Bob Ezrin, producer, Henry Juszkiewicz from Gibson, Hartley Peavey from Peavey, Gene Joly from Guitar Center’s Musicians’ Friend division, Chuck Surack from Sweetwater, and Marcus Ryle from Line 6. The changes in technology are facilitating the symbiosis of technology…
September 26, 2013, Churchill Club, Santa Clara, CA—Geoffrey Moore acted as the master of ceremonies and occasional interviewer for the awardees at this event. Following some light entertainment, the Churchill Club awarded small bowler hats to various people. The Game Changer award is given for indispensable technology and business innovation to Tesla Motors. The spirit…
July 8, 2013, IMEC Technology Forum, San Francisco—Martin Anstice from Lam Research talked about inflection challenges and value creation opportunities from collaboration. The pace and costs of change in the semiconductor industry now make it an imperative for companies to work together. Value in this industry comes from the semiconductors, and not from the equipment….
April 29, 2013, Open Source Business Conference, San Francisco—A panel moderated by Kara Sprague from McKinsey and Co looked at various issues around movement to the cloud, either public or private. Panel members included John Mathon from WSO2, Ram Peddibhotla from Intel, Jim Wasko from IBM, and Peter Yared from CBS Interactive. Where is the…
February 26, 2013, RSA Conference, San Francisco—James Lewis held a fireside talk with Michael Chertoff, chairman of the Chertoff Group and former head of the Department of Homeland Security, and Michael Daniels Cyber-security coordinator of the White House. The conversations focused on the recent executive orders and security initiatives. Lewis opened that this has been…
July 11, 2012, Flextech Alliance Workshop, San Francisco—Matt Grimshaw from Future Fab International moderated a panel on metal oxide thin film transistors at a workshop held during the Semicon conference. Panel members included Malcolm Thompson, chief technical advisor from Flextech Alliance, David Barnes, analyst from Bizwitz, David Allee from the Flexible Display Center at Arizona…
December 8, 2011, Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, UCB, Berkeley, CA—An industry panel looked at issued for advanced manufacturing. Krishna Mikkilineni from Honeywell moderated the panel. Panel members included Mathew Ganz from Boeing, Will Coleman from Mohr Davidow Ventures, Dan Jones from Intuitive surgical, Omkaram Nalamasu from Applied Materials, Darlene Solomon from Agilent Technology, and Kurt Peterson…
December 8, 2011, Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, UCB, Berkeley, CA—A panel of government agencies discussed the issues for next-generation manufacturing. Arati Prabhakar from the US Department of Energy moderated the panel. Panel members included David Brinkley from the Department of Defense, Leo Chrisodoulou from the Department of Energy, Patrick Gallagher from the National Institute of Standards…
November 18, 2011, A. Richard Newton Global Technology Leaders Conference, Mountain View, CA–Arun Sarin currently advising Kohlberg, Kravis & Roberts and former CEO of Vodaphone talked about the transition from land lines (POTS: plain old telephone service) to wireless (PAN: personal area network). Although mobile phones were invented before this year, in ’84 the transition…