June 2014 – For one afternoon Palo Alto was the host for the Poland Demo Event at the Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati offices. Poland is turning Silicon Valley and San Francisco on its ear by bringing more and more startups and established companies to the area, and is continuing the effort to do so….
March 26, 2014, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—James Fox from DawnRunner described the changes in visual effects workflows, and the consequences and impacts of changing technologies. New technologies are enabling small, independent visual effects companies to challenge existing philosophies. Existing solutions to creating effects are very hard to scale. The complex tools and equipment…
June 17, 2013, Churchill Club, Santa Clara, CA—The Churchill Club held a panel session on economically disruptive technologies. Michael Chui from McKinsey distributed McKinsey’s report on disruptive technologies and noted the highlights. Panel members included Bill Reichert from garage Technology Ventures, Barry Schuler from DFJ Growth, and Hal Varian from Google. The report identified a…
January 6, 2012 – The constantly evolving world of storage that is discussed at the annual Storage Visions event held adjacent to CES in Las Vegas, has completed its transition from being a hardware centric conference to focusing on applicability of the storage solutions. Historically, the challenges in storage have been capacity and reliability. It…