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October 21st, 2009
Churchill Club podcast: An Evening with Michael Dell
In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series, Dell CEO Michael Dell riffs on netbooks, the spending environment and Windows 7.
September 24th, 2009
Churchill Club audio: Larry Ellison, in Conversation with Ed Zander
At a Churchhill Club event, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison talked to former Sun Microsystems President Ed Zander about Oracle’s recent acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Ellison covered a wide range of topics ranging from the economy to IBM and IT demand. Here’s the full audio.
August 5th, 2009
Churchill Club podcast: An Evening with Aneesh Chopra, Chief Technology Officer of the United States
In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series, Aneesh Chopra, CTO of the U.S., talks technology. He was appointed by President Barack Obama as the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer in April 2009, with the mandate to promote technological innovation to help the country meet its most urgent priorities - from creating jobs and reducing health care costs to keeping our nation secure.
Chopra spoke at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.
July 27th, 2009
Churchill Club: The Free Economy: How Companies Make Money From Giving Things Away
The concept of loss leader products has been around since the 20th century, but today, free has become a business strategy that could be essential to a company’s survival. In the latest episode of the Churchill Club podcast series, a top-flight panel moderated by Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief, Wired Magazine, and author of new book, “FREE: the Future of a Radical Price”, talks through the business models.
The panel included:
- Gina Bianchini, CEO, Ning
- Joe Kennedy, CEO & President, Pandora
- Ranjith Kumaran, Founder & CTO, YouSendIt
- Joe Sipher, Co-Founder & Chief Product / Marketing Officer, Pinger
- Neil Young, CEO, Ngmoco
July 15th, 2009
Churchill Club: Breakfast with California State Controller John Chiang, in conversation with Michael Moritz
In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series, California State Controller John Chiang talks with legendary venture capitalist Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital about the state’s financial crisis and the implications for venture capital, business and technology in Silicon Valley.
June 29th, 2009
Churchill Club podcast: The Cybersecurity Challenge
In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series a panel of experts examine the cybersecurity conundrum and whether the U.S. can herd enough private—and public sector—cats to secure the Internet.
With the world increasingly going “cyber,” how is cybersecurity keeping up? Exponentially more data is stored in the cloud and a plethora of devices, from phones to game consoles to cars, are connecting to the Internet, taking the needs of security far beyond the PC. Are we doing enough or do we need a new approach to security? What needs to happen to protect America’s digital infrastructure, the backbone that underpins our economy, military and government?
Panelists included:
- Gail Coury, Vice President, Risk Management, ORACLE Global IT
- Dave DeWalt, CEO & President, McAfee
- John Mitchell, Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest, was the moderator.
June 10th, 2009
Churchill Club podcast: Microsoft Ray Ozzie talks cloud computing
In the latest episode of the Churchill Club podcast series, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie talks about the evolution of cloud computing.
Steven Levy, senior writer at Wired Magazine, was the moderator.
Here’s the report from Sam Diaz on the Ozzie talk.
May 21st, 2009
Churchill Club: 11th annual top 10 tech trends
In this episode of the Churchill Club podcast series a panel of experts debate the top technology trends.
This members only event included the following speakers:
- Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures - Joe Schoendorf, Partner, Accel Partners
- Ram Shriram, Managing Partner, Sherpalo Ventures, LLC
- Ann Winblad, Partner, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
May 13th, 2009
CIO Agenda 2010: What the customer wants
In the latest episode of the Churchill Club podcast series, a panel of CIOs talk about what customers want and where innovations like Web 2.0, social networking and cloud computing fit.
The speakers include:
- Matt Carey, EVP & CIO, Home Depot; former SVP & CTO, eBay; former SVP & CTO, Wal-Mart;
- Lars Rabbe, consulting CIO; former CIO, Intuit; former SVP Engineering & CIO, Yahoo;
- Karenann Terrell, Corporate VP & CIO, Baxter; former VP & CIO, Chrysler Group & Mercedes Benz North America.
The panel was moderated by Peter Solvik, Managing Director, Sigma Partners; former SVP & CIO, Cisco Systems.
April 28th, 2009
Women Tech Executive Roundtable: What’s Top of Mind in 2009
In this episode of the Churchill Club podcast series, tech leaders talk about the current trends and the business environment for female technology executives.
Ann Winblad, partner of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, moderated a panel with the following speakers:
- Janaki Akella, Principal, McKinsey & Company
- Barbara Carbone, Partner, KPMG LLP
- Nancy Duarte, CEO, Duarte, Inc.
- Gerri Martin-Flickinger, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Adobe Systems
April 10th, 2009
Churchill Club: Uber Entrepreneur: An Evening with Elon Musk
In this episode of the Churchill Club podcast series, Elon Musk, CEO, Tesla Motors; CEO & CTO, SpaceX; Chairman, SolarCity, talks entrepreneurship.
By the age of 12 Elon Musk had sold his first commercial software, a space game called Blaster. Sixteen years later he sold his first company, Zip2, to Compaq’s Alta Vista division for $341 million in cash and stock. His next act was as co-founder of PayPal, which was acquired by eBay for $1.5 billion in stock in 2002. Musk then turned his energy toward two notable new ventures: SpaceX, developer and manufacturer of space launch vehicles, and Tesla Motors, developer of high-end electric automobiles – both of which were started in a downturn.
What makes this visionary entrepreneur tick?
March 20th, 2009
Churchill Club podcast: VC trends and strategies for 2009
In this edition of the Churchill Club podcast series, a panel of experts talk changing company valuations, and threats such as corporate bankruptcies and limited partners reneging on their investment commitments. Here’s the outlook for the year ahead.
Panelists include:
- Jay Hoag, Co-founder, Technology Crossover Ventures
- Reid Hoffman, Chairman and CEO, LinkedIn
- Matt Murphy, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
March 9th, 2009
Churchill Club podcast: The innovation economy, R&D and a crisis
In this episode of the Churchill Club podcast series, a panel of experts talk about innovation and the need for a technology breakthrough.
Is there an innovation drought on the way or will the Valley cook up the next big thing?
- Josephine M. Cheng, IBM Fellow & Vice President, IBM Almaden Research Center
- Judy Estrin, CEO, JLABS
- Rick Rashid, Senior Vice President, Research, Microsoft
- Sue Siegel, Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures
Michael Mandel, Chief Economist, BusinessWeek, moderated.
January 23rd, 2009
Churchill Club podcast: The state of the browser
The latest installment of the Churchill Club podcast series zeroes in on browsers.
When the browser first came on the scene 17 years ago, it had a straightforward mission: display the content, mostly text, that was springing up on the newborn World Wide Web. Since then, browsers have been transformed into massive programs requiring speed, stability on multiple platforms, security, a great user interface, and the ability to manage an ever-growing array of plug-ins that are often complex programs in their own right. Competition among browsers has waxed and waned, but in 2008 it became red-hot again with the release of Mozilla’s Firefox 3, Apple’s Safari for Windows inclusion in iTunes and QuickTime updates, and, in September, Google’s beta release of Chrome.
A panel of experts ponder the next steps for browsing. The panel, moderated by Steve Wildstrom, Technology & You columnist for BusinessWeek, includes:
- Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager Internet Explorer, Microsoft
- Christen Krogh, Chief Development Officer, Opera
- Sundar Pichai, VP Product Management, Google
- Mike Shaver, VP Engineering, Mozilla
December 19th, 2008
Churchill Club podcast: Around the world in 140 characters: Twitter, the Web, and survival
Twitter was supposedly a toy and a fad – until it influenced a presidential election. Now everyone is wondering what it’s going to do to everything from personal communication to marketing, politics, and the Web as a whole. Conde Nast Portfolio Contributing Editor Kevin Maney interviews Twitter CEO Evan Williams at the Churchill Club about the company’s impact, where it’s heading, and the broader picture in technology during a dark economic time.
October 9th, 2008
Churchill Club podcast: Irrational decisions and the rational people who make them
Renowned organizational thinker Ori Brafman and his brother, psychologist Rom Brafman, say that anyone–under the right set of circumstances–is capable of irrational action. But irrational behavior is not random.
In conversation with Guy Kawasaki–one of the Club’s most popular moderators–the authors of, Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior will reveal proven strategies to counteract the forces that lead to bad decisions, including our tendency to go to great lengths to avoid perceived losses, our inability to reevaluate our initial diagnosis of a person or situation, and our tendency to take on characteristics that have been arbitrarily assigned to us.
October 3rd, 2008
Churchill Club podcast: From Cell Phones to Software & Services: One-on-One with Nokia's CEO
Rich Karlgaard, publisher of Forbes, sat down with Nokia President and CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo to discuss the mobile market. Kallasvuo has led the company for the past two years, but has held a variety of positions in his 28-year Nokia career, including heading its North American unit in the late 1990s.
Kallasvuo talks about how Nokia is launching services and applications and doing battle against RIM, Apple, Microsoft and Google.
Does Nokia’s customer base of more than 1 billion people give it an advantage as it spreads smartphone-like services and applications further down into its product lineup around the world? What is the impact of Nokia’s success in the booming cell phone markets of the world, such as China, India and Africa? And what is the company’s plan for the U.S.?
September 19th, 2008
Churchill Club podcast: A Second Strike of Light-Ning? Marc Andreessen speaks
Marc Andreessen is famous for giving birth to the Web browser - in the 1990s. He’d like to be famous for some newer stuff, too - like Ning, which is getting attention as one of the more interesting ideas in social networking. (It helped 50 Cent to build his fan site.) He’s also become kind of a de facto brainiac commentator on Silicon Valley, mostly through his blog. Most recently, he’s joined Facebook’s board of directors. In a conversation with Condé Nast Portfolio’s Kevin Maney Andreessen talks social networking.
August 6th, 2008
Podcast: Churchill Club women in technology
In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series, a panel of executives talk about the critical factors in their success and how they overcame the obstacles of the fast-paced tech industry that is often considered to be dominated by men.
Speakers include:
- Gina Bianchini, CEO, Ning
- Charlene Li, Vice President & Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
- Carol Mills, Board of Directors, Adobe
Moderator:
- Ann Winblad, Partner, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
August 5th, 2008
Churchill Club video: Women tech leaders
At the Women Tech Executive Roundtable at the Churchill Club, moderator Ann Winblad of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners asks Charlene Li, formerly of Forrester Research, how she rose to such an influential role. Li explains how she gained confidence, got a few speaking tips, and gives her strategy for standing out in a crowd. Li also gives a technique she dubs “making the call”–taking your time about giving an answer and then not wavering from it.
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