Marissa Mayer, VP of Product Management at Google, to Deliver Closing Keynote at TiEcon 2011

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- (http://www.myprgenie.com) -- TiE Silicon Valley announced today that Marissa Mayer, VP of Product Management, will deliver the closing keynote speech on Saturday, May 14th at TiEcon 2011.

TiEcon 2011 will take place at the Santa Clara Convention Center, May 13-14.  Each year, the conference brings together a diverse and dynamic group of leaders from business, technology, venture capital, and media for two days of education, inspiration, and networking.

"We are very excited to have Marissa Mayer speak at our annual conference, TiEcon.  Marissa has been associated with some of the most successful products at Google including Gmail, Google News and Google Earth. She is a role model not only for women in technology, but for all engineers and entrepreneurs who want to create successful products," said Vish Mishra, President of TiE Silicon Valley.

Mayer joined Google in 1999 as Google's first female engineer, at which time she led the user interface and web server teams. She has since led product management and design efforts for Goolgeweb search, images, news, books, products, toolbar and iGoogle. In her current role, she leads the product management and engineering efforts of Google's local, mobile, and contextual discovery products including Google Maps, Google Maps for Mobile, Local Search, Google Earth, Street View, Latitude and more.

Mayer has been featured in various publications, including Newsweek ("10 Tech Leaders of the Future"), Red Herring ("15 Women to Watch"), Business 2.0 ("Silicon Valley Dream Team"), BusinessWeek, Fortune, and the New York Times. As a hardcore technologist who describes herself as "a geek", she will relate well to the TiEcon audience of engineers, entrepreneurs and high tech professionals.

TiEcon 2011: Innovation ReignsTiEcon 2011: Innovation Reigns, will feature session tracks and keynote speeches focused on key market segments:  Cloud, Mobile, Social, Energy and Life Sciences. Other keynotes at TiEcon 2011 include:  Steve Case, Co-Founder of AOL and Chair of the Startup America Partnership; Vinod Khosla, Founding CEO of Sun Microsystems/ Founder of Khosla Ventures; Drew Houston, Founder and CEO of Dropbox; Sal Khan, Educator and Founder of the Khan Academy; and David Ferrucci, Lead IBM Watson Scientist.

TiE 50, the 3rd annual awards program to recognize the "Top 50 Emerging Companies," will be a prominent part of this year's TiEcon conference.  Selected from thousands of nominations from all over the world, previous winners have gone on to achieve great success.

Register for TiEcon 2011 today by visiting www.tiecon.org.

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About TiE

TiE is a global, not-for-profit, non-political, and non-religious organization dedicated to fostering entrepreneurs across its international network.   Sponsored by top Venture Capital Firms and Fortune 500 corporations, TiE's network has grown across 56 chapters in 13 countries comprising of 1,800 experienced entrepreneurs and business executives as charter members, 12,000 aspiring entrepreneurs and professionals as members.

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SOURCE TiE Silicon Valley