Vishal Sikka, Anant Agarwal, Deepak Chopra, Tim Draper, Vinod Khosla, Aaron Levie, and More to Speak at TiEcon 2012

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- (http://www.myprgenie.com) -- When:  Friday, May 18, 2012 and Saturday, May 19, 2012 - 7:30 a.m. -- 6:00 p.m. 

Where: Santa Clara Convention Center 
            5001 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054  

What: Two full days of star keynotes, 20 hot topic panel sessions with the industry leaders in Entrepreneurship, Social, Mobile, Cloud, Energy and Life Sciences, over 150 innovative company exhibits, and, of course, power networking with VCs, Executives, Founders, and Technology Professionals.

Why:  TiEcon 2012 Star Keynotes

• Dr. Vishal Sikka, Head of Technology & Innovation SAP
• Deepak Chopra, Founder, The Chopra Foundation Senior Scientist, The Gallup Organization
• Anant Agarwal, President of edX and Director of CSAIL Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science MIT
• Sam Pitroda, Adviser to the Prime Minister of India Public Information Infrastructure & Innovations
• Aaron Levie, Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer Box
• Carlos Dominguez, Senior Vice President, Office of the Chairman Cisco

More speakers: TiEcon tracks and keynote speeches focus on key market segments: Social, Mobile, Cloud, Energy and Life Sciences. Here's a short preview:

• Atul Bagga, Senior Research Analyst, Lazard Capital Markets
• Matt Howard, Partner, Norwest Venture Partners
• Ryan Kim, Mobile Editor, GigaOm
• Raghu Raghuram, Senior Vice President, Cloud Infrastructure and Management, VMware
• Sharmila Shahani - Mulligan (http://www.tiecon.org/speaker/sharmila-shahani-mulligan), CEO, Clearstory Data & Ex-CMO Netscape, AOL, Aster Data
• Promod Haque, Managing Partner, Norwest Venture Partners
• Tom Fisher, CIO, Commercial IT & Senior Vice President, Cloud Services, Oracle Corporation
• Kip Levin, Executive Vice President, Commerce, Ticketmaster
• Dr. Thomas J. Fogarty, Founder, Fogarty institute of Innovation
• Gary Swart, CEO, oDesk
• Greg Woock, Founder & CEO, Pinger, Inc
• Brian Curry, CPO, Yousendit

Additionally we host the TiE Women's Forum and are introducing the TiE Youth Forum this year. Our brilliant line of speakers includes:

• Tim Draper, Founder, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
• Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures
• Sakina Ariswala, Product Director, Groupon
• Anjul Bhambhri, President Big Data, IBM
• Julia Hartz, Co-Founder & President, Event Brite 
• Anne Bezancon, Founder & President, Placecast

Visit www.tiecon.org/speakers for the complete list and for the complete agenda.  This year, we are also featuring over 120 exhibitors including SAP, Watson by IBM, Fujitsu and many startups.  As always, TiEcon ends with great Entertainment featuring Kailash Kher and others with details at http://tiecon.org/content/entertainment

RSVP:  To attend as press, please send an email to [email protected] with your full name, telephone number and organization you represent. Press passes are no cost to reporters.

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 57 chapters in 14 countries. (http://www.tie.org)

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