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THU MAY 23

15th ANNUAL TOP 10 TECH TRENDS

What trends that aren’t obvious today will see explosive growth in about five years’ time? Find out at one of the Churchill Club’s most anticipated and entertaining events of the year: the 15th Annual Top 10 Tech Trends debate. Learn more »

TUE JUN 4

THE 360 CUSTOMER VIEW:
A FRESH LOOK

How well can you really ever know your customers? Join this candid, forward-looking discussion with leading CMOs about the challenges and opportunities ahead for customer insight and analytics. Learn more »

THU JUN 6

VC ROUNDTABLE 2013

2012 ended up being two years: before Facebook IPO and after. What can we expect to see in 2013? What has changed in fundraising? Is there a Series A crunch? What are the key metrics for losing a round? Join this discussion with five outspoken leading investors, as they opine on these key questions and more.
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WED JUN 12

DISRUPT OR BE DISRUPTED

Don’t miss this dynamic and candid discussion with four aggressively innovative disruptors, who will share their unique insights on how digital opportunities can be exploited to build novel businesses that will forever change their markets. Learn more »

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15th ANNUAL TOP 10 TECH TRENDS

May 23, 2013

SPEAKERS: David Cowan, Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners
Venky Ganesan, Managing Director, Menlo Ventures
Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Alfred Lin, Partner, Sequoia Capital
George Zachary, General Partner, Charles River Ventures
Masters of Ceremonies: Mike Perlis, President & CEO, Forbes Media
Bruce Upbin, Managing Editor, Forbes Media

Time: 5:30 PM Registration | 6:00 PM Dinner | 7:00 PM Program Begins
Location: Hyatt Regency Santa Clara | Directions
What trends that aren’t obvious today will see explosive growth in about five years’ time? Find out at one of the Churchill Club’s most anticipated events of the year: the 15th Annual Top 10 Tech Trends debate. Be sure to get your seat as five luminaries from Forbes’ 2013 Midas List of the world’s most successful venture capitalists predict and evaluate their exciting top 10 trends. And our usual live audience of Silicon Valley’s best and brightest—all with opinions of your own—will be asked to agree or disagree.

Meet our pundits:

More than 20 of David Cowan's portfolio firms have gone public. In 2011 he added LinkedIn to that list (market cap: $18.9 billion). His 2012 IPOs: LifeLock and Eloqua, in which he assisted partner Byron Deeter. He also invested in Tripwire, acquired in 2011 by Via Holdings for $210 million, and Playdom in 2010, sold to Disney for $563 million.

Venky Ganesan invested in the 2007 second round in Palo Alto Networks, which had one of the largest IPOs of 2012 (market cap: $3.8 billion). Ganesan's other exits include Amobee, which was acquired by SingTel in 2012 for $321 million, and Jajah, which was acquired by Telefonica in 2009 for $207 million. His other investments include Redfin, Virident and oDesk.

An early backer of Tesla, Steve Jurvetson has a soft spot for Elon Musk-led companies and called the billionaire company creator "a true hero of the American Dream." Jurvetson is also an investor and board member at Musk's SpaceX. Recent investments include Agradis, an agricultural biotech company, and Gen9, a gene synthesis company.

Alfred Lin was chairman & COO of Zappos.com, which was acquired for $1.2 billion by Amazon.com. Lin invested early in Zappos, as well as in OpenTable (IPO 2009), Ask Jeeves (acquired by IAC) and Tellme (acquired by Microsoft). He represents Sequoia on the boards of Achievers, Airbnb, Houzz, and others. He personally invested in Uber and Flipboard.

George Zachary reaped a massive exit for CRV when Microsoft acquired enterprise social network Yammer in June 2012 for $1.2 billion. Zachary was the first investor in the 2009 Series A. He also was an early investor in Twitter in 2007. Other previous exits include Jambool (sold to Google), Metaplace (sold to Playdom, which sold to Disney), and Shutterfly, which went public in 2006.

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Accenture, Airfoil Group, Fenwick & West, First Republic Bank, SAP,
SRI International, Silicon Valley Bank, Voce Communications,
Weber Shandwick, Wells Fargo Bank

Advance Price: Member $89 | Nonmember $189
On-site Price: Member $110 | Nonmember $205

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THE 360 CUSTOMER VIEW: A FRESH LOOK

June 4, 2013

SPEAKERS: John Boris, SVP & CMO, Shutterfly
Heidi Melin, CMO, Plex Systems
Ann Lewnes, SVP & CMO, Adobe
Moderator: Fatemeh Khatibloo, Senior Customer Intelligence Analyst, Forrester Research

Time: 7:30 AM Registration & Continental Breakfast | 8:00 AM Program | 9:15 AM Program Concludes
Location: Sofitel | Directions
How well can you really ever know your customers? Will the data you collect and manage be enough to delight them--or will it just seem creepy? What view of your customers do you really need, and how can you best obtain it? Join this candid, forward-looking discussion with leading CMOs about the challenges and opportunities ahead for customer insight and analytics.

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Advance Price: Member $35 | Nonmember $55
On-site Price: Member $55 | Nonmember $75

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VC ROUNDTABLE 2013

June 6, 2013

SPEAKERS: Andrew Chung, Partner, Khosla Ventures
Jeff Clavier, Managing Partner, SoftTech VC
John Lilly, Partner, Greylock
Jonathan MacQuitty, Partner, Abingworth Life Science
Peter Sonsini, General Partner, NEA
Moderator: Steve Bengston, Managing Director, Emerging Company Services, PwC

Time: 5:30 PM Registration | 6:00 PM Dinner | 7:00 PM Program Begins
Location: Microsoft | Directions
2012 ended up being two years: before Facebook IPO and after. All the enthusiasm, hype, and expectations for the Facebook IPO were shattered even though it ended up being one of the biggest venture backed IPO's ever. The fallout was so extreme that 2013 is now being billed as the Star Trek year: the Enterprise is back. Is this just the venture spin machine working its magic or will we see a major shift from consumer to enterprise investment? Even with all the well-publicized problems in cleantech, biotech, and medical devices, VCs invested $26B and raised $21B in 2012. What can we expect to see in 2013? What has changed in fundraising? Is there a Series A crunch? What are the key metrics for losing a round? Join this discussion with five outspoken leading investors, as they opine on these key questions and more.

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Advance Price: Member $55 | Nonmember $75
On-site Price: Member $70 | Nonmember $90

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Corporate passes will be accepted for this event. We ask that if you register using corporate passes, please do so 72 business hours in advance. We thank you for your cooperation!

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DISRUPT OR BE DISRUPTED

June 12, 2013

SPEAKERS: David Barrett, CEO, Expensify
Nathan Blecharczyk, CTO & Co-founder, Airbnb
Travis Kalanick, CEO, Uber
Eric Migicovsky, CEO, Pebble
Moderator: James McQuivey, VP & Principal Analyst, Forrester Research

Time: 7:30 AM Registration & Continental Breakfast | 8:00 AM Program | 9:00 AM Program Concludes
Location: Hyatt Regency Santa Clara | Directions
Consumers have forever been changed. The many devices they carry with them, the home networks that deliver them content, and the new digital platforms that provide apps have advanced the experiences available to them and made it so they can ultimately find the best solution to meet their need. The companies that learn to join consumers in this wave of digital disruption will win.

Don’t miss this dynamic and candid discussion with four aggressively innovative disruptors, who will share their unique insights on how digital opportunities can be exploited to build novel businesses that will forever change their markets.

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