Silicon Valley Open Doors
Silicon Valley Open Doors (SVOD - www.svod.org) is a leading technology investment conference that brings in startups, successful entrepreneurs, angel investors and top venture capitalists from all over the world to the heart of it all - the Silicon Valley.
Since its inception in 2005, SVOD hosts an eclectic mix of 1,000+ most creative, forward-thinking, and insightful people in the entrepreneurial and investment world as speakers and investor judges of SVOD start-up PITCH.
SVOD brings together the people who are shaping our lives today and influencing our future by hosting fireside chats and keynotes about technology innovation with the gurus of technology, venture capital, and entrepreneurship, and providing access to a variety of pre-selected young entrepreneurs and startups that think outside of the box.
SVOD speakers include: George Zachary, Charles River Ventures (Midas List, first investor in Twitter, Yammer, Shutterfly); Byron Deeter, Bessemer Venture Partners (Midas List, investor is Box, Twilio, DocuSign); Ed Kozel, CEO, Range Networks (formerly, CTO, Deutsche Telekom, CTO, Cisco, Board Member: Yahoo! Cisco, Reuters, Red Hat); Phil Libin (CEO, Evernote), Pitch Johnson, Steve Jurvetson (DFJ), Tim Draper, Esther Dyson, Matt Cohler, Max Levchin (PayPal, Yahoo!), Steve Blank, Guy Kawasaki, John Morgridge (Chairman, Cisco), Bill Tai, Ron Conway, Charles Giancarlo (SilverLake), Vinod Khosla, and many other amazing people.
Every year SVOD brings in reporters from top media editions, such as TechCrunch, The Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, Forbes, The New York Times, San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley Business Journal, Bloomberg, Fortune Magazine.
The inaugural SVOD-2005 was held on November 14–16, 2005 at Stanford University. The conference attracted over 250 attendees from innovative technology companies from the former Soviet Union; Silicon Valley VC firms (including Sequoia Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Asset Management Company, Bessemer Venture Partners, Alloy Ventures); US technology companies (including Amgen, Adobe, Cisco, Oracle Corporation, Genentech, PayPal, Sun Microsystems, and Google) and leading technology and business media.
The second conference and all following conferences were and are held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
References
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/06/05/coming-up-silicon-valley-open-doors.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzeRDdCjpNQ http://www.cnbc.com/id/101751543 http://www.nea.com/news/events/kittu-kolluri-speaks-at-silicon-valley-open-doors https://twitter.com/SVOD_club https://coursmos.com/collection/svod-2014-silicon-valley-open-doors-investment-conference http://sysmagazine.com/posts/198304/ http://www.muranosoft.com/News/News.aspx?newsid=76