Andrew Hoag, CEO and Founder, Urbantag
Andrew is an entrepreneurial technical product leader who enjoys building products, companies & teams from scratch, but also have led product lines with $60MM+ in revenue and still can write a line of code once in a while. Most recently, he launched urbantag to tackle the trillion-dollar online-to-offline commerce market. Urbantag was born out of several iterations at Black Drumm, where they won an fbFund award and launched several products enabling marketers to reach more customers through social media and word-of-mouth channels. Urbantag was successfully acquired by Tagged in 2012. Immediately prior to this, Andrew was founding CTO and COO at two start-ups, and has been an angel investor and advisor to several others. Before that, he held management roles in consulting, product management, business development and marketing at VeriSign.Andrew is always interested in meeting technologists and entrepreneurs that are interested in the local, mobile, social network and semantic web spaces to share ideas on how to create great products and profitable businesses.
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CINA Winter Conference
Mobile Opportunity - At the Intersection of Web, Entertainment and Cloud Computing
Venue: Computer History Museum, 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View, CA
Nov. 9, 2012. Program: 12:00pm - 6:30pm, Reception: 6:30pm - 8:00pm
About the Conference
As Mobile technology evolves, tremendous business opportunities will emerge. The growing consensus is that our current cabled, PC-centric computing will soon be replaced by an untethered world of smart phones and tablets providing computing, on the go. The mobile network we all envision will be much more flexible, powerful and easier to use than today's wired Internet, but with the added benefit that people can use it anywhere, anytime, with much greater variety of devices.
Conference Agenda
12:00pm – 01:00pm | Registration and Social Networking |
01:00pm – 01:05pm | Opening Remarks : Vicki Young , President of CINA; Richard Dasher, PhD, Stanford University |
01:05pm – 01:30pm | Opening Keynote: Tom Powledge, Vice President of Product Delivery, SMB and .Cloud, Symantec |
01:30pm – 02:15pm | Session: How will Mobile Accelerate Business and Social Media Success? Scott Chou (Moderator), General Partner, Gabriel Venture Partners and Michigan eLab Timothy Tuttle, PhD, CEO and Founder, Expect Labs Stephen Lee, Head of New Ventures at Skype Andrew Hoag, CEO and Founder, Urbantag |
02:15pm – 03:00pm | Session: How will Mobile Gamification and Gaming Encourage User Participation and Engagement? Margaret Wallace (Moderator), CEO and Co-Founder, Playmatics Damon Grow, CEO and Co-Founder, CrowdMob Inc. Ivan Lee, CEO and Co-Founder, Loki Studios Kai Huang, CEO and Co-Founder, RedOctane; Founder of Guitar Hero Janos Barnero, Co-Creator, FoldIt Project at the University of Washington |
03:00pm – 03:30pm | Coffee Break |
03:30pm – 04:15pm | Session: Future of Mobile Innovation and Investment Landscaping Doug Park (Moderator), Partner, Rimon, P.C Ryan Floyd, Founding General Partner, Storm Ventures Steve Payne, Founding Partner, Architect Partners · Jay Eum, Founding Partner, TransLink Capital Jai Choi, Founding Partner, Tekton Ventures | Venture Partner, Partech Ventures |
04:15pm – 05:00pm | Session: Future of Branding -- What it means to Mobile Commerce & Security Ken Elefant (Moderator), Director, Intel Capital Justin Yoshimura, CEO and Co-Founder, 500 Friends · Hemma Prafullchandra, CTO and Senior Vice President, HyTrust Aseem Asthana, VP of Product Management, Celestix Networks |
05:00pm – 05:45pm | Session: Role of Mobile at the Next-Gen of Cloud Innovation Timothy Chou, PhD, (Moderator), Lecturer, Stanford and Tsinghua University Laura Yecies, CEO, SugarSync Vince Vasquez, CEO and Founder, Cloudbook Greg Chase, Senior Director, Marketing - Cloud Solutions, SAP
Wen Yu, Senior Architecture, Nimble Storage |
06:10pm -06:30pm | Rising Star CEOs Judge: Carol Sands, Managing Member, Angel's Forum |
06:30pm -08:00pm | Reception: Top three winners announcement |
Who Should Attend?
Business professionals, decision makers from high-tech companies and enterprises, including CEOs, VPs, Directors and Managers of Marketing, Sales and Business Development, Venture Capitalists, Angel Investors, Investment Bankers, Entrepreneurs, Lawyers, Engineers, Individuals seeking career change and other Service Providers would find this conference very beneficial.
What Does this Conference Offer?
This conference provides excellent informative discussions on mobile and cloud computing. It is also a great environment for networking among industry leaders, decision makers, corporate executives, and entrepreneurs from both US and China. It will provide insight to future mobile technology developments and business trends. The panel discussions will focus on business ecosystems in the mobile opportunity, cross border business/marketing strategies, as well as the investment landscape both in US and China.
About CINA
CINA, a prominent non-profit professional organization in Silicon Valley, provides its 20,000+ members high quality seminars, workshops, mentor programs, annual conferences, and networking events. CINA brings together a diverse group of professionals, consisting of not only Chinese but also people from different ethnicities and backgrounds. Our goal is to provide a forum facilitating engineers, entrepreneurs, corporate executives, angel investors and venture capitalists to share innovative ideas, and to connect with opportunities. www.cina.org
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