Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford has attracted speakers from over 40 of the world’s most well known companies, from start-ups to established players, and organisations whose goal is to nurture entrepreneurship; these include: Craig’s List, Samsung Ventures America, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, PayPal, Skoll Foundation and Wired Magazine.
2010 - 10th Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford
Allen Morgan, Managing Director, New Ventures Group, Idealab and Venture Partner, Mayfield Fund
Anil Hansjee, Head of Corporate Development at Google EMEA
Biz Stone, Co-Founder at Twitter
Brent Hoberman, Co-Founder of Lastminute.com, Founder & CEO at Mydeco
Dave Rosenheim, Chairman at JamBase.com
Elizabeth Varley, CEO at TechHub
James Tansey, President at Offsetters
Joe DiNucci, Professional Coach at Joseph DiNucci Professional Coaching LLC
Joichi Ito, General Partner at Neoteny Labs
Jorn Lyseggen, Founder and CEO at Meltwater Group
Kal Patel, President - Asia Region and EVP at Best Buy
Kim Polese, CEO at SpikeSource
Maria Sendra, Chair of Southern Calif, Corporate and Securities Group at Baker & McKenzie
Mark Cowan, Co Founder at Happen
Mark Cummins, Co-Founder & CEO at Plink
Mark Whitty, Founder and CEO at Whitty Worldwide
Meagan Marks, VP Product at Wonga.com
Megan Smith, Vice President, New Business Development and General Manager Google.org at Google
Mike Malone, Columnist at ABCNews.com
Monique Maddy, Founder & CEO at eZuZa
Nancy Lublin, CEO at Do Something
Nick Hughes, Partner at Signal Point
Raymond Nasr, Advisor, Twitter and former Director of Executive Communications, Google
Reid Hoffman, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder at LinkedIn
Saul Klein, Partner at Index Ventures
Tom Hayes, Vice President, Corporate Marketing at Marvell
2005-09
Will Barton, Technology Strategy Board
Albert Bruno, Santa Clara University
Jim Buckmaster, Craig’s List
Bill Byun, Samsung Ventures America
Matt Cohler, Facebook
Mark Cowan, Happen
Rajeeb Dey, Enternships.com
Joe DiNucci
Tom Esselman, Altran USA Holdings, Inc
Tony Fadell, Apple Inc
Matt Fix, Vodafone Ventures
Pete Flint, Trulia, Inc.
Bob Goodson, YouNoodle
Paul Graham, Y combinator
Julie Hanna Farris, Actuate Corporation
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn
Saul Klein, Index Ventures
Jessica Livingston, Y combinator
Jorn Lyseggen, Meltwater Group
Susan MacTavish, Best Best Public Relations
Kirill Makharinsky, YouNoodle
Michael Malone, Malone-Grove Productions Inc; Editor of ABCNews.com “Silicon Insider”
Allen Morgan, Mayfield Fund
Craig Newmark, Craig’s List
David Nordfors, Stanford Centre for Innovation in Learning
Greg Novak, Novak Druce
Kim Polese, Spikesource
David Rosenheim, JamBase
Christopher Sacca, Lowercase Capital and Google Inc
Jerry Sanders, San Francisco Science
Maria Sendra, Baker & McKenzie, San Diego
Ram Shriram, Sherpalo Ventures
Biz Stone, Twitter, Inc
Godfrey Sullivan, Hyperion
Harjeet Taggar, Auctomatic.com
Kulveer Taggar, Auctomatic.com
Peter Thiel, Clarium Capital
Villy Wang, BayCat
Alex Welch, Photobucket
Evan Williams, Blogger
Robert Young, Lulu Enterprises, Inc
2002-04
Steve Cinelli, Prestwick Partners, Inc
Daniel Harris, Clifford Chance LLP
James Hong, Hot or Not
Santosh Jayaram, Google Inc.
Max Levchin, Slide; PayPal
Michael Malone, Malone-Grove Productions Inc.; Editor of ABCNews.com “Silicon Insider”
Jim Matheson, SmartOrg, Inc.
Isabel Maxwell, Commtouch Software, Ltd (CTCH)
Steve Millard, Silicon Valley Band of Angels
Elon Musk, SpaceX; PayPal
Raymond Nasr, Google Inc.
Sally Osberg, Skoll Foundation
Kim Polese, Spikesource
Jerry Sanders, San Francisco Science
Maria Sendra, Baker & McKenzie, San Diego
Jeff Skoll, Ebay; Participant Productions
Mary Walshok, University of California, San Diego
John Warnock, Adobe Systems
Bob Weinschenk, Britestream Networks, Inc.
Evan Williams, Blogger
Blaise Zerega, Wired Magazine