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Partner & Alliance Events:

  • Global Strategies for World-ready Software
  • [SDForum] China, Insider Information
  • [CMU SFBay Alumni] Angels & Demons: Raising Capital in a Recession

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CSPA Partner Event

Topic: Global strategies for world-ready software
Event: Worldware Conference – software internationalization
Date: 17-19 March 2009
Location: Santa Clara Hilton
4949 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA‎

Worldware Conference
The Worldware Conference presents business strategies for delivering world-ready software products. Worldware will offer vital software internationalization know-how and thus provide:

Real-world customer satisfaction
• Diversification of revenue sources
• Increased revenue
• Reduced costs as your software product enters new international markets
• A quicker time to market
• Strategies to build, maintain, and deploy worldwide product releases

Software strategies to reach global markets
Internationalization is the unavoidable prerequisite to global sales. As the current recession illustrates, you can no longer depend on the North American market alone as your sole source of revenue.

Worldware at a glance:

• Learn business and management strategies for software internationalization.
• A two-day program set in Silicon Valley
• A third day for workshops
• Program advisory support courtesy of Lingoport, Microsoft, Cisco, Adobe, Yahoo!, Lionbridge and SDL Passolo

View our invitation at http://www.worldwareconference.com/downloads/invitation.pdf and send it to a friend
Tel: USA 608 826 5001
Email: info@worldwareconference.com

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TOPIC: CHINA, INSIDER INFORMATION - Win in the 300M + User China Web Marketplace.

Monday, 23 Feb., 6:30-9:00 PM - Orrick, Menlo Park

Ignore China as a market opportunity at your own peril –  lose 300M + Web Users?  No!  Discover the HOW, WHEN, WHERE and with WHOM to ENTER this phenomenal market at the next SDForum International SIG meeting. Andreas Ramos has met with many of the major Chinese web companies and will share his insider information.

SPEAKER:   Andreas Ramos, Author of 5 books and Entrepreneur -
Co-Founder & Director at The CCG Group, Co-Founder & Director of PPC at Position2.com, Co-Founder & Director at Creative Consultants Group, LLC.  His latest book is "Search Engine Marketing" (McGraw-Hill, 2009) will also be published in China by Tsing Hua University Press (the MIT of China). He recently moderated panels at AdTech Shanghai, met and is associated with Chinese companies in Shanghai and Beijing.

PREPARE YOUR QUESTIONS, Andreas Ramos has the answers:
•    How is the web different in China?
•    What kinds of websites are there?
•    Which US web products can work in China?
•    Which products won't work?
•    And more …….

Time:  6:30 Registration/Light buffet, 7 PM Presentation/Q&A.         Concludes 9 PM
Location: Orrick, 1100 Marsh Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025
Registration: http://sdforum.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Calendar.eventDetail&eventID=13312
Cost:  $10 for SDForum members. $20 for non-SDForum members.

Angels & Demons: Raising Capital in a Recession

How is the ongoing economic downturn affecting the startup fund-raising process? What do startups need to do to survive? What are investors looking for now in their investments? Hear the insights from an all-star panel of VC's, angels, and CEO's, and their recommendations for raising money in 2009. It's a must-attend event for investors, entrepreneurs, and anyone involved in startup businesses.

Panelists are:
- Kurt Brown: CEO WattBot
- Sergio Monsalve: Principal, Norwest Venture Partners
- Manu Kumar (E '95, ME '97): venture capitalist and Founder, K9 Ventures
- Brian de Haaf: CEO, Paglo

The Panel will be moderated by Rob Markovich (E '87), Advisor and Former CEO at Agito Networks.

When:
Thursday, February 19, 2009
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. - Registration and networking (enjoy refreshments, light hors d'oeuvres)
7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. - Panel discussion

Where:
SRI International
333 Ravenswood Ave.
Menlo Park, CA 94025

Cost:
$30 for general public
$20 for CMU Alumni
$15 for CMU Students (bring student ID)
Walk-ins will be charged $10 more at the door, so be sure to pre-register online.

REGISTER NOW

For CSPA members, they can sign up as Alumni Rate  on the website.  Just indicate that they’re CSPA members  in the comment section.  

For questions about the event or sponsorship, please contact Max Huang ('05) at mchwang@alumni.cmu.edu.

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