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NetEvents is producing a fantastic event at the Computer History Museum to celebrate 40 years of Ethernet Innovation, take a look and book online now.

Ethernet Innovation Summit (May 22nd - Day):

Organized by PARC at Silicon Valley’s famous Computer History Museum. A great line-up of industry speakers from the "Ethernet Inventors" to future "Innovations in Networking." Meet Ethernet inventors Bob Metcalfe, Dave Boggs and other networking visionaries, pioneers and drivers and hear how todays innovations impact tomorrow business.

The cost to attend the day summit is $375 per person.

For a detailed agenda visit http://www.netevents.org.uk/ethernet-innovation-conference.

Computer History Museum members get 50% discount for the conference day pass!
Enter the code NE13EIS when registering.

Dr. John E. Kelly III is senior vice president and director of IBM Research. In this position he directs the worldwide operations of IBM Research, with approximately 3,000 scientists and technical employees at 12 laboratories in 10 countries around the world, and helps guide IBM’s overall technical strategy.

Dr. Kelly’s top priorities as head of IBM Research are to stimulate innovation in key areas of information technology, and quickly bring those innovations into the marketplace to sustain and grow IBM’s existing business; to create the new businesses of IBM’s future, and to apply these innovations to help IBM clients succeed.

IBM Research breakthroughs have helped to create and shape the world’s computing industry, while more recent breakthroughs, including Deep Blue computing systems, breaking the Petaflop barrier, and the introduction of Watson, the deep question answering natural-language computer system, are blazing the computing trails of the future.

Museum CEO John Hollar will moderate a fascinating conversation with Kelly on topics ranging from his background and the path that led him to IBM, the history of research there, IBM’s Watson and cognitive computing, to the newest lab in Nairobi, Kenya. Africa, IBM says, is destined to become an important growth market for the company. “Africa is a complex place,” Dr. Kelly said. "But we feel it is on the cusp, at an inflection point. It’s going to take off."

Revolutionaries is the Museum's acclaimed speaker series distributed throughout the world on multiple platforms. It features renowned innovators, business and technology leaders and authors in enthralling, educational conversations often with leading journalists. Our audiences gain insight into the remarkable process of innovation, its risks and rewards, and failure that led to ultimate success.

Tonight’s event is another in our series celebrating innovation at our research labs. Please join us.

Dr. Paul E. Jacobs is chairman of Qualcomm’s board of directors and the Company’s chief executive officer. A leader in the field of mobile communications for over two decades and a key architect of Qualcomm’s strategic vision, Dr. Jacobs is responsible for leadership and oversight of all the Company’s initiatives and operations.

He’ll join the Museum’s CEO John Hollar for a wide-ranging conversation about his beginnings, his path to Qualcomm and his vision for the company and for wireless. Additionally they’ll discuss Jacobs’ dedication to influencing U.S. broadband public policy, as well as his service to the World Economic Forum and the UN’s Broadband Commission for Digital Development.

Please join us for a thought-provoking conversation.

This event is part of the Museum’s acclaimed Revolutionaries speaker series, featuring renowned innovators, business and technology leaders, and authors in enthralling conversations often with leading journalists. Our audiences learn about the process of innovation, its risks and rewards, and failure that led to ultimate success.

Regis McKenna founded his own high tech marketing firm, Regis McKenna, Inc., in Silicon Valley in 1970 after working in the marketing departments of two early semiconductor pioneering companies. Over the past 30 years, his firm evolved from one focused on high tech start ups to a broad based marketing strategy firm servicing international clients in many different industries and countries. McKenna retired from consulting in 2000 and is concentrating his efforts on high tech entrepreneurial seed-ventures.

McKenna and his firm worked with a number of entrepreneurial start-ups during their formation years including: America Online, Apple, Compaq, Electronic Arts, Genentech, Intel, Linear Technology, Lotus, Microsoft, National Semiconductor, Silicon Graphics, 3COM, and many others. McKenna helped launch some of the most important technological innovations of the last thirty years including the first microprocessor (Intel Corporation), the first personal computer (Apple Computer), the first recombinant DNA genetically engineered product (Genentech, Inc.), and the first retail computer store (The Byte Shop). In the last decade, McKenna consulted on strategic marketing and business issues to industrial, consumer, transportation, healthcare, and financial firms in the United States, Japan, and Europe. McKenna continues to be involved in high tech start-up companies through his venture activities.

McKenna is included in the San Jose Mercury News' Millennium 100 as one of the 100 people who made Silicon Valley what it is today. McKenna has written and lectured extensively on the social and market effects of technological change advancing innovations in marketing theories and practices.

Our moderator is John Markoff of The New York Times, who will guide us through a fascinating conversation with a marketing mastermind.

This event is part of the Museum's acclaimed Revolutionaries speaker series, featuring renowned innovators, business and technology leaders, and authors in enthralling conversations often with leading journalists. Our audiences learn about the process of innovation, its risks and rewards, and failure that led to ultimate success.