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Tomorrow's smart grid

At the Churchill Club's 11th Annual Top Ten Tech Trends, venture capitalists discuss whether the smart grid and smart meter trends will continue to produce innovation and what the motivating factors will be.

Tags: Grid, Venture Capital, Finance, Financing Startups, Churchill Club, 11th Annual Top Ten Tech Trends, Smart Grid, Ann Winblad, Steve Jurvetson, Joe Schoendorf, Ram Shriram, Jason Pontin

Videos 2009-05-29

Worth Watching: Steve Ballmer in the heart of Silicon Valley . . .

There was quite a bit of excitement Thursday evening prior to Steve Ballmer's appearance at the Churchill Club Annual Dinner in the heart of Silicon Valley and just a stone's throw from Yahoo! There was who's who crowd gathered at the event. There was no dancing on...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Steve Ballmer, Ann Winblad, Virtualization, Corporate Communications, Cloud Computing, Performance Management, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Marketing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Storage, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-09-26

Additional Resources

Churchill Club: 11th annual top 10 tech trends

In this episode of the Churchill Club podcast series a panel of experts debate the top technology trends. This members only event included the following speakers: Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson  Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures  Joe Schoendorf, Partner, Accel...

Tags: Founder, Podcasts, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-21

Women Tech Executive Roundtable: What’s Top of Mind in 2009

In this episode of the Churchill Club podcast series, tech leaders talk about the current trends and the business environment for female technology executives. Ann Winblad, partner of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, moderated a panel with the following speakers: Janaki Akella, Principal, McKinsey &...

Tags: Women, Podcasts, Gender And Diversity, Internet, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-28

Ballmer's battle with VMware

At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks to Ann Winblad, a partner at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, about Microsoft's move into virtualization with its new Hyper-V technology. He also shares his thoughts on increasing the overall market and how his company differs from...

Tags: Steve Ballmer, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Churchill Club, Microsoft

Videos 2008-09-26

Microsoft CEO still positive on tech economy

At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks to Ann Winblad, a partner at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, about the current financial crisis. Ballmer says the tech industry is weathering the economic storm, but is not immune to it.

Tags: Financial, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., CEO, Financial Accounting, Finance, Churchill Club, Microsoft

Videos 2008-09-26

Video: Ballmer's quest to compete with Google

At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks to Ann Winblad, a partner at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, on its long-term strategy to battle Google in the search market. Ballmer says that to succeed, the company will have to find a way to change...

Tags: Google Inc., Steve Ballmer, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-09-26

Ballmer's quest to compete with Google

At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks to Ann Winblad, a partner at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, on its long-term strategy to battle Google in the search market. Ballmer says that to succeed, the company will have to find a way to change...

Tags: Google Inc., Steve Ballmer, Strategy, Management, Churchill Club, Microsoft

Videos 2008-09-26

Managing risk in your career

At the Women Tech Executive Roundtable at the Churchill Club, panelists discuss how to balance risk and responsibilities and how to see an uncertainty as an opportunity. Speakers include Gina Bianchini of Ning, Charlene Li of Forrester Research, Carol Mills of Adobe, and moderator Ann Winblad of Hummer Winblad Venture...

Tags: gender and diversity, professional development, human resources, career, churchill, tech, women, risk

Videos 2008-08-06

Podcast: Churchill Club women in technology

In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series, a panel of executives talk about the critical factors in their success and how they overcame the obstacles of the fast-paced tech industry that is often considered to be dominated by men. Speakers include: Gina...

Tags: Women, Podcasts, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-06

Churchill Club video: Women tech leaders

At the Women Tech Executive Roundtable at the Churchill Club, moderator Ann Winblad of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners asks Charlene Li, formerly of Forrester Research, how she rose to such an influential role. Li explains how she gained confidence, got a few speaking tips, and gives her strategy for standing...

Tags: Women, Leader, Video, Li, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-05

Making the call: Distinguishing yourself among executives

At the Women Tech Executive Roundtable at the Churchill Club, moderator Ann Winblad of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners asks Charlene Li, formerly of Forrester Research, how she rose to such an influential role. Li explains how she gained confidence, got a few speaking tips, and gives her strategy for standing...

Tags: Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Li, Gender And Diversity, Productivity, Strategy, Human Resources, Management, churchill, tech, CEO, women

Videos 2008-08-04

Go west young engineer Silicon Valley needs you!

There is an emerging crisis in Silicon Valley - there aren't enough engineers. Companies such as VMware, and the many thousands of Silicon Valley startups, are competing with the well established giants such as Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle, Symantec, and many others, for engineering talent. I wrote...

Tags: Silicon Valley, VMware Inc., Outsourcing, Venture Capital, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Finance, Financing Startups, Human Resources, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2007-11-14

BillG sings blues over open standards, becoming obsolete, Winblad says

Venture capitalist Ann Winblad said open source and open standards has made life tough for Microsoft’s co-founder and other kingpins that used to rule the software industry. “The beauty of the software industry today is that not one, two or three companies that control the agenda. This...

Tags: Software, Open Standard, Bill Gates, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2007-09-28

Winblad: Open Source VC Funding Is Not Drying Up

In spite of a recent slowdown in venture investment, open source remains high on the list of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Ann Winblad, a partner in the prominent San Francisco VC that funded MuleSource, said at MIT's Emerging Technologies Conference Thursday that the money will keep...

Tags: Software, Winblad, MuleSource, Open Source, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2007-09-27

SaaScon exuberance

Eric Norlin, charged with developing content for the SaaScon conference, has been publicly debating what the theme of the next event should be. Its a brave move, and youre invited to join in. [Disclosure: I am on the advisory board for SaaScon. I dont get paid, but they do help...

Tags: Saas, SaaScon

Blog posts 2006-10-23

Top tech future trends debate

On January 12, the Churchill Club held its annual "Top Ten Tech Trends Debate." We have a podcast of the event, which was moderated by Tony Perkins, editor in chief of AlwaysOn. The panelists included: John Doerr, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director,...

Tags: U.S., Opportunity, Steve Jurvetson, Partnership, Entertainment, Tech Trend, Business Structures, Podcasts, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Finance, Marketing, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2006-01-20