It’s All Virtual

Planning to Attend (2012)

1. January 9-11, 2012, Virtual Edge Summit [San Diego, CA]

Attended (2011)

1. January 5, 2011: SVPMA Meeting, “Launching a new product: beyond TechCrunch”, presented by Chris Yeh (@chrisyeh) [Santa Clara, CA]
2. January 12-13, 2011: Virtual Edge Summit 2011 [Las Vegas, NV]
3. January 24, 2011: FountainBlue’s Annual Funding Trends Event: Super Angels and Incubators to the Rescue [Mountain View, CA]
4. April 6, 2011: Focus Roundtable on Hybrid Events [teleconference and online]
5. April 11-14, 2011: NAB Show 2011 [Las Vegas, NV]
6. May 27, 2011: FountainBlue’s Second Annual Trends in Data and Security Event [EMC, Santa Clara, CA]
7. June 1, 2011: SVPMA Meeting, “Consumerization of IT – End of B2B Marketing As We Know It?”, presented by Ann Sung Ruckstuhl, VP of Marketing, Symantec [Santa Clara, CA]
8. July 6, 2011: SVPMA Meeting, “Gamification: why it’s important and what it means for your product”, presented by Rajat Paharia, Founder and Chief Product Officer, Bunchball (@bunchball) [Santa Clara, CA]
9. September 2, 2011, EMC West Coast Women’s Leadership Forum, Lunch & Learn Workshop. I presented “How to Build a Personal Brand and Advance Your Career with Social Media.”
10. September 11-14, 2011, Taleo World [San Francisco, CA]
11. September 30, 2011, FountainBlue’s Third Annual Virtual Worlds Annual Conference [EMC, Santa Clara, CA]

Attended (2010)

1. February 3, 2010: SVPMA Meeting, “What every product manager should know about Intellectual Property, Copyrights and Trademarks” [Santa Clara, CA]
2. February 22-23, 2010: Virtual Edge Summit 2010: The Summit on Virtual Events, Meetings & Communities [Santa Clara, CA]
3. March 8, 2010: FountainBlue’s High Tech Entrepreneur Forum: From Free-mium to Premium [Palo Alto, CA]
4. March 16-17, 2010: Cloud Connect [Santa Clara, CA]
5. May 5, 2010: SVPMA Meeting, “Strategy to Execution in These Trying Times” [Santa Clara, CA] – presented by Barbara Nelson, Instructor, Pragmatic Marketing
6. June 2, 2010: SVPMA Meeting, “Best Practices in Product Management for V1 Products” [Santa Clara, CA] – presented by Dan Olsen, CEO and founder, YourVersion (@danolsen)
7. June 10-11, 2010: Social Media Summit, hosted by Cisco Systems [San Jose, CA]
8. June 22, 2010: Salesforce.com’s 2010 Cloudforce 2 Tour [San Jose, CA]
9. July 21, 2010: Silicon Valley Tweet-Up: One-Year Anniversary Party! [San Jose, CA]
10. August 19, 2010: Stanford Media X Event: Cashing In on Virtual Worlds: Entrepreneurial Insights for the Healthcare Industry [Stanford, CA]
11. September 1, 2010: SVPMA Presentation, “How to Create a $100M Business and Out-Innovate your Competition,” by Steve Blank (@sgblank) [Santa Clara, CA]
12. September 24, 2010: FoutainBlue Event: Second Annual State of the Virtual Worlds Industry Event [Silicon Valley, CA]
13. October 6, 2010: SVPMA Meeting, “Web Reputations: Putting Social Media to Work with Randy Farmer, Social Media Strategist” [Santa Clara, CA]
14. October 26, 2010: Exhibit Designers and Producers Association (EDPA) Meeting, Northern California chapter: http://www.edpa.com/chapter/chapters_northernca.php#news – I gave a presentation on virtual events [Sunnyvale, CA]

Attended (2009)

1. February 2009: Social Media Breakfast East Bay – the inaugural East Bay event for this popular breakfast series. Founded by @BryanPerson (who was in attendance), the social media breakfast came to the East Bay thanks to @KennyL and @Shel and was sponsored by LiveWorld.  @Shel provided some video footage of the event.  As an aside, you can find me on Twitter as @dshiao.
2. March 4, 2009: Applying Design Thinking Principles in Product Management (Dr. Sara Beckman, Senior Lecturer, University of California Berkeley, Haas School of Business) – Silicon Valley  Product Management Association (http://svpma.org/meetings.html)
3. March 9, 2009: Virtual Worlds: The Hype, The Reality, The In-Between (FountainBlue’s High Tech Entrepreneurs’ Forum) – Microsoft’s Mountain View office.  I posted a summary of the event on this blog.
4. March 31+: Web 2.0 Expo (Moscone Center, San Francisco): http://www.web2expo.com/webexsf2009
5. May 28 and 29, 2009: Virtual Edge Summit 2009 (Santa Clara Convention Center).  I wrote a summary of the summit’s first day.
6. June 3, 2009: Silicon Valley Product Managers Association (SVPMA) Presentation, “Making Your Websites and Applications Social” – http://svpma.org/meetings.html
7. June 30, 2009 – July 1, 2009: Cisco Live (Moscone Center, San Francisco): http://www.cisco-live.com/
8. November 4, 2009: Silicon Valley Product Managers Association (SVPMA) Presentation, “Making Agile Work Across Oceans” – http://svpma.org/meetings.html
9. December 2, 2009: Silicon Valley Product Managers Association (SVPMA) Presentation, “Selling SaaS in a product world : Challenges for a product manager when selling services” – http://svpma.org/meetings.html

Planning to Attend – Virtual Events

1. Too many to count!