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Below you will find a schedule for Startup Camp, to be held May 4-5, 2008 in San Francisco's Moscone Conference Center South.
As you'll see, much of the content is undeveloped. This is because Startup Camp will follow an unconference format: the content of the conference will be created and managed by the attendees during the General Assembly rather than by one or more organizers in advance of the event.
If you have some ideas for a great discussion topic at Startup Camp San Francisco or just want to see the ones that have already been proposed, be sure to go to the discussion ideas page.
[In true unconference style, start times are subject to change. Please check back for updates.
To see previous Startup Camp schedules, click on one of the links below:
- Startup Camp 4 Schedule, held March 7-8, 2008 in London, UK.
- Startup Camp 3 Schedule
- Startup Camp 2 Schedule
- Startup Camp 1 Schedule, held November 2-3, 2006 in Mountain View, CA.
Startup Camp General Schedule
Sunday, May 4, 2008
| Time | Activity | Presenter |
| 9:30 - 11:00 | Registration | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Breakfast | |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Opening Remarks
Welcome to Startup Camp! | CLICK ON SPEAKER'S NAME FOR FULL BIO
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| 11:15 - 11:45 | Keynote Address | CLICK ON SPEAKER'S NAME FOR FULL BIO
Jonathan Schwartz, CEO & President, Sun Microsystems
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| 11:50 - 12:30 | Notes From Mission Control: Rules For A Successful Media Launch
Panel Presentation You can create the next startup, but unless you position and launch it correctly online it's likely to remain in the backwaters of the Internet, never really achieving success. During this panel, we will bring you some people who have gone through a launch on a shoestring budget and as well as some of the professionals in the industry who make rain happen for startups. Hear their tips tactics and war stories. Link to the video: http://podango.com/podcast.php?podcastId=2825# | CLICK ON SPEAKER'S NAME FOR FULL BIO
Panel Moderator:
S. Neil Vineberg, President, Vineberg Communications Panel Speakers:
Matt Dickman, Vice-President, Fleishman-Hillard
Jyri Engeström, Entrepreneur, Google
Christina Kerley, Marketing Specialist, ckEpiphany, Inc
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| 12:30 - 1:00 | Networking Break | |
| 1:00 - 1:40 | Harnessing Social Networks For Success
Panel Presentation In this panel, Startup Camp Head Counselor, David Berlind, will consult a panel of experts to get their insights on how startups can leverage social technologies for success. Gone are the days of traditional marketing where you bring in some MBAs or hire a traditional ad, marketing, and PR consultancy to control the horizontals and verticals of awareness and buzz for your goods and services. That’s because it’s no longer you (the seller) and them (the buyers). It’s "us", the community. Since the beginning of history, customers have always been willing to have a conversation about a seller’s goods and/or services (how many times have you heard the bad news about the new restaurant?). Now, thanks to social networks and technology, that conversation can scale. Globally. Are you a part of it, or are you out of the loop? Do you even know it’s happening? Forget about controlling it. That’s out of the question. What’s "in" the question is how you participate in the dialog. Or even host it. What works for your customers can work for you too. You just need to know where to begin. But it’s not easy. There are so many social technologies (none of which work the same or serve all of your customers, if any) and so little time a resources to devote to them. Especially if you’re a startup. | CLICK ON SPEAKER'S NAME FOR FULL BIO
Panel Moderator:
David Berlind, Head Counselor, Startup Camp San Francisco Panel Speakers:
Pete Cashmore, Founder & CEO, Mashable, Inc.
Matt Marshall, Founder, VentureBeat
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| 1:50 - 2:30 | Building Your Company In The Cloud: Real Facts
Panel Presentation It is now possible to build the infrastructure for your company in a completely virtual way. From computing to storage and labor, all of your business needs can be met through online web services and computational resources often referred to as cloud computing. During this panel discussion, we have picked several of the best exemplars to take us through their cloud offerings and the impact that these choices could have had on your company. Cloud Computing innovator and alpha technologist Jason Hoffman leads a panel on getting the facts about what to do...and what not to do. | CLICK ON SPEAKER'S NAME FOR FULL BIO
Panel Moderator:
Jason A. Hoffman, Founder & CTO, Joyent Panel Speakers:
Brian Aker, Director of Technology, MySQL
Edward M. Goldberg, Senior Programmer, RightScale
Pete Koomen, Product Manager, Google App Engine
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| 2:30 - 2:45 | Coffee Break | |
| 2:45 - 3:45 | Startup Camp Unconference Instructions & Session Selection
Now's your chance to set the agenda! Join David Berlind, Startup Camp Head Councelor as he walks you through selecting sessions for the reminder of Startup Camp. | CLICK ON SPEAKER'S NAME FOR FULL BIO
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Startup Camp Unconference Schedule
If you have some ideas for a great discussion topic or just want to see the ones that have already been proposed, be sure to go to the discussion ideas page.
Sunday May 4, 2008
Monday, May 5, 2008
| General Assembly Room (upstairs) | Breakout "1" (downstairs) | Breakout "2" (downstairs) | Breakout "3" (downstairs) | Breakout "4" (downstairs) | Breakout "5" (downstairs)
A/V available | Breakout "6" (downstairs) | Breakout "7" (downstairs) | Breakout "8" (downstairs) | Breakout "9" (downstairs) | Breakout "10" (downstairs) | |
| MANDATORY MEETING for all Best Startup Contest Contestants
8:15 - 9:00 Best Startup Contestants ONLY | Mandatory meeting for all Best Startup Contest Contestants | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Registration / Breakfast
9:00 - 9:45 | Registration / Breakfast | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| General Assembly / Further Unconference Session Selection
9:45 - 10:15 | General Assembly | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Breakout Discussion #3
10:30 - 11:20 | N/A | Hiring strategies as you grow | Impact of social networks within enterprises | Technology Funding For Your Startup | Using VOIP to give your company enterpise presence |
SPONSORED SESSION: | A technical discussion of premium bandwidth services for grid computing | Building a business on someone else's data | "Master of your domain": connect/build; advisor/BOD | Competition or Collaboration? Should one take a fierce competitive stance against your competition or should you find ways to collaborate? | Pure Green: How to use the web to preserve resources while providing valuable services |
| Breakout Discussion #4
11:30 - 12:20 | N/A | How to find a co-founder | PDA/PIM, cell phone, tablet, pen convergence | Growing business organically online now...or raising VC $$$ tomorrow? | Getting to revenue without dilution | 
Meebo-Enabled Session (What's this?) | Business Ideas: Finding & Evaluating | How to market your business using social network and social bookmarking sites | Legal considerations for startups: corporate structure, IP, funding | Search Engine Optimize for Bloggers (Play Nice with Google?) | |
| Lunch
12:30 - 1:30 | N/A | ||||||||||
| Best Startup Contest Rules & Group Formation
1:45 - 2:15 | N/A | ||||||||||
| BEST STARTUP CONTEST
2:25 - 4:10 | N/A | ||||||||||
| Best Startup Contest NICKEL COLLECTION
4:10 - 4:25 | N/A | ||||||||||
| Break
4:25 - 4:45 | N/A | ||||||||||
| MANDATORY MEETING for all Best Startup Contest Contestants
4:30 - 5:00 Best Startup Contest contestants ONLY | Mandatory meeting for all Best Startup Contest Contestants
(nickel counting) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Awards & Closing Remarks
5:00 - 5:45 | Awards & Closing Remarks | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| CommunityOne Reception
6:00 - 7:30 |
