Neil Ashe, CBS Interactive, B’90

Maureen Rutter Brown, C ’81, Vice President

Katie Bush, Katie Bush Design, C’92

Mike Callahan, Yahoo!, SFS ’90

Bud Colligan, Accel Partners, SFS ’76, President

Scott Morse, SFS ’74, MSFS ’83, Treasurer

Betsey Nelson, Ancestry.com and SuccessFactors, F’82

Fabio Rosati, Elance, B ’87, Vice President

Ned Segal, Goldman Sachs, C’96

Melissa Tidwell, Google, C’99, Secretary

TIME: 4:30 – 6:30PM

LOCATION: Quadrus Conference Center
2400 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025

Thank you,
Georgetown Georgetown Technology Alliance

Executive Vice President for Health Sciences and Executive Dean of the School of Medicine, Georgetown University

Thursday, February 11
4:30pm-6:30pm

Quadrus Conference Center
2400 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025

We hope that you found it insightful and timely. We truly appreciate the distinguished experts who shared their knowledge, access and information with the Georgetown Technology Alliance. Also, we hope that you enjoyed the reception and had an opportunity to network with fellow alumni, parents and friends.

For those of you who missed the event, here is the video.

You may also view photos of the event here: www.georgetowntechalliance.com/events/

Lastly, please save-the-date Thursday, February 11, 2010, for the GTA’s next event “The Future of Health Care: Personalized Medicine”, featuring Howard Federoff, MD, PhD, Executive Vice President for Health Sciences and Executive Dean of the School of Medicine at Georgetown University.

Happy Holidays!

Georgetown Technology Alliance

Please see below directions and parking instructions. Should you have any questions, please contact Kim Eisenstaedt, who will be onsite at Google. Contact information is as follows: kle@accel.com, mobile: (650) 464-4612.

Directions (click here for printable PDF)

From Highway 101 South: Exit Amphitheatre Parkway. Turn right onto Amphitheatre Parkway and cross back over 101. Turn left onto N. Shoreline Boulevard. Make next right onto Crittenden Lane. A quarter mile down, there will be a cluster of 4 buildings. 1400 Crittenden is the back right building. Drive around parking lots for Buildings 1200 and 1300 for parking closer to Building 1400.

From Highway 101 North: Exit N. Shoreline Boulevard. Make right onto N. Shoreline Boulevard. After crossing Amphitheatre Parkway, make right onto Crittenden Lane. A quarter mile down, there will be a cluster of 4 buildings. 1400 Crittenden is the back right building. Drive around parking lots for Buildings 1200 and 1300 for parking closer to Building 1400.

Parking

Parking is readily available outside of the building.

Wednesday, November 11
4:30 – 6:30 pm
Google Inc.
1400 Crittenden Lane
Olympus Moon Tech Talk Conference Room
(parking readily available outside building)

Refreshments and hors d’oeuvres will be served.

This event’s panel will include:

• Elizabeth Corcoran, C’84 Executive Editor – Technology, Forbes; Founder, Lucere.org
• Michelle Fowler, SFS ’93 Principal & Co-Founder, Flexperience
• Fabio Rosati, B’87 President & CEO, Elance
• Maynard Webb, Chairman & CEO, LiveOps

Please reserve your spot soon, space is limited and this event is expected to fill up quickly. Questions? Please call (650) 330-5479. Brought to you by:

Could a palm-sized ‘green laser’ projector be the next big thing in hand held communication? Whether the nascent technology replaces the tiny screens on the iPhone and BlackBerry is anyone’s guess, but either way the future of media and journalism is “mobile, mobile, mobile,” Forbes Executive Editor – Technology Elizabeth Corcoran (C ’84) told a San Francisco gathering of Georgetown alums.

Elizabeth Corcoran with attendees

The invitation-only event was the third of a series of discussions on technology and biotech issues hosted by the Georgetown Technology Alliance, a Northern California alumni venture aimed at deepening ties between the business community and Georgetown University. [For more information about attending future events, subscribe to the mailing list using the widget in the left sidebar.]

“The Future of Media” panel discussion featured:
* Kara Swisher, Co-Executive Editor, AllThingsD.com and Co-Executive Producer, D: All Things Digital, SFS ‘84
* Neil Ashe, President, CBS Interactive, B ‘90
* Elizabeth Corcoran, Executive Editor – Technology, Forbes, C ‘84
* Chris Kelly, Chief Privacy Officer, Facebook, C ‘91

Serious journalism will survive the demise of more daily newspapers, Swisher and Corcoran predicted, because the integrity and reliability of a news story is still a sought after product – and one that requires skill and resources to meet. “I think journalism will be fine, but it will change,” Corcoran said.

“This is a Golden Age for journalism in terms of production of content,” Facebook’s Kelly said. “But traditional media are going to go through massive restructuring.”

Kara Swisher, Elizabeth Corcoran, Chris Kelly, and Neil Ashe

The big questions are “who’s going to pay?” for credible journalism and how will the market select those who merit consumers’ attention, Corcoran said. All the panelists agreed the jury is still out on that question for news and for entertainment.  “If you have to cut down a tree and drive a truck,” then your publication is probably under financial pressure, Ashe said. The advent of Craigslist.org decimated daily newspapers’ cash cow of classified ads and the Internet, particularly Google’s ad word system, has cut deeply into display ad revenue, panelists noted. A lucrative model to pay for Internet broadcast of TV shows remains elusive.

Large organizations are critical to keeping the smaller operations afloat, CBS Interactive President Ashe said. “You have to build a big enough umbrella to pay for the smaller parts,” Ashe said, pointing to the ongoing success of CBS’ venerable “60 Minutes” and  Swisher’s popular tech news blog, which is under the aegis of Dow Jones, publisher of the Wall Street Journal.

Even though the restructuring of media empires is being driven by new technology and democratization of information via blogs, one factor remains the same-people only have so much time, Kelly said, thus all technology “Ultimately…is constrained by human attention.”

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Come join our group!

We’re so pleased to see the interest in GTA growing and we appreciate all of your support and active participation.

Stay tuned for more information on the next event!

The panelists are:

• Kara Swisher, Co-Executive Editor, AllThingsD.com and Co-Executive Producer, D: All Things Digital, SFS ‘84
• Neil Ashe, President, CBS Interactive, B ‘90
• Elizabeth Corcoran, Executive Editor – Technology, Forbes, C ‘84
• Chris Kelly, Chief Privacy Officer, Facebook, C ‘91