Description 8/28/08 Thu Celebration of Web 2.0 Cultures
Event: Celebration of Web 2.0 Trends & Culture
Date/Time: 8/28/2008 Thu 6:30-9:30pm
Location: Hurrican Electric
48233 Warm Springs Blvd. Fremont, CA
RSVP: Free for registration before August 25. RSVP at info@99people.com, Subject" Web2.0 Event on August 28", After August 25 or On site registration is $10.
Seats are limited. First Come, First Serve.
FREE gifts to the first 50 people (It is End now!!!)
MC:
David K. Cheng, Partner at Nixon Peabody LLP
Moderator:
Michael Ryan, Chairman at Executive Impact Group
Speakers:
Kevin Marks, Developer Advocate at Google
Keith Saft, Director of Mobile Product Experience at Yahoo!
Jia Shen, CTO and Founder at RockYou
Joe Shapiro, Founder at uShow
Organizers:
1. Silicon Valley Web Builder
2. Silicon Valley Information Business Alliance (SVIBA)
Co-host:
1. Cnetwork
2. Silicon Valley Chinese Engineers Association (SCEA)
3. Silicon Valley Women Association
4. USTSU (留美台灣學聯)
5. CCICE (Chamber of Commerce International
Consortium For Entrepreneurs)
Web Media Sponsor:
Sina.com
99people.com
MC
David K. Cheng
Partner at Nixon Peabody LLP
 David K. Cheng is a partner in Nixon Peabody LLP’s Tax Controversies and Litigation Team. Mr. Cheng represents clients, from Fortune 500 corporations to high-net-worth individuals, for a variety of issues related to taxation. His work includes representations regarding audits, appeals, and refund and collection matters before the Internal Revenue Service (Exam and Appeals), the U.S. Department of Justice, and the California Franchise Tax Board. He also has experience regarding tax deficiency matters, including relating to tax shelter transactions, before the U.S. Tax Court. Additionally, he has represented clients before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission related to accounting fraud. Mr. Cheng has served as lead counsel in the formation of tax-exempt entities and compliance programs for some of the largest charitable organizations in the United States.
He is also very active in developing relationships with Chinese companies, organizations, and individuals.
After law school, Mr. Cheng worked for the U.S. Justice Department as a trial attorney in the tax division. Joining through the Honors Program, he served as lead counsel charged with representing the United States in over 90 civil cases in U.S. District and Bankruptcy courts. He was responsible for multimillion-dollar tax refund suits brought by individuals, partnerships, and corporations, and collection and foreclosure suits against individuals, trusts, and corporations.
Language
Mr. Cheng is fluent in Cantonese.
Education
Golden Gate University School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude
Georgetown University Law Center, L.L.M., Taxation, with distinction
University of California, Davis, B.A. in Economics and B.S. in Biological Science
Admissions
Mr. Cheng is admitted in California, the District of Columbia, and Nebraska. He is also admitted before United States Tax Court and United States Supreme Court.
Affiliations
Asian-Pacific Bar Association of Silicon Valley, Vice-President
Moderator
Michael Ryan,
Chairman at Executive Impact Group
 Michael G. “Mike” Ryan, MBA, FACHE, is Chairman of Executive Impact Group (EiG) www.execimpactgroup.com based in San Francisco founded in 1994 it has its roots to one the first healthcare consulting firms founded in the 1960s. EiG provides strategy, CEO advisory, board of directors & leadership performance and human capital services for emerging, growth and Fortune 1,000 companies worldwide.
Mike is a seasoned CEO, entrepreneur, blogger and advisor with more than twenty five years of experience. He is a recognized pioneer in the eHealth, social networking and healthcare technology industries and was founder of www.healthonline.com. He is one of the most networked executives in the Bay Area and healthcare executive in the world on www.linkedin.com and is connected to 20 million people worldwide in 150 countries. He is editor/creator of “Healthcare Futures” blog featured on http://blogs.healthcare.com/michaelryan.
Mike has been an advisor, board member and shareholder in numerous companies and community organizations, private, public, charities including: www.zilpy.com, www.redcross.org, www.unitedway.com http://www.monroe.bbb.org/ www.healthcare.com www.drugstore.com, www.bestseniorplacement.com www.ache.org, www.remedyint.com, www.ehealthcare.net, www.sjbiocenter.com www.aquave.com, www.genius.com, www.proteolix.com, www.phenomix.com, www.lphealthcare.com, www.curvware.com/medideas www.healthvoices.com www.frenchcreative.com, www.rapleaf.com, www.prosourcesoftware.com, www.thepyramidgroup.com, www.redmedic.com.
He serves as a CEO mentor and consultant to the Women’s Technology Cluster www.womenstechcluster.org and San Jose BioCenter www.sjbiocenter.com. Mike is a recognized national speaker and is the creator and host of a weekly “live” interactive forum for healthcare CEOs and executives for America Online www.aol.com. Previously, Mike has served as executive vice president/COO of Ryan Advisors, an international healthcare consulting and contract management company with offices in Washington, D.C., Jacksonville, Florida, Carmel, California, Singapore and Rome. The company served more than 2,200 clients in all 50 states domestically and in Germany, Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico, Italy, Venezuela and China.
During his hospital management career, he served as a hospital and health system Chief Executive Officer in Louisiana, Florida and DC. Mike was CEO of TransCare Health System that provided contract management and consulting services to hospitals, which included serving as CEO of a start-up specialty hospital for five years. Mike has served 17 years in senior management positions, as a protégé of Sister Irene Kraus (Healthcare Hall of Fame) founding CEO of the $11 billion Daughters of Charity National Health System, (now Ascension Health, www.ascensionhealth.com), the largest not-for-profit healthcare system in the U.S., a CEO within $1.5 billion FMOL Health System; and CEO within $3 billion HealthTrust, a NYSE healthcare management company, (now HCA www.hcahealthcare.com).
Mike received his MBA from, The School of Business & Management, The George Washington University www.gwu.edu, Washington, DC. He graduated with highest honors in three years with dual bachelor degrees in Communications/Marketing and Political Science/International Relations from Regis University www.regis.edu in Denver, Colorado. He is a member of Alpha Sigma Nu, www.marquette.edu/asn, the National Jesuit Honor Society and completed graduate studies at Georgetown University and served as a White House Intern www.whitehouse.gov in Washington, DC. Mike has served as a preceptor, lecturer and advisor to leading colleges and universities including Georgetown University, Vanderbilt University, Tulane University, University of Florida, University of Louisiana, Southeast Louisiana University, University of Gothenburg (Sweden), Copenhagen Business School (Denmark) and The George Washington University.
Speakers
Jia Shen
CTO and Founder at RockYou
 Jia is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of RockYou, and has focused extensively on graphic design and usability throughout his professional web development career spanning over 10 years. Prior to RockYou, Jia has held management roles leading the user interface and technical solutions teams at Open Harbor, and managing the majority of engineering at Iconix. Jia started working on scalable consumer applications at shopping tools internet provider Bluedog, a Stanford based startup, and was part of the original team at Bell Laboratories which developed the VoiceXML format into the W3C standard. In addition, Jia's experience has spanned enterprise sales and professional services functions, as he closed transactions and integrated with large multi-national corporation customers like Mitsubishi, Tyco, Flextronics, and DHL. Jia has a double major in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.
Joe Shapiro
Founder and CEO at uShow
 Joe Shapiro is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Palo Alto, California-based personal-video sharing website uShow.com. Originally from Arizona, Shapiro attended The Wharton School of Business before moving to Silicon Valley, CA. He briefly worked as an investment banker in the Technology, Media, and Telecom sector for Lazard Freres and subsequently worked on a mobile video startup which evolved into uShow.
Shapiro has facilitated partnerships with companies including Ghost House Pictures affiliated with Mandate Pictures / Lionsgate Studios and has explored syndication deals of Hollywood content in China’s Mobile TV market with SARFT (State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television) and China Unicom. Shapiro currently resides in Palo Alto, CA.
Kevin Marks
Developer Advocate at Google
 Kevin Marks is a developer advocate for OpenSocial at Google, bringing external developers and Google engineers together to make a better web.
Over the last 20 years he's alternated between giant companies and founding startups - BBC, The UK MultiMedia Corporation, Apple QuickTime, Technorati and now Google. The common thread has been working out how people, computers and media can complement each other, and solving the engineering and social problems where they meet. He is one of the driving forces behind microformats.org and advisor to the Open Rights group.
Kevin holds a Master Science degree in Physics from the University of Cambridge.
Keith Saft
Director of Mobile Product Experience at Yahoo!
 Keith is the Director of Consumer Product Experience in Yahoo!’s Mobile Group focusing on three key products:
Y! oneSearch, an industry-leading approach to mobile search currently available on 700 million handsets worldwide; Y! oneConnect, a social network and address book aggregation tool; and the upcoming Y! onePlace, an application for phones designed to gather multiple types of personally relevant content in one place. Keith holds numerous patents for his work on these products. Prior to Yahoo, he worked for Palm designing applications and interactions for the Treo. He also taught at Carnegie Mellon University as an Adjunct Professor in the Design Department while building a design agency specializing in interaction design and marketing for the web.
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