Meet the Sponsors

Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley

Carnegie Mellon is a private research university with a distinctive mix of programs in engineering, computer science, robotics, business, public policy, fine arts and the humanities. A global university, Carnegie Mellon has campuses in Silicon Valley, Calif. and Qatar, as well as programs in Asia, Australia and Europe. The University’s Silicon Valley campus offers both full-time and part-time master’s degree programs in Software Engineering; Software Management; Networking, Security, and Mobility; and Engineering and Technology Innovation Management. Carnegie Mellon’s Mobility Research Center, an extension of the University's Cylab, is located at the Silicon Valley campus. The Center combines the research, education, and entrepreneurship programs from both the Pittsburgh and Silicon Valley campuses to explore multidisciplinary and novel work in technology, usability, behavior, business, and public policy.

For more information, visit our website at http://west.cmu.edu.

Contact: Diane Dimeff; Associate Dean for Master's Programs; diane.dimeff@west.cmu.edu; 650/335-2810

The Fisher IT Center at the U. C. Berkeley Haas School of Business

The Fisher Information Technology Center promotes interaction between corporate executives including CIO-level managers, and U.C. Berkeley faculty and students through the many programs and services within the Haas School of Business and U.C. Berkeley. The Fisher IT Center serves professional and academic communities of interest in information technology by promoting dynamic interactions between corporate practice, research, and instruction, and by encouraging the professional development of participating information technology professionals, students, and faculty.

For more information about opportunities and resources, please see http://fisheritcenter.haas.berkeley.edu.

Contact: Jack Grantham; Executive Director, FisherInformationTechnologyCenter; grantham@haas.berkeley.edu; 510/642-6145

Supporting Sponsors

Everyone has a need to communicate and share. Nokia helps people to fulfill this need and we help people feel close to what matters to them. We focus on providing consumers with very human technology – technology that is intuitive, a joy to use, and beautiful.

We are living in an era where connectivity is becoming truly ubiquitous. The communications industry continues to change and the internet is at the center of this transformation. Today, the internet is Nokia's quest.

SPM Jobs is a job posting service exclusively for software/internet product marketing and management positions ranging from individual contributor to vice president. Job Posters pay a modest fee. Job Seekers are free. There are 5,000 Job Seekers. The service includes a job posting review by experienced product marketing and management executives and detailed feedback on how to hone the posting to attract the best candidates. http://www.spmjobs.com

SVPMA (Silicon Valley Product Management Association) provides Product Management professionals with networking, training and career acceleration opportunities. Through monthly speaker meetings, quarterly workshops and quarterly networking and social events, SVPMA helps Product Management professionals to be more effective in both day-to-day work as well as managing their overall careers.

The Wireless Communications Alliance (WCA) is a non-profit business league for companies and organizations dealing with wireless technologies. The goals of the WCA follow the Joint Venture Silicon Valley model to promote education, networking, and exchange of non-proprietary information; work to increase awareness of Silicon Valley's vast wireless capabilities; and appeal to a broad spectrum of companies ranging from multinational corporations to start-ups. The WCA serves over 350 Northern California companies and organizations and reaches an audience of over 3,400 people via thier event announcement mailing lists. Representation is well balanced between engineering, management, and marketing personnel.