E-Commerce 2.0: Social, Subscriptions and Mobile
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Cost: $40 on-line registration fee; $50 at-the-door; $10 for students with full-time student ID and free for Caltech students (must show ID at door). Caltech students can now register online. On-line Registration closes at 5:00 pm on Thursday, December 2, 2010. There are no refunds for no-shows. |
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Event Preview
Every year, roughly 100 million Americans purchase goods from the online retail marketplace, one of the fastest-growing industries in the United States. Since the start of the decade, revenue from both e-commerce and online auctions has grown at an exceptional rate, outperforming most, if not all, retail industries in the country. Americans spent $93 billion dollars buying products online in 2010, and that number is expected to grow significantly over the next few years. The area is also ripe for innovation, as most of the stalwart players and brands have been established for the past 10 years.
Subscriptions, social buying and mobile technologies have led to innovative business models, and have been extremely successful with consumers. One of the most popular social e-commerce sites, Groupon, is on track to do between $400 million – $600 million in revenue this year, and has only been around since the fall of 2008!
This event will explore the current trends in the e-commerce world, and discuss potential opportunities for aspiring entrepreneurs.
Panelists
Matt Edelman
CEO
ThisNext, Inc.
www.thisnext.com/company
MJ Eng
President/Co-Founder
ShoeDazzle
www.shoedazzle.com
Before co-founding ShoeDazzle, MJ served as Director of External Application Development for LegalZoom.com, executing the company’s rebranding initiative including the redesign of their website and user experience. MJ began his career as a software developer at Sapient Corporation where he helped build the first real-time comparative insurance rating engine on the internet and then moved on to manage projects in the automotive, financial services, and education industries. MJ also served as a Principal Consultant at Neudesic.com, helping to launch their PMO practice. MJ is an award winning Instructor of Project Management and holds a BS in Computer Science from UCLA.
Terry Boyle
Chief Operating Officer
HauteLook
www.hautelook.com
Producers
Ashish Soni
Director/Faculty, IT Program
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
www.viterbi.usc.edu
Ashish Soni is a faculty member and Director of the Information Technology Program (ITP) at the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California. Under his leadership the department has experienced a significant turnaround in the quality of instruction and become a campus wide leader in integrating emerging instructional technologies both in and out of the classroom.
Ashish is actively involved with the technology industry and consults with startups and Fortune 500 companies in the areas of digital strategy and innovation, social media, online communities, online advertising and emerging Web 2.0 technologies. He is an expert in the strategic and innovative use of technology across different disciplines, and is interested in the intersection of technology and medicine, journalism and social work. He was a strategic advisor to Office of Intelligence at the U.S. Department of Energy, and helped them conceptualize a Global Online Knowledge Ecosystem. He is currently designing a social media and interaction platform for an organization focused on business social responsibility. He is also currently leading a team to build mobile applications that interface with medical devices in collaboration with the Keck School of Medicine at USC. He sits on the advisory board of several organizations including the MySpace Incubator, Slingshot Labs. He keeps his pulse at the edge of the digital world, and is deeply knowledgeable about trends, emerging solutions, platforms and opportunities.
Ashish also teaches classes at USC in the areas of Web 2.0 and Social Media, Building Web Startups, Online Marketing and Strategic Technology Management.
Mr. Soni holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Southern California.
Ira D. Moskatel
Arnold & Porter, LLP
www.arnoldporter.com
Ira D. Moskatel, practices law at Arnold & Porter LLP in Los Angeles, where he focuses on the representation of businesses that depend on intellectual property or technology, with emphasis in licensing, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances. Ira was a founder of Teradata Corporation, a manufacturer of massive parallel database computers (acquired by AT&T several years after a major public offering), and served as a member of the Board of Directors of Peter Norton Computing, Inc. before its acquisition by Symantec. He is a past chair of the Caltech/MIT Enterprise forum and has served as Chair of the Law and Technology Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. He has lectured and written extensively for major publications on legal aspects of technology, electronic commerce and data security.
Russ Frandsen
Attorney at Law
The Business Legal Group
www.businesslegalgroup.com
Phil Bangayan
Manager
The Walt Disney Company
www.disney.com
Phil Bangayan is currently Manager, Global Marketing Strategy in The Walt Disney Company. In his Disney career, he has held several marketing and finance roles in both the Anaheim and Glendale offices. Prior to Disney, he held engineering roles at Rockwell Scientific (purchased by Teledyne Scientific & Imaging) and Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
In addition to serving on the Executive Committee at the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum, Phil is also on a Board Member for the MIT Club of Southern California and chairs scholarship committees for the UCLA Alumni Association. Phil holds an MBA degree from MIT and MS and BS degrees in Electrical Engineering from UCLA.
Date
Saturday morning, December 4, 2010
Registration and Continental Breakfast:
8:00 a.m. Baxter Lecture Hall
Program:
9:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. at Baxter Lecture Hall
Networking:
11:15 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at Baxter Lecture Hall
Location
Baxter Lecture Hall
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA
Directions/Maps: Directions to the Forum
Cost
$40 on-line registration fee. $50 at-the-door. $10 for students with full-time student ID (must show at door).
Registrations are taken on-line up to 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 2, 2010. There are no refunds for no-shows.
