NABE Silicon Valley RoundTable

NABE Silicon Valley RoundTable

Meetings

Meetings are currently held on the second Tuesday of each month, except July and August.  Most meetings are held at the Menlo Park Library, although other locations are sometimes used.

Future meetings
December 10th, 2008:
Wednesday
Lunch at noon and meeting from 12:20 to 2:00 pm
 The Current Status and Outlook for the Nation’s Housing and Mortgage Markets
LaVaughn M. Henry, Ph.D. Director, Economic Analysis, The PMI Group.
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Past meetings
November 11, 2008:  Meeting canceled because the Library will be closed for Veteran’s Day.
   Discuss in Forums
September 9, 2008:  Energy from the OCS versus Renewable Sources: Implications for Powering America’s Passenger Vehicles

Jerry Bernstein, Managing Director, Stanford Transportation Group

Claire Starry, President, TDS Economics

   Discuss in Forums
June 10, 2008:  What Happened to the Japanese Computer Invasion

Also: CLEANTECH INVESTMENTS

BRIEFING BY MORRISON AND FOERSTER

OVERVIEW OF HOT CLEANTECH TOPICS

SUBINDUSTRIES

CARBON SEQUESTRATION  (STOPPING ACTION)

CAPTURE AND STORAGE GAS

 

Jerry Svigals, Director
Smart Card Institute

   Discuss in Forums
May 13, 2008:  Corporate Sustainability: Strategies and Implications

Jessica Fullmer, CEO/Founder

Sustainability Business Institute

   Discuss in Forums
April 8, 2008:  Bringing Economic Geography into Demand Forecast

Paul Thomas
Chief Economist, Intel Corporation and NABE Board Member

   Discuss in Forums
March 11, 2008:  Asset-backed securities and structured finance

Kenneth Whyburn, Partner
Orrick, Herrington, & Sutcliffe

   Discuss in Forums
February 12, 2008:  U. S. Monetary Policy and the Economic Outlook

Yelena F. Takhtamanova

Economist

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

   Discuss in Forums
January 8, 2008:  The US External Adjustment, the Dollar and the "Exorbitant Privilege"

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas

Assistant Professor of Economics

University of California, Berkeley

   Discuss in Forums
December 12, 2007:  The Outlook for the California Economy
Steve Levy, Center for the Continuing Study of the California Economy
   Discuss in Forums
November 13, 2007:  Silicon Valley Attracts Entrepreneurs, World Wide "Seeking Seed Capital”

Panel Moderator: Hal Nissley, Boards-Early-Stage.com


Panelists:

Frank Carbone, CEO, "Wanted World Wide," debt collectors; Australia.

Dr Genie Laborde, Chairwoman, Two-In-Sync; author:

"Influencing with Integrity".

Don MacIntyre, CEO, Probe Array, test IC's while still in wafers.

   Discuss in Forums
October 9, 2007:  The Flaw of Averages or Why Everything is Behind Schedule, Beyond Budget, and Below Projection
Sam L. Savage, Consulting Professor of Management Science & Engineering, Stanford University

   Discuss in Forums
September 11, 2007:  Transactions Cards of the Future
Jerry Svigals
   Discuss in Forums
June 12, 2007:  Angel Investing in Today’s Economy

Glen Balzer, Sand Hill Angels

   Discuss in Forums
May 8, 2007:  Panel on Alternative Energy

Hal Nissley, Leslie Miller and Dr. Dale Nesbitt

   Discuss in Forums
April 10, 2007:  Energy
James L. Sweeney
Professor
Management Science and Engineering
   Discuss in Forums
March 13, 2007:  International Finance in the Post 9/11 World

Speaker: John B. Taylor, former undersecretary of the U.S. Treasury and Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University as well as Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute. His academic fields of expertise are macroeconomics, monetary economics, and international economics. He is k now for his research on the foundations of modern monetary theory and policy.

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February 13, 2007:  

Open Source Business Models

 


Bob Sawyer, Product Manager, Solid Information Technology

   Discuss in Forums
January 9, 2007:  The San Francisco Bay Area Economic Outlook
Anne Ramstetter Wenzel, Econosystems
   Discuss in Forums
December 13, 2006:  Medicine, Free Markets, and the Future of Health Care in the United States
Philip R. Alper, M.D., is the Robert Wesson Fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy at the Hoover Institution as well as a practicing Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

   Discuss in Forums
November 14, 2006:  Change South of the Border
William Grindley
   Discuss in Forums
October 10, 2006:  Seed Capital, Informal Observations

Hal Nissley, PE

   Discuss in Forums
September 12, 2006:  The California Climate Change Act of 2006—Implications for California
Claire Starry, President, TDS Economics
   Discuss in Forums
June 13, 2006:  Experimental Economics Research at HP’s Information Services and Process Innovation Lab

Kay-Yut Chen,

Principal Scientist, Hewlett-Packard

   Discuss in Forums
May 9, 2006:  Brains, Bucks, and Bulls: Silicon Valley’s Innovation Formula

Tom Abate, Writer

   Discuss in Forums
April 11, 2006:  

Predictions for 2006: A Guide for Your Investing Directions

 


Bud Conrad
   Discuss in Forums
March 14, 2006:  Harnessing Fusion Energy -- Imagine a World Where Water is the Most Efficient Energy Source

MARK L. LUDWIG

CEO, Impulse Devices, Inc.

   Discuss in Forums
February 14, 2006:  Foreign Remittance and Economic Development in Emerging Economies
John D. Hipsley
   Discuss in Forums
January 10, 2006:  Perspectives 2016 Panel Discussion

Ken Jacobson, Moderator

William Grindley

Knud Jacobs

Anne Wenzel

   Discuss in Forums
December 14, 2005:  Poverty As An Opportunity -- A New Twist on Doing Business in Emerging Markets
Eliot Jamison, Origo Global Business Advisors
   Discuss in Forums
November 8, 2005:  Perspectives on Regional Housing Markets
Marco Van Akkeren, Economist, PMIGroup
   Discuss in Forums (one comment)
October 11, 2005:  What is Behavioral Economics and Why are We Studying It?
Roger Mack
   Discuss in Forums
September 13, 2005:  What’s on the California ballot besides politicians
Dr. Gloria S. Hom, Past Chairman, Department of Economics, Division Chariman for Social Sciences, Mission College. 
   Discuss in Forums
June 14, 2005:  The San Francisco Bay Area Economic Outlook:  Profits Up, Job Growth Sideways -- When will the good times return for Bay Area Workers?

Anne Ramstetter Wenzel, Econosystems

   Discuss in Forums (one comment)
May 10, 2005:  Skype – A Conversation on the Future of Telephony
Stuart Henshall
   Discuss in Forums
April 12, 2005:  The Dutch Auction - Enhancing Transparency and Access Through Auction-Based Pricing

Matt Venturi, Venturi & Company, LLC

   Discuss in Forums
March 8, 2005:  Evolution of the Plastic Card Transaction Market:
From magnetic stripes to radio frequency (contactless) cards.

Jerome Svigals, Director, Smart Card Institute
   Discuss in Forums
February 8, 2005:  Expansion Path for 2005
Gary Zimmerman, Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
   Discuss in Forums (4 comments)
January 11, 2005:  Small Cap Investing: The Enterprise Value Approach
Robert Raney, Vice President - WR Hambrecht + Co.
   Discuss in Forums
December 15, 2004:  How Global Economic Analysis Can Aid in Predicting the Right Investments
Bud Conrad
   Discuss in Forums (7 comments)
November 9, 2004:  The World Dollar Standard and De-industrialization in the United States 

Ronald McKinnon, Professor of Economics, Stanford University

   Discuss in Forums
October 12, 2004:  Complements, Components, and Innovation
Hal Varian
   Discuss in Forums
September 14, 2004:  Meeting Cancelled
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June 8, 2004:  Stakeholder Economics and Corporate Performance Management
Dave Vincent, The Information Group
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May 11, 2004:  Liquidity Theory of Equity Markets
Madeline Schnapp, TrimTabs.com Investment Research
   Discuss in Forums
April 13, 2004:  Economic Trends in Silicon Valley
Doug Henton, Collaborative Economics
   Discuss in Forums
March 9, 2004:  NABE's U.S. Economic Outlook
Duncan Meldrum, President, NABE
   Discuss in Forums (one comment)
February 10, 2004:  Merger Waves and the Current Market for Corporate Control
James Van Horne, GSB Stanford University
   Discuss in Forums (one comment)
January 13, 2004:  Income Mobility in California
Michael Dardia, VP, Sphere Institute
   Discuss in Forums
December 10, 2003:  Holiday Luncheon
The Sizzling U.S. Economy: Will the Bay Area Finally Be Pulled Along?

Anne Ramstetter Wenzel, Econosystems
   Discuss in Forums (one comment)
November 13, 2003:  Issues Facing California
Gloria Hom, Mission College
   Discuss in Forums (2 comments)
October 14, 2003:  Re-jumpstarting Silicon Valley – Finding the “It” in IT (Information Technology)
Thomas Buckholtz
   Discuss in Forums
September 9, 2003:  Making The Technology Business Plan Work
Martin D. Pichinson, Sherwood Partners
   Discuss in Forums
June 10, 2003:  Economics and Investing: A Prediction for the Rest of the Decade
Bud Conrad, Investor
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May 13, 2003:  Ten Year Strategic Outlook
Ken Jacobson, Lockheed Martin
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April 10, 2003:  The Future of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital
Bill Reichert, Garage Technology Ventures
   Discuss in Forums
March 11, 2003:  Keeping the law out of the way
Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law School
   Discuss in Forums
February 6, 2003:  The Tug of War of Today’s Inflation Living with Price Stability: Back to the 1950s?
Harvey Rosenblum, President NABE, SVP & Research Director of the Dallas Fed
   Discuss in Forums
January 14, 2003:  Shine & Shadow in the Valley: The Trials of High Tech
Fred Hoar, Santa Clara University
   Discuss in Forums
December 11, 2002:  Silicon Valley and Regional Outlook
Mary Daly, Research Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
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November 12, 2002:  Risks--and Benefits--of Deflation
Bradford Delong, UC Berkeley, Economics
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October 8, 2002:  What is a tenured professor going to teach me about the market economy?
John McMillan, Stanford GSB
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September 10, 2002:  Angel Investing with NASDAQ at 1400; a Contrarian View
Hal Nissley, International Angelinvestors.org
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June 13, 2002:  The Income Statement: Declaring Defeat and Moving On
James Van Horne, GSB Stanford University
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May 14, 2002:  To 3G or Not to 3G: A Perspective and Reality Check on Next Generation Cellular Service in the US
Dave Benson, SRIC-BIC
   Discuss in Forums
April 9, 2002:  National Identity Card Proposals
Jerry Svigals, Smart Card Institute
   Discuss in Forums
March 28, 2002:  The Timing and Scope of the 2002 Economic Rebound
Mike Englund, MMS/Standard and Poors
   Discuss in Forums
February 12, 2002:  The Current Economy: Fiscal and Monetary Effects of Policies and Trends
Roger Mack, Alternative Decisions
   Discuss in Forums
January 8, 2002:  Economics and Investing: predictions for 2002
Bud Conrad, Investor
   Discuss in Forums (2 comments)
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