Thursday, May 21

7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

In this unprecedented economic environment, the challenges of starting and building growth businesses are daunting. However, the world's leading companies demonstrate that winners follow certain common, proven principles to achieve success in any market climate. The TiECON East 2009 kick-off Keynote Panel, entitled, "Sage Wisdom for Serious Times: Start-Up Superstars" offers you an unprecedented opportunity to learn from and interact with some of Boston's most distinguished and successful business builders and investors, who have experienced extraordinary success on both sides of the board room table, as both serial entrepreneurs and as professional venture capitalists.

These leaders will offer their unique insights and their breadth of perspective, based on their previous deep operating experiences and their current professional venture investor and board of director roles. They have complementary operating and investing experience across many sectors including IT and health care / life sciences. Take advantage of this special opportunity to learn and ask questions.

Thursday, May 21

8:30 PM - 9:30 PM

The keynote panel is followed by an interactive discussion by four entrepreneurs, who are adept at recovering from setbacks, able to navigate uncertainty and emerge even stronger. They continue to innovate, implement new ideas and strategies and grow. The speakers will share their triumphs amidst the gloom and their exciting story.

Nirav and Mike will bring the program to an exciting conclusion by facilitating an interactive debate between the Entrepreneurs and the VCs to draw out the "what it takes?" wisdom and know how, which is even more crucial to your success.

Friday, May 22

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

What does Cloud Computing mean to you? Is it a way to increase or add computing capabilities for your company without investing in infrastructure, personnel and/or licensing? Is it an updated version of utility computing? Do you think SaaS is a version of Cloud Computing? Web Services in the cloud?

How do enterprises find ROI in Cloud Computing? How do you identify which applications should move to the Cloud? How does one build trust between the vendors and customers?

Panelists who understand your challenges in finding ROI in the cloud technologies and services will discuss and answer these and your questions on how best to benefit from this technology offerings. What are the gotchas here? Find out from the experts what are integrators and aggregators doing in this cloud computing space.

Moderator: Wade Roush

Friday, May 22

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM

Enterprises are recognizing that "Green IT" is no longer an expensive add-on that's peripheral to key priorities. On the contrary: developing a Green IT strategy has the potential to unlock huge energy savings and drive operational efficiencies, as well as making a major contribution to an organization's corporate responsibility credentials.

Efficient product designs, reducing carbon footprints of computing devices; from the iPhone to server class hardware, building smart applications which optimize energy consumption based on real world need, or reducing business travel time by providing virtual collaboration platforms — Innovations in Green IT has the potential to dramatically to transform today's economy.

• Is it the urgency to drive the bottom line and generate cost savings?
• Are we running out of non-renewable sources of energy to meet the demands of this information age? or is it government regulations/spending, and the consumer awareness about global warming?
• Forrester analysts ask "Is Green IT Your Emperor With No Clothes?" with more hype than reality.

Join us at TiECON East 2009 Green IT event to find out from our panel of experts what is the truth behind opportunities in the Green IT space.

Moderator: John Dix

Friday, May 22

2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

The exploding mobile market worldwide creates many opportunities and challenges for entrepreneurs. The number of wireless subscribers continues to march to the forecasted number of six billion largely driven by developing country markets. Meanwhile mobile messaging and data usage is increasing; driven by growing demand for communications, faster networks and improved user experience on the handsets. This high growth market provides opportunities for new applications and infrastructure plays that can be launched regionally or worldwide. However, the mobile market has a complex set of dynamics which have are shifting with each generation and now the economic downturn. This panel will review the best potential areas for entrepreneurial focus in mobile. It was also discuss the challenges for entrepreneurs to sustain growth and become real success stories.

Moderator: Christopher Austin

Friday, May 22

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Innovative ways to generate, distribute, store, and consume energy in a sustainable manner are being promulgated by entrepreneurs worldwide. Each technology is presented by its proponents as a broad solution to our problems. However, we are currently faced with a "perfect storm" of challenges that makes obsolete the old patterns of investment, product development, and financial return. Balancing environmental, political, economic, and social needs is now a primary objective of business, as the priorities in President Obama's stimulus package so eloquently attest. The most successful technologies and investments will be those that leverage benefits in several areas at once. Today, we have the opportunity to rebuild our infrastructure while integrating a wide range of efficient clean-tech energy innovations. Over the next decade, successful entrepreneurs will be those who provide multi-faceted solutions to energy, environment, and infrastructure challenges while stimulating manufacturing growth.

This session will examine how entrepreneurs can best take advantage of this new business environment, and will also take a look at the types of sustainable solutions that may be in the vanguard of this broad social initiative.

Moderator: Bilal Zuberi

Friday, May 22

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM

Despite market conditions being severely challenged and traditional exits grinding to a halt, clean tech venture investment reached a record $8.4 billion globally in 2008, with U.S. companies raising $5.8 billion in 241 disclosed rounds. Where is this money and whom is it going to? What strategies should clean tech entrepreneurs be adopting to attract initial funding, and to satisfy the ever-present capital intensive needs of their ventures? How do clean tech entrepreneur's move from proof of concept to actual production that is targeted at the needs of a willing market? Where is this willing market? Join our experienced panel for a lively and informative discussion that will probe the following issues:

• The specific technologies and sectors that are currently attractive for venture capitalists?
• What makes a clean tech venture fundable? What are the benchmarks? Have they changed in this market?
• Is there a gap between venture capital and access to public markets? Are venture capitalists willing and able to bridge this gap?
• Are there different fund raising strategies that will help bridge this gap? Traditional project financiers? Government supported financing? Tax credits? Customer Financing? Joint Ventures?

Moderator: Nick d'Arbeloff

Friday, May 22

2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

So, you've got some venture capital and you've told all your friends that you're helping to save the planet with your next professional and personal odyssey in entrepreneurship. With all the Obama money flowing around the wind power is at your back, you can't possibly lose, right? All you have to do now is actually build a business! Come listen to CEOs doing just that. The Green, the bad and the ugly.

Moderator: Jeff Andrews

Friday, May 22

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

This panel will discuss on how the trends revolving around Technology, Convergence, Demographics and Policy will create opportunities for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the role the VC Community, Physicians, Entrepreneurs and Medical Device Companies can play.

Moderator: Aaron Sandoski

Friday, May 22

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM

The Therapeutics track is geared to bring entrepreneurs, business community and scientists under one roof to listen and understand the emerging opportunities in the area of therapeutics development. With increasing cost of health care, pressure has been building for some time to find innovative ways to reduce the R&D costs as well as the cost of conducting, managing clinical trials, all the way to manufacturing and location. Globalization of R&D with trained manpower and the scientific pool in a global environment offers real opportunity in previously resource poor areas of the world. These pressures offer opportunities to innovate and find ways to deliver health care at reasonable cost without it becoming a drag on global economic growth.

Moderator: Josef Volman

Friday, May 22

2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

The healthcare system in United States is the largest and most complex of all healthcare systems in the world. The organization of clinical information has not kept pace with the technological advancement in life science technology and research in clinical medicine; which presents a number of substantial hurdles. The good news is the current US administration has allocated $20 billion for healthcare information technology within the new stimulus package. This funding will be earmarked to accelerate the process of computerizing health records to cut costs and reduce medical errors. The long-term goal is to create a sustainable, interoperable technology infrastructure that advances clinical research and supports the development of innovative therapeutics and diagnostics. During this session, experts from healthcare IT, life sciences and the medical frontline will discuss the impact and opportunities posed by this emerging scenario.

Moderator: Sam A. Mawn-Mahlau

Friday, May 22

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Entrepreneurs on this panel have successfully launched socially-conscious healthcare enterprises using innovative business models. Their projects have focused on bringing healthcare to segments of under-served populations in emerging countries by leveraging technology and human resources effectively to create sustainable global connections. This distinguished panel will share their collective experiences and discuss the trials and tribulations they faced when launching global healthcare ventures. Their successes have shown how innovative business models can build bridges between distant countries and bring cutting-edge healthcare within reach for millions of people in remote rural areas of the world. Their experiences and insights will provide invaluable guidance to entrepreneurs interested in launching similar ventures in global healthcare markets.

Moderator: Miland Antani

Friday, May 22

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM

Breakthrough technology implementations are helping to leverage advances in communications and information technology to provide affordable social solutions. This panel will explore innovative ICT solutions which are leading to solving traditional problems as well as generating ideas to create potential new business models.

Moderator: Carl Stjernfeldt

Friday, May 22

2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Many of the most challenging and important problems facing the world in the 21st century relate to how we produce, process, distribute, sell, and consume food. Energy. Water. Climate Change. Deforestation. Human health and health care. Food safety. The more one understands about food, the more fundamental one recognizes it to be. Even things as elusive but important as happiness and community turn out to be profoundly connected to the topic.

If we hope to address this tangled complex of problems, we must look closely at our complete food supply chain from seed to supper to see what works well and what must be improved. The prospect of having to feed another 2.5 billion people by mid-century increases the size, importance, and urgency of the challenge, for supply is already straining to keep up with demand and current practice is anything but sustainable.

For entrepreneurs with vision, such problems present attractive opportunities. Join this discussion for a lively and informed tour of the problems and opportunities inherent in feeding 9 billion people.

Moderator: Asheen Phansey