CoolTech Club Archive 2003-2006
Past Presentations
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| 01/18/2007
60 members |
Jerry Weissman, President Power Presentations, Ltd. www.powerltd.com |
The Power Presentation: Essential Factors
There are five essential factors necessary for every presentation:
In this keynote speech, Jerry Weissman presents selected techniques to help your audience learn about each of the factors. This speech is illustrated with examples from his world-famous client base.. Jerry Weissman is the world’s number one corporate presentations coach. His private client list reads like a who’s who of the world’s best companies, including the top brass at Yahoo!, Intel, Intuit, Cisco Systems, Microsoft, Dolby Labs and many others. |
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| 10/19/2006
90 members Join AmBAR event
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Dr. Ori Cohn, Co-Founder , SkyRider Inc
Abigail Johnson, President, Roeder-Johnson Corporation
Paul A. Santinelli , Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners
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START-UP BUILDING STRATEGIES: FROM AN IDEA TO LAUNCH (Expert Panel)
Ori Cohen: High level tips for entrepreneurs that are in pre-funding and immediate-post-funding stages of a technology start up. Practical ideas for VC fund raising and company setup are listed. For more information, feel free to contact Ori Cohen: orico@skyrider.com (PDF/PPT) Abigail Johnson: Typically, most people think about public relations exclusively as a tactical activity designed to get "ink" for a company for very short term reasons. This presentation makes the the case that public relations and strategic communications is critical to a start up company from the beginning because it should be focused on establishing a unique, leadership position. With such leadership comes a halo-effect that benefits the company across the board and for the long term. (PDF) Paul A. Santinelli: How do you REALLY attract venture capital !!! (PDF/PPT)
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| 09/18/2006
37 members |
Allan Leinwand, Founder and Chairman, Venture Partner , |
Open Source Comes to Networking: Fusion or Fission? When the Internet was first created, open-source infrastructure was the norm. Somewhere along the way, closed-source products started to dominate the landscape. Vyatta is working to restore the open environment and culture of the Internet's past by developing a line of enterprise-grade, open-source, network infrastructure products, including routers and firewalls. Allan will discuss the pioneering efforts toward delivering open-source networking products and solutions to the enterprise. |
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| 07/12/2006
45 members |
Alan Shalloway
CEO, Net Objectives |
The Business Case For Agility: The Lean - Agile Connection
Agile methods center on building systems a piece at a time. The reasons for doing this are typically centered around the challenges of running a project through a predictive process. Lean provides another compelling reason to deliver software in stages -- to give the most value to the customer as soon as possible. By delivering value in stages you not only give the customer value quickly, but you can use the process to not build things that aren't needed and to eliminate waste in the requirements/analysis phases of the project. |
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| 06/07/2006
37 members |
Tobias Mayer | Management by Consensus – A Manager’s Guide to Scrum
Scrum is an agile, lightweight process that can be used to manage and control software and product development using iterative, incremental practices. Wrapping existing engineering practices, including Extreme Programming and RUP, Scrum generates the benefits of agile development with the advantages of a simple implementation. Scrum is practiced now at thousands of software companies world wide, and its adoption rate is continuing to grow. |
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| 05/04/2006
30 members |
Dr.Matt Doar
Senior Toolsmith |
What is a toolsmith, and why is a more descriptive term than "build guy". "release engineer" or "configuration specialist"? Why is it a great idea to have a dedicated toolsmith in your company or project? Where can you find good toolsmiths anyway? These are some of the questions we will discuss, so bring your own experiences of different software development environments. |
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| 04/05/06
35 members |
Dr. Antonio Nucci,
CTO |
How to build a Carrier-Grade Defense-Shield In this talk, Dr. Antonio Nucci, Chief Technology Officer at Narus Inc, will highlight the major shifts in the security market over the past few years, discuss the dynamics of the security threats and the emerging interest of Internet Service Providers to play a key role in this market. He will also introduce a new preventative technology based on Information Entropy, also known as Carrier-Class Defense-Shield, that will help large high-speed ISP to efficiently defend their network perimeters from the most invasive and deadly DDoS and Worms outbreaks.
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| 03/02/06
15 members |
Slava Imeshev,
CEO |
Continuous Integration: Benefits, Challenges and Best Practices Software is a risky business. Most of the software projects fail because they miss deadlines, cannot stay in budget, or are unable to meet the requirements. Breakage of the code base cause delays and overspending that increases risks of project failure. Continuous integration helps reduce risks of such project failures. In this talk we'll understand importance of a software build, introduce continuous integration and benefits it provides, discuss ways to avoid challenges associated with bringing it into a software organization and give tips on how to get most from this useful practice.
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| 01/25/06
36 members |
Tyler Kovacs, CTO |
Just Add Water: Instant Websites using Ruby on Rails
Learn how to make a database-driven site complete with a web front-end and test framework in under 30 minutes. People can't stop talking about Ruby on Rails - a sophisticated development framework that allows you to develop scalable, web-based applications in a fraction of the time. Come see what makes Ruby on Rails special. We'll discuss and demonstrate its features by developing a simple application during the talk. |
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| 11/29/05
36 members |
Dr. Yuri Rabover, EMC Smarts |
What you always wanted to know about Root Cause analysis but were too afraid to ask What are Root Cause Analysis, event correlation, data modeling and what they have in common? Review of various approaches of complex system diagnostics: rule-based systems vs codebooks - accuracy, performance, maintenance. Overview of the SMARTS technology foundation: using information modeling for diagnostic and root cause analysis. Using the SMARTS technology to implement end-to-end management across multiple technology silos. |
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| 9/15/05
25 members |
Dr. Ilya Mironov,
Microsoft Research |
Attacks on hash functions: Cat 5 storm or a drizzle?
The biggest news in cryptography since the turn of the century is a series of attacks on decade-old standardized hash function, MD5 and SHA-1. Prior to the attacks, the hash functions were used indiscriminately in a gamut of schemes, protocols, and applications. Some applications of hash functions are still cryptographically sound, some have to go; good alternatives to hash functions in some scenarios exist but are largely unknown to developers and protocol designers. See also: "Hash functions: Theory, attacks, and applications" |
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| 08/25/05
40 members |
Mark Tsimelzon
CTO |
How to process one million messages per second. Numerous new applications arising in finance, telecommunications, network management & security, sensor networks, RFID, military, etc. require an ability to process, filter, aggregate, and correlate large numbers of messages (from thousands to hundreds of thousands per second) with very low latency (from milliseconds to seconds). These so called data stream processing application cannot rely on traditional databases, as databases were never designed for these kinds of requirements. A new class of infrastructure, data stream processing engines, has been proposed to help solve this problem. In this talk we'll discuss some data streaming applications, why they cannot rely on traditional databases, the problems arising in processing data streams, and the different approaches to solving this problem, both from academia and from the industry.
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| 05/03/05
25 members |
Dr. Sergei Burkov,
CEO |
Shopping Search: The Machine Learning Approach Dulance has developed an advanced shopping search solution. Based on crawling and Statistical Machine Learning algorithms, Dulance enables searching the entire web for products and deals, current and upcoming. Dulance’s “Search the Future” service allows shoppers to register their “wish-lists” and receive notifications, via RSS, when at least one merchant on the web lowers the price below a specified limit.
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| 2/24/05
16 members |
Dr. Yakov Kamen |
Electronic Programming Guide (EPG): The Chronicle of the Great Digital TV Screen Control War This talk will start with an overview of a history of the "Great Digital TV Screen Control War". I will describe major industry movers, their strategies, victories and defeats. Then I will talk about EPG itself: major patents, innovative researches, and the most successful products. Couple nice demos will shown to illustrate it. At the end I will outline several possible scenarios of the market future development that will "connect" |
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| 2/24/05
16 members |
Dr. Dmitri Varsanofiev |
Don’t Try This At Home: A Layman’s Guide To Security Vulnerabilities of the Original 802.11 Standard History of the security of the wireless LAN (WiFi, 802.11) contains more suspense than an average Hitchcock thriller: exposed weaknesses, bold claims, daring attacks, and a happy 802.11i ending. Presentation will concentrate on the causes behind the security flaws of the basic 802.11 standard, with an emphasis on "design of security features is better left to real professionals". Practical issues, like "how safe is it to have an 802.11 access point at my home / office?" will also be addressed. No background in cryptography is required. |
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| 11/18/04
20 members |
Jeff McKenna |
Comparing RUP, XP, and Scrum: Mixing a Process Cocktail for Your Team This seminar is for anyone who is involved in software development. The author takes a pragmatic view of each of these processes, which is a change from the evangelical view one often gets. |
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| 10/26/04
20 members |
Dr. Alexei Andreev
DraperFisherJurvetson |
Venture Capital and Nanotechnologies The nanotechnology is widely believed to be the “next big thing”. In fact, it is an extremely broad term that covers converging area of biotechnology, material science, informatics and metrology. While many practical applications of nanotechnology are coming into our day-to-day life, the major breakthroughs are yet to come. Nanotech start-ups are popping up but many of them will have hard time to bring their products to the market in the next 3-5 years. Metrological tools and bulk nanomaterials are the closest to the market, but they provide very limited upside for investor community and the founders |
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| 9/29/04
26 members |
Gene Linetsky |
How to make $1M in a year and pay only 15% in taxes Gene will present the concept of self-funded ABCs (Acquisition-Bound Companies) and the ways to research, develop and position competitive (software) product features with the goal of selling the technology within a year |
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| 8/25/04
40 members |
Steve Manning
Narus |
Trends in Hacking and Protecting E-commerce Systems Steve Manning is Director of Product Management at Narus where he is responsible for developing carrier security solutions to detect and mitigate worm and denial of service attacks. Prior to Narus, Mr. Manning worked as a product manager at VeriSign, where he designed and launched the company’s first payments fraud detection platform “Fraud Protection Services”. The Fraud Protection Services platform secured over 1 Million transactions a day for over 100,000 online merchants.
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| 8/25/04
40 members |
Alex Kolbasov
Sun Microsystems |
DTrace - how to ask a question and get an answer DTrace is a new comprehensive dynamic tracing framework for the Solaris Operating Environment. DTrace provides a powerful infrastructure to permit administrators, developers, and service personnel to concisely answer arbitrary questions about the behavior of the operating system and user programs. Alex is going to give a brief overview of DTrace and then do a live demo of its functionality. We will together analyze behavior of programs that we have no knowledge of.
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| 07/28/04
40 members |
Avery Kadison
PayPal |
Fighting Fraud on the World’s Largest P2P Platform
Mr. Kadison’s presentation will focus on a high-level look at fraud detection and prevention within the PayPal platform. Afterwards, he will discuss the various approaches that are being taken by the major industry players (including eBay and PayPal) to combat an increasingly organized and dangerous criminal threat to the Internet’s ultimate commercial promise: identity theft.
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| 07/28/04
40 members |
Ian McPherson |
Untangling the mesh network-A practical examination From sensor and control networks to public safety systems, vendors are touting mesh networks as the next revolution in wireless communications. We will discuss the different approaches to mesh networking, the challenges, as well as the market segments where this approach is gaining traction
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| 06/30/04
31 members |
Philip de Louraille
eBay |
Worm Rising Worm activity is swamping IDS sensors. Smart, dedicated and focused hackers can use worm attacks to their advantage to mask and hide their activity. What's an Information Security team to do to keep an eye both on the storms of activities triggered by the worms and on the activities of a lone hacker who is not triggering that many bells?
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| 04/14/04 | Serguei Osokine | What is 'P2P': Typical functional components of the P2P system. Different search approaches in P2P | |
| 02/11/04 | Oleg Zabluda | Security and Cryptography. Relationship between the two. (Part II)
Public key cryptography (RSA, PGP). Hybrid cryptosystems. |
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| 12/03/03 | Marianna Dizik | The Art and Science of Data Mining |
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| 11/12/03 | Oleg Zabluda | Security and Cryptography. Relationship between the two (Part I)
Symmetric key cryptography. |
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| 10/22/03 | Tim Kay,
CTO , ActiveBuddy |
Convergence of the Web and IM |
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| 10/08/03 | Vlad Bronstain | Meta Meta Modeling | |
| 09/17/03 | Oleg Zabluda | Extreme Programming | |
| 08/27/03 | Greg Goldman | WiFi – Wireless Fidelity (IEEE 802.11) standards, technology and business |
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| 08/13/03 | Stas Khirman,
CTO,Khirman & Son |
DDoS – Distributed Denial of Service (Introduction) |
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| 07/23/03 | Vladimir Bronstain | High Availability Concepts |
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| 07/23/03 | Igor Godzdanker | Electronic Design Automation. | |
| 07/10/03 | Stas Khirman, CTO, Narus | GPRS – Internet on the move |
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| 02/19/2007 |
Sponsored by Khirman & Son |