Silicon Valley Comes To Oxford
Leading entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and commentators from Silicon Valley gathered at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School for the 7th year.
| Group type: | Conference |
| Status: | Active |
| Focus: | Ideas |
| Organizer: | University Program |
| Funding: | Corporate Sponsors, University Support |
| Industries: | Biotech, Financial, Information Technology, Internet, Media |
| Location: | Oxford, United Kingdom |
| Website: | http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/new... |
ABOUT US
Leading entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and commentators from Silicon Valley gathered at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School on 19 November 2007 for the annual Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford meeting. Now in its seventh year, this event has established itself as one of the leading European forums for debate and networking in innovation.
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Members (19)
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Harjeet Taggar
Englishman in San Francisco, 22, Y Combinator Alum, working on startup Auctomatic.
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Kirill Makharinsky
Entrepreneur and numbers guy. Co-founder of YouNoodle; previously studied metrics at Slide and mathematics at Oxford.
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Diego Giol
I am a person who is really passionate about Internet, mobile technologies, entrepreneurship and business. I have a background in software engineering and an MBA from Oxford University. I have worked on Internet-related projects for the last ten...
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Slide
New online media startup headed up by the founder of PayPal, Max Levchin. Backed by Mayfield Fund, Blue Run Ventures, Khosla Ventures and the Founders Fund.
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Jamaica Wireless
Opportunity in state of the art Wi-Fi Network in virgin and emerging market. Artificial barriers of entry via exclusive software and hardware that provides competitive advantage.
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CivSpark
CivSpark is a whole new institution (acting alongside traditional charity, billionaires' philanthropy, and government taxation) for public good and social progress. It leverages the Internet (specifically, the social web and the Long Tail) to 'o...
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Hi Mark, the event runs 23-24 November this year. Another great line up of guests. Should be a good one. http://www.siliconvalleyoxf...
Is anything happening this year?
Hard to overstate how good this event is.
Last year was superb. Excellent advice, showed how far the UK needs to go to catch up.
A life-changing event for many of us Oxford kids over the past few years.