Agenda: War For Talent

Monday, May 7, 2012

10am - 7pm Mission Bay Conference Center, San Francisco

(Note, there may be changes and additions to the agenda)

Breakfast & Registration - Sponsored by TalentBin (9:30 am - 10:00 am)

Opening Keynote (10:00 am - 10:30 am)

Ron Conway (Angel Investor, SV Angel)

Scaling a company (10:30 am - 11:15 am)

Michael Wolfe (CEO of Pipewise, Co-founder of Vontu)

Brendan Browne (Director of Global Talent Acquisition, LinkedIn)

Morgan Missen (Head of Talent, foursquare)

Jeff Lawson (CEO + Founder, Twilio)

Kenny Mendes (Head of Recruiting, Box)

Networking Break (11:15 am - 11:30 am)

How your culture changes as you grow: The road from 10 to 50 to 500 people. (11:30 am - 12:00 pm)

Anna Binder (VP of Client Services and Human Resources, Readyforce)

Using The Network to Recruit (12 pm - 12:45 pm)

Shannon Callahan (Partner, Talent Services, Andreessen Horowitz)

Laurie Deneschuk (Chief People Officer, TinyCo)

Kevin Buckby (Partner, Riviera Partners)

Rick Marini (Founder & CEO, BranchOut)

Lunch Break - Sponsored by ReadyForce! (12:45 pm - 2:00 pm)

Please attend our Lunch Workshops:

1:00 pm - 1:20 pm Jon Bischke (Entelo)

1:25 pm - 1:45 pm Matthew Brown (Work4 Labs)

What does it take to win the very best talent? (2:00 pm - 2:45 pm) Listen to stories about some of the most creative things companies are doing to hire.

Dave Kashen (Startup CEO Coach, Quantum Leading) - Moderator

Sahil Gupta (Investor, Bain Capital Ventures, Startup Academy)

Russell Glass (CEO, Bizo)

James Takazawa (VP of People Operations, Tagged)

Dan Portillo (VP Talent, Greylock)

Afternoon Coffee & Tea Break (2:45 pm - 3:15 pm)

The First 10 Employees: Four Founders Share How to Build the Core Team (3:15 pm - 4:15 pm)

Danielle Morrill (Director of Marketing, Twilio) - Moderator

Dave McClure (Founding Partner, 500 Startups)

Hiten Shah (Co-founder, KISSmetrics)

Jason Freedman (Founder, 42Floors)

Jessica Alter (Founder/ChiefConnector, FounderDating)

Building Company Culture: Creating Evangelists to Grow Talent and Retain Employees (4:15 pm - 5:00 pm)

John Sumser (Editor, HRExaminer) - Moderator

Justin Moore (CEO & Co-founder, Axcient)

Jay Nath (Chief Innovation Officer, City and County of San Francisco)

Sam Zaid (CEO and Founder, Getaround)

Distributed Talent: How to Find Global Talent While Maintaining Company Culture (5:00 pm - 5:30 pm)

Kym McNicholas (Executive Producer, PandoDaily) - Moderator

Eric Setton (CTO + Founder, Tango)

Adam Pisoni (CTO, Yammer)

Fernando Paulo (VP of Engineering, GREE International)

Closing Remarks (5:30 pm - 5:40 pm)

Reception / Happy Hour - Sponsored by Entelo and Work4 Labs! (5:40 pm - 7:00pm)