VentureBeat

VentureBeat brings its community of technology executives, entrepreneurs and investors together several times per year through high-level one-day executive conferences and custom networking events. In 2009, VentureBeat will host the following events in addition to several smaller, custom events:

GamesBeat 2009 | March 24, 2009 | San Francisco, CA

MobileBeat 2009 | July 16, 2009 | San Francisco, CA

GreenBeat 2009 | November 2009 | San Francisco, CA

VentureBeat offers marketers several types of unique sponsorship opportunities in conjunction with its live events. Please contact Andie Rhyins at sales@venturebeat.com for details.

On March 24, 2009, VentureBeat hosted 400 of some of the biggest names in the gaming industry at a sold out one-day event in San Francisco to explore the multiple ways gaming will shape our experience with the world. This year’s theme was “All the world’s a game and over the course of the day, industry heavy hitters and rookies discussed the industry’s next big ideas. Gregg Sauter of Nokia N-Gage and Sony Playstation Network U.S. head Susan Panico will discuss platform wars with MySpace, Facebook and ngmoco. Social gaming leaders Mark Pincus, chief executive of Zynga and Shervin Pishevar, chief executive of Social Gaming Network will compare strategies with Dennis Fong, chief executive of Raptr and Kristian Segerstrale, CEO of Playfish. Media and entertainment players got in the game as Graham Hopper, head of Disney Interactive Studios, Ira Rubenstein, vice president of interactive for Marvel and Dave Williams, senior vice president of Nickelodeon Kids and Family Games Group took a look at mass market opportunities for video games. The event also featured support from leading companies such as Nokia NGage, Sony Online Entertainment, Nvidia, The Mayfield Fund, AdMob, Razer, Outspark, and Playfish. The complete line-up for the event can be found at http://venturebeat.com/gamesbeat-2009/ as well as speaker list and agenda.

On July 16, 2009=, MobileBeat2009 was a one-day event in San Francisco designed to connect entrepreneurs and mobile application developers with key executives within the mobile ecosystem and the investment community. MobileBeat sold out in 2008 and this year’s event featured an expanded program for 400 senior executives exploring the emerging business models of the future, discussing which business models will die off and highlighting the most disruptive start ups. The program included provocative keynotes and panel discussions, breakout sessions, a start up competition featuring seven early stage mobile innovators and a networking reception.

Some key themes that MobileBeat2009 explored were:

1. Mobile applications explode. Who wins and who loses? Now that mobile “smart” devices from iPhones to Android- and Windows-powered netbooks are becoming compelling, consumers worldwide have begun to snap them up en masse. This, in turn, has opened the floodgates to innovation in mobile software, with hundreds of thousands of applications being written for these platforms.

2. Where are the opportunities for enabling and building killer mobile apps? Applications that exploit the full range of capabilities of connected mobile devices and social media have the potential to change lives, but there may not be a single killer-app. However, much ado has already been made of basic web-browsing functionality and maps. Now mobile experts expect that games, location-aware services and enterprise applications are waiting to take the world by storm.

3. Carriers and handset makers want a piece, too: Where will they go? The app store is mobile’s “new black.” As new applications (Skype, for example) endanger carriers’ voice revenue and high-bandwidth apps burden their networks, what will become of the carriers’ traditional business models?

Details about the event can be found at www.mobilebeat2009.com

Revamping how we use and track power is one of the most crucial challenges facing our generation. To tackle this issue, VentureBeat’s two-day cleantech conference, on November 18-19, GreenBeat2009, will focus exclusively on the potential for the smart, open power grid to redefine how people think about and consume energy. Targeting 500 executive level executives and investors from within the clean energy and cleantech community, the conference will also provide a platform for only the most game-changing, early-stage companies to debut their smart grid-related products. These entrepreneurs stand to inherit a very large pie — the power market in the U.S. alone is worth $1 trillion, and it’s predicted that we’ll see $100 billion in capital investments in the sector every year for the next decade. On top of that, president Obama has put smart grid technology on the map for the general public, highlighting it as one of the country’s top infrastructural priorities. Accordingly, GreenBeat will also feature marquee-name panels of smart grid leaders from both established companies and start ups, venture capitalists and other key players in this evolving ecosystem who are digging into the economic and political influences molding the smart grid’s development. More details to be available soon at www.greenbeat2009.com. Please contact Matt Marshall for more information on speaking at editor@venturebeat.com. For sponsorships, contact sponsors@venturebest.com.