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Friday, November 20, 2009
Main Agenda: 9 am – 5:45 pm
After Party with StartUp Demo Tables: 5:45 – 7:30 pm

InterContinental Hotel
Grand Ballroom, 3rd floor
888 Howard Street, San Francisco CA

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$395 all-inclusive pass through midnight pst, Thursday, November 19
$495 through November 20, subject to availability.

Enter for a chance to *RealTime Pitch from the Audience*.
Purchase a CrunchUp pass and enter the RealTime Pitch. Two CrunchUp attendees (subject to opt out, of course) will be randomly selected Friday morning at the conference and will have 5 minutes each to pitch their start-up to attendees as part of our main agenda demo sessions, at 11:45 am and 2:00 pm.

CRUNCHUP AGENDA

9:00 – 9:30 AM From RSS To Realtime: A Conversation With Twitter COO Dick Costolo
moderators: Michael Arrington, Steve Gillmor

9:30 – 11:00 AM Roundtable: Filtering The Stream. Getting Rid of the Noise.
moderators: Erick Schonfeld, Steve Gillmor

Facebook, VP of Product Chris Cox
Google, Google Fellow, Amit Singhal
Seesmic, CEO Loic Le Meur
Futurity Ventures, investor/entrepreneur Edo Segal
CrowdEye, CEO Ken Moss
Microsoft, GM of FUSE Labs, Lili Cheng
Facebook, VP of Platform, Bret Taylor
MySpace, Chief Product Officer, Jason Hirschhorn
Thing Labs/Brizzly, CEO Jason Shellen
OneRiot, CEO Kimbal Musk
Angel Investor Ron Conway

11:00 – 11:15 AM Break

11:15 – 11:45 AM The Social Enterprise: A Conversation With Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff
moderators: Steve Gillmor, Erick Schonfeld

11:45 – 12:30 PM Where Is The Stream Going? Tomorrow’s Killer Apps (Demos)
introductions by Erick Schonfeld, Jason Kincaid

Hot Potato, Justin Shaffer
Seesmic, Loic Le Meur
Qwisk, Zachary Garbow
Knx.to, Rohit Khare, Salim Ismail
StatusNet, Evan Prodromou
Mozzler, Chris Were
Realtime Pitch From The Audience*

12:30 – 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 – 2:45 PM Where Is The Stream Going? Tomorrow’s Killer Apps (Demos)
introductions by Jason Kincaid, Leena Rao

Plymedia, Matt Knopf
Tweetmeme, Nick Halstead
VideoLobby, Peter Urban
Rippol, Aaron Crayford
Bazaar Labs, Somrat Niyogi
Realtime Pitch From the Audience*

2:45 – 3:30 PM Media Streams: Are These The Ultimate Marketing Vehicles?
moderators: Erick Schonfeld, Paul Carr

DailyBooth, co-founder Ryan Amos
Ad.ly, CEO Sean Rad
CoTweet, CEO Jesse Engle
Hollywood agent, Robin Bechtel (digital strategist for Britney Spears, Warner Bros. Records)
more
NewTek, SVP strategic development Philip Nelson

3:30 – 3:45 Break

3:45 – 4:30 Geo Streams: We Know Where You Are, Right Now
moderators: Erick Schonfeld, MG Siegler

Foursquare, VP business development Tristan Walker
Twitter, director of platform Ryan Sarver
Google, Steve Lee, Group Product Manager Google Maps for Mobile and Google Latitude
SimpleGeo, founder Matt Galligan
Hot Potato, founder Justin Shaffer
Mixer Labs, CEO Elad Gil

4:30 – 5:00 Can We Kill Email Already? All Aboard The Micro-Message Bus
moderators: Erick Schonfeld, Steve Gillmor

A discussion with Paul Buchheit (Facebook/Friendfeed/Gmail) and Rob Goldman, CEO Threadsy

5:00 – 5:45 PM Where The Realtime Rubber Meets The Road: When Does The Serious Money Come In?
moderators: Erick Schonfeld, Steve Gillmor

Angel investor, Ron Conway
Microsoft, corporate VP for Strategic and Emerging Business Development, Dan’l Lewin
Charles River Ventures, VC George Zachary
Accel Partners, VC Andrew Braccia
Foundes Fund, VC Brian Singerman
Facebook/Friendfeed, Paul Buchheit

5:45 – 7:30 PM Realtime After Party and StartUp Demos

THANK YOU SPONSORS

Charles River Ventures is a venture fund with more than 30 years of history focused on early-stage investments. Commonly serving as the first investor in its portfolio companies, CRV selects visionary entrepreneurs with innovative ideas, and provides the support they need to build great companies from the ground up. The firm’s recent areas of focus include: Communications & Technology: Broadband, wireless and enabling chip technologies Datacenter Infrastructure: System and software solutions that scale the Enterprise IT infrastructure; Enterprise Software & Services: Opportunities enabled by the Open Source movement; and Media & Entertainment: New products & services enabled by the pervasive digital infrastructure. Charles River Ventures generally serves as lead investor for its portfolio companies. Initial investments can be as small as $25,000, or as large as $5 million, and the firm expects to invest between $5 and $10 million over the lifetime of a project. At times the firm also provides seed financing to an outstanding individual entrepreneur, to fund the development of a business concept. CRV can add significant value in follow-on financings as well.

Ustream is the live interactive video broadcast platform that enables anyone with a camera and an Internet connection to quickly and easily broadcast to a global audience of unlimited size. In less than two minutes, anyone can become a broadcaster by creating their own channel on Ustream or by broadcasting through their own site, empowering them to engage with their audience and further build their brand. Visit Ustream.com to start a broadcast now or learn more about broadcasting. Ustream’s Shiba Inu Puppy Cam, seen by more than 18 million viewers worldwide, was listed as one of 2008’s top 10 Web videos (Source: Associated Press).

Founders Fund is an early-stage venture capital firm created in 2005. Founders Fund is run by entrepreneurs who have started and managed their own companies, and is committed to innovation in venture capital using a non-traditional, founder-focused approach to investing. The Founders Fund team is comprised of people with engineering, product, design, and online marketing experience from companies like PayPal, Facebook, and Google. They like to hear from entrepreneurs solving big and interesting problems.

Rackspace is a global web host known for its high end managed hosting and dedicated services. The company delivers enterprise-level managed services to businesses of all sizes and kinds around the world, serving more than 14,000 customers in eight data centers worldwide.

Eventbrite is a leading provider of online event management and ticketing services. Eventbrite makes it easy for anyone to hold a successful event of any type and size. The Eventbrite service includes many features and tools intended to help event planners publish, promote and sell their events effectively.

Future Works is a public relations, social media, and new media marketing firm. They deal with a diverse client base ranging from emerging start-ups and consumer electronics mfgs, to web apps, enterprise solutions and blue chip corporations.

NewTek has been a driving force in pushing the edge of video and 3D graphics technology while redefining price/performance and ease of use. NewTek is perhaps best known in the film and video industry as the company that created the desktop video market segment in 1990 with the introduction of its wildly successful product, the Amiga Video Toaster®. NewTek has built its success on the concept of providing powerful, intuitive products at prices that are very affordable. Low-cost tools provided by NewTek have broadened the base of those who create film, broadcast quality video and graphics. Along the way, NewTek has developed a fanatically loyal customer base that continues to look to it for new and innovative products at unmatched prices.

Qlipso partners with online publishers to let their audience invite friends to share any Flash-based content – videos, games, music, photos – live on a partner website. Our proprietary technologies deliver generalized media synchronization, a unique 3D engine on the same layer as Flash content, as well as integrating webcam, voice and text communications. Qlipso gives partners both real-time socializing along with an avatar-based virtual item economy right on top of otherwise under-monetized content. Completely browser-based and already FaceBook-ready.

Roambi Pro is a secure, hosted service that lets companies transform their critical business data – from Microsoft Excel, Google Docs, or premium business systems like Salesforce.com – into interactive visualizations and instantly deliver them to any iPhone user. Roambi Pro is designed for companies and workgroups of all sizes that need to connect mobile workers with critical business data and provide the insight necessary for on-the-go analysis, smart decision-making and impromptu presentations

Football3s: Social games are detached from real-life events and have short lifespans.
Fantasy sports games require season-long user investment. Football3s combines social gaming with a real time sports data feed. The effect on the gamer is a feeling of control linked to the excitement of a live sports event. The effect on the industry is a new class of sports gaming.

photoWALL is a realtime media sharing platform designed to capture and show ‘true’ realtime events from mobile devices. Both customer and brand engagement are core components. The UX fully embraces mobile and Web, offering a fun and lite social network that feeds existing popular streams. Realtime mash-ups are easily created with our cool hash tagging system, allowing customers to engage in local and global events and giving brands a new platform. Our geo metadata normalization offers an extensive filter, colliding numerous data points for the first time!

Ellerdale uses advanced semantic technology to automatically select trending topics from the real-time stream and organize them into discussions and categories such as: People, Sports, Politics, Music, Films. Users can drill down on over a million topics and follow the latest discussions and most relevant links. By filtering and organizing the data using semantics, Ellerdale revolutionizes the way you monitor the real-time stream.

NachoFoto is a startup based in Bay Area with offices in Mill Valley – CA and Mumbai. We are developing a real time image search engine where you can find latest images of anything, currently popular in the world. It works on algorithm based on mental taxonomy which gives results based on Recency & Real Time Relevancy. e.g. Recency: fort hood, balloon boy, britney, imac. e.g. Real Time Relevancy: droid, yankees. Beta Site now open: www.nachofoto.com. user:alphauser pass:crunchup.

GOSO is a web and social media suite designed exclusively for automotive dealers. It’s been custom built to suit the needs of the automotive industry, providing comprehensive marketing and inventory support to enable dealers to engage directly with their customers and monitor their online brand reputation.

Infoaxe Real-Time Search leverages aggregate browsing/attention data telling us what the world is looking at NOW, to provide extremely fresh & relevant Web search results. Infoaxe adds >50M webpages/week to its search index giving it comprehensive coverage.

ekoVenture is a social marketplace and community for adventure, cultural, and sustainable travel. It offers access to more than 10,000 tour packages focusing on cultural travel, active travel, adventure travel, eco travel, voluntourism, culinary travel, and more. Tour operators are vetted, and ekoVenture offers them a booking engine on the back-end much like OpenTable does for restaurants. Travelers can share reviews, blogs, photos, and videos. And the site highlights a network of Guru travelers made up of professional mountaineers, kayakers, divers, and adventurers. The company donates 10% of its profits to eco-friendly charities such as those dedicated to providing clean drinking water in developing nations or preserving reefs and rainforests.

Please contact Heather Harde or Jeanne Logozzo to learn more about future sponsorship packages and custom opportunities.

PRESS
Bloggers and journalists can request a press pass by contacting Daniel Brusilovsky.

STUDENT VOLUNTEERS
Students interested at volunteering at the event, please contact Gene McPherson.