GABA Panel Discussions

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    45 episodes
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Episodes of GABA Panel Discussions

    • Business Finance Climate 2012

      2011 has been a roller-coaster year for the technology industry and the wider global economy. A tepid stabilization in the US was contrasted with the possibility of a Euro meltdown. For the first three quarters of 2011, venture capitalists invested $21.2 billion into 2,725 deals, representing 20 percent more dollars and three percent more deals than the first three quarters of 2010. However, the technology industry showed a highly differentiated picture: The Software sector, including social a...

      • Release date
        Jan 9, 2012
      • Runtime
        01:26:25
    • Mobile Internet Strategy Series 2011

      Growth in Mobile Internet is continuing at light speed with Apple and Google driving the most dynamic ecosystems and platforms. A number of companies that have been highly successful on the web like Twitter and Groupon are pushing for a leading position in mobile. Our panel will discuss where the mass-adopted mobile internet will head in the coming years. Key questions include: What mobile services will dominate the market in the next years? What platform and services strategies will drive ado...

      • Release date
        Dec 5, 2011
      • Runtime
        01:28:41
    • The Role of Open Source in Commercial Software

      The role of open source -- particularly infrastructure, platforms and applications offered to commercial customers as services -- is fundamental. It's reasonable to assume that without the existence of open source operating systems (e.g. Linux), virtual machine environments (e.g. Xen), data base platforms (e.g. MySQL), the programming languages and frameworks on which many of today's offerings were constructed, our industry would not have recovered from the bubble burst of 10 years ago, much l...

      • Release date
        Nov 30, 2011
      • Runtime
        01:15:34
    • Women in Business: The Love-Hate Relationship of...

      Only about 5% of VC funding goes to women-owned businesses, while it is twice as much as 4 years ago there are alternative financing opportunities available. Government funding and grants, Angel financing, micro loans, bank or insurance policy loans are other options of financing your business. Join fellow female professionals who will get the conversation started, listen to their stories and gain more knowledge about the pros and cons of these options. Be inspired by an interesting topic, a h...

      • Release date
        Nov 30, 2011
      • Runtime
        01:32:38
    • Mobile Internet Strategy Series 2011

      Growth in Mobile Internet is continuing at light speed with Apple and Google driving the most dynamic ecosystems and platforms. A number of companies that have been highly successful on the web like Twitter and Groupon are pushing for a leading position in mobile. Our panel will discuss where the mass-adopted mobile internet will head in the coming years. Key questions include: What mobile services will dominate the market in the next years? What platform and services strategies will drive ado...

      • Release date
        Nov 30, 2011
      • Runtime
        01:29:53
    • Is 2011 An Inflection Point for the Future of Cl...

      2011 is shaping up as a key year for Clean Energy. The Fukushima nuclear disaster and its aftermath have changed the perception of nuclear for a new generation. Germany will shut down all nuclear reactors by 2022 and Japan and other countries may follow. This may open up opportunities for continued clean energy growth momentum. Germany has set ambitious clean energy goals: 35% clean electricity by 2020 and 80% by 2050. California has mandated 33% RPS by 2020. Japan and China have approved feed...

      • Release date
        Oct 17, 2011
      • Runtime
        01:37:17
    • Will Cloud Computing change the role of your IT ...

      In an open, flexible cloud infrastructure the role of IT will undergo a huge transformation over the next few years. Will the IT Department become a trusted broker in the cloud, someone who brokers multiple cloud services for their user departments? But CIO’s are not the only ones struggling to make sense of the new functions and delivery mechanisms. Software vendors and IT service providers also have to reengineer their offerings. Join us as leading thinkers from the industry share examples o...

      • Release date
        Oct 17, 2011
      • Runtime
        01:18:29
    • Solar Project Financing 2011: An Inside Look at ...

      The panelists will discuss the financing of solar projects with these incentives at a practical, hands-on level using lessons learned in a real solar project by Solar Power, Inc. – the Aerojet project in Northern California. This large-scale PV solar system was built at an EPA brown field site and combines the implementation of solar for electricity generation with the reuse of a contaminated site.

      • Release date
        Jun 7, 2011
      • Runtime
        01:14:50
    • The Evolution of Mobile Entertainment - Mobile A...

      Developments in applications for mobile games, music, media, entertainment, search and its monetization are all the rage today with consumers and increasingly corporate customers. Mobile entertainment and related applications will dominate and be determinative of what mobile hardware will be sold and influence the success of entertainment properties and software.

      • Release date
        May 24, 2011
      • Runtime
        01:22:56
    • European Parliament meets Silicon Valley

      The Silicon Valley provides more than 350.000 jobs in the high-tech industry and makes the Bay Area the largest high-tech center in the United States, being a cradle of companies such as Google and Facebook. With its ability to foster cutting-edge innovation and constantly reinventing itself, a unique ecosystem for the commercialization of technology has developed over the last decades. A multi-national delegation of eight members of the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research an...

      • Release date
        May 2, 2011
      • Runtime
        01:29:26
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