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Please join us for SNS PREDICTIONS : WEST
Eleven years after holding our first annual Predictions Dinner in NYC, SNS is proud to announce the second annual SNS Predictions : West event, to be held Thursday, February 25, 5pm-8pm, at the Sofitel San Francisco Bay in Redwood City.
The evening will begin with a Centerpiece Conversation featuring special guest Mark Hurd, CEO of Oracle, with Mark Anderson - followed by:
A presentation and discussion with Bill Ribaudo, National Managing Partner, Technology, Media and Tele-communications Industry, Deloitte & Touche LLP, on a joint SNS / Deloitte project: "Company and Country Business Models: Impact on Valuations, Measurement, and Worth."
The evening will conclude with a discussion by Mark Anderson of global technology and economic landscapes in 2016, featuring the firm's recent successes in predicting The Oil Price Collapse and the China Collapse, and finishing with a discussion of the SNS Top Ten Technology and Market Predictions for 2016.
Those who joined us last year know that this is a great evening for making new connections, socially and intellectually. We're delighted to be coming back to the Valley to talk about the future.
Price is $95 - Seating is limited - Register now*:
For Agenda details, visit: www.stratnews.com/events/west/agenda
I hope you'll join us for this second annual SNS Predictions : West evening. You may see some familiar faces, and will surely meet new and future colleagues for the first time, in an evening of lively conversation onstage and off. You'll also come away with an invaluable tool: being that much smarter about practical issues that will affect us all, and getting a clearer view of threats and opportunities in the year to come. - mra.
*Upon registration, non-SNS members will receive a complimentary 1-month subscription to the weekly SNS Global Report.
It was late at night at the Cypress Inn, on the second evening of the Carmel International Film Festival, and the filmmakers at our table were continuing a dinner conversation over what made Silicon Valley tick. Since everyone reading this discussion has had similar conversations, I'll skip the middle and move to the conclusion.
After an increasingly intense debate over which were the really great companies, we suddenly made an intellectual right turn and came upon the most surprising conclusion: almost all of the most exciting energy involved in driving the Valley forward seems to have come from a very limited number of people.
Like, one. Or maybe four, or ten. But definitely not a hundred, or a thousand. Having read way too many lame books and watched way too many off-the-mark movies about Steve Jobs, it was particularly refreshing to find that we seemed to agree on something new about Steve.
No Steve, No Valley.
As we looked at the global markets for smartphones, music, pads, mobile chips and components, cameras, laptops, and "apps," we rather quickly came to the conclusion that Steve Jobs had almost singlehandedly been responsible for most of the energy, money, and excitement that lights up Silicon Valley (and the rest of the technology world) today.
Not Zuckerberg, not Andreessen, not any unicorn CEO.
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