Panel of Industry Leaders Changing the Face of Event Technology Announced for Summits in San Francisco, November 9th, Seattle, November 11th, and Palo Alto, November 17th

November 3rd, 2010- Certain Software, the leading provider of event management solutions for the global meetings and events industry, is hosting three thought-leadership Sunrise Summit breakfast events focusing on the latest advancements in technology for corporate meeting and events professionals. The summits will feature networking and interactive discussion on a variety of technology solutions that are quickly becoming the future of the events industry. A group of experts from leading companies that are devising new technologies for meetings, as well as meetings architects from organizations including Stanford University, Dow Jones and more, will serve as panelists.

Noteworthy participants include:

• Moderator: Olivier Delerm, Chief Marketing Officer for Certain Software, a leading provider of event management solutions for the global meetings and events industry.
• Ben Partin, Meeting and Event Manager, Smart Meetings, publications that provide expert industry perspective and give meeting planners the information they need to be more effective.
• Eric Ly, Founder and CEO at Presdo, a web application that helps people find the best time for getting together. Prior to that, Eric was a co-founder at LinkedIn, where he was the founding CTO and a VP.
• Robert Petrossian, Founder and CEO, InfoNeedle, a company that has developed a unique hosted platform for virtual events and expos, and online communities.
• Dave Rochlin, Co-Founder, ClimatePath, a Green Events authority that offers organizations ideas for conservation, and connects them to projects that can produce verifiable and measurable results to reduce greenhouse gasses, while also supporting positive long term change.
• Doug Schulze, Vice President at Pathable, a rich social network and community solution for conferences and events.

Agenda
7:30 – Registration, networking and breakfast
8:00 – Welcome
8:10 – Luxury venue overview
8:15 – Industry leaders panel
8:35 – “What’s Working” interactive networking exchange

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