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| Event Name | Hands-On QuickBooks 2007 Class | |
| Date | Saturday January 13, 2007 | |
| Time | 10:00AM to 4:00PM | |
| City | San Francisco | |
| Event Type | Seminar / Workshop / Class | |
| Event Area | Investment / Finance / Money | |
| Hosted By | book it! | |
| Description | Stop working overtime trying to figure out your business finances! Learn the fundamentals of QuickBooks small business financial management software in this Saturday workshop. This class is taught by a certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor with more than ten years of business management experience. You'll have your own computer in our state-of-the-art computer classroom and the class is structured so that you'll have plenty of time to ask questions as we go along. By the end of the day we'll have covered everything you need to know to manage your company's invoicing, billing, bank reconciliations & financial reporting. Topics to be covered: Working With QuickBooks Lists Working with Bank Accounts Entering Sales & Invoices Receiving Payments/Making Deposits Entering & Paying Bills Analyzing Financial Data Class price includes: Class text Lunch Trial Copy of QuickBooks 2007 6 CE or CPE units Certificate of Completion 1/2 hour one-on-one follow-up phone consultation with the instructor to answer questions specific to your business Send to Outlook: http://www.fullcalendar.com/vc.cfm?i=131125 | |
| Cost | $345; save $50 if you enroll before 01/06/07. | |
| Ticket URL | http://www.eventbrite.com/event/43942433 | |
| Other ticket Information | http://www.book-it.biz/index_files/page0004.h tm | |
| Organization Description | QuickBooks Setup, Training & Support | |
| Event Contact Info | Bonnie Carroll, info@book-it.biz | |
| Venue | Book It! at Executrain | |
| Venue Address | 210 Spear Street/Howard San Francisco, CA, 94105 | |
| Contact Phone | 415-661-8903 | |
| Venue Directions | http://www.bayareaexecutrain.com/bsanfrancisc o.cfm | |
| Event Name | SVC WIRELESS: Mobile Security---How Vulnerable is it? | |
| Date | Saturday January 13, 2007 | |
| Time | 12:30PM to 4:00PM | |
| City | Palo Alto | |
| Event Type | Speaker / Panel / Round Table | |
| Event Area | International Trade / Global Issues | |
| Hosted By | SVCWireless | |
| Description | According to Global mobile Suppliers Association, the worldwide mobile phone subscriptions have passed the 2 billion mark in 2006. Currently, there are over a thousand commercial mobile networks and over two thousand different mobile phone models worldwide. To provide security for these complex network systems and devices is not an easy task. The threats against voice-centric mobile networks and services are used to be minor compared to those against wired networks. However, mobile security is becoming an increasingly important concern due to the move to 3G and data-centric applications such as the web, multimedia communication and voice over IP. The areas of concern include, but are not limited to, information confidentiality, data integrity and service availability. One of the most significant threats against mobile security is malware such as viruses, worms, and Trojans. These malicious programs can access services via multimedia messages, Bluetooth, or WiFi connections, and as a result can cause undesirable consequences. More specifically, they may: - Increase your service bill without the owner's knowledge. For example, a Trojan hidden in a game can send SMS messages to expensive toll numbers. - Destroy or steal critical information such as emails, personal account numbers and passwords. - Attempt to spread to other phones, causing disturbance. - Disturb a mobile or wireless network. Other threats to mobile networks include disclosure of information transmitted over air links, man-in-the-middle attacks, denial of service, and attacks against the network infrastructure. We have seen security threats targeting not only the transport mechanism, but also services, applications, and infrastructures. In this seminar, we invite top industry domain experts to share their vision on mobile security: - Could mobile security become an urgent issue in the near future? - Is the market for mobile security solutions real? - Will investors look to invest in new mobile security products? - Is mobile security of more importance in the Asia market? - Who has the most concerns, end users or service providers? - How much impact is it to the network, to enterprises and to the service providers? - How well are the mobile networks, enterprise management systems and mobile devices equipped against security threats? - How to protect confidential information inside a stolen mobile device or in the service provider's network? - How do security problems affect business and end user usage? For example, who will pay airtime usage for security software updates? - How much does it cost end users to add new security measures? - Are there new business opportunities for solution providers? Moderator: Dr. Chenxi Wang, Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University. Principal Scientist, KSR. Inc. Panelists: - Samuel Chen: Chief Science Officer and Vice President of Software Development, Anchiva Systems - Dr. James Kempf: Research Fellow, Docomo USA labs. IETF working group chairs for SEND and Seamoby - Dr. Wen-Pai Lu: President, Silicon-Valley China Wireless Technology Association - Robert McCormack: President, Mustang Ventures - John Muir: Managing Partner, Trusted Strategies - Brewer Stone: Managing Director, East Peak Advisors Language: English RSVP: rsvp@svcwireless.org with the following subject line: "1/13: Your Name" Contact & More Information: Yuan Tian, yuan.tian@svcwireless.org Jenny Oshima, jenny.oshima@gmail.net Light refreshment will be provided. Speaker Bios: Moderator: * Dr. Chenxi Wang, Associate Professor of Carnegie Mellon University, is a recognized researcher in information and network security. Dr. Wang also serves as principal scientist at KSR. Inc. While at CMU, Dr. Wang spearheaded a number of highly recognized research effort, including serving as the PI for an ITR research award and Co-PI for a NSF-funded CyberTrust research center at CMU's CyLab. Her research project on malware, Coral, was selected as the PaCSCI award winner for commercialization by the Pittsburgh Technical Collaborative Council in 2005. She authored and co-authored over 20 original research papers on computer and network security. Her work on adaptive scanner detection received the best paper award at the 2006 International Conference of Applied Cryptology and Network Security. Dr. Wang serves on the technology advisory board for TriCipher Inc. She was an expert consultant for HP, Lucent, Emerson, and MountainWave. Dr. Wang received her Ph.D. with honors in 2001 from the University of Virginia. From 1996 to 1997, She held a research associate position at Citigroup. Apart from her academic and industry endeavors, Dr. Wang is an expert witness consultant for the Federal Trade Commission against online malware vendors. Panelists: * Mr. Samuel Chen, with more than 15 years experience in engineering and development, is responsible for leading the software engineering and Internet intrusion threat teams at Anchiva Systems. Prior to Anchiva, Chen spent eight years in senior management positions at Trend Micro, a global leader in network antivirus and Internet content security software and services. While there, Chen was vice president of software development and also held executive positions leading the software engineering and product quality management functions. He began his career at Trend Micro with the development of the first version of the flagship product, InterScan NT, which earned significant industry acclaim. Prior to Trend Micro, Chen held senior development roles with Sun Microsystems and National Semiconductor. Samuel received his Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, and Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan. * Dr. James Kempf has been active in systems and software research, with occasional dips into product development, in Silicon Valley since 1983. Prior to his current position, Dr. Kempf worked at Sun Microsystems for 13 years, where he was involved in a variety of research projects among them in 1994 a prototype of a SPARC-based tablet computer with early 802.11 support. Dr. Kempf has been active in a variety of standards organizations and industry fora, including chairing the Mobile Wireless Internet Forum (MWIF) IP in the RAN working group. In 1998, Dr. Kempf became active in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and from 2002 through 2004 served on the Internet Architecture Board. Dr. Kempf has chaired three working groups at IETF, including the Secure NEighbor Discovery (SEND) working group, which developed a protocol to secure IPv6 against the equivalent of ARP spoofing. In addition to SEND, Dr. Kempf has been involved in security research at DoCoMo Labs USA on location privacy and address authorization for multi-host addresses, such as multicast addresses. Dr. Kempf's research interests include wireless Internet security, advanced routing algorithms, and new Internet architectures. * Dr. Wen-Pai Lu started his security works from his research assignments on network security before the Internet era. Throughout his career, he was one of the founders of the LAN security standard in IEEE 802 (802.10 LAN Security standard) and served as the editor for the 802.10a. Currently, he is focusing on the mobile security architectural and design works, primary targeted to the mobile service providers. He has earned several industry security certifications such as CISSP, GSEC (GIAC Security Essential), GIPS (GIAC Intrusion Prevention) and GSNA (GIAC System & Network Audit) He was very active in many standard communities such as in Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) developing mobile web services architecture and services. He also had been very active in Mobile Wireless Internet Forum (MWIF) where he oversaw the security activities in the Mobile Internet and leading the security task forces. He was also developing interfaces and architecture for Mobile Internet applications and services. In MWIF he was served as a co-chairman for the Proof of Concept (POC) and architecture working groups in MWIF and developing security solution for IP Radio Access Network (RAN) in all-IP mobile wireless network (4G and beyond). He was also active in ATM Forum, Frame Relay Forum as well as FDDI (ANSI X3T5) standard group. In ATM Forum, he was involved in the development of LANE. He is also an ATM Forum Ambassador for LANE and MPOA. He has published over 16 technical papers in the technical journals as well as in the technical conferences with three distinct papers particularly published in the IEEE technical journals such as Transaction on Communications, and Transaction on Software Engineering. * Mr. Rob McCormack has been a Managing Director at Mustang Ventures since 2004. Rob has spent ten years in the venture capital industry with prior experience at Trident Capital, Integral Capital Partners and Morgan Stanley Venture Partners. Previously, Rob served as Director of Business Development and General Manager of the Capital Markets Group at Risk Management Solutions, the leading provider of catastrophe risk assessment software and services to the insurance industry, and as a Production Engineer in Japan at Murata Manufacturing, a multi-billion dollar manufacturer of electronic components. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University. * Mr. John Muir has more than two decades of entrepreneurial experience in information technology (IT) security companies. He currently serves as managing partner of Trusted Strategies LLC, a research and consulting firm that advises both developers of IT security products and investors in the security sector. As a co-founder of Enigma Logic Inc. in 1982, he helped develop the first software dynamic-password user authentication system suitable for large-scale deployment at organizations such as Citicorp, Boeing, Cisco, Federal Express and the US government and he was awarded a patent for advanced authentication technology. After Enigma Logic was acquired in 1996 by Secure Computing Corporation, Mr. Muir served as Vice President of the Authentication Division. In 1998 Mr. Muir left Secure Computing to found Pointsec Mobile Technologies, the US subsidiary of publicly held Protect Data Group of Stockholm Sweden. Here he oversaw the development and marketing of the Pointsec encryption system for mobile computing devices such as notebook PCs, PDAs, and smart phones. In addition to authoring numerous articles on network security and making presentations at various security conferences, Mr. Muir has developed security courseware for the National Center for Manufacturing Services (NCMS). A graduate of the University of California Berkeley in International Economics, Mr. Muir later received an MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. * Dr. Brewer Stone brings to East Peak Advisors more than 12 years of experience advising technology companies on cross-border mergers and acquisitions and capital raisings in both the U.S. and Asia. The hallmarks of Mr. Stone's career have been his emphasis on strategic advisory work, his passion for knowledge within his focus industries, and his deep experience and relationships in China and India. Mr. Stone began his finance career in New York, and then opened Prudential Securities' first office in China in 1994. Mr. Stone, who is fluent in Chinese, served as Managing Director and Head of Asian Investment Banking at Prudential in Hong Kong, where he advised leading regional companies in wireless, enterprise software, online commerce and marketing and other areas in private equity, strategic M&A, and public equity transactions. Mr. Stone then served as a managing director at the Prudential Volpe Technology Group in San Francisco, where he focused on the venture community. After working with Crimson Ventures, he started East Peak Advisors. Mr. Stone earned his B.A., with Highest Honors, from the University of California at Berkeley, his M.A., with Distinction, from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. At Harvard, Mr. Stone won Fulbright and MacArthur Scholarships for his work on China and India. | |
| Cost | Free for members; $20 Assoc/Non members; +$5 at door | |
| Other ticket Information | http://www.svcwireless.org | |
| Organization Description | Silicon Valley-China Wireless Technology Association (SVCWireless) is an open association that embraces everyone interested in learning and sharing knowledge on wireless technologies and business activies. It is a registered non-profit organization with over 3,500 wireless professionals as members. SVCWireless holds regular events such as a networking lunch (once a month) and a professional seminar (once every other month). In addition, we host an annual conferences and various networking events. In addition, we partner with other professional organizations to co-sponsor or cross-promote events focused around mobile and wireless. Most professional events are free to our regular members.
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| Event Contact Info | Yuan Tian, yuan.tian@svcwireless.org | |
| Venue | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP | |
| Venue Address | 2475 Hanover Street Palo Alto, CA, 94304 | |
| Contact Phone | - | |
| Venue Directions | http://http://www.pillsburylaw.com/bv/bvisapi .dll/portal/ep/ofcDetail.do?ofc=14 | |
