Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum
Thursday, August 27, 2009
6:30-8:30 PM
Andersen Auditorium, Haas School of Business
Innovating at Scale
Co-sponsored by the Haas School of Business Dean’s Speaker Series
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Program Description and Speaker Biographies
Join us for the first Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum of the 2009-2010 season for a look at "Innovating at Scale within Google." John Hanke (Haas MBA ’96) will be joined by three top innovators at Google who will touch on their experiences developing and launching Google's "Geo" tools (Earth, Maps, etc.). The panelists will challenge common notions of what it takes to launch "early and often" --and successfully-- at a company like Google. Focusing on goal setting, team size, and management approaches, the panel will probe the dynamics of product development applicable to entrepreneurs. Those with a computer science or engineering background will find the panel particularly relevant.
Our distinguished panel includes:
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John Hanke |
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Chikai Ohazama Director of Product Management Google Earth, Maps, and Local |
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Dr. Jamie Dinkelacker |
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Anthony Levandowski |
Speaker Biographies
John Hanke
Vice President, Product Management, Google Geo
John leads product management for Google's geo products, which include Maps, Earth, Local Search, Transit, Street View, SketchUp and special initiatives such as Google Ocean and Sky. He came to Google in 2004 through the acquisition by Google of his company, Keyhole, whose technology was the basis of Google Earth. Long committed to global access for geo information, since joining Google he has overseen the global roll-out of Maps, Earth and Local.
John began his business career in 1995 when he discovered that one of his business school classmates was trying to start a company to create a new kind of online computer game. John joined the effort and a small company was formed which went on to launch one of the world's first graphical, massively-multiplayer online games. The company was acquired by the 3DO company in 1996 just as John and his colleague were graduating from business school. John spent two years working in Product Management at 3DO before co-founding another computer gaming company, Big Network, to create fun, "casual" games online. That company was acquired in 2000. John's next venture came about after he met a group of former software executives from Silicon Graphics and Disney. Together they founded a new company, Keyhole, and created the world's first online virtual globe - "Earthviewer." John and his team survived many ups and downs during the collapse of the .com bubble and emerged to be acquired by Google in 2004. Keyhole's "Earthviewer" became "Google Earth", an application that has now been downloaded by more than 400 million unique users around the world. John received his MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley in 1996 and has a BA in Plan II from the University of Texas at Austin.
Chikai Ohazama
Director of Product Management, Google
Chikai Ohazama is a Director of Product Management working on Google's geo products. He currently leads several teams that work on projects such as monetization of Maps and Earth, the global satellite imagery database, and the systems that generate and serve maps to millions of people everyday. He has also helped launch Google's space products like Google Moon, Mars, and Sky. He received his BE at Vanderbilt University and Ph.D. at Duke University both in Biomedical Engineering. His graduate work in 3D ultrasound visualization and analysis was a finalist in the medicine category for the 1998 Computerworld Smithsonian Awards. He went on to join Silicon Graphics in 1998 and then left to help start Keyhole in 2000. He is also an accomplished musician and has produced several albums, which you can find on Amazon and iTunes.
Dr. Jamie Dinkelacker
Engineering Manager, Google Launch Team
Dr. Jamie Dinkelacker focuses on how organizations can effectively produce software of value. He has been a senior manager at Google, HP Labs, AOL, Netscape, and Apple's Advanced Technology Group. He founded three software startups during the 1980s and has taught software engineering management and statistical modeling at Carnegie Mellon University and Michigan State University. His bachelor's and master's degrees were awarded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his doctorate from Michigan State University. He lives in Los Altos and is an avid musician, cyclist, and dog trainer.
Anthony Levandowski
Software Engineer, Google
Anthony Levandowski has been interested in autonomous vehicles since his entry into the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2003. His motorcycle entry, Ghostrider, was inducted into the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in 2007. In 2008 Anthony developed an autonomous Toyota Prius, the Pribot, that navigated its way, driverless, across the Bay Bridge and onto Treasure Island to deliver a hot pizza. He has founded three engineering/software startups, one of which created a GPS Auto-Guidance tractor steering system for a global farm equipment manufacturer. In 2007 he was a member of the team that launched StreetView at Google. Anthony received his MS in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at UC Berkeley in 2003 and a BS in Industrial Engineering also from UC Berkeley in 2002.
Event and Registration Information
The program begins with a networking hour at 6:30 PM with complimentary drinks and hors d'oeuvres in the Bank of America Forum at the Haas School of Business. Don't forget the opportunity to "Be a Number" and pitch your idea or company to the crowd!
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