11/30/2006: "Local Firm's West Coast Event a Success"

The Strategic News Service, run by local entrepreneur Mark Anderson, has just concluded its first successful SNS West Coast Dinner, at the Intercontinental Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco. The event was sold out. Participants included technology leaders from Silicon Valley, and global financial and industry press.

"We're happy to be able to come into the Valley, and find the same success and acceptance here that we have had in New York and London," Anderson said at the gathering. Sponsors included Hewlett-Packard, the Microsoft Technology Officers Network, and Accenture.

Participants included Shane Robison, EVP and Chief Strategy and Technology Officer at HP; Larry Brilliant, Executive Director of Google.org; Tony Fadell, SVP of Apple's iPod division; Larry Tesler, VP, Yahoo!; Don Norman, Founder, Nielsen Norman Group; Kristen Janes, Director Strategic Planning, Intel; and many others.

Press participants included Barron's, LeMonde, the Wall St. Journal, Fortune, ZDNet, PC Magazine, Financial Times, the Economist, and two reporters - John Markoff, of the New York Times, and Tom Krazit, of CNet, who had been investigated by HP in the recent scandal.

The evening began with a reception, followed by dinner and a talk by Anderson on "Technology Breakthroughs and Enablers." The next SNS event will be its Second Annual SNS New York Dinner, at the Waldorf=Astoria, on December 12th.

( About the Strategic News Service: Anderson started the Strategic News Service, or SNS, in 1995; it was the precursor to FiRe, and the first subscription based newsletter on the Net. It continues to be read weekly by Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Bill Janeway, Steve Ballmer, X-Prize winner Bert Rutan, venture capitalist John Doerr, and other leaders in technology and finance.

SNS also is the parent of SNS Project Inkwell, the first global consortium of vendors focused on (re-)designing appropriate technology for every K-12 desktop, helping to foment a revolution in learning through "one-to-one" computing in classrooms. Members include Microsoft, AMD, Gateway, Red Hat, SanDisk, CTW/G, Intel, and many other firms. )