ThinkTech Hawaii - State of the Web 2009 Exploring New Interactive Frontiers

Event ID: L10102
Info: Mar 24 • Tue • 9:30am-4:00pm • 1 mtg • StarrTech interactive, 1003 Bishop Street, 8th floor • $75
With: Jay Fidell

Keep current of the new wave of web functionality. Learn:
How Twitter is becoming a global marketing tool,
How to maximize your political effect using new web techniques,
How to make sure your message doesn't get confused by the medium,
How to expand your sales and market influence in the new e-commerce;

Panel 1 - A NEW TIME FOR TRANSPARENCY
The effect and promise of the new technologies on the way Hawaii works.

Bill Spencer (moderator) - Venture Capital Association
Mary Fastenau - StarrTech, Interactive
Wendi Kamiya - Punahou School
Jared Kuroiwa - KGMB

Panel 2 - MESSAGE MARKETING
The advent of new tools for non-profits, cause marketing and political office.

Kevin Vaccarello (moderator) - Sustain Hawaii
David Fry - Tanuki Interactive
AJ Halagao - InspirePolitics.com
Brian Schatz - Hawaii Democratic Party/Barack Obama Campaign


LUNCH AND KEYNOTE

Keynote speaker - Michael Jones, Chief Technology Advocate, Google


Panel 3 - E-COMMERCE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES
How you can reach national and global e-commerce markets from Hawaii

Lubuw Falanruw (moderator) - Digital Mediums
Tom Blankley - ATCO Software
Jerome Coudrier - Kamakani Enterprises
Neal Kido - AkamaiSEO.com


Panel 4 - SOCIAL NETWORKING COMES OF AGE
How and why social networking sites are emerging as the way to our future.

Dan Leuck (moderator) - Tech Hui
Kevin Hughes - Sprout
Ryan Ozawa, Bytemarks Cafe
Dan Zelikman - StarrTech Hawaii


PRESENTED BY:
ThinkTech Hawaii
Pacific New Media
StarrTech Interactive
TechHui
Hawaii Venture Capital Association

Jay Fidell is a founder and principal of Bendet, Fidell, Sakai & Lee and has practiced business and real estate law with the firm since its inception in 1974. He has served on various community and professional boards, including the Building Owners and Managers Association, the Plaza Club, the Hawai‘i Opera Theatre, the High Tech Development Corporation, the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawai‘i, the Hawai‘i Strategic Development Corporation, and the Hawai‘i Science & Technology Council. Fidell has an abiding interest in tech and entrepreneurship and has been the host of ThinkTech Hawaii on Hawai‘i Public Radio since 2001. He has also developed a number of websites for various nonprofits.