Welcome to the pilot show for Fridays with Foremski.

We hope that this will become a weekly series featuring veteran business journalist Tom Foremski in conversation with thought leaders, business leaders, startups, and pundits. Along with reports on the conferences, news events, and personalities of Silicon Valley - a unique region that influences and shapes our modern world.

Our goal is to find sponsors able to underwrite the costs of producing a professionally produced show.

In this episode Tom takes us through a day at San Francisco’s Intel Developers Forum; he interviews serial entrepreneur Judy Estrin about the gender gap in Silicon Valley; and there is a panel discussion about the Obama administration’s tech policies and what they mean for innovation.

Panelists:

Drew Clark (IBM Ventures)

Jim Dempsey (Center for Democracy and Technology)

Sylvia Paull (founder of Gracenet)

Godfrey Sullivan (CEO of Splunk)

Matthew Greeley (CEO of Brightidea).

Produced by SF Media Collective. Recorded at the Horn Group.

You can view each of the three segments separately:

Silicon Valley panel on President Obama’s tech policies

Judy Estrin on the gender gap in Silicon Valley

Intel Developer Forum shows next gen tech

Executive Producer Alex Ross; Video production and Editing by SF Media Collective:

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Tom Foremski hosts the pilot episode of “Fridays with Foremski”. In this segment Tom moderates a panel discussion about President Obama administration’s tech policies and what they mean for innovation.
Panelists:

Drew Clark (IBM Ventures)

Jim Dempsey (Center for Democracy and Technology)

Sylvia Paull (founder of Gracenet)

Godfrey Sullivan (CEO of Splunk)

Matthew Greeley (CEO of Brightidea).

Produced by SF Media Collective. Recorded at the Horn Group.
Please see:

How IBM Venture Capital Group succeeds without any venture capital

Boom Not Gloom: IT Search Firm Splunk

2008Watch: BrightIdea - How To Manage Innovation

I recently interviewed Judy Estrin, one of Silicon Valley’s top entrepreneurs, and asked her about the gender gap in the valley and why there aren’t more women in senior executive ranks.

Ms Estrin is a serial entrepreneur, former CTO at Cisco, and one of Silicon Valley’s top thought leaders.

I first met Ms Estrin about 7 years ago when I profiled her achievements in the Financial Times. What makes Ms Estrin interesting is that she is a dyed-in-the-wool Silicon Valley entrepeneur spanning several decades and she is not afraid to speak her mind.

Over the past few years she has been sounding the alarm about the lack of innovation in Silicon Valley, and in the US. We are living off of investments in innovation made many years ago and we are not creating the conditions for a new crop of innovation. And we need to harvest a bumper crop of innovation if we are to solve four major crises: energy, climate change, healthcare, and security.

Her work has led to a new book - Closing the Innovation Gap: Reigniting the Spark of Creativity in a Global Economy

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Please see:

Thought Leader Interview: Judy Estrin on the Innovation Gap in Silicon Valley and Beyond . . .

We Have a Serious Innovation Deficit Says Silicon Valley Thought Leader Judy Estrin

http://www.theinnovationgap.com/

This is a segment of Fridays with Foremski. Intel Developer Forum attracts tens of thousands of people from around the world. They come to San Francisco to view some of the technologies coming out of the labs.

This is a brief video about Fridays with Foremski and a quick taste of the people, events, and life in and around Silicon Valley. It’s a unique region that has been creating disruptive industries for decades and now will play an essential role in reviving the US and global economies.