Gearing Up for the Sierra Ventures CIO Summit

Sierra Ventures is gearing up for its 6th annual CIO Summit in Palo Alto next week. This invite-only event is specifically designed for the 40+ person advisory board made up of IT executives from Fortune 500 companies across all major industries and throughout the US. It’s quite the event, with an outstanding speaker line up, including Mark Hurd, Sohaib Abbasi, Sanjay Jha, Ron Conway and Silver Tail Systems’ own Chief Executive Officer – Timothy Eades.

Timothy will be taking the stage at 3:45 p.m. and will have the opportunity to discuss Silver Tail Systems and identify the challenges that we are helping some of the largest financial and e-commerce institutions address worldwide. We are thrilled to share the value that Silver Tail Systems can offer with such a prestigious audience, and Timothy will be able to illustrate the substantial growth we have experienced within the past year as a result of our continued ability to provide unmatched fraud prevention and detection.

If you plan on attending the Sierra Ventures 6th annual CIO Summit on Tuesday, October 11th at The Four Seasons Silicon Valley, make sure to join Timothy in the Main Ballroom at 3:45! We hope to see you there.

Interesting agenda topics at APWG’s upcoming Counter eCrime Summit

The APWG is hosting it’s third Counter eCrime Summit in Barcelona in May.  The agenda of this year’s summit is particularly interesting.   Some programs that are particularly near and dear to my heart are going to be discussed including APWG’s Phishing Education Landing Page Program which has been surprisingly successful and Rod Rasmussen from Internet Identity and Greg Aaron from Afilias giving their bi-annual update on the various types of nastiness being perpetrated on the internet.

In addition, there will be specific sessions on how e-crime impacts multiple nations including those in Europe and in Asia.  Hearing about the nuances of e-crime and how they morph across the globe has always been intriguing for me and can be invaluable for those of us on the forefront of fighting this global crisis.

All in all, there are three days of discussion about the state of e-crime across the globe.  This is sure to be an educational and fascinating event.  If you’re able to attend, definitely make your reservations soon!

Also, if you are worried about cost, there was an article this past weekend in the San Jose paper about frugal travel in Barcelona.  A bad economy can make for great travel bargains!