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Press Release - May 31, 2007 OCTANe FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION PRESENTS INAUGURAL SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WIRELESS & COMMUNICATIONS SUMMIT Bernard Xavier, President & CEO, Quorum Systems, to Speak at June 5 Conference ALISO VIEJO, Calif., May 31, 2007 -- The OCTANe Foundation for Innovation (OFI) will host leading semiconductor and communications companies and researchers from across the state to discuss promising technology applications and emerging industry trends on June 5, 2007, at the inaugural Southern California Wireless & Communications Summit. Bernard Xavier, president and CEO of Quorum Systems, Inc., will discuss semiconductors in portable and wireless devices during a panel discussion at the conference on June 5, 2007. The day-long event will take place at the Marriott Newport Beach, with doors opening at 7:30 a.m. "At $250 billion in annual sales, the semiconductor industry dramatically affects the multi-trillion dollar electronics industry," said Gary Augusta, executive director, OCTANe Foundation for Innovation. "We organized this summit to give visibility to the innovations being developed by companies and researchers in Southern California. This area -- Orange County in particular -- is a hot spot for wireless communications, data network communications, the digital home and other emerging semiconductor technologies." Dr. Henry Samueli, the co-founder, chief technology officer and chairman of Broadcom Corp., will deliver the evening keynote address while Dr. Hans Stork, CTO of Texas Instruments, will present the lunch keynote. These noted researchers and industry executives will give their perspectives on "the state of the chip" market. "From the technical and business perspectives, Drs. Samueli and Stork offer astounding depth of knowledge in semiconductors and communications, and are working on innovative projects at two of the industry's most prominent companies," Augusta said. At the summit, innovations in venture capital, high-speed communications, wireless and portable devices and the digital home will be discussed. Concurrent OCTANe LaunchPad sessions will provide the opportunity for emerging ventures to present their business plans and receive live feedback from industry experts. Speakers and program tracks include: • Snapshot of the semiconductor industry featuring: - Dr. Gilbert Amelio - Chairman and CEO Jazz Semiconductor - Mark Heesen, President National Venture Capital Association - George Scalise - President, Semiconductor Industry Association • Venture capital discussion panel featuring: - Marc Averitt - Okapi Venture Capital - Randy Lunn - Palomar Venture Capital - Vivek Mehra - August Capital - Ajit Nazre - Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers • Discussion panel: Semiconductors in high speed data communications featuring: - Ender Ayanoglu - Professor and Director of UC Irvine Center for Pervasive Communications - Alex Dickinson - CEO, Luxtera - Raouf Halim - CEO, MindSpeed Technologies - Paul Voois - CEO, ClariPhy Communications • Discussion panel: Semiconductors in portable and wireless devices featuring: - Mohy Abdelgany - CEO, Newport Media - Sujit Banerjee - BlueRun Ventures - Marty Colombotto - CEO, Staccato Communications - Greg Winner - CEO, u-Nav Microelectronics - Bernard Xavier - CEO, Quorum Systems • Discussion panel: Semiconductors in the digital home featuring: - Sherjil Ahmed - President & Cofounder, Quartics - Dwight Decker - CEO, Conexant Systems - Patrick Henry - CEO, Entropic Communications - Steven Joe - President and CEO, D-Link North America To register for the event, visit www.octaneoc.org or contact OCTANe at 949-330-6564. The event is $95 for OCTANe members, entrepreneurs, VC-backed companies, and university staff or students. For the general public, admission is $250. About Quorum Systems, Inc. Quorum Systems is a fabless semiconductor company that develops highly integrated CMOS radio frequency (RF) transceivers. Based in San Diego, California, USA, Quorum has focused on developing key intellectual property that enables multi-band radios to be low cost, low power and high performance. For more information about the company and its products please visit www.quorumsystems.com. About the OCTANe Foundation for Innovation The OCTANe Foundation for Innovation (OFI) is a public charity with a mission to develop a robust environment for biomedical and information technology growth and development. We achieve this through focused education, skills development and mentoring. The OFI is a supporting organizing to OCTANe, a non-profit corporation comprised of information and biomedical technology business executives, venture capitalists, service providers, private investors and leaders from UC Irvine as well as other universities, all working together to drive innovation in Orange County and surrounding regions. Visit www.octaneoc.org |