CoolTech Club with Katya Puzyrko : Can the Internet that got us here take us there?

WHEN

December 20,2007

WHAT

  • -The Brief History of Evolution of Internet Infrastructure - how it all started and why it ended up the way it is now-Challenges for providing hard QoS for interactive media services (voice,video, gaming)on today's networks
  • -Why Best Effort Packet Netwoks? What are advantages and limitations? What are other approaches for building Internet and do they work?
  • -What is Flow State Aware Technology, how it works, advantages and disadvanages.
  • -New International standards that emerge to solve current QoS issues
  • -What can happen next? Can we make the Internet Smarter?

WHO

Katya Puzyrko is a CEO and Founder of Rainba Networks, start-up developing Flow State Aware Media Controller Appliance. Prior to that Co-founder and VP of Business Development and Marketing of Anagran (company building QoS enabled flow routers), before that Director of Business Development at Caspian Network.
Ms. Puzyrko received Degree of Engineer (2-years post-Masters) in Mechanical Engineering and M.S. in Management Science and Operations Research from Stanford University. She is Kauffman Fellows Program Finalist - an educational program that trains emerging leaders in venture capital and high-growth companies.

PRESENTATION

What They Say About Us

"The wonderful thing about entrepreneurs is that their passion for starting new companies transcends languages and geographic boundaries."

Ron Conway, Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds, early stage investor in Google and PayPal

"Networking is very important for start-ups. The challenge for them is often not money: it is mentoring and finding people who can give good advice from experience."

Esther Dyson, Founder, EDventure Holdings

"This conference is clearly a labor of love for a group of dedicated professionals who care deeply about the Eastern European entrepreneurs. From the value-packed educational panels, to the star-studded key note speakers' line up, to an amazing quantity of venture capitalists – this is a not to be missed event for any high tech entrepreneur,"

Richard Guha, President of the Marketing Executives Network and Managing Partner at MaxBrandEquity

"As Stanford MBA students, we were exposed to a lot of VC firms both from the Valley and abroad. It is at Stanford that we met Anna Dvornikova, an absolutely amazing business leader and (by our big luck) our friend, who was the center of the Russian Silicon Valley professional community, and was doing a huge work to connect Russia and the Valley. Anna helped us a lot with kick-starting Wikimart, put us to our first-ever conference, introduced us to most of Russian VCs. And all that happened in a very short time span! It was the beginning of a six-month journey that despite the particularly tough times resulted in an extraordinarily group of investors backing our start-up."

Maxim Faldin and Kamil Kurmakayev,
co-CEOs, Wikimart