"Winning the Platform Wars"
Genesys Partners is a co-founder of the annual Information Industry Summit, now in its 10th year, in collaboration with the Software and Information Industry Association. Jim Kollegger anchors the keynote panel "CEO's Outlook" annually, and held it this year with panelists Mark Anderson, CEO, Strategic News Service, Brad Burnham, Partner, Union Square Ventures, Vivek Shah, CEO, Ziff Davis, and Alan Spoon, General Partner, Polaris Ventures. Reportage on the 1/28/11 panel by John Blossom can be found at http://www.google.com/buzz/jblossom/akF4uLbn3t7/SIIA-IIS-CEO-Outlook-Winning-the-Platform-Wars. Further coverage of the IIS include the Wall Street Journal and Econtentblog.com.

John Patrick's Annual Update on the Internet is one of the highlights of the Genesys Partners Venture Dinner. John was one of the visionaries of the Internet age as vice president of Internet Technology at IBM, and continues the trail at Patrickweb.com. He is a frequent flyer on the keynote circuit, flagged the advent of wi-fi when it didn't have a name, saw the power of blogging when it was merely a curiosity. http://patrickweb.com/wordpress/2011/01/23/genesys-xvii/. Mr. Patrick also hosted his annual panel at the Information Industry Summit, regarding "Top Mobile Technology Trends." http://patrickweb.com/wordpress/2011/01/26/siia_panel/.

Each year, Mark Walsh, CEO of GeniusRocket, provides our dinner guests with commentary regarding the situation of life in Washington D.C. Once again, Mr. Walsh did not disappoint. You can read his very relevant and insightful comments here.