Summary of Content:

*Session Eight: CEO View:

Ben Horowitz, co-founder and former President and CEO of Opsware; Partner, Andreessen Horowitz venture fund Dave Orton, former President and CEO of ATI Technologies; CEO Aptina Imaging Tony Zingale, former CEO and President of Mercury Interactive and Clarify

*Session Seven: VC/Chairman/CEO/Founder View:

Glen Antle, former CEO ECAD and Trident & Cadence founder; Mike Child, MD, TA Associates; Don Lucas, VC & Oracle and Cadence Board Member; Jim Solomon, Cadence founder

*Session Six: Director/Executive/VC View:

Ray Lane, Partner, Kleiner Perkins; Ned Barnholt, former Agilent CEO; Ray Bingham, partner General Atlantic and former CEO Cadence

*Session Five: VC/Board Member View:

Ram Shriram, VC & Google founder; Atiq Raza, former CEO NexGen and former CEO RMI; Jim Hogan, VC & former SVP Cadence; Board member, Tela Innovations Eric Keller, CEO Movaris, former Marimba Board member; COO Kleiner Perkins

*Session Four: CEO View:

Rajeev Madhavan, CEO Magma; Rich Wyckoff, former CEO Marimba; John Sanguinetti, former President, Chronologic and Forte Design; Charlie Huang, VC, former CEO CadMOS; SVP and Chief Strategy Officer, Cadence

*Session Three: CFO View:

Mark Garrett, former CFO Documentum; CFO Adobe Bill Porter, former CFO Cadence; Greg Walker, former CFO Magma, CFO Innopath

*Session Two: Business Development Executive View:

Mark Bailey, DFJ ePlanet partner, former SVP BD Symantec & Healtheon; Greg Wagenhoffeer, Dir. M&A, Magma; Michel Courtoy, former M&A VP Cadence & CEO Certess

*Session One: Investment Banker View:

Tim Ng, Deutsche Bank; Mike Kelly, Broadview; Glenn Daniel, Houlihan