Who will be there
Industry titans like Steven Mills of IBM, Jonathan Schwartz of Sun, Stratton Sclavos of VeriSign, Jeff Weiner of Yahoo, Paul Jacobs of Qualcomm, Marc Benioff of Salesforce.com, Rob Glaser of RealNetworks, Allen Delattre of Accenture, Padmasree Warrior of Motorola, and Marten Mickos of MySQL will be there.

Big time VCs and analysts like Jim Breyer of Accel Partners, Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital, Tim Draper of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Ray Lane of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Pip Coburn of UBS Warburg, and Anthony Noto of Goldman Sachs will be there.

The New York Times, the Economist, USA Today, BusinessWeek, the San Jose Mercury News, CNet, Fortune, the Financial Times, Business2.0, Wired, InformationWeek, MIT Technology Review, and the Wall Street Journal will also be there.

What they’ll talk about
AO2004 promises to be even more raucous than last year's successful event.

Some of the debate topics will include "Radical New Business Models in Media," "The Commoditization of Software," "Wireless Wars--What Technologies Will Win?", "Battle for the E-Home," "The Search & Buy Economy," and "Silicon Valley, Anywhere."

We have also added a huge new innovation track to the show; 50 of this year's AO100 CEOs will quick-pitch their visions and engage in private break-out sessions with interested parties. We will also be honoring the AO100 winners at a reception on the evening of July 13th.

There will be plenty of business deals to go around for everybody.

Please visit the AlwaysOn events page at www.alwayson-network.com/events/index  for more information.

How you can attend at a discount
As a friend of Ariadne Capital, you can get a 50% discount off the door price by contacting Kathy Osweiler at 415/751-0170 or kathy@alwayson-network.com. Space is limited, and tickets are selling much faster than last year, so don't delay. Ariadne Capital an Affiliate Partner for the event and will be attending.

We hope to see you at Stanford University in July.