Bob Metcalfe's Telecom CEO "Vortex" Summit   May 25th-28th
  (concurrent with NBMO, but being in Southern Cal and by invitation only, it was the no-brainer choice for this week:) 
  Speakers
  Marc Andreessen, CTO, AOL Eric Benhamou, CEO, 3Com Corporation Scott Bradner, Harvard/IETF John Chambers, CEO, Cisco Systems, Inc. Martin Clague, Unisphere Solutions Mike Costa, Managing Director, Merrill Lynch Yogen Dalal, General Partner, Mayfield Fund Sky Dayton, Chairman & Founder, Earthlink Network, Inc. Tom Evslin, CEO, ITXC Corporation Liz Fetter, Northpoint Kevin Fong, General Partner, Mayfield Fund Alan Fraser, CEO, Vertical Networks John Gallant, Editor-in-Chief, NetworkWorld Shai Herzog, IP Highway Leo Hindery, President, Broadband & Internet Services, AT&T David House, Chairman & CEO, Nortel Networks, Inc. David Huber, CORVIS Corporation Reed Hundt, Sr. Advisor, Information Industries, McKinsey & Company Paul Johnson, Managing Dir. & Sr. Tech. Analyst, BancBoston Robertson Stephens Marty Kaplan, CTO, Sprint William Kennard, Chairman, FCC Vinod Khosla, General Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Thomas Koll, Vice President, Internet Consumer Unit, Microsoft Scott Kriens, CEO, Juniper Networks John Little, President & CEO, Portal Software Lew McCreary, Editorial Director, CIO Communications John McQuillan, President, McQuillan Ventures Milo Medin, Sr. VP, Engineering & CTO, @Home Network David Murphy, Senior Vice President, Tivoli Systems Henry Nicholas, President & CEO, Broadcom Corporation Jim Olson, SkyStream Surya Panditi, President & CEO, Avici Systems Jim Parmelee, Director, CSFB Bill Rouhana, Chairman & CEO, WinStar Communications Rich Shapero, General Partner, Crosspoint Venture Partners John Sidgmore, President & CEO, UUNET Peter Solvik, CIO, Cisco Systems Randy Storch, Chairman, CEO & President, Open Port Technology, Inc. Sol Trujillo, US West Communications Les Vadasz, Senior Vice President, Intel Corporation Douglas E. Van Houweling, President & CEO, UNCAID Paul Weinstein, Managing Director, CSFB Lew Wilks, President, Business Markets, Qwest Mark Winther, Group Vice President, IDC Justin Yaros, CIO, Twentieth Century Fox
  Tuesday, May 25 1:00pm-6:00pm                         Registration 5:30pm-7:30pm                         Welcome Reception 7:30pm-9:00pm                         Dinner on own 9:00pm-12:00am                         AfterGlow
  Wednesday, May 26 7:00am-7:00pm                         Registration 7:00am-11:30am                         Vortex Golf Outing/Volleyball                         Tournament/Hike 11:30am-1:30pm                         Underwriters Welcome Luncheon 1:30pm-3:00pm                         Kick-Off Early Afternoon Session 3:00pm-3:30pm                         Break 3:30pm-5:30pm                         Late Afternoon Session 6:00pm-7:00pm                          Reception 7:00pm-9:00pm                         Dinner 9:00pm-12:00am                         AfterGlow
  Thursday, May 27 7:00am-7:00pm                         Registration 7:00am-8:00am                         Continental Breakfast 8:00am-10:00am                         Early Morning Session 10:00am-10:30am                         Break 10:30am-12:30pm                         Late Morning Session 12:30pm-2:00pm                          Luncheon 2:00pm-4:00pm                         Afternoon Session 6:00pm-7:00pm                         Reception 7:00pm-9:00pm                         Dinner 9:00pm-12:00am                         AfterGlow
  Friday, May 28 7:00am-11:00am                         Registration 7:00am-8:00am                         Continental Breakfast 8:00am-10:00am                         Early Morning Session 10:00am-10:30am                         Break 10:30am-12:00pm                         Closing Session 12:00pm-1:30pm                         Luncheon 1:35pm-2:30pm                         Post-Conference Wrap Up by Bob                         Metcalfe
  and many of last year's speakers are attendees again this year:
  Irfan Ali, VP Marketing, Carrier Systems, 3Com  Eric Benhamou, Chairman, President and CEO of 3Com  Dietrich Botsch, CEO of Siemens Private Networks  Gerry Butters, Group President, Optical Networking, Lucent Technologies, Inc.  John Cahill, Executive Director, Universal ADSL Working Group  John Chambers, President and CEO of Cisco  Alan Cohen, Director and Chief Marketing Executive, IBM Global Telecommunications & Media  George Conrades, Corporate Executive Vice President of GTE and President of GTE Internetworking  Ian Craig, President Broadband Networks of Nortel  Jim Crowe, President & CEO, Level 3 Communications  Russ Daggatt, President and COO of Teledesic  Yogen Dalal, General Partner of Mayfield Fund  Kevin Fong, General Partner of Mayfield Fund  Charlie Giancarlo, Vice President Global Alliances, Cisco  George Gilder, President of Gilder Technology Group  Catherine Hapka, President, CEO and Founder, Rhythms NetConnections  Reed Hundt, Former Chairman FCC (now at Aspen Institute)  Scott Kriens, President and CEO, Juniper Networks  Bob Lucky, Corporate Vice President Applied Research at Bellcore  John McQuillan, President, McQuillan Consulting  Milo Medin, Sr. Vice President, Engineering and CTO, @Home Network  Bob Metcalfe, Vice President Technology at IDG  Joe Nacchio, President and CEO of Qwest  Ajit Pendse, President and CEO of eFusion  Bob Pepper, Chief of the Office of Plans and Policy at the FCC  Thomas Rambold, President, Siemens Broadband Networks  Dan Reingold, Telecommunications Analyst, Merrill Lynch Jack Rickard, Editor and Publisher of Boardwatch Magazine  John Sidgmore, CEO, UUNET Technologies and Vice Chairman and COO of WorldCom  Enzo Torresi, Chairman and CEO of ICAST  Solomon Trujillo, President and CEO, USWest Communications  Hal Varian, Dean of School of Information Management and Systems, University of California at Berkeley  Paul Weinstein, Data Networking Analyst, DMG |