State of the Valley conference this Friday

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From: Russell Hancock [mailto:hancock@jointventure.org]
Sent: Fri 2/11/2011 3:09 PM
To: Ali Ferdowsi
Subject: Special invitation for NDNU students to attend State of the Valley conference

Dear Professor Ferdowsi:

My name is Russell Hancock and I¹m the president of Joint Venture: Silicon
Valley Network. I also teach in the public policy program at Stanford.

I¹m writing to invite your students to join us at the State of the Valley
conference happening next Friday, February 18th in downtown San Jose. We¹re
making a deep (very deep) discount available to studentsentire day (the actual price is $150)--and we¹re able to do this because the
costs are being underwritten by our corporate sponsors.

What is State of the Valley? I¹m including a lengthier description below,
but the short version is that it¹s Silicon Valley¹s annual ³town hall²
meeting. There will be 1,200 people there, and these are the Valley¹s
leaderscapitalists, labor leaders, journalists, and more. The day is extremely
substantive, rooted in data, and features national figures and our local
thought leaders. We¹ll be hearing this year from Obama¹s chief economic
advisor, the heads of our key agencies, prize-winning journalists, and even
a guy portraying Thomas Jefferson.

For their $40 your students will get breakfast, a sit-down lunch, copies of
the 2011 Silicon Valley Index, and the book Becoming Jefferson¹s People.
They¹ll also have full access to the booths and exhibits, they¹ll be able to
text questions to the speakers, listen to the music and performers, and have
full access to what the Mercury calls ³Silicon Valley¹s best networking
opportunity.² Most importantly, they¹ll see with their own eyes how the
leaders of our region come together, assess, and make priorities.

So may I trouble you to forward this email to the students in your program?
To attend, all they have to do is go to the Joint Venture website
(www.jointventure.org). There, they will discover a suite of pages detailing
the conference. To get the student discount, they need to type ³student² as
their discount code on the registration page. If there are questions, they
can call our office.

Many thanks! We¹ll be so pleased to have lots of interested young people
joining us.

Sincerely,

Russ

P.S. Dr. Judith Greig is on our board of directors and regularly attends
State of the Valley. She¹ll vouch for the conference and it¹s value to
students.

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Russell Hancock, Ph.D.
President & Chief Executive Officer
Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network
100 West San Fernando Street, Suite 310
San Jose, California 95113
(408) 298-9330
ww.jointventure.org