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Philippe Kahn is a technology innovator and entrepreneur, who is credited with creating the first camera phone solution sharing pictures instantly on public networks. Kahn's first publicly shared picture is unique in that no other teams making the claim have any pictures. Kahn shot the first camera... phone photo of his newborn daughter on June 11th, 1997. At the 1197 conference, named after the birthdate of the first camera phone picture, Philippe shared his inspiration for creating the camera phone. "It's about communicating," said Philippe Kahn, "Instant sharing is what drove us to create the camera phone. That was the beauty of it." Kahn has founded four successful technology companies: His current company, Fullpower Technologies, of which he is CEO, Starfish Software, LightSurf Technologies, Borland. Fullpower provides solutions converging life sciences, wireless technology, sensing such as accelerometrics, nanotechnology and MotionX solutions. MotionX is the core technology that powers the Jawbone UP Band and the Nike+ GPS solutions. Kahn was educated in mathematics at ETH Zurich, Switzerland , and University of Nice, France.
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Mr. Nielsen is President and CEO of Borland Software Corporation. Mr. Nielsen brings with him more than 20 years of leadership experience in the... enterprise software and application development industries, having held executive level positions at companies such as Microsoft Corporation, BEA Systems and Oracle Corporation. While Executive Vice President at BEA, Mr. Nielsen defined and launched BEA's leading application platform suite. Mr. Nielsen also spent 12 years at Microsoft, where he was a Vice President in the Platform Group and led the developer outreach effort.
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