Attendees will learn first hand from successful entrepreneurs, executives and political leaders to know what it takes to succeed in today’s economy. The summit is designed to inspire and suggest innovative changes needed for future Latino generations to succeed.

In addition to our oustanding keynote speakers and panelists, this year we are excited to announce that Emanuel Pleitez,consultant at McKinsey & Company and Chair for the Hispanic Heritage Foundation will lead and facilitate an inspirational hands-on leadership training which will be sure to please all.  We are also honored to annouce that Dr. Jerry Porras is the recipient of the 2011 Silicon Valley Latino Leadership Award for Lifetime Achievement. Congratulations Dr. Porras!

Thanks to your support, last year’s conference was an outstanding success!  We listened to your valuable feedback and have incorporated several improvements from facility logistics to continuing to build SVLLS to suit the needs of those in academia and the private sector. As always, we have allowed various networking opportunities throughout the summit. This is your chance to talk to top executives and prominent academic leaders to make those contacts you have been waiting for. You will not want to miss this event. Register early – last year’s event sold out.

Agenda

8:30 am- Registration and continental breakfast

9:00 – 9:15 – Welcoming Remarks

Frank Carbajal, Founder, Es Tiempo, LLC and author of Building the Latino Future: Success Stories for Future Generations and El Futuro Latino

9:15 -Morning Keynote, “Latino Leadership: From New Immigrant to Creating a Better Future for all Latinos”

Jose Antonio Tijerino -President & CEO, Hispanic Heritage Foundation

10:05 -Sponsor Spotlight

10:10- First Networking Break

10:30 – Morning Plenary: Finance and Leadership are Key Ingredients to Success in Today’s marketplace.

Facilitator:  Moises V. “Moe” Vela Jr., Partner, Holland & Knight

Panelists:

• Angel V. Chavez, Second Vice President, Senior Investment Management Specialist, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC., Board Member Latino Community Foundation
• Arturo Lewin, Owner of Art Lewin & Co. Executive Clothiers and Chairman of Professional Business Network, Beverly Hills, California
• Alex Mendez, Founding Managing Director of Storm Ventures
• Ebetuel (Beto) Pallares, Co-founder of Cottonwood Capital Partners
• Tony Quintero, .Chairman, National Financial Services Consortium LLC
• Jorge Luis Titinger, Former, Chief Executive Office for Verigy

11:45- Sponsor Spotlight

11:50 – Lunch

12:15 – Luncheon Session: “30 Day Goal Setting, Learn effective strategies of 30 day leadership training”

Emanuel Pleitez - Consultant, McKinsey & Company and Chiar of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation.

30 day goal setting workshop utilizes a framework, which enhances execution of goals through inclusion of near-term rewards and group accountability to make you more effective at accomplishing your goals.

1:15 – Afternoon Plenary: “Latinas Breaking Glass Ceilings and Defining Leadership in the United States”.

Facilitator: Edgar Quiroz, Director of National Workforce Diversity, Kaiser Permanente

Panelists:

• Ysabel Duron, Senior News Anchor (Weekends) KRON Channel 4
• Yasmin Davidds, Organizational Psychologist & International Negotiation Consultant, Best Selling Author & Women Empowerment Specialist
• Alicia Morga, Founder and CEO, Refleta
• Angélica Pérez-Litwin, Publisher and CEO of New Latina Magazine

2:15 – Sponsor Spotlight

2:30 – Author Spotlight: Alicia Morga, “Working & Book Browsing, Create iPhone Apps that Rock: A Guide for Non-Technical Folks (Kindle Edition)” &

Isabel Valdes, Author “Win the Hispanic Market Strategic for Business Growth.”

3:00 – Afternoon Networking Break and Book Browsing

3:30 -2012 SVLLS Award for Lifetime Achievement for recipient Dr. Jerry Porras,Lane Professor of Organizational Behavior and Change, Emeritus, Stanford University School of Business and co-author of Built to Last, Successful Habits of Visionary Companies.

3:30 – Emanuel Pleitez, Resource Sharing Exercise, Learn Effective Strategies

4:15 – Closing Keynote: Speaker TBA

4:30 – Afternoon Networking

5:00 – Adjorn

For additional information, including speaker bios, please visit the Es Tiempo website.

Thank you!

Julián Castro, Mayor of San Antonio, Texas set to give opening remarks

Julián Castro was elected Mayor of San Antonio on May 9, 2009. A 36-year-old San Antonio native, Mayor Castro is the youngest mayor of a Top 50 American city. In 2001, at the age of 26, Castro became the youngest elected city councilman at that point in San Antonio history. Throughout his tenure in public service, Mayor Castro has championed a vision of economic growth and a top-notch quality of life for all San Antonians.

See the complete list of speakers here.

Vision Hispana

The Spanish version of the article, titled “Conferencia Exitosa, al estilo Latino,” is also available. A big shout out to reporter Alan Lopez for his great writing, his time, and multiple phone calls to gain multiple perspectives. Also double thumbs up photographer Rigo Galvez who gets the photo credit.

“The 2010 Silicon Valley Latino Leadership Summit was an excellent forum of Latinos who lead in their fields from small to large businesses and from public to non-profit services to their communities.  The range and depth of the ideas presented and discussed provided the one hundred fifty attendees with ideas for their own work-in-progress, as well as seeds for future ventures. This Summit and future such forums also serve to enable like-minded Latinos and others to connect with each other on projects to achieve what forum creator and author Frank Carbajal calls “Building the Latino Future.”
Gil Villagrán, MSW, Lecturer, School of Social Work, San Jose State University, gvillagran@casa.sjsu.edu

“I had the pleasure of attending the first annual Latino Leadership Summit.  It was inspiring to be in room full of successful Latinos.  I had the opportunity to reconnect with old friends and to establish new relationships.  One highlight was meeting a young woman who was there as part of the Ivy League Project.  She is a high school sophomore from a small farming community in California’s central valley and already has planned to attend either Yale or Johns Hopkins to become a doctor.  As Latino professionals, we have a responsibility to encourage and mentor our young people.  This forum is perfect and I look forward to next year.  I wholeheartedly endorse Frank Carbajal, Es Tiempo LLC, and the Latino Leadership Summit.”  
David J Neighbors, Tax – Partner-in-Charge,  Johanson & Yau Accountancy Corporation

“Social Capital is developed through relationships, and the Summit helped bring together motivated professionals from government, business and academia to develop personal relationships critical to the success of any community. In less than two weeks, I have had “lunch dates” with several people I met at the event.”
Albert Beltran Jr., Congressional Aide for Congressman Mike Honda

“”Attending the Latino Leadership Summit helped me connect with other professionals who want to show the world a much more realistic image of our community.  We are PhDs, MBAs, entrepreneurs, and government officials who are positively contributing to our communities—and our stories must be told.  I left the conference feeling inspired, motivated, and ready to help shape our message.”
Nayelli Gonzalez, MBA Graduate 2010, Presidio Graduate School. Nayelli Gonzalez writes about sustainable business for Triple Pundit, Important Media, and GreenBiz.com. http://www.linkedin.com/in/nayelligonzalez

At the Leadership Summit, five prominent panelists participated in the plenary session titled “Latinos Leading with a 2020 Vision”. Below are the questions the moderator and the audience asked of the panelists.

If you want access to their answers, check back here for the video in a few weeks. You’ll see a few of these questions get answered.

And…keep an eye out for next year’s Silicon Valley Latino Leadership Summit. By attending, you’ll be able to ask your own questions directly to the published authors, thought leaders, venture capital partners and corporate executives on next year’s panel!

Getting Access to Capital

• How do I, as a person who knows she wants to be an entrepreneur, best position myself to attract capital for my venture? Must I be in a specific industry? Have specific corporate experience?

• What types of ideas/industries/trends are attracting your attention right now as a VC?

• When you evaluate business plans from entrepreneurs, what are the top two things you look for initially to determine if you’re going to invite the person/team in to pitch in person? What are your screening criteria?

• Tell us what an instant reject looks like – the kind of pitch that will never get off the ground in your eyes. What are the top things to avoid doing when seeking an audience with a venture capital firm?

• Pacific Community Ventures (PCV) describes itself as a “community-focused” venture capital fund. Can you please explain what that means? How does it impact the types of ventures you’ll seriously think about funding?

• What is the one thing I need to do to get 20 minutes in front of a venture capital partner?

• How do I become a venture capitalist? What are the key steps to entering the VC world as a VC partner?

Becoming an Entrepreneur

• What are the key elements you would advise business students to pursue who someday want to be entrepreneurs?

• Your career path is unique in that you finished your MBA at Harvard Business School then went straight into entrepreneurship and then into a venture capital setting. You didn’t take the corporate path. Can you please share with us how that came about and what the benefits of this path have been?  Would you advise others in school today to do what you did?

• You made a transition from Google executive to entrepreneur. How did you know the time was right to make this change?

Retention Strategies

• Can you provide insight into one or two best practices to improve retention of valuable Latino consumers?

• We have great representation from several large Bay Area companies here today: Kaiser Permanente, Intel, Cisco Systems, Ernst & Young Financial and others. What would you say is the one thing these companies must do to attract the small handful of young Latinos and Latinas with undergraduate and graduate business degrees?

• U.S. Census Bureau data stated today’s 44 million U.S. Hispanics are expected to reach 100 million by 2050. A recent article in Diversity MBA Magazine titled “Recruiting Hispanic Professionals” posed an interesting question: if the Hispanic population is booming, why has it been so difficult for corporations to attract, hire and retain Hispanic professionals? Did you see any successful or not-so-successful strategies while at Safeway?

• Do employee affinity groups play a key role in customer retention?

• Does the desire of many Latinos to become entrepreneurs, leaving corporate America and do our own thing, play into the difficulty of retaining Latino talent?

Leadership in Education

You have undergraduate and graduate degrees in electrical engineering, plus an MBA.

• Can you please share with us WHY you decided on this particular combination of technical and business degrees?
• What lessons, from your educational experience, can we take back to our communities as we mentor young kids trying to figure out what to study and why? They have obviously served you well as an international expert in the field of Internet security AND as advisor to Presidents Clinton and Bush.  J

• For those in the room that want to serve our nation as a high-level advisor such as you are doing, what advice would you give to us about becoming visible to the right people? How did it happen for you?

• At the Ph.D. Project conference in Chicago, an organization that recruits business professionals into doctoral programs so that we can have more business school professors of color, we learned that there less than 200 Latino professors in America’s business schools….of 26,000 faculty across the nation! We make up 7% of the white collar workforce according to NSHMBAs research department.  As a group, we are severely underrepresented in higher education and corporate America, two American institutions of great influence.
• Why are these faculty and corporate numbers so low and how can we take intentional steps to increase these numbers?

Positive Images of Latinos in Mainstream Media (or lack thereof)

• How can we increase our exposure in the mainstream media if we’re not at the table when programming decisions are being made?

• What are the media doing to help get Latinos get the critical air time needed for successful runs for office?