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Churchill Club event around Wine

I wasn’t inclined to go to this because of the non-busines nature of this presentation, but it was recommended by several of the people I spoke with at last week’s Top 10 Tech events (blogged here). The attendees were again quite interesting. I met some of the people in IBM’s Venture Capital Group, including Juan-Antonio Carballo, their strategy executive. I also met Vintela’s Director of BizDev, Glenn Kesselman, who discussed their announcement of Microsoft investing money in them (blogged here). On the pure technology side, I met Heath Pois, head researcher for ThermaWave – a semiconductor fab equipment and process supplier. We discussed innovation in fab capacity and what it would mean for future innovation.

Based on this and the prior Churchill Club event I attended, I do agree that these are very valuable (no matter what the topic) – it’s a completely different group of people than other events, which tend to have familiar faces. There were several clusters of professional VCs, but they were in tight conversation so I did not interrupt.