Celebrating its ninth year "Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford 2009" takes place Monday November 23 at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

This year's speakers are:
- Ram Shriram, founding Board Member Google inc and founder Sherpalo Ventures
- Biz Stone, co-founder, Twitter

- Reid Hoffman, CEO and founder, LinkedIn

- Bob Goodson, CEO and co-founder Younoodle

- Peter Thiel, President Clarium Capital Management and co-founder PayPal

- Joe DiNucci, Director Coulomb Technologies inc

- Jorn Lyseggen, CEO, Meltwater Group

- Dave Rosenheim, CEO JamBase

- Saul Klein, Index Ventures

- Harjeet Taggar and Kulveer Taggar, co-founders Auctomatic

- Kim Polese, CEO and founder, SpikeSource

- Chris Sacca, venture investor

Past speakers have included: Philip Rosedale, Founder and Chairman, Linden Lab, Second Life; Elon Musk, Co-founder of PayPal, Chairman of Tesla Motors and CEO founder of Space X; Matt Cohler, VP Strategy & Business Operations, Facebook: Reid Hoffman, Founder of LinkedIn ; Craig Newmark, Founder of Craigslist; Christopher Sacca, Head of Special Initiatives, Google; James Hong, Founder Hot or Not; Biz Stone of Twitter; John Warnock, co founder and former Chairman, Adobe Systems; Alex Welch, CEO, Founder Photobucket; Evan Williams, founder Blogger; Pete Flint, co-Founder & CEO, Trulia; Professor, Baroness Susan Greenfield, University of Oxford; Villy Wang, Executive Director and Co-Founder BayCat.

The event is organised by the Oxford Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Saïd Business School. For more information, see www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/