Upcoming Events

Alliance Spring Dinner
Date: Thursday, May 23, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Location: Silicon Valley Capital Club, San Jose

All Alliance members and their guests are invited to attend our Alliance Spring Dinner at the Silicon Valley Capital Club in San Jose.  Our wine reception and dinner are free for Alliance members and their guests!  We host three “All-Alliance” CEO Dinners throughout the Bay Area to enable our members to get to know their fellow Bay Area leaders.

Reserve your space early.  This will be a popular event!

Keynote:  John Chambers,  Founder & CEO, JC2 Ventures
Date: Friday, June 07, 2019
Time: 7:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: Santa Clara Convention Center

We are excited to welcome John Chambers, retired CEO of Cisco, back to the Alliance of Chief Executives.  In 2016, John spoke with us shortly after retiring from his brilliant career growing Cisco from $70 million, when he joined in 1991, to $47 billion, when he retired in 2015!   John was voted one of the best performing CEOs in the world by the Harvard Business Review in 2014.  We look forward to discussing John’s new book Connecting the Dots: Lessons for Leadership in a Startup World along with his vision for the future.

Following John's keynote, members will begin their private Alliance Group meetings at 9:00 am. We will also host a CEO Luncheon after the meeting, from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm, to enable our members to meet CEOs from throughout the Alliance.

Keynote:  Ann Winblad, Founding Partner, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
Date: Friday, June 14, 2019
Time: 7:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: Bently Reserve, San Francisco

Ann Winblad is a Founding Partner of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, a venture capital firm she co-founded in 1989. She is a well-known and respected software industry entrepreneur and technology leader. Her background and years of experience in the software industry have been chronicled in many national and international business publications. 

Following Ann's keynote, members will begin their private Alliance Group meetings at 9:00 am. We will also host a CEO Luncheon after the meeting, from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm, to enable our members to meet CEOs from throughout the Alliance.

Alliance Fall Dinner
Date: Thursday, September 26, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Location: The City Club, San Francisco

All Alliance members and their guests are invited to attend our Alliance Fall Dinner at The City Club in San Francisco.  Our wine reception and dinner are free for Alliance members and their guests!  We host three “All-Alliance” CEO Dinners throughout the Bay Area to enable our members to get to know their fellow Bay Area leaders.

Reserve your space early.  This is will be a popular event!

Alliance Holiday Dinner
Date: Thursday, December 05, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Location: Peninsula Golf and Country Club, San Mateo

Join Alliance members and their guests for cocktails and dinner at the Peninsula Golf and Country Club in San Mateo to celebrate the holidays!   Make sure to reserve your space early.  This is always a popular event…and it’s free for all members and their guests!

Keynote:  Eamonn Kelly, Chief Strategy Officer, Deloitte
Date: Friday, February 14, 2020
Time: 7:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: San Francisco

Eamonn Kelly, author of "Powerful Times" and Chief Strategy Officer of Deloitte, advises senior leadership at leading corporations across multiple sectors, key global and national public agencies, as well as major philanthropic foundations. He also develops and delivers programs to help current and future leaders acquire the knowledge, judgment and skills required to succeed in a complex and unpredictable future. Prior to joining Deloitte, Eamonn served as CEO of Global Business Network (GBN), the pioneering scenario planning consultancy and futures think-tank where he led GBN's thought leadership about the future and the development of insights, tools and methodologies for mastering change and uncertainty.

Following Eamonn's keynote, members will begin their private Alliance Group meetings at 9:00 am. We will also host a CEO Luncheon after the meeting, from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm, to enable our members to meet CEOs from throughout the Alliance.