2009 Awards Dinner Celebration

The annual GSA Awards Dinner Celebration, held in Santa Clara, California, is the industry's premier event. GSA recognizes companies that have demonstrated excellence through their vision, strategy, execution and future opportunity. The celebration honors the achievements of semiconductor companies in several categories ranging from outstanding leadership to financial accomplishments as well as overall respect within the industry. The networking cocktail reception begins at 5:30 followed by dinner at 7:00 p.m.

Reservations

Please note the final date to purchase a table on-line is Wednesday, December 2nd at 5 p.m. PST. The final date to update existing reservations is Friday, December 4th at 12 p.m. PST.

2009 awards

Private Company Awards

Most Respected Private Semiconductor Company
Outstanding Financial Performance by Private Semiconductor Company
Start-Up to Watch

Public Company Awards

Best Financially Managed
Most Respected Public Semiconductor Company Achieving $10 Billion or More in Annual Sales
Most Respected Public Semiconductor Company Achieving $500 Million to $10 Billion in Annual Sales
Most Respected Emerging Public Semiconductor Company
Analyst Favorite Semiconductor Company

Regional Awards (new)

EMEA
APAC

Individual Award

Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award

2009 Keynote - Larry Kudlow

We are pleased to announce the 2009 keynote, Larry Kudlow. Kudlow is host of CNBC's primetime “The Kudlow Report” and co-host of CNBC's “The Call,” Larry also hosts “The Larry Kudlow Show” on WABC Radio.

Mr. Kudlow is a nationally syndicated columnist. He is a contributing editor of National Review magazine, as well as a columnist and economics editor for National Review Online. He is the author of "American Abundance: The New Economic and Moral Prosperity," published by Forbes in January 1998.

Kudlow is a Distinguished Scholar of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia, and he is CEO of Kudlow & Co., LLC, an economic and investment research firm.

For many years Mr. Kudlow served as chief economist for a number of Wall Street firms. He was a member of the Bush-Cheney Transition Advisory Committee. During President Reagan's first term, Mr. Kudlow was the associate director for economics and planning, Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President, where he was engaged in the development of the administration's economic and budget policy.

He is a trusted advisor to many of our nation's top decision-makers in Washington and has testified as an expert witness on economic matters before several congressional committees. He has also presented testimony at several Republican Governors Conferences.

Mr. Kudlow began his career as a staff economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, working in the areas of domestic open market operations and bank supervision.