Memorable speakers from the past FEI Silicon Dinners include

Josh Bolten, former White House Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush
Carol Bartz, CEO of Yahoo, Inc. and former CEO of Autodesk, Inc.
Carlos Gutierrez, then U.S. Secretary of Commerce
Troy Parades, Commissioner, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Duncan Niederauer, CEO of NYSE
Robert Greifeld, CEO of NASDAQ
Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. Secretary of State. then-Provost, Stanford University
Larry Sonsini, Chairman, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Dr. Tom Campbell, former U.S. Congressman; former Dean of Business School, University California, Berkeley
Eliot Spitzer, Governor for the state of New York
Christopher Dodd, Senator for the state of Connecticut
John Chambers, President and Chief Executive Officer, Cisco Systems
Janet Yellen, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
John Doer, partner Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Google Board Member
Bill Neukom, CEO San Francisco Giants
Don Valentine, Co-Founder, National Semiconductor and Sequoia Capital
Dave DeWalt, CEO of McAffee, Inc.
T.J. Rodgers, CEO of Cypress Semiconductors
Steve Bochner, CEO of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Hasso Plattner, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of SAP AG
James Morgan, Chairman, Applied Materials, Inc.
John A. Young, then-President and Chief Executive Officer, Hewlett Packard
Lewis E. Platt, then-President and Chief Executive Officer, Hewlett Packard
Ken Wilcox, Chairman, Silicon Valley Bank
Dr. William Perry, Former US Secretary of Defense
Gary Hamel, prominent Business Strategist and Author of "Leading the Revolution"
Carl Guardino, President and CEO, Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group
Steve Westly, then-Controller, State of California and former eBay executive
Greg Maffei, then-Chief Financial Officer, Microsoft
Jeff Henley, then-Chief Financial Officer and current Chairman, Oracle Corporation
Vinod Khosla, then-partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Meg Whitman, then-CEO of eBay
Rajiv Dutta, then-CFO of eBay, President of PayPal
Eric Benhamou, former CEO of 3Com
David Roux, co-founder of Silver Lake private equity and former CEO of Liberate