OASIS Summit and VacationRoost Herald Expanded Vision for Top Technology Conference

SALT LAKE CITY - March 4, 2014 - PRLog -- Salt Lake City, UT — January 13, 2014 — Technology investor James Montgomery and VacationRoost have announced additions to the lineup of speakers slated to present at OASIS: THE MONTGOMERY SUMMIT. OASIS—an invitation-only event featuring top entrepreneurs and investors, senior level media and technology executives, and leading industry visionaries—will be held March 5-6, 2014 at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica.

OASIS speakers added to the conference’s schedule include BlackBerry interim CEO John Chen, bestselling author Deepak Chopra, and tech legend Paul Maritz. Presenting at OASIS for the second time is Golden Globe-nominated actress and Honest Company founder Jessica Alba.

Chen, a distinguished world leader in technology and former CEO of Sybase, Inc., was tapped to run BlackBerry in November, 2013. Chopra is America’s preeminent expert on alternative medicine and holistic health, and has authored 65 books; his current focus is the intersection of technology and wellness. Maritz, currently CEO of data firm Pivotal Labs, worked for Microsoft from 1986 to 2000 and was a member of the five-person Executive Committee that managed the company’s explosive growth during that time. In the years since, he has consistently been at the forefront of consumer computing technologies as CEO of VMware and other companies. Honest Co. founder Alba launched her brand of non-toxic baby products at the conference in 2012, and she returns this year after completing a $25 million round of funding.

OASIS will have a special focus on creativity and innovation at the intersection of the technology and business worlds.   VacationRoost Inc. will be representing the travel industry with a presentation on the role that technology plays in the growing vacation rental industry.  “We look forward to sharing our story at the Oasis conference, and expect to have some exciting new developments about VacationRoost to share with the impressive group of industry and investment professionals at the conference” says Julian Castelli, CEO of VacationRoost.

An outgrowth of the hugely popular Montgomery Technology Conference, OASIS makes its debut this year with 150 exceptional presenting companies. These companies will fall into three categories: “First Look” companies that generate less than $10 million in yearly revenues; “Emerging” companies with revenues between $10 million and $50 million; and “Growth” companies whose yearly revenues exceed $50 million.  Prior conferences have provided early looks at Facebook, Twitter, Pandora, Splunk, Marketo, Meraki, Exact Target, Rocket Fuel, and other breakout  companies.

Founder Montgomery says his goal with OASIS is to bridge one of the industry’s top insider technology and finance conferences with global thought leadership in innovation and creativity.  “Montgomery Summit stakeholders have always relished the atmosphere at the Fairmont Miramar for intimate, high-level business networking and insights,” said Montgomery. “At the same time, these leaders embrace an atmosphere where creativity and innovation can be explored in the context of building great products and companies.”

Other speakers previously announced for OASIS include Ashish Thakkar, named World’s Best Young Entrepreneur by the World Entrepreneurship Forum, and Brazilian mining billionaire Bernardo Paz, who will talk about the importance of creativity and innovation through the context of his world-famous art retreat in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil.

The conference will feature an inaugural business plan competition—Money Ball—between early stage companies seeking financing in a live “Shark Tank”-like environment.   The audience will be given the opportunity to invest in the winning company through a crowd sourcing platform.

Panel sessions this year feature industry leaders and robust debates on the future of advertising technology, enterprise technology, digital payments, and digital entertainment.  Panelists will include senior executives from Facebook, Citrix, Google, and Axicom; as well as leading venture investors and entrepreneurs.

The digital payments panel, moderated by Quentin Hardy of the New York Times, will closely examine the future of Bitcoin and other “math based” currencies from the perspectives of leading entrepreneurs and investors

ABOUT OASIS: THE MONTGOMERY SUMMIT

OASIS will feature exclusive gala receptions, world-class food, and special evening entertainment.  Over 1,000 participants from around the world are expected to attend the inaugural OASIS Summit.

Presenting sponsors for OASIS include the Signal Hill and Macquarie Capital.  Additional sponsors include Citrix, Earnst & Young, Silicon Valley Bank, Cooley, Telesign, Stradling, City National Bank, Gibson Dunn, Vantage Media, and Telesystem Media. The conference will be held March 5-6, 2014 at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica.

www.oasis-summit.com

About VacationRoost Inc.

Based in Salt Lake City, Utah, VacationRoost’s team of experienced travel professionals is committed to making booking a vacation rental as easy as booking a hotel room online. VacationRoost.com offers consumers the ability to book over 150,000 professionally managed vacation rentals online and to package them with air, car, and destination travel services. VacationRoost’s Partner Services division provides partners with the ability to utilize the VacationRoost transaction platform to book vacation rentals and other travel products on their own sites and to offer their customers complete central reservation travel planning services.  For more information, visit www.vacationroost.com.

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For further information, please contact:

OASIS Contact:

Ross Johnson

(310) 854-4780

ross.johnson@johnsonpublic.com

VACATIONROOST Contact:

Ryan Hutchings

801-559-3254

press@vacationroost.com