Live Blogging The 2010 ESIGN Summit Event!

We're here in San Francisco, and I'm going to share as much as possible regarding 2010 ESIGN Summit, or #ESIGN2010. These are raw notes, which will have to be fact checked, post-event.

I'll be updating Facebook, Twitter, and all of the usual suspects... links & video will be available post-event!

We're excited you're here and hope you'll enjoy yourselves as well - The DocuSign Team

Steve King:

We've got special guest speakers, product innovations... "What were you thinking planning an event on June 30th, the last day of the quarter?"

We think June 30th should be a national holiday - 10 years again, President Bill Clinton signed the ESIGN Act. DocuSign was borne of this Act - we've gone to the Hill and asked, lobbied Congress to declare June 30th National ESIGN Day.

We have a message from Congressman McDermott:

[video to come]

Steve King:

We appreciate Congressman McDermott's support. If we can only get Hallmark to print cards...

I first saw the potential for eSignatures during my time at ETRADE. If we could eliminate the cumbersome paper process, we could grow faster and improve customer satisfaction. Consumer confidence and legal compliance is important and with ESIGN, it paves the way for eSignature.

DocuSign - More than a Signature

We have more than 30k customers today who close business faster, decreasing closing costs by as much as 90% and improve customer satisfaction with DocuSign electronic signature.

Here are some things you might not know about President Bill Clinton:

2 million people w/ HIV /AIDS are recieving the medicines they need to survive.

Clinton Global Initiatives bring people together to solve world problems, including child obesity, teamed up with President Bush to help communities after natural disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina and Haiti's earthquake and others.

President Bill Clinton

[video to come]

Q&A - questions submitted from media

Utah's recent court decision regarding eSignatures on ballot petitions - Thoughts?

President Clinton likes the decision & thinks we should make sure that where-ever eSignatures are put into use, there should be a good quality control screen to make sure the system isn't abused. The oversight process needs to be quick enough to keep the benefits of time savings.

Provide access to demographics who may not have access. The communities who are most marginalized need to be deliberately included.

Who owns the networks that connect us all?

Ex: energy grids - Haiti and Dominican Republic are working on a clean energy exchange and when that happens, these two countries will have to agree on how that is regulated.

ESignature's impact on Clinton's foundation mission?

Normally, when the 1st agreement is signed, they want a photographicable ceremony. After that, the healthcare and energy ops in Quincy MA and Harlem - drug producers in India and Africa and then sent out to supply networks around the world. Would be more tedious and expensive if esignature capabilities did not exist.

Final Question - Expand on role of tech plays in improving the lives of people worldwide:

Tech important role in developing and developed countries. The role will be different.

Ex: 2 ways technology can improve lives in America:
Pushing barriers and new applications for faster, more productive, and satisfying lives.
Creating new systems that don't reinforce current systems until they break.

We're taking for granted that lights, camera, mikes don't fail. That we can drink the water.

Info tech and what DocuSign does can improve the lives for developed countries as well.

We was this in how much the American Economy depended too much on the housing industry to drive economic growth.

Electronic medical records can enable huge savings on healthcare

Real Estate: NAR's Gary Thomas

DocuSign was selected to be NAR's official, exclusive eSignature solution via Member Benefits Program

NAR represents 1.1M REALTORS in the US & is largest trade association in the country.

Real Estate Relationships

1. Parents were in the real estate business. They talked about good work life balance - parents would work and he and his brother would go to the beach.

2. Gary offered his skills to friends and colleagues and learned to appreciate the business and got into it because it's contagious in his family. His son, daughter and son-in-law are in the business with him.

3. He loves enabling people to realize the American dream - think about the experience of when you've gone through the homebuying process.

Second Century Ventures

1. Established as a fund dedicated to investing in innovative technology companies to encourage entrepreneurs.
2. DocuSign created the REALTOR edition to meet REALTOR needs for electronic signature.
3. Take a look at the benefits at DocuSign's Real Estate Page

LinkedIn - Very 1st Joint DocuSign for Salesforce Customer

CMO of Salesforce.com - Kendall Collins

Personally used DocuSign to sign his last home purchase and really enjoyed it!

Mission: cloud computing driver, catalyst & evangelists by taking consumer trends and bringing it to the enterprise level.
Each 10 year computing cycle brings 10x the umber of users per cycle

2009 social networking exceeds email.

Facebook is #1 use case online (53 minutes on avg / day), YouTube is # use case & search engine

Internet access is also shifting to mobile / cloud computing

Why isn't the internet like amazon.com? --> Why isn't the internet like facebook?
We're into facebook, feeds, push, touch, smartphone / laptop, mobile, location aware, Cocoa / HTML 5, and marketplaces now

What's really exciting - Signatures are moving to Cloud 2
Traditional - slow, paper-based, no tracking
eSignature - fast, mobile, real-time tracking

That last mile of every transaction can be automated by eSignature

"DocuSign is the leading eSignature cloud platform"

Made a strategic investment in DocuSign to expand what DocuSign is doing with Salesforce

[DocuSign for Salesforce with Chatter Demo Video to Come]

2000 Years of History

1st contracts were stone tablets - really heavy
2nd contracts were parchment - lighter animal hide, but rots
3rd contracts were paper (2000 years ago) - lighter & doesn't rot, but still needs to be moved!

ESIGN Act, 10 years ago, put a new promise in play
4th contracts were electronic - you don't need to move anything physically

Special software was involved, something about x509 certificates, really complicated and everyone needs the software...

What if it was instantly available to anyone in the world, looks like paper, works w/ software you already have, all you need is a browser...

Tah-dah! DocuSign does that!

DocuSign enables straight through processing - no rekeying data, a source of time waste and errors.
DocuSign eliminates NIGO - get all the signatures and initials you need, where you need them

Harris Poll Results:

36% would stop overnight mail immediately
63% don't want to deal w/ pen and paper

City of Seattle uses DocuSign. BRE uses DocuSign...
[video to come]

DocuSign Trusted eSignature Platform - fast, complete, trusted that is simple, easy & familiar
Authentication, Workflow, Forms & Data, Collaboration all combine to be the eSignature plaform

Spring '10 Release

Collaboration & Mobile

Collaboration: paper negotiation & collaboration can get ugly.

Aaron Levie from Box.net

Enterprise Collaboration is changing
ECM - rigid and costly
Social Business Software - not focused on content
moving it to the cloud

Cloud Content Management - Box makes sharing simple and how do you share, manage and access business content online?

50,000 businesses on Box w/ 4M+ users

Box platform enables Document Management, Project Management, FTP replacement, Managed File Transfer, Deal Room, and Cloud File Server

Box.net + DocuSign - manage contracts from Box and sign with DocuSign right from Box.net

Mobile - iPad 3M units in 80 days

Instantly not available - huge demand for this platform. Completely mobile platform - keep documents in the cloud - google, box, etc.

[DocuSign for iPad Demo video to follow]

With paper, you can only do certain things because it's paper. Digital capabilities will enable us to do things in transactions we can't imagine yet.

Signature as the identity - the electronic signature is incredibly important asset and DocuSign will allow you to manage that.