pariSoma innovation loft. coworking and tech events.

Get FREE advice on lead gen and online marketing. David Hecht will be offering free 30 minute sessions on demand generation, inbound marketing, Google Adwords and sales lead management on Tuesday, June 15, from 1 – 5 pm. There will be six 30 minute time slots available.

David Hecht is a startup advisor and consultant with over 15 years of Internet marketing experience. He has built several large Internet services companies through online and direct marketing, search engine marketing, and Email marketing programs, and has experience managing inside sales organizations and lead cultivation programs as well. Most recently David was the Co-founder and CMO of GoGrid, the Bay Area’s largest managed hosting and cloud computing infrastructure company, where he oversaw the sales, marketing, and product management groups. Previously, he ran marketing at eWork and early dial-up ISP InReach Internet. In addition to consulting, David blogs at www.hectic.com and is also working on a new startup in the local advertising space.

Use the discount code, PARISOMAVIP to get 50% off your ticket to this event! Only for the first 20 people to buy tickets with this code.

Join Twilio and government leaders for an evening focused on open data and open government, at San Francisco City Hall. Thought leaders in support of open source technology and standardized APIs will share their vision for the future and explore the power of open APIs through app demos. Chris Vein, Chief Information Officer for the City of San Francsico, will share the latest updates since the city’s launch of their Open311 API in March.

Cocktail Reception & Appetizers Served at 6:30pm

Speakers will begin promptly at 7:30pm

Click “more” to learn about Open 311 and the speakers!

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We’ve been talking about the upcoming AR Hackathon for a while now, and it’s finally upon us!

Register now at www.ardevemob.com.

The weekend kicks off with a party at 808 Detroit St, SF TONIGHT at 7pm.  The venue is the home base for the Hackathon’s organizer, Sid, and is “the one with the ample parking, patio, deck, hot tub, multiple fireplaces, multizone music system and gadget lab.”  Should be pretty sweet and if you’re thinking about participating in the rest of the event you must attend to join a team.

Anyone in the field is invited!

Following the party, the hackathon will proceed at pariSoma through the weekend and include food, fun, and amazing projects. We’d love to see what you come up with.

See the teaser post here!

faberNovel, Inc. is excited to have Evy Wilkins from DoYouBuzz now working at the pariSoma Innovation Loft!  DoYouBuzz is the third French company to cross “the bridge” being built by faberNovel, Inc. from Paris to San Francisco.

Kieran Farr is the CEO of VidSF and one of the many beloved coworkers here at VidSF.  Watch his interview on TechShower by one of our other coworkers Stephane Nyugen.  We love when coworkers collaborate!

pariSoma is proud to announce a brand-new series of panel discussions focusing on the intersections of sustainability, social change, and technology. Each of these exciting bi-monthly moderated discussions will focus on a specific type of technology being applied to solve a major social problem, with titles such as “Clean Cars in the Garage”, “Smart Grid Web Tech”, “Social Media for Sustainability”, and much more!

April’s GreenGarage event, Mobile Apps for Change, will showcase three companies that are building mobile apps that catalyze massive worldwide change.

This month’s panel is moderated by Ryan Brown, former Director of Operations at Mobile Greetings, Inc. and current MBA student in Dominican University’s Green MBA program.

Panel speakers are Kaytea Petro, President of Neighborhood Fruit, who will talk about the company’s Find Fruit iphone app, Craig Michael Lie Njie, CEO of Kismet Worldwide Consulting and creator of WasteNot, and Eric Dorf, an independent product management consultant, who will speak about VolunteerMatch.com’s first mobile app, VolunteerMatch.

Learn more about the panel and watch the video, taped live at the event, in the full post.

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Get FREE advice on HR issues and questions: Kat Steinmetz will be offering free 30-minute sessions on HR consulting and best practices at pariSoma on May 19 from 1– 5pm.  There will be six 30-min time slots available.

Kat Steinmetz is a Human Resources and Organizational Development Consultant with over 15 years of experience and a specialty in working with creative companies, non-profits and helping start-ups get set up.

Her expertise is in such areas as developing, training, and retaining employees; recruiting and hiring; employment practices, process, policy, and procedure creation and development; compensation analysis and strategy; organizational planning; training; compliance with state and federal employment and labor laws; conflict resolution and performance feedback.  She has a large network of resources and experts which can be tapped for services such as health benefits and insurance brokers, worker’s comp, employment law, facilitators, and trainers. Kat has extensive experience in the tech and creative industries and she excels in connecting people and resources, finding, hiring and retaining talented employees, and developing people to their fullest potential.

Past clients include: Black Rock City (Burning Man), Zivity.com, Slide, Magenic, CTN (Computer Technology Network), Black Rock Solar and Black Rock Arts Foundation.

About this group:

Hello, I’m @sidgabriel, the organizer of ARDevMob: The San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley Augmented Reality Meetup group.

Augmented reality is a human interface metaphor. Unlike the “desktop metaphor” which implies a computerized representation of a desk, files and folders, “Augmented Reality” implies that computer science can inform and extend everything in our visual, auditory and cognitive perception of reality. Making every interface relevant to a “first person” narrative perspective.

This group provides space for networking, sharing, presentation and how-to sessions exploring the art and science of Augmented Reality. Where it is now and where it is going. We understand this is a subject of wide interest across many professions. Everyone with an interest in the state of the art is welcome. Presenter, developer or spectator enthusiast you are welcome, we are happy to have you.

About this meetup:

AR Approaches in Flash 10: Going Marker Free

Pizza at 6:30

Session at 7

This session is for groups with a basic understanding of FLAR.  Developers will learn to use color detection and object recognition to
implement marker less AR interfaces in Flash.

In this session we will run through tutorials and code from
• James Alliban: Color detection with Processing
• Eugene Zatepyakin: Object detection using ASSURF

Jason has been here at pariSoma for 2 months on his tour of coworking spaces worldwide which has included New York, Miami, and Seattle. Next stop: Amsterdam, assuming the volcano stops spewing ash one of these days.  We were happy to have him and wish him the best of luck in the future, particularly if that includes a return stint at pariSoma once he’s back from travels abroad

Jason is the owner and director of ProtonRadio.com, an online radio station and music label dedicated to sustaining & promoting electronic dance music and works full-time while travelling around the world at different coworking spaces.

Hit the jump for a photo from the going away happy hour we had on Friday.  There’s no bad excuse for yummy wine, chocolate from the chocolate factory, and stout from the city beer store!

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