Tag Archive | "tech innovation"
Saturday, June 18th Join us for TEDxSoMa, a unique experience bringing together innovative ideas and people to grow the collective conscience. Created in the spirit of TED’s mission, “ideas worth spreading,” the TEDx program is designed to give communities, organizations and individuals the opportunity to stimulate dialogue through TED-like experiences at the local level. Tickets [...]
Five minutes, 20 slides. What would you say? At every Ignite, 16 artists, technologists, thinkers, and personalities take the stage to answer this challenge. Join us at what’s been called “Best Geeks’ Night Out” for high-energy talks, networking, and conversation. Follow @ignitebayarea for up-to-the-minute speaker announcements and event partners, they have quite a few things planned [...]
The DataPortability Project is a California not-for-profit that promotes an Internet where people have control over their personal data. We want web sites to make it easy to bring your profiles, contacts, and media to them, to share them with other sites, and to gracefully end your relationship with them. This meetup is for business and technologists to get help building better data portability practices, policies, and tools. We'll discuss the legal and technology layers and anything else to move from wishful thinking to the standard way of doing things.
Many companies today don’t get funded. Considering that, how does a small startup survive tough competition, company growth, and unpredictable markets with virtually zero capital? It definitely happens and to help everyone learn how, we’ve compiled a panel of founders who’ve been there and investors who have seen it happen. We’ll be discussing whether its possible to get by without funding, how to balance the budget if you try, and what problems you are likely to encounter. We’ll also be getting into what tools to use, how to stay lean, stories of what hasn’t worked, and other fundamentals of the self-funded process.
Wednesday, August 4th, 6:30pm pariSoma will be hosting a Mobile Mixer for startups in the mobile industry. Startups will be demoing at tables throughout the space and will include a mix of apps, hardware, and accessories. If you are creating mobile tech, we want to see it! Attendees will mix with hot bay area startups [...]
Allan, Nori, and Jeff, pariSoma co-workers for 11 days, just launched a beta version of their new website: web2mobi.com. Web2mobi allows website owners to create a mobile landing page that provides a better mobile web experience. Mobile visitors see a special optimized page that offers quick access to critical information, while the experience for non-mobile [...]
Wednesday, July 21 @Mission Bay Conference Center The Geo-Loco conference is coming to San Francisco! Geo-Loco 2010 focuses on what the new breed of Geo-Location-enabled services and applications is doing for brands, for businesses and for consumers. Speakers will include those on the cutting edge of Geo-Location businesses and technologies, including Gary Gale of Nokia, [...]
Apple Study: 8 easy steps to beat Microsoft (and Google) View more presentations from Ouriel Ohayon.
Dorkbot is a semi-regular meeting of artists (sound/image/movement/whatever), designers, engineers, students and other interested parties who are involved in the creation of electronic art (in the broadest sense of the term). Dorkbot was started in New York in 2000 by Douglas Irving Repetto and has since spread to over 40 cities worldwide.
Web, Wine, and Wisdom is a networking event made for tech lovers, entrepreneurs, developers, inventors, startups, and anyone who is curious about new tech applications and of course, love wine. Because we love new Web apps and because we enjoy discovering new wines, it seemed natural to mix it all into one event.
Come and discover presentations of the following startups: Tap11, Doyoubuzz, and Publitweet