A lot of folks in Southern California use our calendar of high tech related events in planning out their week. A few folks have requested that we make it easier to find stuff in their neighborhood, so we’ve rolled out a filter by general location. We’ve always had the events color-coded, but now you can [...]
The Technology Council of Southern California (formerly the Software Council of Southern California) has generously passed on a code for a great discount to hear Tony Perkins of AlwaysOn speak at their annual Technology Industry Awards next week. The event is being held at the Millenium Biltmore in Los Angeles, February 28th, from 6-9pm. Tony, [...]
Brian Deagon of Investor’s Business Daily has two good pieces published today on the growth of the technology industry on LA’s west side, along with an overall piece on the surge in informal networking groups (Lunch 2.0, TwiistUp, etc.) in the area.
If anyone hasn’t gotten enough of technology events, there’s a boat load of events this week focused on the technology industry in the area. First of all, out in Palm Springs, there’s Demo 2008 — where 77 new startups from all over the country are pitching what they are doing. Tradationally, lots of Silicon Valley [...]
One of the signs of the growing awareness of Southern California in the technology industry is a recent surge of events (both public and private) aimed at connecting the technology industry. In particular, the number of Silicon Valley-style events on the west side of Los Angeles has been increasing quite rapidly (think Lunch 2.0, Meetups, [...]
Atticus Wagner at the Tech Coast Angels let me know last week that the Tech Coast Angels is now taking applications for their Fast Pitch event coming up in January. For entrepreneurs who aren’t familiar with what a “fast pitch” is, it is a very short, 60 second “elevator pitch” on your company. The idea [...]
Last Friday, I spent some time at a Lunch 2.0 meeting over at ThisNext in Santa Monica, getting a chance to chat with entrepreneurs, technologists, producers, and others in the high tech and entertainment community here. It’s interesting but there has been an upsurge in networking events — particularly in the Internet/Web 2.0 area — [...]
Most of the people who are involved in the technology and venture capital industry spent a lot of times at conferences. Usually, things are fairly light during the summer, but it looks like conference season is just around the bend. Just glancing at our comprehensive calendar of local, Southern California events and conferences, it looks [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
