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August 11 – 17, 2008 Bay Area Event Roundup
August 12 – 15, 2008
- User Experience Week 2008 – UX Week is the premier user experience conference, and in 2008 they consider what it takes to create great products and services in an uncertain world. With a mix of inspiring talks from recognized thought leaders and hands-on workshops delivering takeaway skills, this event delivers for user experience professionals at all levels — directors, managers, and practitioners.
Aug 12- 14, 2008
- Flash Memory Summit – Flash memory is a key technology enabling new designs for many products in the consumer, computer and enterprise markets. The Flash Memory Summit is the only place where you will hear the people making these products happen!
August 12, 2008
- Google Analytics Live Workshop – This session explores how to effectively gather and evaluate a variety of data, reports, traffic volumes, and other valuable tools that will allow you to measure and compare results, make the right adjustments, and to accurately assess the effectiveness of your marketing strategies and tactics.
- The Entrepreneurs Roadmap: Key Metrics for Startup Success – As a startup, there’s no shortage of goals and metrics to achieve, but there are countless ways to thwart your own success. To go from startup to stardom, you need to know which factors to focus on first and how to measure the effectiveness of your strategy.
- Flickr for Good at Net Tuesday - Net Tuesdays are free monthly gatherings for social changemakers and web innovators to network, socialize and share ideas about how nonprofits and social benefit organizations can use the social web for social change. Net Tuesdays are an initiative of NetSquared
- Freebase Unofficial Beer Meeting – Freebase is having a user group meetup at House of Shields
32 New Montgomery St., San Francisco, California 94105 US
August 13, 2008
- Web Analytics – Measuring Engagement In The Social Media Revolution – This event will focus on the measuring user engagement on and off your web site. With the rise of social media, the conversation is taking place on blogs, social networks, forums, online communities, IM and chat clients. Companies need to measure how users are participating in the conversation in all the different places and the impact of that on their businesses. Companies need to be able to capture, mine, aggregate, and analyze data in the attention economy beyond the corporate web site and turn that data into actionable intelligence. By monitoring the net conversations, companies can identify pain points, opinions, and opportunities that would otherwise be missed. Learn from the experts about this cutting-edge topic and how it affects your business and how your business can be part of the conversation.
August 14, 2008
- Lunch 2.0 ay Myspace – Come enjoy Lunch 2.0 on MySpace at their San Francisco office near South Park, and get to know them! They’ll provide the food and drink, you provide yourselves – should be a good time!
- SVASE Startup U SFO: Creating a killer PowerPoint for your Investor Pitch – Join panelists Scott Milener, CEO of AdRocket, and Bob Bozeman, Serial Venture Capitalist, to find out how to creat a killer investor pitch for your startup.
August 16, 2008
- WordCamp San Francisco, 2008 – These events are an awesome chance to learn more about WordPress, to meet some of the core developers and other hackers working on the system that powers your website, and even to get involved yourself.
April 21-27, 2008 Bay Area Event Roundup
Web 2.0 Conference and Events
April 22-25, 2008
Web 2.0 Expo – Web 2.0 Expo, co-produced by TechWeb and O’Reilly Media, is a conference and tradeshow for the rapidly growing ranks of designers and developers, product managers, entrepreneurs, VCs, marketers, and business strategists who are embracing the opportunities created by Web 2.0 technologies. BINC will be attending this event if you would like to meet up please contact boris@bincsearch.com
April 21, 2008
Pownce Brunch – Web 2.0 Event – Pownce is a social networking site for events and gatherings. The are hosting a brunch before before the Web 2.0 expo.
Pre-Web 2.0 meet-up with Flickr, Moo – Come to Kate O’Brien’s on Monday, April 21 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. and join others for a drink or four. Hang out with Flickr, Moo, and other friends of Blurb. Kinda like a pre-game tailgate before the Web 2.0 madness officially kicks into gear. Bring a Blurb book and get a free Blurb t-shirt. Your pints will be covered and you will get hooked up with some shwag.
April 22, 2008
GAB and Blogtropolis Launch Party – On Tuesday, April 22nd 2008, GAB currently housed at 1515 Folsom St., will open with a bang by showcasing artist Aaron Koblin, in his first ever San Francisco show. The piece “The Sheep Market” was recently featured in Wired Magazine’s March issue and has received international acclaim. Koblin is a media designer and artist focused on the creation and visualization of human systems. This piece, using new technology, transforms large abstract data sets into humanly contextualized information in the form of a large, collaborative completed, mass scale digital drawing. His piece entitled flight patterns is on exhibit at New York MOMA through May 12.
Official Digg Meet-up – Please join the Digg team for good conversation and tasty libations at the first official Digg Meet-up! We’ll be making a few announcements and raising a frosty pint together at the first of many gatherings that we’re throwing in the United States and abroad. Mingle with fellow Diggers to the sounds of DJs Mancub (Space Cowboys) & Shissla (House of Lotus). It’s free to attend, so kick off Web 2.0 Expo and come celebrate Earth Day with drink specials and great DJs for a fun evening.
Ignite Web 2.0 Expo – This event will be used to vote on Ignite talks for the Web 2.0 main stage and is being patterned after Ignite Seattle! Specifically, there will be about 16 Ignite talks. These talks will each be 5 minutes long with 20 slides and only 15 seconds a slide. Anyone who is attending Expo or Web2Open is welcome to speak or attend.
April 23, 2008
Evolve – Mashable and Chi.mp are proud to announce: Evolve, the Web 2.0 Expo after party on April 23rd, 2008 at Mighty in San Francisco, California. Chi.mp, will be announcing and sharing a sneak preview of their new platform that will set you up with your own free domain that comes with a content hub and identity management platform.
South Park Crawl – This year, the official Web 2.0 Expo party will be something different. How better to celebrate the spirit of Web 2.0 than to take over the “lunchroom of the web”: San Francisco’s South Park? This charming and unassuming urban park is where it all started: it was the address to have in the nineties if you were going to make it on the web, and the lawn in front of the burrito place has probably seen more deals than any blades of grass ever hoped to. You knew the bubble had burst when there were no lines at Café Centro. Now it’s back, and it’s not just the home of Twitter, Adaptive Path, RubyRed Labs, and Wikipedia; it’s also a fantastic place to have a party. On the evening of the first day of the full conference, local Web 2.0 companies and sponsors hosting from popular South Park restaurants (and the park itself) will open their doors to conference attendees for the biggest and best party of the year. Attendees will arrive with a map of the participating venues and a mission to eat, drink and network. This networking event is open to conference attendees only.
The Big Open Y! Party – If you’re attending Web 2.0 Expo, stop by and see Yahoo! on the South Park Crawl. Join Yahoo! and YDN for a chill spring evening at the Brickhouse, home of Fire Eagle, Y!Live, and Yahoo! Video. Food, beer, DJs, and windows open.
Web2Open – Web2Open is an “unconference”—where anyone can share knowledge and join in open discussions with the community at large in different.
April 24, 2008
The Spring Mix Party – On April 24th, enjoy an evening of indulgence and libations as GLAM’s recent acquisition is announced. Participate in a “SpringMix” fashion show, interview with vloggers, and dance the night away at the SpringMix party.
After Hours Event at the San Francisco Marriott – Not sure where to go to hook up with friends and colleagues after show hours? Good chance you’ll find people at the Marriott Hotel, just down the street from Moscone West. A large portion of Web 2.0 Expo attendees will be staying there, Thursday night BOFs will take place there, and the Marriott has two cool lounges for people to hang out in. Look for folks at Bin 55 in the lobby lounge (serving wines from within a 55 mile radius of San Francisco) or take the elevator up to The View and take in some of the amazing views as you continue the networking.
Web2Open – Web2Open is an “unconference”—where anyone can share knowledge and join in open discussions with the community at large in different.
Booth Crawl - Quench your thirst with vendor-hosted libations and snacks while you check out all the cool stuff on the show floor. This event is open to all attendees.
Non Web 2.0 Events and Conferences
April 22-24, 2008
Gear Up 2008 – Join more than 1,000 business and information technology professionals at the 7th annual GearUp 2008 at the San Francisco Marriott to learn more about how Interwoven’s trend-setting solutions and technologies help you unlock the value of your content and shift perspectives in your demanding and dynamic world.
April 21, 2008
Startup SIG – Monthly meetup featuring Navigenics founder Mari Baker.
April 22, 2008
Web Services SIG: Build the SocialWeb using the Social Web – In today’s competitive world, it’s all about being smarter sooner than your competitors. Business decisions need to be based on intelligence data, and the more fresh and targeted the data are, the better and more timely are the decisions. More and more companies realize that the web has become the most valuable source of intelligence information for business decisions.In this presentation, Stefan Andreasen, will talk about this, as well as give a demonstration of the new service Kapow OnDemand, which allows for the industry’s most rapid roundtrip solution for making timely business decisions, by mass-automating access to intelligence data already on the Web.
April 23, 2008
The Silicon Valley LAMP April 24 Meetup – Intro to Zend Framework – Meet other local users of the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP / Perl / Python) platform, a very popular combination for developing OpenSource web applications and the most widely used web development platform.
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