Wednesday, April 28, 2010
MOTM: Discovering Common Ground with Lunch.com founder J.R. Johnson – J.R. Johnson is the founder of Lunch.com and host of the Lunch for Good event series. He’s an experienced entrepreneur, who sold his last firm, VirtualTourist.com, to Expedia for a mint and will be sharing with us some proven insights. We’ll be diving into J.R.’s passion and vision behind VirtualTourist.com and Lunch.com and open the conversation on how social media can change the world through common ground.
Time: 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Location:
Mastro’s Steakhouse
2807 East Thousand Oaks Boulevard
Thousand Oaks, Ca 91362
Tickets: $75 Register
*Includes four course meal at Maestro’s
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Digital LA – Scrum w founder Jeff Sutherland – Programmers, developers and engineers are invited to join our second one-on-one chat with Jeff Sutherland, often known as the Father of Scrum. Jeff helped co-found Scrum, a process where a team meets frequently to determine and assign task priorities, to ensure the project (programming code) is delivered on time. (non-programmers: if you’ve walked by your IT department gathered around yellow stickies on a board, that’s Scrum.)
Time: 6:30pm to 9:30pm
Location:
Hotel Angeleno
170 North Church Lane
Los Angeles, Ca
Tickets: $40 Advance registration required
New Media Vault April Edition – This monthly event draws at least 300 people from all levels of the new media world: with top industry leaders in attendance, your company will have the chance to get face time with financiers, talent, celebrities, producers, directors, designers, agents, managers, lawyers, and industry award winners. This months door prize is two certificates to Web TV Workshop’s crash course commencing May 3rd.
Time: 7:30pm to 1:00am
Location:
Standard Hotel Downtown LA
550 South Flower St.
Los Angeles, Ca 90071
Tickets: Free, RSVP
LA Games Conference – Over 300 of the most influential decision-makers in the games industry gather for the LA Games Conference to network, do deals, and share ideas about the future of console, PC, online and mobile games. LA Games Conference – now in its 4th year – features a lively and fun debate on timely cutting-edge business topics, demos as well unrivaled access to some of the most progressive companies in Hollywood, Silicon Valley and beyond.
Time: 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location:
Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
7000 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, Ca
Tickets: Online Registration Rate: $599 ($100 OFF)
The Core Circles: Citysourced and How Mobile Apps Can Save the Community – Join theCOREcircles/Santa Monica, a new community happening at The Victorian – and participate in a dialogue with City Sourced co-founder Kurt Daradics around how mobile applications and technologies are impacting the way citizens engage with government and with each other.
Time: 6:00pm to 11:00pm
Location:
The Victorian
2640 Main Street
Santa Monica, Ca
Tickets: $5 at the door
*Cash bar and mobile gourmet catering trucks available
Friday, April 30, 2010
X PRIZE Foundation TweetUp – For the first time, we are holding an open house to give us a chance to interact directly with our online fans and supporters. The event will feature brief, Ignite-style presentations on the Foundation’s three ongoing prizes as well as our on-going work developing new prizes in a variety of fields. Additionally, we’ll be joined by Anousheh Ansari, the first female private space explorer and a trustee of the X PRIZE Foundation. She will be doing a reading and signing of her new memoir, My Dream of Stars. Light appetizers and refreshments will be provided. Cameras, tweeting, and live-blogging of the event are, of course, welcomed.
Time: 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Location:
X PRIZE Foundation
5510 Lincoln Blvd. Ste 100
Playa Vista, Ca 90094
Tickets: Free, RSVP
LA Startup Weekend – Startup Weekend recruits a highly motivated group of developers, business managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists and more to a 54 hour event that builds communities, companies and projects. The participants that attend a Startup Weekend decide what they want to tackle over the weekend and come out at the end with several developed companies or projects. Attendees are responsible for bringing the same desire and passion to the project and walk out of the room with the task at hand, in a short 54 hours. Sound intense? It is.
Featured Speakers: Sean Percival, Scott Sangster, Andy Wilson, Will Schroter, Ryan Roberts, Mark Suster and Kimberly King-Burns.
Date: April 30th to May 2nd
Time: Schedule here
Location:
Coloft
920 Santa Monica Blvd
Santa Monica, Ca
Tickets: $75, Sunday night demo only $20
Saturday, May 1, 2010
HARO: Help A Mother Out Date Night Wine and Cheese Party – Support our month-long diaper drive campaign by stepping out. Join us for a wine and cheese tasting brought to you by Fresh & Easy and Tillamook’s Loaf Love Tour. We’ll keep the goodies coming, and the funky mellow music by DJ Brian Klotz at an appropriate level so there will be plenty of opportunity to finally have a conversation with that friend you never get to talk to! Special appearance by The Game Truck. All this just for the admission “price” of a pack of disposable diapers (or two!) per person.
Time: 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Location: At a private residence in Encino, Ca
*exact location will be given once you purchase a ticket, this is to protect the privacy of the hostess
Tickets: Free but you must register and bring a pack of disposable diapers per person
DONATE online via our virtual diaper drive. Diapers sizes 3 through training pants especially welcome.
