LA TECH: FEBRUARY EVENT CALENDAR

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RECURRING WEEKLY:
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Tuesday’s with Exectec
7:30 PM @ D’Amore’s Pizza Connection on Westwood
1136 Westwood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024

Thursday Lunch
12PM @ Santa Monica/ 3rd

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FEBRUARY EVENTS
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Thursday, February 4th
GDP Talk (co-sponsored by TechZulu)
6:30-10:00pm
The Belamar Hotel
3501 North Sepulveda Blvd.
Manhattan Beach, CA

Speakers:

Scott Bell, Founder, Gross Domestic Product, Inc. — Everything Your Broker will Never Tell You

Greg Ferenstein, UC: Irvine Researcher, Fast Company Expert Blogger — American Education: “What is Litrarcy?”

Kurt Daradics Founder of CitySourced, Co-Producer Digital Family – The Future of Civic Communication

Adam Mefford, Co-Founder MindShare.LA — The iPod Generation Goes To Work!

Get tickets early or pay $15 to get in, all of which will go to charity, or $0 if you are a bit strapped for cash at the moment.  Each ticket will provide: Heavy tray-passed appetizers & Hosted Wine/Beer for 2 hours. Discounted cash bar for sprits.

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Thursday, February 4th
Meeting of the Minds (MOTM)
6:30-10:00pm
Chapter 8
29020 Agoura Rd
Agoura Hills, CA

This month MOTM is holding a dinner with professional trainer, Scott Leese. Scott coaches Olympians, Pro Athletes, & Top Executives how to achieve rapid transformation and peak performance. Scott is also a master practitioner of NLP and will show you ways you haven’t ever thought of to get to the next level in your personal and professional life.

They will be exploring questions like:

- What environments can you create to thrive?
- What are your daily behaviors that dictate success?
- What capabilities do you need to reach your goals?

*Participation is capped at 16 people.  Cost is $50 and includes dinner.

RSVP REQUIRED

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Friday, February 5th- Sunday, February 7th
Gov 2.0 Camp LA
5405 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Gov 2.0 LA is the first west coast unconference on social media and government live.  The event will cover a multitude of themes such as: Language and gov 2.0, women in technology, road blocks and barrier breakers, state and local, the policy pickle and much more.

Show kicks off with an opening reception at the W Hotel Hollywood (6250 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA 90028) at 7pm, with the first full day starting Saturday the 6th at 9:00am.

Check out the un-agenda here

Free to attend. Register here

If you can’t make it in person, plug into TechZulu’s live webcast

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Saturday, February 6th
Caltech Enterprise Forum: Digital Media Content and Distribution:
Growing Greenbacks in a Converging Ecosystem
9:00am-12:00pm
California Institute of Technology: Baxter Lecture Hall
Pasadena, California

The digital media ecosystem is growing rapidly with content distributors, mobile devices and social networks connecting users like never before. Navigating this shifting landscape has become increasingly more complex as content converges though myriad distribution channels, and legacy producers and distributors battle among themselves, and a legion of newcomers, to protect their turf. Amid the turmoil, opportunities for enhanced profitability are arising, but will the keys to success solely be found in content creation, or will new distribution models and innovative technologies ultimately determine the winners?

This event will examine the current state of digital content convergence and explore the future landscape for new distribution models with an informative keynote address, followed by a diverse panel of experts from various content channels.

Keynote Speakers:

Albert Cheng, Executive Vice President, Digital Media, Disney-ABC Television Group

Scott Barrow, Co-founder, Media Hog, Former VP of Operations, Napster

Panelists:

Krishnan Rajagopalan, Vice President, Digital Media Technologies,
Motion Picture Association of America, Inc.

Brian Deagon, Investor’s Business Daily

Joshua Wattles, Vick Law Group, Formerly General Counsel of Paramount

Steve Banfield, Consultant, Former GM and SVP, Sony Connect

Moderator: Joe Jasin, Managing Director

Cost $40 on-line registration fee $50 at-the-door.

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Tuesday, February 9th
DealMaker Media & Docstoc Present: February Mixer & Startups Uncensored
6:30-8:00pm
Santa Monica Public Library (Auditorium)
601 Santa Monica Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90401

This month’s Startups Uncensored will be on “Google Adsense for Websites”. It will be an open and frank town-hall conversation talking about how to best optimize and monetize your website with Google Adsense.

We are joined this month by two senior members of the Google Adsense team from Mountain View, California who have worked with hundreds of publishers to maximize the revenue they’re able to make with Google Adsense.

The event is free and is followed by a reception and mixer at the Docstoc Offices in Santa Monica by the 3rd Street Promenade.

This event is capped at 140 attendees. Confirmation will be required or your spot will be given up for our waiting list.

RSVP here

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Tuesday, February 9th
ThinkLA’s February Interactive Mixer
6:00-9:00pm
Rush Street
9546 Washington Blvd.
Culver City CA 90232

Member: $25
Non-member: $40

Advanced registration required.

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Wednesday, February 10th
Digital LA presents: The Actor Producer Panel
7:00-10:00pm
SAG
5757 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA

We’re teaming up with SAG’s New Media group for our panel on how actors can use online tools to create, develop, distribute and market their web stories
- Creation: Actors skill sets in creating, developing online content
- Development: Developing ur story idea for web compared to traditional media
- Distribution: Beyond just posting it on YouTube: Getting a distribution deal
- Marketing: How to use social media to develop and promote your web series and yourself

Our panelists include:
- Jodi Binstock - Producer Web Therapy starring Lisa Kudrow; (formerly at E! Networks, Disney ABC TV)
- Amber J. Lawson - Babelgum, Comedy Publisher
- Brandon Martinez - Abrams Artists Agency, New Media Agent
- Marc Hustvedt - Tubefilter, Editor-in-Chief; Ex.Pr. Streamy Awards, SAG  @MarcHustvedt @Tubefilter
- Moderator: Kevin Winston - Digital LA founder  @kevinwinston @DigitalLA

AGENDA
7-8p: Check in and networking
8-9:30: Panel, Q&A
9:30-10p Even More Networking

Advance registration required.

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Thursday, February 11th
LinkedOC Presents: Seth Godin
7:00-9:03pm
St Regis Hotel & Spa
1 Monarch Beach Resort
Dana Point, CA 92629

Join us on Thurs. Feb. 11 from 7:00-9:30 pm for an unprecedented night of networking, charitable support for Haiti and evening with Seth Godin–Best Selling author, A-List lecture circuit speaker and marketing guru.

Be prepared to hear game-changing insights about the new rules of marketing. Seth will deliver a 1-hour keynote…a very important and timely message: “How to be Indispensable” based on his new book, “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable.”

VIP tickets still available or be part of TechZulu’s contest to win a ticket.  Details here.

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Thursday, February 11th
TECH cocktail San Diego
6:30pm – 9:00pm
BASIC, 410 TENTH AVENUE
San Diego, CA 92101

We are excited to be bringing our first TECH cocktail event to San Diego looking to help amplify the local technology signal and have fun doing it! Join us for an evening of fun mingling with other technology enthusiasts, VCs, bloggers and entrepreneurs.

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Sunday, February 14th
The Los Angeles PHP Developers February Meetup
3:00pm
Panera Bread
501 Wilshire Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA

Meets the second Sunday of every month at Panera Bread for a mashed up meetup with PHP, MySQL and Semantic Web members.

Exchange ideas and talk about code, architecture, innovation, and open source in general. Talk about how PHP based technology is changing the world. Anyone interested in PHP is welcome!

Visit the official web site

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Thursday, February 18th
South Bay Tech Group Happy Hour
5:30pm - 7:30pm
1221 North Valley Drive
Manhattan Beach, CA

Free to attend.

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Thursday, February 18th
SoCal American Marketing Association Mixer
5:30pm–7:30pm
Formosa Café
7156 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90046

$5 event registration (Donation to Homeless Shelter + Registration Fee)

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Friday, February 19th
Unofficial IAWTV / Streamy Awards Web Series Courtesy Screening
7:00pm-9:30pm
Cinespace Hollywood
6356 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA

Streamys – IAWTV Member Webseries Courtesy Screening – Join us for a special screening of web shows in a lovely environment where you can kick-back and just watch. Each featured show will offer a sampling of episodes for your consideration for the 2nd Annual Streamy Awards. This screening event is being held as a service to IAWTV Members, but is open to everyone. Space is limited.

—– FEATURED SHOWS: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION —–

Safety Geeks: SVI - http://www.safetygeekssvi.com
GOLD, the Series - http://www.goldtheseries.com/streamys
Space Hospital - http://www.spacehospital.tv
Life with Kat & McKay - http://www.koldcast.tv/#/show:life_with_kat_mckay
Redemption: The Darkness Descending - http://www.thedarknessdescending.com

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Friday, February 19th - Sunday, February 21st
So Cal Linux Expo (SCALE)
Los Angeles Airport Westin
5400 West Century Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90045

The premier Open Source conference in the U.S., now in its 8th year, has content for everyone.   If you’re looking to learn, choose talks from a developer’s track, a beginner track, or one of the three general interest tracks. If you’re interested in chatting with the exhibitors, feel free to wander the Expo floor, with over 80 booths of open source folks eager to talk to you.

If you’re an educator and are interested in what Open Source software can do for you in the classroom, or as an administrator what it has to offer, plan to attend OSSIE, the Open Source Software In Education seminar on the Friday prior to SCALE.

If you are interested in the role women play in the Open Source software field, we invite you to attend WIOS, the Women In Open Source conference, also on the Friday prior to SCALE. If you’d like deeper content than you can get in a 45-minute seminar, check out SCALE University for in-depth training on selected topics.

Full access pass is $60.

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Tuesday, February 23rd
Social Media Club LA: Going Goo Goo over Google Analytics
7:00pm-9:30pm
Mahalo
902 Colorado Ave
Santa Monica, CA 90401

Speakers include:

John Shiple, CTO, Ultralive
www.linkedin.com/in/johnshiple

Alex Becker, Co-Founder and President, Highly Relevant
www.linkedin.com/in/alexybecker

Andrew Hahn,  Luxury Link and Familygetaway.com
www.linkedin.com/in/andrewhahn

Erica Forrette, Online Marketing / E-commerce with a stealth startup will be moderating this event.
www.linkedin.com/in/ericaforrette

$10 advance registration required.

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Tuesday, February 23rd
Social Media Club OC: Hottest Social Media Tools for 2010
7:00pm-10:00pm
122 N. Harbor Blvd, suite 110
Fullerton, CA 92832

We have seen an explosion of growth in the use of social media, the tools, the strategies and the people and companies involved in social media. We are going to review these new tools and discuss the value. Expect interaction — everybody gets 3 minutes to share their favorite new social media find for 2010.

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Wednesday, February 24th
Tech Coast Angels: Fast Pitch Competition
3:00pm-9:00pm
UCLA Anderson School of Management
110 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1481

CEOs of twelve early stage companies, chosen from more than 100 applicants, will each have 90 seconds to pitch their company. The panel of judges, who will include Tech Coast Angels members, venture capitalists and other start up experts, will select the winners for Best Presentation, Best Fundability and Best Overall. Fast Pitch winners will be invited to present at a Tech Coast Angels screening session and will be considered for funding.

The keynote speaker for this year’s event will be Steve Streit, CEO of Green Dot. Green Dot, a TCA-funded company, is the leading provider of prepaid financial services in the United States and the owner and operator of the Green Dot Network, the largest cash reloading network in the United States.

The program includes two panels:
* Getting Funded In Today’s Market — angel and venture capital investors will discuss the current funding environment for start up companies
* 2010 Start Up Business Climate — CEOs of Tech Coast Angels portfolio companies will talk about the early stage business climate today versus the last few years

Registration is $95.

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Thursday, February 25th
Digital LA’s: Digital Drinks in the OC
7:00pm-10:00pm
Geisha House
2773 North Main Street
Santa Ana, CA

Come celebrate TechZulu’s 2nd birthday at the new Geisha House - Santa Ana.

$10 advanced registration required.

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Friday, February 26th
Media Club LA
7:00pm - 10:00pm
Aqua Beverly Hills
424 North Beverly Drive
Beverly Hills, CA

Come mingle with top industry professionals in Media and Technology. Attendees work at companies such as CAA, Disney, Dreamworks, Fox, ICM, MySpace, NBC, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Universal Studios, William Morris, YouTube, etc.

$10 RSVP required before 2/22. $15 after.