January LA Events

Happy New Year all! Below are highlights for January events in LA. February promises to be a packed month with Twiistup Week anchoring many of the activities. As I hear about other events I’ll update this page. Also, a buddy is helping me get a proper calendar set-up. Cheers to a new year, new beginnings and new opportunities! -Nicole

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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
Santa Monica Promenade

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JANUARY EVENTS
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Tuesday, January 6th
Social Media Club LA: Focus on Film
6:30-9:00pm
Blank Spaces
5405 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 9003

Social Media Club LA focuses on the unique mix of entertainment, technology and culture that makes LA an epicenter of the next evolution of the internet. The LA Chapter was founded in July of 2008.

The upcoming meeting will focus on the effect of social media on the film industry.

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Friday, January 9th (ORANGE COUNTY)
Mixergy Presents: Lunch 2.0 @ Earthbound Media Group
12:00-2:00pm
14988 Sand Canyon Avenue, Studio 5
Irvine, CA 92618

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Monday, January 12th
Media and Entertainment Club
7:00-10:30pm
Standard in Hollywood
8300 Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA

Advanced RSVP $10 required

Attendees work at companies such as CAA, Disney, Dreamworks, Fox, ICM, MySpace, NBC, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Universal Studios, William Morris, YouTube, etc.

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Wednesday, January 14th
Digg Meetup LA with a Live Diggnation
7:00pm-12:30am
Knitting Factory Hollywood
7021 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA

Digg is heading to Hollywood! Join Digg and Revision3 at Knitting Factory Hollywood for the first Meetup of 2009. We’ll start the night off with a live Diggnation and continue into the wee hours mingling to the sounds of some great DJs. Doors open at 7pm.

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Wednesday, January 14th
Media Leaders Hollywood
6:00pm - 10:00pm
Falcon Hollywood
7213 W Sunset Blvd
Hollywood, CA

Join leaders in media, marketing, advertising and entertainment as we discuss current events and new ideas. Mingle with today’s professionals and find out how they’re changing the way the industry operates.

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Thursday, January 15th
DealMaker Media Presents: Common Mistakes Before Starting a New Business
6:30-8:00pm
Santa Monica Public Library (Auditorium)
601 Santa Monica Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90401

A Town Hall hosted by Jason Nazar, CEO of DocStoc, aimed at contributing to the Los Angeles Technology Scene by bringing together various entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalists, social media experts, and professionals in the technology field.

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Thursday, January 15th
Hollywood Web Television Meetup
7:30-11:00pm
Cinespace

6356 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90028

Hosted by Tubefilter

With nearly 2,000 of web television’s top creators, producers, studio executives, agents, managers, technologists, and distributors on its roster, Tubefilter’s Hollywood Web Television Meetup brings together the most dynamic group of professionals in the online entertainment industry. Each month’s event features presentations from influential web television creators, talent, and industry executives who are leading the charge in shaping the future of our industry. It provides an unrivaled opportunity to bring together this powerful community, share resources, collaborate, and together discover who we are and where we are going. This is an event you don’t want to miss.

This month’s meetup will feature:

• Tosca Musk and Jeff MacPherson, creators of Tiki Bar TV. Entering its fifth season, Tiki Bar TV is one of the most popular web series of all time and one of the leading video podcasts on Apple’s iTunes with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

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Thursday, January 15th
South Bay Tech Group Happy Hour
5:30-7:30pm
Shade Hotel
1221 N Valley Drive
Manhattan Beach, CA

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Thursday, January 15th
Mindshare
8:00pm-2:00am
Lacy Studio Lofts
2664 Lacy St
Los Angeles, CA 90031

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Saturday, January 17th
New Media Interchange Media Walk
10:00am
Meet @ Travel Town Museum
5300 Zoo Drive
Los Angeles, CA

Ever heard of Photowalking? Photographers, both amateur and professional, gather at a photogenic location to shoot photos and talk photography.

In that vein, New Media Interchange is hosting a Media Walk! Bring your still cameras, video cameras, audio recorders, microphones, Flip videos et al and let’s spend some time creating and talking New Media.

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Tuesday, January 20th
LA G33k D1nner
8:00-10:00pm
uWink
6801 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90028

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Thursday, January 22nd
LAVA’s 6th Annual Venture Awards Dinner
6:00-9:00pm
Beverly Hills Hotel
9641 W Sunset Blvd

Beverly Hills, CA 90210

In addition to announcing winners of seven categories (Hottest New Company, Best IPO (who went public this year?), Best M&A, Best Funding in New Media, Best Funding in Online Advertising, Best Funding in Clean Technology, Best Funding in Bio Tech & Medical Devices) LAVA will be honoring Ted Meisel, former CEO of Overture and a great roster of local enterpreneurs. Proceeds of the dinner are donated to Hope Street Group, where Ted is Vice Chairman. Hope Street Group is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to building an Opportunity Economy in America, where anyone who works hard and invests in themselves has the opportunity to succeed, and where our nation prospers as a result.

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Thursday, January 22nd
Mixergy Presents: The Conversion Forum: Proven methods for increasing your site’s registrations, leads, sales and other conversions
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Edgemar Center for the Arts
2437 Main St
Santa Monica, CA 90405

What good is investing in your brand, buying ads and optimizing your site for search engines, if users who come to your site bounce right out? Want to learn how to convert more of your site’s visitors into leads, registrations and sales? Attend the Conversion Forum and learn from the industry’s experts.

* Affiliate advertisers: See how increasing your conversion rates will help you get more affiliates without increasing your payouts.
* Lead gen marketers: Learn how to convert more of your hits into valuable leads.
* Ad networks: Discover how to give your clients a greater return on their ad buys.
* eCommerce sites: Find out how to grow your customer base and each customer’s spending.
* Media buyers: See how you can increase results without increasing your spending.

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Wednesday, January 28th
Digital LA – Digital Drinks
7:00-11:00pm
Coco de Ville
755 N La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles, CA

For our next Digital Drinks, we’re heading to celeb oasis Coco de Ville, next to STK on LaCienega. Relax with drinks in the multi-colored lounge as we chat all things digital and entertainment, and Sundance stories.

Be sure to ask for our $10 Digital Drink special, and order food off our special Digital LA bar menu, including blue cheese burgers, truffle fries, tuna tartare, or oysters. Also, get 10% off dinner reservations at STK by mentioning Digital LA when you make your reservations.

$10 ADVANCE REGISTRATION REQUIRED. No cash will be accepted at the door. To register, visit
http://digitalla.net/cocodeville.htm

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Friday, January 30th
Evolution of Entertainment Conference (e2)
12:30-5:00pm
USC Marshall School of Business
Bovard Auditorium, USC
3551 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, CA

The Evolution of Entertainment Conference (e2) is for all who are interested in or currently working in the field of entertainment or new media.

The e2 Conference is focused on the evolving changes that have made a tremendous impact on the business of entertainment. This event is an excellent educational and networking opportunity that will help industry newcomers and veterans alike understand the latest changes in the industry - as described by the decision makers themselves! We will have a renowned keynote speaker (to be announced soon) as well as the following panel discussions featuring panelists from Hollywood’s most prominent studios (more panelists to come):

Marketing Panel:
Geoff Ammer, Pres. WW Marketing, Marvel Entertainment
Brett Dicker, EVP Marketing, Disney
Nancy Utley, COO/ Head of Marketing, Fox Searchlight

Finance Panel:
Lee Rierson, EVP, Reveille
Jill Gwen, EVP/CFO Fox Searchlight
Ted MacKinney, CFO Mosaic Entertainment

Distribution Panel:
Kelly Summers, VP, Digital Distribution, Disney
Jim Wuthrich, SVP, EST & Interactive Marketing, Warner Bros.

This event is hosted by the Business of Entertainment Association at the USC Marshall School of Business.

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