JANUARY LA TECH EVENT CALENDAR

RECURRING WEEKLY:
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Thursday Lunch
12PM @ Santa Monica/ 3rd

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JANUARY CALENDAR
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Tuesday, January 12th
LAVA Breakfast: CEOs Talk Startups
7:00 am – 9:00 am
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N Sepulveda Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90049

Discussion on start up issues including i) team building and recruiting, ii) business plan issues, iii) developing a concise message, iv) building credibility (with customers, partners, employees and early investors), v) getting the business model to work properly, and vi) finally getting funded. What mistakes did you make during in the early days and what lessons would you pass on another entrepreneur?

Moderators

* Greg Martin, General Partner, Redpoint Ventures
* Dana Settle, Partner, Greycroft Partners

Current Confirmed Panelists
* Wil Schroter, Founder and CEO, Go BIG Media and GotCast.com
* Marc Diana, Founder, CEO, LeadPoint, Inc.
* Keith Richman, CEO, Break.com
* Matthew Dusig, CEO, Co-founder, United Sample, Inc.

Guests:     $60 (onsite $85)
LAVA Annual Members:     No Charge
LAVA Associate Members:     $35 (onsite $50)
Students (with valid ID):     $35 (onsite $50)

Register

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Thursday, January 14th
SMCLA Presents: Dating & Relationships “The Game Has Changed”
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
12th + Highland (Manhattan Beach)
304 12th St.
Manhattan Beach, CA

Social Media Club of Los Angeles invites you to “Dating & Relationshipos: The Game Has Changed” at 12th & Highland in Manhattan Beach  to mix, mingle and discuss how Social Media has changed the rules of dating. Panelists include:

Liz H. Kelly (@lizhkelly) is a Relationship Expert, Great Love Reporter and Author of Smart Man Hunting who puts a new spin on relationships with love lessons from Hollywood Movies and Happy Hearts in her Great Life, Great Love series (Http://www.greatlifegreatlove.com). In her second life, Liz is a PR and Social Media Marketing Consultant, Sunrise Road Media (http://www.sunriseroadmedia.com), who used to work for MySpace running their biggest advertising campaigns. You can follow her updates and dating tips on Twitter @lizhkelly

Linda Sherman (@lindasherman) is a Social Media Marketing Consultant with a solid background in corporate marketing and finance. She set up Coors Japan and was responsible for creating and executing a unique and successful marketing and sales strategy for ZIMA that is still sustained as a premium brand there today. Linda managed 500+ employees as CEO of Club Med Japan. Linda’s current clients include http://SingularCity.com where she is acting Community Manager. Linda’s company is http://couragegroup.com. Her blog is http://ItsDifferent4Girls.com.

Julie Spira (@juliespira)
Julie Spira is known world-wide as The Cyber-Dating Expert™ and is the author of “The Perils of Cyber-Dating: Confessions of a Hopeful Romantic Looking for Love Online.” She is the host of “Ask the Cyber-Dating Expert Radio Show” and has been featured on FOX News, BBC, Men’s Health, KTLA, and the Los Angeles Business Journal for her expertise in online dating. Julie is the LA Dating Advice Columnist on Examiner.com and a contributor to The Huffington Post. She currently holds the position of Executive VP/Director of Social Media for Brandloft - a marketing and branding firm. Visit her at http://CyberDatingExpert.com and http://SocialMediaMore.com

Evan Marc Katz (@evanmarckatz)
Author of “Why You’re Still Single: Things Your Friends Would Tell You If You Promised Not To Get Mad” and “I Can’t Believe I’m Buying this Book: A Commonsense Guide to Successful Internet Dating,” Evan Marc Katz has established himself as America’s leading dating expert. From online dating, to dating coaching, to relationship coaching, Evan has helped thousands of singles since 2004 gain power and control over their love lives. Since then, he has been featured in the New York Times, The Wall St. Journal, and Cosmopolitan, and appeared on CNN, The Today Show, The Early Show, The Tyra Banks Show, and The Rachael Ray Show.

Analis Flox (@avflox)
A.V. Flox is the editor of Sex and the 405, a sex news site, as well as a sex and relationships columnist for BlogHer, the leading women’s network on the web. A geek at heart, she got her start on the web in the 90s, and has been using it to her advantage in dating since. She has written several articles about using technology to connect with potential matches and swears by Twitter (How To Get Laid With Twitter for lalawag, How To Get Noticed By A Chick On Twitter for Manolith), but she’s also aware of how the web is changing our interactions (Online or Alienated? for BlogHer) and that constant connection and lifestreaming can also lead to complications in established relationships (The Disconnect In The Age of Ambient Awareness, and Go F*cking Blog About It on her blog). Digital has collided into analog–for better or worse. Let’s play.

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Thursday, January 14th
Schmoozd Social Media Mixer
6:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Hyatt Regency Century Plaza
The X bar
2025 Avenue of the Stars
Century City, CA

$20 registration required

The first-ever Schmoozd event, a new Social Media Mixer event in Los Angeles.

Win a week’s trial at BLANKSPACES, LA’s #1 Coworking office space by coming and hanging with founder Jerome Chang, who has taken his talents as an award-winning architect and created an inspiring workspace office environment for creative professionals. Jerome will be sharing his business tips and how he got his innovative company off the ground.

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Thursday, January 14th
ThinkLA’s Thirsty Thursday
6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Bigfoot West (not the Los Feliz location)
10939 Venice Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90034

It is a new organization which ties our local media, marketing, entertainment, and advertising communities together to promote Los Angeles as a world center for creativity and innovation.

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Friday, January 15th
Digital LA - Digital Drinks @ Wonderland
6:00 pm-10:30 pm
Wonderland
1835 Cahuenga Blvd
Los Angeles, Ca

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Saturday, January 16th – Sunday, January 17th
BarCamp San Diego 6
10:00am-7:00pm
Intuit (San Diego, Santa Fe Campus)
7535 Torrey Santa Fe Rd
San Diego, CA

RSVP here

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Tuesday, January 19th
Docstoc January Mixer & Startups Uncensored
6:30pm-8:00pm
Santa Monica Public Library (Auditorium)
601 Santa Monica Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90401

This month’s Startups Uncensored will be on the “Building an Online Brand.” It will be an open and frank town-hall style conversation about what it takes to build and grow an online brand that’s meant to last.

This month hear from Sean Moriarty, the former CEO of TicketMaster. During his time at Ticketmaster, Moriarty led the company through its multiple acquisitions and strategic investments. This event is capped at 140 attendees. Confirmation will be required or your spot will be given up for our waiting list.

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Wednesday, January 20th
iPhone Developer Happy
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Copa D’Oro
217 Broadway
Santa Monica, CA 90401

The next happy hour will be co-hosted by Los Angeles software entrepreneurs Ryan and Evan Rifkin from .app/ads.

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Thursday, January 21st
Mindshare
7:00 pm – 1:00 am
Downtown Independent Theater
251 S Main St
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Tickets are $30.
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Sunday, January 24th
UCLA Anderson’s Women in High Tech Brunch
11:00am – 1:00pm
UCLA Anderson School of Management

The brunch will feature networking, a roundtable discussion and dining, and a panel presentation. The event is geared towards female MBA candidates who are interested in pursuing a career in the High Tech Industry.  The women attending the event will have interests in various functions within the High Tech Industry.

The event is co-hosted by the Women’s Business Connection and the High Tech Business Association. Each year the event creates a casual and intimate forum that enables women in the industry to share their personal experiences and meet potential applicants.

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Monday, January 25th
SXSW Interactive in Los Angeles
The Griffin
7:00pm- 9:00pm
3000 Los Feliz Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90039

Join SXSW Interactive in Los Angeles with a free-to-attend networking mixer! Come out and meet SXSW Interactive organizers and other like-minded members of L.A.’s tech community. Come enjoy free drinks, music and the chance to win a FREE SXSW INTERACTIVE registration!

RSVP here

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Tuesday, January 26th
Media Leaders
7:00pm –10:00pm
The Other Room
2664 Lacy St
Venice, CA

Media Leaders is going national.  On January 26th, Media Leaders will be hosting seven simultaneous events across the U.S. (LA, SF, NYC, Austin, Boston, Chicago and Raleigh, NC.)  Check out the people behind each city here.

$12 Registration required for LA event.

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Wednesday, January 27th – Thursday, January 28th
Twiistup 7
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N Sepulveda Blvd,
Los Angeles, CA 90049

Twiistup’s back with a bigger line up than ever. Twiistup includes a full one and a half day program with top notch speakers including Peter Guber Chairman and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment (former CEO/Chairman of Sony Pictures), Paul Graham of Y-Combinator, Om Malik of GigaOm, Lisa Stone CEO of BlogHer, Robert Scoble, Eric Ries of The Lean Startup, Alex Quilici co-founder of Quack.com (sold to AOL), Rick Heitzmann of FirstMark Capital and many more to be confirmed shortly.

Twiistup opens Wed. Jan 27th with Wildcard Demos at UCLA’s Korn Hall and an opening night reception. Thurs. Jan 28th features presentations from the 10 Showoffs, plus  speakers and the Casino Royale theme party that night from 7:30pm - midnight.

See who’s coming and register here.

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Sunday, January 31st
Delicious Digital Brunch
Noon
Palm Thai Restaurant
5900 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA US

Inspired by the Pho brunches put together to discuss the future of music, Delicious Digital invites digital thinkers, executives, investors, technologists, artists and yarnspinners to contemplate the future of storytelling.

RSVP by January 28tth at 5PM– if you MUST cancel, please contact the organizer (text or email) as she has to cover all RSVPs that bail.

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UPCOMING:

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 brought to you by TurboTax an Intuit product.

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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.