May event calendar now updated to show 5/18-5/30 events. Have fun!
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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
ThursdayLunch
12PM @ Santa Monica/ 3rd
Santa Monica Promenade
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MAY EVENTS
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Saturday, May 2nd – Sunday, May 3rd
Barcamp LA
10:00am-5:00pm
OTX Research
10567 Jefferson Blvd
Culver City, CA 90232
Detail and agenda BarCamp is an ad-hoc un-conference born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from attendees.
All attendees should be prepared to give a demo, run a session, or help with one. All presentations are scheduled the day they happen. Prepare in advance, but come early to get a slot on the wall.
Presenters are responsible for making sure that notes/slides/audio/video of their presentations are published on the web for the benefit of all and those who can’t be present.
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Monday May 4th-Thursday, May 7th
Digital Hollywood
Loews Santa Monica
1700 Ocean Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Digital Hollywood debuted in 1990 and has from its start been among the leading trade conferences in its field with over 15,000 top executives in the film, television, music, home video, cable, telecommunications and computer industries attending the various events each year.
(Note: If you aren’t already familiar with DH events, I recommend you attend if in the tech, media or entertainment fields. The speaker list is impressive so I can only imagine what the attendee list looks like. I’ll be visiting on Monday.)
Exhibits Open
Tuesday, May 5th
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday, May 6th
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Conference
Monday, May 4th
Pre-Day Events 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday, May 5th
Supersessions
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday, May 6th
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday, May 7th
9:30 AM - 3:30 PM
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Monday, May 11th
GeekOut! ‘09
7:00-9:00pm
W Hotel
930 Hilgard Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Embrace your inner geek and be the geek that keeps on giving! Join The Society for Geek Advancement and Tubefilter for the first ever GeekOut! at the W Los Angeles - Westwood’s Whiskey Blue. RSVP here.
What is Geek Out?
Geek Out! is all about celebrating your inner geek. We’re bringing together geeks from the entertainment and tech worlds for this invitation only event to celebrate what it really means to be passionate about the things we do and the people we do them with.
The event will also celebrate the launch of I AM A GEEK!, a rallying cry for geeks around the world. The video features some of the biggest personalities in the social networking and web 2.0 space, including Shaq, Steve Wozniak, Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Pollak, Wil Wheaton, Levar Burton, Jason Calacanis, Samm Levine, Felicia Day, Kevin Rose, Alex Albrecht, Leo Laporte, IJustine, David Karpe, Veronica Belmont, Sarah Lacy, Randi Zuckerberg, Ton Hsieh, Gary Vaynerchuk, Jonathan Coulton, Kevin Pereira, Tay Zonday, Julia Allison, Julia Roy, Marina Orlova and Shira Lazar
Sip on Geektinis, rock out to Dublab’s live streaming DJ sponsored by Honda and make your best geek pose at the digital photobooth.
Give Back
We’re also donating as well as raise money benefiting Room To Read, building schools and libraries for children in developing countries around the world, so make sure to include your donation when RSVP’ing!
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Tuesday, May 12th
DealMaker Media Presents: Dual Citizenship: Leveraging the Advantages Between Silicon Valley & L.A
6:30-8:30pm
Agency 151
El Camino Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
You can’t avoid it… Northern and Southern California are totally different places, complete with distinct business cultures and values.
Though the L.A. tech scene is thriving, entrepreneurs have to ask themselves: does Silicon Valley have the upper hand, and if so - how can SoCal startups leverage those differences?
Moderator:
Richard Wolpert, Managing Director, The Mailroom Fund
Speakers:
Jason Oberfest, VP Business Development, MySpace
Joey Carson, President & CEO, Hollywood Interactive Group
Mike Jones, * New COO, MySpace
Mark Suster, Partner, GRP Partners
Invite only. Submit here to apply.
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Monday, May 18th
Digital Drinks @ The Viceroy
6:00-10:00pm
1819 Ocean Ave
Santa Monica, CA
For our next Digital Drinks, we’re headed back to the beach to the swank Viceroy hotel in Santa Monica. We’ll soak up the sunshine back by the twin pools and white cabanas. Then we’ll transition to twilight poolside lounging as we chat all things digital and entertainment. Citysearch says: Viceroy’s kelly green colors blend with white antique furniture, china plates, leather lounges, and furry rugs.
Ask for our Digital Drink special: Bohemian cocktail with vodka, St. Germain, and blackberries ($10)
Bring plenty o’ biz cards cuz u don’t wanna run out - and drop one off for our biz card drawing for:
- Flip Mino HD DVD Camcorder, courtesy of Sapient Interactive http://sapient.com
- cases of Red Bull
If you’d like to sponsor a prize email info@digitalla.net with VICEROY as the subject
$10 ADVANCE REGISTRATION REQUIRED by Sun May 17.
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Tuesday, May 19th
Technology Council of SoCal Present: Social Networking as a Business Strategy
5:45 - 6:45 PM Networking
6:45-9:00 PM Program & Dinner
Sheraton Four Points
5990 Green Valley Circle
Culver City, CA 90230
Cost: Technology Council Members $35 / Non-members $60
Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy. Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium. Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, “What are you working on?”
Companies also use social networking sites in the hiring process, and increasingly, to do innovative advertising (such as the recent Jack in the Box campaign). This Panel will explore issues such as: How can companies best utilize social networking media? What are the risks and rewards? Can social networking be a money-maker for companies? Does advertising work in the social networking world? Top officers of some of the leading social media websites and tools (including Facebook, MySpace and Yammer) will be on the Panel, and there will be panelists from the worlds of media sharing platforms (Pringo), online advertising (Stun Media) and law (Greenberg Glusker), the latter to highlight risks relating to such issues as corporate blogging and privacy.
Speakers:
* Jason Oberfest, Senior Vice President, Business Development of MySpace
* Paul Ollinger, West Coast Vice President of Sales of Facebook
* Sam Cimino, Sales Manager SW, YouTube
* Majid Abai, CEO of Pringo
* Michael Goldstein, CEO of Stun Media
* Richard Neff, Head of IP & Tech Group of Greenberg Glusker
* David Schwartz, Vice President, Corporate Development of Yammer
Moderator: Dr. Tony Karrer, CEO/CTO of TechEmpower
Register here.
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Wednesday, May 20th
Digital LA - Games Go Social Panel
7:00-10:00pm
uWink - Hollywood & Highland
6801 Hollywood Boulevard #411 (4th flr)
Los Angeles, CA
Video games are expanding beyond core young male gamers to reach females, casual gamers, and the mainstream. Online communities, social network gaming, and mobile games are jumping in use and popularity. Join our Digital LA and Girl Gamer.com prE-3 panel to cover topics including:
- Rise in casual games: party, music, dancing, fitness
- Games going beyond the core to reach females and mainstream audiences
- Online casual games, apps, and social networks
- Online communities for hard core and casual gamers to trade tips, cheats, socialize, compete, etc.
- Mobile games to play on your cell, iPhone, PDA
Scheduled speakers include:
- Carlson Choi, Activision, Director Interactive Marketing
- Travis Falstad, EA Mobile, Social Marketing @eamobile
- Mike Prasad, GirlGamer.com, Co-Founder @girlgamer
- Anne Toole, writer/designer (Stargate Worlds, The Wizard 101, The Witcher (WGA nominated))
- Steven McClurg, President, Social Potatoes
More speakers TBA
If u work for a major game publisher and can speak about games going social, email info@digitalla.net with subject GAMES and a brief description of your project.
AGENDA
7-8: Check-in and networking
8-9:30 Panel and Q&A
9:30-10 Even more networking
$18 ADVANCE REGISTRATION REQUIRED by MAY 19. Space limited. Register here.
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Thursday, May 21st
Media Club LA
7:30-10:30pm
Skybar
8440 W Sunset Blvd
West Hollywood, CA 90069
The Media Club (LA) offers you an alternative to your current business and networking opportunities.
The Media Club (LA) rapidly expanded and currently reaches 5000 members in LA where we organize business and networking events for our members.
Attendees work at companies such as CAA, Disney, Dreamworks, Fox, ICM, MySpace, NBC, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Universal Studios, William Morris, YouTube, etc.
Ticket’s are $10 in advance.
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Thursday, May 21st
Mindshare
7:00pm-1:00am
Gallery 1018
1018 S Santa Fe Ave
Los Angeles, CA
William Pomerantz / Senior Director of Space Projects, The X PRIZE Foundation
Winning Our Way to the Moon
Heather Knight / Roboticist, MIT Media Lab
Social Robotics - Exploring the Human-Robot Relationships
David de Rothschild / Founder, Adventure Ecology
The Plastiki - Rethinking Plastic as a Resource!
Daniel Yoder / Hacker, Zeraweb Labs
Flash Fundraising for The Abruzzo Earthquake
Unnamed Military Source / US Air Force
Apocalypse Survival (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Breakdown of Society)
Evonne Heyning & Matt Davis / Lightning Temple Artists
INTERACTIVATION: Collaborative Visions of Human Evolution
And of course there will be and open bar, hors d’ouevres, music and a number of installations on display from the great brains from Mindshare Labs!
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Thursday, May 21st
GET HIRED 2.0
6:30-8:30PM
Santa Monica Library (Martin Luther King Jr. Auditorium)
601 Santa Monica Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90401
ResumeBucket.com has gathered the Top Hiring Managers in Los Angeles to discuss what Jobseekers need to know to take on this challenging job market.
Panelists include hiring reps from Disney | ABC Television Group, Warner Bros., MySpace, Demand Media, CyberCoders, NeoHire and more. Topics include the current shifts in hiring candidates, the importance of having a powerful Internet presence and the things you need to know when working with an internal hiring manager versus an outside recruiter.
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Thursday, May 21st
South Bay Tech Group May Happy Hour
5:30-7:30pm
Shade
1221 N Valley Drive
Manhattan Beach, CA
Monthly casual networking meeting with technology and online media entreprenuers who live and/or work in the South Bay. 119 members in the group and we usually have a turnout of 25-30 people show up each month. No cover charge and this event is not sponsored so please bring a few bucks to pay for your own drinks.
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Wednesday May 27th
Social Media Club: SEO in Your Social Media Strategy: Links and Other Tactics
7:00-9:30pm
Rubicon Project HQ
1925 Bundy Avenue
Los Angeles, CA
Register here . Cost is $10 if not a card carrying member of SMC.
“SEO in Your Social Media Strategy: Links and Other Tactics”
Discover how to leverage Social Media to boost your search engine rankings at this month’s SMCLA panel on “SEO in your social media strategy: Links and Other Tactics”. As an added bonus, learn about Social Media ROI from Forrester Research. Our all-star panel includes SEO heavy-hitters:
Tony Adam
SEO Manager, Yahoo!
http://tonyadam.com
Barbara Bowser
Social Media Specialist, Three Dog Media
http://www.3dogmedia.com/
Sean Percival
Director of Content, Tsavo Media
http://seanpercival.com
Jeffrey Henderson
President and Founder, Adept Marketing Concepts
http://adeptmarketingconcepts.com
Panel to be preceded by a presentation on social media ROI by:
Dr. Natalie L. Petouhoff
Customer Service, Customer Experience and Social Media, Forrester Research
@drnatalie
We’ll answer these questions and more:
1. What is the single-most important thing I need to do to boost SEO? How does social media help me do this?
2. What are some of the myths about SEO and social media?
3. What are the top 5 tools to use to improve my use of social media for SEO?
4. How should I approach blog posts with an eye towards SEO?
5. Who should I follow/read to keep up to date on the topic of SEO?
6. What are some of the key things to layout when developing a SEO / social media strategy for my brand?
7. What can I learn from my competition? How can I reverse engineer the top ranking sites for the keywords I want to rank in?
8. What is link love and why do I want it so badly?
9. How do social bookmarking sites like Digg, Del.icio.us, and StumbleUpon affect my SEO rankings? How can social media get me to the top of these sites?
10. What’s your best dirty little secret/trick when it comes to Social Media and SEO?
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Wednesday May 27th
GIT LA and Women & Wine present - CLOSE ANY DEAL OVER A GLASS OF WINE
7:00-10:00pm
Women & Wine
1800 North Stanley Avenue
Los Angeles, CA
CLOSE ANY DEAL OVER A GLASS OF WINE
with Julie Brosterman, Founder/CEO of Women & Wine
“Close Any Deal Over a Glass of Wine” is part of Julie’s on-going seminar which empowers women to get tips on how to order off the wine list to save money, to tips on networking, entertaining, or asking for financing.
*There will be a selection of wines for purchase straight from Julie’s Beverly Hills store, Wine Valet.
Tickets $15 (incl. Wine & Hors D’oeuvres)
BarCamp San Diego 5
Saturday, May 30, 2009 at 10:00am
Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 6:00pm
Intuit
7535 Torrey Santa Fe Rd
San Diego, CA
BarCamp San Diego is an unconference made up of of technical professionals, Internet enthusiasts, and other clever people in the Southern California area who wish to share and learn in an open environment.
Attendees don’t just watch a set list of speakers. They give their own talks. Podcasting. Web standards. Microformats. Gum stick computers. Physical security. Robotics. Evolutionary algorithms. It can be anything. One of the best barcamp presentations ever given was about sandwiches. Barcamp is what you make of it.
RSVP here.
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