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Social Innovation Fast Pitch

Social Venture Partners Seattle hosts the Social Innovation Fast Pitch, where 14 social entrepreneurs selected from over 120 applicants can connect with more than 400 attendees representing social investors, donors, and other interested people. Social entrepreneurs from non-profits, for-profits, high school and college compete for grants and investments of more than $175,000 using a 5-minute pitch. … Continue reading “Social Innovation Fast Pitch”

Xconomy VC Chat on Consumers, the Cloud, and Beyond, Plus 4 Cool Startups, Takes Place Tonight—Only 6 Tix Left

In one corner: Larry Bohn, General Catalyst Partners. Rich Levandov, Avalon Ventures. Jeff Fagnan, Atlas Venture. In the other corner: Apperian’s David Patrick. Tonight, starting at 6pm in downtown Boston, the VCs and startup CEO square off in Xconomy’s first event of the fall season, a venture chat called Consumers, the Cloud, and Beyond—New Rules … Continue reading “Xconomy VC Chat on Consumers, the Cloud, and Beyond, Plus 4 Cool Startups, Takes Place Tonight—Only 6 Tix Left”

“The Atlantic” Meets the Pacific at the Horizon of Energy, Technology, and Health

UC San Diego hosts the editors of The Atlantic magazine for three days of exploration and conversation on the future of energy, health, and technology. Hear from Twitter co-founder Evan Williams (in more than 140-characters), the Rocky Mountain Institute’s Amory Lovins, Deepak Chopra, Elon Musk, and The Atlantic’s James Fellows and James Bennet as they … Continue reading ““The Atlantic” Meets the Pacific at the Horizon of Energy, Technology, and Health”

A New Partner in Your Future? Biocom Looks Ahead With Dealmakers’ Survey

Biocom is hosting the Campbell Alliance to present the updated findings to its Dealmakers’ Intentions Survey, the only forward-looking measure of deal-making activity in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. While there are many quality sources of information that look historically at past deal trends, this survey offers a prospective view of the partnering and licensing … Continue reading “A New Partner in Your Future? Biocom Looks Ahead With Dealmakers’ Survey”

The Breakfast Club: The UCSD Microgrid

The Procopio law firm has organized a cleantech and environmental “Breakfast Club” to examine the implementation of UC San Diego’s renewable energy “microgrid,” and its relationship to the conventional grid. This microgrid has captured the attention of industry leaders around the country; for example, Forbes magazine recently highlighted the importance of the smartgrid as a … Continue reading “The Breakfast Club: The UCSD Microgrid”

The San Diego Venture Group Hosts Its 12th Annual PitchFest Business Plan Competition

Let the winnowing begin. Attendees at the venture group’s annual “PitchFest” will hear presentations by promising Southern California companies that are seeking seed-stage capital. The audience will vote on three finalists who will make their presentation during the dinner. Based upon their votes, the SDVG will award a total of $17,500 in prize money to … Continue reading “The San Diego Venture Group Hosts Its 12th Annual PitchFest Business Plan Competition”

The Dating Game: Healthcare Chooses Between Entrepreneurs No.1, No.2, or No.3

The San Diego Venture Group is looking for a few game-changing healthcare technologies to reprise a venture version of “The Dating Game.” If you’re a startup CEO with a company that focuses on improved health outcomes, you could be one of three eligible entrepreneurs who will get to play for a “date” (i.e. a one … Continue reading “The Dating Game: Healthcare Chooses Between Entrepreneurs No.1, No.2, or No.3”

Cleantech Open Pacific Northwest Awards Expo

The Cleantech Open, which honors emerging cleantech companies in the Northwest, will hold its third annual cleantech awards expo on Oct. 5 in Seattle. Three finalist companies will be picked to advance to the national competition. For more information on how to register, click here.

Navigating the Markets Three Years after the Financial Crisis

Standard & Poor’s unprecedented downgrade of the U.S. national debt, coupled with Europe’s debt crisis, has caused the economic recovery to be uneven, impacting investors, retirement security, corporate profitability, and investment opportunities in the stock, bond, and derivatives markets. The USD law school has organized a panel of experts to provide insights and help guide … Continue reading “Navigating the Markets Three Years after the Financial Crisis”

SDEE Entrepreneurs Roundtable: Supporting a Startup with Grants

The San Diego Entrepreneurs Exchange is hosting a panel discussion on how to start and sustain a business by leveraging funding from grants. Speakers include Greg Hook of American Life Science Pharmaceuticals, John Cashman of the Biomolecular Research Institute and Kenneth Abeloe of Integrity Applications. Attendance is free, but please register online here.

Biomimicry Reception Series

Shrimp-inspired body armor. Nano-scale energy generation. In this biomimicry reception UC Riverside Professor David Kisailus and his students share how they look to nature in designing the next generation of engineering products and materials. Additionally this reception will feature wine, appetizers, and a special biomimicry-themed animal encounter. More information and online registration is here.

Third Annual Maritime Business & Technology Summit

The Maritime Alliance has organized its third annual Maritime Business & Technology Summit to promote advances in maritime technology and business opportunities in the global maritime technology industry. The two-day conference is intended to bring together academia, government, industry, and military interests to promote innovation, maximize business and networking opportunities, and to draw companies from … Continue reading “Third Annual Maritime Business & Technology Summit”

The Next Mobile Revolution: Near-Field Communications

Near-Field Communications (NFC) is a technology that has been around for a number of years, but has been thrust into new prominence by an explosive growth in mobile phones, slated to reach five billion worldwide in 2011. With one chip, NFC enables trusted information sharing and secure business transactions to occur between paired devices. The … Continue reading “The Next Mobile Revolution: Near-Field Communications”

Governor’s Life Sciences Summit and WBBA Annual Meeting

The Governor’s Life Sciences Summit and WBBA annual meeting will be held Nov. 18 this year. Gov. Chris Gregoire, Eli Lilly CEO John Lechleiter, University of Washington president Michael Young, and Philips Ultrasound CEO Conrad Smits will be featured speakers. For more information on how to register, click here.

WBBA Pub Night

The Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association is hosting one of its regular pub nights on Oct. 6 at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Seattle. For more information, click here.

Women in Bio: Network Hop

Heard of bar hopping? The Women in Bio Seattle chapter is planning to go “Network Hopping,” and do some “noshing along the way.” Ada Healey, VP of Real Estate, Vulcan, will be one of the featured speakers. For more information, click here.

Computing on the Brink

What happens when the brightest technologists in the Puget Sound get together to talk, eat, drink and listen to each other? Spreadingscience will host a conversation about computing with invited guests Deepak Singh of Amazon Web Services, Sarah Killcoyne of the Institute of Systems Biology, and Jeff Paslay, president of Paslay Consulting. For more information … Continue reading “Computing on the Brink”

Investor Feedback Forum and Pitch Showdown

Ultra Light Startups presents an evening of pitches and coaching for entrepreneurs. Panelists include John Ason of Kewpie Associates, Paul Sciabica and Brian Cohen from New York Angels, and Jonathan Stillman, founder & president of Half Moon Ventures and managing director at Assembla. Register here.

Venture Alpha

From the event announcement: A day of candid discussion of successful fundraising and execution strategies in the venture business, Venture Alpha is the must-attend event for anyone looking to raise a VC fund this fall. The conference already boasts an extensive list of speakers, and the editors of Venture Capital Journal have just added a … Continue reading “Venture Alpha”

StoryWorld Conference & Expo

From the conference website: “Develop your intellectual property’s infinite potential for growth and profit. Transmedia entertainment—the art and business of creating a rich, cohesive story world that reaches audiences through film, book, game, social media, and more—is the most exciting and potentially lucrative development in entertainment today.” Keynote speaker: Jordan Weisman, creator of Cathy’s Book, … Continue reading “StoryWorld Conference & Expo”

Startup Exits: Early Stage M&A

From the event listing: Join successful entrepreneurs and startup acquisition professionals for a special evening event in San Francisco on the topic of “Startup Exits.”  Hear stories from entrepreneurs who’ve sold their companies– how they did it, what they learned, and what they would do differently next time.   Meet M&A teams from some of the most active … Continue reading “Startup Exits: Early Stage M&A”

The Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour

The Business & Entrepreneurship Center and Small Business Development Center are proud to bring The Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour to City College of San Francisco on September 21, 2011 as part of a four-week series of events at 16 Community Colleges throughout California.   The tour, presented by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Campaign for Free Enterprise … Continue reading “The Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour”

Cleantech Corridor Legislative Conference

The CleanTech Corridor has organized this half-day event for San Diego’s cleantech leaders, elected officials, and others interested in encouraging the development of new sustainable technology companies and jobs in the region. Sessions are focused in three general areas: cleantech success and opportunites; best practices of other cleantech clusters, including infrastructure and resources; identifying legislative … Continue reading “Cleantech Corridor Legislative Conference”

Frontiers in Science and Technology: Using Alternative Splicing to Make Neurons from Stem Cells

UC San Diego Assistant Professor Gene Yeo will explain how new genomic tools his lab in UCSD’s Cellular and Molecular Medicine Department are being used to better understand neurodegenerative disease, and to help advance stem cell research. Yeo’s work has focused on how genes produce copies of pre-mRNA, which then undergo a modification process called … Continue reading “Frontiers in Science and Technology: Using Alternative Splicing to Make Neurons from Stem Cells”

Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa

The sixth annual Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa is a two-day conference aimed at bringing together the scientific, research, and business development communities in regenerative medicine to advance stem cell science into cures for debilitating diseases and injuries. The meeting features a nationally recognized scientific symposium attended by leading scientists and researchers. More information … Continue reading “Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa”

Connect with Connect in the Life Sciences

Entrepreneurs, innovators, researchers, investors, and professional service providers from San Diego’s most innovative industries are invited for a special “Connect with Connect” to be held at the UC San Diego Health System’s new Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center. This event will feature all things bio—mobile health, medical devices, diagnostics, genomics, pharmaceuticals, biofuels, biomimicry, and more. Online registration … Continue reading “Connect with Connect in the Life Sciences”

Box.net Boxworks

It’s Box.net’s first annual customer conference: BoxWorks ’11, designed to help users with best practices and hands-on training through 1:1 engagement with Box experts, the Box team, and other customers. The event will feature keynote talks from Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, Forrester Research analyst Ted Schadler, and “Crossing the Chasm” author Geoffrey Moore, as well … Continue reading “Box.net Boxworks”

Defining Moments: SVB Accelerator CEO Summit

From the event announcement: Silicon Valley Bank, financial partner to technology and life science companies of all sizes worldwide, will host a day-long educational event for entrepreneurs in which they can learn from the successes and mistakes of other startup founders and CEOs. “Defining Moments: Inflection Points in the Life of a Startup” is Silicon … Continue reading “Defining Moments: SVB Accelerator CEO Summit”

Women Powering Technology Summit

From the event announcement: WITI (Women in Technology International), the leading global trade association for professional, tech-savvy women, returns to Silicon Valley October 2-4, 2011, for the Annual Women Powering Technology Summit at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in San Jose, California. The 3-day Summit will feature keynote presentations from Marissa Mayer, Vice President, Google; … Continue reading “Women Powering Technology Summit”

Silicon Valley Open Doors

From the event website: American Business Association of Russian Professionals is proud to announce 7th annual Technology Investment Conference. SVOD 2011 will take place in Computer History Museum (Mountain View, CA) on November 29-30, 2011. This year, SVOD will take place under the auspices of the Russian Innovation Center, which was recently founded by Rusnano, … Continue reading “Silicon Valley Open Doors”

DITA Fest 2011

From the event announcement: The momentum towards adoption of the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) continues unabated. As new companies adopt the standard, and as existing DITA deployments mature, many organizations are now starting to ponder… What comes next? That’s why SDL and The Content Wrangler invite you attend DITA Fest 2011, an annual educational … Continue reading “DITA Fest 2011”

Open Mobile Summit

From the event website: The Open Mobile Summit San Francisco 2011, Nov 2-4, will be the single most significant event in converging mobile, Internet, media and electronics this year. Now in its 4th year the Open Mobile Summit connects 850+ of the most powerful people in converging mobile, Internet and media. Two days of thought-leading … Continue reading “Open Mobile Summit”

Corporate Cash for Cleantech

As cleantech VC investing takes a plunge, large corporate investment arms are jumping in. Join us for an industry panel event focused on large corporations looking to cleantech for new business opportunities. This interactive debate will feature corporate players that are getting into cleantech and will highlight companies receiving funding from investment arms, those directly … Continue reading “Corporate Cash for Cleantech”

CrowdConf2011

CrowdConf is the first and leading conference on crowdsourcing and the future of distributed work, bringing together an international audience of scholars, executives, policy makers, artists, and technologists for a day of learning, conversation, and networking. Use Discount code: XCONSF for 20 percent off conference tickets. Early-bird pricing until September 16th! Website: www.crowdconf.com.

Michigan Emerging

Gov. Rick Snyder will deliver the keynote address at this symposium geared toward “movers, shakers, entrepreneurs, and those who love Michigan and want to help.” The packed agenda includes panels, clinics, and an awards ceremony. Click here for details and registration.

Angel Capital Association Workshop

Entrepreneurs stay home; this workshop is targeted at angel investors and those looking to break into the arena. This session covers the topics of the overall angel investment process and due diligence. Register here.

Seattle Sequencing Interest Group Meeting

Jason Smith and Tony Dodge from Ion Torrent will be guest speakers, along with Lara Mangravite of Sage Bionetworks, at a gathering of the Seattle Sequencing Interest Group on Thursday, Sept 8. For more information on how to sign up, click here.

SBTDC Offers Classes by Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs

The Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center is hosting a series of business development programs aimed at both start-up and second-stage businesses. FastTrac NewVenture and FastTrac GrowthVenture are 10-week programs being held in Wayne County and Oakland County. Classes begin on Oct. 4 in Tech Town, 440 Burroughs Street, Detroit; Oct. 11 in Oakland County; and … Continue reading “SBTDC Offers Classes by Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs”