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CommNexus, the San Diego telecom trade group, has organized the ninth annual GadgetFest as an opportunity for tech companies large and small to show their wares and compete to have their technology named “Greatest Gadget.” The exhibit, networking, and registration begin at 4:30 p.m. More information is available here.

CommNexus, San Diego’s wireless industry trade group, has asked Clint McClellan, Qualcomm’s senior director of market development, to provide an overview of the wireless health industry. McClellan also will talk about the significance of San Diego’s new West Wireless Health Institute. Registration and networking begins at 7:30 a.m., or you can register online here.

Biocom has organized this legislative roundtable meeting with State Sen. Christine Kehoe, the Democrat whose 39th Senate District includes much of San Diego, Del Mar, and Lemon Grove. Sen. Kehoe chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee, and is a member of the senate committees on banking, finance and insurance, energy, local government, natural resources, and transportation … Continue reading “Biocom Roundtable with State Sen. Christine Kehoe”

Biocom has scheduled its regular monthly breakfast meeting, but the agenda remains unsettled. For more information, check out Biocom’s event calendar here.

The San Diego Venture Group’s annual summer social is a tropical picnic in paradise. In this case, paradise takes the form of the extraordinary, ocean-front conference center at the southern end of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography campus. More information is available here.

Biocom, the San Diego life sciences trade association, opens its doors for a back-to-basics afternoon for enjoying food, drinks, and conversation with 400 life sciences colleagues. More information and online registration is here.

San Diego’s early success in academic and industrial biotechnology research has helped to establish the region with an early lead in the fast-paced industrial development of algae-based biofuels technologies. If successful, startups such as Synthetic Genomics and Sapphire Energy could eventually replace petroleum fuels with a renewable energy industry, and transform San Diego into a world leader in renewable … Continue reading “Algae, Biofuels, and Logarithmic Growth”

Connect’s Frontiers in Science and Technology hosts Eric Topol, the cardiologist and Scripps Health chief academic officer, to discuss the advances he is seeing. Topol also serves as director of the NIH-funded Scripps Translational Science Institute, as a senior consultant cardiologist at Scripps Clini, and as chief medical officer of the West Wireless Health Institute. More … Continue reading “The World According to Eric Topol”

Selected entrepreneurs will make a two-minute quick pitch presentation to members of the San Diego network of Tech Coast Angels. A panel comprising veteran CEOs and startup investors will score both the substance of your presentation and the quality of your presentation itself. Winners will receive valuable services and awards plus great exposure. Only the … Continue reading “Throw Out The First Pitch! San Diego Tech Coast Angels Host Third Annual Quick Pitch Competition”