Girls In Tech

Friday, July 30, 2010
9 am – 4:00 pm
Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center, Stanford University
326 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA 94305-6105 || Twitter:  #crunchup

About the CrunchUp:
Tickets through Eventbrite: $295 includes:  admission for one (1) to the August Capital party and expedited fast-pass door entry. You do not need to purchase a separate August Capital Party ticket if you purchase a CrunchUp ticket.

As early adopters of technology, we’ve all grown accustomed that our opinions and product uses are not indicative of the average consumer.

• So what happens when we hit an inflection point and the masses matter?
• Do we really know what local merchants / SMBs need to support their businesses?
• What do we need to know about consumer psychology so our digitally delivered discounts resonate with consumers?
• What retail rules of the road do we need to honor to close a sale? How do we blend the best of virtual and real currencies to entertain consumers?

That’s what they’re going to explore at the Social Currency CrunchUp. They’re going to mix up real-world consumers and traditional retailers and marketers alongside the hottest new startups to shake things up and debate the future.  For their full line-up of speakers and panelists, including Groupon CEO Andrew Mason & Foursquare Director of Bus. Dev., Tristan Walker, go to: http://techcrunch.com/social-currency-crunchup-and-summer-party-at-august-capital/

To register, click on their Eventbrite link:: here.

Tags: CrunchUp, Foursquare, Groupon, Social Currency, TechCrunch
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Paul Fenwick is the managing director of Perl Training Australia, and has been teaching computer science for over a decade. He is an internationally acclaimed presenter at conferences and user-groups worldwide, where he is well-known for his humour and off-beat topics.

In his spare time, Paul’s interests include security, mycology, cycling, coffee, scuba diving, and lexically scoped user pragmata.

Check out Paul’s closing day Keynote presentation here

Follow @pjf

photo by David Snyder

Be sure to join Girls in Tech Portland Chapter at OSCON 2010 this year at Portland Oregon.

If you are interested in being a guest speaker and/or panelist for our workshops and lectures, pls feel free to drop me an email: ivo@girlsintech.net

tweet @mssonicflare @oscon @24notion @gitweet

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Please join us for…

Register:  http://mariamnaficyfasttrack.eventbrite.com/

Tags: crowd-sourcing, minted.com
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Girls in Tech Los Angeles has been kicking butt and taking names.  Our most recent event at the Hotel Erwin’s High Lounge was a mix of some of LA’s premier social media circle and our first sold out event.  Attendees sipped our signature GITinis while overlooking the gorgeous pacific ocean views.  

Girls in Tech LA has been partnering with local and national social media companies such as Digiday, Women in Technology International (WITI) and New Media Vault just to name a few.

Our core team has been working diligently to bring you the best in content and events here in the LA area.  A huge thank you must be given to our Media Director Mollie Vandor as well as our core LA team; Heather Meeker, Dimple Thakkar, Christine Kirk, Meredith Williams, Lauren Berger, Stacey Soleil and Rachel Blum.  We could not have built such an incredible community without your support.

Stay tuned for our Social Fashion Beauty Summit September 10th sponsored by Saks Fifth Avenue .  It promises to be our best event yet.

Tags: digiday, girls in tech, laurel kaufman, Los Angeles, networking, new media vault, saks fifth avenue, social media, technology, WITI
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David Recordon is the Senior Open Programs Manager at Facebook, where he leads open source and open standards initiatives. He joined Facebook from Six Apart where he focused on platform strategies, and previously worked at VeriSign in the emerging business group. David has played a pivotal role in the development and popularization of key social media technologies, such as OpenID and OAuth. He collaborated with Brad Fitzpatrick in the development of OpenID, which has since become the most popular decentralized single-sign-on protocol in the history of the Web. In 2007, he became the youngest recipient of the Google-O’Reilly Open Source Award.

Check out David’s Keynote presentation at OSCON

David is a native Portlander. He enjoys hanging out with his friends and family

Working in Facebook, what’s the most challenging task to date?

Scale to continue to grow. Active users double in the year after year. Constantly continue to scale; new products and platforms; new version of API and more…We have about 400 Engineering team that support 500M growing users by day.

What’s current technology/device that you couldn’t live without- if you could take in a deserted island?

Kindle; I love to read.

Follow David on twitter @Daveman692

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Last week was a bitter sweet moment for me and my time with Girls in Tech, San Francisco. It was my last event with the chapter before I relocate next month, but it was by far my personal favorite!  I sat down in front of an oh-so-fashionable audience and had a conversation with the amazing San Francisco fashion blogger Jennine Jacob of The Coveted.

My first blog post for Girls in Tech was about Jennine and her blog that I just fell in love with and visited daily to get the scoop on outfit ideas, new designers, local shops and more. I thought, what better way to end my years volunteering for Girls in Tech with one-on-one talk with Jennine to learn about her successful blog, her amazing Independent Fashion Bloggers Network and other ventures she’s starting.

Jennine modestly walked us through her blogging career that we all see as an amazing success. She is well-known in the San Francisco blogger community, was just featured in San Francisco’s 7×7 Magazine and IFB has a huge membership and is actively involved in New York Fashion Week.

She explained that The Coveted was not an overnight success, but something she worked at for a long time and built her following organically. She gave inspirational tips for new bloggers on how to gain readership, how to get involved in their online communities and how to best monetize their blogs without ads splashed all over.

It was a great event that I was looking forward to after months of execution and planning. I thank Jennine for taking the time to share her journey with our Girls in Tech San Francisco members and other local aspiring bloggers.

Thanks also to the Sandbox Suites for the fantastic venue and to Laura Jane Iriarte for photographing the event! Take a look!

Tags: blogging, fashion, San Francisco
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To register for your complimentary pass, click on the link below:
http://www.formstack.com/forms/?973161-TJwNThzwih

The AlwaysOn opening night program and after party are tomorrow – July 27th – and Girls in Tech are invited to attend the first night, free. You can attend the program which highlights all the start-up entrepreneurs the conference is hosting; and attend the after-party with guest host Vivienne Tam!

The AlwaysOn & STVP Summit at Stanford is a two-and-a-half-day executive gathering that highlights the significant economic, political and commercial trends affecting the global technology industries. The AlwaysOn & STVP Summit at Stanford features the most innovative companies, eminent technologists, influential investors and journalists in keynote presentations, panel debates and private company CEO showcases.

When: July 27th, Tuesday

Where: Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center, Stanford University

Time: 5:00 pm – program; 7:00 pm – reception

To find out more information on the entire summit, you may click here.

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If you don’t already know the fabulous Girl in Tech @CathyBrooks this is a powerful workshop and opportunity to work one-on-one with her.

Thanks to popular demand, Other Than That is proud to be bringing another installment of Story Navigation to Southern California.  Even more fabulous, because of her sponsors, limited scholarships are available.

What is Story Navigation?

I’ll answer that question with another question … What’s your story?

It’s a common enough query, and when presented in a business setting it generally results in a common enough response – a recitation of the C.V.

Think about the most compelling professional stories you’ve heard. The stories that captured your attention and motivated you to act. Whether explicit or not, those tales share at least one thing in common – a deep connection to the teller’s personal motivation. Making that critical connection between “who” and “what” is hard to do. Take this workshop and you’ll learn how, and if you’re someone who already has a pretty strong grasp, you’ll get tips to help make your solid foundation even more powerful.

In this workshop you will learn:

• How to deconstruct your existing professional story
• To identify and/or better explain your personal “motivation” for your work
• Tips for crafting a more compelling story
• New questions to ask of other people (getting to *their* story)

You will walk out with:

• A well-defined personal “elevator pitch” that serves in business and can be modified for myriad uses/audiences.

For more information on Story Navigation, please visit the workshop web site.

For more information on your navigator, Cathy Brooks, you can check out this link.

Tags: business women, Cathy Brooks, girls in tech, laurel kaufman, Los Angeles, navigation, story, tech, workshop
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Tell us more about Chris Dibona and your Google team

Chris DiBona is the open source and public sector programs manager at Mountain View, Ca. based Google. His team oversees license compliance and supports the open source developer community through programs such as the Google Summer of Code and through the release of open source software projects and patches. In the public sector space, he looks after Google Moderator, the polling locations API. More information about Google’s open source program can be found at http://code.google.com/opensource

Tell us more about your keynote presentation tomorrow?
I’ll be sharing more about how the open source has been changing in the last 3 years. I’ve been doing this for 6 years now in open source; I will give an overview how Open source is growing. A couple years ago were about licenses. Last year was about languages and now it’s about licenses, languages and people. It’s more entertaining now. In this short, weensy eensy, talk, Chris will give an update on how open source has changed over the last three years. Is Ruby growing? Actionscript? Or is it all PHP all the way down? How’s gplv3 doing? Agpl? MIT? Will the Nasa open source license domainte? Come and find out!

You are one of the most accomplished individual; what can we learn from you?
I was actually a very bad student; I wish I would’ve paid more attention earlier then I wouldn’t be in this much farther along. It took me a while to straighten up.

Which sessions are you most excited about?
Tuesday night-Ignite was a blast. Today is all about press.

What would be a single take away for the attendees that you want them to gain from your session/keynote? Open source is vital. Tons of exciting resources. It’s a place for us to hack. More importantly there are billions of codes out there to be used. Many people have never used them before and I think everyone who has a computer could use it.

Is this your first time being part of Oscon?
No, I’ve been here before. I like leaving for another city though. It gives me a reason to get out from my town every so often.

What’s current device that you couldn’t live without?
My mobile-Nexus one

So what’s next for you your team? Any exciting development?
More data, more code… and more of everything.

Be sure to watch Chris’ keynote presentation tomorrow morning at 9am- OSCON ; follow him @Cdibona

Be sure to join Girls in Tech Portland Chapter at OSCON 2010 this year at Portland Oregon.

If you are interested in being a guest speaker and/or panelist for our workshops and lectures, pls feel free to drop me an email: ivo@girlsintech.net

tweet @mssonicflare @oscon @24notion @gitweet

Tags: 24notion, api, chris dibona, community, Developer, girls in tech, girls in tech portland, gitpdx, Google, ivo, Ivo Lukas, open source, opensource, oregon, OSCON, Portland, technology
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