www.sylviapaull.You’re invited to join us for our monthly INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster lunch on Wednesday, March 14, from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Berkeley Rep Theater, 2020 Addison, in downtown Berkeley. Our speaker – besides each and every one of you – is Nicolai Wadstrom, obviously an obsessive-compulsive entrepreneur, who after starting and selling several tech companies, decided to incubate a whole bunch at once. His BootsrapLabs in Silicon Valley is home to Prezi, Zerply, UbaniGo, and Witsbits, and he’ll talk about how he builds and accelerates startups that last(so far).
RSVP to whoisylvia@aol.comif you’d like to order an organic, Berkeley-style lunch from The Bread Workshop for $15 (payable at the door), or just come and bring your own lunch. Although we’ll have coffee, we usually run out of H2O, so bring your own beverage in whatever kind of container you
www.sylviapaull.com
Or if you just want to get to know the world of startups in Berkeley, join us for an evening of brilliant, energetic people making innovation happen here
To reserve a lunch you must RSVP to whoisylvia@aol.com a day in advance.
PAST EVENTS: In addition to the events listed below, go to the website for the Berkeley Skydeck startup accelerator
for a listing of additional events that are related to entrepreneurship, innovation and technology.
C-12 Energy Happy Hour - Berkeley Energy Innovators
Date: Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Time: 6-8.00 p.m
Location: The HUB Berkeley, David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, 4th Floor, Berkeley
Registration: Required - Click HERE
Building a new energy future requires brilliant minds in every discipline -- engineering, biology, economics, entrepreneurship, policy, finance, and marketing to name just a few. Come share a beer and a snack with Berkeley's best entrepreneurs, researchers and creative thinkers working on addressing the central issue of this century. The event is sponsored by C12 Energy and the Berkeley Startup Cluster and is hosted by at the HUB Berkeley in the David Brower Center Join a wide range of energy geeks for our fourth happy hour at the Berkeley HUB in the David Brower Center.
INFUSION Lunch - Martial Artist and Cybersecurity Expert Thomas Parenty on IP Protection
Date: Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
Time: Noon - 1.30 p.m.
Location: Berkeley Rep Theater, 2025 Addison, Berkeley
Registration: $15 cash at the door for Lunch. RSVP required
(or feel free to bring your own lunch!)
From noon to 1 p.m., YOU are the speaker, so come prepared to join us at a roundtable discussion. At 1.00, we'll hear from Thomas Parenty, enterprise security expert, author, lecturer, and martial arts competitor. He's just returned from several years in Hong Kong, where he consulted for companies, governments, and institutions. Parenty will talk about intellectual property protection from an Asian/Chinese perspective. He's one smart guy, and if you want to find out more about him, check out his site at www.parenty.com.
ENERGY Innovation Happy Hour - Tuesday, October 16th
C12 Energyalong with the Berkeley Startup Clusterwill be hosting the next Berkeley Energy Happy Hour on Tuesday, October 16th, from 6-8pm. Join a bunch of energy geeks for our third happy hour in the Berkeley HUBin the David Brower Center. Attendees will be eligible for a 20% discount off the Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative 2012 Symposium. Use BERCPARTNERS12 as your discount code when you register with them.
Date: Tuesday, October 16th
Time: 6-8pm
Location: Hub Berkeley, 2150 Allston Way, Suite 400, Berkeley, CA 94704
Signup: RSVP Required. Contact chelsea.turner@c12energy.com
HUB-Berkeley is the first US location of HUB Global whose mission is to enable scalable sustainable impact. Berkeley’s cozy HUB continues to fuel idea collisions around the Bay Area. Come and rub shoulders and knock back a beer with other brilliant energy nerds. Entrepreneurs, professionals, and students all welcome.
Or if you just want to get to know the world of startups in Berkeley, join us for an evening of brilliant, energetic people making innovation happen here.
INFUSION Lunch with Lisa Petrides to talk about Big Ideas
Date: Wednesday, October 17 , 2012
Time: 12.00-1.30 p.m.
Location: Berkeley Rep Theater, 2025 Addison, Berkeley
Registration: $12 cash at the door for Lunch. RSVP required
(or feel free to bring your own lunch!)
Almost 12 years ago, Lisa Petrides, a Columbia University professor of education, decided to quit academia and build an entirely new system of education based on free and open access for all. Using her connections and reputation as an innovator, she raised millions in grants to start a nonprofit institute in Half Moon Bay known as ISKME, which developed the award-winning OER Commons initiative, an open source teaching and learning network. ISKME also hosts a Big Ideas Fest (www.bigideasfest.org), where participants team up to solve one of three major education challenges facing the world, and winning teams receive funding to complete their prototypes. A prolific blogger and tweeter, Lisa is also writing a book on what the future of education will look like. If you'd like to hear her vision, come join us. www.sylviapaull.com
Eureka! Innovation in Berkeley Pitch Event - Monday, October 29th
Come to the second quarterly EUREKA! event, an evening of connections and education for entrepreneurs and investors. EUREKA! provides mentoring, resources, networking, and feedback from angel investors to early stage entrepreneurs. Application criteria: early stage ventures with high-growth potential that have raised $50,000 to $250,000 in seed capital located in Berkeley. Online application is available at www.eureka-berkeley.com. There is no fee to present.
Date: Monday, October 29th, 2012
Time: 5:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: Kinzie Conference Room, The David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
Cost: $20
Registration: Required
Eureka! is organized in partnership with the Keiretsu Forum Angel Investment Network, the City of Berkeley Office of Economic Development and the Berkeley Startup Cluster.
PAST EVENTS
Thursday, September 13 | 8:30 - 9:30 am
Downtown Berkeley BART Plaza at Shattuck and Center
The Downtown Berkeley Association has installed Free Wifi in BART Plaza for the convenience of all visitors, residents, workers and merchants in the Downtown. On September 13th, come celebrate FREE Wifi in BART Plaza with elected officials, city staff, and your entire Downtown community! Connect to the free internet, drink free coffee donated by Tully's, and delicious free breakfast pastries provided by the DBA.
Now you can check your email, update your facebook page, and read the news out in the sunshine!
Thanks to SF WiFi for the installation, to Almare Gelatofor sharing their internet service plan, and to Seagate Propertiesfor making the project possible.
INFUSION Lunch with Billy Parish, Founder of SolarMosaic
Making Good -- And Making Money? Parish The Thought!
Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Time: 12-1.30 p.m.
Location: The Berkeley Rep, 2015 Addison Street, Berkeley
RSVP: whoisylvia@aol.com
Billy Parish, president and cofounder of Solar Mosaic, a nonprofit that generates funding for solar energy projects through online no-interest investments from the public. It's also spinning off a for-profit company. Billy co-founded and grew the Energy Action Coalition into the largest youth organization in the world focused on clean energy and climate solutions. Billy is an Ashoka Fellow and the author of Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money & Community in a Changing World.Solar Mosaic is located in west Berkeley and green celebs Van Jones and Paul Hawken grace their board.
$10 lunch catered by The Bread Workshop, or bring your own lunch for free.
Berkeley Startup Cluster Meetup -- Won't You Be My Neighbor?
The Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum - Angel and Venture Capital Financing
Wednesday May 16 INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster Lunch
Larry Downes on The Laws of Disruption
Date: Wednesday, May 16
Time: 12-1:30 p.m.
Location: The Berkeley Rep, 2015 Addison St.
Lunch with Larry Downes, Forbes reporter and author of The Laws of Disruption and Harnessing the New Forces That Govern Life and Business in the Digital Age. The Berkeley resident was named as one of the 100 top influencers in social media by Social Technology Review. Lunch is $10 at the door although you are welcome to bring your own lunch.
To reserve a lunch you must RSVP to whoisylvia@aol.com a day in advance.
DataEDGE,
-- Educating a New Generation of Data-Savy Professionals
May 31-June 1
Hotel Shattuck Plaza, Downtown Berkeley.
Discount for members of BSC who sign up by May 24.
Register at http://dataedge.ischool.berkeley.edu/
Every business, organization, and agency is going to need to understand and grapple with big data in order to thrive. DataEDGE, hosted by the Information School at UC Berkeley, brings together experts in computer science, such as Andreas Weigend, former chief scientist of Amazon; economics, such as Hal Varian, chief economist at Google; and in medicine, sociology, political science, and linguistics, to help you position your company or organization for dealing successfully with incredibly large amounts of information.
Wednesday April 18 INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster Lunch
Ken Goldberg on Cloud Robotics and Superhuman Surgery
Date: Wednesday, April 18
Time: 12-1:30 p.m.,
Location: The Berkeley Rep, 2015 Addison St., Berkeley
Join the conversation with Ken Goldberg, Craiglist Distinguished Professor of New Media, at UC Berkeley, and professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at UCSF. He will talk about his work in medical robotics, including "superhuman surgery" and "cloud robotics." Lunch is $10 at the door although you are welcome to bring your own lunch.
Wednesday, March 21: Hackers & Founders - Berkeley Meetup
Berkeley Startup Cluster Supports Pitch Mixer Entrepreneur Forum in Berkeley!
Supported in part by the Berkeley Startup Cluster, the City of Berkeley, and the Downtown Berkeley Association - this "Women's History Month" themed event will be Pitch Mixer's first women-focused Entrepreneur Forum.
Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Time: 7.00-9.30 p.m.
Location: Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley
One Block from Downtown Berkeley BART
Pitch Mixer Entrepreneur Forum is a monthly startup event focused on East Bay aspiring and current entrepreneurs, technologists and innovators pitching their ideas to a panel of investors and experts and free to those who attend and pitch. During the event, all attendees are invited to give a tweetable 140 character (or less) introduction and afterwards there will be an opportunity to network and connect.
Pitch Mixer engages the East Bay startup community by running monthly entrepreneur forums. Their goal is to develop a diverse portfolio of successful and funded entrepreneurs.
Wednesday, March 21: Hackers & Founders - Berkeley Meetup
The next Hackers & Founders Berkeley meetup is scheduled for Wed, Mar 21.
Join us for a chat and a beverage. Drop in between 6:00pm and 9:30pm.
- Thalassa is 4 blocks from BART.
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- There will be no presentations, just chatting about hackery in general, startups, shiny new technologies we're playing with and recent articles on Hacker News.
Thalassa is the "Best Billiards and Bar" in the East Bay, as voted by Yelp.com.
Thalassa boasts the most Pocket Billiard tables in the East Bay. We've got 23 tables to make sure everyone gets to play. The wait for a table is never too long and there's no better place to wait. If you don't want to go home at 9:30, you can always keep playing pool or any of the other games, and there's a patio to relax on with your beverage of choice.
Our previous events in Berkeley have been packed.
Wednesday, March 14 - INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster Lunch
Nicolai Wadstrom - BootstrapLabs - on How to Build and Accelerate Startups That Last
Date: Wednesday, March 14
Time: 12-1:30 p.m.
Location: Berkeley Rep Theater, 2020 Addison, in Downtown Berkeley.
Join us for a lunch and discussion with Nicolai Wadstrom, a serial entrepreneur, who after starting and selling several tech companies, decided to incubate a whole bunch at once. Nicolai is the Founder and CEO of BootstrapLabs in Silicon Valley that is home to startups such as Prezi, Zerply, UbaniGo, and Witsbits. Come learn about how he builds and accelerates startups that last(so far).
RSVP to whoisylvia@aol.com if you’d like to order an organic, Berkeley-style lunch from The Bread Workshop for $15 (payable at the door), or just come and bring your own lunch.
Thursday, February 23, 5-8 p.m. - Energy Happy Hour
C12 Energy along with the Berkeley Startup Cluster will be hosting the next Berkeley Energy Happy Hour on Thursday, February 23 from 5-8. Join a bunch of energy geeks for our first happy hour in the Berkeley Skydeck, where we can watch the sun set over Berkeley as we sip our beers and discuss how, exactly, we can use the sun's energy (among other energy topics).
Thursday, 2/23/12, 5-8 pm
Berkeley Skydeck, 2150 Shattuck Avenue, Penthouse
You MUST RSVP to Antonio Baclig to attend
Monday March 5th, 7:00- 9:00 pm Berkeleyside's Startup Berkeley
Berkeleyside's Local Business Forum 2012: “Startup Berkeley”
Date: Monday, March 5th
Time: 7-9.00 p.m.
Location: Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, 2020 Addison Street in downtown Berkeley
Cost: $10 ($5 for students and seniors), available through Brown Paper Tickets
Berkeleyside, Berkeley's independent news website, brings together leading figures to talk about the strengths and weaknesses of the city for startups. Is Berkeley's reputation as a business-hostile place merited? Are things changing for the better? How can one nurture innovation here?
Speakers include Will Wright, creator of The Sims and founder of Stupid Fun Club, David Hyman, founder and CEO of Internet music network MOG, June Taylor, founder and CEO of jam maker The Still Room, and Rauly Butler, Senior Vice President of Retail Banking for Mechanics Bank.
Join entrepreneurs, policy makers and local business leaders for a lively, interactive discussion. Ample time will be devoted to questions.
Tuesday, February 14 INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster Lunch
Salim Ismail -- Singularity University Global Ambassador -- on Seeing the Next Disruptive Technology
Date: Tuesday, February 14
Time: Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Location: Berkeley Rep Theater, 2020 Addison St., Berkeley
Chat with Salim Ismail, founding executive director and now global ambassador of Singularity University, which offers leadership training with a focus in managing new technologies. Salim is prescient about what technologies will prove disruptive on other industries and institutions, so come hear his latest take. Besides having an entrepreneurial background -- running the Brickhouse incubator at Yahoo and PubSub Concepts -- Salim is also on the board of Breakthrough, a global human rights organization. Check out his website at www.salimismail.com.
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TEDxBerkeley, Saturday, February 4, 2012, 10-5
On February 4th, 2012, TEDxBerkeley is gathering world-leading thinkers, makers, and doers at UC Berkeley to discuss “Inspiring Innovation”. The audience will be composed of a diverse mix of 1000 students, professors, and thought leaders from Berkeley and beyond for a stimulating day of presentations, discussions, entertainment and art that will spark new ideas and opportunities for all.
About TEDx (x=independently organized event)
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x=independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.*
Wednesday, January 18 INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster Event
Pushing Personal Computing to the Next Level
A Talk by Seymour Rubinstein
Date: Wednesday, January 18
Time: Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Location: Berkeley Rep Theater, 2020 Addison St., Berkeley
Join us for lunch with Seymour Rubinstein, creator of WordStar, the first commercially successful word processor. Seymour will talk about his contributions to the first PC revolution -- including his introduction of the first end user software licensing agreement -- and what he thinks is needed now to advance personal computing beyond its current boundaries.
Lunch, catered by The Bread Workshop, is $15 at the door. Please RSVP to whoisylvia@aol.com.
Friday, November 18 INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster Event
How Obama's "Start Up America" Initiative Can Support Your New Business
A Talk by Elizabeth Echols, Director of the Small Business Administration Western and Pacific Region
Date: Friday, November 18, 2011
Time: 12:00 -1:15 p.m.
Place: Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse, 2020 Addison St.
Lunch is from 12 to 12:30 and $15 at the door.
The talk is from 12:30 to 1:15 and is free. RSVP to whoisylvia@aol.com to reserve a lunch.
Echols says her top priority is to shake capital loose for businesses and help jump-start job growth. Her mission is to focus the regional SBA effort on capital, counseling, and contracts and to nurture high-impact, high-growth businesses, including clean tech, IT, and medical devices. Echols has a background in government, nonprofits, technology and business. She was the director of the U.S. Green Building Council’s Northern California chapter, chief executive of OpNet, an education and technology nonprofit, and a policy director for Google.
Wednesday, October 12 INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster Event
How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live
A talk by journalist Jeff Jarvis
Date: Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Time: 1.00 - 2.00 p.m.
Place: Freight and Salvage, 2050 Addison St., Berkeley
Admission: FREE
Come hear Jeff Jarvis, author of Public Parts, How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live. Jarvis is a blogger, media pundit, and associate journalism professor at CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism. He's speaking all over the Bay Area next week, but this may be the only time you get to hear him for free, thanks to support from the Berkeley Startup Cluster. For more information on the book, the blog, and the blogger, see www.buzzmachine.com.
Thursday, September 29 - Hackers & Founders Berkeley Meetup
The next Hackers & Founders Berkeley meetup is scheduled for Thursday, June 23.
StartupDigest VIP is sponsoring and providing free drinks, so get there early!
- Drop in between 6:00pm and 9:30pm.
- Thalassa is 4 blocks from BART.
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- There will be no presentations, just chatting about hackery in general, startups, shiny new technologies we're playing with and recent articles on Hacker News.
Thalassa is the "Best Billiards and Bar" in the East Bay, as voted by Yelp.com.
Thalassa boasts the most Pocket Billiard tables in the East Bay. We've got 23 tables to make sure everyone gets to play. The wait for a table is never too long and there's no better place to wait. If you don't want to go home at 9:30, you can always keep playing pool or any of the other games, and there's a patio to relax on with your beverage of choice.
Our previous events in Berkeley have been packed.
Can you imagine changing how we care for our health? Changing the things that influence our health? Come build towards that change. UC Berkeley’s first Hacking Health codeathon* – Sept 30 & Oct 1. You’ll be amazed what can be done in a day.
You’ll join change agents of all stripes – coders, builders, designers, marketeers, health experts and clinicians — from across the Cal & UCSF community. Design, build and pitch solutions in 24 hours or less. You bring the talent, the passion, the need for change. We’ll bring the rest.
Friday day: Optional inspiration & ideas from CITRIS, design firms, startups that have made it & VC’s that have watched many crash & burn (and have helped a few succeed)
Friday @6pm: Happy hour & idea pitching – teams will form Friday night
Saturday: All-day coding / designing / building
Saturday @6pm: All-star judging panel will review what you can create in a day
Food is free. Drinks provided. You will be swimming in data sets and APIs to help you on your quest to improve our healthcare.
http://blogs.ischool.berkeley.edu/hackinghealth/
September 7 INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster Lunch
How does the Internet affect our approach to intimacy? That's a subject of the latest book by prolific author and speaker Sherry Turkle, a psychiatrist, sociologist, and professor of science and technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The book is titled Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other (www.alonetogetherbook.com). Turkle maintains we "confuse the scattershot postings on a Facebook wall with authentic communication." Some might have said the same thing about the writing on the back of a postcard, when postcards were first created. But if you'd like to find out her reasoning about the shallowness to which the Internet has driven us, and if you'd even like to verbally joust with her in real time, here are the physical coordinates:
INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster lunch
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse, 2020 Addison St., Berkeley
12:30 - 1:30 Turkle speaks and signs copies of her book, which will be for sale. Her talk is free and open to the public.
noon to 12:30. Lunch catered by The Bread Workshop and served in the lobby. $15 at the door ($10 for students). For lunch, RSVP to whoisylvia@aol.com a day before the event.
August 19 INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster Lunch
Use Facebook to get fans, engagement, leads, revenue, and for nonprofits, sponsors
Date: Friday, August 19th, 2011
Time: Noon to 1.30 p.m.
Place: Freight and Salvage, 2050 Addison St., Berkeley
Admission: $15 at the door ($10 for students) gets you lunch catered by The Bread Workshop from 12 to 12:30. (Discussion starts at 12:30 and is free to the public. RSVP to whoisylvia@aol.com by June 13th if you would like lunch).
Description: Dennis Yu, a consultant for Fortune 500 companies on Facebook marketing and the CEO of his own social media marketing firm, BlitzLocal, teaches business owners and nonprofit directors how to use Facebook to get fans, engagement, leads, revenue, and for nonprofits, sponsors. He’ll cover the mechanics of using Facebook for these ends and also show you how to integrate Facebook with your other marketing efforts to make a big difference in just 10 minutes a day. You’ll walk away from this session with practical steps that you or your marketing team can easily implement. Yu – a marketing veteran of Yahoo and American Airlines -- is an engaging and entertaining speaker. You can check him out at www.blitzlocal.com/press-kit.
July 14 INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster Lunch
The Custom-Fit Workplace, making the workplace more nimble, trust based and – more profitable
Date: Thursday, July 14th, 2011
Time: Noon to 1.30 p.m.
Place: Freight and Salvage, 2050 Addison St., Berkeley
Admission: $15 at the door ($10 for students) gets you lunch catered by The Bread Workshop from 12 to 12:30. (Discussion starts at 12:30 and is free to the public. RSVP to whoisylvia@aol.com by June 13th if you would like lunch).
Description: Come meet Joan Blades, cofounder of Berkeley Systems, Moveon, and Momsrising, and coauthor of The Custom-Fit Workplace, an inspirational guide for making the workplace more nimble, trust-based, and – for business owners – more profitable.
June 23 Hackers & Founders Berkeley Meetup
The Hackers & Founders Berkeley meetup took place Thursday, June 23, from 6:00-9:30 pm at The Space Lounge. Our previous event was absolutely packed and we had a good turnout this time as well, despite the fact that school is out for the summer. Keep your eyes peeled to find out the time and place for the next meetup!
June 15 INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster Lunch
Boom or Bust? Climate Change Risks and Opportunities
Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Time: Noon to 1.15 p.m.
Place: Freight and Salvage, 2050 Addison St., Berkeley
Admission: $15 at the door ($10 for students) gets you lunch catered by The Bread Workshop from 12 to 12:30. (Discussion starts at 12:30 and is free to the public. RSVP to whoisylvia@aol.com by June 13th if you would like lunch).
Dan Miller, cofounder and partner, the Roda Group, a Berkeley VC firm; former president of Ask Jeeves; and investor in Solazyme, a company that grows and converts algae to fuel, cosmetics, and other products, will speak about the opportunities and need for clean tech to counter climate change brought on by our dependence on fossil fuels. Dan's 2009 talk on climate change remains one of the most visited videos on fora.tv.
May 12 INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster Lunch
Showcasing robots from Crazy Research founder Michael Winter
Date: Thursday, May 12, 2011
Time: Noon to 1.15 p.m.
Place: Freight and Salvage, 2050 Addison St., Berkeley.
Admission: $15 at the door ($10 for students) gets you lunch catered by The Bread Workshop from noon to 12:30. (Discussion starts at 12:30 and is free to the public. RSVP to whoisylvia@aol.com by May 10th if you would like lunch).
Event Description
Michael Winter and Will Wright – creator of the Sims and Sim City – started the Stupid Fun Club (be sure to click on their logo on the upper left of the screen). Their goal is to use technology to create fun: robots that ask people embarrassing questions; TV shows that feature robots and cartoon art; video games; and a mobile app for the Android that offers minute-by-minute personal advice on leading a more fun life. Michael – a film maker, inventor, and successful high-tech entrepreneur – will bring some of his robots to the Freight, so be prepared to engage with these mechanical creatures. He’ll also talk about how to turn your robots and other ideas into revenue.
This monthly event is a partnership between Sylvia Paull (www.sylviapaull.com) and the Berkeley Startup Cluster and is designed to create a spirited forum about technology for people in business, technology, education, government, the arts, and nonprofit organizations.
Hackers and Founders Meetup - May 12, 6.00-10.00 -- SOLD OUT! (sign on to the waitlist)
Hackers in the Silicon Valley/San Francisco Bay Area interested in founding startups. The group gets together every two or three weeks and talks about shiny new technologies and companies. It's very low key and casual.
April 14 INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster lunch
Featuring Craig Newmark
Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011
Time: 12.00 Lunch Starts, 12.30 Discussion Starts
Place: Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse, 2050 Addison St., Berkeley
Admission: $15 at the door ($10 for students) gets you lunch catered by The Bread Workshop from noon to 12:30. (Discussion starts at 12:30 and is free to the public. RSVP to whoisylvia@aol.com if you would like lunch)
Event Description
What if Gandhi’s reincarnation emerged as someone promoting the Web instead of the spinning wheel? That might be Craigslist.com founder Craig Newmark, who last month launched Craigconnects.org, a nonprofit “to get the word out about people of good who get stuff done…and who never had a voice until now.” So far, the site contains lists – lists of organizations doing community building, journalism integrity, transparency in government, service, veterans’ issues, and peace in the Middle East. Interviewing Craig will be Scott Rosenberg, Internet savant, founder of Salon.com, author of two books (Dreaming in Code and Say Everything), and long-time Berkeley resident.
Berkeley Cybersalon features Steven Levy, author of In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Date: Sunday, April 17, 2011
Time: 3.00-5.00 p.m.
Place: Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar St., between Spruce and Arch
Admission: is $10 at the door and $5 for students.
Event Description
Meet Steven Levy, author of In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives, which reveals what really happens at Google from an insider’s view. The author also has great insights into how the Google culture – coming from the top – influences everything the company produces. Levy will be interviewed by Techcrunch TV host Andrew Keen. This event takes place at the Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar St., between Spruce and Arch and a few blocks north of the UC campus. Admission is $10 at the door and $5 for students.
These events (INFUSION and the Berkeley Cybersalon) are hosted in partnership with The Berkeley Startup Cluster, which was recently formed to encourage high-tech startups and companies to locate in Berkeley.
Hackers & Founders Meetup at Hub Berkeley in collaboration with the BSC
Don't miss the triumphant return of Hackers & Founders to the East Bay on March 23! Please join us at The Hub for conversation, snacks and general geekery.
The meetup starts at 6:30 pm. Feel free to drop in any time until about 10:00 pm.
How do I find the meetup? We will be at the Hub Berkeley which is in Suite 400 of the David Brower Center (on the western border of the campus in downtown Berkeley). To gain access to the building, Dial 194 and we'll buzz you in. By the way, The Hub is about a block from BART. You're welcome.
Topics of conversation: Hackery in general, startups, shiny new technologies we're playing with, recent articles on Hacker News.
It's all really laid back and casual. Many of us are either interested in founding a startup, are in the process of founding a startup or are serial entrepreneurs.
For more information, go to the Hackers & Founders website.
BSC/INFUSION Lunch with Vivek Wadhwa
We have partnered with INFUSION Lunch produced by Sylvia Paull to organize periodic thought provoking lunches for the East Bay tech community.
Our first event is scheduled for Thursday, March 3, from 12:00 noon to 1:30 at the Freight and Salvage, 2020 Addison Street, in downtown Berkeley. The speaker is Vivek Wadhwa, a prominent blogger (BusinessWeek, Techcrunch), with academic appointments at numerous universities (UC Berkeley’s School of Information; Duke, Harvard Law, Emery). He will be in conversation with UC Berkeley's Michael Cohen, director of Innovation Ecosystem Development, on a topic dear to our hearts: “How To Make Berkeley a High-Tech Mecca.”
All of the INFUSION - Berkeley Startup Cluster lunches will be held at the Freight and Salvage.
Lunch is $15 and will be catered by the Bread Workshop, providing organic, sustainable, and delicious fare. Lunch is from noon to 12:30 in the lobby, and then we’ll move into the auditorium to listen to our speaker(s).
Incidentally, you should know that Sylvia likes to call on people to participate. It makes the event more interactive and informative than your average panel discussion...
If you want to join us for lunch, please RSVP to whoisylvia@aol.com by 5:00, Tuesday, March 2.
If you want to join us just for convsersation, please arrive at 12:30 and go directly to the auditorium! There will be no charge for those who arrive after 12:30 p.m.
BSC/Berkeleyside Business Forum
In January 2011, the BSC established a collaboration with BerkeleySide.com to co-host a series of local business forums.
The first of these forums will be held on Monday, January 24 at 7 PM at Freight & Salvage on Addison.
The Forum is an opportunity to discuss the business climate in Berkeley, share experiences and learn from peers. The evening will be conversational and interactive -- it's not an occasion for speeches or soporific PowerPoint presentation.
Among the confirmed panelists are Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Wired and author of The Long Tail, Carl Bass, CEO of Autodesk, Michael Caplan, director of the city's Office of Economic Development, Kat Taylor, founding director of OneCalifornia Bank and Foundation, Amy Thomas, president of Pegasus Books, and Amanda West, founder of Amanda's restaurant.
This first forum is a free event, but you need to reserve a place by emailing forum@berkeleyside.com. Doors for the forum will open at 6:30 p.m.
If you want to organize, host or suggest an event, venue or speaker, then please contact the BSC.
Berkeley Startup Cluster Asks:
Who are the people in your neighborhood?
August’s Answer:
Magoosh and GoOverseas
The Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum - Angel and Venture Capital Financing
On Thursday, August 30th, we present the 2012-13 Angel & Venture Capital Financing Overviewsponsored by Fenwick & West LLP.
Grab a free beer and an appetizer and hang out with founders and employees from two companies that have made the Berkeley Startup Cluster their home. Both are already gaining traction and growing quickly. Learn from their successes – And lessons learned
Meet your colleagues from other enterprises here in the neighborhood-- Get an idea or contact to solve your next business problem …See you there!
DETAILS
Date: Monday, August 27, 2012
Time: 6-8.30
Location: Saturn Space Lounge, 2175 Allston Way Berkeley, CA 94704
Registration: Here -- Cost is free ... must register to attend!The Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum - Angel and Venture Capital Financing
On Thursday, August 30th, we present the 2012-13 Angel & Venture Capital Financing Overviewsponsored by Fenwick & West LLP.
August mHealth Networking Event - Software Meets Healthcare
Statistics, trends, and the line at the Taco Bell drive-thru window at 2am all lead us to the same conclusion: human beings are clearly not qualified to manage their own health.
Can robots save us from ourselves?
Cory Kidd and his robot Autom definitely think so. Autom is designed to sit in your kitchen and talk you into losing weight. Come out on Thursday and meet Autom.
Join us at the David Brower Center in downtown Berkeley, we look forward to seeing you there!
DETAILS
Date: Thursday, August 30, 2012
Time: 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Location: David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley
Registration: RSVP Required
Berkeley Startup Cluster Meetup -- Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Berkeley Startup Cluster Asks:
Who are the people in your neighborhood?
August’s Answer:
Magoosh and GoOverseas
Grab a free beer and an appetizer and hang out with founders and employees from two companies that have made the Berkeley Startup Cluster their home. Both are already gaining traction and growing quickly. Learn from their successes – And lessons learned
Meet your colleagues from other enterprises here in the neighborhood-- Get an idea or contact to solve your next business problem …See you there!
DETAILS
Date: Monday, August 27, 2012
Time: 6-8.30
Location: Saturn Space Lounge, 2175 Allston Way Berkeley, CA 94704
Registration: Here -- Cost is free ... must register to attend!
Thursday, August 9, 6-8 p.m. - Energy Happy Hour
C12 Energy along with the Berkeley Startup Cluster will be hosting the next Berkeley Energy Happy Hour on Thursday, August 9, from 6-8. Join a bunch of energy geeks for our second happy hour in the Berkeley HUB in the David Brower Center. HUB-Berkeley is the first US location of HUB Global whose mission is to enable scalable sustainable impact. Berkeley’s cozy HUB continues to fuel idea collisions around the Bay Area. Come and rub shoulders and knock back a beer with other brilliant energy nerds.
Date: Thursday, August 9, 2012
Time: 6.00 - 8.00 pm
Location: Hub Berkeley, 2150 Allston Way, Suite 400, Berkeley, CA 94704
Pitch Mixer hosts its first-ever Women-focused Entrepreneur Forum inBerkeley!
Monday, June 11, 6-8 p.m. - Energy Happy Hour
C12 Energy along with the Berkeley Startup Cluster will be hosting the next Berkeley Energy Happy Hour on Monday, June 11 from 6-8. Join a bunch of energy geeks for our first happy hour in the Berkeley HUB in the David Brower Center. HUB-Berkeley is the first US location of HUB Global whose mission is to enable scalable sustainable impact. Berkeley’s cozy HUB continues to fuel idea collisions around the Bay Area. Come and rub shoulders and knock back a beer with other brilliant energy ner
Event: Engineers and Designers in International Development
Date: Monday, July 9, 2012
Time: 6.00 p.m.
Thursday, July 12, 2012, 6.30 p.m. - mHealth Networking
Join the Berkeley Startup Cluster and Monsoon Company at our 2nd mHealth Mixer.
Date: Thursday July 12, 2012
Time: 6.30 p.m.
Location: UC Berkeley Faculty Club, S Hall Rd Berkeley CA 94720
... A device that helps you meditate like a Tibetan monk ... An iPhone app that helps you create music synched to your heartbeat ... And a conversation with Daniel Kraft, Chair of the Medicine track at Singularity University, and Executive Director of FutureMed ... [ahem, DJ Dave, are we Berkeley enough?]
Come meet a growing community of people passionate about the next generation of health applications. This event is organized by the folks at Monsoon Company, in partnership with City of Berkeley and the Berkeley Start-Up Cluster.
Location: Naan and Kebab, 2160 Univeristy Ave., Berkeley
RSVP HERE
Are you involved with renewable energy, health devices or building and deploying problem solving technology in the global south? Then join others like you. This get together is not just for the techies - if you are otherwise involved with technology-based projects for developing countries please join in. The event is also open to students and others wanting to get involved.
The group will gather upstairs at "Naan and Kebab" at 2160 University starting at 6pm. Its just two blocks from Downtown Berkeley BART,
Questions? Contact, Mitra Ardron on 510-423-1767
Monday, 6/11/12, 6-8 pm
Hub Berkeley, 2150 Allston Way, Suite 400, Berkeley, CA 94704
(510) 649-7700
You MUST RSVP to Chelsea Turner to attend.
Thursday, June 14, 2012, 6 - 10 PM, Go Overseas Travel Startup Quarterly Mixer @ Skydeck
GoOverseas.com was started to create a centralized website to provide the resources required for meaningful travel abroad. What travel-related business are you working on?
Date: Thursday, June 14, 2012
Time: 6-10 pm
Location: 2150 Shattuck Avenue, Skydeck, Top Floor
Wednesday June 20, INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster Lunch
Changing the World one Bar at a Time ...
Date: Wednesday, May 16
Time: 12-1:30 p.m.
Location: The Berkeley Rep, 2015 Addison St.
You're invited to INFUSION next Wednesday, June 20, from noon to 1:30 p.m., at the Berkeley Rep, 2015 Addison St., to meet the cofounder of Rcoz, a new organization that is "changing the world one bar of soap at a time." Roopali Rajvanshy and her son Raghav, a junior at Mission San Jose High School in Fremont, are engaging young people to help recycle soap from hotels and motels, starting in Silicon Valley, and provide free soap to people in underprivileged communities. As part of the nonprofit's campaign, Rcoz is creating an education campaign about practices that prevent the spread of infection and diseases.
Roopali, who will be speaking at INFUSION next Wednesday, said her son got the idea for Rcoz while traveling in India, where she grew up and went to college before becoming a marketing professional for Cisco in the valley.
Monday, June 11, 6-8 p.m. - Energy Happy Hour
C12 Energy along with the Berkeley Startup Cluster will be hosting the next Berkeley Energy Happy Hour on Monday, June 11 from 6-8. Join a bunch of energy geeks for our first happy hour in the Berkeley HUB in the David Brower Center. HUB-Berkeley is the first US location of HUB Global whose mission is to enable scalable sustainable impact. Berkeley’s cozy HUB continues to fuel idea collisions around the Bay Area. Come and rub shoulders and knock back a beer with other brilliant energy nerds.
Monday, 6/11/12, 6-8 pm
Hub Berkeley, 2150 Allston Way, Suite 400, Berkeley, CA 94704
(510) 649-7700
You MUST RSVP to Chelsea Turner to attend.
Thursday, June 14, 2012, 6 - 10 PM, Go Overseas Travel Startup Quarterly Mixer @ Skydeck
GoOverseas.com was started to create a centralized website to provide the resources required for meaningful travel abroad. What travel-related business are you working on?
Date: Thursday, June 14, 2012
Time: 6-10 pm
Location: 2150 Shattuck Avenue, Skydeck, Top Floor
Supported in part by the Berkeley Startup Cluster, the City of Berkeley, and theDowntown Berkeley Association - this "Women's History Month" themed event takes place on March 28, 2012 from 7-9:30pm at Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse in Berkeley - just one block away from the Bart station in Downtown Ber
Monday March 5th, 7:00- 9:00 pm Berkeleyside's Startup Berkeley
Wednesday, May 2, EUREKA! Innovation in Berkeley
Date: Wednesday, May 2
Time: 5.30-8:30 p.m.
Location: Hotel Shattuck Plaza, Crystal Ballroom,2086 Allston Way
Cost: $20 ($10 for students)
EUREKA! is a mentoring and educational program for entrepreneurs and investors in Berkeley, CA. Early stage ventures with high-growth potential that have raised $50K-$250K in seed capital and grow out of Berkeley's innovative environment are invited to apply to present. Or if you just want to get to know the world of startups in Berkeley, join us for an evening of brilliant, energetic people making enterprise happen here. For more information go to www.eureka-berkeley.com. To register to attend go to http://eureka-berkeley.eventbrite.com/ and to apply to present go to http://gust.com/angel-group/eureka.
Pitch Mixer Entrepreneur Forum is a monthly startup event focused on East Bay aspiring and current entrepreneurs, technologists and innovators pitching their ideas to a panel of investors and experts and free to those who attend and pitch. During the event, all attendees are invited to give a tweetable 140 character (or less) introduction and afterwards there will be an opportunity to network and connect. Follow our tweets at #pitchmx.
Wednesday May 16 INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster Lunch
Larry Downes on The Laws of Disruption
Date: Wednesday, May 16
Time: 12-1:30 p.m.
Location: The Berkeley Rep, 2015 Addison St.
Lunch with Larry Downes, Forbes reporter and author of The Laws of Disruption and Harnessing the New Forces That Govern Life and Business in the Digital Age. The Berkeley resident was named as one of the 100 top influencers in social media by Social Technology Review. Lunch is $10 at the door although you are welcome to bring your own lunch.
To reserve a lunch you must RSVP to whoisylvia@aol.com a day in advance.
DataEDGE,
-- Educating a New Generation of Data-Savy Professionals
May 31-June 1
Hotel Shattuck Plaza, Downtown Berkeley.
Discount for members of BSC who sign up by May 24.
Register at http://dataedge.ischool.berkeley.edu/
Every business, organization, and agency is going to need to understand and grapple with big data in order to thrive. DataEDGE, hosted by the Information School at UC Berkeley, brings together experts in computer science, such as Andreas Weigend, former chief scientist of Amazon; economics, such as Hal Varian, chief economist at Google; and in medicine, sociology, political science, and linguistics, to help you position your company or organization for dealing successfully with incredibly large amounts of information.
Wednesday April 18 INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster Lunch
Ken Goldberg on Cloud Robotics and Superhuman Surgery
Date: Wednesday, April 18
Time: 12-1:30 p.m.,
Location: The Berkeley Rep, 2015 Addison St., Berkeley
Join the conversation with Ken Goldberg, Craiglist Distinguished Professor of New Media, at UC Berkeley, and professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at UCSF. He will talk about his work in medical robotics, including "superhuman surgery" and "cloud robotics." Lunch is $10 at the door although you are welcome to bring your own lunch.
You’re invited to join us for our monthly INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster lunch on Wednesday, March 14, from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Berkeley Rep Theater, 2020 Addison, in downtown Berkeley. Our speaker – besides each and every one of you – is Nicolai Wadstrom, obviously an obsessive-compulsive entrepreneur, who after starting and selling several tech companies, decided to incubate a whole bunch at once. His BootsrapLabs in Silicon Valley is home to Prezi, Zerply, UbaniGo, and Witsbits, and he’ll talk about how he builds and accelerates startups that last(so far).previous events in Berkeley have been packed.
Wednesday, March 14 - INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster Lunch
Wednesday, March 21: Hackers & Founders - Berkeley Meetup
Berkeley Startup Cluster Supports Pitch Mixer Entrepreneur Forum in Berkeley!
Supported in part by the Berkeley Startup Cluster, the City of Berkeley, and the Downtown Berkeley Association - this "Women's History Month" themed event will be Pitch Mixer's first women-focused Entrepreneur Forum.
Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Time: 7.00-9.30 p.m.
Location: Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley
One Block from Downtown Berkeley BART
Pitch Mixer Entrepreneur Forum is a monthly startup event focused on East Bay aspiring and current entrepreneurs, technologists and innovators pitching their ideas to a panel of investors and experts and free to those who attend and pitch. During the event, all attendees are invited to give a tweetable 140 character (or less) introduction and afterwards there will be an opportunity to network and connect.
Pitch Mixer engages the East Bay startup community by running monthly entrepreneur forums. Their goal is to develop a diverse portfolio of successful and funded entrepreneurs.
You’re invited to join us for our monthly INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster lunch on Wednesday, March 14, from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Berkeley Rep Theater, 2020 Addison, in downtown Berkeley. Our speaker – besides each and every one of you – is Nicolai Wadstrom, obviously an obsessive-compulsive entrepreneur, who after starting and selling several tech companies, decided to incubate a whole bunch at once. His BootsrapLabs in Silicon Valley is home to Prezi, Zerply, UbaniGo, and Witsbits, and he’ll talk about how he builds and accelerates startups that last(so far).previous events in Berkeley have been packed.
Wednesday, March 14 - INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster Lunch
Wednesday, March 21: Hackers & Founders - Berkeley Meetup
The next Hackers & Founders Berkeley meetup is scheduled for Wed, Mar 21.
Join us for a chat and a beverage. Drop in between 6:00pm and 9:30pm.
- Thalassa is 4 blocks from BART.
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- There will be no presentations, just chatting about hackery in general, startups, shiny new technologies we're playing with and recent articles on Hacker News.
Thalassa is the "Best Billiards and Bar" in the East Bay, as voted by Yelp.com.
Thalassa boasts the most Pocket Billiard tables in the East Bay. We've got 23 tables to make sure everyone gets to play. The wait for a table is never too long and there's no better place to wait. If you don't want to go home at 9:30, you can always keep playing pool or any of the other games, and there's a patio to relax on with your beverage of choice.
Our previous events in Berkeley have been packed.
Wednesday, March 14 - INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster Lunch
Nicolai Wadstrom - BootstrapLabs - on How to Build and Accelerate Startups That Last
Date: Wednesday, March 14
Time: 12-1:30 p.m.
Location: Berkeley Rep Theater, 2020 Addison, in Downtown Berkeley.
Join us for a lunch and discussion with Nicolai Wadstrom, a serial entrepreneur, who after starting and selling several tech companies, decided to incubate a whole bunch at once. Nicolai is the Founder and CEO of BootstrapLabs in Silicon Valley that is home to startups such as Prezi, Zerply, UbaniGo, and Witsbits. Come learn about how he builds and accelerates startups that last(so far).
RSVP to whoisylvia@aol.com if you’d like to order an organic, Berkeley-style lunch from The Bread Workshop for $15 (payable at the door), or just come and bring your own lunch.
Thursday, February 23, 5-8 p.m. - Energy Happy Hour
C12 Energy along with the Berkeley Startup Cluster will be hosting the next Berkeley Energy Happy Hour on Thursday, February 23 from 5-8. Join a bunch of energy geeks for our first happy hour in the Berkeley Skydeck, where we can watch the sun set over Berkeley as we sip our beers and discuss how, exactly, we can use the sun's energy (among other energy topics).
Thursday, 2/23/12, 5-8 pm
Berkeley Skydeck, 2150 Shattuck Avenue, Penthouse
You MUST RSVP to Antonio Baclig to attend
Monday March 5th, 7:00- 9:00 pm Berkeleyside's Startup Berkeley
Berkeleyside's Local Business Forum 2012: “Startup Berkeley”
Date: Monday, March 5th
Time: 7-9.00 p.m.
Location: Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, 2020 Addison Street in downtown Berkeley
Cost: $10 ($5 for students and seniors), available through Brown Paper Tickets
Berkeleyside, Berkeley's independent news website, brings together leading figures to talk about the strengths and weaknesses of the city for startups. Is Berkeley's reputation as a business-hostile place merited? Are things changing for the better? How can one nurture innovation here?
Tuesday, February 14 INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster Lunch
Salim Ismail -- Singularity University Global Ambassador -- on Seeing the Next Disruptive Technology
Date: Tuesday, February 14
Time: Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Location: Berkeley Rep Theater, 2020 Addison St., Berkeley
Chat with Salim Ismail, founding executive director and now global ambassador of Singularity University, which offers leadership training with a focus in managing new technologies. Salim is prescient about what technologies will prove disruptive on other industries and institutions, so come hear his latest take. Besides having an entrepreneurial background -- running the Brickhouse incubator at Yahoo and PubSub Concepts -- Salim is also on the board of Breakthrough, a global human rights organization. Check out his website at www.salimismail.com.
View photos of the event ...
TEDxBerkeley, Saturday, February 4, 2012, 10-5
On February 4th, 2012, TEDxBerkeley is gathering world-leading thinkers, makers, and doers at UC Berkeley to discuss “Inspiring Innovation”. The audience will be composed of a diverse mix of 1000 students, professors, and thought leaders from Berkeley and beyond for a stimulating day of presentations, discussions, entertainment and art that will spark new ideas and opportunities for all.
About TEDx (x=independently organized event)
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x=independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.*
Wednesday, January 18 INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster Event
Pushing Personal Computing to the Next Level
A Talk by Seymour Rubinstein
Date: Wednesday, January 18
Time: Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Location: Berkeley Rep Theater, 2020 Addison St., Berkeley
Join us for lunch with Seymour Rubinstein, creator of WordStar, the first commercially successful word processor. Seymour will talk about his contributions to the first PC revolution -- including his introduction of the first end user software licensing agreement -- and what he thinks is needed now to advance personal computing beyond its current boundaries.
Lunch, catered by The Bread Workshop, is $15 at the door. Please RSVP to whoisylvia@aol.com.
Friday, November 18 INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster Event
How Obama's "Start Up America" Initiative Can Support Your New Business
A Talk by Elizabeth Echols, Director of the Small Business Administration Western and Pacific Region
Date: Friday, November 18, 2011
Time: 12:00 -1:15 p.m.
Place: Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse, 2020 Addison St.
Lunch is from 12 to 12:30 and $15 at the door.
The talk is from 12:30 to 1:15 and is free. RSVP to whoisylvia@aol.com to reserve a lunch.
Echols says her top priority is to shake capital loose for businesses and help jump-start job growth. Her mission is to focus the regional SBA effort on capital, counseling, and contracts and to nurture high-impact, high-growth businesses, including clean tech, IT, and medical devices. Echols has a background in government, nonprofits, technology and business. She was the director of the U.S. Green Building Council’s Northern California chapter, chief executive of OpNet, an education and technology nonprofit, and a policy director for Google.
Wednesday, October 12 INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster Event
How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live
A talk by journalist Jeff Jarvis
Date: Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Time: 1.00 - 2.00 p.m.
Place: Freight and Salvage, 2050 Addison St., Berkeley
Admission: FREE
Come hear Jeff Jarvis, author of Public Parts, How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live. Jarvis is a blogger, media pundit, and associate journalism professor at CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism. He's speaking all over the Bay Area next week, but this may be the only time you get to hear him for free, thanks to support from the Berkeley Startup Cluster. For more information on the book, the blog, and the blogger, see www.buzzmachine.com.
Thursday, September 29 - Hackers & Founders Berkeley Meetup
The next Hackers & Founders Berkeley meetup is scheduled for Thursday, June 23.
StartupDigest VIP is sponsoring and providing free drinks, so get there early!
- Drop in between 6:00pm and 9:30pm.
- Thalassa is 4 blocks from BART.
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- There will be no presentations, just chatting about hackery in general, startups, shiny new technologies we're playing with and recent articles on Hacker News.
Thalassa is the "Best Billiards and Bar" in the East Bay, as voted by Yelp.com.
Thalassa boasts the most Pocket Billiard tables in the East Bay. We've got 23 tables to make sure everyone gets to play. The wait for a table is never too long and there's no better place to wait. If you don't want to go home at 9:30, you can always keep playing pool or any of the other games, and there's a patio to relax on with your beverage of choice.
Our previous events in Berkeley have been packed.
Can you imagine changing how we care for our health? Changing the things that influence our health? Come build towards that change. UC Berkeley’s first Hacking Health codeathon* – Sept 30 & Oct 1. You’ll be amazed what can be done in a day.
You’ll join change agents of all stripes – coders, builders, designers, marketeers, health experts and clinicians — from across the Cal & UCSF community. Design, build and pitch solutions in 24 hours or less. You bring the talent, the passion, the need for change. We’ll bring the rest.
Friday day: Optional inspiration & ideas from CITRIS, design firms, startups that have made it & VC’s that have watched many crash & burn (and have helped a few succeed)
Friday @6pm: Happy hour & idea pitching – teams will form Friday night
Saturday: All-day coding / designing / building
Saturday @6pm: All-star judging panel will review what you can create in a day
Food is free. Drinks provided. You will be swimming in data sets and APIs to help you on your quest to improve our healthcare.
http://blogs.ischool.berkeley.edu/hackinghealth/
September 7 INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster Lunch
How does the Internet affect our approach to intimacy? That's a subject of the latest book by prolific author and speaker Sherry Turkle, a psychiatrist, sociologist, and professor of science and technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The book is titled Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other (www.alonetogetherbook.com). Turkle maintains we "confuse the scattershot postings on a Facebook wall with authentic communication." Some might have said the same thing about the writing on the back of a postcard, when postcards were first created. But if you'd like to find out her reasoning about the shallowness to which the Internet has driven us, and if you'd even like to verbally joust with her in real time, here are the physical coordinates:
INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster lunch
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse, 2020 Addison St., Berkeley
12:30 - 1:30 Turkle speaks and signs copies of her book, which will be for sale. Her talk is free and open to the public.
noon to 12:30. Lunch catered by The Bread Workshop and served in the lobby. $15 at the door ($10 for students). For lunch, RSVP to whoisylvia@aol.com a day before the event.
August 19 INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster Lunch
Use Facebook to get fans, engagement, leads, revenue, and for nonprofits, sponsors
Date: Friday, August 19th, 2011
Time: Noon to 1.30 p.m.
Place: Freight and Salvage, 2050 Addison St., Berkeley
Admission: $15 at the door ($10 for students) gets you lunch catered by The Bread Workshop from 12 to 12:30. (Discussion starts at 12:30 and is free to the public. RSVP to whoisylvia@aol.com by June 13th if you would like lunch).
Description: Dennis Yu, a consultant for Fortune 500 companies on Facebook marketing and the CEO of his own social media marketing firm, BlitzLocal, teaches business owners and nonprofit directors how to use Facebook to get fans, engagement, leads, revenue, and for nonprofits, sponsors. He’ll cover the mechanics of using Facebook for these ends and also show you how to integrate Facebook with your other marketing efforts to make a big difference in just 10 minutes a day. You’ll walk away from this session with practical steps that you or your marketing team can easily implement. Yu – a marketing veteran of Yahoo and American Airlines -- is an engaging and entertaining speaker. You can check him out at www.blitzlocal.com/press-kit.
July 14 INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster Lunch
The Custom-Fit Workplace, making the workplace more nimble, trust based and – more profitable
Date: Thursday, July 14th, 2011
Time: Noon to 1.30 p.m.
Place: Freight and Salvage, 2050 Addison St., Berkeley
Admission: $15 at the door ($10 for students) gets you lunch catered by The Bread Workshop from 12 to 12:30. (Discussion starts at 12:30 and is free to the public. RSVP to whoisylvia@aol.com by June 13th if you would like lunch).
Description: Come meet Joan Blades, cofounder of Berkeley Systems, Moveon, and Momsrising, and coauthor of The Custom-Fit Workplace, an inspirational guide for making the workplace more nimble, trust-based, and – for business owners – more profitable.
June 23 Hackers & Founders Berkeley Meetup
The Hackers & Founders Berkeley meetup took place Thursday, June 23, from 6:00-9:30 pm at The Space Lounge. Our previous event was absolutely packed and we had a good turnout this time as well, despite the fact that school is out for the summer. Keep your eyes peeled to find out the time and place for the next meetup!
June 15 INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster Lunch
Boom or Bust? Climate Change Risks and Opportunities
Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Time: Noon to 1.15 p.m.
Place: Freight and Salvage, 2050 Addison St., Berkeley
Admission: $15 at the door ($10 for students) gets you lunch catered by The Bread Workshop from 12 to 12:30. (Discussion starts at 12:30 and is free to the public. RSVP to whoisylvia@aol.com by June 13th if you would like lunch).
Dan Miller, cofounder and partner, the Roda Group, a Berkeley VC firm; former president of Ask Jeeves; and investor in Solazyme, a company that grows and converts algae to fuel, cosmetics, and other products, will speak about the opportunities and need for clean tech to counter climate change brought on by our dependence on fossil fuels. Dan's 2009 talk on climate change remains one of the most visited videos on fora.tv.
May 12 INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster Lunch
Showcasing robots from Crazy Research founder Michael Winter
Date: Thursday, May 12, 2011
Time: Noon to 1.15 p.m.
Place: Freight and Salvage, 2050 Addison St., Berkeley.
Admission: $15 at the door ($10 for students) gets you lunch catered by The Bread Workshop from noon to 12:30. (Discussion starts at 12:30 and is free to the public. RSVP to whoisylvia@aol.com by May 10th if you would like lunch).
Event Description
Hackers and Founders Meetup - May 12, 6.00-10.00 -- SOLD OUT! (sign on to the waitlist)
Hackers in the Silicon Valley/San Francisco Bay Area interested in founding startups. The group gets together every two or three weeks and talks about shiny new technologies and companies. It's very low key and casual.
Hackers
Hackers & Founders Meet Up - May 12 at Saturn's Space Lounge
Hackers & Founders will be meeting at the Space Lounge in Saturn Cafe on Thursday, May 12, 6:00-10:00pm. Whayt
Hackers in the Silicon Valley/San Francisco Bay Area interested in founding startups. The group gets together every two or three weeks and talks about shiny new technologies and companies. It's very low ke
April 14 INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster lunch
Featuring Craig Newmark
Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011
Time: 12.00 Lunch Starts, 12.30 Discussion Starts
Place: Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse, 2050 Addison St., Berkeley
Admission: $15 at the door ($10 for students) gets you lunch catered by The Bread Workshop from noon to 12:30. (Discussion starts at 12:30 and is free to the public. RSVP to whoisylvia@aol.com if you would like lunch)
Event Description
What if Gandhi’s reincarnation emerged as someone promoting the Web instead of the spinning wheel? That might be Craigslist.com founder Craig Newmark, who last month launched Craigconnects.org, a nonprofit “to get the word out about people of good who get stuff done…and who never had a voice until now.” So far, the site contains lists – lists of organizations doing community building, journalism integrity, transparency in government, service, veterans’ issues, and peace in the Middle East. Interviewing Craig will be Scott Rosenberg, Internet savant, founder of Salon.com, author of two books (Dreaming in Code and Say Everything), and long-time Berkeley resident.
Berkeley Cybersalon features Steven Levy, author of In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Date: Sunday, April 17, 2011
Time: 3.00-5.00 p.m.
Place: Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar St., between Spruce and Arch
Admission: is $10 at the door and $5 for students.
Event Description
Meet Steven Levy, author of In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives, which reveals what really happens at Google from an insider’s view. The author also has great insights into how the Google culture – coming from the top – influences everything the company produces. Levy will be interviewed by Techcrunch TV host Andrew Keen. This event takes place at the Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar St., between Spruce and Arch and a few blocks north of the UC campus. Admission is $10 at the door and $5 for students.
These events (INFUSION and the Berkeley Cybersalon) are hosted in partnership with The Berkeley Startup Cluster, which was recently formed to encourage high-tech startups and companies to locate in Berkeley.
Hackers & Founders Meetup at Hub Berkeley in collaboration with the BSC
Don't miss the triumphant return of Hackers & Founders to the East Bay on March 23! Please join us at The Hub for conversation, snacks and general geekery.
The meetup starts at 6:30 pm. Feel free to drop in any time until about 10:00 pm.
How do I find the meetup? We will be at the Hub Berkeley which is in Suite 400 of the David Brower Center (on the western border of the campus in downtown Berkeley). To gain access to the building, Dial 194 and we'll buzz you in. By the way, The Hub is about a block from BART. You're welcome.
Topics of conversation: Hackery in general, startups, shiny new technologies we're playing with, recent articles on Hacker News.
It's all really laid back and casual. Many of us are either interested in founding a startup, are in the process of founding a startup or are serial entrepreneurs.
For more information, go to the Hackers & Founders website.
BSC/INFUSION Lunch with Vivek Wadhwa
We have partnered with INFUSION Lunch produced by Sylvia Paull to organize periodic thought provoking lunches for the East Bay tech community.
Our first event is scheduled for Thursday, March 3, from 12:00 noon to 1:30 at the Freight and Salvage, 2020 Addison Street, in downtown Berkeley. The speaker is Vivek Wadhwa, a prominent blogger (BusinessWeek, Techcrunch), with academic appointments at numerous universities (UC Berkeley’s School of Information; Duke, Harvard Law, Emery). He will be in conversation with UC Berkeley's Michael Cohen, director of Innovation Ecosystem Development, on a topic dear to our hearts: “How To Make Berkeley a High-Tech Mecca.”
All of the INFUSION - Berkeley Startup Cluster lunches will be held at the Freight and Salvage.
Lunch is $15 and will be catered by the Bread Workshop, providing organic, sustainable, and delicious fare. Lunch is from noon to 12:30 in the lobby, and then we’ll move into the auditorium to listen to our speaker(s).
Incidentally, you should know that Sylvia likes to call on people to participate. It makes the event more interactive and informative than your average panel discussion...
If you want to join us for lunch, please RSVP to whoisylvia@aol.com by 5:00, Tuesday, March 2.
If you want to join us just for convsersation, please arrive at 12:30 and go directly to the auditorium! There will be no charge for those who arrive after 12:30 p.m.
BSC/Berkeleyside Business Forum
In January 2011, the BSC established a collaboration with BerkeleySide.com to co-host a series of local business forums.
The first of these forums will be held on Monday, January 24 at 7 PM at Freight & Salvage on Addison.
The Forum is an opportunity to discuss the business climate in Berkeley, share experiences and learn from peers. The evening will be conversational and interactive -- it's not an occasion for speeches or soporific PowerPoint presentation.
Among the confirmed panelists are Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Wired and author of The Long Tail, Carl Bass, CEO of Autodesk, Michael Caplan, director of the city's Office of Economic Development, Kat Taylor, founding director of OneCalifornia Bank and Foundation, Amy Thomas, president of Pegasus Books, and Amanda West, founder of Amanda's restaurant.
This first forum is a free event, but you need to reserve a place by emailing forum@berkeleyside.com. Doors for the forum will open at 6:30 p.m.
If you want to organize, host or suggest an event, venue or speaker, then please contact the BSC.
