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Networking calendar

Week of March 7 2010

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Boston Park Plaza Hotel
Join the BBJ for the first ever Advancing Women breakfast. The morning will include a keynote address, a panel of business women will share their views on advancing the cause of women in the workplace and two Advancing Women Awards. Keynote Speaker: Myra Hart Myra Hart is a member of the...
 
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UK Trade & Invest - 1 Broadway, Floor 7, Cambridge MA
Just as New England is establishing itself as a worldwide hub for mobile technologies, so is the United Kingdom. The UK is home to an exciting group of technology companies that also focus on mobile advertising, applications, marketing and content. As we in New England continue to lead in many...
Cafe Andala, 286 Franklin St., Cambridge, MA 02139
Fellow web entrepreneurs and VCs gather once a week in Boston to grab some coffee, free WiFi, and chat about what's new. Around the world, tech entrepreneurs and investors are meeting regularly to drink coffee, network and hopefully do deals. No more of the old-school "please send us your...
John Hancock Hotel and Conference Center, 40 Trinity Place, Boston, MA 02116
A one-size-fits-all approach to databases no longer applies. Relational databases have worked well - and will continue to - for highly transactional systems. But today's web applications require enormous scalability and performance. This has spurred the growth of a new class of databases that trade...
 
 
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Microsoft NERD Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
Come hear more about the MassChallenge competition and how you can get involved! Contact: salimah@masschallenge.org
Geek Offices, Inman Square, 1035 Cambridge St, Suite 1, Cambridge, MA 02141
"iPhone/iPad Jelly, March 8th, 9am to 6 pm, Inman Square Cambridge" Hi All, we at Geek Offices are hosting an all day jelly for iPhone and iPad developers. No special presentations so come and go as you please, and meet casually with other developers. at 6 we can all head over to mobile monday!....
 
 
 
 
Bentley College, Waltham, MA
UPA Boston workshops present How to be a Usability Star - The UX Public Speaking Toolkit When it comes to advancing your career, public speaking might just be the #1 skill that can help you get noticed. And yet for most of us, presenting in front of an audience inspires ambivalence at best, and...
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Roomscapes Luxury Design Center - 40 Reservoir Park Drive, Rockland, MA
The Downtown Women's Club and Roomscapes Luxury Design Center present Creating an effective Twitter strategy. Tuesday, March 9th, 11:00 a.m.-12:30 pm (light lunch provided after.) This workshop walks you through crafting an effective Twitter strategy including: what to tweet, how often to tweet...
 
 
 
 
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Business Innovation Factory, 60 Valley Street, Unit 25, Providence, RI 02909
Join us for a lively conversation with Babson College President Len Schlesinger about the future of entrepreneurship education. In BIF style, Len will lead an informal conversation over lunch at the BIF offices in Providence. One thing to know about Len: if you have a question, don’t be afraid to...
Bingham McCutchen LLP, One Federal Street, Boston, MA
In today’s economic environment, where investors are strapped for cash and looking for the lowest risk alternatives, the already difficult task of defending your corporate valuation to Angels...
 
 
 
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Microsoft, New England R&D Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142
Mobile computing is the future of consumer computing. Or at least many entrepreneurs seem to think so: there's a mad scramble underway to create the most popular and profitable services, content, and applications for the new array of smartphones and mobile devices. As computing enters what many...
 
 
 
 
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222 Third Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge, MA
Dogpatch Labs was created by Polaris Venture Partners to connect entrepreneurs and help founders conceive and launch startups. Regular office hours will begin the following week on Thursday afternoons from 2-5pm, and will include coffee, snacks, and good conversation. Come by to meet Polaris,...
Cambridge Innovation Center, 1 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02142
The 11th floor kitchen and surrounding areas is now officially The Venture Cafe (in alpha form) during certain hours of the week. This is a prototype edition of the real Venture Cafe, which will be an actual cafe in Kendall Square that’s open from early to late to help connect members of the...
 
 
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John F. Kennedy School of Government, 79 John F. Kennedy Street (Harvard Square), Cambridge, MA 02138
An Innovations Agenda for Massachusetts Monday, March 8 at 5:30 p.m. Allison Dining Room, 5th floor, Taubman Building, 15 Eliot Street Gregory Bialecki, Massachusetts Secretary of Housing and Economic Development In a July 2009 “Declaration of Innovation,” posted on his new blog, Secretary...
 
Stata Center (Bldg. 32) Room 123, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA
Investing in start-ups is a high risk business. Rising valuations and other factors have made it more difficult for VCs to see successful returns and the majority of start-ups will fail. The odds are stacked against the entrepreneur. However, seed accelerators and seed capital have emerged as a...
 
 
 
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Microsoft NERD, 1 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02142
This Month featuring Mobile! If you're looking for talent, clients or to just spread the word about what you are doing in the social media space, join us for this Tech Tuesday. You'll have an opportunity for a fast-pitch shout-out to the audience of fellow geeks, tech savvy professionals, DIY-ers...
The Vilna Shul, 18 Phillips Street, Boston, MA 02114
“The State of Angel Investing” – A panel discussion moderated by Bill Warner, President, Warner Research.
Cambridge Innovation Center, 1 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02142
Welcome to IdeaStorm 9: Hot on the heals of the biggest and best IdeaStorm ever, we have secured TWO floors at the Cambridge Innovation Center in Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA. After more than 100 attendees at IdeaStorm 8, we’re expecting a great turnout from MIT, Boston schools, and the local...
Foley Hoag Cente, Suite Number: 4000, 1000 Winter Street, Waltham, MA 02451
TiE-Boston hosts an Leaders...
Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation, 154 Moody Street, Waltham, MA
We have a couple of themes this month! We’re a part of Mass Mobile Month with innovators from the mobile space. And, we have companies from the Life Sciences and Biotech arena too! And, of course, there’s our usual wide variety of cool companies! Check them out and vote below (scroll down to the...
Microsoft NERD Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
Our March JavaScript Meetup will be held Thursday, March 25th at Microsoft Research Center located at One Memorial Drive in Cambridge. When you arrive security will direct you to the correct floor. There is also parking available at a cheap evening rate in the building. Parking is also free on the...
WorkBar, 711 Atlantic Ave, Boston, MA 02111
March Entrepreneurs Forum: SEO Strategies Learn about SEO strategies for new web sites and creating content. Thursday, Mar. 11 - 6:30PM at WorkBar Boston This month's fourm will feature short presentations by leading SEO experts. Eric Enge - President of of Stone Temple Consulting, will...
 
 
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MIT Building E51, Room 372, 4 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA 02142
The March 2010 meetup will go over how to check that your masters and slave have the same data using a process called "continual replication sync". Sheeri K. Cabral of The Pythian Group outlines how to use Maatkit's mk-table-checksum to check a part of your data, how to choose how much of your data...
Intercontinental Hotel Boston, 510 Atlantic Ave., Boston, MA
On Monday, March 8, Mobile Monday Boston and our generous sponsor UK Trade and Investment are hosting a demo night for the hottest mobile companies from the UK and Boston. It will be a fun event where you'll get to interact with some cool companies in mobile you might not otherwise get to meet....
Tavern In the Square, 730 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139
We meet at Tavern In the Square the second Monday of every month.
 
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oin us for part II in our series on the CakePHP framework. Join Chris Baril (http://chrisbaril.com...) and Jesse Kochis (http://jkochis.com/...) as they give you a more in-depth advanced view of CakePHP. The main focus of this meetup will be creating, installing and using packaged application...