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5				1 OpenCoffee Cambridge Meetup Voltage Coffee & Art - 295 3rd St., Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA 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... McCarter & English - Equity Compensation: Using stock and options to pay for services Cambridge Innovation Center One Broadway, 5th Floor - Havana Training Room Cambridge, MA 02142 Entrepreneurial companies offer equity to employees as an important incentive. In this program, Rick Lucash of McCarter & English will cover the key issues in designing and implementing an equity incentive program using stock options, restricted stock and other techniques. Topics will... After Hours Coalition 222 Third Street 4th floor intrepidlabspresents sponsored by Enjoy presentations by local start-ups, expand your network, and indulge in an evening at intrepidlabs6-9pm February 1st 222 3rd Street, 4th floorbrews, hors d'oeuvres, raffleCome help welcome Intrepid Labs as Kendall's newest team... Harvard iLab - Startup Secrets: An Insider’s Guide to Getting your Startup off the Ground Harvard Innovation Lab, 125 Western Ave, Boston, MA 02163 How to acquire an unfair competitive advantage, taught by serial entrepreneur turned Venture Capitalist Michael Skok, a Partner at North Bridge Venture Partners. Highly interactive and hands-on – you are encouraged to bring your business idea. Entrepreneurs will be brought in for certain...	2 2012 Sloan Women in Management Conference MIT Media Lab, Building E14, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA 02139 This year's 2012 Sloan Women in Management Conference theme will be Innovating through Adversity. We have an incredible line-up of speakers, including Marissa Mayer, who will be presenting the keynote address! The Conference will be held on Friday, February 10th... BBJ - Smart Mistakes: Entrepreneurship Lessons Learned FCAT, 245 Summer Street, Boston, MA Come hear from leading CEOs and entrepreneurs who’ll share lessons they’ve learned that have helped to steer their careers towards success. Panel and keynotes will address issues faced by today’s most innovative businesses, including: talent challenges and pacing your company’s growth. National and... Venture Cafe in Session Venture Cafe, One Broadway, 4th fl., Cambridge, MA Come mix and mingle with fellow entrepreneurs! Find serendipitous connections, meet VCs for office hours and attend E&I-focused events. www.vencaf.com Venture Cafe alpha is an invitational prototype, with invitations extended to the entrepreneurial, innovative and creative communities... Morse Barnes-Brown Pendleton - Series “A” Venture Investing in 2012; Will We Turn the Corner? Venture Cafe, One Broadway, 4th fl., Cambridge, MA As any savvy entrepreneur knows, the process of securing venture capital is dependent on many variables, including many external to the startup seeking funding. Knowledge of the climate for venture funding and the nature of the venture funds themselves can make the difference between... Office Hours with Nick Pappas (Mass Technology Development Corporation) Venture Cafe, One Broadway, 4th fl., Cambridge, MA Join a member of the Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation for Office Hours! A partner from MTDC will be at a table in the cafe taking meetings on a first-come, first-serve basis. You can ask a cafe team member or just look for the table sign. MTDC's goal is to meet potential... Boston Beta - Startup Strategy Series MassChallenge, 55 Northern Ave, Boston, MA 02210 Boston Beta Startup Strategy Series Presented by McCarter & English, LLP Funding the Next Big Thing Boston Beta will kick off the first event of its Startup Strategy Series on February 2, 2012 with a discussion focused on "Funding the Next Big Thing." Each of our speakers is an... 4th Annual TechConnect event at BU School of Management Boston University School of Management, 9th Floor Ballroom, 595 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA TechConnect is an opportunity to meet highly-regarded business strategists and technologists, and participate in discourse on some of the newest topics facing technology-oriented business leaders. This year’s TechConnect will feature a panel of experts who will share their insights on and... Refresh Boston - Geting Shit Done Microsoft NERD, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142 About This Presentation Design and development is a lifestyle choice for many of us, but that doesn't mean we don't want to get out and enjoy the other things in life. When most of your day is spent on trivial tasks rather than productive work, it's time to evaluate... Harvard iLab - Product Development Workshop Harvard Innovation Lab, 125 Western Ave, Boston, MA 02163 Learn about the end-to-end product development process, from concept initiation, to wire-framing, to usability testing, to drawing conclusions from analytics. This will be an informal, open Q&A workshop where you are encouraged to ask as many questions as you’d like. Taught by Apar Kothari...	3 New England Database Summit 2012 MIT campus, in room 32-123 of the Stata Center, located at 32 Vassar St. on the corner of Main St. and Vassar St. in Cambridge. Welcome to the home page for the Fifth Annual New England Database Summit (NEDB Summit), to be held on February 3, 2012. This will be an all day conference-style event where participants from the research community and industry in the New England area can come together to present ideas and discuss...	4
6	5	6 MIT Enterprise Forum - NFC in Smartphones Transforms Healthcare MIT EG&G Education Center, Room 34-101 50 Vassar Street Cambridge, MA 02139 With over 100 million NFC smartphones expected in service by 2012 and over 500 million by 2015, what will the impact be on healthcare? It will be transformational, says our panel of leading industry experts - and they'll tell you why in this program. Technology Presentations 6:00 - 6:50... DrinksonTap - Demos, drinks and discussions about mobile development Asgard, 350 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139 DrinksOnTap is a social meetup for Boston area mobile developers (iPhone, Android and more). The event is organized monthly to brings together the best mobile developers and share what we've been working on over drinks. We are always looking for amazing demos from companies in the... Boston MongoDB - Monitoring MongoDB with MMS and more Dogpatch Labs, One Cambridge Center. 6th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02142 This meetup will focus on real demos of open-source and hosted tools for monitoring MongoDB. Get a chance to see these tools first hand and ask questions. MongoDB Monitoring Service (MMS) ~ 30 mins Jeff Yemin from 10gen will show us how to monitor MongoDB using their free, cloud-based...	7 CWE - Creating a Social Media Strategy Harvard Innovation Lab, 125 Western Ave, Boston, MA 02163 Creating a Social Media Strategy— Tuesday, February 7, 2012 9-11 am Attend this workshop and learn how to use online networking outlets such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and blogs to create an effective social media strategy for your business. During this workshop, you will: Understand the... MITX - Building Your Digital Strategy: A Roundtable Discussion for Marketers in Financial Services DLA Piper, 33 Arch St., Boston, MA Senior executives from key players in the financial services space will offer their perspective on the trends, tactics and new ideas that are changing marketing strategies in this industry. Featuring: Rose Cahill, VP, Insurance Industry, Acxiom CorporationRichard Bennett, COO, AGS Benefits... Harvard iLab - "Artist as Entrepreneur" A Conversation with Wynton Marsalis Harvard Innovation Lab, 125 Western Ave, Boston, MA 02163 "Artist as Entrepreneur" A Conversation with Wynton Marsalis Join us on Tuesday February 7, at 3pm in the i-lab lobby for a conversation entitled "Artist as Entrepreneur" with Wynton Marsalis, and HBS professors Nancy Koehn, Rohit Deshpande, and Mukti Khaire, moderated by Mihir Desai. ... Boston Azure Cloud User Group - Architecting for Failure: Why Cloud Architecture is Different Microsoft NERD, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142 This is a joint meeting with our friends from the Microsoft DevBoston group. 6:00-7:00 (opening topic TBD, plus we hope to provide pizza)7:00-8:15 - Michael Stiefel is featured speaker: Architecting for Failure: Why Cloud Architecture is Different8:15-... Overview of Social Media in the Care Continuum Cambridge Innovation Center, Havana Conference Room (5th Floor), One Broadway, Cambridge MA The evening will consist of three presentations on different components of the role of social media in healthcare: patient-patient community, provider-provider community and patient-provider interaction. Presentations will be followed by a panel discussion with the audience. Our speakers... MassChallenge Ambassador Training 55 Northern Ave, Boston MA 02210 Thank you for your interest in becoming a MassChallenge Ambassador!As we prepare to launch our 2012 competition, we rely on our ambassadors to assist us in spreading the word to the startup community. As an ambassador, we ask that you:Attend events in the ecosystem to spread the word... Lean Startup Machine Boston (Pre-show) Dogpatch Labs, One Cambridge Center. 6th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02142 Lean Startup Machine has reached global markets including New York, London, Lahore, Palo Alto, Toronto - and now we're coming back to Boston from February 17th to February 19th. We'd like to have you join us on Tuesday, February 7th at 6:30pm for a pre-show of #LSMBoston, drinks on us,... Boston ENET - Leveraging Social Media for Marketing, Sales, and Product Development Foley Hoag Emerging Enterprise Center, 1000 Winter Street, Suite 4000 (north entrance), Waltham, MA Social media is fast becoming a mainstay of marketing. Companies are finding they need to promote their products and services on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter just to keep up with the competition. But are simple promotions all there really is to social media? How do you fully leverage...	8 OpenCoffee Cambridge Meetup Voltage Coffee & Art - 295 3rd St., Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA 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... Innovation Series Event: The Future of the Personal Genome MIT Stata Center, Kirsch Auditorium, 32 Vassar Street Cambridge, MA 02139 Genome sequencing has rapidly moved from costing a million dollars to sequence a human genome in 2007 down to close to $1,000 today. With the practicality of costs has come enormous amounts of data available for analysis to drive the development of more personalized medicine by predicting... DemoCamp Boston Hult Interntional Business School: One Education Street -Cambridge, MA Hult Entrepreneurship & Innovation Club gladly invites you to our first event of the year, Democamp!!! What is DemoCamp?An entrepreneurship networking and idea-sharing event to create new business opportunities and connect with the startup community.If you are a designer, developer,... HBS Women's Assocation of Boston - “Show Me The Money” A Look at Sources of Capital Available for Entrepreneurial Women Harvard Club, 374 Commonwealth Ave, Boston Time: 6:00 p.m. Cocktail Reception and Networking ... Harvard iLab - “Me, Inc.”: How to Land the Perfect Job at a Start-up Harvard Innovation Lab, 125 Western Ave, Boston, MA 02163 Companies today want to hire people who are smart, hard-working, dedicated, a good cultural fit and know how to contribute to a team and solve problems. But how do you demonstrate these things to potential employers? And how do you get them to pick you? Develop a unique and compelling... Mass Innovation Nights - February Event Microsoft NERD, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142 Innovation Nights provides innovators, entrepreneurs and product marketers with a way to connect with the social networking world, the mainstream media, the marketplace and each other, and gain more visibility for their new products.Information about new products is submitted through the... MassChallenge UnTapped MassChallenge 55 Northern Avenue, Boston MA 02210 What is MassChallenge?When can I apply?Beer? Join MassChallenge Alumni Stephanie Kaplan (Co-Founder, HerCampus) who will share her experience in the MassChallenge program. Learn first-hand the benefits of participating in the Accelerator from one of our very own! Please Join us... GTUG - Lightning talks and Android Global Dev Camp presentation Google Cambridge - 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA Wednesday February 8th at 6:30, Google's offices in Kendall Sq, 3rd floor, Beacon Hill conference room. At this meeting we will have lightning talks and a presentation on the upcoming Android Global Dev Camp Hackathon. Boston Python - Feb Python Project Night Microsoft NERD, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142 Come work on Python projects, get programming help, help others, and hang out. Bring your own project or work on one of the suggested projects below. Staff from the Boston Python Workshop will be here to help beginning Python programmers with language basics and practice. Audience:... Memory on Hand Kickstarter Kickoff Party Meadhall, 4 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142 Memory on Hand is getting a Kickstart-er!! Come join the party Feb 8th @ Meadhall! Memory on Hand, the buzzing Cambridge start-up that brought you the MoH Band is hosting a 'Kickstarter Kickoff" party on Feb 8th @ Meadhall in Kendall Square! What is Kickstarter? Kickstarter... NHHTC Entrepreneur Forum FIRST headquarters, 200 Bedford Street, Manchester, NH The NHHTC produces a series of educational programs to support entrepreneurship and provide high-level resources to rapidly growing companies. At the Entrepreneur Forum, companies present their business challenges to a panel of industry experts, and receive board-level and executive advice on...	9 128ICG - Alternative Funding Models for Cleantech IBM Innovation Center - 404 Wyman St. (N entrance), Waltham, MA Eric Emmons, Investment Partner at Siemens Venture Capital Alternative Funding Models for Cleantech Click Here to Register to Pay with a Credit Card Please Click Here to Register and Pay at the Door... Venture Cafe in Session Venture Cafe, One Broadway, 4th fl., Cambridge, MA Come mix and mingle with fellow entrepreneurs! Find serendipitous connections, meet VCs for office hours and attend E&I-focused events. www.vencaf.com Venture Cafe alpha is an invitational prototype, with invitations extended to the entrepreneurial, innovative and creative communities... Info Table for Brew Week Venture Cafe, One Broadway, 4th fl., Cambridge, MA A representative of the Boston Entrepreneurs BREW week 2012 will be available to meet up informally with those interested in building out the global dimension of BREW 2012 and how the Boston entrepreneurial community can make more global connections during Brew Week 2012. Building Global Entrepreneurial Connections Venture Cafe, One Broadway, 4th fl., Cambridge, MA Meet the world! Come meet representatives of international consulates and agencies for a Venture Café focused on global business, innovation and connection. The event is hosted by the Consulates of Switzerland, Germany, France, Canada, and Haiti, in addition to UK Trade and Investment, the... Harvard iLab - Evaluating your Startup Career Opportunity Harvard Innovation Lab, 125 Western Ave, Boston, MA 02163 A candid discussion about startups as an alternate career, as well as how to evaluate an opportunity at a startup relative to a more traditional job offer. Taught by Eric Paley, who is a Managing Partner at Founder Collective, an early stage venture capital fund started by a team of... Apptopia - The Business of Apps Cambridge Innovation Center - One Broadway - 5th Floor - Cambridge, MA Every Thursday something magical happens in Cambridge. The Venture Cafe opens its self up to provide free beer (yes, literally free beer) and a place for like minded, awesome, people to network and meet each other. This week we thought we'd spice it up a little bit. Mobile... Info Table for Lean Startup Machine Weekend Venture Cafe, One Broadway, 4th fl., Cambridge, MA Come learn about the upcoming Lean Startup Machine weekend, Feb 17-19th. Lean Startup Machine is a metrics-driven startup competition that provides participants with a valuable framework of tools, techniques, and resources designed to help early-stage companies understand their customers... Boston Entrepreneurship Meetup Channel Cafe 300 Summer Stree Boston MA Are you an entrepreneur? Do you work for a start up? Are you just generally interested in entrepreneurship? Come down to Channel Cafe to have a drink after work in Boston's Innovation District. This is a great opportunity to meet other entrepreneurs, find out what everyone is working on, and... MassTLC - Software Development Member Roundtable: Maximizing Engineering Productivity VMWare, 5 Cambridge Center, 10th Floor, Cambridge, MA Software Development Roundtable: Maximizing Engineering Productivity Thursday, February 9, 2012 5:00pm-7:00pm VMware, Cambridge, MA Tweet it Out! @MassTLC #SoftDev Join your software development peers for an in-depth discussion on how to maximize productivity to improve your business and drive... Info Table for Institute for Human Centered Design Venture Cafe, One Broadway, 4th fl., Cambridge, MA Do you want to learn how to integrate a more human-centered approach to the design of product or service? Stop by and speak with Jennifer Otitigbe, Director of User Experience and Research from the Institute for Human Centered Design (humancentereddesign.org), a global NGO that assists... MITX - Community Engagement Lessons from the Travel Industry Communispace Headquarters, 290 Congress Street, Fl 7, Boston, MA 02210 The Internet is filled with breathtaking photos of wonderful vacations and lengthy reviews of bad trips. But it is no easy feat to create a community around these love-or-hate extremes, embracing both of them to drive customer engagement and purchases. Join MITX on February 9th to... Boston Beta - Student Startup Edition Microsoft NERD, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142 About Boston Beta Boston Beta is a quarterly get-together for founders, hackers, students, investors, designers, visionaries, media professionals, and more. Join us for a stimulating evening of conversation, talks, and startup demos, focused around greater Boston's early-stage startup... DartBoston Flip Cup - Abine Edition Abine, 280 Summer Street, Mezzanine Level, Boston, MA In the immortal words of America’s favorite rock band KISS: “You wanted the best, well you got the best!” After months of endless trash talk, most of it coming from them directly, Team Nanigans (led by trusty leader and beer run extraordinaire Cheryl Morris) did exactly as they promised...	10 Harvard iLab - Startup Career Fair Harvard Innovation Lab, 125 Western Ave, Boston, MA 02163 The FAS Office of Career Services and the Harvard Innovation Lab invite you to join us at the 2nd Annual Start-Up Career Fair on Friday, February 10, 2012. The interest in entrepreneurship and start-up careers among Harvard students is high. This educational and career-focused event, geared... StartUp Scramble University Open Microsoft NERD, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142 STARTUP SCRAMBLE UNIVERSITY OPEN Friday, Feb. 10 - Sunday, Feb. 12 @ MICROSOFT NERD #ScrambleBOS + The StartUp Scramble University Open is a weekend crash-course in everything student startup. Kick-start your 2012 venture ideaJoin a team and...	11 StartUp Scramble University Open Microsoft NERD, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142 STARTUP SCRAMBLE UNIVERSITY OPEN Friday, Feb. 10 - Sunday, Feb. 12 @ MICROSOFT NERD #ScrambleBOS + The StartUp Scramble University Open is a weekend crash-course in everything student startup. Kick-start your 2012 venture ideaJoin a team...
7	12 StartUp Scramble University Open Microsoft NERD, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142 STARTUP SCRAMBLE UNIVERSITY OPEN Friday, Feb. 10 - Sunday, Feb. 12 @ MICROSOFT NERD #ScrambleBOS + The StartUp Scramble University Open is a weekend crash-course in everything student startup. Kick-start your 2012 venture ideaJoin a team...	13 Cloud Security Alliance Training Prudential Tower 16th Floor 800 Boylston Street 16th Floor, Boston MASS 02199 CCSK trainingCloud Computing Security Knowledge- BasicThe Cloud Computing Security Knowledge- Basic class provides students a comprehensive one day review of cloud security fundamentals and prepares them to take the Cloud Security Alliance CCSK certification exam. Starting with a detailed... The Boston MySQL Meetup Group - Scaling MySQL with Transparent Database Sharding MIT Building E51, Rm 345, Cambridge, MA 02139 This meetup's topic is "Scaling MySQL with Transparent Database Sharding", by Victoria Dudin of ScaleBase. Every relational database has some machine scaling limits. In this month's meeting Victoria will present the concept of Database Sharding - splitting the database to several independent...	14 WPI Venture Forum: Financing War stories WPI Worcester, Campus Center Odeum David S. Miller, Ph.D is the keynote speaker for WPI Venture Forum’s February 14 meeting, where he will address the critical criteria required to provide financing for energy startups.	15 MassTLC - Summit: The Big Data Disruption Microsoft NERD, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142 Summit: The Big Data Disruption When: Wednesday, Feb 15, 2012 8:00am - 12:00pm Where: Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tweet it out! @MassTLC #BigData Join us as we take a deep dive into the future outlook of big data and how it is going to impact the tech industry down the road... OpenCoffee Cambridge Meetup Voltage Coffee & Art - 295 3rd St., Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA 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... MassChallenge UnTapped Cambridge Innovation Center What is MassChallenge?When can I apply? Join MassChallenge Alumni Sonia Divney, CEO & Founder of ZarzaTech, who will share her experience in the MassChallenge program. Learn first-hand the benefits of participating in the Accelerator from one of our very own!Joining Sonia... Boston Hadoop - 2012 Kick-off Meeting Fidelity - 245 Summer St, 14th floor, Boston MA What better way to kick off the new year (albeit a bit belatedly) than with a Hadoop MeetUp? We've gotten support from Cloudera, Fidelity, Hadapt, and MapR for this kick-off event. The agenda we've lined up is geared more towards the beginner Hadoop user, but there will certainly... MassChallenge UnTapped with MassChallenge Alum: Drew Volpe of Locately 55 Northern Avenue, Boston MA 02210 What is MassChallenge?When can I apply?Beer? Join MassChallenge Alum Drew Volpe, CTO & Co-founder of Locately, who will share his experience in the MassChallenge program. Learn first-hand the benefits of participating in the Accelerator from one of our very own! Please Join...	16 Piranha Pond Pitch Party - Pitch Your Company to Investor Panel Enterprise Center at Salem State University You've heard of the Shark Tank..... Welcome to the Piranha Pond! At the Piranha Pond, Entrepreneurs seeking funding have a 5-minute opportunity to convince a panel of Investors to give them the... Venture Cafe in Session Venture Cafe, One Broadway, 4th fl., Cambridge, MA Come mix and mingle with fellow entrepreneurs! Find serendipitous connections, meet VCs for office hours and attend E&I-focused events. www.vencaf.com Venture Cafe alpha is an invitational prototype, with invitations extended to the entrepreneurial, innovative and creative communities... MIT Enterprise Forum - Concept Clinic with Mosec Microsoft NERD Center, Sampson and Paul Room One Memorial Drive Cambridge, MA 02139 You’ve developed a great product or technology. You’ve sketched out the business idea on a napkin. Now what?Register Concept Clinics investigate essential go-to-market strategies, funding and finance issues, team building, IP and other issues for companies that are working on their... MIT Enterprise Forum - Energy SIG Event: Sustainable Transportation in our Lifetime? UK Trade & Investment, 7th Floor One Broadway Cambridge, MA 02142 Petroleum is the life blood of modern society. It is inexpensive, refueling is easy and it has a high energy density thereby enabling easy ground, rail and air transportation. Yet climate change and economic and energy security are forcing us to explore alternative methods of... Women in Conversation - The Sisterhood of Startups MassChallenge, One Marina Park Drive, 14th Floor, Boston, MA 02110 Celebrate Women Entrepreneurs with Exhale Magazine! Learn about the wild world of startups in a conversation with some of Boston's most exciting women-led companies at MassChallenge headquarters, moderated by MITX President Debi Kleiman. Come and enjoy a glass of wine, light fare and an... Founders and Marketers: Learn Cutting Edge Startup Marketing WorkBar 711 Atlantic Ave Boston, Massachusetts 02111 United States You may have a brilliant product, but do you know how to market it? Without a cutting edge marketing strategy event the most amazing products can fail.Founders are not always the best marketers and often their product suffers as the result. An exciting new marketing campaign can... Hacks/Hacker - The Boston Globe's digital strategy: a peek behind the (pay)wall Boston Globe, 135 Morrissey Blvd., Dorchester, MA 02108 Chris Mayer, publisher of the Boston, will talk about the Boston Globe’s digital strategy – the launch of the premium BostonGlobe.com alongside the advertising supported boston.com — and how the websites embody and renew the values and ambitions that...	17 Lean Startup Machine Boston TBD Your startup will probably fail. What about building what customers want? Heh, it just aint that simple. Lean Startup Machine is a metrics-driven startup competition where teams learn to identify the key risks in their business model through hands-on mentorship and our framework of tools. Over...	18 Lean Startup Machine Boston TBD Your startup will probably fail. What about building what customers want? Heh, it just aint that simple. Lean Startup Machine is a metrics-driven startup competition where teams learn to identify the key risks in their business model through hands-on mentorship and our framework of tools.... Global Android Dev Camp - Boston Edition Google Cambridge - 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA Global Android Dev Camp - the Boston edition. An Android Hackathon, hosted by Boston GTUG, by users, for users. Join a world-wide event as people across the globe build Android apps. Come to the dev camp/hackathon, with a team, or form a team at the event. Build an Android App. ... Boston Mobile Hackathon WorkBar, 711 Atlantic Ave (Lower Level), Boston, MA 02111 Are you an Android developer who's hungry to build the next great mobile app? Looking to hang out and code with other cool developers for an afternoon? Want an opportunity to get your hands on some brand new mobile dev tools that are not yet publicly available? Then the Boston Mobile Hackathon...
8	19 Lean Startup Machine Boston TBD Your startup will probably fail. What about building what customers want? Heh, it just aint that simple. Lean Startup Machine is a metrics-driven startup competition where teams learn to identify the key risks in their business model through hands-on mentorship and our framework of tools.... Global Android Dev Camp - Boston Edition Google Cambridge - 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA Global Android Dev Camp - the Boston edition. An Android Hackathon, hosted by Boston GTUG, by users, for users. Join a world-wide event as people across the globe build Android apps. Come to the dev camp/hackathon, with a team, or form a team at the event. Build an Android App...	20 Capital Accelerator Program Demo Day Microsoft NERD Center, 1 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA ePowerhouse is inviting you to the Finalists Demo Day of our Capital Accelerator Program (CAP) at Microsoft NERD center. We will showcase the innovation of those high potential and high impact finalist startups who have achieved significant development in the last 3 months. We are confident that a...	21 RubyRiot#2 The Estate Boston, 1 Boylston Place (The Alley), Boston, MA 02216 Lives will be changed. Forever.Create a better Boston by paying it forward at The Estate on Tuesday, February 21st at 7PM.Be sure to Follow @bobdavisHCP for #rubyriot News.Cheers,@mattlauzon, @jenniferlum, @cortlandt & @ajohnclarkAdmission is on a first-come first-serve...	22 OpenCoffee Cambridge Meetup Voltage Coffee & Art - 295 3rd St., Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA 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... MassChallenge UnTapped Oficio- 30 Newbury Street, Boston MA 02116 What is MassChallenge?When can I apply? Please join us for an information session at OficioDate: February 22, 2012Time: 6pm - 7pm Where: Oficio30 Newbury Street3rd FloorBetween Arlington and BerkeleyBoston, MA 02116Questions? Comments? Concerns? Suggestions?events@... PyCon on the Charles Part 1 Microsoft NERD, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142 PyCon 2012 is coming up in March in Santa Clara. In this first of two sessions, two Boston-area speakers will practice their presentations. If you can't make it to PyCon, this is a great way to see some of the PyCon talks, and also help your fellow Bostonians polish their presentations. Static...	23 Boston New Technology Meetup #BNT14 @BostonNewTech Venture Cafe, 1 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02141 February meeting of the Boston New Tech Meetup! This is a FREE event!Come learn about 6 innovative and exciting technology products and network with the Boston/Cambridge startup community! Each product gets 10 minutes for presentation, demo and Q&A. Please help us promote... BBJ - Most Admired Companies, CEOs & Brands Sheraton Boston, 39 Dalton Street, Boston, MA The Boston Business Journal will be honoring the Boston business community's most admired companies, brands and CEOs as chosen by their peers. The Most Admired platform is a first-time event for the BBJ that will include a lunch program consisting of a key-note address and awards... MassChallenge Untapped WorkBar -711 Atlantic Avenue 02111 What is MassChallenge?When can I apply? Please join us for an information session and lunch at WorkBar Boston Pizza and drinks on usDate: February 23, 2012Time: 12pm - 1pm Where: WorkBar Boston711 Atlantic AveLower LevelBoston, MA 02111Questions? Comments?... Venture Cafe in Session Venture Cafe, One Broadway, 4th fl., Cambridge, MA Come mix and mingle with fellow entrepreneurs! Find serendipitous connections, meet VCs for office hours and attend E&I-focused events. www.vencaf.com Venture Cafe alpha is an invitational prototype, with invitations extended to the entrepreneurial, innovative and creative communities... Boston Azure Cloud User Group - Solving Access Control in the Cloud - from WIF to ACS Microsoft NERD, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142 Solving Access Control in the Cloud - from WIF to ACS Join us to hear featured speaker Brock Allen (@BrockLAllen) from DevelopMentor dig into Access Control in the Cloud starting with WIF, ending with ACS, and including lots along the way (such as Claims). Details of Brock's... Goodwin Proctor - What is the Big Deal about Big Data (and Analytics)? Harvard Innovation Lab, 125 Western Ave, Boston, MA 02163 What is the Big Deal about Big Data (and Analytics)? This year's YES 2012 conference will focus on delving further into Boston's tech scene and its data landscape. We hope to discuss and engage further on not only the current, thriving data and analytics start-up scene, but also its future in... MIT Enterprise Forum: Software SIG Event: Forming the Company — Part I MIT Stata Center, Room 32-141 32 Vassar Street Cambridge, MA 02139 The Feb 2012 program will provide an overview of timing, division of responsibilities and roles for building a team to get your start-up to a fundable stage. Topics include When to start team buildingDividing responsibilities among a growing teamCo-Founder, Employee or Consultant? The... Boston JavaScript - The Promises Pattern in Javascript SignedOn, 373 Washington Street, Boston, MA February's JavaScript Meetup will be presented by, Eric Strathmeyer, who will be speaking on the Promises Pattern in JavaScript. If you're writing JavaScript in 2012, you're dealing with callbacks. The common method of supplying a callback function as a parameter works fine for small... North Shore Web Geeks The Port Tavern, 84 State St., Newburyport, MA As winter trudges on, it's time for another North Shore Web Geeks! SCHEDULING NOTE: we're moving this month's meetup back a week to the fourth Thursday of the month, so make sure you mark your calendars! This month's presentation is "How to Transform your Website into a Valuable Business Asset... BostInno - Insider Awards Party Ned Devine's, 1 Faneuil Hall Market Place, Boston, MA We're celebrating the best Boston blogs and bloggers, the best content crushers and BostInno knowledge droppers, and throwing one of our biggest parties yet on February 23rd. BostInno will be honoring the best bloggers on and off BostInno in tech and startups, VC and finance, marketing and...	24	25
9	26	27 TVnext Summit The Institute of Contemporary Art - Boston, 100 Northern Ave, Boston With over 25 speakers, TVnext is organized into three segments: INTEGRATION presents social TV case studies from some of the leading television networks. INSIGHTS dives into the research and learnings from the millions of social impressions we create while watching TV. And INTERACTION features the...	28 MassChallenge UnTapped @ UMass Boston UMass Boston 100 William T Morrissey Blvd, Boston MA 02125 What is MassChallenge?When can I apply? Please join us for an information session at UMass BostonDate: January 28, 2012Time: 12pm - 1pm Where: UMass Boston100 William T Morrissey Boulevard Boston, MA 02125Questions? Comments? Concerns? Suggestions?events@... MassChallenge UnTapped 55 Northern Avenue, Boston MA 02210 What is MassChallenge?When can I apply?Beer? Please Join us at the MassChallenge Headquarters for “MassChallenge UnTapped”Date: February 28, 2012Time: 6:00 - 8:00pmLocation: ONE Marina Park Drive14th Floor (use 55 Northern Avenue for GPS directions)Boston, MA 02210Format:6:00-6:30... MIT Enterprise Forum: Augmented Reality Gets Real MIT Tang Center, Room E51-145 70 Memorial Drive Cambridge, MA 02139 If virtual reality creates a rich experience within a world that may not exist, then augmented reality (AR) creates a rich experience within the world that actually does. AR overlays relevant digital content on physical environments in real time so you can interact with them in ways that are...	29 Hacking, Whacking, and Tracking: Protecting IP and Trade Secrets Danversport Yacht Club, 161 Elliott Street, Danvers, MA The theft of intellectual property and trade secrets is not a victimless crime. Investors, employees and shareholders pay the price through losses of jobs and corporate and shareholder value. In turn, municipal, state and federal programs feel the squeeze as these losses result in reduced tax... OpenCoffee Cambridge Meetup Voltage Coffee & Art - 295 3rd St., Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA 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... PyCon on the Charles Part 2 Microsoft NERD, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142 PyCon 2012 is coming up in March in Santa Clara. In this second of two sessions, four Boston-area speakers will practice their presentations. If you can't make it to PyCon, this is a great way to see some of the PyCon talks, and also help your fellow Bostonians polish their presentations....