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05/14/2015

Pioneering Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann discovered the Earth's core. Google salutes her as it grows diversity of Doodle's influencers.

03/21/2015

http://linkd.in/1AThn4i According to Time Magazine honoring March Women's History Month: Awareness is not enough, this year's theme: "Make It Happen" ACTION is in!

Fortune Magazine's Everyone is Talking segment: "Where's Serena? Not There. New Yorkers might have noticed something missing in advertisements yesterday: The women were gone. As part of International Women's Day, The Clinton Foundation ran its "Not There" campaign, removing women from…

12/02/2014

A little more about Women In Tech Network:

We are the Biggest Women Tech Startup Event in SoCal Tech Startup Ecosystem with our Historic event in May 2014 and November 2013. We have always broken records for each and every thing we do including producing, co-producing and Media Partner of 102+ Events between 11/2013 and 12/2014.

As you may already know, Women In Tech Network is creating a 1+ Million Movement and an event with 250+ Speakers - 3 days Innovation Summit in 2015.

Tech Week LA 90+ Speakers (Chicago 10,000+ attendees and 3 other locations)

We have some incredible female speakers and our Panel on Friday that we are thrilled to highlight as well:

HOW TO ATTRACT MORE WOMEN INTO TECH

Location: The Pestigious BIG White Tent (Main Stage) 200 Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica CA 90404

Time & Date: Friday, November 21, 2014 3:20 to 4pm

TechWeek LA, Women In Tech Network & Startups Edge Present: Notable Moderator & Panelists on The Main Stage under Prestigious BIG White Tent

Location: 200 Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, CA

Tech Week brings to LA not only 90+ Speakers including CEOs of 2 Billion Dollar Companies ($2.7 Billion - Cornerstone and Beats by Dr. Dre), VCs and more

In light of Google's recent revelation that women make up a mere 30 percent of its workforce, it is not surprising that currently only 4.2 percent of VC funding goes to female entrepreneurs. Women In Tech experts will discuss different avenues in how to attract more Women into Tech as well as galvanize more Women Entrepreneurs from outside of Southern California. Topics include methods for improving diversity in LA's Tech Startup Ecosystem and increasing the odds of funding for Women Startups.

11/12/2014

Got a great idea?
Looking to expand your business?
Need financial backing?

The largest B2B business networking event and conference in the United States. It was designed to be equal parts business trade show, conference and networking event and brings together thousands of like-minded entrepreneurs, C-Level Execs, business owners and other business professionals from around the country.

About ABC’s Shark Tank

The critically-acclaimed business-themed show, Shark Tank, has the Sharks continuing the search to invest in the best businesses and products that America has to offer. The show received a nomination for a Producers Guild Award in 2013. In 2012 “Shark Tank” received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Reality Program and a nomination for a Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Reality Series. The Sharks — tough, self-made, multi-millionaire and billionaire tycoons — will once again give budding entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true and potentially secure business deals that could make them millionaires.

They are: Billionaire, Mark Cuban, owner and chairman of AXS TV and outspoken owner of the 2011 NBA championship Dallas Mavericks; real estate mogul Barbara Corcoran; “Queen of QVC” Lori Greiner; technology innovator Robert Herjavec; fashion and branding expert Daymond John; and venture capitalist Kevin O’Leary.

11/04/2014

Discover and Connect With Israel's Hottest Emerging Companies, People, and Investment Opportunities featuring Intel Ventures, Waze, Coca Cola, IBM and over 60 more.

Breakfast + Lunch + Gala Reception + Awesome

Networking + Business

700 Executives + 70 Speakers + You !

What: A two day business conference attended by hundreds of business executives and leaders of significant businesses.

Presentations by amazing companies in gaming, mobile, advertising, film and TV, consumer, Cyber-security, braintech, and featuring APPsolutely™!

When: Thursday, October 30 + Friday October 31, 2014

7:30am Breakfast to Thursday Evening Music Gala

Who: A selection of our Speakers - See them all online!

• ABC Studios
• Fox Digital
• Electus International
• PayPal
• Wall Street Journal
• Blumberg Capital
• Caesars Entertainment
• Elbit Systems
• Horizons Ventures
• VocalZoom
• Waze
• Coca Cola
• IBM
• LivePerson
• Warner Bros
• NBC
• Leigh Steinberg
• Deutsche Telekom
• OurCrowd
• PlayBuzz• Intel Ventures
• IdeaLab!
• Keshet - Dick Clark
• WME
• ICM Partners
• JVP
• Genesis Partners
• IncrediPlay
• VMware
• Rhodium

Why:

You will meet with top minds of the movers and shakers from publicly traded companies, privately-held middle market firms, and early stage ventures along with private equity and venture investors.

You will network first-hand with the innovators of leading technologies from Israel that are market-making and in demand with the most forward-thinking technology and products in the world.

Cool Business ~ From the Shores of the Mediterranean to the Shores of the Pacific ~

The hottest tech conference that features Israeli technology across two days. Featuring Waze, Intel Capital, IBM, Deutsche Telekom, ABC Studios, Israel BrainTech, and 70 more speakers.

The Israel Conference is a business conference that brings together leading technology innovators and investors in High Tech / Media and Entertainment / Advertising / Mobile / eCommerce / Content / Gaming / Cloud / Security / Automotive / Clean Tech / Medical Tech / Consumer Products coming out of Israel that are market-making and in demand. Over 700 business executives will attend on Thursday October 30, 2014 + Friday October 31, 2014 to meet leaders of significant businesses that do business in Israel and investors in Israeli companies in an interactive forum to increase business and investment opportunities. Speakers represent the spirit of the inventiveness of the Israel market. Attendees gain an insider’s understanding of the growth of both public and privately-held Israel-facing companies.

10/11/2014

POTUS visits LA / Silicon Beach today as the first stop of a three-day West Coast tour. Obama will "interact with founders of a number of start-ups working out of the CC facilities," states the White House schedule. Watch the livestream at 3pm pst at http://whitehouse.gov/live

President Obama talked tech and millenials in a town hall format at Cross Campus in Santa Monica, a landmark event for LA's tech scene and Silicon Beach. About 100 invite-only attendees included the Cross Campus community members and friends, and LA tech community leaders, including LA Mayor Eric Garcetti, LA's CITO Peter Marx, Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners and many more.

Full coverage on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST21qUENdb4&feature=youtu.be&list=UUYxRlFDqcWM4y7FfpiAN3KQ

10/11/2014

Inspire. Educate. Connect.

FULL CATERED LUNCH / HOURLY GIVEAWAYS / INTERACTIVE TECH

Experience the one-day interactive conference that celebrates tech's bright future and the innovators who will usher it in. Packed with high-energy panels, hourly giveaways, a Maker Room with interactive tech, immersive breakout sessions, contests and more, TechOut LA is an LA Innovation Week event you won't want to miss. You should attend if you're:

- An entrepreneur looking to make strong connections with global innovators

- A STEM/STEAM educator who wants to swap ideas with leading edtech visionaries

- A tech enthusiast who wants to see the latest in VR, 3D printing and robotics

- A startup that wants to learn how to secure VC funding and top talent in LA and
global markets

- A media pro interested in how tech and media will continue shaping LA


We'll have 50+ amazing scholars from Roosevelt High in attendance. Come help us inspire them to continue the entrepreneurial movement!

TechOut LA

Maker Room with interactive tech (3D printing, robotics, STEM/STEAM games, VR + more)

Breakfast, plus full catered lunch courtesy of Kush (Japanese skewers)

25+ high-energy keynotes and panels Networking with hundreds of movers + shakers (including VC funders and global entrepreneurs)

50 tech-minded students from Roosevelt High in attendance

10/08/2014

Where Entertainment & Media Converge with Technology

Now in its 5th year, The Grill is the leading, annual conversation about the convergence between Entertainment, Media and Technology, bringing newsmakers together to debate the challenges and opportunities facing content in the digital age.

Diverse content anchored by versatile talent and supported by big brands has always been the hallmark of Hollywood, and the technology revolution has brought new models to the fore – streaming video, VOD, theatrical and physical products all contributing to a reconfigured economic landscape.The conversation this year will delve into the new economic realities in the evolving relationship between Hollywood and Silicon Valley. We bring together the leaders, the deciders and the disrupters at the forefront of entertainment, media and technology. And unlike other conferences in this space, Founders and CEOs of these trailblazing companies lead the debate.

The Grill has hosted notable entertainment leaders and creatives on the cusp of technological change, including Bill Maher, Seth MacFarlane, Netflix’s Ted Sarandos, actress Julie Bowen, Live Nation Executive Chairman Irving Azoff, writer-director Judd Apatow, Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler and Indiegogo co-founder and CCO Danae Ringelmann.

Join our high level forum on Oct. 6th and 7th at Montage Beverly Hills for two days of hard-hitting and intimate conversations moderated by top level journalists and fueled by inquisitive conference attendees.

Get the insider’s perspective!

10/08/2014

An Evening with Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google
and Jonathan Rosenberg, former SVP, Google

How Google Works

in conversation with Larry Vincent, Chief Branding Officer, The Brand Studio at UTA

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

8pm (Reception: 6:30-7:30pm)
(Doors open for General Admission tickets at 7:15pm)

Tickets: (Be sure to purchase ticket ahead of time or it may be SOLD-OUT)

Eric Schmidt served as Google's CEO from 2001 to 2011. During that time he shepherded the company's growth from a Silicon Valley start-up to a global technology leader that today has over $55 billion in annual revenues and offices in more than 40 countries. Eric is now Google's executive chairman.

Jonathan Rosenberg joined Google in 2002 and managed the design and development of the company's consumer, advertiser, and partner products, including Search, Ads, Gmail, Android, Apps, and Chrome. He is currently an advisor to Google CEO Larry Page. Google Executive Chairman and ex-CEO Eric Schmidt and former SVP of Products Jonathan Rosenberg came to Google over a decade ago as proven technology executives. At the time, the company was already well-known for doing things differently, reflecting the visionary--and frequently contrarian--principles of founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. If Eric and Jonathan were going to succeed, they realized they would have to relearn everything they thought they knew about management and business.Today, Google is a global icon that regularly pushes the boundaries of innovation in a variety of fields. HOW GOOGLE WORKS is an entertaining, page-turning primer containing lessons that Eric and Jonathan learned as they helped build the company. The authors explain how technology has shifted the balance of power from companies to consumers, and that the only way to succeed in this ever-changing landscape is to create superior products and attract a new breed of multifaceted employees whom Eric and Jonathan dub "smart creatives." Covering topics including corporate culture, strategy, talent, decision-making, communication, innovation, and dealing with disruption, the authors illustrate management maxims ("Consensus requires dissension," "Exile knaves but fight for divas," "Think 10X, not 10%") with numerous insider anecdotes from Google's history, many of which are shared here for the first time.In an era when everything is speeding up, the best way for businesses to succeed is to attract smart-creative people and give them an environment where they can thrive at scale. HOW GOOGLE WORKS explains how to do just that.

Larry Vincent is Chief Branding Officer at UTA Brand Studio. Over the past two decades, he has developed strategies for some of the world’s most beloved brands, including Coca-Cola, Disney, Four Seasons Hotels, MasterCard, Mattel, Microsoft, the National Football League, Sony Playstation, and The Home Depot. He has led strategy teams at several leading marketing agencies, including Siegel+Gale, Octagon and Cabana Group.

His most recent book, Brand Real, was released in March 2012 and was named one of the best business books of 2012 by Strategy + Business Magazine. His first book, Legendary Brands, was released in 2001 and was translated into seven languages.

10/04/2014

Engadget Live

When: Friday, October 3rd

Hours: 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Where: The Belasco Theater - 1050 S. Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA 90015

Unlike all the tradeshows and press-only events that don’t let consumers attend, Engadget Live is designed specifically to bring gadget lovers and tech brands together.


As always, we’ll have a bunch of great companies with us at the event ready to show you their newest products and hear what you think.


There’ll be tons of great swag and chances to win some awesome gear.

10/03/2014

Photo Credit: Millie Luong

An Evening with Peter Thiel Technology Entrepreneur and Investor; Co-founder PayPal

Zero to One:
Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Thursday, October 2, 2014

8pm (Reception: 6:30-7:30pm)
(Doors open for General Admission tickets at 7:15pm)

Tickets:
$20 General Admission
$30 Reserved Seats
$43 Includes Peter Thiel's book, Reserved Seating
$95 includes Pre-event reception, Thiel's book, Reserved Seating

Peter Thiel first gained attention for innovations in banking and startup finance. In 1998, Thiel made e-commerce easier, faster, and more secure by co-founding and leading PayPal, which now has more than 128 million active financial accounts. In 2002, PayPal sold to eBay and he founded a global macro fund, Clarium. He works to accelerate innovation by identifying and funding promising technology ideas and by guiding successful companies to scale and dominate their industries.

In 2004, he co-founded Palantir Technologies, which offers platforms for finance companies and intelligence, defense, and law enforcement communities to integrate, visualize, and analyze the world’s information. In the same year, he made the first outside investment in Facebook, whose board he serves on, and now has more than a billion active members.

ZERO TO ONE (co-authored with Blake Masters) is Thiel’s impassioned plea for an entirely new way of thinking about innovation, urging future business leaders not to compete on well-trodden paths but to explore a new frontier, stake their claim, and do something that has never been done. It is about the questions one must ask to find value in unexpected places. It is at an optimistic view of what the future of progress looks like in America and an intellectual meditation on the nature of innovation and other challenges of today’s business world of which Thiel writes: “If American business is going to succeed, we are going to need hundreds, or even thousands, of miracles. We call these miracles technology.” READ MORE.

Building on his personal success as a venture capital investor, Thiel co-founded and manages Founders Fund, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital fund that has pioneered new methods of venture financing that benefit founders. Through Founders Fund, as well as through his private investing, he has helped the next generation of tech companies, such as SpaceX, LinkedIn, Yelp, RoboteX, and Spotify.

And in 2012 he co-founded Mithril Capital Management, an international technology investment fund.

Thiel established and funds the Thiel Foundation, which promotes freedom in all its forms. He sponsors the Committee to Protect Journalists, The Seasteading Institute, and the Human Rights Foundation. He funds the artificial intelligence research of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. He also aids work against violence through the Oslo Freedom Forum and through the research of philosopher René Girard, which is extended and promulgated by Imitatio. He also promotes better health by funding the longevity research of Dr. Cynthia Kenyon and the SENS Research Foundation.

Thiel created the 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellowship, which nurtures the tech visionaries of tomorrow. And he formed Breakout Labs to help independent scientists, engineers, and inventors advance their most radical ideas.

Thiel earned a B.A. in philosophy from Stanford University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he occasionally teaches on globalization and technology and serves on the board of overseers of the Hoover Institution. His articles have appeared in Policy Review and the Wall Street Journal. He co-produced the film Thank You for Smoking, was rated a master by the United States Chess Federation, and received the Innovation Award from the Economist in 2010. He lives in San Francisco.

Ticket sales are final.

09/23/2014

Join me at the 5th Annual http://thegrill.thewrap.com/ Where Entertainment & Media Converge with Technology: Time Warner CEO, AMC Network CEO, Tech Notable VCs and many more

TheGrill fosters the smartest conversation in content from the perspective of those who create it. How do we retain the value of content in the age of technology? Robust debate happens on stage, from the audience and during networking breaks.