Posts Tagged ‘conference’

Startup Riot 2009: Registration Open!

Startup RiotOkay folks, the time has come to open up registration for Startup Riot which will be on February 18, 2009.  We’re going to try to make the event bigger and more awesome than last time.  If you remember, last year we had 54 companies presenting 3-minutes apiece, over 270 attendees, and one fantastic after-party.

For 2009, we’re shooting for 70 presenting companies and we’re capping attendance at somewhere between 300 and 350 people.  Also note that last year we had over 90 applications to present and over 330 applications to attend.  Clearly, we had to say no to a bunch of applications in both groups.

So if you’re interested in attending, I urge you to apply early to attend or present as appropriate.  Preference will be given to those who get their applications in early.

Startup Riot - Perhaps We Should Put VCs in the Hot Seat

This is just awesome.  The Israeli conference, TWS08, got not only startups onstage to pitch their companies but they got three VCs to pitch slide decks that they had never seen before.  The results are quite funny and perhaps this is something we should add to Startup Riot to add some levity to the day.


Nimrod Lehavi & Michael Eizenberg - video powered by Metacafe

[VIA: When VCs Try To Do Improv Startup Pitching ]

SoCon07 - Go Register!

One of the guys I met at an Atlanta Technology Dinner - Jeff Haynie - is working on an Atlanta conference for networking and discussing things Web 2.0. The SoCon 07 is free (if you don’t want to eat or need a place to stay) and registration is open now. So what are you waiting for? I’ll be there for most of it. If you’re there, make sure you come up and say “hi”.

Marshall Memorial Fellowship: Conference in Seattle

I’m gearing up for the annual Marshall Memorial Fellowship Conference this week which is why my mind hasn’t been on blogging (I blogged about the fellowship here). The conference is a wonderful part of the fellowship experience but interestingly, you don’t find out about this benefit until after you are an alumnus. Similar to the fellowship, almost all of the food and all of the lodging associated with attending is paid for by the German Marshall Fund and the local coordinators. The venue changes each year and this year it is being held in Seattle. I’m looking forward to seeing how they pull off their program since I’m a part of the team leading the charge for the 2007 conference in Atlanta which happens to be the 25th anniversary of the fellowship program. I’ll try and do a debrief about the conference with some pictures, notes, and maybe some audio after I get back.

More posts next week.

Sanjay Parekh

I'm the founder and organizer of Startup Riot and Startup Dinner and the founder of GivingTi.me and Startup Gossip. I also co-founded Digital Envoy a long time ago. I'm the only one responsible for the things I write about here and I don't speak for any company, organization, or group.

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