Tech Events: Plan Your Week Ahead! (May 4th to May 10th – 2009)

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Weekly Tech Events This is a weekly post were we publish information about the interesting Tech related events happening in the following week.

If you’d like to see your event on the list please send us an e-mail at contact (@) tnerd.com at least a 2 weeks in advance.

Following are the events scheduled between May 4th and May 10th.

RailsConf 2009

Date & Time: Monday May 4, 2009 - Thursday May 7, 2009

Venue: Las Vegas Hilton, 3000 Paradise Rd, Las Vegas, Nevada 89109

Description:

RailsConf, co-produced by Ruby Central, Inc. and O’Reilly Media, Inc., is the largest official conference dedicated to everything Rails. Through keynotes, sessions, tutorials, panels, and events, RailsConf is an interactive meeting ground for the most innovative and successful Rails experts and companies. The conference provides attendees with examples of business models, development paradigms, and design strategies to enable mainstream businesses and new arrivals to the Web and Rails to take advantage of this new generation of services and opportunities.

WebSite: http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/

Next09 (TNerd will be covering this event live)

Date & Time: Tuesday May 5, 2009 – Wednesday May 6, 2009

Venue: Kampnagel, Jarrestraße 20, Hamburg, Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg 22303

Description:

For the first time the next conference 2009 is taking place on two days at Kampnagel in Hamburg: on May 5 & 6, 2009. With 30 hours programme, 100 international speakers and 1500 participants from the advertising, technology, internet and media industry. The next09 is going to be shaped by leading brands, well-established companies and start-ups. This year’s edition saw more than 1300 participants.

WebSite: http://next09.com/

Chicago’s Own Hacker Con Teaches Human Hacking to Corporations

Date & Time: Monday May 4, 2009 from 8:00am – 7:00pm

Venue: MicroTrain, 720 E. Butterfield Rd. Suite 100, Lombard, Illinois 60148

Description:

World-class Security Training & Ethical Hacking Conference. Spring Edition hits hot technical topics, career advancement and the #1 threat, hacking humans AKA Social Engineering.

WebSite: http://www.chicagocon.com/

Web Strategy Summit

Date & Time: Monday May 4, 2009 – Tuesday May 5, 2009 from 9:00am – 5:00pm

Venue: Delta Bow Valley, 209 4th Avenue, Calgary, Alberta

Description:

At the Web Strategy Summit, you’ll learn how to get the most from your interactive investments from industry veterans sharing their insights, methods, and case studies. This two-day event will deliver practical sessions, case studies and workshops on creating value with your websites, intranets, mobile and social media strategies.

WebSite: http://webstrategysummit.com/

Gravity Summit Stanford: Social Media Marketing for Business

Date & Time: Tuesday May 5, 2009 from 8:30am – 4:30pm

Venue: Stanford University Faculty Club, Stanford University, 439 Lagunita Drive, Stanford, CA, California 93405

Description:

Social media is a fast, efficient and relatively low-cost way to get your message directly to an audience, but the variety of available tools can be intimidating. Blogs, podcasts, Twitter, online video and social networks each present intriguing opportunities for customer engagement. But successful social media campaigns start with defining strategic objectives and ROI targets.

WebSite: http://www.gravitysummit.com/

World Innovation Forum

Date & Time: Tuesday May 5, 2009 – Wednesday May 6, 2009 from 8:30am – 5:30pm

Venue: Nokia Theatre Times Square, 1515 Broadway (44th & Broadway), New York City, New York , 10036

Description:

In a fast-paced, technology-driven, and constantly changing world, innovation is more critical than ever. Innovation paves the way to increased profitability, business solutions and growth.

WebSite: http://www.wifny.com/

Oregon Tech Awards

Date & Time: Thursday May 7, 2009 from 5:30pm – 11:00pm

Venue: Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97205

Description:

This premier event celebrates excellence and achievement in the region’s technology industry and honors one outstanding Technology Executive of the Year. In addition, five individual industry segment and product awards will be presented during the evening, recognizing recipients for their accomplishments, leadership and commitment to the community and industry.

WebSite: http://www.oregontechawards.com/

Massive Technology Show

Date & Time: Thu, May 7, 2009 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Venue: Hilton Toronto, 145 Richmond St W, Toronto, ON, Canada

Description:

The Massive Technology Show is Canada¹s leading small business tradeshow and conference for executives and entrepreneurs. This one-day event shows companies how to embrace the power of technology. The informative technology displays, both national and local, and the series of speaker presentations and panel discussions, make this the definitive event for small business.

WebSite: http://www.massivetechshow.com/tor09/

Seattle 2.0 Awards

Date & Time: Thu, May 7, 2009 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Venue: Pacific Science Center, 200 Second Avenue North, Seattle, WA, United States

Description:

The Seattle 2.0 Awards recognizes the amazing accomplishments of the best of over 300 Seattle area technology startups (despite the challenging economy), and the exceptional people who are behind their heroic efforts. We will single out the very best of the best, as judged by the people who knows best: their peers in the startup community. So nominate your favorites, make sure you and your colleagues vote for them, and then attend the awards ceremony on May 7. 6:00 – 6:55 PM: Cocktail, Networking and Startup Showcase 7:00 – 7:20 PM: Guest Speaker (TBA) 7:20 – 7:55 PM: Awards Ceremony 8:00 – 10:00 PM: Food, drinks, networking,

WebSite: http://www.seattle20.com/awards/

Ultra Light Bootstrapping

Date & Time: Thursday, May 7, 2009 – 6:30 – 9:00 pm

Venue: 22 West 27th Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY

Description:

Strategies for starting up and getting far with little or no money.
Real-life techniques that are working for other entrepreneurs and founders.
Why, in today’s environment, getting far with little/no money can be the difference between success and failure.
Equity-strapping: getting people to work for equity.
Bartering for services,
Foregoing the office (running a company in the cloud).

WebSite: http://ultralightstartups.com/newyork/ultra-light-bootstrapping.html