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Following are the events scheduled between May 25th and May 31st.

140| The Twitter Conference

Date & Time: Tuesday May 26, 2009 – Wednesday May 27, 2009 from 8:00am – 5:30pm

Venue: Computer History Museum, 1401 N Shoreline Blvd. Mountain View, California 94043

Description:

140 is the place where developers, business people, and enthusiasts converge to find innovative ways to tap into the Real-Time Web.
We’re bringing together the top gurus in the Twitosphere to discuss all things Twitter, from understanding the business value of Twitter to exploring the what makes a great Twitter app.

WebSite: http://parnassusgroup.com/twitterconference/

Google I/O 2009

Date & Time:  Wednesday May 27, 2009  -  Thursday May 28, 2009

Venue:  Moscone West, 4th St and Howard St, San Francisco, California 94103

Description:

Google I/O is a developer gathering focused on pushing the boundaries of web applications using Google and open web technologies. Google engineers and web development leaders will lead you through two days full of in-depth breakout sessions on the latest technologies, and informal Q&A at Fireside Chats.

WebSite: http://code.google.com/events/io/

Social Media Marketing Bootcamp

Date & Time: Thursday May 28, 2009 from 9:30am – 4:30pm

Venue: BCIT, 555 Seymour St, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 1

Description:

Adding social media into the marketing mix is increasingly important for marketers who want to establish an online presence for their businesses. We’re running one-day workshops to teach communicators and marketers, as well as small business owners

WebSite:  http://capulet.com/social-media-marketing-bootcamp

The AWS Start-Up Tour 2009

Date & Time: Thursday, May 28. 1PM to 5PM

Venue: New York City, NY (The Desmond Tutu Center)

Description:

We are on the road again with the AWS Start-Up Tour. Please join us for the half-day event and learn how to be successful with Amazon Web Services – utilizing the same robust infrastructure and technological resources that power Amazon.com’s global web properties.

We will show business and technology leaders how to get started with AWS infrastructure services and how to architect applications for the cloud.

WebSite: http://aws.amazon.com/startupproject/

SF New Tech

Date & Time: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 from 5:30 PM – 11:00 PM (PT)

Venue: Mighty, 119 Utah Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

Description:

The SF New Tech Meetup offers a unique opportunity for individuals and companies to connect to, and build relationships with, the new technology community of San Francisco: 4000+ techies, journalists, VCs, entrepreneurs, CEOs, developers, and regular folks interested in new tech.

WebSite: http://www.sfnewtech.com

25th Angel Forum in Vancouver

Date & Time: Tuesday May 26, 2009

Venue: SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 5K3

Description:

A range of pre-screened companies seeking private equity funding of $100,000 to $1.5 million, present to 40+ qualified serious investors (nearly 80 investors registered last time). Then exhibit their products all day during networking breaks and reception. Already 10+ investors registered.

Presenting companies have raised over $28 million through the forum with two more companies being funded from Fall 2008 forum.

WebSite: http://www.angelforum.org/

TWTRCON

Date & Time: Sunday May 31, 2009

Venue: Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St, San Francisco, California 94102

Description:

TWTRCON SF 09 is the first event focused on Twitter as a business platform. In recent months, Twitter has proven it can reach and engage customers, influence opinions and activate markets.

WebSite: http://twtrcon.com/

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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

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Following are the events scheduled between April 27th and May 3rd.

Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference

Date & Time: Monday April 27, 2009 – Thursday April 30, 2009 from 8:00am – 4:00pm

Venue: Grand Hyatt San Francisco, 345 Stockton Street, San Francisco, California.

Description:

At the Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference, the leading authors and practitioners in the Web design community will inspire, entertain, and train you in all the things you know you’ve been needing to learn—and even a few you didn’t—from CSS, Ajax, and Web standards, to SEO, Web usability, interface design and more.

Web Site: http://www.voicesthatmatter.com/webdesign2009

Developer Day Scotland

Date & Time: Saturday 2nd May 2009, 9am to 5pm

Venue: The Continuing Professional Development Centre, Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow G4 0BA.

Description:

Developer Day Scotland (DDS) is a community event, run by community for community, which is based upon the highly successful Developer! Developer! Developer! (DDD) community conference events.

WebSite: http://developerdayscotland.com/main/Default.aspx

Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web

Date & Time: April 28th, 2009

Venue: Al. Niepodleglosci 10, Poznan,  Wielkopolskie, Poland.

Description:

Following the two previous events, the goal of the 3rd Workshop is to bring researchers and ractitioners together to explore the issues and challenges related to social aspects of the Web.

WebSite: http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/12th_bis/wscfp.php?i=16&ws=saw2009

Nokia Developer Summit 2009

Date & Time: Tuesday April 28, 2009 – Wednesday April 29, 2009

Venue: Monaco, Monaco, Champagne-Ardenne

Description:

Nokia offers developers the largest market of mobile device users in the world, and that means the greatest opportunity to grow your business.

Nokia’s new Ovi Store will ensure developers have easy access to publish applications and content to millions of Nokia devices through a unified publishing channel.

If you are looking to get a jump on the competition – now and in the days to come – Nokia Developer Summit 2009 is the one must-attend event of the year.

WebSite: http://www.developersummit2009.com/

Mashable NextUp NYC

Date & Time: Tuesday April 28, 2009 from 6:00pm – 10:00pm

Venue: 92Y Tribeca, 200 Hudson Street, New York 10013

Description:

The second Mashable NextUp NYC will bring together will bring together 4 successful local New York startups, Snooth, Behance, Savvy Auntie, and Aviary. The night will comprise of networking, a presentations session from the startups followed by a panel moderated by Mashable’s Editor-in-Chief, Adam Ostrow.

WebSite: http://mashable.com/nextup-nyc/lessons-from-the-local-internet-startup -community/