Events
PCB Austin 2008, a conference and exhibition for the design, engineering and manufacturing professional, is coming to Austin March 4-6.
Featuring:
* Educational Training
* Industry Experts
"From March 4-6, aspiring entrepreneurs may attend free RISE Sessions led by successful members of the Austin business community.
With the help of two local south Texas organizations, the March 6
Innotech trade show should have a program or event for every
technology business leader or advocate. The event will be held at
both the Norris Conference Center, located within the CrossRoads Mall,
from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the San
Antonio Technology Center, 3463 Magic Drive.
"We are fortunate to have the help of the North San Antonio chamber
and the Technology Connexus Association working with us to promote the
growth of technology within the San Antonio region," said Sean Lowery,
Jelly is an every-so-often casual coworking session. Anyone is welcome to come, bring your laptop, art supplies, or whatever you need to work, and work alongside other creative, fun people.
Stop by the St. Edward's University Professional Education Center and find out more about our popular Project Management Evening Certificate Program which begins April 8th. You will hear an overview of the program from the instructor, get your questions answered, meet other folks who are also looking into the program and most of all, see if it is a good fit for you.
Please contact Teri Turner to register for the event at 342-4103.
9420 Research Blvd
Echelon III
Austin
See here to sign up: http://barcamp.org/BarCampAustinIII
What is BarCamp?
See here to sign up: http://barcamp.org/BarCampAustinIII
What is BarCamp?
Come help promote Knowbility's mission at the SXSW trade show.
Come help promote Knowbility's mission at the SXSW trade show.
Plutopia is gang of artists, techs, and futurists creating a mutation of the annual EFF-Austin party at SXSW Interactive - probably the most ambitious party on the SXSW calendar, with a green utopian sci-fi theme, Bill McKibben speaking, The Heather Gold Show, David Demaris, electronic composer Carl Stone, Intimate Stranger, the Lance Van De Kamp show, many more... at Scholz Beer Garten, 1609 San Jacinto. Event is free with a SXSW badge or costume, all others pay $10.
Tentative schedule...
6-7 Bootstrap Austin Cocktail Party (Biergarten)
7-8 Bill McKibben (Biergarten)
*** Deadline for paper submission is 10-Mar-2008 ***
AUSTIN CONFERENCE ON INTEGRATED SYSTEMS & CIRCUITS
CALL FOR PAPERS!!
MAY 7-9, 2008
THE COMMONS CONFERENCE CENTER, AUSTIN, TEXAS
www.acisc.org
The 3rd Annual Austin Conference on Integrated Systems & Circuits will
again serve as a forum for the dissemination of technical information and
advances in electronic technology at chip, board and system levels,
covering design, CAD methodology, and test. Austin, the Silicon Hills of
the USA, is a hotbed of electronic design with most of the world’s major
The Austin Technology Council (ATC) is hosting a SXSW Interactive Happy Hour sponsored by Time Warner Cable Business Class.
An open session with mobile Web experts James Pearce and Brian Fling.
Austin City Hall, Room 1101
301 W. Second Street.
Free.
RSVP to rsvp@austinwirelessalliance.org
Federated Media and Dell, along with Bulldog Solutions, The Conversation Group, and Social Media Club Austin, cordially invite you to join us for an evening of "Conversation Starters"
Come help promote Knowbility's mission at the SXSW trade show.
Austin Bar Association, Technology Section presents Fred von Lohmann of the Electronic Frontier Foundation on 'Copyright in the Age of YouTube: Protecting Rightsholders and Free Speech Online.'
Please join us for our March Web Analytics Wednesday.
Jace Dicker from Omniture will join us to discuss the state of
web analytics, observations from his customers and other insights.
A panel of experts discusses 'Carbon pricing and the transition from voluntary to mandatory markets.' Preregistration recommended.
Austin City Hall
City Council Auditorium
301 W. Second St.
The next STC meeting will focus on three Semiconductor Test Interface eXtensions (STIX) Working Groups.
American Society of Quality presents Wayne Drews on 'An Overview of Clustering and Multidimensional Scaling.'
Applied Materials
Building 34
9700 U.S. 290 East.
Free.
Call (636) 627-1290
We invite the Austin software community to come and describe their requirements for finding and sharing information about software practices and technology in Austin.
Jelly is an every-so-often casual coworking session. Anyone is welcome to come, bring your laptop, art supplies, or whatever you need to work, and work alongside other creative, fun people.
03/17/2008 to 03/21/2008 – Service Delivery
04/07/2008 to 04/11/2008 – Service Support
04/28/2008 – Review
04/30/2008 – Exam Session 1: 10am – 1pm
05/01/2008 – Exam Session 2: 10am – 1pm
Course Description:
The program is an intensive 3-week, instructor-led course that:
• Provides an in-depth understanding of all of the ITIL disciplines, including objectives, terminology, responsibilities, and critical success factors
• Helps the attendee to obtain ITSM Certification
Attendee Profile
Tech Trends that Impact Your Workout:
Gadgets that Get You Going!
***NEW TIME & NEW LOCATION!***
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
7:30am - 9:00am
WHAT: Symposium on Sustainable Design -- Greening the Technology Industry
WHO: UK Trade & Investment and the Austin Technology Council
WHEN: Tuesday, 18 March 2008
8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Update on wireless regulatory issues with Jason Limoges of Dell Inc.
Dell Parmer Campus
701 E. Parmer Lane
Building S.4
Victoria Conference Room.
Free.
Call 651-5338
Topic: Conversion: The Most Important Word for Online Businesses
Date: Tuesday, March 18
Time: 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Location: Cafe Caffiene, 909 Mary St., Austin, TX
Event: Electrical Engineering Faculty Candidate
http://www.ece.utexas.edu/seminars/series/ece-seminar-series/
Speaker: Neil Vaccharajani
Princeton University
Matt Sanchez speaks on adoption and value of service-oriented architecture in the industry.
National Instruments
11500 N. MoPac Blvd. (Loop 1)
Building C, Room 1S13.
Free.
Call 388-2101
The Austin Bloggers have an informal monthly meetup, the third Wednesday of every month. All people interested in weblogging are welcome. This month's gathering is at Mozart's Coffee Roasters.
Austin Chapter of the American Marketing Association presents Colin Wallis of the Lance Armstrong Foundation and Adam Butler, founder of Butler Brothers, on cause-related marketing.
Cool River
Austin Top Guns LinkedIn is a professional, executive level, networking group created to maximize communication and networking across multiple industries
Austin Linux Group meets every Thursday evening 7:30PM at the City of Austin Waller Creek Complex. 625 East 10th Street, Austin, TX.
Info here:
Jelly is an every-so-often casual coworking session. Anyone is welcome to come, bring your laptop, art supplies, or whatever you need to work, and work alongside other creative, fun people.
CIO Strategies on "Security, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity"
Ensuring Business Success through security, disaster recovery and business continuity.
Austin Management Society presents Kip Thompson of Dell on 'Global economic development opportunities and challenges.'
Cool River Cafe
4001 W. Parmer Lane.
$15 members, $20 non-members.
I'm trying a new venue and format for Austin Jelly.
Info on Wiki here:
http://wiki.workatjelly.com/Jelly-Austin-March-25-2008
http://austinima.org/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=5&year=2008&month=03&day=25&Itemid=14&catids=5|6|7
More info to come.
Presented by: Brian Massey, Conversion Scientist at Conversion Sciences
Love technology and golf?
Come join the fun at our next Austin Salesforce User Group event being held at 300 Austin. This fun-filled evening is being co-sponsored by Cast Iron Systems, an AppExchange partner providing an
This month the Austin Creative Commons group will review music sites Jamendo and CCMixter and go into details about what they offer and their features.
Event: Computer Architecture Seminar Series
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/cart/arch
Speaker: Shubu Mukherjee
Intel
Title: "Fault Screeners"
It's time for the next door64 Austin LinkedIn Happy Hour!
If you're a Central Texas technology professional, you're invited to this free networking event. Our last one in January was spectacular, drawing almost 400 software, hardware, semiconductor, and IT folks. Here's another chance to meet your industry peers while enjoying free food, drinks, and door prizes at J.Black's downtown!
The invite has been sent to the door64 & LinkedIn group members. Please RSVP via that invite. If you haven't received an invite, simply join up at door64, or email Matt (matt@door64.com) -- either way, you'll receive the invite email to the event (within a day of joining up; it's a somewhat manual process.)
A BIG thank you goes out to our sponsors. Premier sponsor HT Staffing Professional has reserved the entire venue for this event, and is providing delicious hors d'oeuvres and fantastic door prizes.
Thanks to our co-sponsor Intrinsity for serving up drinks for our distinguished guests (YOU!)
Technology Advisory Group presents Chris McKinzie on 'Fluid Innovation: A new channel for technology commercialization.'
The Austin Club
110 E. Ninth St.
Jelly is an every-so-often casual coworking session. Anyone is welcome to come, bring your laptop, art supplies, or whatever you need to work, and work alongside other creative, fun people.
When: March 29, 2008 @ 9:00am – 2:00 pm
Where: Rackspace Corporate Headquarters
9725 Datapoint Drive Suite 100
San Antonio, Texas 78229
Rackspace map
You are invited!
Leadership Austin presents 'Clean and alternative energy: What does this mean to the quality of life in Central Texas?'
Agile Austin presents Joe Shideler of Seilevel on 'Requirements at the speed of thought.'
Microsoft Technology Center
Stonebridge Plaza One
9606 N. MoPac Blvd. (Loop 1), Suite 200.
Free
I'm trying a new venue and format for Austin Jelly. Beer and free food instead of just coffee shops ;)
The Austin Forum presents "Introducing Ranger: The most powerful computer in the world for open science research."
Texas Advanced Computing Center
J.J. Pickle Research Campus
10100 Burnet Road
Austin Community College Video Game Seminar presents developer Troy Gilbert on 'ActionScript for Casual/Web Games.'
Austin Community College Highland Business Center
Marketing and market strategy is critical and vital to the the success of your business.
Austin Linux Group meets every Thursday evening 7:30PM at the City of Austin Waller Creek Complex. 625 East 10th Street, Austin, TX.
Info here:
www.AustinLUG.org
Our next event is Friday April 4th at Cafe Caffeine and goes from 10am to 5pm. There's no agenda. It's simply an opportunity for unique people to get together and work alongside one another.
Please join us for our monthly Web Analytics Wednesday meeting.
http://austin.startupdrinks.com
Need a place to pimp your idea? Or maybe you just want to meet other chronic drinkers with a startup problem?
Register here for what will be an intense week of crazy coding. This course is making its way around the world and is coming to rest in Austin for the week of April 7th - 11th. For more information on the course check out the following post:
http://www.jpboodhoo.com/blog/NothinButNetAustinTXApril7th11th.aspx
Please join us for a Central Texas Electronics Association (CTEA) meeting on Monday, April 7, hosted by National Instruments in North Central Austin featuring four excellent industry speakers.
Event: Computer Architecture Seminar Series
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/cart/arch
Speaker: Josep Torrellas
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Register here for what will be an intense week of crazy coding. This course is making its way around the world and is coming to rest in Austin for the week of April 7th - 11th. For more information on the course check out the following post:
http://www.jpboodhoo.com/blog/NothinButNetAustinTXApril7th11th.aspx
Solar power and other clean or green technologies are finding their way into numerous aspects of business for industrial electric users, cities, and utilites.
3-day course for systems and software engineering managers and practitioners, introducing fundamental concepts of CMMI, a set of best practices for software and systems development and maintenance.
Whether Salesforce is already part of your company’s CRM success story — or you’re considering the possibility — this insight-filled event is the place to be.
Description: 16 sessions Beginning April 8th, 2008- Meets Tues. & Thurs. - 6:00 to 9:30 p.m.
IEEE Austin chapter presents a technical seminar with Sani Nassif, manager of tools and technology department for the IBM Austin Research Lab, on 'What every architect should know about technology.'
Buffalo Billiards, 6th and Brazos
Topics:
Draw a True Picture Of Usability by Combining Various Data Sources
Register here for what will be an intense week of crazy coding. This course is making its way around the world and is coming to rest in Austin for the week of April 7th - 11th. For more information on the course check out the following post:
http://www.jpboodhoo.com/blog/NothinButNetAustinTXApril7th11th.aspx
3-day course for systems and software engineering managers and practitioners, introducing fundamental concepts of CMMI, a set of best practices for software and systems development and maintenance.
Location:
Austin City Hall: City Council Auditorium
301 W. Second Street
Austin, TX 78701
Moderator: Gaines Bagby – Vice President, CB Richard Ellis
Speakers:
Building US-Israel Partnerships – Austin Dinner Reception
Hosted by Texas-Israel Chamber of Commerce
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
6:45 PR - 8:30 PM
Dell Jewish Community Center
Register here for what will be an intense week of crazy coding. This course is making its way around the world and is coming to rest in Austin for the week of April 7th - 11th. For more information on the course check out the following post:
http://www.jpboodhoo.com/blog/NothinButNetAustinTXApril7th11th.aspx
3-day course for systems and software engineering managers and practitioners, introducing fundamental concepts of CMMI, a set of best practices for software and systems development and maintenance.
Current degree offerings include: Advanced Manufacturing, Circuit Design, Engineering Management, and Software Engineering.
Herb Krasner speaks on Team Collaboration for Global Software Development.
Help create the future of the Web -- or just find out what's coming...
Dorkbot takes on music with our April soirée. Believe it or not but a TV crew from CBS Sunday Morning will be there to cover the event. Don't miss it.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Austin Linux Group meets every Thursday evening 7:30PM at the City of Austin Waller Creek Complex. 625 East 10th Street, Austin, TX.
Info here:
www.AustinLUG.org
Register here for what will be an intense week of crazy coding. This course is making its way around the world and is coming to rest in Austin for the week of April 7th - 11th. For more information on the course check out the following post:
http://www.jpboodhoo.com/blog/NothinButNetAustinTXApril7th11th.aspx
Jelly is an every-so-often casual coworking session. Anyone is welcome to come, bring your laptop, art supplies, or whatever you need to work, and work alongside other creative, fun people.
Event: Computer Architecture Seminar Series
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/cart/arch
held jointly with the ECE Distinguished Lecture Series
Location:
IC2 Institute
2815 San Gabriel St.
Free.
RSVP encouraged -- email: rsvp@austinwirelessalliance.org
ARMA Austin presents Doug Allen: 'RIM essentials for enterprise systems: ECM, BPM.'
Lunch provided to members.
Goodwill Community Center
1015 Norwood Park Blvd.
Central Texas Product Safety Engineering Society presents 'Product safety liability overview' with Brian Falbo from Dell Inc.
Dell's Parmer Campus
701 E. Parmer Lane
Building S.4
Austin Advertising Federation presents Charlie Moster, senior partner at MosterWynne, discussing intellectual property.
Mansion at Judge's Hill
1900 Rio Grande St
VENUE: Sun Microsystems, Building 8 - Longhorn Conference Room, 5300 Riata Park Court, Austin, TX 78727
Joint Signal Processing and Communications Chapter, UT-Austin Student Branch
Wednesday, April 16, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
The University of Texas at Austin
CPE 2.208
Austin
The Austin Tech Happy Hour is back to a regular schedule after our SXSW event.
Austin Linux Group meets every Thursday evening 7:30PM at the City of Austin Waller Creek Complex. 625 East 10th Street, Austin, TX.
Info here:
www.AustinLUG.org
BiG Austin presents Annual Big Idea Day including breakfast, vendor fair and awards luncheon. Business plan contest, with winner announced during luncheon.
Austin Hilton Hotel
2008 Central Texas Funding Symposium, April 18, 2008
JJ Pickle Center located at 10100 Burnet Road
Jelly is an every-so-often casual coworking session. Anyone is welcome to come, bring your laptop, art supplies, or whatever you need to work, and work alongside other creative, fun people.
2008 International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems & Software (ISPASS)
2008 International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems & Software (ISPASS)
To rsvp, go to: http://501tech042108.eventbrite.com (not required, but helpful when ordering pizza). Anyone with an interest in nonprofits and their use of technology is welcome.
2008 International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems & Software (ISPASS)
End: 7:00 pm
Keynote Speakers are:
- Texas Secretary of State, Phil Wilson
- CEO of CSIdentity and Fusion Mobile, Bill Morrow
You are invited to a very special event with Sandy Carter, IBM WebSphere/SOA VP of Marketing!
Envision08 is your chance to step back from the daily hustle of running your business and get the information you need to make your vision happen.
Envision08 is your chance to step back from the daily hustle of running your business and get the information you need to make your vision happen.
Make your dream of being a successful business owner a reality.
New Horizons Computer Learning Center of Austin is opening its doors for a special Open House highlighting the latest in IT Process Management and Microsoft Technologies.
Austin Indie is a new casual coworking group for independent game developers in Austin, Texas.
Host:
SP3 Group Inc
Location:
St. Edward's Professional Education Center [North Austin @183/Mopac]
9420 Research Blvd Echelon III, Austin, TX 78759 US
Laughing Matters: The Value of Humor at Work ...
Have an itch to start your own digital media company? Need to learn how to write a business plan? Curious what investors are thinking when you come knocking?
Two women share how they are pulling the world in new directions with focus, commitment, and energy.
Mary Dean, Founder & CEO of the marketing firm KickSkirt
Electron Devices Society
Thursday, April 24
Presentation 6:00-7:30 PM
SEMATECH
Rm F-C, Ground floor
2706 Montopolis Dr, Austin 78741
Current degree offerings include: Advanced Manufacturing, Circuit Design, Engineering Management, and Software Engineering.
Austin Linux Group meets every Thursday evening 7:30PM at the City of Austin Waller Creek Complex. 625 East 10th Street, Austin, TX. Security guard will direct you to our meeting room.
Envision08 is your chance to step back from the daily hustle of running your business and get the information you need to make your vision happen.
International shopping without the jet lag.
Guest speaker Stephen Bell, CEO of Shangby, will demonstrate how his company facilitates shopping from Shanghai from the comfort of your home.
We’ve experienced eCommerce and are beginning to experience mCommerce but here comes Person to Person video commerce.
Jelly is an every-so-often casual coworking session. Anyone is welcome to come, bring your laptop, art supplies, or whatever you need to work, and work alongside other creative, fun people.
Event: Computer Architecture Seminar Series
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/cart/arch
Speaker: Craig Zilles
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Find out how to meet the challenges of change and release management in a distributed development environment at this technical briefing:
When: April 29th, 2008, 11:30am - 1:00pm
April 29th … 400 agilistas walk into a bar
Austin Area Practice Management Association presents "Solving communication problems by knowing personality type differences" with life coach Beth Abel.
Dinner included.
4300 N. Lamar Blvd.
Austin is home to the smartest, most innovative and dedicated technical minds in the world.
Innovations in Enterprise Software Forum, hosted by ATI
Topic: Effective Software Development In The 21st Century: The New Face Of Software Engineering
Speaker: Dr. Alistair Cockburn, Agile Software Development Founder
Date: Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Tech Night at Monkey Wrench Books -- Exploring Radical things happening in Tech
7pm at Monkey Wrench Books (110 E. North Loop)
Discussions and Training on:
Austin Indie is a new casual coworking group for independent game developers in Austin, Texas.
Austin Linux Group meets every Thursday evening 7:30PM at the City of Austin Waller Creek Complex. 625 East 10th Street, Austin, TX. Security guard will direct you to our meeting room.
Jelly is an every-so-often casual coworking session. Anyone is welcome to come, bring your laptop, art supplies, or whatever you need to work, and work alongside other creative, fun people.
Details here:
http://linux.meetup.com/85/calendar/7695538/
Triumph Cafe
3808 Spicewood Springs Rd.
Austin , TX 78759
512-343-1875
WiFi available
Saw this, wanted to make sure it had a door64 entry:
http://decibel45.livejournal.com/147699.html
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The meeting will be held at Sun's offices in Riata:
Sun Microsystems
Description: BMC’s experience implementing Agile over the past four years is viewed from an end-to-end corporate perspective.
Description: Whether your team is dispersed on different floors within the same building or spans multiple global cultures, added care and techniques need to be deployed to keep everything on-time an
St. Edward’s Professional Education Center PEC) is offering you the opportunity to test drive Project Management Evening Certificate Program!
AUSTIN CONFERENCE ON INTEGRATED SYSTEMS & CIRCUITS
CALL FOR PAPERS!!
MAY 7-9, 2008
THE COMMONS CONFERENCE CENTER, AUSTIN, TEXAS
www.acisc.org
The 3rd Annual Austin Conference on Integrated Systems & Circuits will
again serve as a forum for the dissemination of technical information and
advances in electronic technology at chip, board and system levels,
covering design, CAD methodology, and test. Austin, the Silicon Hills of
the USA, is a hotbed of electronic design with most of the world’s major
companies situated in or around the immediate area. This event brings
Introduction to Mac Game Development
What?
AUSTIN CONFERENCE ON INTEGRATED SYSTEMS & CIRCUITS
CALL FOR PAPERS!!
MAY 7-9, 2008
THE COMMONS CONFERENCE CENTER, AUSTIN, TEXAS
www.acisc.org
The 3rd Annual Austin Conference on Integrated Systems & Circuits will
again serve as a forum for the dissemination of technical information and
advances in electronic technology at chip, board and system levels,
covering design, CAD methodology, and test. Austin, the Silicon Hills of
the USA, is a hotbed of electronic design with most of the world’s major
companies situated in or around the immediate area. This event brings