I've been meaning to post about this for quite a while, but I didn't want to until I was sure it was going to happen and that I was going to attend. Anyway, the LA tech conference called StartUpLA starts today at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. This is the first tech conference that I have been to in a while as E3 has been pretty much demolished, and CES isn't until January. The Southwest Computer User Group in July was quite a bit of fun, but other than that I haven't been able to get to attend TechCrunch40, Web 2.0 Conference, D Conference, etc. The biggest reason I haven't been able to attend any of these great conferences is their location either down in San Diego for the D Conference or up North in the San Francisco area for the others. Whenever you have to go on a trip the costs become incredible as you have to eat out, pay for the hotel, and pay for the airplane ticket on top of the conference fee. Well StartUpLA is looking to bring the tech conference to local LA start-ups and investors.
The cost is quite reasonable if you are local to the area, and the conference has some great sessions lined up, and what should make for quite the interesting chat with Jason Calacanis.
Friday – Oct 26th 2007 – A half day of invited panel speakers
- 1:00pm-1:30pm: Registration - Venue: Alumni Plaza
- 1:30pm-2:25pm: Welcome & Keynote Speaker
- 2:35pm-3:25pm: Parallel sessions
- Topic 1: Raising Money (Venue: B313)
- Topic 2:Top 10 Legal Mistakes (Venue: C301)
- 3:35pm-4:25pm: Parallel sessions
- Topic 3: Marketing 101 (Venue: B313)
- Topic 4: Technology Infrastructure (Venue: C301)
- 4:35pm-5:25pm: Parallel sessions
- Topic 5: Success Stories: How to succeed in today global market (Venue: B313)
- Topic 6:Networking How-to (Venue: C301)
- 5:25 – 6:25pm: Fireside Chat with Jason Calacanis (Venue: Alumni Plaza)
- 6:25 – 7:30pm: Network reception (Drinks & Appetizers)
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Saturday – Oct 27th 2007 – Day of unconference
- 9:05am-10:05am: Networking
- 10:05am-10:55am:: First round of Open Space sessions (Venues: A202 & D313)
- 11:05am-12:05pm: Fast Pitch Competition (Venue: Alumni Plaza)
- 1:05pm-1:55pm: Second round of Open Space sessions (Venues: A202, D313, B301)
- 2:05pm-2:55pm: Third round of Open Space sessions (Venues: A202, D313, B301)
- 3:05pm-3:55pm: Fourth round of Open Space sessions (Venues: A202, D313, B301)
- 3:55pm-4:15pm: Announcement of Fast Pitch Winner and Closing Remarks (Venue: Alumni Plaza)
So if any of those sessions sound interesting to you, and you have a free Friday/Saturday afternoon there are still a few tickets left. I'll be at the event from about 3PM until 7:30PM today (Friday October 26th), and tomorrow (Saturday October 27th) from 10:30AM until 12:30PM.
Hope to see you there. If you do decide to attend be sure to contact me so we can meet up.
Have a great weekend,
-Brad Jashinsky
CEO/CoFounder of
Reimagine Memories
