Lunch 2.0

Just a quick reminder that we’ll be having lunch in downtown Palo Alto, sponsored by Cornish & Carey tomorrow! RSVP over at upcoming.org

No, the reason there haven’t been Lunch 2.0’s in the bay is not the economy, it’s our laziness. Hot on the heals of Palo Alto’s Lunch 2.0, San Francisco is barking up a storm with their first summer Lunch 2.0!

Lunch 2.0 is going to the dogs! Join Fido Factor at The SF/SPCA on Friday, June 26th @ Noon PT for the launch of fidofactor.com, a new technology service designed to ease the constraints of owning a dog in the city. See demos of Fido Factor across three platforms, learn how your use of Fido Factor supports homeless animals in SF, and lunch on amazing sandwiches from Petite Deli. [Ed: As a former North Beach resident, I can vouch that Young uses only the best ingredients]

June 26th is also National Take Your Dog to Work Day, so guests are welcome to bring their on-leash pup to the event – marking the first cross species Lunch 2.0 event. Attendees will have the chance to win giveaways from local San Francisco businesses! Get your RSVP in soon; due to space limitations the guest list will be capped at 150.

Hosts: Fido Factor & The SF/SPCA
Where: SF/SPCA - Leanne B. Roberts Animal Care Center 201 Alabama Street San Francisco CA 94103
(Free lot parking at Alabama and Treat St – mention Fido Factor)
When: Friday, June 26th, 12:00PM - 2:00PM
RSVP on Upcoming

Dive into summer at Lunch 2.0 in Downtown Palo Alto. The weather is heating up, and Palo Alto is one of the hottest places in the country for tech companies to locate. New to the market sublease space in downtown Palo Alto is offering companies more opportunity to locate here economically.

Lunch will be catered by Facebook’s renowned Chef Josef DeSimone and there will be a raffle for gift certificates at Palo Alto hot spots.

Host: Cornish & Carey
Location: 285 Hamilton, 4th floor, Palo Alto, CA
Thursday, June 25th from 12-2pm
RSVP on upcoming

Come to mix, mingle and learn why Palo Alto is the place to be this summer!

Cornish & Carey has represented the technology community in their real estate needs since 1935. Contact Liz at ehart@ccarey.com or Jack at jackt@ccarey.com for more info.

Plug and Play Tech Center in Redwood City is hosting us this Friday for lunch and a triple header!

Hosts: Plug and Play Tech Center
Where: 370 Convention Way, Redwood City, CA
When: Friday May 29, 2009 from 12:00pm to 2:00pm
RSVP on upcoming.org

Plug and Play Tech Center is a community 240 startups across three campuses in Silicon Valley including Sunnyvale, Palo Alto and Redwood City. The community is consisted of companies in the Web 2.0, software (SaaS), systems and telecomm verticals. Since its inception in January 2006 the center has helped the startups raise in excess of $400 million in venture funding. The start-up companies have created a cumulative value of $2 billion.

We’ll have three presenting companies:

1. JUDOBABY, a private company and authorized Nintendo Wii developer, nearing launch of a revolutionary new home entertainment product within the fastest growing sector of the casual gaming industry.

2. SERPengine provides to marketers a productivity platform and recommendation engine for search engine optimization. SEO isn’t black magic and, using our application, any marketer can lead a powerful SEO
effort for their company.

3. InfoAxe is a new Real Time Search Engine which leverages the browsing wisdom of crowds (completely anonymized) to offer fresh results based on what people have actually found useful while browsing the Web.

Sorry about the last minute invite!

The grass is green and the sheep are back to graze on the wetlands. It must be time for another Lunch 2.0 at Yahoo!. Join us in Sunnyvale at noon, on Thursday, April 30, for a first look at some exciting new features of YQL (Yahoo’s Query Language ). YQL lets you Select* from the Internet — query, filter, and join data across web services from anywhere on the net. Apps run faster with fewer lines of code and a smaller network footprint. Come see how sweet it is, talk to the YQL developers, see what what’s coming up next.

The YSlow team will also be on hand to show the latest release of YSlow, now with Smushit integration.

Note: Seating is limited, so get here on time!

http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/

Hosts: Yahoo
Where: 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA
When: Thursday April 30, 2009 from 12:00pm to 1:30pm
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2386024/

Lunch 2.0 is on its way to Austin! Join The Rackspace Cloud on Friday, May 1 at Noon CT for the first Lunch 2.0 in the Austin community. Rackspace’s Emil Sayegh, Lew Moorman and other Rackers will be hanging out at the Iron Cactus looking to talk cloud computing.

Come feast on fajitas with us, learn more about the “cloud”, chat with some other smart folks from the Austin area and keep the tech scene alive and well in Austin.

Hosts: The Rackspace Cloud
Where: Iron Cactus North, 10001 Stonelake Blvd., Austin, TX 78759
When: Friday, May 1st, 12:00PM - 2:00PM
RSVP on upcoming!

Also, the folks at SXSW Interactive are offering a free registration to the 2010 SXSWi for one lucky door-prize winning Luncher! But you got to be in it to win it!

Get out your favorite college sports team shirt and face paint! It is March Madness time. Come and join Riviera Partners for a “slam-dunk” lunch 2.0—March Madness Edition— that will keep you talking to the Final Four!

Hosts: Riviera Partners
Where: 290 King Street, Suite 9, San Francisco, CA
When: Friday, March 20th 12:00 – 2:00PM

What can you expect from such a game changing event?
• Buckets of beer
• Tasty game-time eats
• A slew of exciting Second Round basketball games on a high definition large screen TV—You will feel as though you’re watching the game courtside
• Fun college inspired games
• “Show your College Spirit” Contest (wear your college shirts, sweatshirts, shoes, socks—-)

- Beer Provided by Guinness

So come out and socialize tomorrow at noon!

Ready for Valentine’s day? Zoosk has an awesome warmup lunch party planned for Friday, Feb 13th. There will be great people to meet, good food to enjoy, and some cool games to double on the fun. So, come on out and celebrate Valentine’s day with the largest social dating company on planet

Hosts: Zoosk
Where: 130 Battery Str, Suite 300, San Francisco, CA
When: Friday, February 13th 12:00 – 2:00PM

Launched in December 2007, Zoosk is the world’s first and largest social dating community enabling singles to meet love interests and forge lasting relationships. Zoosk enables its users to meet and connect with others within the context of their online social networks. Singles can join Zoosk by adding the Zoosk application through Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, Friendster, and MySpace, or by signing up at Zoosk.com. Zoosk is the only social dating community that allows users to seamlessly connect across multiple networks, meaning a Facebook user can interact with a MySpace or Hi5 user, for example. Zoosk’s community includes more than 12 million singles from more than 40 countries around the globe. Recently Zoosk won the 2009 People’s Choice Open Web Award in the “Dating and Romance” category.

Just a quick reminder that Lunch 2.0 is happening tomorrow (Wednesday, January 28th) at Central Park Plaza in San Jose!

Central Park Plaza and Cornish & Carey Commercial are hosting us for the first south bay Lunch 2.0 of 2009! Come join us for burritos, prizes and a brief overview of how this real estate market provides cost savings opportunities for technology companies!

Hosts: Central Park Plaza and Cornish & Carey Commercial
Where: 2890 Zanker, Suite 102, San Jose, CA
When: Wednesday, January 28th 12:00 – 2:00PM
RSVP ON UPCOMING!

Central Park Plaza is an office project located in Silicon Valley’s Innovation Triangle with immediate access to major freeways, airports and public transportation. Technology companies in the area include Cisco, BEA, Brocade Communications and endless early and mid stage technology companies. Cornish & Carey Commercial has been representing technology companies in their real estate needs in the Silicon Valley since 1935. Through up and down cycles, our team has worked on behalf of our clients to turn market information into leverage in lease negotiations.