Lunch 2.0

Mary Jo Foley, author of Microsoft 2.0 and editor of the popular ZDNet blog All About Microsoft, will discuss her new book on the future of Microsoft and answer questions from veteran technology reporter and News.com editor-in-chief, Dan Farber. An audience Q&A and book signing will take place immediately following the session.

A big lunch will be provided, so come hungry. Arrive as early as 10:45 to get good seating.

The official RSVP is here:

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/659957/

Only 100 spots open, so sign up quick. Please only RSVP if you plan on coming so we can have an accurate count.

Not an official Lunch 2.0 event, but Citrix is hosting a seminar on “Application Delivery: The Challenges and Opportunities in 2008″.

Topics: NetScaler and “Virtual Workplace Continuity”
Date: Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Location: Citrix Systems, Inc, 4988 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054 ( the corner of Great America Pkwy and Tasman)

Given the limited space, please RSVP to karen.stafford@citrix.com by April 28th

There will be a Q&A session after the presentation. A light lunch and beverages will be served. We look forward to seeing you at the event.

Citrix is the global leader and most trusted name in Application Delivery. More then 200,000 organizations rely on Citrix to deliver any application to users anywhere with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost. Come listen to some of the major Application Delivery problems of 2008 being addressed by Citrix from it’s technical staff. We will be discussing leading edge technology. Don’t miss an opportunity to hear from the leaders.

What? It’s a whole new year and we’ve yet to have a Lunch 2.0 in SoMa? Given how many Web 2.0s are there, that’s almost criminal.

Please join video search startup, CastTV for Lunch 2.0.

Hosts: CastTV
Address: 374 Brannan St, Suite 600. San Francisco, CA 94107
Date: Friday February 1, 2008 noon-2pm
RSVP on Upcoming

Enjoy some free food, check out their video search engine, and meet some cool people. Tell them about what kind of video you like to watch online (and how you’re staying entertained during the writers strike!) They’re easy to find @ 374 Brannan St/3rd and look forward to meeting you!

Upcoming Events

• Friday, February 1 - CastTV, SoMa, SF <– THIS EVENT!
• Wednesday, February 6 - Paglo, Palo Alto, Silicon Valley
• Tuesday, February 12 - TBA, Mountain View, Silicon Valley
• Thurday, February 14 - TBA, San Francisco
• Friday, February 15 - blist, Seattle

“…and the best marketing I’ve seen in a long time.”

—that’s what they said

Tired from three days of straight MacWorld madness? San Francisco kicks off the new year with Lunch 2.0 at e-Storm International, international online marketers with special guest, Pleo, (and some of the UGOBE folks behind it).

Hosts: e-storm International
Address: 530 Bush Street, Suite 600. San Francisco, CA 94108
Date: Thursday January 17, 2008 noon-2pm
RSVP: commenting on this blog, or on Upcoming, or on Facebook.

Come and meet the amazing e-Storm, other agencies, and other companies involved in the latest online marketing, search marketing and social media marketing.

e-Storm will be launching a few new products on that day:

1. a new monetization service - how to sell ads, more ads, monetize on your content, users, partnerships – e-Storm has helped more than 100 clients buying ads, partner with content sites
2. a new wiki series – what is ……?

Japanese food and beer will be served.

Upcoming Events

• Wednesday, January 16 - Citrix, Santa Clara Silicon Valley
• Thursday, January 17 - e-Storm, FiDi, San Francisco <– THIS EVENT!
• Friday, January 18 - Hyves, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Friday, January 18 - Zumobi, Waterfront, Seattle
• Thursday, January 31- TBA, SoMa, San Francisco
• Wednesday, February 6 - Paglo, Palo Alto, Silicon Valley
• Friday, February 15 - blist, Seattle

The folks at Citrix are hosting us for Lunch 2.0 to ring in the new year. They’ve got food and a few speakers lined up; sounds like it’ll be a fun time in Santa Clara! Hurry and RSVP though, they’ve only got room for around 100 people.

Host: Citrix
Address: 4988 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA 95054
Date: Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
RSVP on Upcoming

Hope to see you all there!

Upcoming Events

• Wednesday, January 16 - Citrix, Santa Clara, CA <-- This event!
• Thursday, January 17 - TBA, FiDi, San Francisco
• Friday, January 18 - Hyves, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Friday, January 18 - TBA, Waterfront, Seattle
• Tuesday, January 29- TBA, SoMa, San Francisco
• Friday, February 1- TBA, SoMa, San Francisco
• Wednesday, February 6 - Paglo, Palo Alto, CA
• Friday, February 15- TBA, Seattle, WA

“Google for IT?” Well, that’s what the press said. Come for lunch and you decide.

Hosts: Paglo
Address: 1804 Embarcadero Road, Suite 201 Palo Alto, CA
Date: Wednesday February 6, 2008 noon-1:30pm
RSVP on Upcoming

You may have heard of Paglo as they recently launched the company to some good press. A number of publications declared that Paglo is “Google for IT.” Others called us a “Web 2.0 approach to IT” and a “revolution” for “IT administrators left in the Jurassic age.”Join us to discuss the future of search and business. We will also cover what we are working on and our vision for Paglo. It should be a lively discussion made even spicier by tasty Caribbean food from Back-a-Yard. Plus, the first 50 people get a free “Go Paglo Go” (Francisco Paglo on his Moa) T-shirt!

Upcoming Events

• Friday, December 28- HiBeam, Honolulu, Hawaii
• Friday, January 11 - TBA, SoMa, San Francisco
• Wednesday, January 16 - TBA, Silicon Valley
• Thursday, January 17 - TBA, FiDi, San Francisco
• Friday, January 18 - Hyves, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Friday, January 18 - TBA, Waterfront, Seattle
• Friday, February 1- TBA, SoMa, San Francisco
• Wednesday, February 6 - THIS EVENT!

HiBEAM is hosting us for the first Lunch 5.0 (“Five-O”) Dec 28^th, Friday!

Hosts: HiBEAM
Address: Manoa Innovation Center, 2800 Woodlawn Drive in Manoa Valley, Honolulu, HI (http://www.htdc.org/directions/MIC.asp)
Date: Friday, December 28, 2007, noon to 2 p.m.
RSVP via email rsvp@lunch20hawaii.com
(You can also add the event on: Upcoming | Facebook)

Lunch 2.0 Goes Hawaiian Style!

The tech business lunch phenomenon that started in Silicon Valley — and spread globally to places like Germany, Netherlands and India — comes to Hawaii to provide the Aloha State’s tech community with a new twist on networking.

Lunch will be provided by HiBEAM — Hawaii Business and Entrepreneur Acceleration Mentors — a nonprofit dedicated to helping launch and build promising early stage technology, biotechnology and life sciences companies by providing expert professional advice and access to funding sources.

Featured at the event are two HiBEAM portfolio companies: PeopleBridge and ChipIn. Social networking platform provider PeopleBridge, founded by Dave Kozuki who started GlobalPauHana.org, is the largest social network specifically for kama’aina. ChipIn is a Web-based service that simplifies the process of collecting money from groups of people. Using a ChipIn widget, you can easily promote the ChipIns on the social networking sites you already use and track the demographics of those chipping in.

This Lunch 2.0 Hawaii is brought to you by Dave Kozuki, Wally Roth and Keith Kamisugi. We hope to see you there, and if you can’t be there physically, please, where ever you are, on Dec 28th, Friday, 2007, be sure to Lunch w/ Aloha…

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Hmm, it’s been a while since we’ve had a lunch on the peninsula…

Hosts: Oodle
Address: 60 East Third Avenue, Fourth Floor, San Mateo, CA 94401
Date: Wednesday December 19, 2007 noon-1:30pm
RSVP by commenting on this blog, Upcoming, or Facebook

Classified search engine, Oodle invites the Lunch 2.0 crowd to celebrate the recent l(a)unch of Oodle 2.0 and the holiday season!

Upcoming Events

• Tuesday, December 4 - Mozilla, Mountain View, Silicon Valley
• Thursday, December 6 - F5 Seattle
• Friday, December 7 - edelight GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany
• Friday, December 7 - The Whole 9, Culver City, Los Angeles
• Friday, December 7 - Loopt, Mountain View, Silicon Valley
• Wednesday, December 12 - TBA, FiDi, San Francisco
• Wednesday, December 19 - THIS EVENT!, San Mateo, Silicon Valley
• Friday, January 11 - TBA, Netherlands
• Friday, January 11 - TBA, SoMa, San Francisco
• Wednesday, January 16 TBA, Silicon Valley
• Friday, January 18 - TBA, Waterfront, Seattle
• Wednesday, February 6 - TBA, Palo Alto, Silicon Valley

Seems like many (internet) years since we’ve last hit us our favorite lizard up for some food as conversation? (pix and vid). Can you believe back then we were talking about the Firefox 2.0 beta?

Hosts: Mozilla
Address: Building K, 1981 Landings Drive, Mountain View
Date: Tuesday December 4, 2007 noon-1:30pm
RSVP on Upcoming.org

Swing by the home-office on Dec. 4th to find out what they’ve been been working on for the next versions of Firefox. You’ll get a chance to meet with Mozilla Engineers, sample some of Mountain View’s finest pizza, and listen to their administrative overhead (Vice President of Engineering) discuss the future of Mozilla (Mobile, Off-Line Apps, JavaScript 2).

First 100 people get all the free pizza and software they can handle.

Upcoming Events

• Friday, November 30 - Meebo, Mountain View, Silicon Valley
• Tuesday, December 4 - THIS EVENT, Mountain View, Silicon Valley
• Thursday, December 6 - F5 Seattle
• Friday, December 7 - edelight GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany
• Friday, December 7 - The Whole 9, Culver City, Los Angeles
• Friday, December 7 - Loopt, Mountain View, Silicon Valley
• Wednesday, December 12 - TBA, FiDi, San Francisco
• Wednesday, December 19 - TBA, San Mateo, CA
• Friday, January 11 - TBA, Netherlands
• Friday, January 11 - TBA, SoMa, San Francisco
• Wednesday, January 16 TBA, Silicon Valley
• Friday, January 18 - TBA, Waterfront, Seattle
• Wednesday, February 2 - TBA, Palo Alto, Silicon Valley

Hi Everyone, just a quick reminder that we’ll be having Lunch 2.0 @ Meebo tomorrow and that afterwards, they’ll be having a dev camp focused on their new platform! See you all there