Lunch 2.0

We are so excited to be starting the summer! This Friday we’ll be having lunch with Brad Garlinghouse, President of Consumer Applications at AOL (our generous hosts at our 401 Ellis office), and Mike Arrington, founder and co-editor of TechCrunch. We’d love to see you there!

What: Brad Garlinghouse + Mike Arrington fireside chat
When: 11:30am -2:15 Fri, June 25 @ AOL West Coast Headquarters
Where: 401 Ellis St., Mountain View, CA 94043

Head over to their blog post and comment there to RSVP!

Just a quick reminder that Xobni is hosting us for Lunch 2.0 tomorrow! Head over to upcoming to RSVP (we’ve opened up a few more spots )

quick reminder that we’re doing Lunch 2.0 @ Kosmix tomorrow along with a panel with awesome guests.

In case you can’t make it, but want to see the panel, it’ll be webcast live at:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/lunch-2-0-with-kosmix-mozilla-and-friendfeed

Also, if you RSVPed on Upcoming but aren’t able to attend anymore, please take yourself off the list to make room for others.

Our friends at Kosmix are hosting a lunch 2.0 and special panel discussion with some pretty cool people!

• Anand Rajaraman – Kosmix Co-Founder
• Bret Taylor – Friendfeed Co-Founder
• Chris Beard – Mozilla Chief Innovation Officer
• Panel moderated by Louis Gray

Host: Kosmix
Location: 444 Castro Street, Suite 109, Mountain View, CA 94041
Date: Thursday, August 6th 12:00PM – 2:00PM
RSVP on upcoming!

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

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!

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.

Head on down to SOMA and join us for a fantastic lunch 2.0 @ SF Station with food, cake, beer, and a raffle!