Lunch 2.0

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 )

Xobni is hosting us for the first summer Lunch 2.0 of 2010 next Tuesday! Come on out and mingle with the tech community in their cool loft space and learn about their developer platform.

Host: Xobni
Date: 12:00 – 2:00pm, June 22nd, 2010
Location: 539 Bryant St, San Francisco, CA 94107
RSVP on upcoming!

It’s Social Media Week SF next week and Lolapps is hosting us for lunch. Come on out and connect with the SF tech community as well as people from around the world in SF who love Social Media!

Host: Lolapps
Location: 116 New Montgomery St., San Francisco, CA 94115
Date: Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 12:00PM – 2:00PM
Get you ticket at http://lolappslunch20.eventbrite.com/

Bing is in town to celebrate the past six months since the launch and our recent partnership with Twitter. Eat lunch on us and meet folks from the Bing team at Powerset’s office (the third Lunch 2.0 to be held at this legendary location), where we’ll have tasty grub, beer and other beverages, and Bing swag to take home with you.

Host: Bing (Microsoft)
Location: 475 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94107
Date: Monday, November 9th from 12-2pm
Please RSVP on Upcoming to reserve your spot – they’ll fill up fast!

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

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.

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

Tired of the same three lunch time options? Well grab your co-worker and come eat lunch with the cool kids at SF Station and help celebrate our 12th birthday Lunch 2.0 style!!

For those of you that don’t know SF Station, we are San Francisco Bay Area’s definitive online city guide to Arts & Culture, Entertainment, Food, Shopping, and Urban Living. We invite you to come and hang out in our office, eat some lunch, tour our website, win free stuff, and have some Friday Fun!!

Hosts: SF Station
Where: 1475 Folsom St Suite 200, San Francisco, CA 94103
When: Friday, December 5th, 12noon – 2pm
RSVP ON UPCOMING!

We will have Beer available to wash down your lunch, birthday cake for dessert, raffle prizes, and of course, the Bright & Smiling faces of the SF Station Crew!!

Pizza Provided by Dino’s Pizza
Birthday cake provided by Cake Coquette
Beer provided by Phuket

Raffle prizes provided by the following:
Grand Prize: $2500 of advertising with SF Station & San Francisco.com
4 dinners to Supperclub San Francisco
2 tickets to Storytime Festival Dec 20th
2 tickets to SFMOMA
1 $50 Gift Certificate to MoMo’s

If you’re laboring during the week of Labor Day, Lunch 2.0 alumnus, Powerset, will be hosting a Lunch 2.0 to celebrate their recent acquisition by Microsoft!

They’ll have tasty bar-b-que, beverages (including beer), and special edition Microsoft + Powerset acquisition shot glasses (plus some tequilla for those who are feeling adventurous). There will be lots of Powersetters and a few Softies present.

Note: you MUST be on this Upcoming.org RSVP list in order to get in. Please know your Upcoming.org handle.

Hosts: Powerset (and Microsoft)
Where: 475 Brannan Street
When: Thursday, September 4th, 2008 12:00 – 2:00PM
RSVP ON UPCOMING ONLY!

This will be a very fun event (and no, I’m not prejudiced in saying that. ). Not only will Powerset be hosting a faboo lunch with drinks and food galore, but they will also be giving away special edition Powerset/Microsoft shot glasses.

RSVP now, since this event will be capped. Remember MySpace’s Lunch 2.0 reached full capacity within 24 hours, so get in early!

Upcoming Events

• Friday August 22 – Sogeti, Netherlands
• Friday August 22 – Apature, Seattle
• Thursday September 4 – Powerset, SoMa, SF <—-THIS EVENT
• \Tuesday September 9 – Hi5, SoMa, SF
• Wednesday September 17 – SplashCast, NW Portland
• Thursday September 25 – TBA, San Mateo SV
• Friday September 26 – Health Solutions Group (Microsoft), Redmond Seattle
• Thursday October 2 – TBA, Santa Clara, SV
• Friday, October 10 – Codesta/scanR, Toronto, Canada
• Wednesday October 15 – Art Institute of Portland, NW Portland
• Wednesday November 5 – Eclipse Foundation, SW Portland

(Any I missed?)