Lunch 2.0

We’re very excited to announce our first South Bay Lunch 2.0 in awhile this week! Please come join us this Wednesday at Clover’s Mountain View office for food, drinks, and community. Sign up at the Eventbrite page here, and see below for more details. Hope to see you there!

Date: Wednesday, November 30

Time: Noon – 2pm

Location: Clover HQ, 785 Castro Street, Suite A, Mountain View, CA 94041

The Clover team invites you to visit their Castro Street home in Mountain View and have an exclusive opportunity to try out their new mobile payment app and immediately get $5 to spend when you verify your phone. Clover is currently invite-only in the Android and iOS app stores and you will be among the first to try it out. They’ll be serving lunch and drinks, and once you download Clover you’ll be able to use your hard-earned $5 to snag goodies from their “Clover Store.”

We’ve got details for our Lunch 2.0 event in Bangalore coming up on Wednesday.

Location: Citrix R &D India Pvt Ltd, Imperial Building, Residency Road Bangalore – 560 025.
Time: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 5:00PM – 7:30PM IST

Speakers for the event will be:

Rakesh Singh – Top Executive Officer – India
Ian Pratt – VP Advance Products – United kingdom
Vain Sharma – Senior Director Products – India
Ramana Jonnala – VP, XenClient – United States
Peter Blum – Director, Product Management – United States

RSVP on the Facebook event if you can make it. Feel free to forward to friends in the Bangalore area!

Also remember, we’ve got two other Lunch 2.0 events happening this Wednesday in Santa Clara (Silicon Valley) and Cambridge, UK!

On Wednesday November 10th, Citrix Systems, Inc. is hosting a Global Networking Event (lunch 2.0) for technology professionals in the following locations:

· Santa Clara, CA
· Fort Lauderdale, FL
· Cambridge, UK
· Bangalore, India – TBA

You will have the opportunity to meet like-minded individuals not just from Citrix, but also from other locally based organizations. Lunch will be provided. Space is extremely limited in all locations so the sooner you RSVP, the better. Bring a friend, come over and eat, network and learn more about Citrix!

Update: Unfortunately, the Fort Lauderdale, FL event is canceled.

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!

Join Merced Systems for a Lunch 2.0 event on April 21st. Take a break and connect with fellow software professionals over food and drinks.

Host: Merced Systems
Date: 12:00 – 1:30pm, April 21st, 2010
Location: 333 Twin Dolphin Drive, Suite 500, Redwood Shores, CA 94065
RSVP on upcoming!

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!

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

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.