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!

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.

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/

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.