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360|Flex
Sunday, March 7th, 2010 through Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
eBay Conference Center, San Jose, CA

360|Flex is the World's leading Flex Developer conference. Bringing together the best and brightest of the Adobe Flex development community! This 4-day event will take place March 7-10, 2010 in San Jose CA. Speakers include many leading community members and Adobe engineers. Building the Flex developer community and increasing the networking within it is our goal. Come share stories (good and bad) about developing kick ass Flex apps! For more info and to register, click here.

SDForum presents Clean Tech Breakfast “Green Buildings – Design and Control Analysis”
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010, 8am - 10am
Nixon Peabody, San Francisco, CA
Cost: Women 2.0 save with discount code "CLEAN05"

Predicting building energy usage is incredibly complex due to the large number of influencing factors. A number of software companies (and governmental organizations) have taken on the monumental task of simplifying this analysis so more engineers and architects can design energy efficient buildings. With strict enforcements of Title 24, what technologies will be part of the “green” buildings of tomorrow? Speakers include Michael R. D'Amour (Lumenergi), Matt Denesuk (IBM), Gary Dillabough (Westly Group), Scott Hublou (EcoFactor). For more info and to register, click here.

TheNextWomen and Connect London present "Fund Raising Secrets for Female Entrepreneurs"
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
HSBC, London
Cost: Free

Find out how to write a Killer Business Plan that raises £ Funds. Discover the secrets to 'Bootstrap' your business start-up with small amounts of £ money. Hear how a successful female entrepreneur was helped to grow her business. Seeking £ investment for a high growth business? - How the Aspire Fund invests from £100K to £1M in Women led businesses. Q & A - your chance to discover further tips and advice. For more info and to register, click here.

SDForum Emerging Tech presents "The Details"
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010, 6:30pm - 9pm
Pillsbury Winthrop, Palo Alto, CA

Come join us and our panel of experts as we figure out the relative strengths and weaknesses of three emerging languages - Clojure, Scala, and Go - and one "benchmark" language - Ruby. Bring your questions, and your opinions! Clojure advocate - Amit Rathore, author of the forthcoming "Clojure In Action". Go advocate - Robert Griesemer, Google, co-author of Go. Scala advocate - David Pollak, lead author of Lift. Ruby advocate - Evan Phoenix, lead developer of Rubinius, a high performance Ruby VM. Moderator - Steve Mezak, co-chair of the SDForum Software Architecture and Modeling SIG, author of Software without Borders. Please note our discussion will focus on the languages themselves, but questions about related frameworks like Lift and Rails are still in bounds. For those wanting a brief intro to each language before the meeting, we recommend: http://golang.org/, http://clojure.org/, http://www.scala-lang.org/, and http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/. For more info and to register, click here.


2010 Women in Leadership Conference
Saturday, March 13th, 2010, 9am - 5pm
Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

The 2010 Haas School of Business Women in Leadership Conference is dedicated to trailblazers. We seek to celebrate women who have created their own paths, become pioneers in their fields, and achieved both professional and personal successes. With three inspiring keynote speakers, panel discussions, and interactive workshops, the conference aims to educate and inspire attendees to invoke courage and creativity when pursuing their goals. For more info and to register, click here.

Acumen Fund presents "Wine Tasting"
Thursday, March 25th, 2010, 6:30pm
SNOB Wine Bar, San Francisco, CA
Cost: $15 pre-order, $20 at door

Learn about the promising businesses Acumen invests in throughout the developing world! And taste wine at the same time! Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. It seeks to prove that small amounts of philanthropic capital, combined with large doses of business acumen, can build thriving enterprises that serve vast numbers of the poor. Its investments focus on delivering affordable, critical goods and services – like health, water, housing and energy – through innovative, market-oriented approaches. The San Francisco chapter of young professionals for Acumen Fund is hosting a special tasting with a flight of three types of wine at SNOB wine bar in Nob Hill. Misbah Naqvi, who is on Acumen's business development team and started with the fund in Pakistan managing portfolio investments, will speak about Acumen's funded companies in the region including drip irrigation, housing and hydroelectric development projects. Tarim Wasim, a Hellman and Friedman director who founded the Association for the Development of Pakistan, will also talk about his approach in finding, partnering and funding sustainable non-profits in Pakistan. ADP is a non-profit taking a venture philanthropy approach to supporting social enterprises in Pakistan that build schools and hospitals or supply medical equipment and vaccinations. The wine tasting costs $15 if you pre-order, ($5 of which goes to Acumen Fund as a tax-deductible donation). At the door, it will be $20. To pre-order tickets, click here.

Freemium Summit
Friday, March 26th, 2010
UCSF Mission Bay, San Francisco, CA
Cost: Women 2.0 save $50 with discount code "WOMEN2"

The first Freemium Summit is a one day event focused on exploring what it takes to succeed under the freemium business model. Across all segments of the media landscape, entrepreneurs and executives are pioneering models that combine a free offering with a premium, paid offering. This hybrid business model is one of the most exciting areas of business model innovation impacting the world of media and the Freemium Summit will explore the most important topics on the minds of leading practitioners. We have a super lineup of presenting companies including Evernote, Xobni, Pandora, Dropbox, Recurly, Tapulous, Yammer, Smule, and many others. For more info and to register, click here. Women 2.0 members save $50 on General Admission with discount code "WOMEN2".

Women Entrepreneurs Inspire Conference
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010, 8am - 5pm
Cox Convention Center, Oaklahoma City, OK

The Riata Center for Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University is pleased to present the first annual Women Entrepreneurs Inspire Conference in Oklahoma City at the Cox Convention Center. Get inspired by successful women entrepreneurs from across the country, and learn tools to help you start and grow a business. Network with other women entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs. For more info and to register, click here.

FWE&E presents "Wine, Women & Wisdom"
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010, 6pm - 9pm
Westin SF Airport, Millbrae, CA
Cost: Women 2.0 members save with discount code "sc331"

Please join us for an evening of fabulous wine, gourmet light fare and women's wisdom. This event is great opportunity to connect with some of the Bay Area’s most accomplished women leaders. Together, we’ll eat, drink and empower each other professionally and personally by sharing our collective wisdom. For more information and to register, click here.

Silicon Valley Web Builder presents "The Chronicles of Web Standard III - The Voyage of the HTML5"
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010, 6pm - 9pm
Google Tunis Tech Talk, Mountain View, CA

Join Kevin Nilson (Principal Software Architect at Large Financial) as he moderates a discussion with presenters: Brad Neuberg (Developer at Google), Ben Galbraith (Co-founder at Ajaxian.com), and Michael Carter (Founder at Orbited Project & Official Contributor for W3C HTML5). For more info and to register, click here.

TEDxBerkeley
Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
UC Berkeley campus, Berkeley, CA

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx, a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. On April 3rd, 2010, people will descend on the UC Berkeley campus for a full-day immersion of TEDtalks and live talks by some of the Bay Area’s most accomplished people. For more info and to apply for your spot, click here.

360|iDev
Sunday, April 11th, 2010 through Wednesday, April 14, 2010
eBay Conference Center, San Jose, CA

360|iDev, the Premier iPhone Developer conference, is happening April 11 to 14, 2010 in San Jose CA. Bringing together the best and brightest of the iPhone development community! Speakers include many independent game developers as well as those from the bigger iPhone game publishers. Come learn what it takes to make a great game like those featured on iPhone Roundup. Tickets are only $599. For more info and to register, click here.

The Invent Your Future Conference for Women
Monday, April 19th and Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA
Cost: Women 2.0 members save $100 with discount code "02"

National-recognized speakers, best-selling authors, thought leaders and business experts will offer informative seminars, keynotes, in-depth clinics and roundtable discussions. Topics of interest to entrepreneurs include: Managing Growing Pains for your Business; New Media and its Impact on Extending Market Reach, The Well Connected Leader; Stories of Adaptation and Resilience: Profiles of Successful Entrepreneurs. Keynote Speakers include Anoushe Ansari, Entrepreneur and Civillian Astronaut and Kristen von Ogtrop, Editor, Real Simple Magazine. Conference attendees include entrpereneurs, corporate and technical women. Women 2.0 members may register at a reduced rate for the two-day conference; ($295 per person, normally $395 per person) by registering with discount code "02" here. For more information, click here.


Inside Social Apps
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010, 9am - 6pm
San Francisco, CA

Inside Social Apps 2010 brings together today's leading developers of social apps and games for a one-day intensive summit on the future of app and game monetization on social platforms. Talks and panels will tackle key issues and explore new opportunities facing social apps and games monetizing through virtual goods on the Facebook Platform and beyond. For more info and to register, click here.

Future of Money and Technology Summit
Monday, April 26th, 2010, 9am - 6pm
Hotel Kabuki, San Francisco, CA

The Future of Money & Technology Summit will bring together the best and brightest thinkers around money, including visionaries, entrepreneurial business people, developers, press, investors, authors, solution providers, service providers, and organizations who work with them at the convergence of cash and commerce. We meet to discuss the evolving money ecosystem in a proactive, conducive to dealmaking environment. For more info and to register, click here.

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