GarageGeeks Blog

In our series “meet the Industry leaders”, the GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi invite you to a special garage event, to meet Microsoft executives.
Monday, April 23, 20:00 at GarageGeeks HQ, Holon.
25 senior Microsoft executives are coming to visit Israel, and it’s your chance to meet them face to face and tell them your story.

These senior execs focus on Cloud and BI technologies, online advertising, Kinect apps and applied research.
Who will attend?
* Rick Rashid - Chief Research Officer
* S. Somasager - VP Developer Tools
* Gurdeep Singh-Pall - VP Bing Mobile
* Bharat Shah - VP Identity & Security
* Jennifer Chayes - Distinguished Scientist
* Marc Davis - Social media senior advisor
* Dennis Buchheim  - Online Advertising
* Kamal Hati - SQL and Big Data analysis
* JP Wollersheim - Product Management, Kinect for Windows
* Emma Grant - Business & product planning, Kinect for Windows
* Sheridan Jones - Business & Strategy, Kinect for Windows
* Prakash Sundaresan - GM, India R&D, Startups & accelerators
* David Lin - Sr. Director, Asia-Pacific R&D,  Startups & accelerators

What to expect?
Beer, refreshments and Face2Face time with the people who drive the future of Microsoft.

How to get in?
Just show up. Admission is free, no pre-registration required.

* GarageGeeks is sponsored by Microsoft and Initial Capital http://www.initial.vc

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Think Next - Sunday, April 22, Hangar 11,
Tel Aviv Harbor, 16:30
The leading event of Israel’s high-tech industry celebrates creativity and innovation, providing center stage for industry leaders, mind provoking speakers and ground breaking developments.

What to Expect?
A festival of technology, great networking opportunity and an energetic stage.
* 40 demos from Israeli startups and Microsoft labs around the world
* Keynote by Rick Rashid- Chief Research Officer, Microsoft Research
* Cool on-stage demos and presentations by:
** Hod Lipson - Associate Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Computing & Information Science at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY
** Gurdeep Sing Pahl - Corporate Vice President, Information Platform & Experience
** JP Wollershiem - Group Product Manager, Kinect for Windows.
** And more…

How to get in?
Register at http://microsoftrnd.co.il/about/think-next/think-next-2012 and don’t forget to enter the code to ensure you get in:  TNgg006
Registration is “first come-first serve” basis. GarageGeeks have a limited allocation of tickets so hurry up.

* GarageGeeks is sponsored by Microsoft and Initial Capital http://www.initial.vc

In our series “meet the Industry leaders”, the GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi invite you to a special garage event, to meet:

* Jonathan Matus - Mobile Platform Product Marketing, Facebook
* Amina Belghiti - Platform Partnerships EMEA, Facebook
* Aryeh Selekman - Developer R…elations - Mobile Platform, Facebook

In October 2011, Facebook announced the Facebook Mobile Platform, bringing social channels and distribution to mobile apps.
Since then, momentum has been building, and today, more than 60 million visitors interact with apps and games on the platform every month.

A night before the Facebook Hackathon, you are invited to join the Facebook Platform team for a meet and mingle party at the GarageGeeks.
The session include an overview of facebook mobile platform, talk about the announcements made in MWC and what they mean for developers, and a Q&A .

The event will take place on:
Monday, March 12, 20:00
GarageGeeks HQ,
HaPeled 40, Holon

* This is a User Generated Dinner, so, bring some snacks and drinks to share with others.
* GarageGeeks is sponsored by Microsoft and Initial Capital.

In our series “meet the Industry leaders”,

the GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi invite you to a special garage event, to meet:

Mike Morhaime, CEO and Co-Founder, Blizzard Entertainment.

The event will take place on Wednesday, December 21st, Garage HQ, HaPeled 40, Holon at 19:00

This is a User Generated Dinner, so, bring some snacks and drinks to share with other.

* In case it rains the event will move to “The Library” (Ha’Sifria) at Migdal Shalom and a separate announcement will be sent to all participants who RSVP.

please RSVP at http://bit.ly/s4HkYo

* GarageGeeks is sponsored by Carmel Ventures and Gemini Israel Funds

Come join the GeekCon family and celebrate GeekCon 2011 with us. See videos from this year, talk projects and (for participants!) get the promised t-shirt!
Good opportunity to beer up and start thinking GeekCon 2012, biggest best one yet.
If you’re interested in GeekCon and plan to attend next year’s event, this is the perfect opportunity to see what we’ve got planned next.

The event will take place on
Thursday, December 22th, 20:00
at Garage HQ, HaPeled 40, Holon

* GeekCon website http://geekcon.org/

* This is a User Generated Dinner, so bring some snacks and drinks to share.
* GarageGeeks is sponsored by Carmel Ventures and Gemini Israel Funds

Bring Your Own Computer Lan Party

Saturday, October 15 at 7:30pm - October 16 at 10:00am

In the DLD festival the GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi will host “Meet the Industry Leaders” party.

We are inviting the entire entrepreneur community to meet with the leaders of the digital media industry.

This event will create a unique opportunity for leaders of the industry to connect with the next generation of leading entrepreneurs and potential business partners.
Moderated by Dr. Yossi Vardi – Co-Chairmen, DLD Tel Aviv Summit

* Christian Hernandez Gallardo – Director, Platform Partnerships EMEA, Facebook
* David Lawee – VP, Corporate Development, Google
* Dan Powers – Global VP Sales and Business Development, Amazon
* Dr. Hubert Burda – Co-Chairmen, DLD Tel Aviv Summit
* Haran Sold – Chief Strategy Officer, Alcatel-Lucent
* Arkady Volozh – Founder, Yandex
* Bhavneet Singh – Managing Director and Executive VP, MTV International

Don’t miss this opportunity to meet the giants of the industry!

Wednesday, November 2 · 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Hangar 2, Jaffa Port , Tel Aviv

please RSVP at
http://www.dldtelaviv.com/garagegeeks

Note: This is one of the events of DLD Tel Aviv Festival. Registration to this event will not enable you access to DLD Tel Aviv Summit.

Registration to DLD Tel Aviv Summit is separate and can be made only if you received a personal invitation or received approval after submitting an application through the registration page at http://www.dldtelaviv.com

* GarageGeeks is sponsored by Carmel Ventures and Gemini Israel Funds

 

In our series “Meet the Industry Leaders”, Yossi Vardi and the GarageGeeks, in cooperation with DLD,  invite you to a special session with:

• Stanley Fischer, the Governor of the Bank of Israel
• Sir Ronald Cohen, Founder of Apax
• David Fischer, VP of Advertising and Global Operations at Facebook
• Tom Rogers, President and CEO of TiVo
• Robert Stephens, CTO of Best Buy and founder of The Geek Squad
• Martin Varsavsky, Founder of Fon
• Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikimedia

Professor Stanley Fischer has been Governor of the Bank of Israel since May 2005. On May 1, 2010, Prof. Fischer was nominated Governor for a second term. Prior to joining the Bank of Israel, Prof. Fischer was Vice Chairman of Citigroup from February 2002 through April 2005.  From 1994 to 2001 he was First Deputy Managing Director (the number 2 position) of the IMF.  From 1973 to 1994 he was Professor of Economics in the MIT Department of Economics.

Sir Ronald Cohen is a pioneer of the UK venture capital industry, having co-founded Apax Partners in 1972, which went on to become the largest private equity firm in Europe. He was a founder, director and chairman of the British Venture Capital Association and a founder director of the European Venture Capital Association. He is also prominent in the social sector, as chair of the UK Social Investment Task Force and the Commission on Unclaimed Assets, as a donor and as founder of Bridges Ventures and the Portland Trust.

David Fischer is the VP of Advertising and Global Operations at Facebook and oversees sales, advertiser marketing, and customer operations throughout the world. He joined Facebook after over seven years at Google, where he was VP of Global Online Sales and Operations and was responsible for Google’s online sales channel, which represents the majority of Google’s customers worldwide. In that role, he helped build Google’s online advertising network into the largest in the world.

Tom Rogers is the President and CEO of TiVo Inc., the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVR). He holds this position since 2005. Before TiVo, Rogers was Chairman and CEO of PRIMEDIA Inc., which then was the leading targeted media company in the United States. Previously, Rogers was President of NBC Cable and EVP of NBC, as well as NBC’s chief strategist and founder of the leading news channel CNBC.

Robert Stephens is the CTO of Best Buy and founder of The Geek Squad. In April 1994, after 3 years of building flight and driving simulators at the Human Factors Research Laboratory of the University of Minnesota, he formed The Geek Squad with $200. In 2002, The Geek Squad acquired Best Buy and opened Geek Squad precincts in all Best Buy US and Canadian stores. Now, with over 25,000 Agents, The Geek Squad is now the world’s largest technology support company.

Martin Varsavsky is the founder and CEO of FON, the largest WiFi network in the world with over 4 million hotspots. Martin is an Argentine entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded highly successful companies such as Viatel, Jazztel and Ya.com. Martin also teaches at the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Spain and is President and Founder of The Varsavsky Foundation and the Safe-Democracy Foundation, and was Ambassador-at-Large of Argentina up to 2005.

Jimmy Wales is an Internet entrepreneur and wiki enthusiast, and founder of the Wikipedia project. In 1999, Jimmy had the concept of a freely distributable encyclopedia and founded Nupedia, by hiring philosopher Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief and assigning two programmers to write software for it. After two years of working with the Nupedia concept, that team opened Wikipedia to help channel content into Nupedia; Wikipedia became an instant success, but not in the envisioned way, and Nupedia was shut down. In 2003, Jimmy set up the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization, to support Wikipedia and its sister projects.

The event will take place on: Thursday, June 23rd,  20:30 at GarageGeeks HQ, HaPeled 40, Holon
* This is a User Generated Dinner, so, bring some snacks and drinks to share with others.
* This event is also sponsored by DLD
* GarageGeeks is sponsored by Carmel Ventures and Gemini Israel Funds

in our series “meet the Industry leaders”, the GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi invite you to a special garage event, to meet:

* Alex Kipman: General Manager of Incubation for Xbox, Entertainment hardware innovation and incubation.

* Sara Clemens – General Manager, Strategy & Business Development – Interactive Entertainment Group ( XBOX, TV)

* Brian Schultz – Director Corp Dev & M&A

* Sam Rosenbalm – Director – Entrepreneur community development

* Charlie Kindel – General Manager – WindowsPhone Ecosystem and 3rd Party Developers

in the presence of Moshe Lichtman – President Israel Development Center , Yoram Yaacovi – CTO and Zack (Tzahi) Weisfeld – Sr. Director Strategy and Business Development

The event will take place on:
Monday, May 30, 20:00
at GarageGeeks HQ, HaPeled 40, Holon

* Pizzas, Beers and Light beverages will be supplied
* GarageGeeks is sponsored by Carmel Ventures and Gemini Israel Funds.

You are invited to a special post-Kinnernet 2011 GarageGeeks party.

This time we have invited Kinnernet participants from Israel and aboard to join us.

In GarageGeeks fashion, we will have beer and light snacks on the event, but only if you bring some with you.

Sunday, 3 April 19:30
GarageGeeks HQ
HaPeled 40, Holon

please tag videos images etc’ with garagegeeks

GarageGeeks is sponsored by Carmel Ventures and Gemini VC

Photo credit: Ron Shoshani (”Ronsho“) gave a ONE TIME single permission to the use his image for the event invitation.

in our series “meet the Industry leaders”, the GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi invite you to a special garage event, to meet:

Marissa Mayer, Google Vice President, Search Products & User Experience

Greetings: Yossi Matias, Director of Israel R&D Center, Google

The event will take place on:
Tuesday, June 29, 20:30 at GarageGeeks HQ, HaPeled 40, Holon

* This is a User Generated Dinner, so, bring some snacks and drinks to share with others.
* GarageGeeks is sponsored by Carmel Ventures and Giza VC

Please RSVP at
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=127304100638491