GarageGeeks Blog

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

Tim Armstrong, CEO and Chairman of AOL

The event will take place on
Thursday, June 20, 20:30 at “The Library”
Migdal Shalom, 9 Ahad Ha’am, 7 floor, Western Wing
Tel Aviv-Yafo

http://www.thelibrary.co.il
https://www.facebook.com/TheLibraryTelAviv

The entrance is from the gate of the building which is next to the ampm supermarket at the continuation of herzel street corner of montefiori

* Admission is free.

* GarageGeeks is sponsored by Microsoft, Initial Capital and Plus Ventures.

Important: This event is free but requires registration. Please register here:http://goo.gl/Cm6KY

In our series, “Meet the Industry Leaders”, the GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi invite you to a special garage event

On Monday, May 13, 20:30 p.m., hear and meet:

Guy Oseary & Ashton Kutcher

The Academic College of Tel Aviv Yaffo
Monday, May 13, 20:30 PM


For more details and directions follow the facebook event page
https://www.facebook.com/events/260567020755975

The GarageGeeks Team

* GarageGeeks is sponsored by Microsoft, Initial Capital and Plus Ventures

You are invited you to a CrowdFunding session with Amy Lesnick, Head of Social Innovation at Indiegogo.

Are you a tech founder with a dream? Are you a social entrepreneur with a bold vision for social change? If so, then you are well aware that what often stands between a great innovative idea and its execution is financing!

With greater and greater frequency, crowdfunding has been filling the money gap. Beyond the dollar, crowdfunding has enabled start-ups to demonstrate a market for their products, gain valuable rapid customer feedback, cultivate customer advocates, and increase awareness for their brand and offering. On the Social innovation front, crowdfunding empowers individuals around the world to participate in something bigger than themselves and take ownership in the projects they believe in.

* Indiegogo is the largest global open crowdfunding platform, empowering anyone, anywhere, anytime, to raise funds for any idea. Since launching in January 2008, Indiegogo has enabled campaign owners to launch campaigns from every country around the world. With millions of dollars distributed globally each week, Indiegogo is democratizing the way the world raises funds for any project - creative, cause-related or entrepreneurial.

* Amy has over 15 years experience in leading/scaling/advising early stage high growth ventures. Her background includes McKinsey & Co., early Netscape and executive roles at a variety of tech start ups. More recently, Amy was the CEO of Full Circle Fund, an instructor at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and an advisor at Stanford’s StartX Accelerator. She is especially passionate about the intersection of technology and social change. She was named by the San Francisco Business Times as one of the “Bay Area’s Most Influential Women” in 2008, 2009, and to the “Forever Influential” hall of fame in 2010

The event will take place on:
Tuesday, March 5th, 20:00
GarageGeeks HQ,
HaPeled 40, Holon

* Admission is free, registration is not required.
* GarageGeeks is sponsored by Microsoft and Initial Capital http://www.initial.vc/

You are invited you to a special session with Mark Tonkelowitz, Software Engineering Manager at Facebook.

Founded in 2004, Facebook’s mission is to make the world more open and connected. Over 1 billion people around the world use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what’s going on in the world, and to share and express what matters to them.

Mark will discuss the product development lifecycle at Facebook as well as his experience building News Feed.

The event will take place on:
Tuesday, February 26th, 20:30
GarageGeeks HQ,
HaPeled 40, Holon

* Pizza and beer will be provided.
* Admission is free, registration is not required.
* GarageGeeks is sponsored by Microsoft and Initial Capital http://www.initial.vc/

You are invited you to a special session with Nathan Blecharczyk, CTO & Co-Founder of Airbnb.

Airbnb is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique accommodations around the world — online or from a mobile phone. Whether an apartment for a night, a castle for a week, or a villa for a month, Airbnb connects people to unique travel experiences, at any price point, in more than 26,000 cities and 192 countries. And with world-class customer service and a growing community of users, Airbnb is the easiest way for people to monetize their extra space and showcase it to an audience of millions.

The event will take place on:
Tuesday, September 4th, 20:30
GarageGeeks HQ,
HaPeled 40, Holon

*  Bring some snacks and drinks to share with others.
* Admission is free, registration is not required.
* GarageGeeks is sponsored by Microsoft and Initial Capital http://www.initial.vc

GarageGeeks & Yossi Vardi hosting Brainstorm with Google

If you’re an Israeli start-up and you want to brainstorm with 53 of Google most talented young marketeers this is your chance.
Fill in this form and you’ll get invited to a unique event and a chance to sit down with top Googlers about your marketing strategy.

The invitation is free - registration is required.
please register at:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEtXeDFPOHpHc3hQNXo2V29ocjNYeXc6MQ#gid=0

GarageGeeks
Sunday, August 26, 18:30 PM
40 Hapeled St., Holon, Israel

* Admission is free, pre-registration required.
* 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
On Tuesday, July 31, 20:30 p.m., hear and meet:
Megan Smith - Vice President Google, and the former CEO of Planet Out.
Kara Swisher - Founder and co-executive editor of All Things Digital, Wall Street Jounal.

GarageGeeks
Tuesday, July 31, 20:30 PM
40 Hapeled St., Holon, Israel

* Admission is free, no pre-registration required.
* GarageGeeks is sponsored by Microsoft and Initial Capital http://www.initial.vc

In our series “meet the Industry leaders”, the GarageGeeks invite you to a special garage event, to meet Red Hat executives.
3 senior Red Hat 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 Strategic Alliances, PaaS, SaaS and other Open Source tools for the Enterprise.

Who will attend?
* Dion Cornett- VP, Strategic Alliances
* Ryan King- Global Program Manager, Red Hat Innovate
* Steven Citron-Pousty, Developer Advocate (PaaS)

Tuesday, June 12, 2012
8:00pm until 11:00pm

What to expect?
Beer, refreshments and face2face time with the people who drive the future of Red Hat.

How to get in?
Just show up. Admission is free, Please pre-register.

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

* 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, on Tuesday ,April 24, 17:00 pm to hear and meet

Tom Rielly, Fellows Director TED Conferences
Tom created and runs the international TED Fellows program among other responsibilities. He will update you on TED’s growth and have a discussion. Plus: Meet an Israeli TED Fellow!

What to expect?
Beer, refreshments and Face2Face time with one of the senior people who make TED happen.

How to get in?
Just show up at the GarageGeeks, 40 Hapeled st , Holon

Admission is free, no pre-registration required.

* 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:

* Salim Ismail - Singularity University Global Ambassador and Founding Executive Director.
* Brad Templeton - Singularity University Networks & Computing Chair, Chairman of the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Singularity University is an academic institution whose stated aim is to “assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies and apply, focus and guide these tools to address humanity’s grand challenges.”
http://singularityu.org/

The event will take place on:
Tuesday, March 13, 20:30
GarageGeeks HQ,
HaPeled 40, Holon

Salim Ismail - Singularity University Global Ambassador and Founding Executive Director.
Salim spent the last three years building Singularity University as its founding Executive Director and current Global Ambassador. SU is based at NASA Ames and is training a new generation of leaders to manage exponentially growing technologies. Before that he built and ran Brickhouse, Yahoo’s internal incubator. His last company, Angstro, was sold to Google in August 2010. He has founded or operated seven early-stage companies including PubSub Concepts, which laid some of the foundation for the real-time web. Salim also serves on the board of Breakthrough, a global human rights organization.
http://singularityu.org/community/staff/#salim

Brad Templeton - Singularity University Networks & Computing Chair, Chairman of the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Brad Templeton founded and ran ClariNet Communications Corp., the first internet-based content company, then sold it to Newsedge Corporation in 1997. ClariNet publishes an online electronic newspaper delivered for live reading on subscribers machines. He has been active in the computer network community since 1979, participated in the building and growth of USENET from its earliest days and in 1987 he founded and edited rec.humor.funny, the world’s most widely read computerized conference on that network, and today the world’s longest running blog. He has been a software company founder, and is the author of a dozen packaged microcomputer software products. He is chairman of the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the leading civil rights advocacy group for cyberspace. He also sits on the advisory boards for a few internet startups. Currently he is building a new startup to reinvent the phone call. He is also on the board of the Foresight Institute (A Nanotech think-tank) and BitTorrent, Inc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Templeton

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