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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 and Yossi Vardi invite you to a special garage event. On Tuesday, July 17, 20:30 p.m., hear and meet William J. Ruckelshaus, President and Chief Executive Officer of Blucora, and Mike Glover, Vice President of Business Development of InfoSpace.

Headquartered in Bellevue, Washington in the U.S., InfoSpace is a leading provider of white label search and monetization solutions. With a network of more than 100 web publishers globally, InfoSpace offers search solutions as a proven means to monetize audiences via a search-based advertising revenue stream. InfoSpace’s proprietary technology selects from the leading search engines, including Bing, Google, Yahoo! and Yandex, then aggregates, filters and prioritizes the results to provide a comprehensive and partner-branded search experience. Founded in 1996, InfoSpace also operates its own branded search sites, including Dogpile®, MetaCrawler® and WebCrawler®. InfoSpace is a business unit of Blucora, Inc. (NASDAQ: BCOR), a provider of industry-leading, online solutions for consumers and business partners. Learn more about InfoSpace at http://partner.infospace.com/ and www.Blucora.com.

GarageGeeks
40 Hapeled St., Holon, Israel
Tuesday, July 17, 20:30 pm

* 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/

You are invited to a special pre-KinnerNet 2012 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.

Tuesday, 8 May 19:30
GarageGeeks HQ
HaPeled 40, Holon

* GarageGeeks is sponsored by Microsoft and Initial Capital http://www.initial.vc/
* Photo credit: Ron Shoshani (”Ronsho“) www.facebook.com/ronsho

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 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

The GarageGeeks, SpaceIL and NASA invites you to International Space Apps Challenge.

The International Space Apps Challenge is a 2 day technology development event during which citizens from around the world will work together to solve current challenges relevant to both space exploration and social need. The International Space Apps Challenge will take place on all seven continents – in space -  and at GarageGeeks HQ - on 20-21 April 2012.

The International Space Apps Challenge is a “codeathon-style” event. A codeathon is a unique event that brings together citizens interested in collaborating on the development solutions that address critical challenges. A codeathon celebrates software development in its most positive context—using minimal resources and maximum brainpower to create outside- the-box solutions in response to interesting problems. Codeathons are technology development marathons, drawing on the talents and initiative of the best and the brightest software developers, engineers, designers and technologists from around the world, who volunteer their time to respond to real- world problems with solutions than can have immediate impact.

At the events, individuals collaborate with others by forming teams focused on solving a particular challenge. The teams compete with other teams around the world to utilize publicly available space and data to design innovative “solutions” to a pre-determined series of global “challenges.”

Official Website: http://spaceappschallenge.org
Overview Presentation: http://spaceappschallenge.org/resources
FAQ: http://spaceappschallenge.org/faqs
NASA sites:
http://open.nasa.gov/appschallenge
http://data.nasa.gov
http://code.nasa.gov

GarageGeeks is sponsored by Microsoft and Initial Capital

A [nearly] 48-hour game jam inspired by the works of @petermolydeux. Jamming will commence Friday morning and continue through Saturday evening.

http://www.whatwouldmolydeux.com/

The Israeli Molyjam will take place at Garage Geeks, Holon!
Watch this space for details and more info as we approach the date.

Get inspired at http://molydeux.tumblr.com/ !!
Even more ideas here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmKS9o_SW0ovdHZDYWVHb0lOa1NJV3FST3h3UGFOTFE#gid=0
(Thanks Or!)

EDIT: Garage Geeks is at HaPeled 40, Holon.
Map: http://g.co/maps/5hur2

* 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:

* 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.