GarageGeeks Blog

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

* Thomas Curran , CTO at Deutsche Telekom AG

* Ori Cohen, co-founder and CEO at Narus, Skyrider and ChooChee

Deutsche Telekom AG is one of the world’s leading telecommunications and information technology service companies.
It offers its customers all kinds of products and services for connected life and work.
As an international Group, Deutsche Telekom is represented in some 50 countries worldwide.
More than half of its net revenue is generated outside Germany. The Company employs some 260,000 (in June 2009) people overall.

The event will take place on:
Tuesday, October 5th,  18:00 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

* Thomas Aidan Curran, CTO at Deutsche Telekom AG
Thomas Aidan Curran is the Chief Technology Officer for Products and Innovation at the Deutsche Telekom AG. As one of Europe’s largest telecommunications providers, DTAG operates in circa 50 countries.

Previously Thomas was founder and CEO of Telemos AG, Munich Germany. In 2006 to NYC he was technology advisor to the chancellor of the New York City Department of Education.

* Ori Cohen, co-founder and CEO at ChooChee
Dr. Cohen is an accomplished entrepreneur and the founder of several technology companies, most notably Narus and Skyrider.
Ori founded and served as CEO of Narus, the dominant player in real-time traffic intelligence for large IP networks, and the only company that provides security, intercept and traffic management solutions within a single, flexible system.
Narus’ patented technology is deployed on the largest IP networks around the world including AT&T, KT (Korea), KDDI (Japan), France Telecom, Reliance (India), Saudi Telecom, and US Cellular.
Prior to founding Narus, Ori was the Vice President of Business and Technology Development for VDOnet, a leading provider of Internet video conferencing and video on demand software solutions.
Before joining VDOnet, Ori served as the CEO of IntelliCom Ltd.

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

Salim Ismail - Executive Director, Singularity University.
http://singularityu.org/

Salim is a successful angel investor and entrepreneur - his last company, Angstro, was acquired by Google in August 2010. He has operated seven early-stage companies and is a frequent speaker on internet technologies, private equity and entrepreneurship. Salim is currently the CEO and Executive Director of Singularity University, which is training a new cadre of leaders to manage exponentially growing technologies. Prior to that, Salim was a Vice President at Yahoo and the Head of Brickhouse, Yahoo’s internal ‘ideas factory’ where game-changing ideas were brought in, built and launched. The unit analyzed thousands of ideas and launched four products during that year, the latest being Fire Eagle. He also serves as co-founder and Chairman of Confabb.com, co-founded PubSub Concepts and is also on the board of Breakthrough, a global human rights organization focused on violence against women, racial justice, and immigrant rights.

Singularity University aims 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.

The event will take place on:
Monday, September 6, 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

you are invited to a special garage event, to learn about the present and future of electronic payments. and meet:

* Osama Bedier - Vice President of PayPal Platform and Emerging Technology - Future of electronic and mobile payment.

* Greetings: Oded Zehavi, Regional Director, Israel & South Africa at PayPal .

* Naveed Anwar - Senior Director of PayPal Developer Network

* Startup standing panel – use case and Q&A : Fiverr, Somobi, SupersonicAds and anyone who have interesting stories to share.

The event will take place on:
Sunday, July 25, 20:30 at GarageGeeks HQ, HaPeled 40, Holon

Osama Bedier perceived one of the thought leaders in global electronic payments and he is behind PayPal’s radical move to open up its system to third-party developers and allow them to integrate its payment system into their Web sites, mobile apps, and devices.
In the first three months, PayPal signed up more than 15,000 developers.

Anwar Naveed - Senior Director of PayPal Developer Network (previously managed the AOL Developer Network )
Announce the PayPal global developer challenge with 100,000 $ prize for the best application
https://www.x.com/community/ppx/devchallenge
and invite people to come to the PayPal innovate 2010 event in October.

* 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

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

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

Dr. Jeffrey Jaffe, W3C CEO

Dr. Jeff Jaffe is Chief Executive Officer of the World Wide Web Consortium. In this role he works with Director Tim Berners-Lee, staff, and membership, and the public to evolve and communicate the W3C’s organizational vision.

The event will take place on June 14, Garage HQ, HaPeled 40, Holon at 19:30

The World-Wide Web was created as a platform for information sharing decades ago. In the interim it has grown to become the platform for commerce, education, entertainment, and collaboration as well.

People have contributed proprietary enhancements to achieve this enhanced platform. Ultimately, the world has a common platform only if key platform elements are open and standard. The World-Wide Web Consortium is focused on a variety of technologies and domains including: video, ubiquity, accessibility, social networking, cloud computing, society, and linked data to ensure that the next generation platform is as open and innovative as the current Web

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

* GarageGeeks is sponsored by Carmel Ventures and Giza VC

You are invited to a special post-Kinnernet 2010 GarageGeeks party.
This time we have invited Kinnernet participants from Israel and aboard to join us.

Sunday, 2 May 19:30
GarageGeeks HQ
HaPeled 40, Holon

please tag videos images etc’ with garagegeeks

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

GarageGeeks is sponsored by Carmel Ventures and Giza VC
Photo credit: Ron Shoshani (”Ronsho“) gave a ONE TIME single permission to the use his image for the event invitation

The GarageGeeks sessions present:
Israel Amazon Web Services User Group
hosted by Dan Feld, AWS EMEA

Sunday, May 2
18:00, GarageGeeks HQ

Please join us to meet the AWS team, meet other AWS users, and discuss Cloud Computing.

Agenda:

18:00-18:20 – Gathering and networking

18:20-18:50 - Cloud Capability - Why customers are choosing cloud computing? - After 4 years, starting with EC2 and S3, Amazon Web Services now offers 20 different services. What is the motivation of customers who come to Amazon web services? What are they doing with it today?

18:50-19:30 – AWS Customer’s presentations – Some of our Israeli customers will present their business case and how they used AWS capabilities as a solution.

19:30-20:00 – What’s new with AWS?, Closing words

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

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

Craig Mundie, Chief research and strategy officer of Microsoft Corp., reporting to CEO Steve Ballmer. In this role, he oversees one of the world’s largest computer-science research organizations…, and is responsible for Microsoft’s long-term technology strategy.

The event will take place on Monday, April 12, 20:30 at Garage HQ, HaPeled 40, Holon

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

Israeli President Shimon Peres visited the city of Holon.
The president was meeting with high school students, visited the “Invitation to Silence” exhibition at the Children Museum, and met the GarageGeeks and Dr. Yossi Vardi at the MediaTheque.
GarageGeeks member, Rafael Mizrahi, presented to the president’s staff about of the underground high-tech scene and creative activities in Holon and Israel.