Allen Stern puts together a roundup of Web/tech events for New York every week, and his list inspired me to do the same for Silicon Valley events, given I keep a list of potential events to cover for ReadWriteWeb.
So, here are events planned for the Silicon Valley area; let me know if there are any that I’ve missed, and I’ll do my best to include them.
Monday 27th October
Design Thinking Morning Forum
Host: SVAMA
Time: 8.30 – 10 a.m.
Place: Palo Alto
Cost: $5 Members/$15 Non Members
Annual Future of Virtual Worlds
Host: SD Forum
Time: 6.30 – 9.30 p.m.
Place: Palo Alto
Cost: Free Members/$15 Non Members
International Congress of Nano-Bio Clean Tech 2008
Host: International Association of Nanotechnology
Time: Monday 27 – Thursday 30
Place: Burlingame
Cost: $795
Gallery of Serial Entrepreneurs
Host: Right-Hand Partners LLP
Time: 5.30 – 8 p.m.
Place: Mountain View
Cost: $50
Tuesday 28th October
Entrepreneurial Best Practices Series : IP and Legal Issues
Host: Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Time: 6.30 – 8.30 p.m.
Place: UC Berkeley
Cost: $50
Web Services SIG: Financial Cloud Services
Host: SD Forum
Time: 6.30 – 9 p.m.
Place: Palo Alto
Cost: Members Free/Non Members $15
BlogWell: How big companies use social media
Host: GasPedal and the Blog Council
Time: 1 – 5 p.m.
Place: San Jose
Cost: $200
SNAP Summit3: All about the Social Web
Host: Room Full of People
Time: 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Place: San Francisco
Cost: Student $99/General Admission $249
* Live video stream once the event begins
Innovating and Adapting in the Emerging 3.0 World
Host: New Voice of Business
Time: 5.30 – 7.30 p.m.
Place: San Francisco
Cost: $10 Members/$20 Non Members
Wednesday 29th October
Social Media Strategies Conference [Day 1]
Host: Web Guild Silicon Valley
Time: Wed October 29, 7 a.m. – Thursday October 30, 5 p.m.
Place: San Francisco
Cost: $875 Members/$975 Non Members
The Chronicles of Web Standard: the HTML 5, the Comet and the WebSocket
Host: Silicon Valley Web Builder
Time: 6.30 – 9.30 p.m.
Place: Google Campus, Mountain View
Cost: Free if register online
Lawrence Lessig Remix Book Party
Host: Stanford Law School
Time: 6.30 – 9 p.m.
Place: San Francisco
Cost: Free
Best of San Francisco Show 2008
Host: International Advertising Association (IAA) – West
Time: 6 – 9 p.m.
Place: Adobe, San Francisco
Cost: $25 Members/$35 Non Members/$10 Students with ID
Thursday 30th October
Social Media Strategies Conference [Day 2]
Special Gala Dinner: Distinguished Service Award Celebration
Honoring: Susan Decker, President Yahoo! Inc
Host: Institute of International Education
Time: 6-9 pm
Place: St. Regis Hotel, San Francisco
Cost: $250+
Ubuntu 8.10 Release Party: San Francisco
Time: 7.30 p.m.
Place: The Thirsty Bear, San Francisco
Cost: Free
The Next Generation of Advanced Media
Host: National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Time: 7 – 9 p.m.
Place: San Francisco
Cost: $10 Members/$30 Non Members
Cross-Cultural User-Experience Design
Host: AIGA
Time: 6.30 – 8.30 p.m.
Place: San Francisco, CA
Cost: Free
Politics 2008: Sound Bites, Spin, and the Search for the Facts
Host: The Churchill Club
Time: 6 – 9 p.m.
Cost: $64 Members / $78 Non Members
Place: Menlo Park
Friday – Halloween
New York Tech Web Events – Week of October 26
