MIT Enterprise Forum Presents:
A Special Fireside Chat with Joi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab
May 21, 2012 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Kirsch Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
The MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge invites you to a very special Innovation Series event on Monday, May 21. Join us for a fireside chat with Joi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, moderated by Tim Rowe, Founder and CEO of the Cambridge Innovation Center.
MIT Presents:
2012 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium to Explore Piloting the Untethered Enterprise
May 22, 2012, 7:30am - 7:00pm
Kresge Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
Over 800 Senior IT decision makers will engage eachother and with thought leaders from academia to find better ways to effectively use technology to improve business performance while sustaining their leadership.
Mondo Strategies Presents:
Product Management for Software & Maximizing Investments
May 22-23, 2012 8:30am - 5:30pm
Sheraton Boston Hotel, Boston, MA
Prepare product managers; learn pragmatic approaches and processes for proper product management. MassTLC members get a special discount of 35%.
Wayfair Presents:
Wayfair Engineering Game Night
May 23, 2012 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Wayfair Office, Boston, MA
If you share our enjoyment of tabletop gaming, we invite you to join us on Wednesday May 23rd 6:30 - 9 pm for a Wayfair Engineering Board Game Night. After a hard day of exercising our brains by pushing 40 releases a day while scaling our servers, databases and code to smoothly handle over ten million customers a month, we like to relax by uh, also exercising our brains. Come enjoy the company of other gamers for a night of free pizza, beverages, conversation and camaraderie.
Serena Software Presents:
Orchestrate IT to Deliver Apps + Services for Massive Advantage
May 23, 2012 6:00pm - 7:45pm
Ruth's Chris Steak House, Boston, MA
Join industry leaders and your executive peers for an IT strategy session. Explore best practices for how to orchestrate your IT systems so you can more efficiently deliver business-changing apps and services.
IBM Presents:
Partnering with IBM Big Data to Grow your Business
May 23, 2012 9:00am - 2:00pm
IBM Innovation Center, Waltham, MA
Join us at the Waltham IBM Innovation Center to learn about the IBM Business Analytics solution portfolio and how you can take advantage of the great market opportunity highlighted by this CIO study. Learn how you can grow your business by resell, or how you can extend your commercial applications with Business Analytics capabilities.
IBM Presents:
Partnering with IBM Big Data to Grow your Business
May 23, 2012 2:30pm - 6:00pm
IBM Innovation Center, Waltham, MA
In today's world there is an ever increasing amount of data. Estimates point to data growing at 50 percent a year, or more than doubling every two years. It's not just more streams of data, but entirely new ones. This data comes from everywhere: from sensors used to gather climate information, posts to social media sites, digital pictures and videos posted online, transaction records of online purchases, and from cell phone GPS signals, just to name a few.
The Capital Network Presents:
Surfing the Wave - What the heck is crowdfunding anyway?
May 23, 2012 7:30am - 9:30am
Dogpatch Labs, Cambridge, MA
Crowdfunding is the hipster way to go, but how effective is it? Join us as we discuss the ups and downs of crowdfunding and what it means for you. Hear from entrepreneurs who have received funding from Angel List and Kickstarter and an expert on the legal implications of getting funding from the crowd.
Dyn Presents:
abi's Party at Arms: LIVE FREE and START
May 24, 2012 5:30pm - 9:30pm
Arms Park, Manchester, NH
For starters, we figured everyone would be itchin' to get outside and enjoy the spring weather, so, we're renting a 6,000 square foot tent that we'll set up at Arms Park in Manchester. On top of that, we're super excited to have Noah Everett, the CEO/Founcer of Twitpic, a high growth company. In spirit of throwing a good party, the abi will be showcasing some great music: the WANDAS.
The Capital Network Presents:
The Network Event
May 29, 2012 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Creative Office Pavillion, Boston, MA
Join us and our network of angels and venture capitalists, serial entrepreneurs, early stage startups, and the dedicated community that keeps us going strong for our annual Network even to reconnect and recharge over good food and spirits.
Canonical Presents:
Introduction to Openstack Cloud
May 31, 2012 11:00am - 2:00pm
Webinar
HP, AT&T, Ericsson, and Rackspace all build their clouds on Ubuntu plus Openstack, the platform of choice for organizations deploying cloud IAAS today. Join Mark Baker and Nick Barcet from the Ubuntu Server and Cloud teams to learn about OpenStack in Ubuntu 12.04.
Xconomy Presents:
XSITE 2012: The Xconomy Summit on Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship
June 14, 2012 9:00am
Babson College, Waltham, MA
Xconomy is convening top entrepreneurs, innovators from public companies, VCs, angel investors, and technologists from New England and beyond to address these questions and more. So please join us for a high-spirited event that will help inspire and inform success as the recovery accelerates. MassTLC Members can use MTLC as a code when registering for a $300 discount!
Power Stategy Presents:
Innovation & Strategy
June 21-22, 2012, 9:00am - 5:00pm
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
This unique workshop helps growth company leaders uncover uncontested markets and leave incumbents scrambling. Participants get hands-on experience with design thinking, customer mapping, lean offer prototyping and business model design.
Events
COMMUNITY EVENTS
The National Cable & Telecommunications
Association Presents: The Cable Show
May 21-23, 2012
Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, Boston, MA
Explore the new possibilities cable is creating in mobility, interactivity, social media and broadband-enabled content at The Cable Show – the industry’s largest cable and telecommunications convention. See TBS superstar Conan O’Brien interviewed live as part of must-see line-up of the most influential thinkers in media, communications, technology and entertainment. MassTLC members receive free admission for Wednesday, May 23.
