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Tech events in Tampa and beyond:
IDEA Camp Spring (hosted by STARTec)
Friday, May 7, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
St. Petersburg College Collaborative Labs
Do you have an innovative technology, product or process in the early stages of development? Would you like to work with industry experts and coaches to create a winning product pitch and value proposition for your startup technology concept?
Then apply to participate in STAR Technology Enterprise Center’s IDEA Spring Camp. This collaborative event will help inventors, entrepreneurs and small businesses refine their “90 second elevator pitch” and effectively communicate their product’s competitive attributes.
Participants should expect to leave IDEA Camp with:
• A refined business model that effectively communicates product attributes
• Credibility for their product or idea through peer vetting
• Confidence to deliver an effective value proposition
• Solidified ideas to focus your resources and drive your deliverables
• New ideas, or technology improvements from real-time feedback
• Momentum to move forward with a “next step” plan for their idea
• A refined 90 second pitch delivered to potential partners and stakeholders
• New contacts and resources to move their idea forward
Only 15 technology concepts will be accepted for IDEA Camp.
Click here to download an application.
For more information, contact:
Steve Ford at 727-547-7362, fords@ctc.com
Jennifer Olsen at 727-547-7358 or olsenj@ctc.com
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Past Events
WuFoo Workshop – Converting free users to paid users
January 27th – 6PM to 8PM @ IdeaField Coworking
Kevin Hale of WuFoo / Infinity Box will be leading a workshop to help web businesses convert free users to paid subscribers. This event is co-hosted by the Tampa WAVE & IdeaField Coworking.
The 2 hour workshop will help freemium model web businesses in the Tampa Bay area convert free users to paid users. The workshop is designed to be fairly hands on with exercises designed to show you how to look at your product and feature set to maximize your conversions. If you’re interested, please let us know you’re coming by registering here:
Register for the Freemium Workshop!
Kevin will be showcasing a number of examples and also present some of the research, strategies and best practices our company has gathered to inform what we do here at Wufoo. It should be a lot of fun and it’ll actually serve as a testing ground for some new ideas that will be presented at Kevin””””s upcoming workshop at FOWA.
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In 2007, the Kauffman Foundation sponsored Entrepreneurship Week USA — a national effort to get young people to “think big” and “take it on.” More than 1,300 organizations planned 3,700 activities celebrating innovation and entrepreneurship throughout all 50 states. Nearly half-a-million people participated in those activities. This year, we””””re looking to make the Week even bigger and better.
America””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””s history is full of entrepreneurial success stories full of imagination, creativity and innovation. Global Entrepreneurship Week/USA is designed to spark, nurture, and fine-tune those traits in our young people by inspiring enterprising behavior. Support risk-takers. Make a difference in your community. Mentor young people with real drive and real dreams. Take part in the Week, and help shape the next generation of entrepreneurs.
This year, the activities started earlier than the official November 16th kickoff. Here is a brief list of all the events in Tampa Bay for mid-November that are targeted at advancing the cause of entrepreneurship, technology, collaboration and creativity.
- Nov. 5th – Happy Hour sponsored by Neenah Paper@ IdeaField Coworking
- Nov. 6th – IdeaCamp workshop hosted by STAR Tec at St, Pete College Collaborative Labs
- Nov. 11th – Social School sponsored by Brand Tampa and Walker Brand
- Nov. 12th – Weekly Tech Rant @ IdeaField Coworking
- Nov. 13th – Free Friday, Open Coworking @ IdeaField
- Nov. 16th – Tampa Tech Venture Conference featuring Guy Kawasaki
- Nov. 16th – Tampa Bay Kick-off Happy Hour for Global Entrepreneurship Week @ Whiskey Joe””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””s
- Nov. 17th – Florida Venture Forum presents Scripps Research – Managing Change Through Innovation
- Nov. 17th – USF SBDC – SMB Marketing Strategies Class
- Nov. 18th – Pinellas EDC – How to Start a Business
- Nov. 18th – Launch Party Open House @IdeaField Coworking
- Nov. 19th – Weekly Tech Rant @ IdeaField Coworking
- Nov. 20th – STAR Tec Open House & Evaluation Sessions
- Nov. 21st – Design-a-Thon sponsored by Tampa Graphic Design MeetUp & IADT
Contact Ken@startupmonkey.com for more information
Media Coverage from 2008 event - Tampa Bay Business Journal
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Details:
Dev Day – Saturday September 26th 9AM – 6PM
Social Media Day – Sunday September 27th 9AM – 6PM
USF College of Business Administration
4202 East Fowler Ave. (follow signs to parking lot west of Sun Dome)
Event registration is free, but we strongly encourage participants to throw a little donation in the kitty to help with the cost of supplies, signage and food.
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Jelly and Free Coworking at IdeaField every Friday
IdeaField will open for Free drop-ins every Friday until Labor Day so everyone can experience coworking Tampa style. Grab your laptop and drop in to see us. We””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””ll have free WiFi, clean desk space and fresh coffee.
A Jelly is an opportunity for us all to get together and spontaneously work and build out professional community. You can check out more about coworking here.
IdeaField is located at 308 E Oak Ave, Tampa 33602 on the second floor.
Please e-mail Ken Evans or IdeaField directly with any questions.
We hope to see you there!
Details:
Time: 9am to 2pm
Location: IdeaField
308 E. Oak Ave
City/Town: Tampa
Map: http://maps.google.com/maps…
Event Type: jelly, coworking
Organized By: IdeaField
Look for updates and info on: http://www.meetup.com/coworking & http://www.meetup.com/tampastartup
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Past Events:
StarTec””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””s Third Annual Entrepreneurship Conference
June 3rd & 4th- Hilton Carillon St. Petersburg$99 Early Registration Fee Extended Through May 31st! |
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Coworking is now more than a fad, it has become a hub for creativity, innovation and grass roots economic development. Many cities have or are starting events / facilities and it is time we make coworking a destination for Tampa’s tech community.
Jelly coworking is active in Tampa Bay -
For now, we are meeting informally at various coffee shops near downtown Tampa. We are working on establishing a facility that will have all the necessary features for productive and enjoyable coworking… oh, and good coffee too.
Next Jelly:
Past Jellys:
- January 15th – 2009
- 1:00 – 4:00PM
- Place: Cafe Hey 1540 N. Franklin Street
- Cohosted by Elevation Brand, Tampa Bay Creative Network & StartupMonkey
- Thursday, August 21st – Time: 1:00 – 4:00PM
- Thursday, November 13th – Time: 1:00 – 4:00PM Place: Cafe Hey 1540 N. Franklin Street
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It’s BarCamp Time!
Tampa””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””s BarCamp is not until September, so get out and support the guys in Orlando. They always host a great un-conference and were big supporters of our inaugural BarCamp last fall.
Saturday, April 18th, 2009
- 9:30 AM – Doors open, people can sign up for talks on the big writeboard.
- 10:00 AM – Talks start. There are three rooms for presentations, and each presentation will have 25 minutes and they will be spaced out. We recommend that you limit your talks to about 20 minutes to allow 5 minutes for discussion (and incase you run long).
- 1:00 PM – Lunch is served, we take an hour break
- 2:00 PM – Talks resume
- 6:00 PM – Barcamp ends and the afterparty starts at Slingapours
1st International Workshop on Visual Interfaces to the Social and the Semantic Web (VISSW 2009)
Sanibel Island, Florida – February 8th, 2009
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Visual interfaces supporting exploration and/or navigation of unstructured or structured data on the Web
- Visualizing and interacting with semi-structured/linked data on the Semantic Web or the Social Semantic Desktop
- Ontology-based visualization of & interaction with collections of data
- Novel paradigms to interact with textual data, photos, music, videos on mobile devices
- Lightweight components for casual users to publish/share their own contents on the Web
- Real-world use cases
- Lessons learned from intelligent interfaces built to interact with Web-based contents
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BarCamp Tampa Bay
Tampa””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””s first BarCamp is set for October 11th & 12th at the USF Business School. Join others in the tech community and participate in this unique event. If you know what BarCamp is all about and have been waiting for a local event, now is your chance to participate. If you have never heard of BarCamp, then this event is probably not for you.
This is not a casual conference for the faint of heart or non-geeks looking for a 101 introduction to tech. BarCamp is a fast paced, interactive learning experience. Expect to see live demonstrations of programming and content management tools with many discussions showing coding techniques, and the inner workings of web applications. It””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””s all tech and no sales, bring your laptop and leave your business cards at home.
Read the BarCamp Tampa Bay press release here.
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In 2007, the Kauffman Foundation sponsored Entrepreneurship Week USA — a national effort to get young people to “think big” and “take it on.” More than 1,300 organizations planned 3,700 activities celebrating innovation and entrepreneurship throughout all 50 states. Nearly half-a-million people participated in those activities. This year, we””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””re looking to make the Week even bigger and better.
America””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””s history is full of entrepreneurial success stories full of imagination, creativity and innovation. Global Entrepreneurship Week/USA is designed to spark, nurture, and fine-tune those traits in our young people by inspiring enterprising behavior. Support risk-takers. Make a difference in your community. Mentor young people with real drive and real dreams. Take part in the Week, and help shape the next generation of entrepreneurs.
On November 17th you can join other businesses, educational organizations and local government as we celebrate the growing entrepreneurial economy in Tampa Bay.
Contact Ken@EvoAdv.com for more information
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Kauffman Foundation Global Ent. Week
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