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Posts in category "networking"

Chicago becomes a hot spot for technology entrepreneurs and incubator spaces

According to a recent article from the Wall Street Journal, Chicago has recently become home to a number of co-working spaces and incubators, for entrepreneur-types who are looking for places to establish their technology ideas in physical spaces. Pointing to the successes of Groupon and GrubHub, the WSJ article mentioned a list of newly formed... Read more »
By Jay Yearley,
March 17, 2012 at 8:06 pm
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Chicago Game Jam was a success; brought together city game developer scene

Chicago Game Jam was a success; brought together city game developer scene
IGDA Chicago had recently held an event that brought all game developing enthusiasts together for a “Chicago Game Jam“. Or, in other words a gathering of all people for a competition to develop games in a two-day period taking place at Toy Studio, a social media and mobile game development studio, in the Wicker Park... Read more »
By Jay Yearley,
October 29, 2011 at 6:57 pm
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Weekly Tech Event Week of September 5: Pecha Kucha Night is back for inspiration across creative industries

Weekly Tech Event Week of September 5: Pecha Kucha Night is back for inspiration across creative industries
Pecha Kucha Chicago hosts it’s 19th “volume” on Tuesday, September 6th. For those new to the idea, Pecha Kucha is based on the Japanese term of “chit-chat”, formed around sharing creative ideas from several speakers in rapid succession. Using slides, with a 6 minute 40 second time limit, or 20 seconds per slide, each creative... Read more »
By Jay Yearley,
September 4, 2011 at 4:23 pm
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Weekly Tech Events for week of August 22: SocialDevCamp, Hackathon and more

Weekly Tech Events for week of August 22: SocialDevCamp, Hackathon and more
SocialDevCamp Chicago is a weekend long conference and hackathon about the social web. It’s the event for social app developers, mobile developers and designers. SocialDevCamp is a weekend of discussions on social platforms, apps, APIs, mobile experiences, and new media. This starting on Friday, August 26th, and is taking place at the DePaul University Main... Read more »
By Jay Yearley,
August 21, 2011 at 8:09 pm
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TechWeek Chicago: Saturday rundown and impressions

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Saturday at TechWeek in Chicago had a fairly big emphasis on social media and social aspects in apps, games and other digital publishing uses. This unique event brought scores of technology professionals from Chicago as well as from major companies on the east and west coasts. A panel on Social Data was one of the... Read more »
By Jay Yearley,
July 26, 2011 at 10:01 pm
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TechWeek Chicago exhibition and conference

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TechWeeek Chicago officially kicked off on Friday, July 22nd, and is currently underway. This event is taking place inside The Merchandise Mart  in downtown Chicago and will continue until Monday, July 25th. The TechWeek is an event that showcases technology from local Chicago companies by having several panels and conferences. There are many different angles... Read more »
By Jay Yearley,
July 24, 2011 at 6:56 pm
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Weekly Tech Events for week of July 18: TechWeek, Online Strategy, Chicago Flex and more

Tech is in the spotlight as summer continues to heat up in Chicago. This week begins the official week long event called TechWeek, organized by midVentures, the organization which also puts together the successful midVentuesLAUNCH conference. TechWeek Chicago takes place from Friday, July 22 at 8am to Friday, July 29 at 7pm. The TechWeek is... Read more »
By Jay Yearley,
July 16, 2011 at 11:37 pm
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Weekly Tech events Week of June 20: Hackathon for mobile apps development, and Wordpress Expo

Mobile app development, a hackathon, and WordPress are the focus of this event filled tech week in Chicago.   The Ji-V Hackathon and Seminar Series II, is the second one this year to bring together mobile application developers in a competition to develop the best mobile device app in a twelve hour time-span. It happens this Saturday, June 25 from 8... Read more »
By Jay Yearley,
June 21, 2011 at 2:06 pm
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Chicago creatives searching for inspiration need only go to Pecha Kucha night

The headline says it all, really. Pecha Kucha Chicago hosts it’s 18th “volume” tonight, June 7. Those of you who are new to the events, Pecha Kucha comes from the Japanese term of “chit-chat” and is based on sharing creative ideas from several speakers in rapid succession. Think of speed-dating for creative people using slides, with a 6... Read more »
By Jay Yearley,
June 7, 2011 at 4:01 pm
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Weekly Tech events week of March 21 - Mobile roundtable discussions at Digital Bootcamp, Foursquare, Ignite Chicago

The Chicago Android group hosted a roundtable discussion called “Future of Mobile in Media” this past Saturday, March 19th at the Digital Bootcamp located at 25 West Hubbard St., Chicago, IL 60654. The focus of these discussions is to talk about the changing landscape of news and content to mobile technology and devices.   This... Read more »
By Jay Yearley,
March 20, 2011 at 3:52 pm
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