"Birds of a Feather" (BoF) dinners at Defrag 08 

 

We'll be gathering in the lobby at 7:15pm and getting ready to head out for dinner.

Be there or miss out! Tell your friends!

 

Looking for fascinating conversation along with dinner after day 1 of the conference? Sign up for one of the Defrag 08 "Birds of a Feather" dinners below.   We'll be making reservations toward the end of the day on Monday for each of the groups, so sign up now if you're interested. And if you have a food preference, indicate that as well (no promises, though!)   And if you're interested in leading the conversation, we're looking for 4 more hosts for BOF dinners. Suggest a topic of discussion that you think will be of interest when you sign up, and we'll take care of the rest. (Leave your email/phone, too, just in case we need to get a hold of you.)   Questions? Concerns? Issues? Leave a comment below, or find Lane or Thor at the conference, or email or call Lane at 415-867-1708.		brought to you by

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Startup success strategies in these oh-so-uncertain times

2. Crowd-sourcing and collaboration in social networks

3. Defragging education

4. Serendipity, filtering and users' expectations

5. Talk. Think. Drink. (Choose Your Own Adventure)

 

Dinner number one:

Startup success strategies in these oh-so-uncertain times

 

1) Lane Becker, Get Satisfaction, lane@getsatisfaction.com -- host

2) Thor Muller, Get Satisfaction, thor@getsatisfaction.com -- host

3) David Weekly, PBwiki

4) Brian Oberkirch, Small Good Thing

5) Ben Finkel, Fluther

6) Adam Steinberg, EventVue

7) Steve Kickert, Riverock Technologies

8) Kevin Merritt, blist

9) Tony Haile, chi.mp

10) Nick Napp

11) Kit Seeborg

12) Chris Law, Aggregate Knowledge, claw@aggregateknowledge.com

13) Greg Cohn, Yahoo

14) Ian Kennedy, Nokia

 

Dinner number two:

Crowd-sourcing and collaboration in social networks

 

1) Tabrez Syed, Spiceworks, tabrez@spiceworks.com -- host

2) Abigail Lewis-Bowen abigail@thinkintranet.com

3) Joe Cothrel, Lithium Technologies, joe.cothrel@lithium.com

4) Ed Costello — http://epcostello.net/

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Dinner number three:

Defragging education

 

1) Luca Fabbri, lucaf@lucaf.com, @lucaf -- host

2) Kevin Gamble, kevin_gamble@ncsu.edu

3)Marie Bjerede mbjerede@qualcomm.com

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Dinner number four:

Serendipity, filtering and users' expectations

What users think they can expect, what they really want and what is actually possible to deliver.

1) Andraz Tori,  andraz@zemanta.com -- host

2) Lou Paglia, lpaglia@gmail.com

3) Larry McKeogh, larrymckeogh@hotmail.com

4) Lawrence Liu, lliu@telligent.com

5) Ryan McIntyre, ryan.mcintyre@statera.com, @ryanmcintyre

6) Sameer Patel, sameer@zaptxt-inc.com

7) Rich Hoeg, richardhoeg@gmail.com

8) Pete Warden, pete@petewarden.com, @petewarden

9) Deva Hazarika, deva@clearcontext.com, @devahaz

10) Tim Young, tim@socialcast.com, @timyoung

 

Dinner number five: 

Talk. Think. Drink. (Choose your own adventure)

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1) Laura Fitton,  @pistachio-- host

2) Deborah Schultz, @debs -- tummler

3) Kevin Marks, @kevinmarks

4) Stowe Boyd, stowe.boyd@gmail.com -- curmudgeon

5) Nick Taylor @indigoprime

6) Mark Koenig @mark_koenig

7) Bruce P. Henry @brucephenry

8) Jim Storer @jstorerj

9) Jonathan Yarmis @jyarmis

10) Ben Piro - Mzinga

11) Heidi Groshelle. - heidi@groshelle.com

12) Mike Maney @the_spinmd

13) Dave Fauth @davefauth dsfauth@gmail.com

14) Susan Scrupski @itsinsider, ngenera

15) Rob Hayes, @robhayes, First Round Capital

16) Daniela Barbosa, @danielabarbosa

17) Neil Beam @neilbeam

18) Fraser Kelton, @fraser , AdaptiveBlue

19) J. J. Breazeale @jbreazeale

20) David Terrar - @DT pescatarian - fish, vegetables, dairy products

21) George Athannassov - @georgeatha

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