Once a month, we get Greenville’s creative, technological, and entrepreneurial juices flowing by bringing them together for unfettered, unprogrammed discussion at Barley’s Tap Room. Make some connections, advance your goals. Join us at Tech After Five.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
The last time we had Bob Geolas talk to us about the events at CU-ICAR was October 2006. A lot has happened since then. Marquee businesses now call the campus home. There have been recent announcements from Proterra as they plan to invest $68 million in creating an electric bus manufacturing plant and hiring 1300-2600 employees there. Clemson has graduated their first Phd in Automotive Engineering, and there are plans for an automotive technology incubator on the campus. Join us for lunch in March to learn all about these and other developments at the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research.
GSATC Learning Lunch
Topic: What’s next for CU-ICAR
Presented by: Bob Geolas
Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Time: 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Once a month, we get Greenville’s creative, technological, and entrepreneurial juices flowing by bringing them together for unfettered, unprogrammed discussion at Barley’s Tap Room. Make some connections, advance your goals. Join us at Tech After Five.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
As every product in the world becomes configurable and extendable, at least one customer winds up knowing more than you do about how to make your product do some particular and very useful thing. It’s time to recognize the opportunities — and to sell, internally, the concepts of opening up the process of service and support — to treat your customers’ collective expertise as one of your biggest assets.
Join us for our February Lunch as we have Peter Coffee of SalesForce.com talk to us about lessons learned in creating communities of your customers.
Presenting Sponsor:
Want to make connections with other tech professionals or entrepreneurs? Your first best chance of doing that at Tech After Five is January 20! It’s the first Ta5 of 2010, so make sure you have reserved your spot! We’ll be meeting at Barley’s Taproom from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm and it’s a great opportunity to see what is going on in the Upstate’s tech economy.
Learn how to become a member on the Join Us Tab!
Zipit Wireless is a Greenville, SC based, venture backed company that focuses on delivering fully connected, wireless IP devices that use the company’s unique strengths in wireless connectivity, user-friendly device software, and server infrastructure to enable administration, and access to Internet services. Their latest product leverages their platform to connect social media to a real world appliance. It’s a photo frame that operates via WiFi, and is controlled over the web to bring all of the largest photo sharing sites including Facebook, Flickr, and many others to something that can hang on your wall. We’ll talk about the technology, get an in-depth demo, learn about the Main Street Greenville company that created it, and learn where they plan to go next with it all. Come see us in January for a powerful presentation.
You may still register at the event. Onsite registration is $25. Cash or Check gleefully accepted. We will also accept credit cards, but it will require a bit of extra effort on your part.
What
Learning Lunch: How Zipit Framed Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr
When
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 from 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM (ET)
Where
Embassy Suites
670 Verdae Blvd
Greenville, SC 29607
Our annual gadgetfest is now a tradition! In it’s Sixth year running! The December meeting of the GSATC is a Learning Lunch / Holiday Celebration / Gadgeteer’s Dream. We have local gadgeteers presenting holiday gadgets they love and members of the audience may be asked to participate as well.
Want to make connections with other tech professionals or entrepreneurs? Your last best chance of doing that at Tech After Five is November 18! It’s the last Ta5 of 2009, so make sure you have reserved your spot! We’ll be meeting at Barley’s Taproom from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm and it’s a great opportunity to see what is going on in the Upstate’s tech economy.
While the news has generally been bad, there seem to be bright spots on the job front. Still, it helps to know the lay of the land whether you are an employer, job seeker, or recruiter. What shifts can we see? What skills remain in demand? Where should we be looking? How can we sift through all this data and the news to find something that works for us? What about the new employers coming to the state? What effect will they have on our talent pool and opportunities? Get these questions and your questions answered at our November Learning Lunch which will feature a panel of experts on jobs and opportunities in the upstate.
It doesn’t matter whether you call it a 30-second commercial, an elevator pitch, or your personal value statement. If you can’t communicate what you can do for people, you are losing opportunities.
You need a 30 second commercial that works if you are:
* Looking for prospects
* Looking for a job
* Seeking Investors
* Networking at Tech After Five, or a Chamber of Commerce Event
* Attempting to charm prospective employees
In this morning session you will get the form, structure, and get to practice your 30 second commercial in a way that gets you comfortable with the format and teaches you the power of a great pitch with strong questions to get the other person interested in your work, business, product, organization, or service.
Sign up today, all instruction, a workbook and a fabulous networking lunch are included.
October 29, 2009, 9am until 1pm.
