Category Archives: Events

SPOTLIGHT RECAP: Social isn’t really a marketing tool and you can’t measure success in numbers, say what?

Posted on by Rebekah Iliff

This post was originally submitted by Rebekah Iliff, Co-Founder and CEO of talkTECH Communications on podConnect by Pereira & O’Dell blog. If there is one thing I’ve learned in the past ten years prancing around the wild wild west of marketing communications, most recently social media, it is this: everyone – and I mean everyone – [...]

Mega Startup Weekend 2012: 54 Hours of Mobile Apps, Robots, and Gaming

Posted on by Kelly Byrd

This article was originally posted on Mega Startup Weekend’s page #swbayMEGA caused a disruption in Silicon Valley with technology and innovation coming out of the Microsoft office in Mountain View. As Douglas Crets of Microsoft BizSpark noted, we started the weekend with ”the entrepreneur spirit that gets us fired up enough to get mad about problems–and create solutions”, thanks to Dave McClure‘s riveting keynote welcome [...]

Highlights from Startupism: Steve Jurvetson “epically” brilliant, Alexia Tsotsis gets cheeky

Posted on by Rebekah Iliff

  “Startupism” – ahh, there’s a word. Connoting a movement of sorts in and of itself, this “little conference that could” beat out AdTech [in my opinion] just on its mere ability to attract some of Silicon Valley’s most controversial and brilliant sparkplugs for two days of music, movers and shakers, food, libations and oh yes I almost [...]

SXSW Interactive 2012

Posted on by Kristen Tischhauser

How would I describe the SXSW Interactive festival? SXSW Interactive  = a five day whirlwind of compelling presentations from the brightest minds in technology, parties, gaming, networking, pitches, bbq, startups, tech junkies, apps, innovation, and of course – free booze. I think that sums it up! This was my second time in Austin, Texas for [...]

Recap: Google NewME Accelerator event

Posted on by Kristen Tischhauser

The #teamtalkTECH attended the Google & NewME accelerator at The Googleplex on February 21, and wanted to share the highlights of our notes: The event started with an intro by Google’s Head of Global Entrepreneurship Mary Himinkool, followed by several pitches from minority owned startups and feedback from a judges panel that consisted of “Black [...]