Archive for 'Events'

SF Startup Weekend

Posted on 27. Jul, 2010 by Nikos.

It was my first Startup Weekend and it was a great experience! On Friday (07/23/10) night we were more than 100 people with tons of ideas about websites, web and mobile applications. We spent the whole weekend there and we came out with quite good projects and interesting pitches. Our idea was Shipox and got [...]

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Sustainable Brands Conference 2010

Posted on 17. May, 2010 by Nikos.

Lateral Thinkers to be Welcomed at SB ’10 Sustainable Brands 2010 – Where the Sustainability & Brand & Design Communities Come Together to Shape the Future. Join 700+ sustainability executives, business and brand strategists, designers, and communications experts who are building brand value through sustainability. Join market-making companies such as Hewlett Packard, Bumble Bee Tuna, [...]

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Web 2.0 Expo 2010 – San Francisco

Posted on 07. May, 2010 by Nikos.

For one more year, O’Reilly and UBM Techweb co-produced a very successful conference on May 3-6 in San Francisco,CA. One of my favorite presentations was the one from Drew Houston (Dropbox) and Adam Smith (Xobni) with the title: “From Zero to One Million Users” This is their presentation: Many great keynote speakers and some of [...]

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Sustainable Brands Boot Camp

Posted on 30. Oct, 2009 by Nikos.

Sustainable Brands Boot Camp –13 week online sustainability training program intended to get business professionals up to speed on what they’ll need to be competitive and sustainable. Brought to you by the producers of the Sustainable Brands Conference. Participants will learn from some of the world’s top sustainable business practitioners. Each of our faculty members [...]

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Tech Bloggers and Marketing 2.0

Posted on 25. Jul, 2009 by Nikos.

Recently I attended a very interesting event of SFAMA (San Francisco American Marketing Association) at the offices of Adaptive Path in San Francisco. The subject of the panel was “How Tech Bloggers are Leading the Marketing 2.0 Revolution” 1) Robert Scoble of Rackspace/Building 43 2) Jeremiah Owyang of Forrester 3) Kevin Marks of Google and [...]

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Wordcamp 2009 in San Francisco.. It was great!

Posted on 03. Jun, 2009 by Nikos.

Event: WordCamp 2009 (San Francisco) Date: Saturday 30th of May The ‘WordCamp 2009‘ is the event of the year for the bloggers of Bay Area (and the rest of the world). I was there as a volunteer! I was excited to be there, meet people, help on the event and listen to all these different [...]

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Chris Pirillo talks about Online Communities

Posted on 01. Jun, 2009 by Nikos.

Whoever doesn’t know Chris Pirillo has to watch this video and then go to his website. Chris is the geek master. CNN and hundrends thousands of geeks around the world trust him! I was in the WordCamp 2009 in San Francisco as a volunteer and I listened some great speakers.. One of them was Chris [...]

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Cool Product Expo 2009 – Stanford University

Posted on 10. Apr, 2009 by Nikos.

Yesterday I visited the Cool Product Expo 2009 in Stanford University. I saw several new ideas.. Some of them were quite complicated and some others were too simple. Most of them were interesting though.  Some of the interesting products were the new Yahoo Service “Search Pad”, Cooliris browser add-on, the Hot Topper, NeuroSky and many [...]

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The new Seesmic Desktop

Posted on 08. Apr, 2009 by Nikos.

Today I attended the launch of the Seesmic Desktop. Seesmic owns the very famous Twitter client Twhirl (1.2 M downloads until today) that is in the top list of  clients with Tweetdeck. Loic Le Meur, the founder of Seesmic presented today, at Seesmic’s offices in San Francisco, the new Seesmic project that will (soon) combine [...]

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Pillow Fight in San Francisco 2009

Posted on 15. Feb, 2009 by Nikos.

Yes.. Tonight we had our annual pillow fight in San Francisco.. Whoever had his/her Valentine could come and celebrate.. Whoever didn’t have his/her Valentine could come and find a new one! The weather was great and thousands of people came at the event! Take a look on the video Tweet

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