The Software Association of Oregon (SAO) Corvallis Chapter, Corvallis-Benton Chamber Coalition and Oregon State University are proud to announce the 6th Annual High Tech After Hours! High Tech After Hours is the biggest high-tech event in the Willamette Valley and will be held on November 13th from 1:00pm until 8:00pm at the CH2M HILL Alumni Center located on the OSU campus across from Reser Stadium.

High Tech After Hours builds valuable relationships between local businesses, high-tech entrepreneurs, educators, investors, students and local officials. For the first time this year OSU’s College of Business and College of Engineering will be co-hosting this event, making this the powerhouse showcase of collaboration between industry, education, and commerce in the Willamette Valley.

Open Innovation is this year’s theme, and an expanded agenda includes some very exciting people and events:

• Keynote speaker, Peter Adkison, a leader in the gaming industry and current CEO of Hidden City Games. Peter is an entertaining speaker and as a pivotal player in the high-tech industry, presents a unique perspective on the economic opportunities of the Pacific Northwest.

• A panel-style, round-robin discussion of area examples of collaboration and innovation with leaders Ron Adams, Dean of the College of Engineering, Ilene Kleinsorge, Dean of the College of Business, Brian Weldon, Chapter President of SAO and Mysty Rusk, President of the Corvallis-Benton Chamber Coalition.

• "Ignite Corvallis!" the rapid-fire, fun and novel presentation opportunity for 20 area businesses to highlight what’s going on in their world and offer insight into new and interesting developments that could impact area businesses - including yours!

• Vendor Exhibition Hall - Last year, over fifty different area technology companies took the opportunity to show their stuff at HTAH and we expect this year to be even bigger.

We are actively seeking High Tech and Traded Sector companies who are interested in participating in the event. Be on display with 50 High-Tech businesses and find out about the newest technologies being developed and showcase what your company is creating. Help us tell your story better!

For further information call 541-757-1505 x 6

Following the successful first Beaver Bar Camp we are going ahead with plans for our second community event. Hope you can make it.

BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees.

When: Sunday, November 16th, 2009 (Note - change in date from earlier announcement)

Time - 9:00am - 10:00pm

Tag photos, blogs, del.icio.us, ma.gnolia, etc. as BeaverBarCamp

Where: Kelley Engineering Center (map) at Oregon State University; 2500 Monroe, Corvallis, OR (brochure with a floor plan)

What rooms at Kelly do we get? The classrooms on the west end? (Yes, plus all the little conference rooms scattered throughout the building, so we have a lot of space for discussion).

This month we have a special guest, Stuart Celarier a Microsoft MVP, coming down to Corvallis to give us a presentation on PDC '08! Want to hear about the coolest stuff that came out of the Professional Developers Conference 2008? Come to the November CDNUG meeting!

Time/Place:

Monday, November 24th, 2008 @ 6:00 PM

Location: Iovino's

RSVP at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1306576 or email: [email protected] (helpful for food ordering))

Schedule:

6:00 - 6:30: Networking Opportunities & Dinner (free food!)

6:30 - 7:30: "PDC2008 Highlights", Stuart Celarier, Microsoft MVP (http://visualstuart.net/)

7:30 - 7:45: Q&As / Discussion

7:45 - 8:00: Giveaways: Books and cool stuff!

Please forward this to any other .NET professionals that may be interested!

[Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1490606/ ] Our next Beer and Blog will be at Fireworks Restaurant & Bar from 5-7PM. We’ll be having our first topic going over how to start your blog. We’ll discuss how to setup a Blogger site along with setting up WordPress. There probably won’t be enough time to go over all of the steps, but we’ll try to cover the basics at least. Make sure you bring a laptop so we can even help get you started on the spot! Wireless is available there, but it is locked with a key.

Fireworks was also kind enough to provide a pizza and beer special for us! They’ll have $3 pints and all you can eat pizza for $5. Thanks Ocean for setting that up!

This month we have a special guest, Geoff Dalgas of StackOverflow.com, giving us a presentation on ASP.NET MVC! StackOverflow.com was built from the ground up on ASP.NET MVC and is currently used by thousands of developers from around the world!

Geoff will be showing how StackOverflow.com uses ASP.NET MVC, as well as how to create a brand new simple Q/A site using MVC. Have questions about ASP.NET MVC? Want to get started using ASP.NET MVC? Come to the January Covallis .NET Users Group Meeting!

Thanks to our sponsor: Business Solutions Group, OSU (http://bsg.oregonstate.edu/)

Time/Place:

Thursday, January 22th, 2009 @ 6:00 PM

Location: OSU - Kelly Engineering Center, Room 1003

RSVP here!

(Or you can email: [email protected] (helpful for food ordering))

Schedule:

6:00 - 6:30: Networking Opportunities & Dinner

6:30 - 7:30: "ASP.NET MVC", Geoff Dalgas, StackOverflow.com

7:30 - 7:45: Q&A / Discussion

7:45 - 8:00: Giveaways: Books and cool stuff!

Please forward this to any other .NET professionals that may be interested!

Thursday, Feb. 12th, 2009

5:30pm - 8:30pm

Location: Renaissance on the Riverfront 136 SW Washington Ave. Corvallis, Oregon 97333

Google Map

RSVP TO: SAO by emailing sao-coordinator [AT] corvallis.sao.or.us

$5 for SAO members or students, $15 non-members Includes finger food and no-host bar AGENDA:

  5:30 - 6:15: Business Networking Time with finger food, no host bar
  6:15 - 6:30: 30-Second Mic (give us your technology business elevator pitch!!)
  7:00 Program: Jerry Saveriano, Sanda Communications - Introduction to Social Media for B2B companies.

PROGRAM:

How's your blog? Do you Twitter? Are your customers talking about your company online? Have your competitors started to use social media tools like YouTube videos, LinkedIn or even FaceBook to reach out to your markets? Social media and networks are exploding for B2B applications* and this presentation can help get you started.

SM4B2B will discuss how you can develop an online strategy to decide if SM is the best new way to engage your customers, prospects, channel partners and even your own people, whether they are on the other side of the globe or in the next cubical. And if it's the right time for your business, we'll show you how to get a fast, affordable start to test the waters.

We'll show examples of SM4B2B websites we built including what worked and what failed. We'll provide you with a set of definitions, research materials and good business reasons for going Web2.0 this year.

We'll cover key SM4B2B topics such as:

* What it is and why it's important.
* How to decide if now's the time.
* What does it cost? What will it make? Will it pay? How long will it take?
* How to start small, fast and cheap
* Should you build your own or join an industry community?
* What are the right tools, platforms and people to get started?

The Corvallis Chapter of the Software Association of Oregon is starting a Special Interest Group (SIG) to explore the best ways of growing our businesses using social media tools and helping other local companies learn how to get online putting Web 2.0 and social media tools to work. If you’re interested in seeing what we're planning to do with the SAO SM4B2B SIG (enough initials for you?), this meeting is the place to be. An objective of the SM4 SIG will be to build an online community of local companies that participate in the High Tech After Hours Conference held in Corvallis each November.

SPEAKER:

Jerry W. Saveriano, President & CEO - Sanda Communications, Inc (http://sandacom.com/)

Jerry W. Saveriano is president of Sanda Communications, a marketing, advertising and public relations agency that has for over a decade worked with high tech, software and other clients..

For over twenty-five years Saveriano has consulted and lectured internationally on advanced automation topics such as CAD/CAM, geomatics, robotics and Artificial Intelligence. He was Industrial Editor of Robotics Age magazine, founding Chairman of the Southern California Chapter of Robotics International and wrote the Pioneers of Robotics article in the Encyclopedia of Robotics published by John Wiley & Sons in 1988.

He created a series of articles and lectures on Internet Marketing and Customer Relationship Management. Jerry put on the first CRM workshop at Oregon Graduate Institute and wrote a CRM titled “E-This!” column for the Software Association of Oregon (SAO) newsletter. He has lead Sanda's Web 2.0 initiative in building online communities for B2B clients, non-profits and state agencies.

*Social Networks Get Down to Business, AUGUST 18, 2008

http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1006482

Think of them as digital water coolers—surrounded by thousands of workers engaged in serious business conversations.

"As compelling as the ad growth is, marketers will spend far more over the next few years to create and manage their own social networks for business customers, partners, suppliers and vendors," says Debra Aho Williamson, senior analyst at eMarketer and author of the new report, B2B Marketing on Social Networks: Engaging the Business Audience. "These business networks will serve a range of purposes, from improving customer communication and collaboration to aiding product development."

Three businesses will be selected to deliver 10 minute pitches. And three additional businesses will be selected to deliver Angel Ignite Pitches (13 slides, 15 seconds per slide = 3.5 minutes). It's a high energy competition - and lots of fun! The audience will vote and select one winner from the 10 Minute Pitch and one from the Angel Ignite Pitch. Come on out and support Eugene-area and Corvallis-area entrepreneurs. Attendee registration will soon be available.

Companies seeking seed stage funding between $250,000 and $2 million can submit their business plans into this competition. See submission guidelines on smartups.org. Deadline to submit is 5pm, Feb 6th. Please send executive summaries to [email protected].

We will also be chartering a bus to drive us to the event in Corvallis. We can accommodate up to 36 people. Those interested will be charged an additional $8 during registration. The bus will depart the parking lot of the Eugene Chamber of Commerce at 4pm sharply.

We're moving back to Wednesdays and going to McMenamins on Monroe for the first time. We had a few requests to give them a try so we're doing it! Unfortunately they don't technically take reservations, but they know we're coming. They recently changed the table arrangement upstairs so it may actually work better for us! We plan on being upstairs to the right.

We haven't had a talk in a while, so lets have one! I'll announce what we'll talk about early next week, but let me know your ideas!

See you there!

-Lance

BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees.

Please use our registration page so we can get an accurate count.

Event Information: We will be posting updates via our twitter account @beaverbarcamp, and don't forget to join the Google group to get important notifications about the event! Connect on live chat via IRC - irc.freenode.net, #BeaverBarCamp. We also have a //beaverbarcamp.org/wiki Wiki for you to use.

We'll be organizing the presentations between 10-11AM and start presentations shortly after wards. Lunch and Dinner will be provided for free (Please thank our Sponsors!). We'll also have a limited amount of shirts available, but you need to make sure and register in order to get one for free.

Scott Hanselman is coming to CDNUG in September!

Scott is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft and is always up on the latest tech coming out of Redmond. He also has a popular Podcast called Hanselminutes and blogs at http://www.hanselman.com/blog/.

This month is sponsored by the Business Solutions Group (BSG) at OSU and will be hosted on campus. Go to room 1003 in Kelley Engineering.

Hope to see you there!

Time/Place:

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 @ 6:00 PM

Location: Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon

RSVP here!

(Or you can email: [email protected] (helpful for food ordering))

Schedule:

6:00 - 6:30: Networking Opportunities & Dinner (free food!)

6:30 - 7:30: Scott Hanselman, Microsoft ".NET 4.0, VS 2010"

7:30 - 7:45: Q&A / Discussion

7:45 - 8:00: Giveaways: Books and cool stuff!

Please invite any other .NET professionals that may be interested!

Website: http://corvallisdotnetug.ning.com/

BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees.

Please register on the site so that we have an accurate count.

We will be posting updates via our twitter account @beaverbarcamp, and don't forget to join the Google group to get important notifications about the event! Connect on live chat via IRC - irc.freenode.net, #BeaverBarCamp (click here if you don't have an IRC client)

A Compelling Convergence of creative talent from across the Willamette Valley coming together to share ideas, see what's happening and just maybe spark that million-dollar award-winning new product or service.

1pm - Sponsor and Partner Association Luncheon

3pm - Welcome & Keynote Speaker (Alumni Center)

4pm - Guest Speaker (Alumni Center)

5pm - Guest Speaker- Regional Economic Development Director, John Sechrist (Alumni Center)

3-7pm - History of Innvoation Dynamic Display (Alumni Center Foyer)

4-8pm - Open Innovation Exhibit Hall (La Sells Stewart Center)

4-7:30 - Social Networking (Beer-n-Blog, Corvallis Young Professionals, general)

4-7:30 - Innovative Research & Industry Mixer

7:30pm - IGNITE! Corvallis

More info here:

  http://ignitecorvallis.com/

  Follow us on twitter for updates: http://twitter.com/IgniteCorvallis

PROGRAM:

A New Scale for Nuclear Power

The Corvallis Chapter of the Software Association of Oregon begins 2010 with presentation from NuScale Power, a local nuclear technology start-up that leveraged technology transferred from Oregon State University to create a revolutionary model for modular nuclear reactors. Kent Welter, a Principal Engineer at NuScale, will give an overview of the technology and describe how NuScale has shaped the future nuclear energy.

The world needs clean, reliable ways to generate electricity. The United States is expected to need 300 gigawatts of new capacity – that’s 150 times the capacity of Hoover Dam – by 2030. Developing nations can only grow as fast as they can power their economies. Global demand for new electric capacity will outpace the U.S. by tenfold in the same period.

Electric companies and government leaders are looking for ways to ensure their citizens have reliable, affordable supplies of electricity. They worry about the volatility of fossil fuel prices and the effects of green house gases.

NuScale Power is providing one of many answers to this problem. NuScale has developed a small nuclear power system that is safe, modular and scalable. The technology was borne of research by leading nuclear scientists with the support of the U.S. government. The design of the NuScale power plant builds on hundreds of combined years of operating experience with commercial light water reactors along with extensive research and laboratory testing of advanced safety systems.

Meeting future demand for electricity requires that we use what we have more efficiently. We must also look to new technologies using wind, solar and wave power and use proven technologies such as nuclear power to meet the needs of future generations.

Join us in for a night of networking and showcase with local technology leaders and entrepreneurs.

AGENDA:

5:30 - 6:15: Business Networking Time with finger food, no host bar 6:15 - 6:25: 30-Second Mic (give us your technology business elevator pitch!!) 6:45 Program: NuScale: A New Scale for Nuclear Power

$5 for SAO members or students, and $15 for non-members

RSVP TO: SAO by emailing sao-coordinator [AT] corvallis.sao.or.us or on the Willamette Innovators Network

Includes finger food and no-host bar Ticket Info: $5 for SAO members or students, and $15 for non-members

January Corvallis .NET Users Group (CDNUG) Meeting:

Arian Kulp will be presenting Silverlight. Do you need Flash-like functionality in the browser, but don't want to learn another language? Need rich user interaction on your web site? Want to have your own video player? Come learn about Silverlight, how to use it, and where it makes sense to use it.

Arian Kulp is a Microsoft Certified Professional and your can find him at http://www.ariankulp.com/

Hope to see you there!

Time/Place:

Thursday, January 28th, 2010 @ 6:00 PM

Location:

TBA

RSVP here!

(Or you can email: cdnug.info AT gmail.com (helpful for food ordering))

Schedule:

5:30 - 6:15: Networking Opportunities & Dinner (free food!)

6:15 - 7:30: Arian Kulp "Silverlight"

7:15 - 7:45: Q&A / Discussion

7:45 - 8:00: Giveaways: Books and cool stuff!

Please forward this to anyone that may be interested!

Visit the Corvallis .NET Users Group at: http://corvallisdotnetug.ning.com

Thursday, Febuary 11th, 2010

5:30pm - 8:30pm

Location: Renaissance on the Riverfront 136 SW Washington Ave. Corvallis, Oregon 97333

RSVP Here

$5 for SAO members or students, and $15 for non-members

Includes finger food and no-host bar

AGENDA:

5:30 - 6:15: Business Networking Time with finger food, no host bar 6:15 - 6:25: 30-Second Mic (give us your technology business elevator pitch!!) 6:45 Program: Co-Working in Oregon

PROGRAM:

Co-working is a growing movement around the United States and across the world. As more people work from home or work while they are traveling or are in the midst of a rapid startup cycle, they find that they can be more effective and more productive by gathering together to work. Starting with projects like the Hat Factory in San Francisco, co-working sites have bloomed. There are several co-working facilities in the Nortwest, some which are expanding to multiple cities and some that focus on specific audiences or markets. The February SAO meeting will be a panel discussion by three Oregon co-working entrepreneurs: Jeff Jimmerson from Madison Avenue Collective in Corvallis, Josh Friedman from Ned Space in Portland and Rick Turoczy from Portland Innovation Experiment.

Jeff Jimerson, founder of the Madison Ave. Collective (http://www.madcollective.com/)

Madison Ave. Collective (the MAC) is a shared office and studio space located in downtown Corvallis, 72 steps west of Starbucks on the corner of 5th street and—you guessed it—Madison Ave. After three months of heavy remodeling, Jeff opened the space on 08/08/08 with a "nice people wanted" Craigslist ad.

Today, twelve creative and tech professionals call the MAC home for their respective small businesses.

Rick Turoczy, founder of Silicon Florist (http://siliconflorist.com/)

Rick Turoczy has been working in high-tech marketing communications jobs in the Portland area for the past 15 years. Out of pure dumb luck, he happened to sit up in bed at 2 AM one night in August 2007 with the inspiration to start Silicon Florist, a blog about Portland startups in the Web, Mobile, and Open Source scenes.

Since then, he’s chatted with The Oregonian a bunch of times, appeared on local television and radio, made a brief appearance on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, garnered bylines in The New York Times, spoken at numerous events, been selected as a runner up for the Portland Business Journal’s “40 under 40,” launched a startup incubator with the help of Wieden+Kennedy, and co-produced a groundbreaking Web-based telethon called 30 hour day.

All because of a blog. Weird.

Josh Friedman, co-founder of NedSpace (http://www.nedspace.com/)

Josh Friedman is the co-founder of NedSpace, a provider of co-working facilities for entrepreneurs and startups. NedSpace is designed to be the place where entrepreneurs go to build and grow their businesses. Along with his business partner Mark Grimes, NedSpace has itself grown quickly into two locations from its launch in early 2009. The goal is to open 10 more locations throughout the US in 2010, and eventually to have a NedSpace in every city with a startup ecosystem.

Josh serves on the Board of Starve Ups, a Portland-based entrepreneurial organization and the Oregon Entrepreneurs Forum Advisory Board. He holds a B.S. degree in speech communication from Oregon State University. Aside from helping entrepreneurs grow their companies, you might find him rock climbing, skiing, cycling, brewing beer or generally causing trouble along with his dog Ace.

February Corvallis .NET Users Group (CDNUG) Meeting:

Mateus de Carvalho will be presenting the new .NET 4.0 Parallel Programming. Come learn about how easy the new version of .NET makes parallel programming.

Mateus de Carvalho is a Software Engineer/Architect at University of Oregon and your can find him at http://www.uoecs.org/StaffDetails.aspx?StaffId=6 and http://www.linkedin.com/in/oakcool

Hope to see you there!

Time/Place:

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 @ 6:00 PM

Location:

High 5 Sports Bar & Grill 1644 Main Street Philomath, Oregon United States

RSVP here: http://corvallisdotnetug.ning.com/events/february-cdnug-meeting-net-40

(Or you can email: cdnug.info AT gmail.com (helpful for food ordering))

Schedule:

5:30 - 6:15: Networking Opportunities & Dinner (free food!)

6:15 - 7:30: Mateus de Carvalho ".NET 4.0 Parallel Programming"

7:15 - 7:45: Q&A / Discussion

7:45 - 8:00: Giveaways: Books and cool stuff!

Please forward this to anyone that may be interested!

Visit the Corvallis .NET Users Group at: http://corvallisdotnetug.ning.com

The Corvallis .NET Users Group is a Special Interest Group (SIG) of the SAO Corvallis. Visit http://www.sao.corvallis.or.us/ to learn more about how you can support CDNUG with membership to the SAO!

BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees.

We will be posting updates via our twitter account @beaverbarcamp, and don't forget to join the Google group to get important notifications about the event! Connect on live chat via IRC - irc.freenode.net, #BeaverBarCamp (click here if you don't have an IRC client)

BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees.

We will be posting updates via our twitter account @beaverbarcamp, and don't forget to join the Google group to get important notifications about the event! Connect on live chat via IRC - irc.freenode.net, #BeaverBarCamp (click here if you don't have an IRC client)

BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees.

We will be posting updates via our twitter account @beaverbarcamp, and don't forget to join the Google group to get important notifications about the event! Connect on live chat via IRC - irc.freenode.net, #BeaverBarCamp

Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/beaverbarcamp

BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees.

We will be posting updates via our twitter account @beaverbarcamp, and don't forget to join the Google group to get important notifications about the event! Connect on live chat via IRC - irc.freenode.net, #BeaverBarCamp

Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/beaverbarcamp

Beaver BarCamp is an informal conference where everyone is encouraged to participate and the sessions are not predetermined. It provides a collaborative environment that promotes the sharing of ideas and projects and is a fun, free, casual event filled with discussions, demos and interaction with attendees. One of the best aspects of BarCamp is that attendees both provide the sessions and choose the schedule, allowing for greater flexibility and freedom. While many are tech oriented, we encourage any DIY, educational or interactive sessions. We invite everyone and anyone in the community and at OSU to enjoy Beaver Barcamp. Registration is appreciated.

Beaver BarCamp is an informal conference where everyone is encouraged to participate and the sessions are not predetermined. It provides a collaborative environment that promotes the sharing of ideas and projects and is a fun, free, casual event filled with discussions, demos and interaction with attendees. Attendees both provide the sessions and choose the schedule, allowing for greater flexibility and freedom. While many are tech oriented, we encourage any DIY, educational or interactive sessions. We invite everyone and anyone to Beaver Barcamp. Registration is appreciated.