Join us on March 3rd, 2010 for a chat with the team from Zapproved , a successful local startup. The panel includes Steve Sharp, Angel Investor & Board Member at Zapproved as well as former CEO & current Chairman TriQuint Semiconductor , Monica Enand, CEO Zapproved & Chris Bright, VP of Marketing at Zapproved.

The group will share "from the trenches" insights in how Zapproved acheived it's success this far, from product development/launch, marketing, to raising capital and how organizations like TiE Oregon helped in their success through Mentoring & Networking

You've done your research and have a pile of information. Learn how to turn that information into an impressive research package by profiling your audience (clients, faculty, students, management), assessing their needs and learning styles, and creating meaningful charts and info-graphics guaranteed to impress.

Schedule: 1-2pm - Reece Dano: Ethnographic Research: Going Beyond WHAT and Getting to WHY 2-3pm - Temese Szalai: Delivering Insights, Not Information 3-4pm - Jackie Wirz: Fundamentals of Data Visualization: Creating Beautiful, Elegant and Descriptive Visual Displays After 4pm - Happy hour at [to be announced]

Attend one session or all three. Coffee/Tea and snacks (from Pacific Pie Co., sponsored by ProQuest) will be provided between sessions. Join us at a nearby bar for a no-host social hour after the third session.

Emergence of the Marketing Engineer

Software is eating the world, and now more than ever modern Marketers rely on software platforms to engage the right audience, with the right message, at the right time. Learn how marketing technology, automation, and an engineering mindset is shaping a new type of marketer and a new type of engineer.

Join us on November 10 when we'll hear from New Relic's own Isaac Wyatt and Baxter Denney on the future of Marketing Technology and the emergence of Marketing Engineers. See a demo of our mashup of Marketing & Application Data using our real-time analytics platform, New Relic Insights.

› Doors will open at 5:30p for a special networking happy hour! The food and drinks are provided by Bellagios and New Relic. The presentation will begin right at 6:30p.

› Please RSVP via Eventbrite HERE

Isaac is a marketing ops manager at New Relic. He came to New Relic with 10 years of business and SaaS experience, 8 in SaaS. His two pillars of expertise are marketing automation and marketing analytics.

Baxter is a marketing ops geek, having led Marketing Ops and DemandGen teams at Citrix and Couchbase. Prior to that he was a marketing consultant, specializing in politics and sports marketing. Currently he leads the Marketing Operations team at New Relic.

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