Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium

SEMI Pacific Northwest Chapter invites you to join the industry experts for the discussion on "The Age of Automotive Electronics".

The automobile electronics is rapidly growing and is driving new chip demand. The semiconductor industry and car companies are changing the driving experience (with Electric Cars, Autonomous Cars (self-driving cars), Advanced Driver Assist (ADAS), In-Vehicle Infotainment, Electronic Design Automation, Connected Cars, Embedded Software, Smart Streets, Smart Stoplights, etc.

Come join us as industry experts from Drive Oregon, Gartner, Intel and Mentor Graphics explore what this means from their company's perspective and how this shapes the future of the automotive electronics industry.

SEMI Pacific Northwest Breakfast Forum is a great opportunity to network with your colleagues and meet other local industry executives.

You do not want to miss this event!

Are you an entrepreneur who has taken the leap of faith and created a company with your brilliant idea? Are you looking for seed or early stage funding? Do want validation of your idea? Then pitch to a panel of investors and the Portland Seed Fund. Apply Online http://www.tinyurl.com/tiepitchfest

Space is limited only 10 companies will be selected from the applicant pool Don't miss this opportunity to tell us about your company, get constructive feedback or get your idea validated!

Awards will be presented for best in each category and will include cash prizes, hours of legal services and free rent for two months at the TiE Westside Incubator.

Attendance Free for Members Only! Pitches by Members Only. (Pitching companies will need to have at least one person as a member of TiE Oregon.) We will offer a 25% discount on membership. Contact Us for details.

Pricing:

Free for Members

Early Bird Non-Members $25

Late Non-Members (After December 1st) $30

.NET Rocks is coming to Portland! Get your tickets NOW!!! Saturday, September 22 from 1:00pm to 5:00pm Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium

Please Sign Up At http://dotnetrockspdx.eventbrite.com/

Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell are taking the show on tour and we are one of the first stops!

Here in Portland, we will be having special guest ROCK STARS Chris Sells and Scott Hanselman recording a live .NET Rocks show with Carl and Richard.

Following that, Richard and Carl will each do a presentation around building modern applications on the Windows platform. Carl leans toward development and client-side technology and Richard leans toward DevOps and server-side technology.

Qdoba will be catering the event for us thanks to a generous donation by Telerik! *

Finally, after the event, we will retire to a local haunt for some beverages and further conversation!

This is going to be a blast!

If you are interested in more details or other stops the tour will be making, visit the NET Rocks site.

Don't forget to tweet about the event! Use the #dnrRoadTrip hashtag.

* Food will be served near the beginning of the event

Thanks to: .NET Rocks Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip http://dotnetrocks.com/roadtrip.aspx

Telerik http://www.telerik.com/

PADNUG http://padnug.org/

These are some of the hottest startups and early stage companies founded by TIE members that received funding that included angel investment from TIE Oregon Charter members (TIE Angels).

Now it's your turn.

Are you an entrepreneur who has taken the leap of faith, created your company with your brilliant idea? Are you looking for seed or early stage funding or want validation of your idea? Then pitch to a TiE Global Chairman, Ashok Rao and a panel of angel and VC investors.

Judges: Ashok Rao, Chairman and CEO, Whodini Steve Eichenlaub, Managing Director, Intel Capital Diane Fraiman, Partner, Voyager Capital Sam Blackman, CEO, Elemental Technologies

Pitch your company, get constructive feedback or get your idea validated. Or come and watch entrepreneurs pitching their companies and ideas, meet Charter Members, investors, CEO stars, and have a productive time networking with fellow entrepreneurs before the summer holidays.

Please join us Tuesday night for the PADNUG September meet-up!

Michael Kennedy will be presenting on asynchronous programming futures for .NET: This session will take a peek into the future and examine some of the features proposed for C# 5.0. This includes studying async methods which are part of C# 5.0 and build on the PFx Task library. We will also briefly look at the PFx Task libraries to gain the necessary background for working with the new language features. Note that Visual Basic 11 will also have these identical features so in essence we'll be covering VB 11 as well.

WHERE: Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium 2501 NW 229th Avenue Hillsboro, OR 97124 Map: http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/?org=aj#/fotw1o04svrqm3xg

WHEN: Tuesday 9/6/2011 6:00 p.m. Pizza 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at On the Border Mexican Grill

WHO: Michael is an instructor for DevelopMentor, a .NET enthusiast, an agile pioneer, an entrepreneur, a father of three girls, a husband, a student, and a teacher. His blog is at http://www.michaelckennedy.net/blog.

TOPIC: This session will take a peek into the future and examine some of the features proposed for C# 5.0. This includes studying async methods which are part of C# 5.0 and build on the PFx Task library. We will also briefly look at the PFx Task libraries to gain the necessary background for working with the new language features. Note that Visual Basic 11 will also have these identical features so in essence we'll be covering VB 11 as well.

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Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator

Please join us Wednesday night for the PADNUG August meet-up! Note again that the meeting is on Wednesday night.

Scott Hanselman will be presenting on the NuGet package management system.

WHERE: Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium 2501 NW 229th Avenue Hillsboro, OR 97124 Map: http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/?org=aj#/fotw1o04svrqm3xg

WHEN: Wednesday 8/3/2011 6:00 p.m. Pizza 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at On the Border Mexican Grill

WHO: Scott Hanselman works for Microsoft as a Principal Program Manager Lead in the Developer Division, aiming to spread good information about developing software, very often on the Microsoft stack. Before this he was the Chief Architect at Corillian Corporation, now a part of Checkfree, for 6+ years. He was also involved in a few Microsoft Developer things for many years like the MVP and RD programs and will speak about computers (and other passions) whenever someone will listen. He's written a few books, most recently with Bill Evjen and Devin Rader on ASP.NET http://www.asp.net/. He blogs at http://www.hanselman.com and podcasts at http://www.hanselminutes.com.

TOPIC: NuGet In Depth: Empowering Open Source on the .NET Platform Join Scott Hanselman as he digs deep into the new open source NuGet package management system. How does NuGet fit into the .NET ecosystem? Learn how to create your own packages that are public and open source or internal ones for the enterprise. By the way, NuGet is an open source project hosted on Mercurial. Microsoft is starting to get serious about open source. We’ll talk about how and why. All this plus random Q&A.

Thanks to our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible:

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Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator

The mobile industry has been revolutionizing the way we live, communicate and do business, but what is the next wave of mobile software technology? Join entrepreneurs, developers and leading executives to find out about the latest trends and opportunities for entrepreneurs in this ecosystem.

Participants will include the following speakers:

Raven Zachary: President of Small Society, working with big brands, established companies, investors, and startups on iOS mobile strategy and product development for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Jason Grigsby: founder and organizer of Mobile Portland and co-founder of Cloud Four, a small start-up focused on mobile and web development. Amber Case: Co-founder, Geoloqi (a real-time mobile and web platform for securely sharing location data,) and a cyborg anthropologist and user experience designer. Aaron Parecki: Co-founder Geoloqi and an iPhone and PHP developer interested in solving practical problems with technology. Jose Puthenkulam: Head of Products, TCS Mobility, at Tata Consultancy Services North America.

Register Online

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Members $15
Students $10
Non-Members $25

+$5 At the door

Please join us Thursday night for the PADNUG May meet-up! It's a week early, so yes, it is not really in May. Also note again that the meeting is on Thursday night.

Dan Wahlin will be giving us the low down on jQuery Templates and how you can use them to make your HTML 5 apps even more awesome.

WHERE: Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium 2501 NW 229th Avenue Hillsboro, OR 97124 Map: http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/?org=aj#/fotw1o04svrqm3xg

WHEN: Thursday 4/28/2011 6:00 p.m. Pizza 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at On the Border Mexican Grill

WHO:

Dan Wahlin founded The Wahlin Group (http://www.TheWahlinGroup.com) which specializes in .NET, Silverlight and SharePoint consulting as well as onsite and online training solutions. He has been awarded Microsoft's MVP award for ASP.NET, Connected Systems and Silverlight and is a Microsoft Regional Director. Dan is on the INETA Speaker's Bureau, speaks at conferences and user groups around the world and has written several books on .NET such as Professional Silverlight Development, Professional ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVP Hacks and Tips and XML for ASP.NET Developers. Dan blogs at http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin and writes regular columns for various technical magazines such as DevConnectionsPro and Dr. Dobbs.

TOPIC: Using jQuery Templates in HTML 5 Applications

It’s no secret that jQuery provides a productive and fun way to build client-centric Web applications, but there’s a new player in town called jQuery Templates that takes jQuery to a whole new level and makes building dynamic HTML 5 applications even easier. In this session, Dan Wahlin will discuss how to use jQuery Templates and show how they can be used to significantly reduce the amount of JavaScript code that has to be written (and make your apps more maintainable in the process). In this session you’ll learn about template tokens, how to handle conditionals and loops, and how templates can be dynamically downloaded and rendered.

Thanks to our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible:

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Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator

(Portland Area .NET Users Group)

Please join us Tuesday night for the PADNUG April meet-up!

Josh Smith will be giving us a tour of Mole 2010, the new debugging tool he helped create for Visual Studio 2010 users.

WHERE: Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium 2501 NW 229th Avenue Hillsboro, OR 97124 Map: http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/?org=aj#/fotw1o04svrqm3xg

WHEN: Tuesday 4/5/2011 6:00 p.m. Pizza 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at On the Border Mexican Grill

WHO: Josh Smith Josh is a Microsoft MVP who specializes in creating modern user interfaces with the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight. He has published dozens of articles about software development, and self-published a book about software architecture titled 'Advanced MVVM.'
Josh is a co-founder of Molosoft LLC (http://www.molosoft.com), creating tools for .NET software developers that help them be more productive and effective at their jobs. Their flagship product is Mole 2010, a debugging tool that enables powerful new techniques for fixing software defects.

TOPIC: Get a guided tour and behind-the-scenes look at the new debugging tool for Visual Studio called Mole 2010. We will not only see how to use Mole 2010 to make .NET debugging easier, but also get some insight into how the tool was built, what the challenges were, and the solutions to those problems. Along the way we will get a taste for what to expect next from Molosoft.

Thanks to our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible:

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Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator

Please join us Tuesday night for the PADNUG February meet-up!

Chris Tavares will be presenting on CQRS and Windows Azure: A scalable architecture for the Cloud

WHERE: Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium 2501 NW 229th Avenue Hillsboro, OR 97124 Map: http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/?org=aj#/fotw1o04svrqm3xg

WHEN: Tuesday 2/1/2011 6:00 p.m. Pizza 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at On the Border Mexican Grill

WHO: Chris Tavares Chris is a Software Development Engineer in Microsoft's Patterns & Practices group. He has helped develop Enterprise Library and the Unity dependency injection container. You can read more about Chris in his blog: http://www.tavaresstudios.com/Blog/default.aspx

TOPIC:

CQRS and Windows Azure: A scalable architecture for the Cloud

CQRS. A confusing jumble of letters? Well, yes. CQRS stands for "Command Query Responsibility Segregation", and is an architectural pattern which is rapidly gaining popularity. It offers clear guidance on how to build highly scalable systems that embrace asynchronous operations.

In this talk we'll look at what CQRS is, how it lives up to the promises, and what kinds of systems would benefit from this approach. And then we’ll take the pattern and see what it takes to implement on top of Windows Azure.

Thanks to our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible:

Infragistics - http://www.infragistics.com Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com ORCS Web - http://www.orcsweb.com O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator

Please join us for a terrific combo meeting with PADNUG and PDXSLUG both in the house!

We're starting just a little bit early to allow folks more time to mix and play before the presentations begin.

There will be a couple of Kinect equipped Xboxes set up so we can play before the meeting and between sessions. We have some OUTSTANDING swag, too: A Visual Studio Ultimate with MSDN license - with a retail value of almost $12,000 - AND we'll give away a copy of NetAdvantage Ultimate from Infragistics!!

WHERE: Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium 2501 NW 229th Avenue Hillsboro, OR 97124 Map: http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/?org=aj#/fotw1o04svrqm3xg

WHEN: Tuesday 12/14/2010 5:30 p.m. Burrito Bar AND Kinect Gaming (by Microsoft) 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~9:00 p.m. After Words at On the Border Mexican Grill

WHO: Mithun Dhar, Ryan Eastabrook, Erik Mork, Kelly White

TOPIC: Getting the Most from SharePoint 2010 Mithun will share some of the latest details on developing SharePoint solutions with the latest versions of SharePoint and Visual Studio.

ASP.NET MVC, Razor, and NuGet Ryan will demonstrate the latest bits shown off at the Microsoft PDC 2010.

Silverlight Version 5 Following on the heels of the Silverlight Firestarter event last week, Erik and Kelly will give the latest details about the new features.

Thanks to our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible: Ascentium - http://www.ascentium.com/ Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com/ ORCS Web - http://www.orcsweb.com/rdirects/NEW_padnug_hostby.asp O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com/

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator

Monitoring your Energy Footprint

Smart Devices and information systems to help people make better choices about how they use energy are in the early stage of adoption. While many home energy monitoring solutions have been introduced in recent years, no products or services have emerged that have brought about a significant change in consumer behavior. While many devices are technologically sophisticated or cool to look at it seems there is still a need for new innovations and better ways to motivate users to make a lasting change in their energy footprint. The challenge for product developers and entrepreneurs is the development of a comprehensive energy monitoring system for homes that is compelling, easy to use and effective.

The Prius dashboard is a good example of a system that is making a real difference in consumer behavior. By providing information to a user on mileage and energy performance it is motivating people to change their driving style. We need to explore ways in which we can have a similar impact on managing one’s personal energy lifestyle. How do you create energy monitoring devices with intuitive interfaces and automatic functions that customers can easily integrate into their daily life? How will consumers be informed about what is possible and how will energy utilities, governments, agencies, or retail channels work to supply the demand? What other issues must be overcome before we see mass adoption of smart energy management devices. We will explore these issues and hear from manufacturers of existing products so that participants can leave with a better understanding of energy monitoring opportunities and challenges.

Moderator: Pad Adamosky, Veris Industries Speakers: Michael Jung, Silver Spring Networks Dan Russell, Powermand Fiona Sim, Intel

6.00PM to 7.00 PM - Food, Networking, 7.00PM - Panel Presentation

Registration Required www.oregon.tie.org Fees: Member $15 Student $10 Guest $25

+$5 at the door

Contact Us: [email protected] Ph: 503 226 8677 www.oregon.tie.org

Scott Hanselman on Information Overload and Managing the Flow.

WHERE: Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium 2501 NW 229th Avenue Hillsboro, OR 97124 Map: http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/?org=aj#/fotw1o04svrqm3xg

WHEN: Wednesday 10/06/2010 6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium) 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at On the Border Mexican Grill

WHO: Scott Hanselman Scott Hanselman works out of his home office for Microsoft as a Principal Program Manager, aiming to spread good information about developing software, usually on the Microsoft stack. Before this he was the Chief Architect at Corillian Corporation, now a part of Checkfree, for 6 years. He was also involved in a few Microsoft things for many years like the MVP and RD programs and will speak about computers (and other passions) whenever someone will listen.

TOPIC: Information Overload and Managing the Flow: Effectiveness and Efficiency As developers, we are asked to absorb even more information than ever before. More APIs, more documentation, more patterns, more layers of abstraction. Now Twitter and Facebook compete with Email and Texts for our attention, keeping us up-to-date on our friends dietary details and movie attendance second-by-second. Does all this information take a toll on your psyche or sharpen the saw? Is it a matter of finding the right tools to capture what you need, or do you need to unplug?

Thanks to our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible: Ascentium - http://www.ascentium.com/ Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com/ ORCS Web - http://www.orcsweb.com/rdirects/NEW_padnug_hostby.asp O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com/

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator

Please join us for Paul’s talk on WPF data binding!

WHEN: Tuesday 9/7/2010 6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium) 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at TBD

WHERE: Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium 2501 NW 229th Avenue Hillsboro, OR 97124 Map: http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/?org=aj#/fotw1o04svrqm3xg

WHO: Paul Sheriff Paul D. Sheriff is the President of PDSA, Inc. (http://www.pdsa.com), a Microsoft Partner in Southern California. Paul acts as the Microsoft Regional Director for Southern California assisting the local Microsoft offices with several of their events each year and being an evangelist for them. Paul has authored several books, webcasts, videos and articles on .NET, SQL Server and SharePoint. Paul can be reached via email at [email protected] or at Paul Sheriff's Inner Circle (www.PaulSheriffInnerCircle.com).

TOPIC: WPF Data Binding from A to Z There are many ways to bind controls in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) to the data from your database, xml files or your own classes. This seminar will explore many ways to retrieve and present data using data binding. You will see examples of loading data into combo boxes, list views, and how to filter data using the ObjectDataProvider. You will learn how to populate WPF controls using a DataTable, Collection Classes, XML, LINQ to SQL and the Entity Framework. In addition a simple add, edit, delete form will be presented.

While you are at it, consider visiting our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible: Ascentium - http://www.ascentium.com Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com ORCS Web - http://www.orcsweb.com O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com

Please join us Tuesday night for Nick’s talk on the Razor view engine for ASP.NET!

WHEN: Tuesday 08/24/2010 6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Useable Concepts Incorporated) 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at On the Border Mexican Grill

WHERE: Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium 2501 NW 229th Avenue Hillsboro, OR 97124 Map: http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/?org=aj#/fotw1o04svrqm3xg

WHO: Nick Muhonen Nick Muhonen, a principal software architect and trainer at Useable Concepts Incorporated (http://www.useableconcepts.com/), spends most of his time researching, writing, coding, and helping peers understand "not-so-understandables". He has helped a wide variety of clients throughout the years, including up and coming small business entities as well as large fortune 500 organizations.

TOPIC: Cuts Like a Knife, and Feels So Right: ASP.Net Razor Preview. Nick Muhonen, in this special presentation, discusses the merits of the new ASP.Net Razor syntax, its involvement in web matrix and ASP.Net MVC 3.0 preview, and of course, demos for the faithful!

While you are at it, consider visiting our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible: Ascentium - http://www.ascentium.com Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com ORCS Web - http://www.orcsweb.com O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com

And, our appreciation goes out to Useable Concepts Incorporated for providing pizza for this additional meeting: Useable Concepts Incorporated - http://www.useableconcepts.com.

Adam Kinney and Karl Shifflett talk about developer/designer workflow in WPF and Silverlight When: 8/10/2010 6:00pm Where: Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium 2501 NW 229th Avenue Hillsboro, OR 97124 http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/?org=aj#/fotw1o04svrqm3xg This is not our normal location

What we're giving away: cool stuff AND a copy of MSDN Ultimate worth approximately $200,000 AND some Website Spark subscriptions ** - assumes you use the MSDN subscription to start your own company and write something awesome. * - worth $100,000

Topic: Building toolable Silverlight applications that enable the designer developer workflow Warning: We won’t be 20 seconds into this session before mashing the gas pedal to the floor. After looking at the XAML tools Blend & Cider, we’ll dive deep into toolable application design. Toolable applications not only enhance the initial development experience but also provide benefits to long term application maintenance. An additional benefit is the enabling of the designer developer workflow. See the two roles played out in the presentation as they collaborate without clobbering each other.

Speakers Karl Shifflett is a Program Manager at Microsoft working on the WPF and Silverlight Designer since August of 2008. Before Microsoft, Karl was a software architect, former Microsoft MVP and Code Project MVP. He has been designing & developing business applications since 1989 and transitioned to .NET in March of 2003. In April of 2007 he joined the list of WPF fanatics & evangelists. He is a member of Team Mole that delivered the Mole Visualizer for Visual Studio to the world. He is the author of the very popular XAML Power Toys; loves WPF and Silverlight LOB and is developing a passion for Windows Phone 7 and ASP.NET MCV. You can read his blog at: http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/.

Adam Kinney is a creative developer with a strong focus on UI technologies including HTML, CSS, Canvas, Processing, Flash, WPF and Silverlight. He enjoys working in the space between design and development teams enabling the best results from both sides. Having spent the last five years as an Evangelist for Microsoft, Adam also enjoys sharing his knowledge and helping others learn new UI technologies and tools. Recently leaving Microsoft, he is currently working on a variety of interesting projects and experiments with the crew at Pixel Lab and posting tutorials on his personal site:http://adamkinney.com.

Sponsors

Vertigo - Vertigo is an award-winning design and development firm that uses the latest Microsoft technologies to redefine the user experience for the Web, mobile and multi-touch environments. Vertigo develops rich media solutions such as Silverlight Deep Zoom image galleries, HD on-demand and live-streaming videos and social media integration. Webtrends - Webtrends helps you turn the data generated by your web site, blogs, online campaigns and enterprise systems into understanding of your customers and business opportunity. Intel - They make cool stuff.

WHEN: Tuesday 07/06/2010 6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium) 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at Cornelius Pass Roadhouse

WHO:
Chris Goldfarb Chris Goldfarb is a dev for the Intel Information Technology group, and has been writing software for 14 years. .NET has been Chris' main focus since the pre-beta bits were released, and has both developed applications and trained others on the framework. Chris has presented software engineering topics at technical conferences such as the Microsoft Professional Developer's Conference, Intel Developers Group and the Portland Area .NET User Group, which he founded.

He has held positions as board member of the Intel e-Business Group .NET Taskforce and the Technical Infrastructure committee of the International .NET Association (INETA). Chris is Microsoft Certified in .NET and has been Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Visual C# for 4 years.

Prior to joining Intel in January 2001, he engineered mission-critical applications for the United States Air Force, United States Strategic Command. Primarily using Java, C++, and Ada, these applications included early-warning, ballistic missile flight path, and nuclear readiness assessment systems.

TOPIC:
MEF?!? Another 3-char acronym out of Microsoft? What is it and why should you care? How does it help deliver extensible applications? How is it different than traditional IoC containers, and what are some scenarios where you would use one over the other, or even both at once? How do you use MEF, and what are some potentials gotchas and considerations for implementation?

In this session learn all this and more. In fact, since nothing beats writing code to learn, bring a laptop with VS2010 RTM installed and help me build a composite application in real-time!

While you are at it, consider visiting our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible:

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Looking forward to seeing you all there!

What are the challenges facing semiconductor startups in today’s environment?

Is it enough to have developed a great technology?

Historically, semiconductor startups have had massive development costs & long development cycles. A fabless semiconductor has to typically raise > $50M with a development and time to volume cycle that lasts 3-4 years or more. Has this changed in the light of current advances in technology?

Founders of semiconductor startups often come from an engineering background. What business challenges do these founders face?

Our panel, constituted of Steve Sharp, Chairman Triquint & past CEO of Triquint Semiconductor, Howard Bubb, CEO Ambric & Manpreet Khaira, CEO Avnera will address these and other important issues related to the viability of the fabless semiconductor startups in the new millennium.

The panel will be moderated by Scott Keeney, CEO & Co-founder nLight, a manufacturer of semiconductor lasers

Register online at www.oregon.tie.org Online Registration: Members: $15; Non-Members: $25 Walkin registration is $5 more for both Members & Non-Members.

Bringing cost effective energy to the Billions living in primitive conditions

Over 1.6 billion people, upwards of 30% of the global population, are without access to electricity. Electricity advances developmental factors such as small business development, extended working hours, access to communications, enhanced education levels and rural development. Energy can improve life of millions.

In developing countries access to energy remains constrained by factors such as limited access to well adapted affordable technology, fragmented small markets, prohibitive taxes and limited financial resources. On Dec 14th , at the Copenhagen Climate conference the Obama Administration announced a $350 million dollar initiative dubbed “Climate REDI” to promote clean energy technologies in developing countries.

Join us on March 17th for a discussion with our expert panel, on what kind of innovations in products, finance, supply and service can ensure reliable & affordable energy to the billions of poor across the world.

Our 2 presenters Michael(Kipp) Baratoff, Principal, Equilibrium Capital & Patrick Maloney, Program Director, Lemelson Foundation have been fully immersed in this space, having been engaged with social entrepreneurs over the course of their careers. Lemelson Foundation awarded an energy grant to Selco India for it’s Incubation Center and Innovation Department to develop new products and new business models to solve key problems for energy consumers. The SELCO Solar Light Private Limited (SELCO India) is already an important provider of solar systems and cook stoves in southern India, with products that allow rural families to increase their household income while reducing the environmental and health risks of higher-cost kerosene lamps and inefficient stoves.

Our event organizer, TiE Oregon Clean Energy SIG chair, Ravi Sinha, is the Chairman of Choice Solar India Pvt Ltd., company engaged in creative distribution of energy solutions to India's marginalized residents.

Bill Campbell, our moderator for the evening is also a Principal at Equlibrium as well as a TiE Oregon Charter Member and Board Member.

They will bring an insight into problems, economics, delivery & growth of energy solutions.

This event is also a continuation of our theme “Serving the 6 Billion” on which we launched TiE Oregon in 2007. The keynote (watch the video on our website) speaker at the launch was C.K Prahalad, Paul & Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, a globally recognized business consultant, who gave a stirring speech about the Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid.

It centers on the proposition that the world's poor can be the engine of the next round of global trade and prosperity and can be a source of innovation.

The idea of an intelligent electricity network is being promoted by many as a way of dealing with the increasing problems of global warming, energy independence and electric grid resilience. This so called “smart grid” will create opportunities for new technologies and businesses which will emerge to satisfy the demands for improved communications, smart appliances, distributed power generation, demand response, transportation electrification and many more applications.

To help entrepreneurs and innovators in the Portland area learn more about smart grid opportunities and collaborate with others the TiE Oregon is hosting an event with industry experts and capital providers who have an interest in growing smart grid businesses.

Panelists include:

• Bill Campbell Principal at Equilibrium Capital • Bobby Kandaswamy, Investment Director, Intel Capital • Jeff Hammarlund, Adjunct Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow at PSU's Mark O. Hatfield School of Government and the Executive Leadership Institute.

By attending this event you will hear about the policies shaping the smart grid movement, learn about various technology and application opportunities and meet others who are already working in the smart grid or have an idea that could turn into a new business.

Cloud Computing ties hardware virtualization and software innovation to offer economic choices for deploying and scaling software services. Cloud Services are being offered in different flavors and for different segments by a variety of vendors.

TiE Oregon is hosting a Cloud Computing flyby, with a panel of evangelists, experts and entrepreneurs representing the key providers as well as usage and deployment perspectives for a spectrum of service layers including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.

Panelists include: - Arne Kainu, President & CEO, CenterStance
- Jason Mauer, Senior Developer Evangelist Microsoft
- Jinesh Varia, Technology Evangelist, Amazon
- Ryan Williams, Senior Software Engineer, AllMed Healthcare Management

Join us on Sept 16th, to learn, explore and get answers to your questions regarding the technical and operational issues, financial trade-offs and business risks and opportunities offered by cloud computing.

The emergence and explosive growth of the Solar Industry since the discovery of the photovoltaic effect has been nothing short of phenomenal.

How did it get here?
Where is it headed?
How do you get engaged in it?
What business opportunities are there?

If you are an entrepreneur looking for opportunities, or an executive from an adjacent space looking for expansion into solar or someone who wants to join an existing solar company or someone who wants to understand the basics of the industry; this event is for you!

Participate with and meet notable solar industry entrepreneurs and executives.

No prior knowledge of the industry is assumed and the insights you will gain may excite you into becoming engaged in this dynamic and growing renewable energy sector.

Illuminating the Ongoing Revolution in the Software Industry Date: Thursday, July 24, 2008 Time: 9:30am-11:30am

As a Celebration of the SAO Social Network Millennial Milestone and to Thank all of our Members, SAO and Intel present Dr. Timothy Chou, Author, “Seven::Software Business Models” and “The End of Software”

The software industry is a little over 25 years old, barely a blip in the history of science and technology. Yet in that short time major companies like SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, Google, eBay and Amazon have evolved. Seven is the story of the seven major business models we’ve seen in the software industry. More importantly, Seven is a story told from the experiences of some of the major players to inform those in the industry of lessons learned. Successes and failures, triumphs and defeats, Seven is focused on helping everyone in the software industry be prepared for the next major shifts in this dynamic and important industry.

Timothy Chou, Author, "Seven; Software Business Models" & "The End of Software" Timothy Chou (the former President of Oracle on Demand) has over twenty-five years of experience in the technology business. Chou has been recognized as an industry visionary on the evolution of the software industry from the traditional model to Software as a Service (SaaS). Seven is a follow on book to The End of Software which predicted the rise of software delivered as a service. Now that this transition is happening Seven provides a framework for the producers and consumers of software to take the next steps.

Read Tim’s blogs @ www.theondemandjournal.com

Tim will be available for book signings after the presentation. Order your copy today: www.lulu.com/activebookpress

Program Sponsor: Intel ® Software Partner Program