On Thursday (10/22) this week, join us for a full day of worthwhile events in Altadena at Tech Week . The morning’s session features a Cleantech program , moderated by Ben Kuo of SocalTECH.com . Along with Ben’s program, there’s a great keynote presentation by Barbara McQuiston of DARPA and a couple of panels featuring Wired Magazine reporters.  [Shameless

Self plug alert: for anyone interested in clean technology, I’m moderating a panel next Wednesday in Altadena at Los Angeles Technology Week , on Sustainable Energy. Panelists include: Rao Surampudi, PhD, Technical Group Supervisor, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, fuel cell and battery expert; Michael Bissonette, Vice President and General Manager, Energy Technology Center, Aerovironment; Gregg Ander, FAIA, Chief Architect and Manager, Design and Engineering Services Group, Southern California Edison; Deep Patel, CEO and Founder, GoGreenSolar.com; John Howard, VP of Business

Just a quick self-plug: I’m moderating a panel on clean technology again this year at Los Angeles Technology Week , which is being held at the Los Angeles Business Technology Center in Altadena on October 22nd. John Powell of Advanced Cleanup Technologies , Diana Schulz of Cyber-Rain , and David Stevens of Southern California Gas Company . I’ll be talking with Michael Deck of Soliant Energy , Joseph Fisher of CFX Battery , Robb Pigg of J.F. Shea Co. ,

Tech Week held at the Business Technology Center in Altadena is one of the gems of tech events held in Southern California in my opinion.  Well for one its held in Altadena and two it's a fresh change of scenery.  Maybe it is too far of a drive for most or chances are they have never heard of Altadena, which was the case when I told a handful of people where I was going that day. L.A. Why a gem? 

Altadena-based Perfect Market , which is developing technology to help publishers monetize their long tail content, confirmed today that it has raised $6M in a Series C funding round. The firm said the round was led by Tribune Company, and also included Trinity Ventures, Rustic Canyon Partners, and Idealab. According to Perfect Market, the new funding will go to market and deploy its solutions.

I’ll be moderating a panel on clean technology at Los Angeles Technology Week tomorrow in Altadena. Quick updates for Wednesday: Andy Wilson of Momentum Ventures responds to our Insights & Opinions piece by Wil Schroter of AffordIt , where Wil says there is indeed money out there to invest , saying no, it’s really a nuclear winter out there . Keiretsu Forum says it is dropping

Last week, Altadena-based AdventureLink (www.adventurelink.com) announced that it raised a Series A funding round, for the firm's adventure travel reservation network. personally enjoy traveling, and looking at the space from a technology automation perspective. What we've done here, is we've utilized very advanced crawler technology, which grabs content from thousands of adventure tour operators, and consolidates The round came from Anthem Venture Partners and the Mail Room Fund. We caught up with Kelly Tompkins, the firm's founder and CEO, to hear more about the firm.