In his post, he mentions the following events / event organizers, and you should visit his post for a bit more on each of them. LA CTO Forum Dealmaker Media Digital Family Reunion Startups Uncensored Social Media Club, LA Twiistup Mindshare LA LA Hadoop Meetup Dorkbot Geek Dinners LA Cloud Computing LA Web Application Developers LA PHP Developers In addition to these, I'd recommend looking at: Technology Council of Southern California – Surprised John didn't mention this one.

The spark for this post is that I'm going to go to Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum on Saturday. A while ago I posted about Secret for Networking at Events - Prenetworking where I recommended that people should look at who's attending the event prior to going to the event in order to make their networking more effective. I've received a lot of positive feedback on the post.

Saturday, November 14, 2009 -- Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. Platforms for Mobile Computing Producers: Ashish Soni, Ira Moskatel, Rogelio Nochebuena, Stephanie Yanchinski. See [link] (mor

Saturday, December 12, 2009 -- Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. Richard Feynman and Nanotechnology (celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Feynman's seminal talk "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom", where he first envisioned nanotechnology). Producers: Lynn Foster, Michael Krieger. See [link] (mor

Saturday, October 10, 2009 -- Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. Profile of a Successful Entrepreneur/New Leadership Models: What it takes to be a successful entrepreneur. Producers: Andy Wilson, Ira Moskatel, Ashish Soni. See [link] (mor

Saturday, February 7, 2009 -- "Neurons on the Run: Brain, Brawn and Algorithms" Caltech/MIT enterprise Forum. The Caltech MIT Enterprise Forum will examine the progress in neural interactive medical devices, whether implantable or external, and the place of the entrepreneur in this captivating field. We will discuss the progress-to-date, the promise for the future, present priorities, the opportunities for entrepreneurs, and the prospects for private capital to fund promising companies. See [link] (mor

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum . The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. At the CTO Group that I organize in Santa Monica, we've had lots of discussions around this. The basic conclusion was that it was a bit

Saturday, October 11, 2008 -- "Successful Companies Through Incubation: SoCal Incubators Serve the High Tech Industry" Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. The Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum on October 11 will feature some of the award-winning business incubators supporting the high tech industry in Greater Los Angeles. Come hear about the regional business incubator network and get answers to your questions about how they can benefit your business, including: What is a business incubator and what types are available? What type of entrepreneurial companies benefit from

have also attended Thursday Lunch ( thursdaylunch.com ), Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum , and Digital LA . Lou is a friend and colleague from UCLA Anderson. Tell Rod about the LA CTO Forum . Visible networking is turning into a really great opportunity to get to know people better, get to meet new people, and have some interesting conversations. This time I'm getting to know Mark Geller ( LinkedIn , @markgeller ).

Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. Saturday, March 13, 2010 -- Medical Devices and Pharmaceuticals: Great Opportunity and Great Challenges. Our program will explore the ��wow�� factor of cutting-edge medical devices that deliver pharmaceuticals with pinpoint accuracy to diseased locations within the body. We will discuss the progress-to-date, the promise for the future, and the opportunities for entrepreneurs.