The event Growing the Business – Taking Sales to the Next Level will take place on December 11, 2006 from 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. at
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson & Graham, 650 Hansen in Palo Alto, CA. Sponsored by FountainBlue’s High Tech Entrepreneurs’ Forum. Speaker: Antony Awaida from StartLeap Corporation.
Information:
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The event Creating a Work/Life Balance will take place on
December 8, 2006, from 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. at UCSC Extension, 1180 Bordeaux, in Sunnyvale, CA. Sponsored by FountainBlue’s WhenSheSpeaks Women in Leadership. Speakers: Michele Bolton, ExecutivEdge of Silicon Valley, LLC; Jan Dukes-Schlossberg, Manager, CDO HW Operations, Cisco Systems; Jennifer Gill Roberts, Maven Ventures; Nivisha Mehta, South Asian Heart Center at El Camino Hospital; and Kristi Royse, KLR Consulting.
Information:
http://www.fountainblue.biz/executiveevents/whenshespeaks.html
BIOCOM’s Holiday Breakfast Event with Comedian Will Durst will take place on December 8, 2006 from 7:00 – 9:00 a.m. at the Marriott La Jolla, 4240 La Jolla Village Drive, in La Jolla, CA. A Midwestern baby boomer with a media induced identity crisis, Durst has been called a “modern day Will Rogers” by the LA Times while the SF Chronicle hails him as “heir apparent to Mort Sahl and Dick Gregory.” To attend, register before December 6, 2006.
The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering will be holding a dinner meeting on Small Molecule Design at the Doubletree Hotel Berkeley Marina, 200 Marina Blvd., Berkeley, CA 94710 on December 7th at 4:30 p.m. The presenters are Bill Jarvis, Senior Processing Engineer, CRB Consulting Engineers, and Lonnie Rebarge, Ph.D., Associate Director of Biopharma, Novartis.
The event Demystifying Brand will take place on December 7, 2006 from 10:00-10:12 a.m. – Online at:
www.wsradio.com/internet/talkradio.cfm/shows/PricewaterhouseCoopers-Start-Up-Show.html.
Sponsored by: PricewaterhouseCooper’s Start-up Radio Show.
Speakers: wsRadio.com Entrepreneur Network with host Steve
Bengston (wsRadio.com’s ) Karen Kang, Principal of Karen Kang
Consulting.
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The event How to Sell the Real Value of Your Solution will take place on December 7, 2006, (second sessions) from 7:30 a.m.– 12:00 p.m. at Santa Clara Embassy Suites in Santa Clara, CA.
Sponsored by Next Step, LLC. Speakers: Bob Nordan and Jennifer Vessels
Information: http://www.nextstepgrowth.com
Or emcauliffe@nextstepgrowth.com
The event Third Annual Holiday Reception: Licensing Executives Society, Silicon Valley Chapter and Women in Licensing/Bay Area will take place on December 6, 2006 from 6:00- 9:00 p.m. at Spago, 265 Lytton Avenue, in Palo Alto, CA. Enjoy a selection of gourmet hors d’oeuvres, specially selected wines, desserts, music, and conversation with old and new colleagues and friends in licensing. For more information, contact Julie Alsing at (510) 223-7810, by fax at (510) 669-1645 or by email at wilba@les.org.
The event Dealing with Darwin: How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of Their Evolution will take place on December 6, 2006 from, 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. at the Computer History Museum, 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd., in Mountain View, CA. Sponsored by the Silicon Valley Product Management Association. The speaker for this event will be Geoffrey Moore.
The event QB3/GE Class: Separation and Purification Strategies for Biotechnology Products will take place on December 5th-8th, 2006 at Byers Hall QB3/UCSF, Mission Bay. The faculty will include: Sibylle Herzer, Ph.D., GE; Peter Moore, Ph.D., GE Healthcare; and Pierre Tremblay, Ph.D., GE Healthcare. The registration cost is $2500.
The event The Paradox of Excellence will take place on December 6, 2006, from 8:00 – 10:30 a.m. at The City Club, in San Francisco, CA. Sponsored by the Institute of Management Consultants, this event will feature authors Michael Weissman and Dave Mosby.