Events I’ll Be Attending

Planning to Attend

1. December 2, 2009: Silicon Valley Product Managers Association (SVPMA) Presentation, “Selling SaaS in a product world : Challenges for a product manager when selling services” – http://svpma.org/meetings.html

Attended

1. February 2009: Social Media Breakfast East Bay – the inaugural East Bay event for this popular breakfast series. Founded by @BryanPerson (who was in attendance), the social media breakfast came to the East Bay thanks to @KennyL and @Shel and was sponsored by LiveWorld.  @Shel provided some video footage of the event.  As an aside, you can find me on Twitter as @dshiao.
2. March 4, 2009: Applying Design Thinking Principles in Product Management (Dr. Sara Beckman, Senior Lecturer, University of California Berkeley, Haas School of Business) – Silicon Valley  Product Management Association (http://svpma.org/meetings.html)
3. March 9, 2009: Virtual Worlds: The Hype, The Reality, The In-Between (FountainBlue’s High Tech Entrepreneurs’ Forum) – Microsoft’s Mountain View office.  I posted a summary of the event on this blog.
4. March 31+: Web 2.0 Expo (Moscone Center, San Francisco): http://www.web2expo.com/webexsf2009
5. May 28 and 29, 2009: Virtual Edge Summit 2009 (Santa Clara Convention Center).  I wrote a summary of the summit’s first day.
6. June 3, 2009: Silicon Valley Product Managers Association (SVPMA) Presentation, “Making Your Websites and Applications Social” – http://svpma.org/meetings.html
7. June 30, 2009 – July 1, 2009: Cisco Live (Moscone Center, San Francisco): http://www.cisco-live.com/
8. November 4, 2009: Silicon Valley Product Managers Association (SVPMA) Presentation, “Making Agile Work Across Oceans” – http://svpma.org/meetings.html

Planning to Attend – Virtual Events

1. Too many to count!