Rebecca Reeve
Web & SF enthusiast. Digital publicist & brand marketer. Nerd friendly.

The third installment in our series of random nerd parties has been scheduled to be the perfect cure for your post-holiday blues. Open bar will be provided by our generous sponsors from 7:30pm til the tab runs out.

Sponsored by:
• Atlassian (http://atlassian.com)
• awe.sm (http://awe.sm)
• Jimdo (http://jimdo.com)
• Storenvy...

INFO: http://thefailcon.com
TICKETS: http://failcon.eventbrite.com

FailCon is a one-day conference for over 450 technology entrepreneurs, investors, developers and designers to study their failures and prepare for success.

As an entrepreneur, you will inevitably encounter failure; it is overcoming it that is the biggest challenge. At FailCon, we...

Web 2.0 Summit brings the intelligence, innovation, and leadership of the Internet industry together to discuss and debate the most critical issues and strategies driving the Internet economy now and in the near future.

We're back-- bigger, badder, and better than ever with the third Startup Exits: Early Stage M&A event.

Ingredients:
+All-star lineup of M&A panelists from Silicon Valley's most active acquirers-- Google, AOL, Electronic Arts, Serious Business (acq. by Zynga), etc.
+Keynote by serial entrepreneur Russ Fradin, who sold Adify for...

TechCrunch Disrupt is a three-day, single-track conference and startup competition to immerse you in the debate about what's changing in technology right now, what's causing it and what we need to do about it to survive and thrive in real time.

TechCrunch Disrupt gathers the leaders and innovators of the technology and media industries...

We’re doing it again!

We are excited to announce that Mobile 2.0, the original conference on mobile disruptive innovation, will be back in 2011 in San Francisco, with a new one-day format on September 1st.

Are you achieving maximum value out of salesforce.com? The Cloud has not only changed the business model and implementation cycle for projects, it has changed the approach companies need to manage these applications post go-live. Yet 80% of customers do not have an effective strategy to manage change and innovate ongoing. See how leading companies...

GROW2011 is a unique 3-day conference that brings together 500 leading founders, influencers, decision-makers and investors from the Canadian business and technology community and Silicon Valley. More than ever before, companies must learn fast and stay relevant. We live in a world where a new competitor can leap-frog market leaders in a single...

Come check out our new digs, experience life at Yammer, meet our management team and employees! There will be food, drinks and a raffle!

Update: Atlassian has decided to join in on the fun and will help ensure the bar stays open for most of the evening! :)

After a wildly successful inaugural meetup this past winter, we're happy to host another night of drinks and merriment for techies who enjoy hobnobbing it with their peers.

Join Plancast, Awe.sm, Flowtown and other...

VIRTUALIZATION: CONFERENCE • EXHIBITION • NETWORKING

Virtualization Connections will bring business decision makers, IT managers, and development team leaders together to explore ROI and deep-dive implementation of virtualized environments to support business productivity.

SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
o Ric Telford, IBM Cloud Services
o Steve Riley,...

CLOUD CONNECTIONS: CONFERENCE • EXHIBITION • NETWORKING

Cloud Connections brings together business decision makers, IT managers and directors, and developers to explore cloud computing services and products, deepen technical skills, and determine best-practices solutions for implementing private or public cloud infrastructure and services
...

MOBILE CONNECTIONS: CONFERENCE • EXHIBITION • NETWORKING

The mobile industry's first multi-platform developer conference focused on the most important trends, products, and services for iOS/iPhone, Android, Windows Phone 7, and Blackberry.

SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
o Jay Freeman, Cydia
o Tyler Lessard, RIM
o Joe Belfiore, Microsoft
...and more!...

Open Bar. Music. Smoking Patio. Free to the public.

Tokimonsta Performing!

RSVP at http://sxsw.villagevoicemedia.com/ by 3/13 to get on the list.
Get there early - RSVP does not guarantee admission!
UPDATE 3/4: The RSVP list is now closed! RSVPs on the Facebook Wall are not accepted.

21+ only.

Sponsored By:
Topless Robot
Nerd news, humor...

Too many pol. This event is cancelled

The second annual Tech Cocktail SXSW will kick off the third annual SXSW Accelerator program and showcase 30+ early stage startups for an evening of conversation. The event is aimed at better connecting, educating and amplifying the SXSW Interactive community.

Join us for an evening of fun mingling with other technology enthusiasts, innovators,...

Android and Me (and friends) will be invading downtown Austin on March 13th, during SXSWi, for a full night of Android fun and debauchery. We'll have new phones, an open bar, and all the socializing you can handle!

The Barbarian Group & StumbleUpon invite you to void a couple EULAs with us at the T.O.S. Violation! Party, a night of rock for the punks of the Internet.

Revised line-up:

7pm doors

Outside Stage:
TV Torso 7:00pm
Thee Oh Sees 7:45pm
Mister Heavenly (feat. members of Islands, Man Man and Modest Mouse with Michael Cera) 8:45pm
No Age 9:45pm
...

We're gathering Austin's best food trucks together for an afternoon of BBQ, tacos, meat pies and more.

Download Foodspotting for Secret Menu items and to participate in a photo scavenger hunt - win prizes!

Featuring the following Food Truck stars:
- Along Came a Slider
- Boomerang's Pies
- Chi'Lantro
- Clem's Hot Diggity...

The Mashable SXSWi House 2011 will break the mold of the traditional SXSWi events schedule. Working with SXSWi and our partner sponsors, we will create a two-day platform that will include private events, VIP networking hours and large open parties. From Sunday, March 13th to Monday, March 14th, Mashable will be hosting a combination of private...

Note: an RSVP at Plancast will not get you in the door. You must RSVP at EventBrite. Don't forget to RSVP for the Refresh Austin party across the street as well. Update #2 Woot! The WordPress Foundation has joined us as a co-host for the party. Update #1 I just spoke with Tony Cecala of the DFW WordPress Meetup, and they will be joining us...

Join Eloqua and Bulldog Solutions in the pre-party to the party! Don't want to wait around until the official SXSW Interactive kick off party to start networking, socializing and, of course, drinking? Stop by Club DeVille starting at 6pm and join your fellow #SXSW attendees in the countdown to the kick off. All are welcome!

Zendesk is attending SXSW!
Share a drink with us at the HighBall on Saturday, March 12th, from 4 to 8 p.m. This event is open to all of our Small Business Web customers, partners, and other invited guests.
Meet, greet, and heck, maybe even bowl a few games with Zendesk's VP of Business Development, Michael Hansen and esteemed Account Manager...