Mark Silva
Principal & Founder of Real Branding, a leading digital marketing agency based in San Francisco with offices in NY.

The end of Movember is marked across the US (and around the world) with a series of Gala Partés to thank our Mo Bros and Sistas for their outstanding fundraising efforts during the month of Movember.

Our partés are quite something. A chance to dress up in your best Movember costume, showcase your immaculate grooming, celebrate your finest Mo...

Under the Radar is a catalyst for doing deals. Meet with 350 decision-makers from global carriers, brands, technology companies, startups, and investors responsible for helping companies leverage new mobile technology in the fast-evolving digital landscape.
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UNDER THE RADAR is the Silicon Valley’s most effective innovation showcase and business development conference. Technology buyers from Intuit, VIsa, Microsoft, Google, Alcatel Lucent, ATT, Best Buy, Qualcomm, Magento, Business Insider, CNET, Inc and more attend to meet with the carefully curated startups.

Tickets available now:...

The LOCALS: honoring the best in location based services and advertising. (The night before Geo-Loco Conf -- www.geoloco.tv)

Enter or Attend the LOCALS (It's free to Enter for award consideration) http://thelocals.eventbrite.com/

The Local Awards are the first and only awards to recognize and honor the very best in Location-Based Services...

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.

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Nominate Your Startup
All you have to do is upload a short 2 minute video or photo with a description of your company to the Launch @ GROW startup competition site by June 30, 2011

What is Launch @ GROW
Launch Party is teaming up with Dealmaker Media to host the Opening Reception of the Grow Conference on August...

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...

Belgium Comes to Cooperstown 2011- “Bringing it to 11 in ‘11”

Belgium Comes to Cooperstown will be held on July 29th and 30th, 2011 at Brewery Ommegang. This event includes music, a movie, great food and amazing beer.

Here’s a quick itinerary:

Friday, July 29th
VIP dinner 6pm-10pm
There will be fantastic food paired with the best...

Recognized as a leading global gathering for Internet innovators and influencers, Internet Week New York is expected to draw more than 20,000 people to over 200 events at both its headquarters located at Chelsea’s Metropolitan Pavilion and at dozens of locations throughout Gotham.

Internet Week New York 2010, which took place from June 7-14,...

TEDxSF seeks to develop and leverage the TED experience at a regional level, bringing together innovators and inspirational speakers in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Maker Faire is the World’s Largest DIY Festival - a two-day, family-friendly event to MAKE, create, learn, invent, CRAFT, recycle, think, play and be inspired by celebrating arts, crafts, engineering, food, music, science and technology. aker Faire is the premier event for grassroots American innovation. As the World's Largest DIY Festival,...

Please join PeopleBrowsr for this exclusive, invitation-only event, featuring an expert panel of thought leaders discussing...

Collective Influence

Jeffrey W. Hayzlett, Best-Selling Author, Change Agent and former CMO, Kodak
Porter Gale, Vice President of Marketing, Virgin America
Elisa Steele, Chief Marketing Officer, Yahoo
Jodee Rich, CEO,...

Google I/O brings together thousands of developers for two days of deep technical content, focused on building the next generation of web, mobile, and enterprise applications with Google and open web technologies such as Android, Google Chrome, Google APIs, Google Web Toolkit, App Engine, and more.

Marissa Mayer (Google) to Keynote Social-Loco.

[get the Plancast 20% discount] http://bit.ly/i66XaQ

Other companies speaking include:
- Groupon
- JiWire
- Facebook
- 4sqr
- Bing
And get ready, here's comes the Social-Loco pitch competition.

We'll dive into social and mobile web convergence, and what that means for SMB, big brands and...

Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored event embodies the ethos of our brand and represents the culmination of our work throughout the year. Innovation is at the core of everything we do. Every day on our website and in each issue of the magazine, we explore innovative groundbreaking business solutions across every industry.

With this event, we...

Please join MoPub, UrbanAirship, GetJar, and Kiip after AppNation SF on April 27, 2011 at the B Bar and Restaurant, a beautiful rooftop venue right near Moscone.  Doors open at 7pm Party starts at 8pm  

Calling all Developers and Entrepreneurs!

APPNATION is all about helping you grow.

Its expert workshops distribution, discover-ability, monetization, meeting new partners, wooing investors, and developing clients.

We created this show to help you build a great business in this exciting new marketplace. And we have a range of affordable demo...

Girls in Tech presents 'A Fireside Chat with Dennis Crowley'

What started in 2010 as a grass-roots efforts to motivate people to get out and check in is back and now with the support of over 100 local foursquare committees around the world.

On April 16th (4 and 4 squared) foursquare users are self-organizing meetups, lectures, swarms, scavenger hunts, and much more. Foursquare users can visit 4sqday.com to...

Social Gaming represents half of all Facebook users and one of every two visits to Social Networks on average. Fad or vital to any marketer’s strategy going forward? You decide. To help, we’ll look at Social Gaming by the numbers in the US and around the world. An expert line-up of speakers will share insights about social gaming dynamics,...

As THE event for digital marketers, ad:tech features the industry's most entrepreneurial and innovative marketers. By attending, you'll have the opportunity to network and learn from experts on what's hot in social media, mobile, viral, cross-channel, application-based and geo-location marketing. You can also walk the ad:tech Expo...

Free and open to the public!

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On the way to launching dozens of Fortune 100 brands on Twitter, we learned a lot more than just the mechanics of strategy through execution on 140-character social media programs. There’s been a lot written and published about how to prepare, launch and develop a following for brands on Twitter. Ours is the unwritten story. Through the lenses of...

Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco is back for another great year of sessions, speakers, and networking opportunities.

Registration is now open! Use discount code websf11fb20 to save 20% on all conference passes or code websf11fbe for a free Expo Hall Only pass.

About TEDxSanJose:
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x =...