This month in San Francisco, ERT is bringing you Margaret Wallace as keynote speaker followed by talks/demo from our very interesting startup founders.  Margaret had started several VC/angel backed game companies and she'll talk on "How Funding Choices Impact Your Start-Up".   Date/Time:  Thursday, Nov. 03, 2011, 6:00 - 9:30pm Place:  Pillsbury Law Firm, 50 Fremont St., San... [read more]

This month in San Francisco, ERT is bringing you Margaret Wallace as keynote speaker followed by talks/demo from our very interesting startup founders.  Margaret had started several VC/angel backed game companies and she'll talk on "How Funding Choices Impact Your Start-Up".   Date/Time:  Thursday, Nov. 03, 2011, 6:00 - 9:30pm Place:  Pillsbury Law Firm, 50 Fremont St., San Francisco,  Want to know who else are coming too? RSVP on Facebook too to see them:  http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=180203418727578   About the speakers: :: Margaret Wallace, co-founder/CEO Playmatics and Shadow Government.  Previously she co-founded Skunk Studio and Rebel Monkey.  Prior to that, she worked at Shockwave, Mindscape and PF Magic as game producer of many game titles.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Wallace She wrote about Gamification of Everything.  Notable quotes: “Gamification provides a framework, an overall method for revealing a deeper understanding of how we as human beings tend to respond to and interact with our world.” http://www.gamingbusinessreview.com/gamificationeverything.htm  :: James Ehrlich, is founder/CEO of WishesWell and owner of Organic Living, TV.  WishesWell is creator of social networking game titles based on clinically proven affective neuroscience.  It is a technology initiative that is building a platform for pro-social games and apps based on affective neuroscience.  We are working with universities and research institutions around the world and are endorsed by the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University.  James is a video game and entertainment media serial entrepreneur, with a successful track record of designing games, as well as producing award-winning national public television series.  His previous work included ICFX, TV and DigiDesigns. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/james-ehrlich/4/b77/b78 :: Carla Bayot, founder/CEO of Design My Meals.  Previously she was Technical Lead at Cisco, VP Engineer, JMD International, ECAD engineer at Xbox of Microsoft.  http://www.linkedin.com/pub/carla-m-bayot/1/841/176   :: Kasper Hulthin,  founder/CEO of Podio and owner of Fatboy Future http://dk.linkedin.com/in/hulthin  :: Joel Cheuoua, founder of Symbyoz, which builds meaningful relationships from meaningful activities and interactions with selected friends.  He worked for a French startup as a lead software engineer, and as a distinguished open source contributor. The startup was acquired by IBM where he continued to work as a manager and team leader. Joel was born in Cameroon, and lived in France before coming to the U.S. 6 years ago. Agenda 6:00 - 7:00pm, refreshment, networking 7:00 - 7:20 Opening, serial legal lessons from our legal experts from Pillsbury 7:20 -  8:45 Talks/Demo by: Margaret Wallace, Plamatics James Ehlrich, WishesWell Carla Bayot, Design My Meal Kasper Hulthin,  founder/CEO of Podio and owner of Fatboy Future 8:45 - 9:15, You are the star! Tell us about yourself! 9:15 on, more shmoozing   This event is generously sponsored by our friends at Pillsbury Law Firm, talk to them if you need help of any legal issues.  They are great people who provide top services and expertise to tech entrepreneurs among other specialties.    Your ERT curator, Shirley Lin Founder, Chief Player, YoXi123 - creator of Huggy Hearts on Facebook   Join ERT to receive notes of future events: http://www.facebook.com/groups/ERT.in.SiliconValley/