SFFAMA Career Catalyst: Internship InsiderFASHION+TECHSF Presents: Mentors & Apprentices. Mentors and Apprentices is a career workshop and a networking event for the fashion, technology and creative industries in the SF Bay Area. Business owners who work in fashion, marketing, technology, art and design related professions will introduce their businesses and/or products, explain what they do,... [read more]

SFFAMA Career Catalyst: Internship InsiderFASHION+TECHSF Presents: Mentors & Apprentices. Mentors and Apprentices is a career workshop and a networking event for the fashion, technology and creative industries in the SF Bay Area. Business owners who work in fashion, marketing, technology, art and design related professions will introduce their businesses and/or products, explain what they do, discuss their industry challenges and the nature of their internship opportunity, followed by a Q&A session. Mentors will then be available to meet and interact with participants and for additional informational interviewing. Students, entrepreneurs and those interested in additional career options are highly encouraged to attend. Internship opportunity and requirements are determined by each mentor and will vary. Resumes recommended.  What: MENTORS & APPRENTICES Where: FIDM, 55 Stockton Street, 5th Floor, Conference Room When: February 21, 2012, Tues, 5:30-8:30pm, pls arrive early RSVP: Buy Tix, $10 General Admission, Free Admission with Student ID (All Schools)    FEATURED SPEAKERS: BETH BLECHERMAN Techmamas Founder/Editor & Chief Technology Mom   Beth Blecherman is the Chief Technologist of Cool Mom Tech, the intersection between tech, parenting and style.  She left her position as a Senior Manager at Deloitte for Family Management then decided to blog as a career 2.0. Her personal blog is TechMamas.com (@TechMama ), a platform,to discuss technology, social media and her obsession with consumer electronics.In 2006 she joined on as one of the Co-Founders to Silicon Valley Moms Group (a mom blog network that covered over 11 regions). In 2010 Silicon Valley Moms Group was sold to Technorati. In 2009 she was chosen as one of the Nielson Power Mom 50 influencers. In 2010 a Parents Magazine Power Mom, Forbes 100 Best Websites for Women for 2010 & 2011 and  @ForbesWoman Best Branded Women on Twitter. Just recently, she was included in the PC Mag Top 100 on Twitter and the Time 140 Best Twitter Feeds. In Sept 2011 Beth was listed on the Working Mother's list of Most Powerful Moms in Social Media. Beth is a host of MommytoMommy.tv, a new online show for moms. JOANNA RILEY WEIDENMILLER The One Page Company / CEO Founder & 360 Fashion Network/ Partner JOANNA RILEY WEIDENMILLER is the co-founder and CEO of The One Page Company, a communications company that specializes in utilizing the next generation of user interface applications to create OnePage Proposals and delivering them across all platforms. The company is based in San Francisco, CA and its technology partner, We@link is based in Shanghai, China. She is partner of 360fashion a global network enabling the leading web and mobile applications for high level fashion professionals to build their brand image. Joanna is CEO of EventPod China, a new technology streaming live photos from networked cameras instantly on TV/display screens. EventPod is based in the USA and has successfully partnered with the leading event and photography companies in China.Joanna sits on the international board for WildAid advocating to end illegal wildlife trade. Prior, Joanna was CEO and founder of Performance Advertising Associates in New York and Chicago, a outsourced company specializing in business to business marketing for Fortune 500 companies. Joanna was born and raised in San Francisco, CA and was a full scholarship rower at The University of Virginia, where she received her BA in Foreign Affairs.   REBEKAH ILIFF talk Tech Communications/ CEO & Co-Founder  talkTECH Communications is a group of smart, savvy, business-minded individuals who have taken the downfall of big business and the lessons of “Recession 2.0″ to heart and created a company to serve the start-up community and business middle-class: a class that invariably constitutes the backbone of our economy, and whose innovations will lead us into the mobile future. We also understand the four basic laws of supply and demand and how those pesky, little laws impact your business. We know that you don’t exist in a vacuum, and it’s not enough to simply get you a “hit” on the evening news. Our goal is to use the discipline of communications as it applies to your business, while leveraging innovative technologies to develop a creative strategy for distributing your news and information; and then giving you data and statistics that will tell you exactly how our efforts translate into real-time, relevant, meaningful tools for growing your brand.    LILI BALFOUR Atelier Advisors/ Founder   Atelier Advisors was founded by Lili Balfour in 2007 to provide strategic and financial advisory services to early-stage companies committed to changing the world. Over the past five years, Atelier has worked with over 100 companies, ranging from technology (Visual IQ, Sustainable Minds, Alpha Theory and Firescope) to consumer goods (Peeled Snacks, Duchess Marden, and PeaceKeeper Causemetics). Atelier’s motto is ‘Rethink Investment Banking.’ The firm was built on the belief that all companies, regardless of stage, should benefit from high level investment banking services.   Lili brings 20 years of investment industry experience -- ranging from technology M&A to early-stage private placements