Chirag Patel
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5 minutes. 20 slides. What would you say? IgniteChicago is a high-energy evening of five minute presentations by people who  have an idea - and the guts to get onstage and share it with fellow creative folks. Each presentation is composed of 20 slides that automatically advance every 15 seconds. Presentations can range from how to build a...

Please join us for a celebration of the one year anniversary since the White House's announcement of the StartupAmerica Partnership. STARTUP AMERICA NATIONAL EVENT - 1:30 to 2:30 (simulcast nationally to other StartupAmerica gatherings) Remarks by StartupAmerica CEO, Scott Case Panel Discussion on Importance of Ecosystems and...

  Your startup will probably fail. What about building what customers want? Heh, it just aint that simple.   Lean Startup Machine is a metrics-driven startup competition where teams learn to identify the key risks in their business model through hands-on mentorship and our framework of tools. Over the course of the weekend you will do the...

Lean Startup, User Experience Design and Agile Development are all approaches to improve your odds of creating successful products. Are they mutually exclusive, or can you assemble them together to make a lean, mean product machine? Pathfinder Software's Amy Willis (UX) Bernhard Kappe (Products Strategy) and Reid MacTavish (Agile Development)...

Who will be crowned the Lean Startup Champion, and collect $75,000 in cash and prizes?

8:30am

In 1995, Dr Steve Miley - the director of two emergency departments located on Florida's Atlantic and Gulf coasts - was driving from one ER to the other, and stopped midway in Orlando for a bite to eat at one of the busiest TGIF's in the United States.
He was fascinated by the restaurant's seating software... and wondered if he could...

Come join us for some Ruby hacking. We'll be bringing the group project to completion. If you haven't been involved in the project feel free to show up and hack with us anyway.
See you there!
Bryan

BigDataCamp is an unconference for users of Hadoop and related technologies to exchange ideas in a loosely distributed format. Attendees are encouraged to share thoughts in open discussions with pre-defined and majority-vote topics, including best practices in application development and advanced analytics.   Data engineers, enterprise architects,...

We've hosted a few times last year during the playoffs. Figured it would be a cheap, comfy way to watch the game in HD with audible sound. And no Bulls game,

Lean Startup, Pragmatic Marketing,

Two brave Chicago-based companies, Leslie's List and Human Practice, submitted their web-based Health 2.0 apps for a no holds-barred rigorous user experience (UX) teardown. Jasmin Phua, a user researcher and user experience designer will walkthrough design issues and offer suggestions for improvements with illustrated examples.

Leslie's...

We are teaming up with

Dan Bernstein (<a href="http://personalcaregiver.com/">Personal Caregiver</a>) and Moses Hohman (<a href="https://humanpractice.com/">Human Practice</a>) will present "highlights" of the

Chicago Ideas Week ("CIW") is the platform for ideas, created for innovators, thinkers, doers, and interested members of the Chicago and greater Midwestern area. With a goal to stimulate new initiatives and ventures, create new connections and collaborations, and establish a community of people who have the desire to connect to achieve...

Urbanized is a documentary about the design of cities directed by Gary Hustwit, who also directed Objectified and Helvetica.

We're organizing a panel discussion on trends in the marketing of physician practices. This is part 1 and focuses on online physician profiles and ratings & reviews sites.
Brief presentations from

This meetup will be a lively discussion on the current state and future of health tech investing, with emphasis here in Chicago.

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Chicago Health 2.0 and the
<a href="http://www.illinoistech.org/roundtable.aspx/25">ITA</a> are throwing a startup pitch contest, in which the 5 best Health 2.0/tech startpus will do a live pitch to an expert panel and audience of VCs, angels, accelerators, developers...

Please visit this post for details of why the event has been postponed temporarily.

http://tedxwindycity.com/2011/06/09/update-2/

Independently organized live TEDx Events in Chicago thanks to Pivotal Production and The Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago.

Theme: The Revolution will be Digitized

We're very excited to have Hiten Shah, Founder and CEO of
<a href="http://www.kissmetrics.com/">KissMetrics</a> speak at our July meetup.
For those of you who've never heard Hiten speak, you are in for a treat.

This <a href="http://techweek.com/">TechWeek</a> talk will comprise of three presentations that will focus on innovation in Health 2.0 technology, which is focused on the consumer and patient engagement. (To attend this talk in person, you'll have to <a href="http://techweek.com/">register for...

TechWeek is a week-long festival that showcases everything new in the technology, web and interactive industries.

From mobile apps and enterprise software to consumer products and greentech innovations, from advertising and product design to robotics and nanotechnology, TechWeek covers it.

- TechWeek Conference & Expo, July 22-25, 2011,...

Urban Geek Drinks (UGD) is an informal gathering of people interested in technology and urban issues. There is no agenda and there are no speakers; just a group of like-minded, passionate, nerdy folks who gather over cocktails, sodas, and food to discuss what we're working on and scheme about what we might work on next. Bring a handful of...