Thycotic & HP

*Double Whammy*

          Thycotic Customer Appreciation Party & HP Thin Client 

@ Blue Stem

August 27th 6:30-9:30pm

Thycotic appreciates. According to the Exhibitor from Washington D.C., they came to SF for VMworld and wanted to thank their current clients by hosting a bar and appetizers. Thycotic is a Microsoft Partner that provides secure software products, development and training to the information technology industry, serving enterprise and small business markets.

An HP event just so happened to be occurring on the rooftop of the same restaurant that evening, so of course, I had to crash that as well.  To combat the recent decline of the HP stock, I decided to defend the company and convinced the people on the second floor that I was an HP engineer ensuring the future of the company to be a good one -so don't let us down HP.

P.S. I'm the only one that actually earned my giftbag... I trust you HP

Twitter

Twitter Data Science & Machine Learning 

hashtag #twitterdsml

August 22nd 

6:00-9:30pm 

I finally gave in and started using it  -- https://twitter.com/JaimeKornick

so it only seemed natural to be at Twitters new headquarters,  playing kornhole on the rooftop.

As much as people at this event were tweeting about Twitter, I was in fact listening to the keynote speakers. With a room full of engineers they compared the power behind data to be like oxygen (vital and abundant), with promises of having the ability to build up from micro-level data to answer macro-level questions.  Amongst this crowd, I met Adam Moore who has over seven thousand followers on Twitter.  Which turns out to be more followers than all of the keynote speakers, combined. I know this because I looked him up, and also came across a tweet that he had posted while at the event. 

Hub

Game for Change @ Hub

August 17th

7:00-10:00pm 

While crashing this event I won the raffle there: lunch for two at Cafe Venue. 

Hub is a co-working space that provides a progressive environment for social change ideas to scale into viable enterprises. This community of entrepreneurs, freelance professionals, artists, funders, students and mentors address complex problems from poverty to climate change.  The Hub is always welcoming more people to find their next project, partner, funder, or muse -where change goes to work, and I get to win raffles. 

DoubleDutch

Mission Startup Social Club

Tuesday, July 21st 

6:00-9:00pm 

I don't live in the Mission, but I do support the social startup scene there. Lawrence Coburn was the first CEO to say he was honored to have a picture with me, and he also just so happens to be the coolest CEO I've met. As he sets the company culture to be just that, working at Double Dutch comes with many perks, including "perk number 5, which is being a pet friendly office -except cats, fuck cats." DoubleDutch makes mobile, cloud-based, geosocial applications for events and enterprise workgroups. They play ping pong, drink lots of coffee, go to concerts, nerd out... and develop products that they're wildly proud of.

They're also hiring.

Imagine

Imagine 2012 @ Public Works

Thursday, July 26th

6:00-11:00pm

The Incrediball

12 people were selected from different Spanish companies and universities and became part of a creativity program called Imagine, ideas to change the world. These "dreamers" came from diverse backgrounds and worked during the month of July in Silicon Valley developing ideas around four projects to be presented to angel investors (and me, of course).  One group's project was tackling the issue of providing additional education to impoverished children. They presented a soccer ball that had a hidden projector in it for any flat surface, that was wirelessly linked to educational movies and games. This entertainment was run and stored by energy that was powered by playing with the soccer ball. It was called the "Incrediball" -obviously.

I came, I crashed, I dreamed... an evening of Imagining.

YetiZen

Sameerfest 2012 @ The Innovation Lab

Wednesday, July 20th

4:00pm-2:00am

Happy Birthday to Sameer... Who is Sameer?

I met the Founder/CEO of RivalMe the same evening I was celebrating his 31st birthday. Known for his Prohibition Sameerfest, he served over 75 gallons of his famous tea cocktail comprised of coconut, cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, organic black tea and rum. Full of vitamins, minerals, and anti-oxidants, he claimed Prohibition Tea will never give you a hangover -this is true... but it will also never get you drunk. I'm not sure how much rum was actually in there, but it did accompany the indian food and RivalMe trivia quite well. RivalMe is a comprehensive, nationwide, gaming platform for college students and alumni, to earn the same kind of glory for their school that the NCAA athletes receive, while competing for cash prizes and scholarship funds. The major prize of the night was a private tea party with Aziz Ansari. RivalMe is poised to become the world's leader in intellectual gaming. 

Western Union

Western Union

Wednesday, July 11th, 2013
5:30-8:30

This is me with Hikmet Ersek...

What am I doing with the CEO of Western Union?

Western Union, a Fortune 500 Company is a global leader in cross-border money transfer. They threw the doors open of their new SF office of Western Union Digital Ventures, the online and mobile payments arm and I walked right in to help them celebrate. I grabbed a vapor-infused cocktail, a few glasses of wine, some hors d'oeuvres and even donated to a local charity when I was there. Western Union built the first transcontinental telegraph in 1861 and now they intend on being a leading player in the next era of digital cash and payments technology by reinventing and expanding money transfer business for the mobile age. It was some good times with the boys of the banking world and they're currently hiring.

CRASHED IT... For the next generation of products, as mobile grows in importance.