GarageGeeks Blog

in our series “meet the Industry leaders”, the GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi invite you to a special garage event, to meet:

Salim Ismail - Executive Director, Singularity University.
http://singularityu.org/

Salim is a successful angel investor and entrepreneur - his last company, Angstro, was acquired by Google in August 2010. He has operated seven early-stage companies and is a frequent speaker on internet technologies, private equity and entrepreneurship. Salim is currently the CEO and Executive Director of Singularity University, which is training a new cadre of leaders to manage exponentially growing technologies. Prior to that, Salim was a Vice President at Yahoo and the Head of Brickhouse, Yahoo’s internal ‘ideas factory’ where game-changing ideas were brought in, built and launched. The unit analyzed thousands of ideas and launched four products during that year, the latest being Fire Eagle. He also serves as co-founder and Chairman of Confabb.com, co-founded PubSub Concepts and is also on the board of Breakthrough, a global human rights organization focused on violence against women, racial justice, and immigrant rights.

Singularity University aims to assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies and apply, focus and guide these tools to address humanity’s grand challenges.

The event will take place on:
Monday, September 6, 20:30 at GarageGeeks HQ, HaPeled 40, Holon

* This is a User Generated Dinner, so, bring some snacks and drinks to share with others.
* GarageGeeks is sponsored by Carmel Ventures and Giza VC

you are invited to a special garage event, to learn about the present and future of electronic payments. and meet:

* Osama Bedier - Vice President of PayPal Platform and Emerging Technology - Future of electronic and mobile payment.

* Greetings: Oded Zehavi, Regional Director, Israel & South Africa at PayPal .

* Naveed Anwar - Senior Director of PayPal Developer Network

* Startup standing panel – use case and Q&A : Fiverr, Somobi, SupersonicAds and anyone who have interesting stories to share.

The event will take place on:
Sunday, July 25, 20:30 at GarageGeeks HQ, HaPeled 40, Holon

Osama Bedier perceived one of the thought leaders in global electronic payments and he is behind PayPal’s radical move to open up its system to third-party developers and allow them to integrate its payment system into their Web sites, mobile apps, and devices.
In the first three months, PayPal signed up more than 15,000 developers.

Anwar Naveed - Senior Director of PayPal Developer Network (previously managed the AOL Developer Network )
Announce the PayPal global developer challenge with 100,000 $ prize for the best application
https://www.x.com/community/ppx/devchallenge
and invite people to come to the PayPal innovate 2010 event in October.

* This is a User Generated Dinner, so, bring some snacks and drinks to share with others.
* GarageGeeks is sponsored by Carmel Ventures and Giza VC

in our series “meet the Industry leaders”,
the GarageGeeks invite you to a special garage event, to meet:

Dr. Jeffrey Jaffe, W3C CEO

Dr. Jeff Jaffe is Chief Executive Officer of the World Wide Web Consortium. In this role he works with Director Tim Berners-Lee, staff, and membership, and the public to evolve and communicate the W3C’s organizational vision.

The event will take place on June 14, Garage HQ, HaPeled 40, Holon at 19:30

The World-Wide Web was created as a platform for information sharing decades ago. In the interim it has grown to become the platform for commerce, education, entertainment, and collaboration as well.

People have contributed proprietary enhancements to achieve this enhanced platform. Ultimately, the world has a common platform only if key platform elements are open and standard. The World-Wide Web Consortium is focused on a variety of technologies and domains including: video, ubiquity, accessibility, social networking, cloud computing, society, and linked data to ensure that the next generation platform is as open and innovative as the current Web

* This is a User Generated Dinner, so, bring some snacks and drinks to share with other.

* GarageGeeks is sponsored by Carmel Ventures and Giza VC

The GarageGeeks sessions present:
Israel Amazon Web Services User Group
hosted by Dan Feld, AWS EMEA

Sunday, May 2
18:00, GarageGeeks HQ

Please join us to meet the AWS team, meet other AWS users, and discuss Cloud Computing.

Agenda:

18:00-18:20 – Gathering and networking

18:20-18:50 - Cloud Capability - Why customers are choosing cloud computing? - After 4 years, starting with EC2 and S3, Amazon Web Services now offers 20 different services. What is the motivation of customers who come to Amazon web services? What are they doing with it today?

18:50-19:30 – AWS Customer’s presentations – Some of our Israeli customers will present their business case and how they used AWS capabilities as a solution.

19:30-20:00 – What’s new with AWS?, Closing words

In GarageGeeks fashion, we will have beer and light snacks on the event, but only if you bring some with you.

During the 2,3 April weekend  were holding a Facebook Application Developer Workshop

We will split into teams and each team will work on a project.
Don’t know how? Don’t worry! All you need is some basic knowledge in , programming (PHP, Python,Javascript) and we’ll help you with the rest!

Graphic designers from all kinds are welcome to contribute their skills.

more details at the facebook event page
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=10150120005760014

Crowdsourcing encourages crowds with various expertise to apply their individual talents collectively as a group to create solutions to challenges.
Join us to this session at March 15, 20:00 and discuss about 4 different views on the phenomena of CrowdSourcing.

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speakers:
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* uTest
Presenting: Doron Reuveni, CEO uTest
How online communities are disrupting many industries.
What is the difference between a mob, a crowd, and a community.
A sneak preview of a live demo of a not-yet-launched version of uTest’s software testing platform.

* Waze
Presenting: Yael Elish, VP product and social media marketing.
Crowdsourcing and the use of social and gaming elements to engage users to build a viable service and reach critical mass.

* Yedda
Presenting: Yaniv Golan, co-founder and CTO.
CrowdSourcing and the First Thumbs War - as a creator of a web service, you’d love to have the crowds breath life into your service through participation.
Yet, what happens when the participating crowds have their own opinion about what your service should be like?

* AllRise
Presenting: Dan Rimon, co-founder
AllRise is an online public courthouse where users can sue anyone and charge him with anything.
The crowd debates the case and the crowed decides the verdict.
How they came up with the idea and show examples of some cases that were opened.

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in the spirit of the event, beer will be served if you bring one.
so, bring few to share. sharing is caring.

Like ninjas battling on stage, Bre Pettis and Tal Chalzin will volley projects demonstrations back and forth. From guitar player robots to machines that vomit plastic skulls, the presentation will include a mix of projects they’ve worked on and that have been worked on at the GarageGeeks, NYCResistor and beyond. This presentation will both thrill and repulse you with the possibilities that have recently emerged in the diy hacker technology space.

more information about the event

Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 8:00pm

This month we’ll be hosting:

* Simone Brunozzi from Amazon EU, which will give a technical presentation about S3 internals.
* Natan Elsberg from RDV Systems, which will describe how they are using the entire AWS stack to enable 3D real-time collaboration on engineering projects.

In GarageGeeks fashion, we will have beer and light snacks on the event, but only if you bring some with you.

The GarageGeeks sessions present:
Israel Amazon Web Services User Group
hosted by Martin Buhr, AWS EMEA Business Director

Tuesday, September 22
20:15, GarageGeeks HQ

Please join us to meet the AWS team, meet other AWS users, and discuss Cloud Computing.

Agenda:

• 20:30 - 20:15  Welcome and Introduction: Martin Buhr
• 20:15 - 20:45  Cloudy Thinking: Yossi Vardi
• 20:45 - 21:15  AWS Customer Presentation
• 21:15 - 21:45  What’s New With AWS: Martin Buhr
• 21:45 - 22:15  AWS Customer Presentation
• 22:15 - 22:45  Q&A / Wrap Up

more information at http://www.amiando.com/AWS-Israel.html

** Beer would be served (if you bring some..).
** Don’t forget to update the wiki (http://wiki.garagegeeks.org/) with stuff/food/drink that you will bring.

The GarageGeeks sessions present:

Experiments in Art, Software, Hardware and UX with Amit Pitaru

August 27th, 8:30pm

Like a typical garage geek, Amit splits his nights and days between experimental and commercial work.

In this session Amit will share recent art projects and discuss how they affect his work as software/hardware designer, user experience freak, and (recent) entrepreneur.

*** This is a free event, please bring DRINKS and snacks to share ***
It might get hot without cold beers at hand, and Amit recomends one for better UX

Recent projects:
Sonic Wire Sculptor (see video on top of page)
Rhonda 3D drawing tool (see video and register to dl beta software)
Smashup Dance Project

Not so recent projects:
Bjork Pagan Poetry and more works at http://insertsilence.com

Texts:

PDF on creating games for children with disabilities.
A couple of interviews with Amit here and here.

Bio:

As an artist, Amit develops novel instruments and methods for making music, animation, and dance. His personal and collaborative work with James Paterson has recently exhibited and performed at the London Design Museum, Paris Pompidou Center, Sundance Film festival and ICC Museum in Tokyo.

As an educator, he teaches (on and off) at New York University’s ITP and Cooper Union’s Arts department.

Amit works as a game designer, prototype maker (hardware/software), and user experience designer to selected clients. He’s also a recent entrepreneur (startup to be revealed soon).
Amit was recently commissioned by the MacArthur foundation to publish his research; making everyday software and video games more accessible to children with disabilities. He is also an advisor for the Institute of Play, who are developing a public school that will use game design and game-inspired methods to teach critical 21st Century skills.