Fade to Play

This is a great time to be involved in the emerging technology and social media scene in Vancouver. As I engage myself more within this space, I am finding alot of hard-working, interesting and creative personalities at various geek meetups and social events. On Friday I was fortunate to attend Launch Party Vancouver 3.

I had attended Launch Party and Launch Party with a Twiist and knew that I would once again meet new people while at the same time be able to catch up on cool projects that my friends were engaged in. It was my first time at the Lamplighter, it is a great location for events, and I found the staff to be friendly and outgoing. I am really looking forward to the next Launch Party. So join the Facebook group so you are in the know next time.

Tech Women of Vancouver to Watch

In attendance were 9 of the 11 Vancouver Tech Women to Watch in 2008.

Photograph by Duane Storey

The Event

I arrived early so that I could talk with some of the sponsors and demos.

Juan Carlos of Sun Microsystems

The featured sponsor was Sun Microsystems, Juan Carlos came up from Santa Clara, CA to launch Sun’s national Start-up Essentials program:

The Sun Startup Essentials program is designed specifically to help startups get off the ground rapidly and at lower cost. The program consists of discounted or free products and services designed with startups in mind.

The first person I actually met that night was Lori Braget. Segment Marketing Manager for Sun Microsystems. She told me that there was actually an office outside Vancouver and we chatted about Sun Solaris computers as well as about what Sun’s relationship with the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.

Lori Braget and Ted

Featured companies as noted on the Launch Party blog:

Kinzin demo’d These are my Kids facebook app
DailySplice dished on their new version of morning radio made up of a customized selection of podcasts.
EQO launched their Vibrator Facebook app
Bean Services showed us they could ease our accounting frustrations with their new site.
Techvibes live blogged the event and was on hand talking about their Vancouver start-up index.
Layer 7 announced their products will deployed under OpenSolaris
Sun Microsystems announced their national Start-up Essentials Program
Super secret, Team Strutta took over the corner section of the stage with some bright lights and a MacBook giving away tees and a few clues for those of you, who were paying attention.

update: TeamPages is a social networking site for amateur sports, see the video of this featured company.

Maura Rodgers & Danny Robinson of Strutta; Dimitri Sirota of Layer 7

Team Kinzin

[Update: The photos are available on Flickr and Facebook]

[Update 2: See my videos clips of LPV3 here].

Relevance: Social events are great opportunities to network.

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