The May Report: 7/20/2011: How hot is it? The hottest day of the year and I’m dying here. I can’t work without AC and if I turn on the living room AC, the fuse will blow and the computer will be out: It’s so hot that Geoff Domaracki may reduce the elitist ‘Studio 54′ $350 entrance fee for TechWeek, or David Carman may take his tie off or Mike Rhodes may actually pay the rent or Len Bland may forget about that fund he does not have, or Dave Culver may stop waving his arms or Frank Gruber will refuse to have his picture taken at Tech Cocktail or Phil Tadros will stop misrepresenting his company’s work on his site and stop holding up clients for more money; or Nancy Sullivan at UIC will demote Jeremy Hollis to the level of Mark Krivchenia and pay Mark what his title calls for; or Dan Camphausen will drop his defamation case or Howard Tullman will learn manners or Doug Stukel and Mike Profita will tell the truth during their presentations or Bob Geras will have a liquidity event and lose forty pounds, or Ron May will reveal where all the secret invite only parties for TechWeek are, and the list goes on…

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IPTComm 2011 * Registration * Sponsorship * Program information

Join us for IPTComm 2011 – the only international academic conference solely devoted to IP telecommunications research

WHEN: August 1-2, 2011

WHERE: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago

EARLY REGISTRATION: Until July 1 – $300

REGULAR REGISTRATION: After July 1 – $400

WEB: www.iptcomm.org

PROGRAM:

The program includes keynote talks, invited talks and presentations of peer-reviewed papers published in-cooperation with the ACM. This is complemented by industry-focused talks and demonstrations. Highlights of the program are listed below. For more detail, and to register for the conference and hotels, please visit our web site at www.iptcomm.org . The technical program will be complemented by social events at some of Chicago’s great restaurants and venues. www.iptcomm.org/program/social/index.html

KEYNOTES:

Harald Alvestrand of Google: Real-time Web: Multimedia from specialty item to commonplace component

Scott Bradner of Harvard University: The evolution of IP from Has-been to Is-all

INVITED TALKS:

Brian Rosen, Neustar: Next Generation 911

Mohammad Shahidehpour, IIT: Smart Grid

Vijay Gurbani, Alcatel-Lucent: SIP Common Log Format

Bruce Lowekamp, Skype: Reflections on P2P Telecommunications

TECHNICAL PROGRAM:

Please see our web site at: www.iptcomm.org

SPONSORSHIP:

IPTComm attracts an international list of participants involved in cutting edge IP telecommunications research. It offers sponsorship opportunities for your company, organization or institute at gold (US$2000), silver (US$1000) and bronze (US$500) levels. For more information about sponsorship opportunities please contact admin@iptcomm.org. We look forward to seeing you at IPTCommn 2011.

QUESTIONS:

Visit www.iptcomm.org

Carol Davids, Illinois Institute of Technology

IPTComm 2011 Conference Co-Chair

Email: chairs@iptcomm.org
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Scoop section:

– In a half hour from now, Funding Feeding Frenzy kickoff and a fifth presenter was added today, Lygase RFID Solutions
– Brendan Tripp: Tech Week events
Coming later tonight in the next report:
– Briefly noted, by Ron May
– Red Foundry Hosts Mobile App Hackathon for Chicago Techweek
– TechWeek: Meet with IndieGoGo’s Erica Labovitz
– GeneXus USA CEO Dane Drotts Helps Chicago TechWeek Attendees Unlock “The Startup Puzzle”
– Arc Technology Group Launches OurNewNeighborhood.org – Incorporating Microsoft and Joomla Technology
– Scott E. Miller: Answers Ron’s question about a manufacturing renaissance
– What’s Your Opinion of M2M?
– As Seen on Phone
– Dan Ehrmann: A job posting from ClubExpress: looking to hire an experienced graphic designer and HTML programmer to help improve the look and feel of our customer websites
– Thursday, July 21: Tech Cocktail
– TechWeek – gtrot Grows Up
– Ben Joravsky: Rahm Emanuel’s report card so far: there’s room for improvement
– Convener in Chief, by David Brooks
– Emanuel effort to reinvent city government getting a $6 million boost
New York Mayor Bloomberg’s foundation awarding grant for Chicago innovation project
– This sounds like spam to me
– Mass customization
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The Scoop section:
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In a half hour from now, Funding Feeding Frenzy kickoff and a fifth presenter was added today, Lygase RFID Solutions

Subject: Funding Feeding Frenzy – Less Than 24 Hours Till The FFF July 20th Kickoff Event!
Date: 7/19/2011 10:06:48 P.M. Central Daylight Time
From: bob@fundingfeedingfrenzy.com
To: ronaldmay@aol.com

July 19, 2011

Less Than 24 Hours Till The July 20th FFF Kickoff Event!

Don’t miss the Funding Feeding Frenzy Kick-Off Event

on Wednesday July 20th (5:30pm – 9:30pm)
Where:

IBM Innovation Center
71 S. Wacker Drive, 6th Floor
Chicago, IL 60606

Hello,

Less than 24 hours till the Funding Feeding Frenzy(FFF) July 20th Kickoff event. This event is the first in the series leading up to our FFF Main Event on November 2nd. We plan to make this event bigger and better than the previous events with incredible value for all!

We still have 1 Presenting Company slot open, so take advantage of this exciting opportunity to get your company in front of key Investor Panelists.

Adian Salvi Fortune Group International (FGI)
Neil Khot Rely Services LLC
Glenn Gottfried Gentry Private Capital
Craig Bradley Wildcat Angels

This would be an excellent event to start polishing your presenting skills and receive valuable feedback on your presentations. What are you waiting for, register now!!

fundingfeedingfrenzy-kickoff.eventbrite.com/

$$$$PRESENTING COMPANY VALUE OPTION:$$

Click here to sign up to “Present My Company at the FFF Main Event” on 11/2 and Receive Free Entry to “Present My Company at Kickoff/Coaching Event” on 7/20. ($796 Value for $497)$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
PRESENTING COMPANIES REGISTERED FOR THE JULY 20TH EVENT:

- Demibooks

- Pegwise

- Nerve Access, Inc.

- NoRedInk, LLC

- COULD THIS BE YOUR COMPANY???
[Editor's note: May here: Lygase RFID Solutions has been added today as the final presenter.]

What is the Funding Feeding Frenzy Kick-Off Event?

Wouldn’t it be amazing to have the inside track to knowing exactly what those potential investors care about hearing, and how they want to hear it?

The Funding Feeding Frenzy Kickoff was designed for entrepreneurs to sharpen their presentations and get immediate feedback and critique from investors on how their business is presented.

Multiple entrepreneurs will present their company to the crowd and will learn first-hand exactly how their presentation can be improved.

There’s no judgment, only encouragement from fellow entrepreneurs, investors and people who understand what investors care about in a presentation.

Be sure to sign up now to be apart of this tremendous kick-off event!

So, as the months go by, be sure to save your spot for the Funding Feeding Frenzy. As always, we’ve got some very exciting developments and will be sharing this information with you as the event gets closer. If you are a serious entrepreneur, make sure that you are registered to be a part of the awesome event coming on Nov 2, 2011.

Don’t delay…register and take advantage of our early bird pricing and reserve your spot at this outstanding event. Be sure to check out the website to get more information today!

www.FundingFeedingFrenzy.com

or simply

Sincerely,

The Funding Feeding Frenzy Team

www.FundingFeedingFrenzy.com

For more information about The Funding Feeding Frenzy, please be sure to contact:

Bob Bock,
708.646.9047

bob@fundingfeedingfrenzy.com
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Brendan Tripp: Tech Week events

Subject: Tech Week Events …
Date: 7/20/2011 1:52:29 P.M. Central Daylight Time
From: btripp@gmail.com
To: ron@themayreport.com, RONALDMAY@aol.com

Ron …

Here’s the main page for the schedule … the individual items are clickable and pull up more info …

techweek.com/conference/schedule/

It’s sort of confusing, as it’s color-coded according to “niche”, but both of the parties on Friday night are colored as “advertising/media”, while the “mixer” on Sunday (which appears to be “by invitation only”) is colored as “creative/design” … go figure!

Here’s the Built In Chicago page and event page …

www.builtinchicago.org/

www.builtinchicago.org/events/event/listUpcoming

… I hope you can see these, I’m “cookied up” in both my browsers, so it keeps me logged in, so I don’t know what somebody who’s not logged in sees (have you signed up on the site yet?).

There’s a bunch of stuff there, but it doesn’t look like anything “official” from that … although I see that Moog is on the program via the TIE program (midwest.tie.org/article/33/tie-midwest-one-week-july).

On Friday night there’s two parties … the PeopleBrowser one at English:

techwkpeoplebrowsr.eventbrite.com/

… and the 5Degrees/DealsGoAround/LocalTourist “after party” at Sidebar:

5degreesusdgr.eventbrite.com/

It looks from the sign-up stuff that TechWeek had an “earlybird” rate of $199 through 5/20, but it’s up to the $350 “walk up” rate now …

thetechweek-ehometext.eventbrite.com/

… anyway, that’s all I know about it … it was pretty much “off my radar” until Monday when I was informed that I was included in the HyperLocalLIVE team that got press passes! (by the way HLL is at hllchicago.com or HERE for the LiveStream page).

- B.T.
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