Wednesday, February 13, 2008

March is coming up

Our first meeting at La Pita went off better then I expected!! We had about 20 people there.

Thank you Tim. You will have to tell me if you got business from your presintation.

March 11, 2008 our speaker is: Robert W. Hooley, VP Emerging Technologies, Greater Phoenix Economic Council. His presintation wil be about Arizona's solar programs.

The Sun is our greatest energy source, providing the potential for powerful, reliable, renewable, and clean energy to supply all of our energy needs throughout the world. The sun produces some 386 billion MWs of energy.

This past year, Arizona utilities led by APS called for the development and building of a 250MW solar generating facility. ASU's President Dr. Michael Crow has asked that the university's campus be 'solarized', and issued an RFP for 7MW of power. With such an abundant supply of sunlight in our state (and surrounding states), why hasn't the southwest embraced solar energy as an economic and job growth engine. This transition would help both the need for a clean and renewable energy source and a way of economic vitality for the region, state, and southwest-potentially eliminating the country's dependence on other forms of high emission fuels?
Robert W. Hooley, VP Emerging Technologies at GPEC will present "Solar Energy Generation for a New Generation" and discuss some of the State's and region's efforts. He will discuss technically as to the value of distributed and non-distributed solar generation and how it relates to the elimination of energy dependency on fossil fuels. http://www.gpec.org/


April 8, 2008 GAMES, GAMES, GAMES
The Speaker will be: Ashish Amresh, Lecturer, School of Computing and Informatics, Arizona State Univeristy.

The School of Computing & Informatics in partnership with the College of Education and The School of Art will be launching a university wide non-degree certificate program in computer gaming starting Fall 08. This six course 18 credit certificate will have three different areas of emphasis or tracks that the students can specialize in. These tracks are programming, art and education. The students will have to take two core classes followed by a track area core class and two track area electives. The final course is a capstone project that teams of students work with faculty and industry to solve real world problems. Two gaming labs are currently being built one at the Brickyard and another at SkySong to accelerate the curriculum and enrollment needs for this certificate. The School of Computing & Informatics also organizes a six week full time summer camp in game development for high school students. Currently pilot courses are being offered to undergraduate students in game development and the curriculum for the certificate is being tested and refined.

May 12, 2008

The speaker is -- Francine Hardaway, Ph.D. co-founder, Stealthmode PartnersFrancine will be presenting on social media tools and how they are changing business. Marketing has been totally changed through social media, although marketers do not know it yet. The customer is now in charge of the brand, and technology has made reaching people easier and more difficult at the same time. Learn how these new tools can help you and your business.
http://www.stealthmode.com/http://blog.stealthmode.com/

Mark your calendars

Please be sure to visit the Tech Oasis blog for additional information and the opportunity to suggest speakers.

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Come on folks who do you want to hear! Tell me!!

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March 18, 2008 our Discovery Series Tours will be showing off our research in NEW MATERIALS for ULTRA HIGH-SPEED LOJIC & RF COMMUNICATION LAB. To sign up contact herb.f@asu.edu. http://www.fulton.asu.edu/fulton/departments/research/documents/discovery_series07_08.pdf