sf.citi Creating Exciting ICT Opportunities in San Francisco

	NEWS ON THE GO WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 2012 WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW San Francisco Citizen's Initiative for Technology & Innovation has grown to over 190 member companies and counting. We believe the tech community & City government can work together, supercharge our economy, and find technocratic solutions to historic issues facing San Francisco. REMINDER: PLEASE DISTRIBUTE! We ask that all our members encourage your team, staff, colleagues, and friends to sign up for updates on our website to help cultivate the community, keeping people informed, connected. SummerQAmp: A CALL FOR COMMITMENT! Thanks to our sf.citi community for supporting SummerQAmp, a nationwide initiative to train American youth in high-tech skills like QA. SummerQAmp has set a goal of creating 1000 internships and are excited to have already received 100+ commitments. Next steps for interested companies: make your formal commitment to take on a specific number of QA interns this summer. We're asking companies to make their commitments by April 1st to ensure time enough time to fill positions for this summer. Make your commitment now and let us know how many interns you're willing to employ by filling out this quick form. You will then receive instructions to post and tag your internships in the White House's Summer Jobs+ database. HEADS UP! COLLABORATIVE CONSUMPITON: THE SHARING ECONOMY Tuesday, April 3rd @ 6pm. 654 Mission Street in San Francisco, CA 94105. A new collaborative economy is emerging, one in which access trumps ownership, and individuals are empowered to turn their underutilized assets into capital and connection to community. Join sf.citi as we explore the social, economic, and environmental impact of Collaborative Consumption, and how peer-to-peer market places are changing the way we live in cities. Featuring Mayor Lee; Leah Busque of TaskRabbit; Jessica Scorpio of Getaround; Joe Gebbia of AirBnB; Jamie Wong of Vayable; and Chief Innovation Officer Jay Nath. Moderated by Neal Gorenflo of Shareable, co-presented by the City, TechCentralSF, SPUR, Shareable, and sf.citi. For more information and to regeister please click here. pariSoma musicTECH MIXER HERE WE COME! sf.citi partner pariSoma will host their Music & Tech Mixer Thursday, March 29, 6:30-8:30pm @ their Innovation Loft, 169 11th Street in San Francisco. Bringing together startups envisioning the future of Music. 15 startups will demo their products and vision. Upwards of 200 attendees, including VC firms, startups, journalists and professionals eager to stay to on the cutting-edge of their industry. Companies involved: ONEsheet, concertcrowd, StrumSchool, Rexly, Playmysong, Unplugged Instuments Inc, and sf.citi member faberNovel among others. For more details and discount tickets please visit here. SFCITI JOBS & INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY BREAKFAST DISCUSSION March 20, sf.citi hosted a panel featuring special guests Mayor Lee, SV Angel Investor & sf.citi Chairman Ron Conway, Marvell Technology Group Co-Founder Weili Dai, District 2 Supervisor Mark Farrell, and Yelp CEO & Co-Founder Jeremy Stoppelman. Moderated by Federated Media Founder John Battelle, the panel offered a fresh look at industry trends, future markets, new products, and analysis of tech's impact on SF culture & economy. Conway spoke on migration of tech companies to SF, collaborative consumption challenging status quos, and social content curation as a multi-billion dollar market. Mayor Lee pointed to employment training, identifying skill sets necessary to recruit locally. Mayor Lee sees blending art, music, and tech to grab international markets will draw people to SF. As startups grow they outgrow space, Farrell says, we must ensure environments suit expanding markets. Farrell sees interactive hospitality and nonprofit donation apps as up & comers. Mr. Stoppelman explored mobile markets, the changing nature of search engines, and mobile technology overtaking desktops. Weili Dai forecasts cloud computing and 2-way viewing streams. Mark Farrell, Weili Dai, Jeremy Stoppelman, Mayor Ed Lee, John Battelle, and Ron Conway RESULTS ARE IN! STARTUP VETERANS WEEKEND HACKATHON sf.citi partner TechCentralSF, with Mayor Lee, Craig Newmark, and IAVA hosted a successful biz startup and app development competition, Startup Veteran's Weekend Hackathon @ Adobe in SF. Cosponsored by sf.citi, this 2-day brain gain marathon paired veterans, engineers, designers, marketers, & software architects in search of next generation social, mobile, gaming, ecommerce, and healthcare apps. Some results: Social enterprise platform & topics board to share and capture employees' ideas in real-time. "ARGZombies" mobile game, where phones are portals to the zombie apocalypse, virtual game-play overlays real life in real time based on geo-location. "VitalityLinks," a remote health monitoring app to socially or self-monitor veteran's reintegration progress to civilian life. "P.E.A.C.E Museum," quantum computing reaction feedback to art, transparency bidding based auctions. "Rebound Inc" engages social platforms for physical therapy, wearable sensors capturing, and allowing therapists to track patient's progress on mobile dashboards. Hackathon winner "Collectio," created and hashed in less than 24 hours, aggregates & builds collectors different product sets onto the same site, leveraging the community of collectibles and hobbyists in a $10 Billion a year market where there currently exists no online equivalent. Winning Team "Collectio" members: Former Army Specialist Jim Knudstrup and Lasse Chor WELCOME NEW MEMBERS sf.citi would like to welcome new members who have recently joined to share in our vision for a more productive and better San Francisco: Digital Realty, Life Theatre Services, Stripe, WI Harper Group, Splunk, CAC Group, ThoughtWorks, 1000memories, Nowbox, Expensify, Experience Project, Seesmic, Pipewise Inc., ifttt, WibiData, Skyline Construction, App.net, BetterWorks Inc., Rackspace, Titan Outdoor, Atlassian, Samplista Inc., UserVoice, and Stitcher. Check out our current list of members. OUR PROGRAM TO HIRE SF Partnering with HireSF to pair skilled tech workers with our member companies, our goal is to be a conduit connecting San Francisco job seekers with open jobs in the tech industry. Thank you to all our member companies who are participating! If your company has not yet posted open positions, please do so @ hiresf.org. sfcity.com