Lots of good updates to post today, so I’m going to get at it rapid-fire…
- The Feast, a social innovation conference that Michael Karnjanaprakorn is bringing to New Orleans for the first time on February 6, 2009 has moved to a larger venue due to the strong demand. Michael announced today that the conference will be held at the Contemporary Arts Center. They’ve released additional $99 tickets (available only until Friday) so go register to attend today. I’m going to be speaking at the conference, and I’m working on my talk now. Any thoughts, send them my way.
- Startup School v2 will be held at Tulane on Thursday Jan 29, and Saturday, Feb 7. This Startup School will be geared around the $40,000 Tulane Business Plan Competition. We’re putting this together in conjunction with the TEA, SENO, VoodooTEQ, and hope to have the participation of many of the excellent judges from last time. Keep in mind that for the Tulane competion, each entry needs to have a student (from any university) on the team. More details to follow.
- 504ward will announce the first round finalists this Friday.
- 9th Ward Field of Dreams is an amazing project that Brian Bordainick behind. He working to build a $1.85 million state of the art football field in the Upper 9th Ward for Carver High school and the community. If you haven’t heard about this yet, check out the ESPN article and find out how you can help make it a reality.
- Net2NO is taking a road trip to SXSW and we want you to be a part of it. We’ve broken into subcommities to put together the party, travel and pitch. If you’re interested in helping New Orleans to take SXSW by storm in March, sign up here.
- GNO Inc’s Michael Hecht presented at NetNO last night about the new Digital Media Alliance launch. This initiative is focused on equipping us, New Orleans’ creative class of knowledge workers to succeed and attract more businesses and talent to the city. One of the things that has already been prepared is a slide deck to pitch New Orleans as a great place to locate your business. Take a look below.
If you have anything that I’ve left off, hit me up in the comments. I’ll include it in the post. Thanks to everyone who is contributing.
Lots going on! Thanks for keeping us up to date and on the same page with posts like this. (And thanks for the link to VoodooTEQ, even though there’s nothing on the site yet…
So far we’ve had 15 people sign up for the SXSW Road Trip, at least one of them from Lafayette. We’re halfway to 30, and the form hasn’t even been up a full 12 hours! With everyone’s continued support, I’m sure we can pull this off. I can’t wait–it’s going to rock!
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Chris,
Thanks for the great recap and the links to the other events. I’ve already signed up for two!
Also, I posted the full text of that data sheet Michael was talking about on our blog.
Will
Great Post Chris!!! Lots of great fun stuff going on. Looks like I definitely will be starting my year off with a bang!!!
New Orleans is on the tipping point of a huge movement! Glad that we can contribute and be part of it. Looking forward to seeing everyone in February at The Feast Conference.
Agreed. Thank you for all that everyone is doing, we sure are. And just wait until Net2NO pulls of this SXSW Road Trip, things are going to be on fire.