Dear Members and Guests,
This is a reminder that there is no TAG meeting tomorrow. As usual we are taking a break in our speaker series for the Holidays but will resume our third Friday of the month schedule on January 16 with our Predictions program by the ever popular Mark Anderson. I encouraged you to RSVP today to reserve a seat! Also please take a moment to mark your calendars for our many exciting programs in January, listed below!
I would like to wish you and your family a wonderful holiday season and happy new year!
Anna Ehnmark
TAG
January 16, 2009 - PREDICTIONS BY MARK ANDERSON SELLS OUT EARLY! BOOK NOW!
TAG is fortunate enough to have Mark Anderson, the noted speaker and technologist, bring his thoughtful and informed view of the future to the TAG meeting on January 16th. Mark Anderson is one of the most influential technology futurists in the nation. His long-running weekly newsletter, Strategic News Service (SNS), counts a stellar readership, including the likes of Michael Dell, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. Mark regularly comments on CNN TV, NPR, the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Wall Street Review and the New York Times. He writes the "Future In Review" technology column for Fortune magazine, and chairs the annual FiRE Conference and SNS Project Inkwell.
Because Mark always sells out, we encourage you to sign up early! For more details and to sign up>>
January 21, 2009 - Visit the Center for Canadian American Studies and Border Policy Research Institute
Join us on January 21 for a tour and presentation of the Center of American Studies and Border Policy Research Institute at Western Washington University. CanAm and BPRI are important elements of the WWU difference and both serve to link the university faculty and students with the larger policy and business communities in the region and nation. More details to follow in January.
January 29, 2009 - Bellingham Angels, TAG, and Bellingham/Whatcom Economic Development Council Present the Alliance of Angels 10-Minute Pitch Clinic for Entrepreneurs
Event description: Alliance of Angels 10 Minute Pitch Clinic, an educational event tailored specifically to entrepreneurs on how to effectively pitch a startup business plan to angel investors. In this clinic, the AoA Program Director will share insights on how to effectively present a business opportunity to angel investors, including fine-tuning messaging, fitting essential information into a 10-minute presentation, and providing a set of best practices for entrepreneurs to follow when developing their pitch.
The clinic will include an overview of the angel investment community, an in-depth review of the components of a good pitch, and an interactive component in which participants will receive feedback and coaching on their specific messaging. For more details and to register >>
Special Interest Group Meetings
January 14, 2009 - .Net Group Meeting
Ted Neward and Amanda Laucher to present on F#.
In this presentation, Amanda Laucher and Ted Neward, authors of the forthcoming 'F# in a Nutshell', take an all-code, no-slides look at the language, its concepts and ideas, and a little bit of its libraries and syntax, and show you how to start answering that crucial question, this time for real. By the end of the talk, you will have a grasp of some of F#'s core syntax, some good background on how it works and what it's good for, and a little bit of how it interoperates with C#, Visual Basic and other .NET languages, in either web and desktop applications.Reminders to follow closer to the 14th.
When: Wednesday, January 14, 2008. 6:30 PM.
Where: St. Luke Health Education Center.
For more information you can visit the .Net group's website. >>
TAG's Holiday & Scholarship Awards Lunch on December 4, 2008
Dennis Williams from the Northwest Indian College was one of the lucky students to receive a TAG scholarship this year. Seen here with Gary Brandt (right) of the NWIC Information Technology/ Robotics program.
This year the generosity of TAG members and guests provided five scholarships to students in technology programs at Western Washington University, Whatcom Community College, Northwest Indian College, Bellingham Technical College, and the Whatcom Tech Prep Consortium. This is our way of giving back to our community and supporting the future of technology in our area.
Our holiday and scholarship event also provided a delicious lunch prepared by the the award winning Culinary Arts students of Bellingham Technical College at the BTC restaurant. For more pictures >>
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