Elemental's Out and About in Portland

Submitted by Julie on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 12:43

Fresh off back-to-back demos of Elemental products over in Amsterdam at IBC and down in California at the GPU Technology Conference and Adobe Max, we figured it was about time to give the home turf some love.  Just like our software, we’re catering to multiple audiences, so whether you’re a software developer, investor, videographer or just a curious technology enthusiast, there’s an opportunity for you to check us out this week or next week.

Wednesday, 10/21, 12 to 2 p.m. : Elemental hosts Lunch 2.0

Elemental Technologies, 620 SW Fifth Ave.

If you’ve never been before or attend every month, Lunch 2.0 is always different (new food, new faces, new technology).  According to organizer Jake Kuramoto, “Portland Lunch 2.0 is a networking event, and we like it that way. Because it’s during the day and not as tech-focused as other Portland events, you’ll see new faces. But never fear, you’ll also see the familiar faces you also see at the myriad of evening and weekend events.”

We’ll be serving a Kettleman Bagels and Paradise Bakery buffet and talking about building an enterprise product UI on Ruby, getting online video distributed in mass and tips for video creation in Adobe CS4.

Call if you get lost: 503.222.3212 

 

Thursday, 10/29, 9 to 5 p.m. : Elemental presents at Venture NW

The Nines, 525 SW Morrison St.

At this year’s Venture NW conference (conveniently at the Nines across the street from Elemental HQ), CEO Sam Blackman will present around 11 a.m. on Elemental’s business model, product suite and position within the online video marketplace as one of eleven of “the area's hottest emerging Northwest businesses.”

OEN's Venture Northwest (formerly Venture Oregon) is an annual conference that draws institutional investors and investment bankers from across the Western U.S. who are interested in emerging Northwest businesses and the region's growth segments, according the conference site. Notable entrepreneurial keynote presentations, include: Zeba – Absorbent Technologies, Tripwire, Insight Schools, Inc. and Ater Wynne.

It looks like you can still register to attend (including both academic and full suit prices). 

 

Thursday, 10/29, 6:30 p.m. : Elemental speaks at Refresh Portland

Jive, 915 SW Stark St., Suite 400

And later that evening, VP of Marketing Andy Beach, will be giving out free tips about video compression for the web at Refresh Portland. According to Andy:

“Creating high quality video content for the web is not quite as simple as whipping out your Flip HD, then uploading to YouTube. That said, it's a lot easier than most people know (and doesn't require a two-hour uploading annoyance). We should all be putting more videos online, after all it's the fastest growing and most popular communication vehicle on the web, but there are better ways to do it.”

Refresh Portland meets every fourth Thursday (given October is a long month this time) at Jive Software located in the heart of Portland, right off of SW Burnside. Show up at 6:30 PM to catch the presentation, and join us for dinner and drinks at Deschutes Brewery right afterwards.

One lucky attendee will take home a signed copy of Andy’s book, Real World Video Compression. Heck, knowing Andy, if you start talking video codecs, he’ll probably also buy you a drink at Deschutes afterwards.

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