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Serious Games for Simulation, Education and the Enterprise

SoCal Tech Calendar

Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. ?Game,? Likewise, a wide variety of tasks, from corporate training to childhood education, have been variously recast in a "game" context with dimensions and purposes quite beyond simple "fun and entertainment." Saturday, January 12, 2013 -- Serious Games for Simulation, Education and the Enterprise.

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Interview with Steve Poizner, Alliance for Southern California Innovation

socalTECH

So, despite their rivalries and silos, people have come together, and we now have all 5 UC campuses in Southern California, plus Caltech, Harvey Mudd, USC, UC San Diego, and others involved. But, there is broad agreement that it would be a wonderful thing to get more entrepreneurs and venture capital into the region. more) READ MORE>>.

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How TenOneTen Ventures Is Investing In LA's Technology Future

socalTECH

There is a really genuine and real opportunity in the intersection of media and entertainment technology here in Los Angeles, and people are focused here on that for a legitimate reason. There''s Caltech, the Claremont Colleges, Harvey Mudd, UCLA. We have a lot of world class universities here.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

Both Sides of the Table

We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge. But LA is not Silicon Valley and we don’t need to aspire to be so.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since. We are creating a platform that enables users to play instant games and apps directly on the computer desktop. I have also attended Thursday Lunch ( thursdaylunch.com ), Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum , and Digital LA.

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