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Survios president and co-founder Nathan Burba is joining us at TechCrunch Sessions: AR/VR

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Before co-founding the company, President Nathan Burba served as the director of Project Holodeck, a USC project aimed at creating a full-body 360-degree VR experience. Since launch, Survios has generated plenty of notice from entertainment big wigs. Burba will be joining us at TC Sessions: AR/VR on October 18 at UCLA.

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How Google's Old Offices Are Becoming A Tech Hub, with ROC's Walter Grieves

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Walter Grieves: We have 20 percent entertainment and about 50 percent tech startups. Walter Grieves: We partnered with USC, UCLA, and Pepperdine, Loyola Marymount, Anderson, Annenberg Center, we have an internship program. We had the AT&T hackathon here in April, UCLA hackathon. What's the mix of your clients?

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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

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Los Angeles-based Tilofy (www.tilofy.com)--out of USC''s Viterbi Startup Garage--is doing just that, helping to highlight what is going on around you, by absorbing all of that location data out there at any particular time and place. My degree is from USC in big data. As you probably know, Viterbi is the engineering school at USC.

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Tech Cocktail

SoCal Tech Calendar

Known for its entertainment scene which blossomed in the early nineteen hundreds, LA also has some of the best schools in the country in UCLA and USC. Tuesday, May 24, 2011 -- Tech Cocktail. Los Angeles is the second largest city in the United States.

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What Mattered in 2012: Kevin Winston, Digital LA

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The biggest news for Digital LA this year has been creating and spearheading Silicon Beach Fest, LA's first startup entertainment community festival in Santa Monica and Venice in June, 2012. In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world this year?

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LA Mayoral Candidate Eric Garcetti to Keynote Inaugural Silicon Beach Fest

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LA City Council Member Eric Garcetti will give the opening keynote for the inaugural Silicon Beach Fest , a celebration of digital innovators in startups and entertainment happening June 21 – 23. Student Pitch: UCLA, USC and other student teams will compete for prizes. Click here to register.

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Accelerator Crazy In Southern California

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LA Cleantech Incubator , officially launched last week, and was created by Los Angeles Cleantech Alliance, a group supported by Mayor's Office, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Community Redevelopment Agency for Los Angeles, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, UCLA, USC, CalTech, and Arts Center College of Design.