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Los Angeles Sets Up Transportation Technology Zone

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The City of Los Angeles and Mayor Eric Garcetti said this week that it is launching a new Transportation Technology Innovation Zone , which Garcetti said will allow innovators to test their transportation technology solutions.

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ServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion-dollar startup

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Located at the southeastern tip of the San Fernando Valley, the Los Angeles suburb counts its biggest employers as the adhesive manufacturer Avery Dennison; the Los Angeles industrial team for the real estate developer CBRE; the International House of Pancakes; Disney Consumer Products; DreamWorks Studios; Walt Disney Animation and Univision.

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Intellectual Property and Its Impact on Entrepreneurship

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IEEE San Fernando Valley Section and Entrepreneurs Consortium of Southern California. Steve Chen will present an overview of the patent process with a focus on IP issues related to the different types of ARRA funded vehicles, and some leads on patenting green technology. See https://www.123signup.com/event?id=jmphg.

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TiE SoCal

SoCal Tech Calendar

Join TiE Southern California as we shift locations to serve the entrepreneurs of the San Fernando Valley, at the Warner Center Marriott. Prior to joining ViaLogy, Dr. Gulati headed the Ultracomputing Technologies (UCT) Group at NASAs Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, CA.

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What I Learned In 2015: Lief Morin, KeyInfo

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Who or what do you think had the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2015? Lief Morin: In the Enterprise Technology sector, arguably the biggest impact event was the announcement of Dell acquiring EMC for 67 Billion dollars. What are the technologies or things you think people ought to watch in 2016?

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How GridTest Is Helping To Build The Next Electric Car, With Neal Roche

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The clean technology sector is infamous for taking a big toll on startups--requiring large investments, risky technology propositions, steep international competition, and fickle government policies. We manufacturer our equipment here in the San Fernando Valley, but we're also shipping our equipment to Asia and Europe.

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Why Technology is Driving More Urban Renewal

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Back in 2006/07 when I sold my company and then worked at Salesforce.com there were very few options in SF for technology folk to build their careers at big, growing companies. Technology innovation doesn’t occur in a vacuum. And sci-fi writers are but one example of the way society impacts technology. Today there’s many.