By Julie Blaustein

Evan Williams, CEO of Twitter

The Girls in Tech event, TWITTER NATION Fireside Chat with Evan Williams, CEO of Twitter was held at the incubator Kicklabs in San Francisco with over 100 attendees. It was moderated by Claire Cain Miller, reporter for the New York Times. The chat was full of new and interesting information about Twitter and, surprisingly Evans was quite entertaining.

Evan Williams is known for inventing the term blogger and in fact one of his previous companies, Blogger, was acquired by Google. His success is a result of his need to be driven by his passion within. He is a big fan of Napolean Dynamite who he sees as one of the biggest geeks that there is, but so geeky, that he is cool.

Twitter had over 90 million tweets the day of the event and has now more than 145 million users. Evans feels  there has been no real need for PR and Promotion until recently, and that is because they were “lucky” enough not to need it. Twitter shares a great deal of information not surprisingly, on their own Company Blog .

Eric Brown, Sarah Brown, Lisa Phillips and Dana Contreras of Twitter

Did you know that Twitter is hiring! They have grown to over 300 people and are continuing to grow. Williams feels its important to continue having meals together to get to know one another. Perks include not only working in SF but having your gym membership covered, yoga, pilates and of course most of your meals taken care of.

What is it like working at Twitter? The Twitter folks present at the event were more than enthusiastic about being a part of this fast-moving train that the entire world has either joined or is quickly jumping on board.

On January 26^th San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club will be packed with the city’s brightest female entrepreneurs attending Girls in Tech’s first Catalyst Conference.

As mentioned in an earlier post on Bubblicious, the Catalyst Conference aims to catalyze the career development of women working in high-tech. Through expert-lead workshops, keynotes and discussions the ‘Girls only’ attendees will be catapulted into an atmosphere that empowers them to strive and take the next step towards their professional careers.

The Catalyst Conference’s jam-packed agenda includes an array of influential woman in tech including Eileen Gittins of Blurb, Katherine Barr of Mohr Davidow Ventures, Sandy Jen of Meebo and Elisa Camahort Page of BlogHer. These speakers and more will be discussing topics such as Girls in Gaming to Coding and developing to Company expansion.

The day full of discussion, insight and networking with over 250 women will be sure to stimulate attendees to take their business vision and make it a reality! To register and get more information, please go here.

In true Girls in Tech fashion, they are also hosting an after- party that is sure to keep the conversation flowing into the evening at Roe.

Hope to see you there!

Event Details:

When: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 from 9:00am – 5:00pm PT

Where: Commonwealth Club

595 Market St, Floor 2

San Francisco, CA 94105

Register: http://gitcc.eventbrite.com/

January 2010 brings an exciting event to San Francisco’s Girls in Tech event roster – The Catalyst Conference held at the Commonweath Club in downtown San Francisco.

Aimed to catalyze the career development of women working in high-tech, The Catalyst Conference offers high-level keynotes and discussions from successful women at the top of their game alongside workshops led by experts in innovation and collaboration. The event, which Bub.blicio.us is a main media sponsor of,  enables & propels women to take the next step, whether they’re launching a new venture, making waves in the corporate world, looking to join an innovative startup, or building their online and digital-media media brand.

Catalyst Conference will bring over 250 passionate, creative women together to fuel new relationships and ideas. Come prepared to share concrete technology and business tools and tactics, meet energetic leaders and entrepreneurs, and develop your own business ventures. This conference is for women at the top of their industries as well as those leading their first ventures, and will guide them all in discussions of strategy and success.

Attendees of the Catalyst Conference will also be able to:

• Understand industry trends, what models are working and what models aren’t working
• Promote your ideas and your company to a group of very targeted women in tech
• Learn how you can create change by using the web tools and platforms available for developing nations
• Participate in the Girls in Tech + Vator.tv pitch contest

This event is WOMEN ONLY for all attendees! Sorry boys! All interested women, please go here to register. Rates will go up closer to the event date, so purchase soon!

Event details:

9am – 6pm, January 26th, 2010
Commonwealth Club
595 Market Street, 2nd Floor

By Miiko Mentz (@miikomentz)

Geeks on a Plane (GOAP) are at it again and this time they’re off to Hawaii for a week of fun in the sun and great talks and networking around technology, business, sustainability and life. The GOAP team and friends are part of [re]think Hawaii, which starts today and runs through November 5.

[re]think Hawaii is a week of events that is bringing together an international group of people — who might not otherwise meet — to rethink technology, business and sustainability. One of those events is Share Your Table’s Farm to Table Lunch that’s an invite-only luncheon of green, tech and business leaders who will feast on a lunch that’s 100 percent sourced from Hawaii, which is quite impressive given 85 percent of Hawaii’s food is imported. Sustainability is a critical issue that affects all of us, and I hope that [re]think Hawaii helps raise awareness not only in Hawaii’s own efforts to support its sustainability, but also globally.

[re]think Hawaii participants will attend a host of other events this week from Venture Capital Secrets and Startonomics Hawaii to BlogWorld’s Social Media Business Summit and the What They Don’t Teach You At Business School workshop that will be given by Duck9 CEO and Businessweek Blogger Larry Chiang (@larryChiang). Larry is also a guest writer at Bubblicious.

One lucky [re]think Hawaii participant is Mugasha CEO and Co-founder Akshay Dodeja (@dodeja) who we caught up with recently at the TechCrunch50 conference. Akshay was the lucky winner of the Girls in Tech [re]think Hawaii raffle giveaway that was conducted during TC50. Proceeds from the raffle went to Girls Inc., an organization celebrating girlhood and inspiring and supporting young girls to become tomorrow’s leaders.

Check out our interview with Adriana Gascoigne (@afgascoigne), GOAP co-organizer and Girls in Tech founder, talking about Girls in Tech, Girls Inc., GOAP and [re]think Hawaii; and at the end of the video we captured a few comments from lucky winner Akshay.

GOAP organizers are Dave McClure (@davemcclure) of Founders Fund and Startup2Startup, Brady Forrest (@brady) of O’Reilly, Adriana Gascoigne of SGN and Girls in Tech (GIT), and many others. Dave McClure, Larry Chiang, and Flowtown Co-founder Dan Martell (@danmartell) are the hosts of GOAP Hawaii. And [re]think Hawaii is organized by Christine Lu (@christinelu) and a unique group of people from around the world.

#rethink #GOAP

by Brian Solis

I’m looking forward to this…

I’m co-hosting the ad:tech opening night party in San Francisco with Adriana Gascoigne, of Girls in Tech, Rohit Bhargava, Involver and Rich Relevance at Roe in San Francisco.

The media social, a media party, kicks off ad:tech 2009 in style.

RSVP here.

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-9-10PM Open Bar
-Admission with a valid ad:tech 2009 badge
-DJ Zaq all night
-All 1 block away from the Moscone Center
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The Hosts:

Girls in Tech:
http://girlsintech.net
http://twitter.com/GITweet

Rohit Bhargava:
http://www.personalitynotincluded.com
http://rohitbhargava.typepad.com
http://twitter.com/rohitbhargava

Involver:
http://involver.com
http://twitter.com/involver

Brian Solis, PR 2.0 – NEW!
http://www.briansolis.com
http://twitter.com/briansolis
Putting the Public Back in Public Relations

Rich Relevance – NEW!
http://www.richrelevance.com

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by Brian Solis

On December 4th, Girls in Tech will celebrate the debut of its Los Angeles presence with a launch party at the Causecast HQ. Bub.blicio.us is an official media sponsor.

RSVP, today, robyn[at]girlsintech[dot]net

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by Brian Solis

Girls in Tech presents its first ever, “Developer Forum” at hi5 in San Francisco on November 19th from 1:00pm – 5:00pm, followed by a cocktail party.

The event is co-produced by GIT, hi5, Intel, RealTimeMatrix, Slide, MySpace, GLAM, RockYou, Mochi Media, Photobucket, ThoughtWorks, Watercooler and iLike. This will be a casual, yet interactive engagement of developers, designers and engineers throughout the Silicon Valley and beyond. The afternoon event will highlight hot and relevant topics in the development and engineering space such as unique languages – Ruby, PHP, Perl, Java, Python, OpenSocial, new application trends, monetization of applications and platforms, and design and build options.

Please RSVP by emailing Adriana.

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