Philly New Technology Meetup #5 - September 2014

Guest speaker, demos, food, drink. Like Philly used to have, but now new and improved.

Fall forward. It's September and no more crying that Summer is over. Four months growth for Philly New Technology and great sponsors and partners. Students now back in town. All together, this makes our September event one not to miss.

6:15 Networking and food
6:45 Guest speaker (Beah Burger-Lenehan)
7:15 Company #1 demo (PeopleLinx)
7:30 Company #2 demo (Legodelphia)
7:45 Community discussion
7:55 Networking, retire to Han Dynasty for Happy Hour

Guest Speaker

Beah Burger-Lenehan (https://www.linkedin.com/pub/beah-burger-lenehan/5/428/53a)

Beah is the Vice President of Product at Ticketleap, a center city startup making tools for event creators who want to build their community. Her tech career started at Google's Mountain View Headquarters, where she worked in Search and later Publisher Ads. She left Google in 2013 to join the Philadelphia tech community and to help it grow. Beah is a proud alumna of Haverford College, where she studied cultural anthropology.

Beah will do a speed round through a handful of tricky topics in Product Management: how to be feedback-centric without being reactionary, how to PM when you don't have a PM, etc... Bring your questions but also bring your A-game -- because there will be trivia.

Company Demo

PeopleLinx (http://peoplelinx.com/) - Keith Fitzgerald, Michael Idinopulos

This well-known local tech company recently transformed its offering into a more comprehensive "social selling" platform that helps social "no-shows" morph into "social sellers" through a variety of social and customer relationship management (CRM) platforms. They've released PeopleLinx 3 — a redesigned platform that reportedly bridges the gap between social networking and the sales process. It also helps managers measure their teams' social activities across social networks and CRMs like Salesforce, SugarCRM, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle and SAP.

Company Demo

Legodelphia (https://www.facebook.com/legodelphia) - Levi Buffum

Legodelphia is an original Lego Architecture style model of Philadelphia that spans roughly 300 blocks across the center of the city, offering the viewer a unique look at the layout and beauty of the City of Brotherly Love. Levi will exhibit the model during the Meetup and will talk about the technology that helped him create this amazing piece.

Community Announcements

Hiring? Looking for a job? Promoting an event? Need to ask for help? Share your 30-second (not sales-oriented) announcement at our community meetup.

Dessert, too!

Not only do our sponsors bring in pizza and beer, but this month we have ChocAmo (http://www.chocamo.com/) providing their unique desserts tonight.

Two companies present each month after our guest speaker. Apply here (https://phillynewtech.seamlessdocs.com/f/ApplyToDemo) to demo at Philly New Tech Meetup.

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