Marketing for Startups (Free)
Wednesday, November 30 @ 5:30pm | Mountain View

An educational talk about gaining traction with Rand Fishkin, who started SEOMoz.

Appnation (Free Expo Passes)
November 30 – December 1 | San Francisco

Ching Wu from Morgenthaler Ventures was kind enough to give StartupDigest members free expo passes to Appnation. When registering select “EXPO Pass” and use the code MVEXPO.

Tech Cocktail ($20)
Wednesday, November 30 @ 6:30pm | San Francisco

A mixer and demo event. They are still looking for startups to showcase so apply on the site if you are interested.

Women 2.0 Pitch (Application Date)

Deadline is November 30

Pitch is Women 2.0′s biggest event. Apply to pitch your startup at the event.

Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner (Free)
Thursday, December 1 @ 5:30pm | San Francisco

Meet other female founders and hackers over dinner.

Persevere or Pivot? ($25)
Thursday, December 1 @ 6:30pm | San Francisco

An event focused on the decision to pivot or not with Simon Tisminezky, co-founder of Speeddate.com

Women 2.0 Founder Friday (Free)
Friday, December 2 @ 6pm | Palo Alto

A mixer hosted by Women 2.0 and Jen O’Neal, Co-Founder of Tripping. Event is open to both guys and girls.

Startup Sauna Demo Day (Free)
Friday, December 2 @ 6pm | San Francisco

Startup Sauna is a seed stage fund from Northern Europe. They are organizing a demo day in SF for their group of European and Russian startups.

Warm Gun (10% off with StartupDigest)
Friday, December 2 | San Francisco

A conference all about design organized by Dave McClure and 500 Startups. Speakers include the lead designers from YouTube, Groupon, Esty, Tumblr, Instagram, and more.

AngelHack (30% off with SUDigest)
December 3 & 4  |  San Francisco

A hackathon that includes workshops, resources, and prizes. Open to both engineers and non-technical people.

An Android Boot Camp inside of Appnation with 200 complimentary expo passes available. First-come, first-served.

An educational talk about gaining traction with Rand Fishkin, who started SEOMoz.

A mixer and demo event. They are still looking for startups to showcase so apply on the site if you are interested.

Pitch is Women2.0′s biggest event. Apply to pitch your startup at the event.

Meet other girl founders and hackers over dinner.

An event around the decision to pivot or not with Simon Tisminezky, co-founder of Speeddate.com

A mixer hosted by Women2.0 and Jen O’Neal, Co-Founder of Tripping. Event is open to both guys and girls.

When: Wednesday, 16th November 2011, 9am-1230pmWhere: Plug-In@Blk 71, 71 Ayer Rajah Crescent, #02-18, Singapore 139951

Henry Wong, venture partner at Garage Tech Ventures will share his experiences and insights from the point of view of a VC in Silicon Valley.

Startup Asia: Top strategies for cashing in Asia’s Innovation Boom

When: Wednesday, 16th November 2011, 6:30pm – 8:00pm

Where: Blk 71 Ayer Rajah Crescent #02-18, Singapore 139951

Meet a panel who will share their thoughts on the winning strategies of a new generation of entrepreneurs who no longer look to Facebook, Amazon and eBay for cues but are crafting their own business models, going global, and scoring IPOs on Wall Street. The panel includes Koh Soo Boon of iGlobe Partners, Wong Kok Cheong of Sparky Animation, Darius Cheung of tencube (acquired by McAfee).

Web Wednesday

When: Wednesday, 16th November 2011, 7pm-930pm

Where: THE BEER MARKET, 3B River Valley Road, Singapore 179021

Meet Ranji David of Interactive Advertising Bureau-Singapore as she speaks about advertizing spend online especially vis-à-vis the IAB Online Revenue Report 2011.

Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation Luncheon

When: Thursday, 17th November 2011, 12pm-130pm

Where: Plug-In@Blk71, Blk 71 Ayer Rajah Crescent #02-18, S (139951)

Your opportunity to cozy up with Jojo Flores, co-founder of Plug and Play Tech Center in the US; and Eddie Chau, co-founder of Brandtology (acquired by Media Monitors).

TEDxKRP

When: Thursday, 17th November 2011, 630pm-9pm

Where: Shaw Foundation Alumni House Auditorium, 11 Kent Ridge Drive

Organized by the the Grameen Creative Lab @ NUS, TEDxKRP brings speakers to talk about creating social impact through businesses.

Introduction to Mozilla’s WebFWD Accelerator

When: Thursday, 17th November 2011, 7pm-9pm

Where: Plug-in, Blk 71, 71 Ayer Rajah Crescent

Meet Diane Bisgeier, Program Manager of WebWFD as she takes you through Mozilla’s Innovation Accelerator: a program which supports Open Source projects by offering mentorship from industry experts, access to the Mozilla global network, infrastructure and other world-class resources.

Closing the Entrepreneurial Gap

When: Friday, 18th November 2011, 4-8pm

Where: Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium, NUS University Town

Made up of two parts: a live telecast from a panel in Beijing, and a local panel here in Singapore. This event features industry leaders from the Chinese tech scene.

Gamification SG Meetup

When: Friday, 18th November 2011, 5:00pm – 8:00pm

Where: Singapore Polytechnic InnoVillage, 500 Dover Road Singapore 139651, InnoVillage Inv B 24

Location-based gamification? Social+game mechanics? Discuss.

GovCamp Singapore

When: Friday, 18th November 2011, 3pm till late

Where: The Rock Auditorium, Suntec City

Following in the spirit of BarCamp, GovCampSG is for governments and other public institutions to share social and tech solutions to turn them into Gov 2.0. It is also to promote active citizenry among the people to participate and take an active role in society. The theme for this GovCampSG is “Connecting people, data, and ideas”, revolving around 2 main topics – “Engagement” and “Open Data.”

A showcase of eastern european tech startups who have relocated to SF already.

A demo event and keynote with Michael Arrington, founder of TechCrunch and CrunchFund.

A mixer for people in the mobile gaming space.

An after party for the first class at RockHealth, a health tech incubator.

A meetup for people in the education technology space.

Learn how to deploy and manage a Java application on Heroku.

Yes it’s one of Silicon Valley’s very first robot hackathons!

Celebrate nerd new year on 11/11/11 with Hackers and Founders and 106 Miles.

This is a 2 day conference where you will be able to learn about html5 and game development.

Entrepreneurs Roundtable is a new accelerator program in NYC and is doing a demo day for their companies this week in Mountain View.

Brian Chesky is a co-founder of Airbnb and Reid Hoffman started LinkedIn, is a partner at Greylock, and previously worked at Paypal.

Come and meet a lot of Titanium developers, check out some cool demos and see the live premiere of the V8 runtime for Android.

Sweden, where Spotify and Skype came from, will be hosting a demo night of 25 Swedish startups.

A startup happy hour in San Jose with beer and tacos.

Apéro entrepreneurs, a big entrepreneurship meetup in Paris, is hosting their first meetup in San Francisco.

Come to the Hacker Dojo and learn from Ryan Dy from Pivotal Labs on how to build a Rails application with a Backbone.js backend! This is a laptops out, hands on workshop.

Learn about the Chinese internet market and meet some of the big name founders and investors visiting from China.

A demo event and keynote with Michael Arrington, founder of TechCrunch and CrunchFund.

Come and learn what are Hybrid Clouds, why they are important and how you can start using them.

Selenium is a great tool to automate most of your website testing.

Get some face time with some of the best minds in the videogame space.

Peter Thiel, co-founder of Paypal & angel investor of Facebook, will be debating whether innovation has stalled or not.

A fun event for Halloween. Includes blood red beer, candy, pizza, and life lessons from zombies and vampires.

Come and learn from Zurb about interaction design.

Learn about rmr a new package that allows to perform mapreduce computations in R, part of the RHadoop open source project connecting R and the Hadoop ecosystem!

MongoDB at AKQA; Analytics with MongoDB (Free)

Tuesday, October 11 @ 6:30pm | San Francisco

Learn from people from the AKQA team and get more information on the path from SQL to NO-SQL!
 
Sales for Startups (Free)

Wednesday, October 12 @ 6pm | San Francisco

Learn about the basics of sales from AngelPad’s portfolio companies.
 
Silicon Valley Design Business Talk ($20)

Thursday, October 13 @ 6:30pm | Mountain View

Manu Kumar, founding partner of K9 Ventures, will be sharing his experiences from his portfolio companies and his own successful startups.
 
Expansion party for HackerDojo (Free)

Friday, October 14 @ 7pm | Mountain View

HackerDojo, a hacker space in Mountain View, is expanding and throwing a party to celebrate!
 
The Godfather of Silicon Valley – Ron Conway (Free)

Friday October 14 @ 12pm | Campbell

Ron Conway has placed more bets on startups then anyone else. Hear his story and meet him in person.
 
Gamification Hack Day (Free)

Saturday, October 15 @ 10am | Palo Alto

Create a mobile game, or gamification app. Preworked app/game is fine, bring it over to polish and/or integrate with other gamification or monetization SDK, so long as it hasn’t been published yet and fight to get some cool prizes like an iPad.
 
ACM Data Mining Camp and Training Class ($35)

Saturday, October 15 | San Jose

A unconference is always fun, so come over for an interesting Data Mining day. Share your knowledge and learn from other people!

Hackmeet (Free)

October 15-16 | San Francisco

Join other hackers, activists, and artists for a 2 day un-conference about all things hackery in multiple industries and areas.

A discussion about how large brands are using new tech with a brand manager, reporter, and startups in the advertising space.

Posterous has moved from a blog to a full featured social network. Come hear the story of why they decided to go that direction.

Come with a simple software project you want to make, get paired up with a person to pair-program with and learn from, and learn new things.

Short talks about data visualization at a bar. Get the irony?