GABA Events
GABA Stammtisch Alameda
Wednesday, Jul
03
& Aug 07, 2013
07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Speisekammer 2424
Lincoln Avenue, Alameda
Join us for GABA's monthly casual get-together in the East Bay and enjoy some of Speisekammer's delicious German
dishes, beers and even the famous tart Applewine from the Franfurt Area, while meeting old and new friends.
Please register, so we can reserve a table for the right number of people; free to attend.
We are looking forward to see you there!
GABA Stammtisch San Francisco
Wednesday, Jul
10
& Aug 14, 2013
07:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Triptych bar/restaurant/art gallery 1155
Folsom Street, San Francisco
Please join us on every second Wednesday of the month for our San Francisco GABA Stammtisch and enjoy mingling and networking with
friends or colleagues. Street parking is available. The Civic Center BART Station is 3 blocks away. It should be easy to spot us
in the main room when you enter. No RSVP needed. Willkommen!
GABA Stammtisch South Bay
Wednesday, Jul
17
& Aug 21, 2013
07:00 PM - 09:30 PM
Esther's German Bakery
and Café 987 N San
Antonio Rd, Los Altos
Come to mingle and network in the very casual environment of our traditional Stammtisch at Esther's German Bakery every month.
you will find us in the Biergarten to the back of the restaurant - a little German flag will guide you.
Apart from the dainty German dishes, Esther also serves great German beer on draft and invites the GABA Stammtisch guests to a free
dessert with your meal. No RSVP needed. Willkommen!
GABA Stammtisch Sacramento
Thursday, Jul
18
& Aug 15, 2013
06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Sudwerk Riverside 9900
Greenback Lane, Folsom
Please join us for GABA's new monthly casual get-together in Folsom. We have a regular group every third Thursday of the month at
Suedwerk. They brew German style beers including a Munich style lager, Pilsner and Hefeweizen. Please RSVP to
andrew.m.woodruff@gmail.com so we can reserve a table for the right number of people. We are looking forward to see you there!
GABA Stammtisch Santa Cruz
Wednesday, Jul
24
& Aug 28, 2013
07:00 PM - 10:00 PM
The
Crepe Place 1134
Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz
Come to mingle and network every fourth
Wednesday of the month in the very casual environment of our
traditional GABA Stammtisch at the Crepe Place in Santa Cruz.
You will find us in the cosy garden to the back of The Crepe
Place in Santa Cruz. We are looking forward to meeting you
there!
International Summer Business Mixer & Business Showcase
Thursday, Jul 25, 2013
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Newport Beach Country Club 1600E Coast Highway, Newport Beach
Join GABA as we meet again with our European friends and others to enjoy a
beautiful Southern California evening at the NEWPORT BEACH COUNTRY CLUB! Sample the fine foods from participating Restaurants "Natraj Indian Cuisine", "The Olde Ship" and more, while
live music and a "No Host" bar will complete the atmosphere!
GABA/GSVA: My Success. Our Visions
Wednesday, Aug 14, 2013
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
STBD, San Francisco
Every quarter, "My success. Our visions" welcomes the new
batch of companies participating in the German Accelerator and invites one individual who has made it in Silicon Valley to share his/her learning and path to success.
The
Rise of the Hardware Startup
Thursday, Aug 15, 2013
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Wilmer Hale Palo Alto, 950 Page
Mill
Road, Palo Alto
Traditionally, hardware development has been the realm of corporations with global operations and scale. But as we are in the middle of an important new technology cycle that Mary Meeker (KPCB) has identified as Wearable/Everywhere Computing, the number of hardware-focused startups is growing rapidly. Join our panel of distinguished experts who will share their experience and insights into the increase of hardware startups.
GABA Sommerfest 2013
Sunday, Aug 18, 2013
03:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Cuesta
Park 615 Cuesta
Drive, Mountain View
Join us as we celebrate GABA's annual
Sommerfest - enjoy cold beer & pretzel, wine & wurst,
soda &
salad or fizz & fish - whatever
you choose, we'll have lots of fun!
European Networking
Thursday, Aug 22, 2013
06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
K&L Gates 4
Embarcadero Center
12th Floor, San Francisco
Don't miss this chance to mingle with business professionals from diverse European countries in a very relaxed atmosphere!
These events regularly attract more than 150 international business professionals and due to its popularity is reserved exclusively for members
of the partnering organizations and one guest per member only. Get your ticket soon since this event may sell out!
This event is sponsored by: K&L Gates.
GABA's online event calendar for more information and to register!
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Co-Sponsored Events
Intersolar North America 2013
The Exhibition is from Tuesday, July 09, 2013 - Thursday July 11, 2013
The Conference is from Monday, July 08, 2013 - Thursday July 11, 2013
Moscone Center in San Francisco
The Intersolar North America is excited to kick off the North American industry's premier solar business and deal-making event on July 8, 2013 in
San Francisco. Intersolar North America is recognized as North America's premier b2b exhibition and conference for the solar industry. Engage with
19,000 professionals and 600 exhibitors and take an in-depth look at the industry's hottest topics at the InterContinental Hotel (Conference)
and Moscone West Hall (Exhibition). The main areas of focus are Photovoltaics, Solar Heating & Cooling and new in
their range: Energy Storage.
Stay informed and implement your business strategies - Intersolar offers a variety of
conference & exhibition programs! To get special savings for GABA members at Intersolar North America
register
here !
JHTC:
Opinion Space: Robots, Gardens & Social Media
Tuesday, July 9, 2013, 06:30 PM
Fenwick & West, 801 California St., Mountain View
JHTC invite you to a great event lined up with Ken Goldberg of UC, Berkley. Ken Goldberg and his students have been working on a
new approach to online brainstorming at UC Berkeley called Opinion Space. To achieve scale
and speed, they employ techniques from robotics: non-linear spatial models that present a broad diversity of ideas and higher-order
statistical filtering that rapidly extract the most valuable ideas (the signals) from the noise. Goldberg will describe the system and
how it is being used by the US Department of State, GeneralMotors, Unilever, and Humana. So don't miss the exciting event and learn more
about how online brainstorming works. For more information and registration please visit the
website.
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New and Renewing Members
Entrepreneurs:
Laurrey Wellness
Open Domain, Inc.
Individual Members:
Bhandarkar, Vasudev
Finnet, Etienne
Geissendoerfer,Sascha
Harms, Simone
Hoffman, Arch
Khoury, John
Kraft, Astrid
Lambacher, Christian
Nielsen, Niels
Poitner, Michael
Stuetzer, Wolfgang
Visvanathan, Skanda
For more information on how to become a GABA Member, contact
membership@gaba-network.org, or visit
our website to sign up online.
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Inside GABA
GABA Stammtisch Santa
Cruz
We are happy to
announce our first GABA Stammtisch in Santa Cruz has been a
fun gathering in the garden of The Crepe Place. The Santa Cruz
Stammtisch will be on every 4th Wednesday of the month and
Thomas Kuehne will be your host. Come and join us on July 24th
for the next round!
For more information on how to become a GABA Member, visit
our website to sign up online or contact
info@gaba-network.org.
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Member News
GAIS
The German-American International School would like to thank you for your support! The new lease agreement with the
Menlo Park City School District (MPCSD) gives them the right to remain at their current O'Connor site through May 15th 2015. This will allow
them more time to relocate and find a new home. They are currently hiring teachers and also have still open spots for students for the school year
2013-14! Please contact them at (650) 324-8617 or visit their website to schedule a tour or for further information.
GASPA
With the heads in the clouds and our feet in the mud, summer camp will get underway
on June 24th at the German-American School of Palo Alto. At the same time, they are preparing for the fall and still looking for
new colleagues to join their team.
Kenyon & Kenyon LLP
Kenyon & Kenyon LLP is pleased to announce the launch of the firm's NY Patent Law Blog and IPR Blog. These two blogs are valuable resources for practitioners seeking
to keep up with the latest developments in inter partes review ("IPR") proceedings as well as yet-to-be-published patent decisions coming out of
the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. NY Patent Law Blog, spearheaded by Kenyon partner
Lewis V. Popovski, focuses on unpublished patent
decisions in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and covers cases relevant to every technological area. IPR Blog, led by Kenyon partner
Michelle Carniaux, is dedicated to the latest developments in IPR proceedings and
informs readers about key happenings relating to the American Invents Act ("AIA"), U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Proceedings, IPR Petitions,
and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
SAP
My Runway, a fashion app on
Android and iOS by SAP is a great example of how the company is enabling businesses to connect to their consumers in innovative ways -
from social engagement to in-store shopping. SAP is debuting a series of untraditional marketing approaches: a panel on Fashion and recruitment
of Fashion Ambassadors! Welcoming all GABA members to join.
Tiburon
Consulting LLC
During last month's visit of Vice Chancellor
Philip Roesler to Silicon Valley, Uwe Wagner, Principle of
Tiburon Consulting LLC, was invited
to share his expertise with German Startups traveling with Roesler. Watch
here
what he had to say.
WilmerHale
WilmerHale represents
ResearchGate in a fundraising round.
Premium member WilmerHale represented Berlin-based ResearchGate in its $35 million Series C financing
round, completed last week. Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates and San Francisco-based venture capital firm Tenaya Capital led the round.
ResearchGate is a networking website used by scientist and researchers. Palo Alto partner Daniel Zimmermann led the WilmerHale team alongside
associate Jonathan O'Connell, counsels Aaron Jacobson and Ashwin Gokhale, and Frankfurt-based partner Martin Braun.
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Bundestagswahl 2013
Das Deutsche Auswärtige Amt in den USA
Dear fellow German Citizen, on September 22nd, 2013 the German Bundestag elections will take place.
More information about the participation on the website of the German Consulate General San Francisco and on the website of the Bundeswahlleiters.
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Job Opening
Project Manager - Direct Acquisition
NRW.INVEST (North America) LLC , located in downtown Chicago, is looking for a full-time Project Manager - Direct Acquisition with 3-5 years
of work experience. NRW.INVEST is a small non-profit organization whose mission is to identify companies in the US and Canada that are in
the process of seeking a site for European operations and directing that foreign direct investment to the German federal state of North
Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). For more information, please visit www.nrwinvestllc.com. For detailed information please visit our
job market.
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Culture Selection
Around the World - Historical Tourism Posters from the German Historical Museum, Berlin
Exhibition: Tuesday, July 2 - Friday, August 9, 2013
Opening: Monday, July 1, 2013 6:30 PM
Goethe-Institut,
ART-Lounge and Auditorium,
530 Bush Street
The Goethe-Institut San Francisco featured a series of summer cultural events. One Highlight of the summer program is
the exhibition "Around the World" shows a selection of tourism posters mainly from the 1920s and 1930s as well as the 1950s and 1960s.
Posters by such noted graphic artists as Ottomar Anton, Ludwig Hohlwein, Donald Brun, Herbert Leupin or Jupp Wiertz use decorative and
auspicious motifs to advertise for shipping lines, airlines and railways as well as travel destinations far and near.
They take the visitors along on a journey round the world.
For further information about the summer cultural event program
please visit
Goethe-Institut San Francisco.
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