Refresh Lauderdale will be making use of the White Table Foundation this Thursday for a little networking event. Instead of the usual speaker or panel discussion that Refresh is known for, we will be showcasing the new WTF space as the tech and creative hub of Fort Lauderdale. This event is open to anyone involved or who wants to get involved in the tech/web/creative/artistic worlds. It will be a great time to relax and meet other like-minded people in similar fields and, in true Refresh style, we will provide pizza and some drinks.

Normally, after Refresh Lauderdale, we all meet up at Samba room for a post-meeting drink, but since a)Samba Room closed and b)alcohol is allowed at WTF, we are encouraging those who would like to drink to just BYOB to WTF. Nerds + alcohol always equals a good time.

The event is this Thursday, September 2nd from 7:30PM to 9:30PM-ish. Afterwards, anyone interested in more food or drinking can stroll right outside to Las Olas to continue on the night.

Parking is located in the parking garage on SE 2nd Ct (one street North and parallel to Las Olas). The parking garage has signs for Trata, Asia Bay, and Tuscan Grill. If the garage is filled, there is metered parking along Las Olas as well as some free parking on the street on SE 12th avenue.

Directions: White Table Foundation on Google Places

We’re doing a new type of event this month. 5 companies presenting in 5 minutes each. The presentations will be in the same style as IgniteShow.com 20 slides, auto advancing 15 seconds each.

RSVP here on facebook
7:30PM at FAU Davie Campus Student center.
http://goo.gl/maps/kUh9

This is a combined event with Ft.Lauderdale and Miami coming together.

Mike Cuesta applies his experience in strategic design to drive innovation to CareCloud’s products, marketing communications, and brand. He is also charged with managing the information architecture, visual integrity and usability of all of the CareCloud systems and web properties.

Jonathan is one of the two brothers who founded Hii Def, inc. the developers of Flavors.me

Jonathan is the CEO & Co-Founder of Afzet, Inc. a Social Media compnay based in Plantation Florida that operates Studdr.com. He currently works at IT Management as the Lead Developer of the MDS 3.0 project at the company for Long Term Care Facilies Assessments.

Ivan Mladenovic – Founder – Preemo

Refresh Fort Lauderdale June from Willie Morris on Vimeo.

For more event details or to RSVP, please visit our Facebook Event page: Refresh Lauderdale June

Get Ready for Something a Bit Different at:

Refresh Lauderdale May 2010
Thursday May 6
7:30 PM
Sun Sentinel Building, Downtown Fort Lauderdale

Bring your laptops, moleskines, and creativity

You can also RSVP via Facebook.

How To Be An Emergency Response Technician

And stay on the look out for this week’s We Are Silicon Beach podcast featuring…you.

For many small companies, the added need for an IT or “Swiss Army Knife” employee (aka “Emergency Response Technician” or “ERT”) often falls on one person who has their own work to perform. In this presentation, AgencyNet’s Senior Producer (and ERT) Chris Fullman will offer valuable tips and philosophies to improve the productivity, prioritization and sanity of that often-overwhelmed individual.

After Chris rocks Refresh, Rey Bango will be giving an in-depth look at JQuery (very technical) and showing off lots of code. This will be a follow up to his Refresh Miami talk, but just as awesome.

**UPDATE**
Unfortunately, Rey Bango will not be able to give his JQuery talk this month. We have something equally as exciting planned though. After Chris’ talk, Ulises Orozco, host of local South Florida podcast We Are Silicon Beach and JCompare founder, will be recording an interactive segment of this week’s podcast at Refresh. That’s right, Refresh Lauderdale will be guest hosting – that means you. We’re still scheming a bit, but one thing is for sure, it’ll be a great time.

Please email Brian at brian@refreshmiami.org if you’d like to sponsor the event. We could use someone to bring pizzas and sodas.

If you have any other questions, don’t bother Brian, he is a very busy and important person, but you can contact me via twitter (@morewillie) or email (willie@refreshsofla.org). I’ll be waiting around to hear from you.

Follow our April speakers on Twitter:

Chris Fullman @chrisfullman
Rey Bango @reybango
Ulises Orozco @ulisesorozco

Refresh Fort Lauderdale April Details:

RSVP Via Facebook
Thursday, April 8, 2010
7:30-9:30PM
Sun Sentinel Building
200 East Las Olas Blvd #120
Fort Lauderdale, FL

David will be sharing with us the stuff he learned during the workshop as well as his own ideas and additions to Mike’s content.

Pizzas and sodas will be provided. We’ll proceed to YOLO after for drinks (9ish).

Starts: 03/04/2010 at 7:30PM
Ends: 03/04/2010 at 9:30PM
Location: Sun Sentinel Building #120 200 East Las Olas Boulevard Fort Lauderdale, FL

RSVP on Facebook.

Any designer, developer, or entrepreneur will benefit from this meetup.

Pizza and sodas will be provided. Adult beverages will be consumed after at one of the local bars on Las Olas.

Date: Thursday, February 11, 2010
Time: 7:30pm – 10:30pm
Location: Sun Sentinel Building
Street: 200 East Las Olas Boulevard #120
City/Town:Fort Lauderdale, FL
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The location has been moved to The Samba Room for happy hour:

350 East Las Olas Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301-4214
(954) 468-2000

Link to Google map

We recommend parking a block north at the library parking lot and walking over a couple blocks.