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Social Media Week is remodelling the conference format and in-turn creating new opportunities for brands to engage with an incredibly broad and diverse audience consisting of hyper-social influencers.
For sponsorship information and to learn how you can engage with Social Media Week Los Angeles’ high-quality audience of trendsetters and tastemakers, please email VP of Global Sales and Business Development at Social Media Week, Brady Hahn.
Nokia brings best-in-class devices and solutions to the market together with leading enterprise technology partners. Together Nokia delivers a range of unbeatable end-to-end offerings to all individuals and businesses of all sizes. Nokia’s technology will be incorporated throughout the Social Media Week platform. Most notably, Nokia will be connecting Social Media Week attendees through real-time conversation and also a location check-in experience. In addition, Nokia will be sharing mobile devices to select attendees.
Shoutlet is a leading cloud-based enterprise social marketing platform that enables marketers to publish, engage, and measure social marketing campaigns and activities on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Its industry leading functionality includes a Social CRM for Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube management; Social Canvas™ for Facebook tabs, HTML5 pages, and custom contest and web app design; Social Switchboard™ for trigger-based campaign publishing; Social Profiles for data acquisition and interest segmentation; Social Enterprise for corporate-level control of multiple brands, franchises, and agents; and Social Analytics for metric tracking and custom reporting.
Adobe is the global leader in digital marketing and digital media solutions. Our tools and services enable our customers to create groundbreaking digital content, deploy it across media and devices, measure and optimize it over time, and achieve greater business success. We help our customers make, manage, measure and monetize their digital content across every channel and screen.
Launched in 2009 at Internet Week NY, SoundCtrl is a top-tier, nationwide news source, event platform, and greenhouse for the convergence of music and technology.
Our mission is to chronicle and influence digital music culture by identifying and supporting the individuals and organizations that are at the frontier of music innovation, literally building the future of music through technological evolution. Through dynamic collaborations with artists, brands and tech companies and the exponential growth of SoundCtrl’s own annual FlashFWD Award Ceremony, we are at the forefront of the tech movement that’s driving music culture.
PromoJam is a leading enterprise Social Marketing Platform that provides businesses a full suite of tools to easily build, launch, track, and promote social media promotions across multiple social networks, both online and on the mobile phone. PromoJam is dedicated to building innovating technology solutions that help people connect in new and engaging ways. PromoJam is used by many of the biggest brands and artists in the world to reach new and existing customers including: NBC Universal, The North Face, Clear Channel Radio, Blackberry, Warner Bros Pictures, Justin Bieber, Rihanna and Pearl Jam.
BuzzFeed is the leading social news organization, intensely focused on delivering high-quality original reporting, insight, and viral content across a rapidly expanding array of subject areas. Our technology powers the social distribution of content, detects what is trending on the web, and connects people in realtime with the hottest content of the moment. Our site is rapidly growing and reaches more than 25 million monthly unique visitors.
Jonah Peretti, founder & CEO of BuzzFeed, previously co-founded the Huffington Post. Ben Smith is its Editor-in-chief.
Music Choice is the #1 music and video on demand provider in the US, has over 46 uninterrupted music channels, and launched the first and only 24/7 interactive video music network that fans control – SWRV! Music Choice (MC) delivers its music programming to millions of consumers nationwide through their televisions, online and mobile devices. MC programs dozens of uninterrupted music channels; produces MC Originals that feature today’s hottest established and emerging artists; and offers thousands of music videos.
Co-chaired by Academy Award-wining actor, producer and director, Forest Whitaker, JuntoBox Films is a collaborative film studio and social community for filmmakers and fans to connect, create and ultimately, make films. The company merges the collaborative energy of a social platform with the more traditional in-house film development process including greenlighting, financing, marketing and distribution.
In short, filmmakers can upload their projects to the JuntoBox site and members then rate and vote on projects that will ultimately be selected and greenlit.
Smash Networks is a new, innovative, mobile-first entertainment platform that empowers its members, embraces change and endorses relationship building through content commonalities.
Members determine what direction the platform will take, what content is provided even who stays or goes through a voting system where the majority rules. For the first time in the digital age, the members are in charge.
Smash believes that content should always be user driven and professionally made and will feature live streaming events, both entertaining and informative, that bring celebrity lifestyle, digital content, nightlife, and all forms of contemporary entertainment right to your fingertips through all mobile devices.
Because our holistic media approach is designed for the age of consumer empowerment, our only limitations our our imaginations.
MWW is one of the nation’s top mid-sized public relations firms and one of the ten largest independent global agencies. The company is industry-recognized for its work in consumer lifestyle marketing, digital marketing and social media, corporate communications, public affairs and government relations, consumer technology, healthcare and visual branding.
Through its “Network PR” approach, MWW helps its clients re-architect the conversation surrounding their brands to increase trust and relevance and drive action among key stakeholders. Among its numerous awards for client work, the agency has been recognized as 2011 “Midsize Agency of the Year” and 2010 “Strategic PR Agency of the Year” by the Holmes Report and has received accolades from PR News for “Team of the Year,” “Digital Firm of the Year” and “Top Places to Work in PR.”
SapientNitro, part of Sapient, is an integrated marketing and technology services firm. We create and engineer highly relevant experiences that accelerate business growth and fuel brand advocacy for our clients. By combining multi-channel marketing, multi-channel commerce, and the technology that binds them, we influence customer behavior across the spectrum of content, communication and commerce channels, resulting in deeper, more meaningful relationships between customers and brands.
SapientNitro services global leaders such as Chrysler, Citi, The Coca-Cola Company, Lufthansa, Target and Vodafone through our operations in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
Keshot offers innovative interactive photo booths with social media functionality, providing a direct connection to Facebook and Twitter from any event. Guest-generated digital photos or videos may be embedded in an online postcard that is customized with any brand element and delivered instantly to your guest’s friends and family via the Internet.
While at the event, users of the photo booth upload photos and videos in real time to a brand’s Facebook fan page or directly to the user’s Facebook wall via their Facebook login. After pictures and videos are posted to the brand’s fan page, users are prompted to tag themselves and their friends, increasing your exposure. Users can tweet about their experience or tweet their images from an online postcard.
Share the fun of the event, connect with your audience and reach beyond the boundaries of any event with Keshot.
MKG is a world-class experiential marketing agency that connects trendsetting consumers, influencers, and the media to brands in memorable ways. Founder and CEO Maneesh K. Goyal and his elite team of tastemakers are tapped into the cultural zeitgeist with a keen understanding of brand strategy.
MKG executes experiential marketing, sponsorship planning and activation, and digital and social media campaigns for a wide array of clients including Delta Air Lines, Evian, NBCUniversal, and Google. MKG has offices in New York and Los Angeles. Contact us at LA@thisismkg.com for more information or visit ThisIsMKG.com.
Millennium Hollywood will be a transformative mixed-use project constructed on two vacant parking lots adjacent to and across the street from the iconic Capitol Records Building, steps from the intersection of Hollywood and Vine, the world ‘s most famous intersection and the center of Hollywood’s historic downtown.
Sourced from some of the finest Caribbean sugarcane, and blended with twelve spices and other natural flavors, Shellback is a modern rum for discriminating palates.
Stop by the Shellback Rum Hut at the Official Closing Party of Social Media Week LA for delicious rum-based cocktails.
Annette Starbuck, the multi-Award Winning Founder of Goodie Girls exuberates a joyous passion for creating a variety of baked delights through her valiant curiosity and enchanting talent. Even more remarkable, aside from countless independent Instructional Culinary Sessions, Annette has never actually enrolled into any institutional Culinary Programs or attended Culinary School, but she’s achieved acclaimed success only through her seasoned personal experience and pure creative determination. Here’s more on Goodie Girls in Starbuck’s own words:
“Baking is a passion of mine and I create every cupcake with all my heart and soul. Whether for a small occasion of getting together with Friends, BBQ’s, Showers or a big event for Charities, Weddings, or Banquets I craft each batch as I was feeding my own family – it’s who I am at the core. I am lucky to have my whole family with me on this adventure including my rock star husband Anthony, my amazing father Doug and last but definitely the most influential, my step mom Stephanie. Together we Rock the Cupcake World!”
WaterBar is gourmet water that aims to elevate the status of our planet’s most valuable resource by infusing it with fresh, healthy ingredients. It’s water…reimagined.
At the heart of this goal, are the millions on earth who lack access to drinkable water. WaterBar exists to connect those less fortunate to a necessity far too many take for granted.
Gourmet water for you. Clean water for others.
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Since 1978, LA Weekly has been decoding Los Angeles for its readers. LA Weekly and LA Weekly.com have found success for over three decades by drawing in our audience with comprehensive, exclusive calendar listings and forward-thinking cultural coverage including daily blogs and slideshows. We keep our readers loyal with bold community news, political coverage, underground/independent music and in-depth feature stories by some of the country’s finest writers—now accessible through our mobile applications.
LA Weekly has won more awards from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies than any other paper in the country, and in 2007 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for criticism. LA Weekly is where to go, what to do, and how to get there guide to what’s what in LA.
Recognized and respected through out the world of show business, Variety is the premier source of entertainment news. Since 1905, the most influential leaders in the industry have turned to Variety for timely, credible and straight forward news and analysis – information vital to their professions.
The Hollywood Reporter is the definitive interpretive voice of the entertainment industry. Informing, engaging and empowering content is delivered across a multimedia platform that includes: a weekly magazine, bi-monthly special reports, quarterly glossies, a Website, a daily news PDF, iPad app and events. The Hollywood Reporter is read by the most powerful people in the entertainment industry and the most influential consumers who follow it – those who shape desire, set trends and ultimately drive culture – providing an unmatched level of access and influence.
Gothamist LLC owns and operates the most popular network of city blogs on the Internet today. Founded in 2003 and led by our NYC flagship site Gothamist, the network includes nine websites in four countries, each covering local news, events, food, and entertainment for an avid audience of young urbanites. Our US sites have 4.6 million unique visitors and 22 million pageviews a month.
Based in Los Angeles, California TechZulu is an independent news organization based in delivering an insightful story of the technology industry by showcasing the very people creating it. Our mission is simple: to discover, cover and connect you with vetted technology resources in the Southern California ecosystem and beyond. A pioneer in live Web television, TechZulu engages millions of viewers through real time reporting at conferences and its weekly news show, TechZulu Live. TechZulu also offers production services for conferences and events, and runs the Spotlight Series highlighting promising new technologies.
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Unruly Unruly is the leading global platform for social video advertising. Founded in 2006 and with offices in London, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Stockholm and Sydney, Unruly has delivered, tracked and audited 1.7 billion organic video views and executed 2,000+ successful social video advertising campaigns for global brands and agencies, including Evian’s Roller Babies hit, Old Spice’s Man Your Man Can Smell Like campaign, and T-Mobile’s Life’s for Sharing flash mob social video sensation.
EQAL is a next-generation media company that combines technology and people to power 24/7/365 digital media properties around consumer brands and celebrities. An EQAL media property is a multiplatform digital magazine that creates a seamless experience for fans across various devices and social networks.
EQAL’s award-winning Media Networks include Jennifer Lopez.com; Bethenny.com; ToriSpelling.com; Lauren Conrad.com; Alicia Silverstone’s TheKindLife.com; YouTube phenoms ElleandBlair.com and MichellePhan.com; WalkWithWalgreens.com, KRAFT’s RealWomenofPhiladelphia.com and others. EQAL’s 40+ Media Networks reach more than 60 million trend-setting consumers and generate billions of content impressions every month.
“Meet” Hollywood’s celebrities under one roof! Madame Tussauds Hollywood is the best interactive wax attraction and premier destination located next door to the world famous Grauman’s Chinese Theatre on the Walk of Fame.
Get up close and personal with over 100 incredible life-like wax figures, step onto memorable movie blockbuster sets spread over three floors of attraction space and be sure to bring a camera and take home the ultimate souvenir photo. Only at Madame Tussauds Hollywood can you “grab hold” of your favorite stars and enjoy our many interactive experiences. Life like figures of Thor, Lady Gaga, Michael Jackson, Johnny Depp, Elizabeth Taylor, Justin Timberlake and Penelope Cruz are just a few of the celebrities you will meet here.
Madame Tussauds Hollywood is more than just a wax museum, redefining celebrity encounters in Hollywood everyday.
American Apparel is a vertically integrated manufacturer, distributor and retailer, based in downtown Los Angeles, California. We currently employ approximately 10,000 people globally (about 5,000 in LA), and operate more than 285 retail stores in 20 countries.
Within our business model, knitting, dyeing, cutting, sewing, photography, marketing, distribution and design all happen in the company’s facilities in Los Angeles. The company operates the largest garment factory in the United States, at a time when most apparel production has moved offshore. With our recently opened stores in China, we are now selling Made in USA clothing in the largest consumer market in the world.
American Apparel leverages art, design and technology to advance the business process, while continuing to pioneer industry standards of social and environmental responsibility in the workplace.
Founded in February 2005, YouTube allows billions of people to discover, watch and share originally-created videos. YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, inform, and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for original content creators and advertisers large and small.
Our mission at Cross Campus is to inspire and empower a community of entrepreneurs, freelancers and startups to create, innovate and ultimately excel.
Why do we call it a campus?… Because what we want to do is to capture some of the key elements of the college campus that make it special– a collaborative workspace for our members to share ideas, a library where they can focus and concentrate, a classroom to level up in knowledge and skills, and a faculty of passionate mentors and instructors to help guide our members.
Cross Campus is bringing together those components into a beautifully designed, multi-functional space at 820 Broadway in the heart of Santa Monica.
Ogilvy & Mather is one of the largest marketing communications networks in the world, with 450+ offices in 120 countries. The agency services Fortune Global 500 companies including American Express, BAT, BP, Cisco, Coke, DuPont, Ford, Gillette, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Kodak, Kraft, Lenovo, Mattel, Motorola, Nestlé, SAP, Unilever, and Yahoo! The quality of our network is based on the strength of our international network, our local strength and depth across all communication disciplines, our culture of collaboration and our people.
“Brothers and sisters, this is how it was.”
Once upon a time (late 2009), a record producer, web personality, scribe, and pop-culture commentator named Shawn Amos stood at the digital divide. Content was suddenly mattering again yet many companies and brands found themselves unable to create it credibly on demand. So Freshwire was born, servicing the large number of digital businesses that need high quality video and editorial content for their websites and offline networks.
Freshwire’s team of writers, producers, designers and directors meet the needs of businesses looking for innovative ways to present and highlight their brands, create strategies for companies taking that first digital plunge, and provide clients with entertaining and thought-provoking copy. At Freshwire, we believe content should be fresh, authentic, and full of cred.
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Founded in 2001,
Practice areas include consumer marketing, technology, corporate communications, healthcare, public affairs and social impact. The company provides a team of employees with deep expertise in consumer PR and marketing, digital and social media, cause-marketing, technology, corporate communications and brand innovation.
Clients include some of today’s most leading technology companies and global brands like Samsung, Sony, Dropbox, Ning, Progressive, Sprint and many more. From the launch of MySpace to Google’s YouTube acquisition, managing Gowalla’s rapid-fire ascent, and positioning DreamWorks Animation in the technology innovation space, the Allison+Partners team has had a front row seat for the development of technologies that are defining a generation.
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Streamin’ Garage, a pioneer in live multi-camera streaming, is the recognized leader in live variety and entertainment broadcasting on the web. In addition to it’s original productions such as Stupid For Movies, Stripped Down Live with Curt Smith and Stupid For Game of Thrones, Streamin’ Garage is a live event production company.
Our experts at Streamin’ Garage have produced some of the biggest multi-camera HD live events including: Zach Levi’s Nerd HQ at Comic Con 2012, SAG Foundation Live Events such as Moneyball with Brad Pitt, James Cameron’s opening day promotion of his film Sanctum , Ashton Kutcher’s Intel IdeaJam, NCAA Soccer, Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show, NewTek Live from CES with Adam Carolla and Leo Laporte.
If you are interested in having your event live streamed please contact us: streamingarage@gmail.com
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The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences was founded in 1946; just one month after network television was born. It is a nonprofit organization devoted to the advancement of telecommunication arts and sciences and to fostering creative leadership in the telecommunication industry.
The Television Academy, the only major organization devoted to the television and broadband screen entertainment industry, is made up of more than 15,000 members, representing 28 professional peer groups, including interactive media, performers, directors, producers, art directors and various other artisans, technicians and executives.
Digital LA is the largest digital networking group based in LA reaching more than 30,000 professionals weekly who do digital for movies, TV, music, games, fashion, startups, and more via 7-10 fun events per month. We’ve organized more than 20 social media panels with experts from entertainment, fashion, agencies, startups, etc. sharing keys to social media success. We recently organized the Silicon Beach Fest highlighting startups and entertainment, which became a Trending Topic briefly in LA thanks to many #SBF tweets by our social-media savvy attendees.
What’s Trending is a weekly live interactive talk show for the digital age hosted by Shira Lazar and a 24/7 news hub, covering trending news from around the web and through social media, featuring guests and guest performances from celebrities and media influencers.
Named one of Fast Company’s 2011 Most Influential Women in Technology and Huffington Post’s “Women in Tech to Follow on Twitter,” Lazar has been the face of the biggest live-streams on the web including, The Oscars, The Grammys, and Macy’s Fashion’s Night Out, among many others. Lazar is a Webby Awards Honoree and IAWTV Winner for Best Web Series Live Host. Stay connected and join the conversation by following us on twitter @whatstrending or visiting www.whatstrending.com for news and updates.
SAG-AFTRA represents more than 160,000 actors, announcers, broadcasters journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers, voiceover artists and other media professionals. SAG-AFTRA members are the faces and voices that entertain and inform America and the world. With national offices in Los Angeles and New York, and local offices nationwide, SAG-AFTRA members work together to secure the strongest protections for media artists into the 21st century and beyond. Visit SAG-AFTRA online at SAGAFTRA.org.
Hub Los Angeles, slated to launch September 2012, will be opening its doors in the heart of the Arts District in downtown Los Angeles, creating an innovative change community that is centered locally with a powerful global vision.
Hub LA is focused on work, collaboration, and creating change in the community and the world and we are building a curated membership club to highlight the Impact Professional. The Hub Los Angeles member suite of services include access to creative, flexible office amenities, lounge and cafe space, and an outdoor social setting; online network to add profile, connect and post, all specialized programming and events.
The Annenberg Program on Online Communities (APOC) is a Master’s Degree program and research center focused on social media, digital strategy, Internet marketing, and online social networking. APOC recognizes that online communities are the future of our economic, political, and social lives. Combining hands-on learning with theory and strategy sessions, we teach students the skills, practices, strategies, and theory that will equip them to become leaders in the age of social media.
Girls in Tech (GIT) is a social network enterprise focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of like-minded, professional, intelligent and influential women in technology. As young women with the capacity to inspire, we made it our personal desire and passion to create and sustain an organization that focuses on the collaboration, promotion, growth and success of women in the technology sector.
The organization was born out of a need to provide a place for women to cultivate ideas around their careers and business concepts involving technology. Girls in Tech is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and supports over 17,000 members spread between 37 active chapters worldwide.
Girls in Tech aims to offer a variety of resources and tools for women to supplement and further enhance their professional careers and aspirations in technology. Some of these resources include, educational workshops and lectures, networking functions, conferences, social engagements, and recruitment events.
The Producers Guild of America is the non-profit trade group that represents, protects and promotes the interests of all members of the producing team in film, television and new media. The PGA has over 5,000 members who work together to protect and improve their careers, the industry and community by facilitating members health benefits, encouraging enforcement of workplace labor laws, the creation of fair and impartial standards for the awarding of producing credits, as well as other education and advocacy efforts. The PGA hosts important industry events including the annual PGA Awards and the Produced By Conference
Launchpad LA is a startup accelerator in Santa Monica, CA that was founded by Mark Suster (GRP Partners, bothsidesofthetable.com) in 2009. It offers each accepted company a $50,000 investment, free office space in the heart of Santa Monica (one block from the beach) for four months, and most importantly, access to a massive network of mentors, advisors, and investors.
MuckerLab is a mentorship-driven startup accelerator focused on serving Internet software, services and media entrepreneurs in Los Angeles and broader Southern California.
MuckerLab aims to accelerate the growth of the overall technology ecosystem in Los Angeles by filling a critical gap currently in the market for start-ups at the earliest stages – resources, infrastructure, capital and guidance. Our partners and mentors work side-by-side with the region’s best entrepreneurs, enabling them to build, launch, and raise financing for exceptional businesses. Portfolio companies go through a structured, 3-month-long program that provides them with funding, office space and access to a deep mentor network of top-tier investors and entrepreneurs.
Start Engine is a rapid accelerator focused on helping Los Angeles-based technology startups build a solid foundation for success in 90 days. Created by Howard Marks, co-founder of Activision, and Paul Kessler, one of the most prolific investors in Los Angeles, Start Engine will provide local startups with the essential resources and counsel they need to become successful, self-directed businesses.
Start Engine offers a team of mentors who have proven themselves as successful entrepreneurs – not professional investors – ensuring that its startups are guided by the right people for the right reasons. Early-stage companies in the web, mobile and ecommerce space are encouraged to apply for the program which completes four cycles per year, culminating in Demo Days that are attended by the region’s top angel investors and VCs.
The Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) is a labor union representing writers of motion pictures, television, radio and Internet programming, including news and documentaries. Founded in 1933, the Guild negotiates and administers contracts that protect the creative and economic rights of its members. It is involved in a wide range of programs that advance the interests of writers, and is active in public policy and legislative matters on the local, national and international levels.
Founded in July 2008, Social Media Club Los Angeles is a non-profit, volunteer-based club that designs monthly educational networking events focused on new and emerging social media trends and tools for business, case studies, and best practices. We strive to bring in speakers and hold interactive sessions and workshops useful to Los Angeles-based social media newbies and experts in the fields of technology, marketing, PR, entertainment, entrepreneurship, media and more.
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) is unique among the nation’s transportation agencies. It serves as transportation planner and coordinator, designer, builder and operator for one of the country’s largest, most populous counties. More than 9.6 million people – nearly one-third of California’s residents – live, work, and play within its 1,433-square-mile service area.
GOOD is a collaboration of individuals, businesses, and nonprofits pushing the world forward. Since 2006 they’ve been making a magazine, videos, and events for people who give a damn. On September 19th, 2012, GOOD launched a new website focused on learning and doing. Come join us. www.good.is.
CitySourced is a real time mobile civic engagement platform. CitySourced provides a simple and intuitive platform empowering residents to identify civic issues (public safety, quality of life, environmental issues, etc.) and report them to city hall for quick resolution; an opportunity for government to use technology to save time and money plus improve accountability to those they govern; and a positive, collaborative platform for real action. A picture tells a thousand words and CitySourced makes it a snap.
The Caucus for Producers, Writers & Directors (The Caucus) is the television industry’s only coalition of the creative talents that bear primary responsibility for the origination of television programs.
Founded in 1974, The Caucus protects and actively promotes the artistic, intellectual, and economic rights of producers, writers and directors and provides a forum for the best and brightest creative talent in Hollywood to network together as the “creative conscience” of the television industry. The Caucus also supports new producers, writers and directors through The Caucus Foundation Student Grants.
Liberty Hill advances movements for social change through a strategic combination of grants, leadership training and campaigns. We are community organizers, donor activists and allies advancing social justice at L.A.’s public foundation. Our issues are economic and environmental justice and LGBT rights.
Liberty Hill is first to identify community leaders at the frontlines of change. We invest in changemakers and equip them with the skills and relationships they need to build power and advance social justice. After more than 30 years, Liberty Hill is uniquely positioned to bring together forces for change and forge a common agenda for equality and opportunity in Los Angeles.
NATPE is a global, non-profit organization dedicated to the creation, development and distribution of televised programming in all forms across all mature and emerging media platforms.
NATPE develops and nurtures opportunities, both commercial and educational, for buying, selling and sharing of content and ideas.
Originate is a unique venture firm that builds software for startups in exchange for equity. We invest in companies at any stage as long as they are looking for an innovative, highly capable partner to help them with their technical vision. We can work with individual entrepreneurs with a fantastic idea and we can work with fortune 500 companies that want to innovate, but don’t have the internal team to do so.
Our team is comprised of over 80 technical and business professionals in offices around the world… San Francisco, Sunnyvale, LA, Vegas, China, and Stockholm. Our engineers are ex- Googlers, Ivy league grads, and brilliant problem solvers and also very entrepreneurial. We are comfortable working in most verticals (social, mobile, healthcare, biotech, legal, education…) and our technical expertise is primarily focused on Ruby on Rails, Java/Scala, iOS and Android.
Celebrating music through the GRAMMY® Awards for more than 50 years, The Recording Academy is the premier organization for honoring achievements in the recording arts, and supporting the music community. Each year, our Voting members decide who receives a GRAMMY, the most prestigious and respected award in music.
Alliance for Women in Media is a national, nonprofit organization that extends membership to qualified professionals in the electronic media and allied fields. Founded in 1951, Alliance for Women in Media’s mission is to advance the impact of women in the media and allied fields by educating, advocating and acting as a resource to our members, the industry, students and the public.
The Southern California Affiliate of Alliance for Women in Media offers local benefits to its members, including: 1) Networking Events, 2) Educational Programs, 3) Community Outreach, 4) Mentorship, and 5) Scholarship Program.
AWM SoCal also holds the annual Genii Awards — a gala not to miss — that celebrates the outstanding contributions of women in Radio, Television, Film, New Media and Advertising. Proceeds from the Genii Awards fund the AWM SoCal student scholarships.
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Youth Speak Collective is a youth-driven organization founded on the idea that all young people can succeed if provided with the right opportunities. We follow a “for youth, by youth” philosophy in which young people are empowered to help design and implement our programs.
An entrepreneurial leadership program for progressive young professionals NLC Los Angeles, a chapter of New Leaders Council, provides emerging leaders with training, mentoring, networking, and job placement opportunities that equip them to be civic leaders, not only for elective office, but also in their communities and workplaces. Recognizing that a truly progressive movement is inclusive and empowering, NLC makes a special effort to recruit people from outside the usual power structures.
NLC is shaping America’s future by developing tomorrow’s leaders today.
The Hollywood Entertainment District is a ten-year property-based Business Improvement District (BID), comprised of 200 property owners who are assessed $3.4 million annually to pay for security, maintenance services and marketing to promote the revitalization of the area. Major landmarks in the District include Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Hollywood & Highland, the Pantages Theatre, the El Capitan, the W Hotel, the Roosevelt Hotel, and Capitol Records.
Founded in 1998, Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition (LACBC) works to build a better, more bike-able Los Angeles County. LACBC is the only nonprofit, membership-based organization working exclusively for the millions of bicyclists in Los Angeles County. Through advocacy, education and outreach, Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition brings together the diverse bicycling community in a united mission to make the entire L.A. region a safe and enjoyable place to ride.
Based in Santa Monica, Calif., ParkMe is the leading provider of parking information to navigation companies and smartphones. Founded by Sam Friedman and Alex Israel, ParkMe’s mission is to make parking easier. ParkMe has built the world’s most comprehensive parking database, including more than 25,000 worldwide locations in more than 500 cities, 19 countries and three continents.
ParkMe’s free app, ParkMe, helps drivers find real-time parking availability in the form of “heat maps,” letting users see the most likely availability for parking on a block-by-block basis. Additional features on the app include a rate calculator, “in-app” route guidance and a timer. ParkMe also offers a widget for businesses to add to their website. The widget allows a business to show consumers real-time parking availability information near its location.
Bike Nation operates a system of bike-sharing kiosks which will provide systems to the City of Anaheim, the City of Long Beach, and the City of Los Angeles. A bicycle share system is a self-service kiosk rental system where individuals can rent and return a public bicycle anywhere within a network of stations. The project is a private venture with no public funds, providing SoCal residents with a quick, easy, and sustainable way to get around their beautiful city.