Pizza and drinks at 6:00 • Program starts at 6:30

NOTE: The meeting is free, but we ask you to register because space is limited.  Please register only if you plan to attend.

Please provide your first and last name and a valid mailing address. Additional information is optional, but your registration will be canceled without this minimum.

The South is rising. Not the Confederacy but the rise of Latin American social media and technology practitioners doing great things for the region and the world.

Austin Social Media Club will be hosting some social media luminaries from Latin America who are making a mark on the world.

Speakers:
Mauricio Pastrana, originally from Colombia and now residing in Mexico City. Mauricio is the driving force behind Tequila Valley, among other things. Tequila Valley is not the Silicon Valley of tequila distillery start-ups. Tequila Valley is a social and technological movement in Mexico, modeled after Argentina’s Palermo Valley, that is serving as a catalyst to the next generation of Mexican web developers, designers, writers and social media experts.

Gerardo Dada, sr. director of product marketing at OpenText (formerly Vignette Corporation), who came to the U.S. in 1998, and quickly rose to be a director of product marketing at Microsoft.  While at Microsoft, he was responsible for the Broad Customer Connect initiative that helped thousands of Microsoft mobile app. developers launch their own blogs on Microsoft.com.

Yam de la Peña, an entrepreneur and a business development and expansion consultant, with one foot in Canada and the other foot in Mexico.  Yam is one of the organizers of Twestival Mexico, a social media driven fund-raising event taking place Sept. 12th in Mexico City to raise money for low-income children with cancer.

Rosaura Ochoa, journalist and social media blogger with a passionate fan base.  Rosaura worked for one of Mexico’s largest editorial groups in Chihuahua, México, and  now lives in Minnesota, where she runs her popular blog and speaks on social media issues on a weekly Internet radio program hosted by Plaza Network.

Location and Sponsors:
Thank you, Open Text, for providing an awesome location for our events. Also a shout-out to our co-sponsors, Small World Labs and FG Squared who will be providing food and beverages for the year.