Success! Aug 24 ComSocSCV Social with tech discussions, networking and inter-personal communications

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Aug 24 6pm-9pm  China Stix,  Santa Clara, CA  www.comsocscv.org

During our 6pm -7:15pm networking session we had breakout groups to discuss:

  • Sprint’s M2M platform and initiatives (Led by Sprint’s M2M product mgr)
  • High speed transmission on twisted pair:  10G BaseT (LANs) and xDSL  (Sept 8 meeting topic)
  • Smart Grid, Smart Devices, Internet of Things (Sept 25 workshop topic)
  • 40G/100G Ethernet (Oct 13 meeting topic)
16 people (2 from Sprint) attended our gala dinner at China Stix in Santa Clara.  In addition, two came for the free networking session that preceded the dinner.  We had attendees driving to Santa Clara from all over the SF Bay Area, Monterey, Sacramento/Folsom and Orinda.  Lots of great conversation, camraderie, fine food and wine.  Two lucky individuals took home a bottle of premium wine as a gift.
Here are a few of the comments/ testimonials received via email with my acknowledgement at the end of this chain:

Alan —

Thanks again for the wonderful time last Tuesday–I will make every one of these events from now on.  I hope to make the 25 Sep event, though I think may be on a plane coming in to San Jose at the time.  You run a great meeting and social event, my friend–many thanks!

Cheers,

Karl

— KARL D. PFEIFFER, PhD, Lt Col, USAF
Assistant Professor

Thanks for a very well-organized Aug 24th social!

Alan, thanks a million from my side as well. It was well-organized and every one enjoyed the evening. I finally got to meet with Alan Earman and within minutes found out that we know several people in common. The world of connectivity does these wonders and Comsoc is a big part of it!

MP Divakar

Hello Alan and everyone,

Thank you for a great event last night.  Thank you for having us there.  We had a great time meeting everyone, the food was delicious, and the wines were tasteful.  I hope we can meet again soon.  Have a great day everyone!

Yes Alan, I agree with Sameer – this was great! I wish more people came and enjoyed the social.
Thanks,
Prasanta

Hi Alan,
Just wanted to say thank you once again for a very well-organized social yesterday at China Stix. My wife Sumi and I enjoyed meeting with everyone, the stimulating conversations and the very good food & drink.
Great job and thanks again!
Sincerely,
Sameer

Hi Alan,

Thank you so much for a great evening. I enjoyed meet with everyone there as well as your good choice of food. Appreciate all your good words about me. I look forward to future collaborations.

Alice

Hi Alan

I had a wonderful time at the ComSoc social. The food, wine, and conversation were fantastic. Thank you for inviting me to attend.

Thank you for sharing the panel questions with me. Perhaps we should discussing security and or privacy aspects as it relates to regulatory issues.

I’m sure there will be a few folk interested in IPv4 addressing and connecting billion of machines at some point we will run out of IPv4 addresses.

Kind regards,

Michael Finegan

Manager, M2M Solutions Engineering

Emerging Solutions Group at

Sprint Nextel

Chairman’s Response:

Dear All

Thanks for your compliments on the social.  Alice had earlier acknowledged she had a great time and I hope everyone else did too!
We need more of these events to make people feel good, improve their networking/ inter-personal communications skills, and exchange information and opinions.  It gets your mind off all the financial/economic/political problems of the day.  And there are sure a lot of those!
I encourage all of the attendees (see To: list) to communicate with one another and build your personal network of contacts.  You can continue the living dinner conversation via email and phone conversations.  Just reach out to those people you’d like to know better or exchange ideas/ proposals with.  Let the round two communications begin upon receipt of this email

Thanks again for coming last night.  Especially appreciate the dedication of those who had very long commutes- Olu from Sacramento/Folsom, Karl from Monterey, Michael from Orinda, Erin from?  We really appreciate your attendence at our gala social!

Warmest regards and best wishes
Alan J Weissberger, ScD, retired Prof SCU EE Dept
IEEE ComSoc SCV Chairman www.comsocscv.org

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