At the last Providence Geek Dinner of 2009, DiJiPOP CEO Ji Kim, an online advertising veteran, and Bill Cesare, a highly successful and prolific entrepreneur/investor, gave an overview of their dynamic company. We caught up with Ji after the Geek Dinner to learn more. [Video link]

At the November 2009 Providence Geek Dinner, Pascal Van Hentenryck of Dynadec presented their cutting-edge optimization platform – Comet. We caught up with Pascal after the Geek Dinner to learn more. [Video link]

Shawn Wallace, Director of AS220 Labs, presented at the June geek dinner, and talked about AS220 Labs’ programs, open source hardware, and more. I caught up with him after the geek dinner to ask him a few questions. [Video link]

At the May 2009 Geek Dinner, we learned all about Studio AMD and saw some great demos of their technology. After the geek dinner, I caught up with Principal Jon Kletzien and Creative Director Richard Gonci , for a quick chat. [Video link]

At the April 2009 Geek Dinner, we got a great presentation from the folks at InsureMyTrip.com. After the geek dinner, I caught up with Jim Grace, CEO & Founder and VP of Technology, Kerri Lemoie, for a quick chat. [Video link]

Joel Evans, the founder and CEO of Cronk Games, Inc. presented Cronk’s rapid prototyping system for iPhone games and applications at the March 2009 Providence Geek Dinner. I caught up with Joel after his presentation for this video interview. [Video link]

Jordan Frank (VP Marketing & Business Development) and Chris Nuzum (Co-Founder and CTO) of Traction Software came to the February 2009 Providence Geek Dinner to talk about social software and show off some of their offerings. We caught up with Jordan after the presentation for this video interview. [Video link]

Todd Treanor, Paul Treanor, and Paul DiPierro of Treanor Brothers Animation presented at the January 2009 Providence Geek Dinner. Matt Gillooly caught up with them after the presentation for a little Q&A. [Video link]

T.F. Green Intermodal Facility Rendering

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009, 5:30 – 9pm
AS220, 115 Empire Street, Providence, RI
FREE (buy your own food and drink – it’s cheap)

As T.F. Green’s now-under-construction Intermodal Facility attests, a lot of cool stuff is being built in the Ocean State. Some of it isn’t as easy to spot though. One very cool project is the work of Providence-based Traction Software. Consistently recognized as a leader in social software for the enterprise, Traction’s award-winning TeamPage platform includes blogs, wikis, social tagging & bookmarking, and now, “live blog micro-messaging” (think real-time Twitter for business). At February’s Geek Dinner, Jordan Frank, VP Marketing & Business Development, and Chris Nuzum, Co-Founder and CTO, will present their insights into the nature and importance of social software, demo TeamPage, and answer questions from the audience.

Update: Jordan just posted to the RI Nexus Blog – Social Software Gains “Traction” in the Enterprise.

Update: Jordan was recently interviewed by PBN – Five Questions With: Jordan Frank.

Please RSVP in the comments section of this post so that we can give the good folks at AS220 an estimated headcount. And while you’re at it, subscribe to Providence Geeks’ RSS feed (see sidebar) and/or join our very-low-volume email announcement list (for the announcement list, send an email to Jack Templin, jtemplin over at Gmail with your name and affiliation).

As always, for first-timers here are the details on the Geek Dinners:

• The event itself is FREE! Beverages and food are for sale at the adjoining bar and Taqueria Pacifica (delicious and cheap)


• It’s totally casual. Wear whatever, bring whoever, arrive and take off whenever! And don’t worry about eating or not – come famished or full – eating is optional, and frankly, the least of the festivities (that’s not say the food isn’t good – it’s actually great)


• Topics of conversation will vary as they will at any gathering of geeks, but many of us will be talking about AJAX, mash-ups, start-ups, new devices, innovative business models, interaction design, social computing, digital art, web services, etc. etc. etc.


• There is Wi-Fi so bring your connected device of choice.

Abe Dane, COO of Tizra, presented at the December 2008 Providence Geek Dinner. In true holiday spirit, this was one of our more boisterous crowds, and Abe did an admirable job making the interview audible over the revelry. Video link