PANMA - Philadelphia Area New Media Association

Recently, a vast outcry from the internet community (and many in the general public) halted the Stop Online Privacy Act, or SOPA, in what has been hailed as a victory for an open internet. But SOPA is not the only legislation raising serious concerns.

Learn about these proposed laws and many other areas of Intellectual Property law from the experts. PANMA has assembled a panel of lawyers to inform you about these important issues. Details coming soon, so save the date: February 23.

REGISTER NOW for this informative event: panma.eventbrite.com

Time: Doors open at 5:30pm. Program, 6:00 – 7:30 pm, with networking and Q&A until 8pm.

Location: Wharton School, JM Huntsman Hall, 3730 Walnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19104, Room 245

This event is free, and thanks to Wharton, we’ll supply pizza and soft drinks.

PANMA is grateful to our sponsors for their support of our programs.

PANMA will hold more great events this spring, so keep these dates on your calendars!

Location: University of PA Wharton School, JM Huntsman Hall Room G55,  3730 Walnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19104

Time: Doors open at 5:30 pm, Program from 6:00 – 7:30 pm, Q&A until 8 pm.

March 29:  Project Management: What you need to know about working with teams, clients and timetables. This will be a panel discussion with plenty of opportunities for Q&A.

April 26: Usability, featuring Jessica Ivins.

In the past few months, there has been a number of new tools and new services from Adobe for HTML5. Some of these tools, like PhoneGap Build and jQuery contributions are aimed at developers and some, such as Edge, are more focused on designers. Adobe Evangelist Terry Ryan will give an overview and demos of these and other tools.

This event is free! Pizza will be served!

Register: panma.eventbrite.com

Location: University of PA, Huntsman Hall, 3730 Walnut Street, Room G-55
Time: Doors open at 5:30pm. Talk will run 6:00-7:30pm. Q&A until 8pm.
Date: Thursday, January 26, 2012

Join PANMA for our annual Holiday party at National Mechanics on 12/8 from 6-9pm. Register Today!

Come and party with Philly’s tech and creative communities at National Mechanics on 12/8! PANMA’s holiday party rocks and this one will be our best yet! Come out to National Mechanics for a night of cheer as the year winds down. Reconnect with colleagues and friends – or meet some new ones. Enjoy delicious food and beverages while you swap stories and insights as we remember what makes Philly’s scene the best — YOU.

This event is free, thanks to our sponsors, starting with:

The next PANMA event, on November 17, features The Design of the User Interface – How the Process Unfolds.

Michaelangelo Ilagan and Brian Crumley will hold a lively discussion of  their views and experiences as they explore the iterative process that results in the final user interface. Hear how Mike and Brian incorporate client communication, appropriate technologies and best practices to get great results!

Join us on November 17 for this in-depth discussion by two of our community’s most active web designers!

This event is free! Pizza will be served!

Register: The Design of the User Interface – PANMA Event

Location: University of PA, Huntsman Hall, 3730 Walnut Street, Room 265
Time: Doors open at 5:30pm. Talk will run 6:00-7:30pm. Q&A until 8pm.
Date: Thursday, November 17, 2011

Thanks to Wharton Computing for providing a great venue and the pizza!

PANMA continues our Fall event calendar with a blast as we present #WhyWeLovePhilly: The Awesome Philly Tech Scene!

Just want to register? Here you are:  panma.eventbrite.com/

Philadelphia has an amazing, diverse and ever-active tech-creative community. Web designers, graphic artists, developers, videographers, content strategists, people in marketing, social media and game development all find a home here. There’s so much going on, it’s easy to miss things you’d like to know about, and here’s your chance to find out what is happening and how to join in and be part of the community!

On Thursday, October 20, PANMA presents a fast paced update on the far reaches of the Philly tech scene. Come hear some of the most active participants in our community talk about the many activities, groups, opportunities and social events going on!

We have two additional speakers!

- Sean Blanda of TechnicallyPhilly
- Kelani Nichole of BarCamp Philly
- Alex Hillman of IndyHall
- Jessica Ivins of PhillyCHI
- Michaelangelo Ilagan of Geekadelphia
- Yasmine Mustafa of Girl Develop It Philly
- Nate Gasser of PhillyPHP and PANMA
- Doug Stewart of the Philly WordPress Meetup
- Howard Tyson of Zivtech
- Mat Schaffer of Philly.rb
- Chris Morrell of PANMA

Date: Thursday, October 20
Time: Doors open at 5:30pm. Event runs 6-7:30pm. Q&A until 8pm.
Location: Jon M. Huntsman Hall at the Wharton School, 3730 Walnut Street, Room 250
Register now: panma.eventbrite.com/

Pizza will be served! And this event is free! (But you must register as space is limited.)

Thank you to Wharton Technology for providing us the space and pizza.

Whether you are new to games or want to discover how they can be used for learning you won’t want to miss the PANMA session to get the latest information. This session is for anyone in education, corporate or looking for new innovative ways to get your audience to participate and learn. We’re lucky to have Koreen Olbrish from Tandem Learning to share her knowledge and experience with you. Tandem Learning has been at the forefront of immersive learning strategies and applying game dynamics to educational projects. Koreen will share the latest trends in serious game design, including 3D immersive games and alternate reality games (ARGs), and how these design techniques can increase engagement and facilitate learning. For those new to serious games, Koreen will provide an overview of why games are great for learning, when games should be considered, and the basics of different types of serious game design. Case studies of corporate learning implementations of games will also be reviewed.

Q & A Panel

We’ll close the evening with a Q&A panel where you can ask your questions.

You’ll learn about:

- Current trends in applying game dynamics to learning

- How serious games can engage learners differently

- Alternate reality games and their advantage in immersive learning design

Date: Thursday, June 30, 2011

Time: Doors open: 5:30pm / Event Starts at: 6:00 – 8:00pm

Location: Huntsman Hall, 3730 Walnut Street, Room G-55, Phila, PA 19104 | Directions: bit.ly/7trnIP

Cost: FREE

Pizza & light refreshments will be provided. A special Thank you to our Sponsor Wharton Technology for providing the space and pizza.

Register at panma.eventbrite.com

You don’t want to miss our next event on mobile development. Join us as we dive into the latest tools and technologies to develop games and apps for the iOS and Android platforms. You’ll learn about the latest mobile development technologies, GameSalad, Corona and HTML5 based frameworks.

Joe Kaufman, Fire Maple Games, will present Developing Games for the iOS and Android markets.  A demonstration of GameSalad and Corona for creating games for iOS and Android platforms. Joe will share his experience in designing and building games, what works, how to market and a sneak peak at his latest game in development. www.firemaplegames.com/

Robert Hall, Feasible Impossibilities, will present A look at the new Adobe CS 5.5: Using Flash for iOS and Android Development, how does it work, what’s involved and a look at the new features in 5.5. Providing interactive software development for kiosk, web, mobile platforms. Rob is a  Adobe Community Professional, Adobe Solution Partner, and Manager of the Philadelphia Flash Platform Adobe User Group – www.pfpaug.org/ www.impossibilities.com/

You’ll learn about:

- An update of the current mobile landscape, iOS, Android 2.x, 3.0, Blackberry, Windows 7

- Three of the hottest technologies in Mobile Development: GameSalad, Corona and Flash CS 5.5

- Which development environment may work best for you and your projects

- Play with a iPad 2 and Xoom

- What upcoming technologies to focus on the next 6 months

Date: Thursday, May 26, 2011

Time: Doors open: 5:30pm / Event Starts at: 6:00 – 8:00pm

Location: Huntsman Hall, 3730 Walnut Street, Room G-55, Phila, PA 19104 | Directions: bit.ly/7trnIP

Cost: FREE

Pizza & light refreshments will be provided. A special Thank you to our Sponsor Wharton Technology for providing the space and pizza.

Register at panma.eventbrite.com

Please join us as PANMA and PhillyCHI kick off Philly Tech Week early with a special event featuring Stephen Parry, Author of Sense and Respond: The Journey to Customer Purpose, Visiting Fellow to Professor Dan Jones European Lean Enterprise Academy, and CEO of See Business Differently.

Lean Service Design: Acceptable ideas are no longer competent and competent ideas are not yet acceptable.

The business climate has changed and so must our approach to customers, employees, managers and leaders. This talk will describe how using Lean Service Design principles we can transform business enterprises and whole industries forever.

• Why today’s business models do not support the modern customer.
• Why have we designed out our customers and employees?
• What happens to people when technology is the face of the company?
• Changing the way we develop and bring to market new software applications.
• Changing the way organisations think and operate.
• A new role for employees, managers and leaders.

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY

Lean Service Thought Leader and Lean Service Architect

Stephen Parry is a World leading authority and strategist on the creation of Lean Service Enterprises. He has applied ‘Lean’ principles to the design and operation of corporations in Europe, Middle- East, Asia-Pacific, (including Japan, India, Australia, Philippines ) and the USA. An inspirational leader with a documented professional history of achievement, a motivational key note speaker on large scale organizational change.

He is author of the book, “Sense and Respond: the journey to customer purpose”, which presents an approach to business based on Lean Service Principles. Clients include many global corporations and national governments: SAP, BT, UK government, police authorities, financial services, IT Services, Shared Services, and Outsourcing.

Stephen speaks regularly at international events and respected business schools such as Cranfield School of Management, the Fisher Business School at Ohio State University.  He is a Faculty Member of the USA Lean Enterprise Institute, visiting Fellow at the Professor Dan Jones Lean Enterprise Academy in the UK and a regular judge at the national business awards.

His work has been covered in the Harvard Business Review and cited in numerous books and research papers.

TIME: Doors at 6pm, Presentation at 6:30, Networking Event at 7:30

Pizza and light refreshments will be provided by PANMA. Please register below.

In lieu of running an April event, PANMA will be supporting Technically Philly’s “Switch Philly” event during Philly Tech Week. It will be hosted at The Wharton School, but this time, we’re getting the big auditorium. Details, and a special discount rate are included below:

Tickets are $9 but we’re offering a special deal for PANMA members. Get your tickets for $5 by using the coupon code “PANMA” during checkout when you buy your ticket on Ticketleap today.