On April 24th, over 200 of San Francisco’s Tech in Motion members joined together at 111 Minna to swap business cards and share their insight on all things tech. As the picture below demonstrates, it was a busy night full of techies connecting. One of the interesting elements of the night was the number of members visiting from out of town, and even out of the country! The tech movement in San Francisco seems to be spreading internationally, as people are eager to completely relocate their lives because of how big the city is growing on the worldwide tech scene.
We had the pleasure to meet Gianni Teixeira, from São Paulo in Brazil, who moved to San Francisco because she was experiencing many limitations in the technology industry in her home country.
“The growing tech companies are so concentrated in SF and it is so easy to find new partners or learn about a new technologies. “ Gianna said, following up with how she felt to have found the Spring Networking Mixer. “The tech event was an amazing opportunity to be connected with people that work in the same area as me or they can put me in contact with companies that could be a good network to me.”
She expressed how amazed she was by “the opportunities that can come up in anywhere. People are so open-minded!” All in all Gianni’s favorite part of the night was how easy it was to make new connections. She stated, “The name tags helped me a lot. The drinks and food were good topics to initiate a conversation.”
We also asked some people why they are looking to stay in San Francisco. The majority of our members had several reasons such as good weather, friendly people, good companies, and also how beautiful San Francisco is. Silicon Valley was also mentioned a lot, as people are attracted to the concentration of important tech companies like Facebook and Google. Questions like "what do you do?", "what company do you work for or did you work for?" as well as “what brought you to this event tonight?” were circling in the air.
Tech in Motion’s sponsor, Microsoft, was the biggest hit that evening, especially with their free giveaways. Their portable chargers, for the on-the-go tech enthusiast, was the hot item everyone wanted to take home. Microsoft also spent the night demoing Outlook at their display table, where people were able to have questions answered by a Microsoft engineer expert right at their fingertips!
All in all, it was the tech connection event to be at. Join Tech in Motion San Francisco to get on the invite list for the next big networking event.