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SACRAMENTO CHAPTER
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The Next Sacramento Chapter Meeting Will Be Held This Saturday, March 28th! .
Register in advance by 8pm Friday, March 27th and save $5!

Attend in person 

Questions? Call us at 650-964-1576 between 8am and 5pm Monday - Friday or email andrewkrauss@inventorsalliance.org 

Sacramento Chapter Vice President Ed Silva will host this meeting on Saturday March 28th.

This Meetings Speakers

Artist And Inventor Gregory Gavin. . . . . . . .


Gregory will show us how to make all sorts of prototypes out of cardboard. Yes cardboard!

Can think of a more affordable and easy to acquire material? Cardboard is very versatile and easy to work with. Gregory has been working professionaly with cardboard for over a decade. During his talk he'll show you how you can use cardboard to prototype your inventions. He'll bring some samples and demonstrate how it's done. You'll be amazed at the many things you can prototype with cardboard. With a little practice, you can make almost anything out of cardboard!

Gregory is an award winning artist. Here are just a few of his awards.

AWARDS
Center for Art & Public Life, Community Arts & Education Award 2007
National Endowment for the Arts, Challenge America Grant 2005
Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, ARTS UP community artist's residency 2004
California Arts Council, Artist Fellowship award 2001
Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Honorary Fellowship award 2000
California College of Arts & Crafts, Recent Graduate of Distinction award 1998
New Langton Arts, Potrero Nuevo Fund Prize 1997
Bay Area Video Coalition, annual Artist Access award 1994
California Arts Council, three time Artist-in-residency award 1994-96
Nevada Art Smarts, national Artist-in-residence competition 1994
Public Art Works, "on-site 1991" award/commission 1991
UC Berkeley, President's Undergraduate Fellowship 1981
Additional Project Sponsors: The LEF Foundation, The Gerbode Foundation, The Zellerbach Foundation

After Gregory shows you how to work with cardboard, he would like your feedback on a new invention he's working on. Should be an exciting meeting!


John Ruege is next up on the mornings agenda. He is from Idea Product Desgin. IdeaProduct Design was founded in 2006. Idea Product Design is a strategic-creative consultancy providing startups and Fortune 500 companies product innovation by leveraging strategy and analysis. They have multidisplinary teams that focus on delivering greatness within discovery, industrial design & engineering. San Francisco is their corporate headquarters for their executive team & design leadership that guides their creative engine locatd in Ahmedabad, India.

John will share with you the business side of getting a product manufactured and a member of his industrial design team will share the creative side of designing a new product and the technical tools and resources at your disposal.

Prototyping, product design, materials selection/sourcing and manufacturing will all be covered

 

Online Registration Deadline is Friday night March 27th at 6pm (the night before the meeting on Saturday, March 28th)

You will pay $5 more if you register at the door instead of registering on-line.

Please register on-line if you plan on attending. If you pay at the door you will need to pay cash.

NO EXCEPTIONS to on registration policy stated here. We need to have a good idea of how many people will attend for planing purposes. Thanks for your cooperation in helping plan for the meeting.

Saturday, March 28th
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Attend In Person In Sacramento, CA


Place:
Putu Bali Wine Bar & Grill "Tropical Balinese Cuisine" 2416 18th St Sacramento, CA 95818


Time:
9:50am - 10am Check In

10:00am - Hostess will take coffee, drink and lunch orders.

Please do not bring outside coffee into the meeting. Support our meeting place restaurant.

10:05am - Introductions

10:15am - Watch Video Of Speakers & Pause for group discussion when necessary

11: 15 - Lunch Served
+ Networking & Brainstorming

12:00 - Wrap Up

12:15 - Meeting Adjourns

All attendees will be expected to purchase a meal in addition to the door fee. We need to support our meeting place restaurant.

Putu Bali Wine Bar & Grill is letting us use their conference room in exchange for all attendees buying a meal. They have put an affordable tasty menu together for Inventors Alliance members.

Please Register In Advance On-Line, Then Give The Check In Person Your Name At The Door

 

$15 Member and $25 Non-Members
Register in advance and save $5!

Membership (optional) $60

Register in advance and save $5! You can register at the door, but the price is $5 more for all tickets bought at the door. 
 
This event will not be streamed live over the internet like many of our other events. However the video will be available for purchase mid February on our videos page here.
 
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As always, we wish you much success in all your invention related endeavors,

Andrew Krauss
Inventors Alliance President
Educating People With Ideas Since 1993

Ed Silva
Sacramento Chapter Vice Presient

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