I’ve been able to finalize the TechCrunch Shenzhen and Hong Kong meet-ups and thought I’d post here for folks who RSVPed and didn’t get an email response.

The Hong Kong Event (Facebook Link) will be held at 7pm on November 2 at Pier 7 Cafe in Central Hong Kong. I may be slightly late – I’m landing at 6:30 and will take the train straight there, but I look forward to seeing you all.

Thanks to Michael Tanenbaum for setting this up and thanks to our first sponsor, SecondMarket, for supplying some of the booze.
We’ve confirmed the spot for the TC Meet-Up in Hong Kong next week.

The Shenzhen Event will be held on Friday, November 4 at 7pm at Le Bistro. Thanks to Michael Michelini for setting things up and I look forward to seeing you there.

You can contact me at weibo.com/johnbiggs or twitter.com/johnbiggs OR text me at +16462515666. My week will be fairly packed in both cities but I’ll be around on Thursday during the day in Hong Kong (until I head over the border) and Saturday morning (until I head back to Hong Kong.) If you have a start-up or product you wanted to discuss, please prep a card with some information and a website with images etc. and pass it to me during the meet-ups. I can’t carry much paper.

It’s been a long while since we had a formal Gadgets/Mobile meet-up and I’m proud to say that this one, sponsored by Samsung, was a roaring success. We had people who drank far too much, people who ate far too many Cheez-Its (there were, sadly, no hors d’oeuvres so we made do with Hackathon grub), and people who won excellent prizes including Samsung Galaxy S II phones, Samsung tablets, and other goodies.

We hope to have more of these things in the future where you guys can meet and greet TC G/M writers in your own home town and in your own special way. Thanks for making this one a roaring success, San Francisco, and we’ll see you soon.

Here are a few highlights from the shots we took; we’ll update this post with Samsung’s own photos as soon as we hear back from them. The full-size pictures can be found in this set at the TechCrunch Flickr page.

To recap: on September 15 at 6:30pm TechCrunch Mobile and Gadgets will host our first meet-up at Roe @ 651 Howard St. in sunny SF. Sponsored by Samsung, this meet-up will be the first chance for our readers to get ahold of some of Samsung’s latest products including the just-announced Galaxy S II. It is an event not to be missed.

We’ll have some finger food, a little dancing, maybe some networking and an open bar (It’s 21 and over, obviously). We invite you to meet the entire TCG/M team and chill with some of Samsung’s newest gear and the chance to win a new Samsung Infuse 4G – we’re giving one out ever half hour!

Specs:
Date: Thursday, 9/15/11
Time: 6:30-9:30pm
Location: Roe

Tickets are sold out but if you RSVPed, be sure to show.

Special thanks to Samsung for the sponsorship and we hope to see you in SF on September 15.

Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC, a Dallas-based subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., researches, develops and markets wireless handsets, wireless infrastructure and other telecommunications products throughout North America. For more information, please visit www.samsung.com.

Didn’t grab a TC G/M meet-up ticket last week? Here are 150 more. To recap: on September 15 at 6:30pm TechCrunch Mobile and Gadgets will host our first meet-up at Roe @ 651 Howard St. in sunny SF. Sponsored by Samsung, this meet-up will be the first chance for our readers to get ahold of some of Samsung’s latest products including the just-announced Galaxy S II. It is an event not to be missed.

We’ll have some finger food, a little dancing, maybe some networking and an open bar (It’s 21 and over, obviously). We invite you to meet the entire TCG/M team and chill with some of Samsung’s newest gear and the chance to win a new Samsung Infuse 4G.

Specs:
Date: Thursday, 9/15/11
Time: 6:30-9:30pm
Location: Roe

To RSVP pop over to this Eventbrite link and sign up. This next batch of 100 tickets is waiting for your click.

Special thanks to Samsung for the sponsorship and we hope to see you in SF on September 15.

Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC, a Dallas-based subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., researches, develops and markets wireless handsets, wireless infrastructure and other telecommunications products throughout North America. For more information, please visit www.samsung.com.

I’ve been Warsaw for a few weeks now (we come here every year, long story) and I thought it might be nice to explore the Polish/Central European start-up scene. To that end, we’ll be holding an ad hoc meet-up in Warsaw on Friday the 29th at 6pm. Space is limited so reply early.

We’ll be holding it at W Biegu Cafe at Grzybowska 5a. Sadly, we can only fit about 70 folks into the space so you’ll need to RSVP early to get a confirmed spot.

Special thanks to the folks at HardGamma, an early stage VC fund focused on CEE companies managed by Piotr Sienkiewicz and Chris Kowalczyk, and their new GammaRebels startup accelerator, for sponsoring this meet-up.

To RSVP, email Zuzanna who is helping organize this event for you, my Slavic friends. See you on Friday.

Image from here and those things are delicious.

The Inbal Jerusalem Hotel (@InbalHotel) is going to be hosting this special Tweetup in the hotel pool bar.

Don’t miss the opportunity to come and speak to John Biggs, even if it means driving up from Tel Aviv…

If you would like to sponsor this event, please contact me: yael at beeri.com.
I would like to thank The Inbal Jerusalem Hotel for hosting our event.
Event hashtag will be #Jtweetup

That’s right! You can speak to the John Biggs. Something my own mother can’t claim to have done this week. Anyway, I’m happy to talk about everything start-up so bring your pitches and your one-sheets. I look forward to seeing you there.

I’m also around for about two weeks if anyone wants to meet up outside of the event. Drop me a line at john @ crunchgear dot com or Tweet @johnbiggs.

I’m going to be in Spain next week and I’d like to plan a few meet-ups. I’ll be in Toledo and Madrid, and I thought we could meet at a bar, have a little Cava, and talk about the iPad. If you’re interested in meeting up, the estimated schedule will be:

Toledo – April 25
Madrid – April 27

Please email rsvp@crunchgear.com with the subject line of your city of choice and any meet-up location recommendations are welcome. I’ll post an update on which cities we’ll be having the meet-ups depending on interest.

We’ll have a nice, old timey meet-up in Hong Kong this Friday, December 4 at 6pm at the California Bar 30 D’Aguilar Street Hong Kong. I’ve set up a Plancast event for us so watch that for any changes. If anything changes at the last minute, check my Twitter feed.

Hope to see you dudes and ladies there. Should be fun.

Hey, guys. I, John Biggs, will be in Hong Kong and Guangdong next week (November 30-December 5) to visit some folks and would love to meet up with Web 2.0 and gadget purveyors in mother China. If you would like to chat, drop me a line at john @ crunchgear.com and let me know what’s up. I’m thinking about doing an informal meet-up on Thursday so advice on places to meet in Hong Kong are welcome.

Look forward to hearing from you all and “Ni Hao!”

I’m teaming up with Cali Lewis of GeekBrief.TV for an impromptu CG meet-up in New York. We’ll be meeting at 7pm Friday at Heartland Brewery, 35 Union Square West, in Manhattan. We should be able to commandeer the back of the pub for our purposes.

I’ll be there with a Droid and the HTC HD2 if you guys want to take a gander and we can grab a brew before we all head out to points home for Thanksgiving. RSVP with a comment below so we can judge the turnout.

Special thanks to BrightKite and PageOnce for sponsoring the event.

Companies: if you’d like to sponsor the festivities, even for an hour, please let us know. If you intend to come or would like to sponsor the fun, send an RSVP to RSVP. Otherwise, see you tomorrow in San Francisco.

The bar is at the top of the Marriott and has great views of San Francisco. We’ll just congregate in the bar and if something changes we’ll post an update tomorrow.

I’m pleased to report that no one dressed up in coveralls and hats at the TC/CG Helsinki meet-up at A21. The turnout was fantastic – about 100 or so folks at 8pm on a Tuesday – and everyone either worked for Nokia, contracted for Nokia, or sold their children into servitude in Nokia’s diamond mines in the heart of Northern Troll country.

Special thanks to F-Secure, the anti-virus company and the Mothership herself for sponsoring a few hours of drinks. I heard a lot of great pitches – please send me more information when you get settled – and met a lot folks who were quite excited about start-ups and the start-up scene. Special thanks to Ville and the boys at Arctic Startup, the TechCrunch of the Tundra.

Click through for some pictures and look for more information about these great folks in the next few weeks.

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NOTE – The new start time is now 8pm.

We’ve decided to have the meet-up at A21 on Annankatu 21 [Google Map]. PLEASE RSVP ASAP so I can offer them a head count.

N.B. If you have a start-up to discuss, please have some information handy, preferably in electronic form. It will probably be hard to do demos unless they’re on a mobile phone, but if you contact me beforehand we can probably sit down to look at your product on a laptop.

Best of all, F-Secure, the anti-virus people, will be sponsoring an hour of drinks from about 7pm-8pm. Anyone wishing sponsor another few hours should email me.

UPDATE – Nokia is chipping in from 8pm-9pm!

For last minute changes follow me on Twitter.

See you in Helsinki!

We’ve decided to have the meet-up at A21 on Annankatu 21 [Google Map]. PLEASE RSVP ASAP so I can offer them a head count.

N.B. If you have a start-up to discuss, please have some information handy, preferably in electronic form. It will probably be hard to do demos unless they’re on a mobile phone, but if you contact me beforehand we can probably sit down to look at your product on a laptop.

Best of all, F-Secure, the anti-virus people, will be sponsoring an hour of drinks from about 7pm-8pm. Anyone wishing sponsor another few hours should email me.

UPDATE – Nokia is chipping in from 8pm-9pm!

For last minute changes follow me on Twitter.

See you in Helsinki!

I don’t have any idea where we could meet – suggestions are welcome – but this would be dinner, drinks, and, potentially, a big, pasty brodeo sauna session at about 2am when everyone is sloshed. I will post an update when we figure out the venue. Your thoughts?

UPDATE – How about Korjaamo? Does anyone know anyone there?

See you in Helsinki!

Welcome to PragueCrunch II, Prague’s foremost party to held in Prague every year around the time TechCrunch writers feel like going to Prague to drink great beer and talk start-ups, tech, and gadgets. We’ll be streaming live through Qik and posting images throughout the day.

If you’re still vacillating and you’re in Prague, come on down! We’ll be at Hergetova Cihelna from 2pm until late in the evening. Confounded as to whether to come at like 11pm? Check my Twitter Updates to see if we’re still at the event or if we’ve moved on. Otherwise, expect to see us there.

Special thanks to the venue and all the great sponsors. Click through for live video feeds throughout the evening.

http://qik.com/swfs/qikPlayer4.swf

Special thanks to these fine folks:

Gold Sponsor:Dial Telecom
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Dial Telecom provides services for both the wholesale and the retail sectors. Our wholesale sector specializes in providing cable ducts, dark fibre and backbone capacity to international and national carriers, ISPs, and ASPs.

Dial Telecom also provides IP-based services to regional ISPs over its own fibre network. The company has an exceptionally well-developed Ethernet over fibre network and DWDM connections to most major regional capitals.

Dial Telecom is connected to the world’s largest Internet exchanges (most notably to DE-CIX and KleyerEx in Frankfurt am Main, AMS-IX in Amsterdam, LINX in London and ECIX in Düsseldorf). Naturally, it is also connected to Czech NIX.CZ and Slovak SIX.SK.

The Dial Telecom company is part of the well-established international Dial Telecom Group (Dial Telecom CZ, Dial Telecom SK, eTel SK and Telecom Austria Czech Republic (Volný, a.s.). The group actively contributes to the consolidation of the fixed telecommunications market. The most significant acquisitions in the last year have been eTel Slovakia and Telekom Austria Czech Republic (Volný brand).

Adamantium Sponsors:
Ataxo

With more than 5.000 clients and 200 employees, Ataxo is the biggest Internet marketing agency in the Czech Republic and a leading Search Engine Marketing provider in Central Europe.

Ataxo has offices in the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia.

We provide expert Search Engine Optimization and manage several thousand Pay-per-Click Campaigns for our clients from these countries as well as outsource Pay-per-Click Campaigns for clients from other parts of the world.

Binary Age

Yet another web-based site builder from the author of open-source tools FirePython, FireRainbow, XRefresh and DryDrop. There is tough competition in this space, but Darwin is going to attract developers by bringing Firebug’s CSS prototyping experience into the HashPage editor.

Geewa

Play original multiplayer casual games on Geewa.com for free! Up to 18,700 players online at the same time. More than 5,000 games to choose from. Join our growing community now.

Kerio

Innovating in Internet security since 1997, Kerio Technologies, Inc. provides Internet messaging and firewall software for small-to-medium sized businesses and organizations worldwide. Kerio is headquartered in San Jose, California, and has offices in New York, Germany, United Kingdom, the Czech Republic and Russia. Kerio is a member of CalConnect, a calendaring and scheduling consortium, and a premier member of the Apple Developer Connection. The company has 4,400 channel partners in 108 countries. Technology partners include McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE), IBM Corporation (NYSE: IBM), and Notify Technology Corporation (OTCBB: NTFY).

Learn10

Learn10 is a system for language learners which enables members to quickly develop a durable learning habit. They create fresh, new content every day, limited to the length of a text message. This is distributed across the web and beyond via a popular Facebook app, widget, email, iPhone webapp, Twitter feed, affiliate ‘adverts’, as well as competitions, windows screensaver & Seesmic videos . Learn10 creates user engagement in learning by encouraging cooperation and competition between learners in a mix of free and premium flavours.

Learn10 is the work of a European team of four, split between Birmingham, UK and South Bohemia, CZ. It is inspired by the efforts of three of the founders to learn Czech, and informed by experience in advertising research analysis & English teaching. With 27,000 members this self-funded project is one year old. After extensive testing based on the prototype – LearnItLists – they have re-branded to Learn10 and are ready to launch.

TasteKid
Tastekid is a recommendation engine that lets you discover music, movies, and books. CNET recently ranked TasteKid as one of the 10 best movie sites.

WebExpo 2009

Biggest Central European conference about web development and business on internet. From web frameworks, agile management through UX and webdesign to startup contest and marketing insights. In Prague, October 16-18, 2009.

Wirenode

Wirenode is a mobile marketing platform. It allows individuals and companies to create mobile friendly websites very easily and use them for promoting their business. So far, more than 20000 mobile websites were created. The pages created in the Wirenode platform is used by companies such as European Directories, Vodafone, Telefonica O2, Ford, Reebok or Air France.

Zeality

Zeality.cz is an online map-based service for real estate search. It offers relevant data for each property, such as nearby points of interest and travel times. Zeality.cz targets Prague at the moment and will cover other cities soon.

And so, my friends, it’s time to Czech your worries at the door and enter into the warm embrace of PragueCrunch 2 which will start at 2pm on Saturday, to be held at the magnificent Hergetova Cihelna.

We’ll have a few five-minute presentations from up-and-coming web services in CZ, tables for our sponsors, and plenty of beer and food. Come network, look for a job, or just drink on our dime. We’ll be posting live images from the event as well as filming some of the cooler stuff.

Until then, if you would like to RSVP, drop us a line at john@crunchgear.com with the subject line “RSVP PRAGUE” or just hit up the Facebook Event.

Special thanks to these fine folks:

Gold Sponsor:Dial Telecom
-

Dial Telecom provides services for both the wholesale and the retail sectors. Our wholesale sector specializes in providing cable ducts, dark fibre and backbone capacity to international and national carriers, ISPs, and ASPs.

Dial Telecom also provides IP-based services to regional ISPs over its own fibre network. The company has an exceptionally well-developed Ethernet over fibre network and DWDM connections to most major regional capitals.

Dial Telecom is connected to the world’s largest Internet exchanges (most notably to DE-CIX and KleyerEx in Frankfurt am Main, AMS-IX in Amsterdam, LINX in London and ECIX in Düsseldorf). Naturally, it is also connected to Czech NIX.CZ and Slovak SIX.SK.

The Dial Telecom company is part of the well-established international Dial Telecom Group (Dial Telecom CZ, Dial Telecom SK, eTel SK and Telecom Austria Czech Republic (Volný, a.s.). The group actively contributes to the consolidation of the fixed telecommunications market. The most significant acquisitions in the last year have been eTel Slovakia and Telekom Austria Czech Republic (Volný brand).

Adamantium Sponsors:
Ataxo

With more than 5.000 clients and 200 employees, Ataxo is the biggest Internet marketing agency in the Czech Republic and a leading Search Engine Marketing provider in Central Europe.

Ataxo has offices in the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia.

We provide expert Search Engine Optimization and manage several thousand Pay-per-Click Campaigns for our clients from these countries as well as outsource Pay-per-Click Campaigns for clients from other parts of the world.

Binary Age

Yet another web-based site builder from the author of open-source tools FirePython, FireRainbow, XRefresh and DryDrop. There is tough competition in this space, but Darwin is going to attract developers by bringing Firebug’s CSS prototyping experience into the HashPage editor.

Geewa

Play original multiplayer casual games on Geewa.com for free! Up to 18,700 players online at the same time. More than 5,000 games to choose from. Join our growing community now.

Kerio

Innovating in Internet security since 1997, Kerio Technologies, Inc. provides Internet messaging and firewall software for small-to-medium sized businesses and organizations worldwide. Kerio is headquartered in San Jose, California, and has offices in New York, Germany, United Kingdom, the Czech Republic and Russia. Kerio is a member of CalConnect, a calendaring and scheduling consortium, and a premier member of the Apple Developer Connection. The company has 4,400 channel partners in 108 countries. Technology partners include McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE), IBM Corporation (NYSE: IBM), and Notify Technology Corporation (OTCBB: NTFY).

Learn10

Learn10 is a system for language learners which enables members to quickly develop a durable learning habit. They create fresh, new content every day, limited to the length of a text message. This is distributed across the web and beyond via a popular Facebook app, widget, email, iPhone webapp, Twitter feed, affiliate ‘adverts’, as well as competitions, windows screensaver & Seesmic videos . Learn10 creates user engagement in learning by encouraging cooperation and competition between learners in a mix of free and premium flavours.

Learn10 is the work of a European team of four, split between Birmingham, UK and South Bohemia, CZ. It is inspired by the efforts of three of the founders to learn Czech, and informed by experience in advertising research analysis & English teaching. With 27,000 members this self-funded project is one year old. After extensive testing based on the prototype – LearnItLists – they have re-branded to Learn10 and are ready to launch.

TasteKid
Tastekid is a recommendation engine that lets you discover music, movies, and books. CNET recently ranked TasteKid as one of the 10 best movie sites.

WebExpo 2009

Biggest Central European conference about web development and business on internet. From web frameworks, agile management through UX and webdesign to startup contest and marketing insights. In Prague, October 16-18, 2009.

Wirenode

Wirenode is a mobile marketing platform. It allows individuals and companies to create mobile friendly websites very easily and use them for promoting their business. So far, more than 20000 mobile websites were created. The pages created in the Wirenode platform is used by companies such as European Directories, Vodafone, Telefonica O2, Ford, Reebok or Air France.

Zeality

Zeality.cz is an online map-based service for real estate search. It offers relevant data for each property, such as nearby points of interest and travel times. Zeality.cz targets Prague at the moment and will cover other cities soon.

The program will be fairly off-the-cuff this weekend and I encourage those who’d like to speak for about 5 minutes during the event to drop me a line ASAP (john@crunchgear.com). We’ll also have a job hunt portion to the event with colored name tags for networkers, job seekers, and employers. Robin Wauters will dance.

If last year is any indication, you’re going to meet the cream of the Prague tech community at this even so if you’re out of work or looking for a crack COBOL programmer, you’ll be in the right place. Finally, special thanks to our amazing sponsors:

Wirenode
Geewa
Ataxo
Learn10
Kerio
Dial Telecom

We’ll be breaking out a post for them as we get closer to the even. Until then, if you would like to RSVP, drop us a line at john@crunchgear.com with the subject line “RSVP PRAGUE” or just hit up the Facebook Event.