Cerebra Launches at 27

27dinner in jozi Two pretty significant things happened last night. We had our first 27 Dinner in Jozi – 27 is a series of meetings for techies, geeks, media practitioners, speakers, businesspeople, entrepreneurs and more – and by all accounts it was a big success. If you missed it, there’ll be a 27 held on the 27th of every month, around the country. Keep an eye on this blog, and the wiki, for updates.

I had great fun, met a few people for the first time and thoroughly enjoyed the speakers on the evening. Thanks to Andy, Paul, Carly, Vincent and Dave for your inspiring thoughts. Thanks too to Gregor for his help with the preso.

Paul at Chilibean has as usual, the most comprehensive and timely report on the evenings ~~antics~~ events, so please mosey over to his site for that. He also took some really cool short videos, all up at YouTube. The one he took of Dave and I is below.

There is stuff at flickr, Technorati and YouTube, just search for the 27dinner tag. If you were there and have written something, took photo’s or video’s or whatever, please post a link up on the wiki for the rest of the community to enjoy. See you at the next one!

me at 27dinner Another significant piece of news was the official launch of my company, Cerebra. Cerebra is a social media consultancy and will focus it’s efforts on helping South African companies understand and harness the value of emerging trends and technologies. Dave Duarte is my valued colleague and Cape Town representation and Carl Spies is our tech guru. There’s plenty to say about Cerebra, but rather check out our site for the details.

Wow, big frikkin’ weekend. I’m like a whole 2% less stressed than I was on Friday night. Brilliant.

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6 Responses to “Cerebra Launches at 27”

Paul 29 January 2007 at 8:00 am #

Hey Mike

Great job putting the shindig together. We had a great time and I am looking forward to putting in an appearance in Cape Town soon.

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Aquila 29 January 2007 at 8:27 am #

You guys are legends. Well done on a great event. I’ll see you guys in CT for the next one – I’m making plans.

PS: awesome pic you have there – even if I have to say so myself hehe

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Andy Hadfield 29 January 2007 at 11:33 am #

Good job lad… was blown away by the non-nerdiness of the event – great bunch of people and some seriously exciting stuff we can get going in the 2-007…

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Jake McKee 29 January 2007 at 3:34 pm #

Sounds like a great event!

And welcome to the social media consulting firm world!

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Cerebra Launched at 27! at Dave Duarte - 28. Jan, 2007
[...] What I do remember quite clearly though is that Mike, Carl and I officially launched our company, Cerebra, at the event! (more) *yay* We are already doing work with some of the jeeks* who were there lastnite, and it seems that we’ll be collaborating with some others in the near future… Hence, I think it was the perfect occasion for the announcement. [...]
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