Bay Area Regional Chapter
The Portuguese-American Post-graduate Society is an independent, non-profit organization, with no political affiliations. Its objectives are to stimulate the development of strong relationships between the Portuguese postgraduate community living in North America and the American society while, simultaneously, promoting their home country. welcome
Recent Activities:
on Thursday, 25/08/2011 — Inês Tomás Pereira
The San José State University’s Portuguese & Lusophone Studies Program Annual Fundraiser will happen Friday, September 23, with doors opening at 7pm. The event will take place at the Léal Estate Vineyards (300 Maranatha Drive, Hollister, CA 95023) and the evening will include a gourmet dinner, Léal Vineyards award-winning wines, silent and live auctions, and musical entertainment in the beautiful candle-lit barrel room.
Tickets are $100/person (includes deluxe bus transportation from San José and East Bay, hors d’oeuvres and Portuguese wines served on board) or $85/person without bus transportation.
Reservations: portuguesestudiessjsu@gmail.com or miguelavila@tribunaportuguesa.com
on Thursday, 25/08/2011 — Inês Tomás Pereira
“Heaven’s Mirror: A Portuguese Voyage” is a documentary directed by Joshua Dylan Mellars. The filmmaker “has set out searching and inquiring into the heart of the Portuguese soul: plumbing the breadth and depths of the peculiarly Portuguese emotion – Saudade”. The official website is here.
There will be two special screening events:
Saturday, September 17th, at the Deerfield Ranch Winery (10200 Sonoma Highway, Kenwood, CA 95442). Film showing at 6pm, Fado performance at 7:30pm.
Sunday, September 18th, at the Summerfield Cinemas (551 Summerfield Road, Santa Rosa, CA 95405). Film showing at 4pm, Fado performance at 5:30pm.
For Tickets Call: (707) 935-3456
The 25th Wine Country Santa Rosa International Film Festival
on Thursday, 17/02/2011 — Ana Paula Leite
PALCUS will be hosting two Portuguese Professionals Network Mixers in March, in Washington, DC and in San Francisco, CA. Please RSVP to palcus@palcus.org and indicate which event you would like to attend.
Thursday, March 3, 2011, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Capitol City Brewing Company, 2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20001 (Metro Center or Union Station)
Appetizers Provided - Cash Bar
Thursday, March 17, 2011, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Autodesk Gallery, One Market Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA
Appetizers and Beverages Provided
This San Francisco event is in partnership with Leadership Business Consulting as part of their Global Strategic Innovation initiative.
on Tuesday, 15/02/2011 — Rogerio Candeias
Leadership Business Consulting developed a program to connect Portuguese companies to Silicon Valley, the GSI Accelerators.
This program, which has AICEP Portugal Global as an institutional partner, is dedicated to accelerate companies’ growth and globalization, through a structured program that has proven to be successful at a worldwide scale, by a reduced investment.
It appeals to companies already established and with potential to globalize, and to leading value chain companies (in products and spin-offs acceleration and in strengthen its value chain). To achieve this connection, Leadership Business Consulting contracted a space and a set of business incubation and acceleration services at Plug and Play Tech Center (the most prominent ecosystem in Silicon Valley that potentiates talent and innovation), in order to create an ecosystem to support Portuguese companies that have the potential to globalize.
Objectives:
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Take new Portuguese talents and entrepreneurs to the business environment of Silicon Valley in order to have an impact on their business culture, network and capacity (learning)
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Give to new Portuguese companies opportunities to test themselves and to become successful in a global market, including the one of USA (business)
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Bring to Portugal the best practices of business entrepreneurship (systemic impact).
More details at:
http://www.globalstrategicinnovation.com/
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on Tuesday, 01/02/2011 — Elsa Abreu
Summer Internship with Leadership Business Consulting Inc. through the PALCUS Internship Program.
The intern would be assisting with the following:
- Helping Portuguese start-up companies hosted at the Portuguese Pavilion (Plug and Play Tech Center) with their day to day needs - market study, networking, contacts, finding partners, setting up meetings, mentoring, etc...
- Planning the next Global Strategic Innovation program (2012) - for Portugal and possibly for Spain and/or Angola
- Working on any ongoing projects (ie. UN project on e-learning, continuation of Efacec project on defining their US Marketing and Sales Strategy, etc...)
- Help build/feed local content for the Global Strategic Innovation site
- Assist with knowledge building within the company
- General marketing and sales
Depending on availability Leadership Business Consulting would like to have the intern with them from mid July to end August. The intern would be given an office at Pier 1, Bay 3, San Francisco. The ideal candidate would have a business or economics background.
More about Leadership Business Consulting can be found at www.leadership-bc.com.
To apply for this internship, please fill out the PALCUS Internship Form http://www.npgproductions.com/palcus/Internship2010.pdf, and email all required documents to internships@palcus.org.
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