Rackspace Startup Program Global Startup Event Guide: February 2013

February brings us Super Bowl XLVII, which will be held in New Orleans on Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013 with the Baltimore Ravens taking on the San Francisco 49ers. We all know that Silicon Valley will be abuzz with 49ers mania on the first Sunday of February. Thefacebook.com, the first iteration of Facebook, was launched this month in 2004. International Polar Bear Day takes place on February 27, launching a new Save Our Ice campaign, which will include a “Two Up or Two Down” Thermostat Challenge, depending on where in the world you live. And, in the words of Suze Orman, “No one’s ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that’s abandoned by February.”

Within the startup movement, there are plenty of events happening globally in February 2013. The Rackspace Startup Program is here to keep you up to date with valuable information on events and happenings inside the global startup community. What follows is a partial list of global startup events complied by the contributors of StartupDigest:

Amsterdam
Hackers and Founders Meetup
Startup Tour Amsterdam

Austin
Austin SEO: Rich Snippets and SEO
Austinites of the Year Event

Baltimore
Exec Tech Breakfast
CreateBaltimore 3

Barcelona
Scrum Week
Spain Startup Awards

Berlin
Afterwork: Lean Startup
MongoDB Berlin

Birmingham, UK
Tech Wednesday PM
Pitching for Management

Bogota
Social Networking – PID Tuning Practico
Como, Cuando y Porque Usar AutoScaling + Elastic Load Balancer

Boulder, Colo.
Boulder New Tech Meetup
Crash Course: Bootstrapping

Brazil
Lean Startup Machine (São Paulo)
Startup Weekend BSB

Cape Town
BMGI Solution Series Innovate Event

Cardiff
Big Data For SMEs
Ignite Cardiff

Chicago
IgniteChicago
StartupBus Chicago’s Battle Royale

Cincinnati
The Startup Conference
Startup Grind Cincinnati hosts Tony Alexander

Columbus, Ohio
TechColumbus Innovation Awards

Copenhagen
Silicon Vikings Startup Night #5
Copenhagen Lean Startup Circle

Detroit
StartUp Weekend Ann Arbor
D-NewTech

Dublin
Rails Girls Dublin
Enterprise Ireland – START Workshop

Gainesville, Fla.
Downtown Gainesville Startup Lunch
TEDxUF

Geneva
Lift Conference 2013 : Making Innovation Happen
Venture Night

Hamburg
Social Media Week Hamburg
Webfuture Awards

Helsinki
Talent Talks
Money Talks Tampere

Hong Kong
StartupsHK Chinese New Year of the Snake Party 2013
General Assembly Class: INTRO TO ANGEL FUNDRAISING

India
APEX ‘ 13 SUMMIT
WAT SUMMIT 2013

Indianapolis
EAC Entrepreneurship Celebration Conference

Iowa City
Iowa Tech Chicks

Italy
Startup Weekend Milan
Social Media Week

Kansas City
Venture Fridays: KC Startup Crawl
Hackovate Health Finale

Latvia
Python User Group Riga Meetup
Tech Chill Baltics

London
London Enterprise Tech Meetup
London Launch48 Weekend

Los Angeles
Demo Video Lab
MongoDB LA

Madrid
Internet of Things Meetup 21
T3chFest

Manchester
BCS/IET Turing Lecture
Social Enterprise Weekend (North)

Melbourne
Melbourne Silicon Beach Drinks
NEXT: Customer Discovery

Miami
Start-Up City: Miami
SuperConf 2013

Montreal
Startup Weekend Montreal
Growtalks Montreal

Munich
München Graph DB Meetup
TOCA ME

Malaysia
Nextup: Innovation

New York City
Start Up Marketing for Dummies
NYC VC & Angel Showcase

New Zealand
Icehouse First Wednesday
Wellington Startup Weekend

Orange County, Calif.
Startup Weekend UC Irvine

Orlando
Startup Orange County Demo Day
Super Conf

Oslo
Har Vi Kultur for Entreprenørskap Og “Coworking” i Oslo?
Cyton

Ottawa
Ottawa JavaScript
2013 Bootstrap Awards and Adawe Tradeshow

Paris
Startup Weekend Paris
NEXT: Customer Discovery

Philippines
Apps for Asia
Graphika Manila 2013

Phoenix
Startup Book Club

Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Geek Breakfast
TedXGrandView

Portugal
StartUp Pirates Porto
3 Day Startup Coimbra

Raleigh/Durham
Startup and Play – Valentines Edition
Duke Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Conference

Salt Lake City
IoT Friday Lunch @ Kynetx

Saint Petersburg
Effective Business Website
SUMIT WarmUp

San Diego
Demo Night V
Women in San Diego Tech Startups

Scotland
Glasgow Technology Network
ProductTank Edinburgh

Seattle
Seattle Tech Meetup
4-Week Ideation Bootcamp

Seoul
Future of Web and Platform

Silicon Valley
Startup Grind 2013
Women 2.0 Conference 2013

Stuttgart
Startup Lunch Stuttgart
TEDx Stuttgart

Taipei
Taipei Maker Get-together & Open Workshop
From Idea to Action

Tampa
Fueling the Buzz: Big Ideas for Small Businesses
The Art of Innovation

Tokyo
Hacker News Tokyo Meetup Vol. 19
Global Innovation Conference Osaka 2013

Toronto
SXSW Pre-Party
GROW Talks in Toronto

Vancouver
ProductCamp Vancouver 2013
Hacking Health Vancouver

Washington DC
ErlangDC 2013
2013 Student Research and Development Showcase

Startups…get involved with the movement and participate in an event in your community. There is no better time than now to build or strengthen your network. Networking with other entrepreneurs allows you to form and maintain a strong circle of contacts that will serve you well for years to come. If you are an entrepreneur with a new idea in cloud computing, an application that makes people’s lives better or the next big thing online, drop the Space Cowboys a note and let us know about it. The Rackspace Startup Program looks forward to hearing all about it!