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Matt hails from Boston and has a background in Film and Writing. As weather phenomena go, he prefers earthquakes to Nor'easters these days, so he's currently residing in the East Bay. He produced a feature film called "Night Sounds" after graduating from Emerson College, which premiered at a film festival in Massachusetts. Matt continues to write screenplays and work in the film community, while working as a freelance copywriter, editor, and part-time member of the Hound.

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Hound-Up: The Top Ten Conferences for the Week!

What a star-studded week for conferences!  Hollywood hotshots and industry elites from the nation’s top companies are taking to the podium all week long like it’s going out of style.  Grab your go-bag and get on the next flight to any of these incredible events or spend the rest of the year regretting it. It was [...]

Conference Hound-Up: Upcoming Events You Can’t Miss

Conference Hound-Up: Upcoming Events You Can’t Miss

We’ve got an enticing array of events lined up this week, but that’s exactly what you were expecting, right? Nothin’ but the best?  Well then, you’re learning. From the greenest hound to the slickest titan of industry, the Hound-Up is the place to kickoff career-changing networking.  We’ll bring you the week’s most important, most exciting [...]

Conference Hound-Up: Featured Events For The Week

Conference Hound-Up: Featured Events For The Week

It may be a short week for most of y’all, but it sure is a tasty one.  The next seven days are loaded with opportunities for professional enrichment, cultural engagement and personal empowerment.  I picked out some of my favorites and plopped them below, but don’t hesitate to scour our database yourself.  This is just [...]

The Conference Hound-Up That Changed Your Life

The Conference Hound-Up That Changed Your Life

Welcome to your weekly round-up of upcoming events, all corralled into one handy, Houndy spot. I took the liberty of finding this week’s highlightable conferences and liberating them from our rich, deep inventory. Whether you’re involved in B2B, B2C or B2X (business to the eXtreme – duh), you’ll find something compelling enough to score your [...]

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A Conference Hound-Up For All (But Especially You)

Perpetually beautiful summer weather is no excuse to spend your evenings and weekends enjoying sunsets and sipping cocktails on the veranda.  There will be plenty of time for all that after you’ve kicked some serious entrepreneurial ass and skyrocketed your professional self to the stratosphere.  Here are some sexy upcoming events for this week, spread [...]

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Conference Hound-Up: Social Media & Business Rule the Week

There are literally a bagillion events coming up this week on Conference Hound’s roster.  We had to dig deep to scour up such a delicious pile of succulent social media conferences, mouthwatering business events and exotically tasty treats, so make sure you make the most of ‘em! Social Media Every successful person or business needs [...]

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Conference Hound-Up: This Week’s Events, Live From Earth

Welcome, Hounds!  This fresh new week has plenty to offer, including (if you haven’t seen it yet) a brand new homepage on your home for event exploration (that’s us). What’s more, we’ve got thousands of new and awesome conferences that demand your attention.  Each and every one of them is located right here on your [...]

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Conference Hound-Up July 23-29, 2012: Something for Everyone

Hello again, Hounds!  There’s a helluva lot to get you up-to-date on this week, event-wise. I’m gonna break it down for you so you can skip right to the section that sounds the coolest. Technology DevCon 5 hits New York City, providing developers with the information, tools and motivation to utilize the revolutionary technology of [...]

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Conference Hound-Up July 16-22, 2012: Back to Business

Surely you’re all still reeling from the high-profile delights of ComicCon, which came to a close yesterday.  Well, take a deep breath, and let your blood pressure return to normal.  Feel better? Now load up on coffee and get ready to pull an all-weeker.  We’ve got a whole host of influential, informative, improbably entertaining events [...]

Apple WWDC Conference Shows Off Some Sexy New Gadgets

Apple WWDC Conference Shows Off Some Sexy New Gadgets

Apple held day one of their Worldwide Developer’s Conference today in San Francisco, unveiling their newest innovations across several platforms. It seems Apple can do very little to avoid spoiling most of their surprises somewhere along the way in the blogosphere, but they managed to retain a couple of tricks to leave an excited audience [...]