Many opportunities await the technically minded entrepreneurs in the Education Market. 

Henry Moreland Seals, Executive Director of Merchant Global Technologies & Investments will discuss the challenges of providing practical, useable English education. Mr. Seals started his latest endeavor, Pasocon de English, because he saw that his own children were not learning English in their classes. 

What started from simple English exercises for his kids has grown into a cottage industry fueled by Mr. Seals kid’s friends and their parents enthusiastic response to the program. Now, he offers on and off line classes, monthly events and promotional gifts for adults and children

Henry Moreland Seals has worked for the last decade in IT developing solutions for Japanese Corporations and start-ups; and is Harvard educated.

Bring your hardware, software, books, magazines, cables and bits and pieces to the TPC Swap Meet—buy, sell and swap amongst yourselves.  Just remember that you must take what you don’t sell back home with you—we can’t leave it for TUC to dispose of.

Our own Ken Cotton will be expounding on this technology and the companies that “play” in this space.  Watch this space for more information.

This month we return to our standard date and location.  Please join us at Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando.

Learn how companies big or small can easily integrate Open Source Systems and Software into their IT infrastructure, gaining the following benefits:

Enhance security, scalability and stability
Significantly reduce IT expenditures
Free up computing infrastructure
Move away from commercial Lock-in

This talk is based on changes that Uemura implemented after joining PricewaterhouseCoopers, and is geared toward those in business or in charge of IT within their companies.

The information however, will benefit all who attend.

DATE:  Thursday, May 12 (second Thursday)
TIME:  7 pm ~ 9 pm, doors open at 6:30
VENUE:  Temple University Japan (Please note venue change for this meeting.)
COST:  2,000 yen

REGISTRATION: http://www.tuj.ac.jp/cont-ed/seminar
MAP: http://www.tuj.ac.jp/newsite/main/maps/index.html

Internationally recognized expert in standards oriented web design and cascading style sheets (CSS), Eric Meyer, Principal Consultant and founder of Complex Spiral Consulting, will be discussing how your company or website benefits from using Web standards to cut page weight in half, reduced bandwidth consumption and server load, make maintenance easier, speed up page-rendering and response times, and improve accessibility and support for mobile devices without the use of proprietary technology.  He will also focus on ways to use standards to speed up design prototyping and user interface testing using standards and CSS.

Please use the registration link so we can determine the room size.  TPC members—this is a regular TPC meeting so you only pay what you would normally pay for attending a TPC Meeting.