April Geek Dinner - Wed. the 23rd 5:30-9pm @ AS220 featuring TCMPI, RI’s fastest growing private company
Posted by Jack
Photo Credit: Bret Ancowitz, M.D.
Wednesday, March 23, 2008, 5:30 – 9pm
AS220
115 Empire Street, Providence, RI
Spring is in the air, and you know what that means – time to get your Geek on! (Alright, fine… according to us, it’s always that time.)
Chances are you’ve never heard of Rhode Island’s fastest growing private company as they tend to fly (and we do mean fly) under the local radar. According to Inc. Magazine, it’s North Kingston-based The Corporate Marketplace (TCMPI) with a recent annual growth rate of 1,858.3%. And get this – TCMPI was also ranked as the 73rd fastest growing company in the country.
Inc. explains that TCMPI, “builds private online stores for large corporations running employee incentive and reward programs… TCMPI’s software acts as a procurement hub, linking… reward buyers to factories at high-end brands.” In addition to the thousands of private stores, TCMPI also powers parts of Amazon.com and American Express’s huge Membership Rewards Program.
At this month’s Providence Geek Dinner, TCMPI CEO Chris Crawford and CTO Peter Mackey, will explain their incredible business, and give a rare demo of the online engine that makes it all possible.
Update: Chris has just authored a post about TCMPI for the RI Nexus weblog – The Little Engine that said it could.
Please RSVP in the comments section of this post so that we can give the good folks at AS220 an estimated headcount. And while you’re at it, subscribe to Providence Geeks’ RSS feed (see sidebar) and/or join our very-low-volume email announcement list (for the announcement list, send an email to Jack Templin, jtemplin over at Gmail with your name and affiliation).
As always, for first-timers here are the details on the Geek Dinners:
- The event itself is FREE! Beverages and food are for sale at the adjoining bar and Taqueria Pacifica (delicious and cheap)
- It’s totally casual. Wear whatever, bring whoever, arrive and take off whenever… And don’t worry about eating or not – come famished or full – eating is optional, and frankly, the least of the festivities (that’s not say the food isn’t good—it’s actually great)
- Topics of conversation will vary as they will at any gathering of geeks, but many of us will be talking about AJAX, mash-ups, start-ups, new devices, innovative business models, interaction design, social computing, digital art, web services, etc. etc. etc.
- There is Wi-Fi so bring your connected device of choice.
April 17th, 2008 08:40
You know it.
April 17th, 2008 15:04
I’ll be there.
April 17th, 2008 15:05
Wish I could be there. Keep it extra geeky in my absence.
April 17th, 2008 15:17
I’m in…
April 17th, 2008 16:14
Looking forward to it.
April 17th, 2008 16:20
Can’t wait!
April 17th, 2008 16:32
I should be there – sounds really interesting.
April 17th, 2008 16:39
I’ll be there!
April 17th, 2008 16:56
Alas, I can’t make it this month. Have fun!
Ben
April 17th, 2008 17:47
I’ll be there.
April 17th, 2008 18:08
I’ll be there.
April 17th, 2008 19:27
See ya there – bringing a buddy who owns a graphics biz in warwick too.
April 17th, 2008 19:29
see ya there
April 17th, 2008 19:30
see ya there Jack
April 17th, 2008 19:56
I’ll be there.
April 17th, 2008 22:01
See you then
April 17th, 2008 22:44
I’ll be there. This one sounds very interesting.
April 18th, 2008 10:24
Looking forward to it.
April 18th, 2008 13:01
See you there.
April 18th, 2008 15:34
I should be there.
April 19th, 2008 12:36
I should make it there.
April 20th, 2008 16:57
Just heard about this group. Looking forward to meeting you!
April 20th, 2008 20:34
I’m in.
April 21st, 2008 08:27
I’ll be there..possibly bringing a guest.
April 21st, 2008 08:52
I will be attending with my development staff and the CEO of RXinsider,com
April 21st, 2008 08:54
I will be there with my developer staff and the CEO of RXinsider.com
April 21st, 2008 09:16
I will be there….with a friend
April 21st, 2008 12:55
Planning on it.
April 21st, 2008 18:35
I’m so there.
April 21st, 2008 19:23
Glad to have a dinner that matches up with my schedule! See everyone there.
April 21st, 2008 20:09
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April 22nd, 2008 08:44
Planning on it.
April 22nd, 2008 11:32
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April 23rd, 2008 02:01
Should be
April 23rd, 2008 06:48
I will be there.
April 23rd, 2008 12:05
I’ll be there
April 23rd, 2008 12:10
I may be late but I’ll be there.
April 23rd, 2008 12:44
I’m planning to be there. As always, it’s a short walk from my office.
April 23rd, 2008 12:56
[...] Read all about it and RSVP right here. [...]
April 23rd, 2008 13:01
So close i can taste it
April 23rd, 2008 13:17
Planning to go. I’ll be the guy who likes computers; please feel free to say hi.
April 23rd, 2008 13:20
I should be there as well.
April 23rd, 2008 14:08
I am in.
April 23rd, 2008 14:09
I will be there with 10-15 RIC students.
April 23rd, 2008 14:24
See you all there!
April 23rd, 2008 14:50
First time for me… will be there with one other person…
April 23rd, 2008 15:14
I’ll be there solo.
April 23rd, 2008 15:35
I’ll be stopping in…..
April 23rd, 2008 17:30
Sorry I won’t be able to make it tonight
May 21st, 2008 06:39
I will be there. steve