There are a couple of events that are coming up this week and I am sure to attend one (marketing focused) event while the other event (web 2.0 focused) I’m kind of tentative about.

i. Marketing focused: Our Programming team at the American Marketing Association has come up with the July event — a panel event focused on PR & my perennial favorite – Branding! The discussion will center around some bigwigs from the PR and high-tech industry:

PANELISTS
Tim Marklein, Executive VP & GM, Weber Shandwick Worldwide
Mary Shank Rockman, Founder & Principal, MSR Communications
Ryan Donovan, Director of Corporate Media Relations, HP 

WHEN
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
5:30pm-6:30pm Registration and Networking
6:30pm-8:30pm Program and Q&A

WHERE
Network Meeting Center at Techmart
5201 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara

If you’re interested check out further details here and if you want to register; just go here

ii. Web 2.0 focused (via Jeremiah’s blog)

WHAT?: Zoomr2 Launch

WHEN: July 14, 2006; 8pm-12am

WHERE: The Valleyschwag Ranch / 365 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA [map]

Zoomr Launch RSVP here

Hope to see all ye Bay Area netizens on atleast one of the above 2 events.