Christine Lu, a Twitter acquaintance, let me know about a couple of interesting events in the Bay Area next weekend.

The first event is AAMA CONNECT 2008, Silicon Valley into the Next Decade: The Center of Global Transformation, Friday, October 3, 2008, Hyatt Regency Santa Clara Hotel, which the organizers describe as “the leading Asia technology gathering of the year in Silicon Valley.”

The second is “China, Beyond the Olympics,” Saturday, October 4, at the Santa Clara Convention Center. This conference “will center the discussion on China’s future after China’s great showcase of its 5,000-year history as well as its technological and economic achievements at the Beijing Summer Olympics.”

If you’re in tech, you’ve probably seen a slide in some executive presentation that says your company is going to take advantage of opportunities in the emerging BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China.) But what does that mean beyond slideware? COMDEX is dead. Might be time to break out of the U.S.-centric bubble and find out what’s really going on in the rest of the world.

Tags: China Beyond the Olympics, AAMA CONNECT 2008, BRIC, Asia, business, entrepreneurism