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Startup Digest

Austin

September 09, 2019

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Austin Digital Jobs (ADJ) Recruiting Mixer
This is the highly anticipated Austin Digital Jobs Group analog event, bringing the city's most desirable employers and qualified candidates together over a beer. This is a relaxed environment with no self-important speakers, just Austinites looking to employ and be employed.

Highlights
fitppl On B Corp’s 2019 Best For The World: Environment List - Lauren Lovell
Saturday Startup Spotlight: Zirtue - Capital Factory

Austin Digital Jobs
Conversion Optimization Engineer (Gartner)
Director, Enterprise Sales (Social Solutions)
Java QA Engineer (AppMod)
Learning and Development Analyst (Whole Foods)
Project Manager (Big Panda)
React.js UI Developer (Comp. Futures)
Ruby/Elixir Architect (Blackbaud)
Sales Manager (AWL)
Software Engineer (Qualia)
Support Representative (Cratejoy)

A special thanks to Austin Digital Jobs for providing us with the rad job listings and to Joseph Midura who helps manage AustinStartups.com. The Austin Digest is a volunteer effort organized by Joshua Baer and edited by Chris Sanchez.

Startup Digest Austin is curated by:
Joshua Baer

Joshua Baer - Founder, Capital Factory

Contact Joshua Baer at joshuabaer@thestartupdigest.com

Chris Sanchez

Chris Sanchez - Curator

Contact Chris Sanchez at chris.sanchez@startupdigestmail.com

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MON 09

Algorithm Gym (Free)

September 9th 6:00pm

Come hit the (algorithm) Gym (or for you Haskeller's out there, "do you even liftM?").

This meetup will feature a series of algorithm challenges that can be solved individually or as a group. We will go over solutions to each problem as well in order to ensure a good learning experience for all.

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701 | View in Calendar

MON 09

Cofounder Austin Meetup Keynote Speaker William Hurley ($12 - $30)

September 9th 6:30pm

Network and connect to find your next employee, your next co-founder, or build your professional network! Work might be from 9-5, but business happens between 5-9. The Co-Founder Meetup by The tech^map is a forum for professionals to pitch their business, idea, startup, etc. to the community and gain valuable feedback. The audience is full of other entrepreneurs, developers, investors, and media.

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701 | View in Calendar

MON 09

Austin Virtual League VR Arcade! (Free)

September 9th 7:00pm

Come try VR at AVL's VR Arcade meetup! This week you, the attendee, get's to choose what game you'd like to play. We chose 5 really awesome simple games that are easy for beginners. If you've never tired to blast robots out of the sky or, or watched rabbit's repel an alien invasion, you won't want to miss this month's meetup.

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701 | View in Calendar

MON 09

Casual Clojure coding (Free)

September 9th 7:00pm

We don't have a talk lined of for this month, though we may still be able to arrange a lightning talk or two. (comment below if you have something to show) So, we'll be doing some casual coding, in groups or as an individual if you prefer. It'll be a great chance to get questions answered or try out a new library.

We will also discuss the results of the member survey and talk about future directions for the meetup.

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701 | View in Calendar

TUE 10

Intro to Austin Startup Scene with Sean Duffy, Monica Morales, and Brooke Turner ( $0 – $10)

September 10th 4:00pm

Are you new to the Austin tech startup community? Thinking about moving here? Trying to figure out how to plug in? Come hear a comprehensive overview from a local community leader and get a chance to introduce yourself and ask questions at the next Intro to the Austin Startup Scene & Ask Me Anything.

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701 | View in Calendar

TUE 10

Training and Deploying Deep Learning Models with AWS Sagemaker (Free)

September 10th 6:30pm

In this talk, John Ramey will walk us through AWS Sagemaker. We'll walk us through the necessary setup and how to train Keras and TensorFlow models. We'll also go through how to deploy these models into production. In addition to training/deploying models, we'll discuss how to interact with the models both through Jupyter notebooks as well as REST endpoints.

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701 | View in Calendar

TUE 10

Introduction to Convector Framework (Free)

September 10th 6:30pm

Mark Anthony Morris is excited to partner with Covalent for an educational workshop about Convector. Convector Suite is an open-source development toolset for smart contract systems.

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701 | View in Calendar

TUE 10

CDA 230 Immunity: An Essential Tool to Protecting Internet Speech (Free)

September 10th 7:00pm

Our speaker this month is Ritika Gopal. Ritika is an early-career transactional attorney and a Board Member of EFF-Austin. Having spent time at SXSW, The Wikimedia Foundation, Disney and more, she has developed a deep understanding of tech law -- specifically, the uncharted growth of IP, privacy, and free speech law in the context of emerging tech and Internet communication.

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701 | View in Calendar

WED 11

Startup Grind with Ryan Merket, Partner at Firebrand Ventures ($10 - $15)

September 11th 6:00pm

Startup Grind is the largest independent startup community, actively educating, inspiring, and connecting entrepreneurs globally in partnership with Google for Startups. The cornerstone of our global community are monthly events featuring successful local founders, innovators, educators and investors who share lessons learned on the road to building great companies. Founded in Silicon Valley, Startup Grind has helped millions of entrepreneurs build their businesses, connect with strategic partners, and secure funding.

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701 | View in Calendar

WED 11

ACA Developer Series: GraphQL and Slicknode (Free)

September 11th 6:00pm

Founder of Slicknode Ivo Meißner will lead us in an awesome look at how Slicknode uses GraphQL to deploy a fully functional project in minutes instead of months. With this hands-on workshop, walk away with a new tool that will speed up your development process.

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701 | View in Calendar

WED 11

Smoother Sailing and Scaling with Helm Version 3 (GDG Cloud Austin) (Free)

September 11th 6:30pm

What’s all this buzz about Helm v3 you ask? Helm users have been asking for changes, and the development team has answered by rearchitecting Helm in version 3. This technical session will cover a wide range of improvements to Helm that address operability, scalability, and security concerns that users had with prior versions of Helm. During the session we’ll help users create a library that will improve scalability, security, and overall workflow complete with example code. Food and drinks will be sponsored by Tigera.

Volusion, 1835A Kramer Lane Suite 100, Austin, TX | View in Calendar

WED 11

Transformative Technology Exploration (Free)

September 11th 7:00pm

Are you working on scientifically validated technologies supporting mental health, emotional wellbeing, and human thriving?

Join us at our September TransTech Austin Chapter event for an evening discussion with the TransTech community.

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701 | View in Calendar

WED 11

Favor Delivery Product Lead on Building For The Gig Economy ($8 - $10)

September 11th 7:00pm

Favor Delivery Product Lead P.J. Tanzillo talks about threading the needle between stability and innovation when building for the gig economy - with examples of process evolution in research, design, marketing and more.

Indeed HQ, Building 1, Cafeteria, 6433 Champion Grandview Way, Austin, TX 78750 | View in Calendar

WED 11

Austin Python Meetup (Free)

September 11th 7:00pm

We typically have a main presentation or a series of lightning talks, followed by discussion and Q&A. There is a diversity of domains and experience levels represented, so come with your questions and be prepared to talk about how you use Python!

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701 | View in Calendar

THU 12

iLEAP 2019 (Free)

September 12th 2:00pm

iLEAP is bringing together the power of Dell Technologies’ Women in Action Group (WIA), the Business and Talent Acquisition to coach women on advocacy and self-promotion. We are inviting YOU, to join us for an exciting afternoon, where you will be empowered to further promote yourself and continue building your network of advocates.

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701 | View in Calendar

THU 12

Setting Up Your First WooCommerce Membership Program (Free)

September 12th 6:30pm

Toyin Akinmusuru will open our session with a discussion about the various ‘shades’ WooCommerce Membership sites. Your site could offer access to classes or specialized videos, you could offer certain customers special ‘membership’ perks or your WooCommerce site may be set up to send members a package of curated products every month.

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701 | View in Calendar

THU 12

Building a Business: Creating a commercially viable game studio that lasts (Free)

September 12th 7:00pm

Adam Creighton is starting new development studio Enduring Games in Austin, Texas. Adam will talk about successes and mistakes (oh, the mistakes!) from 25 years of studio leadership, mega media company production, middleware development, enterprise technical direction, pet shop feed supply management, acting, and llama wrestling, and how those things can create your next successful thing. Hopefully.

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701 | View in Calendar

FRI 13

Texas Scalability Summit ($265 - $495)

September 13th 8:00am

A Texas-sized scalability conference from the folks who organize Data Day Texas, Graph Day, the Texas AI Summit, and other events. Summit coverage includes: chaos engineering, containers, distributed systems, distributed applications, distributed computing, distributed data stores, docker, schedulers, kafta, kubernetes, microservices, orchestration, observability, site reliability, streaming data and processing, reliabilty, serverless, and more...

AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center, 1900 University Ave, Austin, TX 78705 | View in Calendar

Upcoming Events:


MON 16

SoGal Global Pitch Competition: Austin Round (Free)

September 16th 6:00pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

MON 16

Austin New Blockchain Startup Showcase (Free)

September 16th 7:00pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

TUE 17

Intro to Defense Innovation & Ask Me Anything ($0 – $10)

September 17th 4:00pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

TUE 17

Austin Job Seekers (Free)

September 17th 5:00pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

TUE 17

Austin Music Tech Meetup (Free)

September 17th 7:00pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

TUE 17

Travel Happy Hour (Free)

September 17th 7:00pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St. 1st floor, Austin, TX 78701

WED 18

Blockchain Showcase (Free)

September 18th 3:30pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

WED 18

Campfire Entrepreneur Networking: Tech Ranch and IncubatorCTX (Free)

September 18th 6:00pm

11400 Concordia University Dr Building B Austin, TX 78726

WED 18

Austin LLVM Meetup (Free)

September 18th 6:30pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

WED 18

ATX-Golang Monthly Meetup (Free)

September 18th 7:00pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

WED 18

Austin DJs September Technical Meetup (Free)

September 18th 7:00pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

MON 23

Women in Tech Summit 2019 (Free)

September 23rd 9:00am

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

MON 23

Austin Startup Week (Free)

September 23rd 9:00am

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

MON 23

Epic Office Hours at Austin Startup Week (Free)

September 23rd 1:00pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

THU 26

ATX Startup Crawl at Austin Startup Week (Free)

September 26th 5:00pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

MON 30

Austin Music Producers Shindig (Free)

September 30th 7:00pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

TUE 01

Reaching the CPG Shopper - Austin Food Marketing Meetup (Free)

October 1st 6:30pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

TUE 01

Austin Coding Academy (Free)

October 1st 6:30pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

WED 02

Health Tech Companies Confronting the Opioid Crisis ($10)

October 2nd 5:30pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

WED 02

Introduction and Welcome to: XR for Growth (Free)

October 2nd 6:30pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

MON 14

Founder's Academy ( $0 – $49)

October 14th 11:30am

Austin, Dallas & Houston, TX

TUE 05

DeveloperWeek Austin 2019 ($150 and up)

November 5th 8:00am

Palmer Events Center, 900 Barton Springs Road, Austin, Texas 78704

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