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Startup Digest

Austin

October 14, 2019

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Highlights
Live by the Tool, Die by the Tool - Daniel Senyard
MassChallenge Names 14 Finalists - Tyler Ostby

Austin Digital Jobs
Application Security Engineer (Kasasa)
Client Experience Agent (Stitch Fix)
Programmer Analyst (STRATA)
Security Analyst (Alert Logic)
Software Developer (ScanData)
Sr. Backend Engineer (Honor)
Sr. IT Manager (compeat)
Sr. UX Designer (Finastra)
Technical Support Engineer (Journyx)

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 14

Founder's Academy ( $0 – $49)

October 14th 11:30am

Starting a startup is easy. Building a great company is not. Amongst all the excitement of running a startup is a lot of hard work and stressful decisions. Founders Academy Essentials is a 4-day lunch-n-learn curriculum designed specifically for driven entrepreneurs that are passionate about their business potential! Whether you're working on your MVP and preparing for launch or already generating revenue, you will be exposed to fundamental insights and tools to help dramatically increase your odds of success.

Austin, Dallas & Houston, TX | View in Calendar

MON 14

Awesome Algorithms: Lightning Talks (Free)

October 14th 6:00pm

Is there a particular algorithm that you love? If so then let us know! This event will feature a series of short talks from different members on your favorite algorithm.

Confirmed Lightning talks:
* Sliding Window - Darren
* Monte Carlo Tree Search - Max
* Viterbi Decoding - Bhuvanesh
* Löb - Jason
* Backtracking - Luc
* Dijkstra's Shortest Path First - Tyler
* Back-propogation - George

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

MON 14

Property-Based Testing with Rantly.rb - Matt Rieger (Free)

October 14th 6:30pm

Unexpected input can cause all kinds of bugs when your app hits production, especially in a dynamically typed language like Ruby. Property-based testing lets you throw everything —including the `KitchenSink` — at your new feature while it's being developed, exposing edge cases and unanticipated issues. We'll be learning about the pattern using Rantly.rb, a Ruby implementation of the popular Quickcheck pattern for property-based testing.

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

MON 14

Cofounder Austin Meetup Keynote Speaker Joseph Kopser ($12 - $30)

October 14th 6:30pm

Joseph Kopser is a technology entrepreneur and expert in transportation, smart cities, urban mobility, energy, national security issues as well as an Army combat veteran. Currently he serves as an Executive-in-Residence at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas. In addition, he is President of Grayline where he works to bring together experts, data, and solutions to help companies and public institutions manage disruptive change. Prior to co-founding Grayline, Joseph co-founded and served as CEO of RideScout, before it was acquired by Mercedes-Benz in 2014.

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

TUE 15

Travel Founder Breakfast (Free)

October 15th 8:30am

Expand your network and share insights with other serious early-stage travel founders over breakfast. We will talk about everything from concept to seed stage and jumpstart partnerships with like-minded, travel startup trailblazers.

This round table discussion allows travel startup founders share insights and problem-solve for startup companies in a high-growth phase.

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

TUE 15

Latinx in Tech Summit (Free)

October 15th 12:00pm

Capital Factory welcomes you to our Latinx In Tech Summit on October 15, 2019! We're dedicated to increasing diversity in the tech community and making our coworking space an inclusive and welcoming environment for people of all backgrounds and identities.

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

TUE 15

Austin Job Seekers (Free)

October 15th 5:00pm

We have one goal here: to foster an ecosystem that helps people progress in their career and get people hired! This is a networking and educational group that is actively focused on improving the strategy of job seekers (active or passive) to help them step up their game! We also partner with recruiters to help facilitate a better hiring system.

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

TUE 15

Austin Music Tech Monthly Meetup! (Free)

October 15th 7:00pm

Hello Austin entrepreneurs, developers, investors, service firms, music industry folks and anyone with a passion for tech and music, come join us for this month's meetup!

Let's all work together to make Austin music startups better, learn about new technologies affecting music, and start the next great music tech company!

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

WED 16

Epic Office Hours at Latinx in Tech Summit (Free)

October 16th 3:00pm

Epic Office Hours is a series of lighting speed mentoring sessions with serial entrepreneurs, corporate executives and investors. Attendees will receive a curated schedule of meetings based on various factors including stage and industry. This is an opportunity to connect with your local entrepreneurial community and receive valuable feedback on your venture.

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

WED 16

AWS Austin MeetUp: Vault w/HashiCorp + Cost Opt w/Mission (Free)

October 16th 6:00pm

HashiCorp Vault within AWS, Core topics will include: • Using CloudFormation to build a Vault cluster with load balancer, pki certificate, and DNS name • Vault secrets management overview • Identity using AWS authentication identities • Dynamic AWS access secret generation • Secure introduction of dynamic database credentials

AWS Austin Office, 11601 Alterra Parkway, 5th Floor, Room 5.406 · Austin, TX | View in Calendar

WED 16

Austin Inno 50 on Fire ($60– $500)

October 16th 6:00pm

50 on Fire is our annual celebration of innovators, big and small, people and organizations, across multiple categories. Though Austin Inno primarily covers the city's thriving tech, education, and startup communities, we understand that these sectors don't have an exclusiveness on innovation. The unbelievably talented marketer at your agency is innovative. The enterprise company that helps fuel your small business is innovative. The non-profit you donate to is innovative. Your favorite brewery is innovative.

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

WED 16

Additive Manufacturing (AM) for Industry (Free)

October 16th 7:00pm

We will be discussing testing of 3D printed objects and materials. From Spec Sheets to Production Parts....What you need to know.

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

WED 16

Austin DJs October Technical Meetup: Making Edits (Free)

October 16th 7:00pm

This month we will be talking about the art of the edit!

What's an edit? It's a special version of any track, created by you, the DJ/mixologist 👩‍🔬

DJs make edits to make tracks easier to work with, to add some spice to songs, and to automate effects that they would otherwise have to execute on their controller. For example, you could add an intro to a song, cut out sections of a song, or throw in some unexpected twists to a well-known track.

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

WED 16

Austin GoLang (Free)

October 16th 7:00pm

A user group to meet and discuss the Go programming language (golang). Meetups are typically held on third Wednesdays at 6:30. Follow us on Twitter @atxgolang (http://twitter.com/atxgolang) and join our chat rooms: #atx on Gopher Slack (https://invite.slack.golangbridge.org/) or #atxgolang on Freenode.

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

THU 17

Austin Retail and eCommerce Meetup: October Networking & Discussion (Free)

October 17th 6:00pm

This event is for people interested in retail & ecommerce in the Austin, TX area. We meet downtown monthly to discuss the latest topics, share our experiences, insights, and struggles, and to learn from each other.

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

THU 17

Distributed Cybersecurity Utilizing Hashgraph (Free)

October 17th 6:00pm

Join us as Sam Ulrich, CTO of Austin-based Lonestar Data describes how his company is using the Hedera network for distributed security solutions. Lonestar Data Technologies provides distributed cybersecurity solutions to mission-critical systems infrastructure in the energy, telecommunications, and industrial manufacturing sectors.

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

THU 17

Distributed Cybersecurity Utilizing Hashgraph (Free)

October 17th 6:00pm

Join us as Sam Ulrich, CTO of Austin-based Lonestar Data describes how his company is using the Hedera network for distributed security solutions. Lonestar Data Technologies provides distributed cybersecurity solutions to mission-critical systems infrastructure in the energy, telecommunications, and industrial manufacturing sectors.

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

THU 17

Austin Cassandra Meetup (Free)

October 17th 6:30pm

This group is for anyone who is interested in Apache Cassandra™, Spark, GraphDB, Web, CLI, or other application development, and DataStax topics. All interest and expertise levels are welcome. Learn the latest in the world of big data storage from engineers, architects, designers, administrators, and more.

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

Upcoming Events:


MON 21

All About Security Tokens! (Free)

October 21st 6:30pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

MON 21

PyLadies Tech & Coding Night (Free)

October 21st 7:00pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

TUE 22

Intro to Defense Innovation & Ask Me Anything (Free)

October 22nd 4:00pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

TUE 22

October Startup Showcase (Free)

October 22nd 6:30pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

WED 23

Austin LLMV Meetup (Free)

October 23rd 6:30pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

WED 23

Game Dev Open Mic Night (Free)

October 23rd 6:30pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

WED 23

Securing IoT Products with Layers of Security (Free)

October 23rd 7:00pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

THU 24

Comfort Crew's 2019 GALActica ($150)

October 24th 5:45pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

THU 24

Austin Web Python (Free)

October 24th 7:00pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

SAT 26

Storytelling with Data: Where tech and art intersect (Free)

October 26th 5:00pm

Mexican American Cultural Center, 600 River St, Austin, TX 78701

MON 28

Design for Corporate Culture Change (Free)

October 28th 6:30pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

TUE 29

Go to Market Faster with Microservices Event in Austin (Free)

October 29th 3:00pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

WED 30

Austin Music Producers (0)

October 30th 6:30pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

TUE 05

DeveloperWeek Austin 2019 ($150 and up)

November 5th 8:00am

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

MON 11

Veterans in Tech Summit (Free)

November 11th 9:00am

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

SAT 23

Werk.Glo.Slay Summit ($8-25)

November 23rd 8:30am

Robert B. Rowling Hall, 300 W Martin Luther King Blvd, Austin, TX 78701

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