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Startup Digest

Austin

November 18, 2019

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Highlights
● Saturday Startup Spotlight: ROBOAMP - Capital Factory
● What does it mean to be Latinx in Tech Today? - Capital Factory
● November Accelerator All Access - Capital Factory

Austinpreneur podcast
● Startup 101: How to Work With Corporate Companies
● Interpreting Human Movement into Meaningful Data
● The Passion Behind Building a Community to Serve Women and People of
Color
Listen on SpotifyiTunesGoogle Play, and Stitcher.

Austin Digital Jobs
● Co-Founder (Pinwheel)
● DevOps Architect (Zynga)
● Digital Marketing Manager (Endurance)
● Inside Sales (Social Solutions)
● Market Launcher (Spin)
● Product Manager (BrainCheck)
● QA Project Manager (Testlio)
● Sr. Software Engineer (Honor)
● Unity Software Engineer (SciPlay)
● Visual Designer (Khoros)

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 18

GameDay Texas State Challenge (Free)

November 18th

AWS GameDay is an interactive team-based learning exercise designed to give players a chance to put their AWS skills to the test in a real-world, gamified, risk-free environment. Most importantly, it is an extremely fun way to learn more about the potential of AWS without the step-by-step instructions provided in workshops or classroom-style sessions. If you are seeking an open-ended, and at times ambiguous, style of training then GameDay is the perfect challenge for you.

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

MON 18

Blockchain as a Service (Free)

November 18th 6:30pm

This meetup will focus on Blockchain as a Service, which is the subject of a new report by Karen Kilroy, CEO at Kilroy Blockchain and Associate Director at the Austin Blockchain Collective. The report is soon to be published by O'Reilly Media (purchase link to come).

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

MON 18

Elixir: 2FA & Phoenix (Free)

November 18th 7:00pm

Multi-factor authentication requires a user to have two or more pieces of evidence (factors) in order to gain access into a system. For this meetup, Ege Ersoz will speak about implementing two-factor authentication in Phoenix.

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

MON 18

PyLadies Tech & Coding Night (Free)

November 18th 7:00pm

This meetup is a reserved timeslot for any special technical talks if we have one. If no topic is specified for the meetup, we'll open the floor to open presenting and then open coding

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

TUE 19

Defense Innovation Summit (Free)

November 19th 9:00am

Capital Factory welcomes you to our Defense Innovation Summit on November 19, where we’ll bring defense partners, corporations, the startup community and investors together for a full day of programming to promote valuable collaborations in defense innovation.

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

TUE 19

Individual Résumé Review from a Certified Professional Résumé Writer (Free)

November 19th 10:00am

Chris Villanueva, CPRW and Matt Villanueva, co-founders of a professional resume writing service, will be at Capital Factory every other Tuesday and Wednesday to offer critiques and advice to improve your résumé! They will prescribe next steps to get your resume noticed and sent to the top of the pile!

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

TUE 19

PowerUp Tech Talk: D&I in the Austin Tech Ecosystem ($25 - $35)

November 19th 4:00pm

SXSW Chief Programming Officer Hugh Forrest talks with Mentor Method CEO Janice Omadeke about the success of the recently concluded Mosaic Awards, which honor business leaders who represent the very best of Austin’s fast-growing diversity and inclusion space. Other issues they will cover in this free-form conversation include the strengths (and challenges) of the Central Texas startup scene, especially as compared to Omadeke's recent experiences in Washington DC.

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

TUE 19

Founders Live! ($10)

November 19th 6:00pm

Founders Live is an unforgettable happy hour competition sweeping the country where 4 to 5 handpicked companies take the hot seat, with only 99 seconds to pitch their company and describe their value proposition in front of an eager audience. After the pitches and audience Q&A, the crowd will vote on a winner who will not only receive an award, but recognition from the crowd and also the opportunity to talk more about their product or service. So bring your friends and coworkers, grab some food and drink, get to know your local entrepreneurs and vote for what you think will be the next big thing... built in Austin.

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

TUE 19

November Austin Indie Hackers Meetup (Free)

November 19th 6:00pm

📣AUSTIN BOOTSTRAPPED BUILDERS!
Come join the community of Austin product thinkers, designers, and developers working on self funded products and side passion projects. This month’s meetup format is "Product Feedback" night! We’ll hear from founders in various stage of product building:
• ✏️Ideation/Prototyping
• 📆Pre-revenue launch planning
• 🌄and post-launch "What’s Next(?!)"

 This is a fun opportunity to learn from fellow builders, get inspired for your own project, and offer to help builders looking for feedback or a partner.

Galvanize, 119 Nueces St, Austin, TX 78701 | View in Calendar

WED 20

Building Machine Learning Pipelines in Go (and Go Turns 10!) (Free)

November 20th 7:00pm

Fathom5 is building machine learning pipelines in Go to handle this huge volume of data and has come up with some interesting tools to manage the embedded systems that collect the data and the servers that move it through the pipeline.

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

WED 20

Austin DJs November Technical Meetup (Free)

November 20th 7:00pm

This month, we're talking about pacing! Each genre has its own arrangements and mixing conventions. For example, trance and techno songs are typically blended together slowly, while dubstep and drum and bass tracks are cut together in a much quicker, more aggressive style. Devin will discuss how to use these conventions to make your set clean and consistent no matter what genre you're spinning!

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

THU 21

Cascades Workshop ($795)

November 21st 9:00am

In an era of disruption, the only viable strategy is to adapt. That’s why the most important challenge for leaders today is to drive and sustain change. Yet research from McKinsey suggests that only 26% of organizational transformations succeed. Getting people to embrace change is never easy. This workshop will help you succeed where so many others fail. Based on the bestselling book, Cascades. It leverages decades of research into social and political movements and applies battle-tested principles to organizational transformation.

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

THU 21

TeXchange ($25)

November 21st 11:30am

TeXchange connects Austin’s Mid-Market business community; bringing together founders, leaders, investors, and professional service providers for knowledge-sharing, development, and networking. This month, our members and guests will be having a "lunch and learn" on Sales and Marketing.

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

THU 21

AUSA Texas Capital Chapter Social (Free)

November 21st 5:30pm

We extend a warm welcome to the Austin Community, our members, community partners as well as visitors to the city to learn about the goals and objectives of our chapter as we work to support soldiers and their families in the great State of Texas. For those of you not familiar with AUSA, we are a nonprofit educational and professional development association serving America’s Total Army, our Soldiers, Army civilians, and their families; our industry partners, and supporters of a strong national defense. AUSA provides a voice for the Army, supports the Soldier, and honors those who have served in order to advance the security of the nation.

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

THU 21

Big Data AI (Free)

November 21st 5:45pm

Austin Group to discuss and present Technical topics on Big Data, AI , Machine Learning,Deep Learning, AI related technologies.

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

THU 21

Travel Pitch Night ($5)

November 21st 6:00pm

Join Voyager HQ's .events chapter in Austin, Texas for our signature pitch night event! Get an inside look at the next generation of travel products and services that are changing the rules of the game in travel. At the startup pitch competition, several innovative travel startups will present to a panel of industry leaders and investors - with the audience and judges voting on the winner!

Galvanize - 119 Nueces St Austin, 78701 | View in Calendar

FRI 22

Communication & Alignment for Product Managers Workshop ($799)

November 22nd 9:30am

Communication & Alignment is a full-day workshop comprised of six modules. Each module includes a lecture component on theory and practice, interspersed with up to three hands-on activities. This ensures that you have an opportunity to apply and work with concepts in a setting that will answer questions and facilitate critical thinking.

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

SAT 23

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

November 23rd 8:30am

In comes Werk.Glo.Slay... A Community Empowerment Summit designed to give you an intimate experience to connect with other Austin women leaders, entrepreneurs, boss ladies, students and moms who are on a mission to live their best life. Featuring keynote conversations, panel discussions, and werkshops, Werk.Glo.Slay. will bring together diverse speakers from Austin companies, business leaders and women’s groups to inspire action and propel women to realize their potential, and learn new strategies to reach new heights. Attendees will gain access to lessons on leadership, entrepreneurship, self-care, self-development, and more!

Robert B. Rowling Hall, 300 W Martin Luther King Blvd, Austin, TX 78701 | View in Calendar

Upcoming Events:


MON 25

Authors: 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People and more (Free)

November 25th 6:30pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

MON 25

Hispanic Hackers: Cracking the Coding Interview (Free)

November 25th 7:00pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

TUE 26

Startup Meetup: November Startup Showcase (Free)

November 26th 6:30pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

WED 27

LLVM Austin Area Meetup (Free)

November 27th 6:30pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

WED 27

Austin IoT November Meetup (Free)

November 27th 7:00pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

SUN 01

Austin Startup Holiday Market 2019 (Free)

December 1st 12:00pm

Native Hostel, 807 E 4th Street, Austin, Texas 78701

MON 02

BitAngels Texas: What did we learn from 2019? (Free)

December 2nd 6:30pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

TUE 03

2019 MassChallenge Texas in Austin Holiday Party (Free)

December 3rd 6:00pm

Green Light Social, 720 West 6th Street, Austin, TX 78701

TUE 03

Food Marketing - New Product Roll-Out - Chris Lowrey of Austin Eastciders (Free)

December 3rd 6:30pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

TUE 03

iPhone Developer Group (Free)

December 3rd 7:00pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

TUE 03

Design Sprint Monthly Meetup: Facilitation Practice (Free)

December 3rd 7:00pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

WED 04

EmacsATX: Short Talks & Hack Night (Free)

December 4th 6:30pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

THU 05

Farm&City Civic Social Club (Free)

December 5th 6:00pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

THU 05

Design Jam (Free)

December 5th 6:30pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

SAT 07

Samsung Enterprise AppDev Launchpad--Austin Hack (Free)

December 7th 9:00am

Haute Spot, 1501 East New Hope Drive, Cedar Park, TX

TUE 10

Campfire Entrepreneur Networking: Tech Ranch and Duo Works Austin (Free)

December 10th 6:00pm

Duo Works, 8920 Business Park Dr. Suite #250, AUSTIN, TX 78759

TUE 17

Small Business Expo 2019 (Free - $100)

December 17th 10:00am

Palmer Events Center, 900 Barton Springs Road, Hall 2, Austin, TX 78704

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