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Austin

December 09, 2019

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Highlights
Saturday Startup Spotlight: Vesta - Capital Factory
● TechStars Austn kicks off 2020 mentorship - Tyler Ostby

Austin Digital Jobs
● Customer Support (Octane AI)
● Data Warehouse Developer (Kasasa)
● DevOps Engineer (Zilker)
● Graphic Designer II (Hanger)
● Insight & Data Analyst (Somnio)
● Senior PPC Account Exec (Brainlabs)
● Social Media Specialist (Archer Malmo)
● Systems Enginer (ICS)
● Technical Team Lead (QualiTest)
● UX Writer (Indeed)

Austinpreneur podcast
● Unlocking the Passion and the Power of the Outdoors with Jeff Cavins
● Social Entrepreneurship: Speak out, Share Facts, and Show Strength with Jonathan Greenblatt
Listen on SpotifyiTunesGoogle Play, and Stitcher.

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

Redis Use Cases: Beyond the Cache - Software & Cloud Examples (Free)

December 9th 1:30pm

Matthew Jackson of Redis Labs will lead a Redis technology discussion about Redis use cases. The content discussed/topics we dive into will include data structures, deployment methods, modules, redis monitoring and the enterprise console ... just to name a few.

Google Austin, 500 W 2nd St · Austin, TX | View in Calendar

MON 09

Algorithms Meetup: Evolutionary Computation (Free)

December 9th 6:00pm

Speaker: Jacob Barhak
Collaborators: Aaron Garrett, Anselm Blumer, Olaf Dammann

Evolutionary Computation algorithms include Genetic Algorithms and other population operations. Such algorithms are used for optimization problems, and are especially powerful with discrete data.

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

MON 09

Cofounder Austin: Annual Holiday Party (Free)

December 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

AustinRB: Keynote from RubyConf 2019 (Free)

December 9th 6:30pm

We will watch one of the keynotes from this year's RubyConf

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

MON 09

Clojure Meetup: Decomplecting HTTP (Free)

December 9th 7:00pm

Decomplecting HTTP - Writing a HTTP client & server for Clojure in Clojure from the ground up.

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

TUE 10

Official NeurIPS Conference Watch Party (Free)

December 10th 10:00am

Join Capital Factory and Austin.AI for a week full of some of the BEST programming in AI today! Capital Factory is an official satellite watch location for the NeurIPS 2019 conference, and we'll be showing talks, panels, workshops, and much more. Come by and network with other AI aficionados throughout the day, and also keep an eye out for our schedule of talks and more AI events throughout the week.

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

TUE 10

Meetup for Pet Care Startups in Austin (Free)

December 10th 6:00pm

Traveling to Austin for the Pets & Money Summit? Start off your visit at our Meetup for Pet Care Startups, hosted by the Leap Venture Academy and OneMind Dogs, training from a dog's perspective. You will hear from Asad Butt, Leap Partner and Director of Ventures & New Partnerships at Kinship, and Aimee Gilbreath, Leap Partner and Exectuive Director of Michelson Found Animals.

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

TUE 10

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

December 10th 6:00pm

Want to connect and network with local tech entrepreneurs? Validate your business idea? Interested in getting more involved with Tech Ranch? Come out for a Campfire! Campfire is all about connecting you to the larger tech startup community. We gather interesting, accomplished people from across Austin’s vast entrepreneur ecosystem so you can get the introductions, insight, and help you need to move your business forward, while also helping others.

Duo Works, 8920 Business Park Dr. Suite #250, AUSTIN, TX 78759 | View in Calendar

TUE 10

Hyperledger - Fictions and Realities of Blockchain (Free)

December 10th 6:30pm

Come join us as Zach Danker-Feldman from Xooa discusses the need for a more mature and realistic vision for the blockchain’s prospects, and how services like Xooa’s enterprise blockchain application platform remove barriers to entry and move us toward a realization of success for this technology.

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

TUE 10

Deep Learning - Why you should be using TensorFlow 2.0 (Free)

December 10th 6:30pm

With the explosion of deep learning popularity in the last few years, many researchers, programmers, and deep learning practitioners have been shying away from frameworks like TensorFlow, Theano, Caffe due to it's tedious, time consuming code to prototype experiments. Keras has been the most popular because of the easy-to-use API. In this talk we will discuss how TensorFlow integrated Keras as the default and recommended high-level API. We will also discuss the main changes and how to migrate from 1.X to 2.X. And finally we will look on how to deploy models in production.

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

TUE 10

Women in Film X Women in Tech (Free)

December 10th 7:00pm

The purpose of this meet up is to bring more connection between these rapidly growing industries and ignite shared resources to influence positive change for the people building them.

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

TUE 10

EFF Austin: Know/Edge: A Tool For Exploring Wikipedia (Free)

December 10th 7:00pm

Our speaker this month is Ian Seyer (ianseyer.com). Ian is a technology and art enthusiast. He is fascinated by the power structures that produce and distribute knowledge, and the infrastructure that allows for this power to coalesce and exert itself.

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

WED 11

The Future of Health Summit ($35)

December 11th 7:45am

Health Tech Austin hosts the Future of Health Summit with guest speaker William Hurley, CEO of Strangeworks.

Health Care As We Know It Today Is Changing. There Is An Ongoing Fundamental Shift From "Health Care" to "Health".  

In a TED-Talk Like Setting, Thought Leaders Will Discuss Trends and Applications That Will Impact The Future of Health.

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

WED 11

Take the Cloud Skills Challenge (Free)

December 11th 6:00pm

The Cloud Skills Challenge is a fun way to get hands on experience with Azure no matter if you are just getting started or if you want to go deeper on an Azure technology or if you are looking to prepare for a certification exam. This session will kick off a 30-day challenge. Whoever earns the most points at the end of the 30 days will win a 1-year subscription to their choice of Office 365 or XBOX Live.

Austin Microsoft Corp Office,10900-II Stonelake Boulevard Quarry Oaks II · Austin, TX | View in Calendar

WED 11

Austin Coding Academy (Free)

December 11th 6:00pm

This is Austin Coding Academy's advanced topic series. We'll cover a variety of topics each month to help developers level up their skills with cool and relevant technology. Bring your laptop for some hands-on coding!

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

WED 11

Austin Python Meetup (Free)

December 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

WED 11

Transformative Technology Exploration (Free)

December 11th 7:00pm

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

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

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

THU 12

The Lean Approach: Marketing On A Budget ($25)

December 12th 6:00pm

It’s difficult to know how much time and money to spend on marketing when you’re building a business. How much should you spend on a website? Can a great social media strategy really drive revenue? Is it worth it to outsource your marketing efforts? Join Women@Austin in conversation with veteran entrepreneurs and marketing experts for an in-depth discussion of how to plan on a tight budget.

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

SAT 14

Official Army Navy Watch Party (Free)

December 14th 1:00pm

We are excited to announce that this year’s Army/Navy Watch Party will be at The Blind Pig Pub on Austin’s famous 6th Street (317 East 6th Street). We will occupy the entire second level! This year, we are partnering with the USNA Alumni Association (Austin Chapter), the Texas Military Officers Association, Capital Factory, and the non-profit Combined Arms. We are also extending a special invitation to the U.S. Army Futures Command which is now headquartered in Austin, as well as The Travis Manion Foundation and other veteran organizations.

The Blind Pig Pub 317 E 6th St, Austin, Texas 78701 | View in Calendar

Upcoming Events:


MON 16

DevSecOps Days Austin 2019 ($199)

December 16th 9:00am

Norris Conference Centers Austin, 2525 W Anderson Ln #365, Austin, TX

MON 16

Kubernetes! Austin! Navidad! (Free)

December 16th 6:30pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

MON 16

Blockchain and Crypto in 2020 (Free)

December 16th 7:00pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

MON 16

PyLadies (Free)

December 16th 7:00pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

TUE 17

Austin Job Seekers - Individual Résumé Review from a Certified Professional Résumé Writer ($20)

December 17th 10:00am

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

TUE 17

Small Business Expo 2019 (Free - $100)

December 17th 10:00am

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

TUE 17

The Twelve Clouds of Christmas - Year Nine (Free)

December 17th 6:00pm

Rackspace, 9001 N I H 35 #150 · Austin, TX

TUE 17

Music Tech Meetup (Free)

December 17th 7:00pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

WED 18

Ed Tech - December Product Showcase (Free)

December 18th 6:30pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

THU 19

TeXchange ($10 – $25)

December 19th 11:30am

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

THU 19

Holiday Happy Hour with Austin Retail and eCommerce Meetup (Free)

December 19th 6:00pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

THU 19

Austin DJs December Technical Meetup: Pacing (Free)

December 19th 7:00pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

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