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As August saunters along, many of Chicago tech’s best and brightest have taken a well-deserved vacation. But not all of the best or all of the brightest can take a break at once. For those brave workers toiling as hard as ever, we rounded up some startup events to make their week a little brighter. Check out the five tech events this week you won’t want to miss.
The How To's When Reaching Out to Angel Investors, August 11 at 9 a.m.
Come hear Greg Grove speak about startup finance through earliest stages of development: founder, friends and family and seed financing structures, including equity, so-called "convertible equity", debt and convertible debt, and he will touch upon other less common structures and upon negotiations with major venture capital funds if requested. Grove is an attorney with twenty years experience in life sciences and other technology startup companies, both in Silicon Valley and Chicago, from startup, through seed stage financing, venture financing, late-stage financing, company acquisitions and initial public offerings.
Brad's Deals presents Dev Bootcamp's August Hiring Mixer, August 12 at 5:30 p.m.
If you are having trouble finding amazing, ambitious, technical talent for your team, Dev Bootcamp's Hiring Mixer is the event for you. Join Brad’s Deals and Dev Bootcamp for the opportunity to connect with job-seeking Dev Bootcamp alumni who are excited and ready to work with you. Recent Dev Bootcamp graduates will showcase their group projects for all hiring employers. Past projects have been built using Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, various Javascript frameworks (AngularJS and React), Heroku/AWS, and more! After project presentations, you will have the opportunity to circulate the room and meet graduates, learn about their work and career ambitions, and vet potential candidates on the spot.
Naomi Cedar presents, "Antipatterns for Diversity," August 12 at 6:30 p.m.
Naomie Cedar will be joining PyLadies to present her Euro Python talk "Antipatterns for Diversity". Following her talk she will discuss ways to become involved with the Python Software Foundation and open it up for Q&A. Ceder is a member of the Python Software Foundation Board of Directors and the co-founder of Trans*Code, a hackday and coding education event focussed on the transgender community. She is also author of the Quick Python Book, 2nd Ed, and has taught Python to diverse audiences for many years. She was the originator of PyCon North America poster session, Education summit, and Intro to Sprinting Workshop. Naomi is currently Lead Architect for RazorOccam/Zoro Tools Europe.
Ms. Tech Trivia Night, August 13 at 6 p.m.
Do you have a thing for Alex Trebek? Do you find it bizarre that you can spew facts about the tech world but can never find your keys? Do you have an interest in meeting innovators, leaders, and employees in Chicago's tech community? If any of that sounds like you, you should join Ms. Tech at the brand new office of Raise, one of Chicago’s fastest growing startups. In between networking, food and drinks, teams will be quizzed on all things tech, entrepreneurship, and Chicago, with some secret categories thrown in the mix.
Programming for Non-Programmers Bootcamp, August 15 at 10 a.m.
Are you a creative or entrepreneur that wishes you could speak tech with your web development team? Maybe you wish you could code a bit yourself? Programming for Non-Programmers is workshop series at General Assembly designed to help non-programmers communicate more efficiently with developers or to help aspiring developers get started. The two-day bootcamp costs $220, and you can register here.
Have a great week Chicago and be sure to check out our events calendar for all the other tech events happening around town.
