Tuesday
How would your client or company react in the event of a private data breach? Find out at Weber Shandwick's free #PrepareToProtect Healthcare Share event. Participate in a real-time crisis simulation to help assess your company’s readiness and hear a panel of legal, regulatory & communications experts. Event will be hosted at 1871, register here.
Smart Chicago Collaborative and Chi Hack Night have teamed up to create a speaking series in celebration of Women’s History Month in an effort to elevate the talented, diverse women in civic-driven technology across Chicago. This partnership is especially timely considering Smart Chicago is currently an all women team fighting the good fight on behalf of civic technology and engagement and Chi Hack Night has set a priority area of focus on diversifying its thriving developer community. The speaker for 3/14 will be Sandee Kastrul, president and co-founder of i.c.stars, an innovative nonprofit leadership and technology training program founded in 1999 to prepare inner-city adults for technology careers and community leadership. Event free to attend and held at Braintree's offices in the Merchandise Mart. Register here.
Wednesday
Join the Illinois Business Immigration Coalition, Technexus, the Illinois Technology Association, the Illinois Science and Technology Coalition, and other partners, for a webinar. A panel of experts will discuss President Trump's immigration executive orders and how employers and employees can prepare for new enforcement polices, and answer your questions on these new policies. More information here.
A panel of executives from leading tech companies (Raise, dough, Neumob, SpotHero, Snapsheet) will join Chicago ETM to discuss shifts in the mobile landscape. We're in the middle of a major technological shift as mobile becomes the premier method for accessing the internet. 75% of global internet usage in 2017 is expected be over mobile devices. Adoption is rising within enterprises as well and many companies are allocating more dollars and resources to mobile development. Food and drink provided, event at TechNexus and free to attend. More information here.
United Airline’s Accessibility Journey: In this presentation, Tanseela Molani, Design Research Manager and Accessibility Lead at Chicago’s United Airlines, outlines the journey towards an integrated accessibility program across all digital interactions with customers, including remediating two transactional and informational channels. The result was an award-winning website with major improvements to its website accessibility, particularly for visitors using screen readers. This extra effort, above and beyond that needed just for accessibility compliance, made the company’s site one of the easiest to access and use in the airline industry. Free to attend, register here.
DeVry Bootcamp Server Side Chat: Insights about the Future of IoT with guest speaker Brian Gratch, CMO of Xaptum. Tour the new DeVry Bootcamp IoT Program classroom and enjoy networking with food and refreshments. Event free to attend and hosted at 1871, more information here.
Thursday
March is Women’s History Month and the Chicago chapter of the Anita Borg Institute (ABI) has organized a panel of five female senior-level technology executives who will share their journeys & challenges. Join them for inspiring & enlightening conversation. Plus, you’ll hear exciting news first-hand from Dr. Telle Whitney, President and CEO of ABI and a historical presentation from NSBE Chicago. A continental breakfast will be served. Event costs $20 and will be hosted by kCura.
Saturday
"Build Something that Matters" Unconference in Chicago: Hackaday is hosting a series of unconference events ("an unstructured format for peer-to-peer learning, collaboration, and creativity.") in three cities on the same day. The Chicago Unconference will take place at Pumping Station: One on March 18th. Join them for a Saturday of inspiring talks, food and drinks, hacks and projects. Register here.
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