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Here's a list of great tech, business and networking events in D.C., Maryland and Virginia, to check out this week. Keep an eye out for the highlighted events, which are a good bet for a great time.
Monday, May 16
Event: NoVA Network Engineering Meetup
- Location: Nova Labs, 1916 Issac Newton Sq West, Reston, VA
- Date/Time: Monday, May 16, from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Event Type: developer meetup
- Price: free
In this interactive Meetup, local engineers, programmers and other coders from Northern Virginia will come together to network and chat about their respective industries.
Event: SHAPING THE FUTURE OF TRANSPORTATION
- Location: Booz Allen Innovation Center, 901 15th St. NW, Washington, DC
- Date/Time: Monday, May 16, from 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM
- Event Type: mini-conference, networking, panel, featured speakers, Q&A
- Price: free
Booz Allen Hamilton is hosting a star-studded panel discussion on the future of transportation tech that includes appearances from top officials in both the federal and private transportation spaces.
Tuesday, May 17
Event: DC Tech Meetup #46 - FUN Edition
- Location: MLK Library, 901 G St NW, Washington, DC
- Date/Time: Tuesday, May 17, from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- Event Type: DC Tech community event, networking, presentations, demos, pitch-off
- Price: free
This month's massive DC Tech event will be focused on fun, consumer-oriented companies that call the D.C.-area home.
Event: EveryAction hosts "Nonprofit Lab - Thriving After Failure"
- Location: K Street WeWork, 1875 K Street, NW
- Date/Time: Tuesday, May 17, from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- Event Type: networking, featured speaker, lecture, seminar, Q&A, entrepreneurial advice
- Price: free
Come hear Sabrina Hersi Issa, CEO of Be Bold Media, speak about how to entrepreneurs must use failure to spark innovation and ultimately, success.
Event: Using IoT architecture for not-IoT development, with Sidney Andrews
- Location: Microsoft, 5404 Wisconsin Ave, 7th Floor, Chevy Chase, MD
- Date/Time: Tuesday, May 17, from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Event Type: workshop, coding, developers meetup
- Price: free
Sidney Andrews, a Microsoft Certified Trainer and Azure consultant with SeeSharpRun.NET, will be leading a talk on how IoT software and architecture meshes, today.
Wednesday, March 18
Event: Startup Grind chats with DC's New CTO
- Location: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, 2020 K Street - 11th Floor, Washington, DC
- Date/Time: May 18, from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Event type: featured speaker, fireside chat
- Price: starting at $12
DC CTO Archana Vemulapalli manages more than 10,000 employees through 21 Departments, 33 independent agencies, roughly 69 legislatively mandated offices and 5 regional bodies. On Wednesday, she will sit down with Startup Grind DC Director Brian Park to chat about how the city approaches technology.
Event: DC Tech Breakfast - morning pitch competition
- Location: DC Economic Partnership, 1495 F Street NW, Washington, DC
- Date/Time: Wednesday, May 18, begins at 8:00 AM
- Event Type: meetup, startup pitch competition, open Q&A
- Price: free
Come out for a breakfast bagel and series of startup pitches from local founders. This is a great way to meet new people in DC Tech and to support some local early stage companies.
Event: Application Modeling, Containers, OpenStack, Sahara and Big Data
- Location: Wednesday, May 18, from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
- Date/Time: Impact Hub, 419 7th St NW, 3rd Floor, Washington, DC
- Event Type: featured speakers, big data talk, understanding the cloud
- Price: free
Arturo Suarez of Canonical and Sunayu's Brandon James will be leading a discussion on "deploying managing and scaling complex application architectures."
Thursday, March 19
Event: Women Who Code hosts "From Hello World to Hello Job - Transitioning to a Career in Tech"
- Location: PBS, 2100 Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA
- Date/Time: Thursday, May 19, from 6:15 PM to 8:00 PM
- Event Type: seminar, career advice, lecture, networking, featured speaker
- Price: free
"Interested in transitioning into a career in tech? Not sure what options are available to you? Worried about whether you can succeed in a new area? Come to an evening of discussions with women who have been there and done that," the event organizer writes.
Event: NSF Cybersecurity Leadership and Innovation Conference
- Location: George Mason University Campus, Room 125/126, Founders Hall, 3351 Fairfax Drive, Arlington
- Date/Time: Thursday, May 19, register at 7:30 AM, begins at 8:00 AM
- Event Type: cybersecurity conference, panel talks, featured speakers, demos, fireside chats, networking
- Price: free
This half-day conference will review challenges for cybersecurity leadership, chief information security officer's evolving role, while also highlighting current and upcoming cybersecurity innovations.
Friday, March 20
Event: Code Writers Workshop - Impact Summit
- Location: Capital One HQ Aditorium, 1680 Capital One Drive, McLean, VA
- Date/Time: Friday, May 20, from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
- Event Type: coding workshop, featured speakers, panel discussion, advice, networking
- Price: pricing info
The Code Writers Workshop is an event to help people learn coding, get better and take steps towards a career in the technology sector.
