Inno Approved: Tech Events To Know About This Week (8/15-8/21)

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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 good bets for a great time.

Monday, August 15

Event: VA Innovation Demo Day

Field-based employees have been invited to present their solutions developed during exciting initiatives to spark innovation in the VA.

Event: 1776 Open Class: Introduction to Sales Funnels

"Learn from Social Tables VP International Ram Parimi and 1776 Managing Director Brittany Heyd, practitioners who have spent years selling."

Tuesday, August 16

Event: Building Your First IoT Project with Windows 10, with Becky Isserman

"Becky Isserman is a Senior Technical Evangelist on the Productivity side of U.S. DX at Microsoft, where she helps ISVs build Office Store Add-Ins and API Solutions."

Event: Code for DC Civic Hack Night

"Join us at iStrategyLabs for more of that great civic hacking that you know and love."

Event: IBM Big Data Happy Hour

"Come meet expert IBMers working in the field of big data. Pick their brains, on how your company can best take advantages of the recent innovations in Hadoop, Spark and the Cloud."

Wednesday, August 17

Event: DC TechBreakfast: Semantix, IntroNet, DivvyCloud, Cool With It

"At this monthly breakfast get-together techies, developers, designers, and entrepreneurs share learn from their peers through show and tell / show-case style presentations."

Event: Free Crash Course: Build Your First Text Game

"What is the terminal/command line?  What is a programming language?  Starting something new can be intimidating, particularly with technology. Join us in a beginner-friendly class as we learn about programming and build a letter guessing game with the Ruby programming language."

Thursday, August 18

Event: Agile and UX/UI Best Practices

"Join Kevin Hawkins for a discussion on UX/UI best practices and share your own experiences and challenges with design, development, research, and implementation."

Event: General Assembly Back to School Night

"Join our instructors, alumni, and staff for an open house. Mingle with our instructors, alumni, and admissions producer over food and drink, and get the inside scoop on life at GA."

Event: Transportation Techies - Playing with Traffic

"Coders and commuting: how do apps change the way we drive? This month we'll hear from tech companies with apps that help people share the road."

Friday, August 19

The Weekend, August 20-21

Event: CodeNewbie DC - Keeping It 100: Talks, Dinner, Games, and Community

"We'll have speakers giving both technical and non-technical talks (don't worry, they'll all be newbie-friendly) and, afterwards, we'll play board games."