Like DC Inno Approved? A fresh version comes out every Monday with new ideas of tech and networking events to check out. Here's a list of great tech, business and networking events in D.C., Maryland and Virginia, to hit up this week.
Monday, August 22
Event: Women Who Code Front End Hack Night
- Location: Socrata 1875 Connecticut Ave NW, Suite 715, Washington, D.C.
- Date/Time: Monday August 22, 6:30-8:30 PM
- Event Type: women who code, front end hack, first-timers
- Price: free
"Front End Hack Night (FEHN) is a study group where women can come together and help each other learn and understand web development."
Tuesday, August 23
Event: Data Viz DC - Happy Shiny Web Apps Everywhere
- Location: CHIEF 1800 Massachusetts Ave NW, 2nd Floor, Washington, D.C.
- Date/Time: Tuesday August 23, 6:30-8:45 PM
- Event Type: data presentation, networking
- Price: free
"Join your fellow data visualizers for David Aja’s presentation of the EFS Dashboard – a dash boarding and analytics tool he coded and designed himself in Shiny."
Wednesday, August 24
Event: Introduction to Javascript: A Free Class
- Location: General Assembly (1776 8th Floor), 1133 15th Street NW, 8th Floor Washington , D.C.
- Date/Time: Wednesday August 24, 6:30-8:30 PM
- Event Type: coding, javascript,
- Price: free
"Join us for this workshop on the JavaScript programming language aimed at beginners with little or no prior experience."
Event: Understanding Entrepreneurship & Disability
- Location: 1776 - 1133 15 Street NW 12 Floor, Washington, D.C.
- Date/Time: Wednesday August 24, 6:30-7:30 PM
- Event Type: entrepreneurs, panel discussion, networking
- Price: free
"Join us in August to meet other entrepreneurs with disabilities in the area, get inspired, and learn stuff (like how to find product market fit)!"
Thursday, August 25
Event: Startup NASA: How You Can Use NASA Technology
- Location: New York Life - 8075 Leesburg Pike, Suite 200, Tysons, VA
- Date/Time: Thursday August 25, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM
- Event Type: tech, NASA, government tech, small business and startups
- Price: free
"Daniel Lockney will be speaking about some of these opportunities. He is the Technology Transfer Program Executive at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC, responsible for Agency-level management of the NASA intellectual property portfolio"
Friday, August 26
Event: Business Strategy Breakfast - Topic: Sweet Spot for Big Data
- Location: Anant Corporation, 700 12st NW, #700, Washington, DC
- Date/Time: Thursday August 25, 8:00-9:30 AM
- Event Type: big data, networking, business strategy
- Price: free
"Do you want to optimize an existing business or come up with something completely different? Excellent. We'd like to talk to you about the Business of Business today and in the future."
The Weekend, August 27-28
Event: DC User Experience Professionals Association - Connect and Collaborate
- Location: TBD
- Date/Time: Saturday August 27, 10:00 AM-4:00 PM
- Event Type: UX, networking, professional development
- Price: free
"UXPA DC, the area's oldest and most established UX community, is working to bring local UX communities together to discuss common goals, objectives and joint activities."
Event: IGDA DC District Arcade
- Location: Bravo! Bravo! 1001 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington D.C.
- Date/Time: Saturday August 25, 12:00-5:00 PM
- Event Type: gaming, video games, demo
- Price: free
"The District Arcade is a free video game expo, organized by local video game developers! See the newest, most experimental games from the greater DMV community. Play shoot ’em ups on a steampunk fantasy railroad, abstract homages to art history, and intergalactic zoology."
Event: Women in Tech Demo Day
- Location: Capital One - The Dig, 8020 Towers Crescent Drive, Second Floor , Vienna, VA
- Date/Time: Saturday August 27, 8:00 AM-6:30 PM
- Event Type: hackathon, challenge, pitch contest
- Price: $10 - all proceeds go to Black Girls CODE
"Hackathon Challenge: Help inspire more girls of color to learn coding by creating a solution that enables our tech divas to imagine themselves as computer scientists."
