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, September 12
Event: Women Who Code - Front End Lab: First Timer's Night
- Location: Social Tables - Washington, DC
- Date/Time: Monday, September 12, 6:30 PM-8:30 PM
- Event Type: women who code, coding, mentorship
- 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. "
Event: Samuel Adams Brewing the American Dream Speed Coaching
- Location: The Event Space - 641 S Street NW Washington, DC
- Date/Time: Monday, September 12, 7:00 PM-9:30 PM
- Event Type: food and beverage, small business coaching
- Price: free
"Are you a food, beverage or craft brewing small business owner? Are you looking for marketing, packaging, legal, financial or sales and distribution advice? Samuel Adams Brewing the American Dream and LEDC are excited to bring a Speed Coaching event to Washington, DC. Please note that this is located in "The Event Space" on the ground floor of the Wonderbread Factory."
Tuesday, September 13
Event: The Iron Yard Demo Day - "Save the Date"
- Location: Optoro - 1001 G St NW #1200, Washington, DC
- Date/Time: Tuesday September 13, 4:30 PM
- Event Type: demo, networking
- Price: free
"Join us after work to witness the culmination of 12 weeks of intensive training at The Iron Yard. Our Summer Ruby on Rails and Front End Engineering classes are excited to demo their final projects to you, the DC tech community."
Event: DC Fall Technology Show
- Location: Capitol Office Solutions - 1800 M Street, NW, North Tower, 5th Floor, Washington, DC
- Date/Time: Tuesday September 13, 10:00 AM-4:30 PM
- Event Type: demo, office products
- Price: free
"We’ll be featuring Scan & Print to Cloud solutions from Google, DropBox, Box, and Microsoft 365 as well as Xerox’s award winning color devices."
Event: DevOpsDC September Meetup
- Location: Excella Consulting - 2300 Wilson Blvd, Suite 630, Arlington, VA
- Date/Time: Tuesday September 13, 6:30 PM-9:00 PM
- Event Type: meetup, speaker, presentation
- Price: free
Wednesday, September 14
Event: Cybersecurity Innovation Forum
- Location: Room 1201, Merten Hall, Fairfax Campus, George Mason University
- Date/Time: Wednesday September 14 7:00-9:00 P.M.
- Event Type: cybersecurity, speakers, Q&A
- Price: free
"A series of short presentations by cybersecurity technology innovators from throughout the region with a focus on innovations that address current challenges and have real impact."
Event: DC Marketing Tech Talks – Agile Marketing & Product Ownership
- Location: Refraction Co-working, 11911 Freedom Drive, Suite 850, Reston, VA
- Date/Time: Wednesday September 14 6:30-8:30 PM
- Event Type: Networking, meetup, marketing and product management leaders, marketing technologies
- Price: free
"DC Marketing Tech Talks is an open community for local marketers to collaborate and learn about marketing technology that makes us more productive and modern marketers. In this session, we’ll learn about concepts of Agile applied to product development and product ownership, and how it’s changing marketing. "
Thursday, September 15
Event: Women in Engineering Presents: It Starts with Girls
- Location: Palantir Technologies - 1025 Thomas Jefferson St NW, Washington, DC
- Date/Time: Thursday September 15, 6:00-8:00 PM
- Event Type: women in STEM, speaker series
- Price: free
"It Starts with Girls will feature accomplished women speakers who are leading change for women in childhood, early education, high school, college and early career"
Event: BPRS-DC Presents: Is PR Your Purpose?
- Location: CHIEF - 1800 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
- Date/Time: Thursday September 15 6:30-8:30 P.M.
- Event Type: PR, diversity
- Price: free
"Political consultant, Dr. Renee Carr shares the top strategies used to transform your PR career. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn strategies on navigating PR as a person of color and still pursue their PR purpose despite stereotypes and lack of diversity. "
Friday, September 16
Event: Virtual Reality Happy Hour
- Location: General Assembly (1776 8th Floor), 1133 15th Street NW, 8th Floor, Washington , DC
- Date/Time: Friday September 16 5:30-7:00 P.M.
- Event Type: meetup, VR, demo
- Price: free
"Come network with VR experts, demo their products, and have a drink on us."
Event: AT&T Public Sector Hackathon
- Location: Howard University - 2397 Sixth Street, NW Armour J. Blackburn University Center: East Ballroom, Washington, DC
- Date/Time: Friday, September 16, 6:00 PM - Saturday, September 17, 10:00 PM
- Event Type: hackathon, competition, civic tech
- Price: free
"Have an app idea to improve government services? Interested in creating innovative applications that will harness the “Internet of Things” enabling the Federal Government to better serve their employees and the citizen? Come to this special Internet of Things (IoT) and Government focused hackathon, produced by the AT&T Developer Program."
The Weekend, September 17-18
Event: DC brunchwork w/ NextGen Venture Partners
- Location: MakeOffices Clarendon, 3100 Clarendon Blvd Suite 200, Arlington, VA
- Date/Time: Saturday, September 17, 11:30 AM-2:00 PM
- Event Type: networking, workshop, startup advice
- Price: $40
"Join us for an unforgettable startup workshop with Dan Mindus (NextGen Venture Partners founder & Managing Partner) & Tony Hudgins (TransitScreen Head of Sales)."
On Our Radar
Event: DC Inno DC Fest
- Location: Half Street Fairgrounds, 1201 Half Street SE, Washington, DC
- Date/Time: Thursday, September 22, 5:30-9:30 PM
- Event Type: social event, DC Inno
- Price: $20-$65
"We know DC is one of the best cities in the world to live, work, and play. At the end of each summer, we bring the District's coolest young professionals together to enjoy the city we call home at a huge party: DC Fest."
