The Launch Pad

Scala in practice, The Akka project
2016-08-24 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | 1010 NE 2nd Ave, Miami, FL, 33132, United States
The Akka project contains a collection of libraries that can work together in order to create high performance applications without the hazards of managing concurrent code.
In this event we are going to look at the main components of Akka. We are going to walk you through Akka I/O, Akka Streams and Akka HTTP by building example applications. In order to see how all the Akka components work together, we are going to look at the Akka Cluster component by integrating each of the previous component within Akka Cluster.

WaffleWednesdays with LiveNinja
2016-08-24 09:00 - 10:30, 2016-08-17 09:00 - 10:30 | FL
#WaffleWednesday is a weekly breakfast networking event for Miami’s tech and creative community to come together. Each week we offer up gourmet waffle creations, bulletproof coffee, fruit, and Caribe Juice. Come introduce yourself to the community and get the chance to hear from local startups and businesses as they pitch their app, demo new projects, and share upcoming events with the room.

Founder’s Brunch
2016-08-23 11:30 - 13:00 | 400 Northwest 26th Street, Miami, FL, 33127, United States
Join us for mimosas and a brunch spread #onaTuesday.
We’re getting up close and personal with founders shedding light on the challenges of starting up.
THE POWER OF COLLABORATION
Featured Founder:
Pola Bunster
Director of Storytelling
The Prism Music Group
Prism is a movement in the city of Miami. They elevate culture in Miami by breaking down walls and making community accessible.
Q & A to follow.

Launch Day 2016
2016-08-23 11:00 - 14:00 | UC Patio, 1306 Stanford Dr, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Launch Day 2016!
Tuesday August 23rd celebrates 8 years since we have opened our doors to help current University of Miami students and alumni build their businesses and become entrepreneurs. Join us as we encourage everyone to begin their entrepreneurial journey. Meet The Launch Pad staff and clients. Enjoy food, fun, prizes and BIG announcements of this years events!

#OpenHUB Mondays
2016-08-22 09:30 - 12:30 | Protected: Order – November 13, 2017 @ 03:34 PM
Join us for #OpenHub day at StartHub Miami
Come and enjoy a French catered breakfast along networking from 9:30am to 10:30am. Afterwards, stay to bang out some work until noon anywhere in our facility. All ammenities included of course.
You could choose from a high desk, Personal Stations all the way to our Executive Private suites based on availability. (first come, first serve. Eat fast!)
Work and create at our space and enjoy the perks of a great coworking community.
We look forward to working with the Miami innovative community and getting together for this NOW WEEKLY event!
09:30-10:30AM Breakfast
10:30AM-12:30PM #OpenHub
Parking Instructions:
Cultural Arts Garage
90 SW 1 Street, (at SW 1 Avenue)
Miami, FL 33130
https://www.dropbox.com/s/eojs77fnpwss6d7/BestParkingAvailable.pdf?dl=0
OR Get here: Metrorail or Metromover to Government Center or Miami Ave.
Interested in learning more? Email Hector at hector@finaben.com.
Share this event on Facebook and Twitter!
Let’s get your week started off right, bright and early with a full stomach and new contacts!
Cheers!
The StartHub Team

MentorDay
2016-08-22 | FL
Looking for advice on a specific problem for your startup? You are in luck. A new platform is launching in town democratizing the access to mentorship. One-on-one sessions with top mentors for entrepreneurs and innovators. Define your problem, get help, for free! Happening on September 16th in various locations around the city. Apply for mentorship at mentorday.co!

Last day to apply is September 5th

Wyntroduction: Learn to Code in One Day
2016-08-20 09:30 - 17:00 | 404 NW 26th Street , Miami, FL, 33127, United States
Event Description
WHO?
You are formally invited to our Wyntroduction! We’ll talk about how you can choose to change your life by learning how to code and why Wyncode’s 9-week intensive boot camp will launch you in a new direction.
HOW?
You will get the opportunity to learn from our Head of Product and Curriculum Development-Sean Sellek.
Wyncode is proud to be the #2 most reviewed code school in the country on the industry-leading website Course Report with a 4.7/5 star rating.
Wyncode is the place tech companies look for developers. Our hiring network includes over 200 companies with 81 companies hiring a Wyncoder, and over 30 hiring more than one graduate. Our top five hiring partners have hired 5 Wyncoders each, and one has hired 6. They are MDLIVE, Kipu Systems, SATO Global Solutions and Cloud Logistics.
WHAT?
During our Wyntroduction you will be immersed in a one-day boot camp experience. Write your first line of code using Ruby, mingle with future classmates, and learn from Sean Sellek, Head of Product and Curriculum Development. You will also have the opportunity to engage with alumni and our Head Instructors Ed Toro and Auston Bunson in a Developer Panel and Q&A session. By the end of the day, you will have your first completed project!
In Sum: You will understand how Wyncode can change your life.
What your day will look like…
t9:00am Registration Opens
t10:00 am First Session
t11:00: Break
t11:15: Second Session
t12:15-1:15 LUNCH
t1:15 Third Session
t2:15: Break
t2:30: Last Session
t3:30: Development Panel: Hear from our Alumni, their experiences, and what they are up to now!
t4:30: Ed Toro + Auston Bunson: Get to Meet Our Instructors!
t5:30pm Closing
t6 pm Happy Hour + Network in the Miami Tech Scene with Us!

Machine Learning Office Hours
2016-08-19 10:30 | 1010 NE 2nd Ave, Miami, FL, 33132, United States
David Crook will be on site to answer questions, provide technical guidance, debug code or even business assistance for all things intelligent services, data science and machine learning. Don’t even know what it is; thats ok, drop by to find out. Organizations to individuals are all welcome to take advantage of this free time. David Crook is a Microsoft Technical Evangelist focused on Machine Learning, Data Science and Intelligent Applications. He is previously from Microsoft Consulting Services where he focused on development operations. To see more information about David, check out his blog: www.DaCrook.com

VLP - Business Law Attorney Consulations
2016-08-19 08:30 - 12:30 | FL
Do you have a Business Law related question? Every third Friday of the month a Business attorney provides Pro Bono consultations for local early-stage startups and eligible entrepreneurs during our office hours at Miami Entrepreneurship Center (MEC 261) from 8:30 am – 12:30 pm. Walk-ins are welcome! However, due to the limited number consultations available, we encourage you to reserve a spot for our next clinic.

Wyncode Pitch Day VI Ft. Lauderdale 6th Cohort
2016-08-18 18:00 - 21:00 | FL
Can you learn to code and build you own web application in 9 weeks? Even better, can you land a job as a developer? Yes! Come see for yourself on Thursday, August 18th from 6 – 9 pm at General Provision.
Wyncode’s Pitch Days in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Miami Beach combined have brought together over 1,500 people from all over South Florida tech scene. This is a can’t miss event- where you witness our Wyncoder’s present their skills through innovative projects that members of our community pitched through our Wyntank program.

StartUP FIU Match-UP Prep Night
2016-08-17 18:00 - 21:00 | 11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL, 33199, United States
Matching with a startup is difficult to do and not guaranteed, so we encourage anybody interested in coming to Match-UP Night to attend “Prep Night,” which is being held onAugust 17th. At Prep Night, you will learn skills and techniques from the StartUP FIU team on how to market your experiences and impress startups. Attending Prep Night will give you a leg up on the competition and increase your chances of matching!
If the idea of working for a startup excites you, StartUP FIU would like to provide you the social tools to successfully present yourself to prospective companies. StartUP FIU has already selected innovative startups to join its Incubator, which begins during the Fall. These startups are looking for additional team members, and will be at Match-UP Night in the hopes of matching with entrepreneurial individuals!
Don’t forget to register for our Match-UP Night in order to put your newly acquired networking skills to work! Register here to join in on the excitement of socializing with our fall cohort team founders and possibly join a team. We look forward to seeing you!
If you need help to navigate the campus, please see the map here.

Coffee and Code (Wyncode WebApp Demos)
2016-08-17 09:00 | 537 Nw 1st Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 33311, United States
Wyncode Academy immerses ambitious individuals in a demanding and inspiring learning environment engineered to develop successful coders with business acumen. We believe in promoting programming literacy using a disruptive education model and feel that a boot camp environment is the best way to learn practical and relevant coding skills quickly. At the culmination of each bootcamp, Wyncoders present their final project web application at Wyncode Pitch Day.
Join Wyncode for “Coffee and Code”– our pre-pitch day breakfast at BREW Urban Cafe in Fort Lauderdale. Come and see some awesome WebApps being pitched to the community by our current cohort of coders.
Past portfolio apps have included:
MUVR The Uber for moving
Meme Menu Mobile app that provides fully visual menus for online ordering
Simplit Making large amounts of information easy to read and digest
Hash-it-Out Never miss out on a Twitter conversation by having the correct hashtag

Dawnings - August 2016
2016-08-17 06:00 - 21:00 | FL
Dawn /dôn,dän/ 1. the beginning or first appearance of something. 2. become evident to the mind; be perceived or understood. Dawnings brings together thinkers, seekers, creatives, entrepreneurs, technologists and visionaries at dawn – that magical moment of the day when everything seems possible – to escape our routines and expand our mind, body and soul in order to build a better tomorrow. We are creating a community in Miami that shares a common passion for meditation, health, nature, humanity, knowledge, creativity, music and fun. Location The Sacred Space Miami The Sacred Space Miami is an epicenter for personal growth and transformation located in the dynamic Wynwood Arts District. It is both a sanctuary and supportive community, cultivating conscious living where “love is everything.” 105 NE 24th St Miami, FL 33137 www.thesacredspacemiami.com About the Event The event will be divided in three sections to take participants through a complete mind and body recharge. 6:00 AM – Meditate Open up your mind and body through a unique experience that combines meditation and yoga techniques under the first light of day. It is designed for beginners and experts alike. 7:00 AM – Educate Learn how to build tomorrow from those that see the future. Get ready to listen to some amazing stories and lectures from local and global visionaries on subjects ranging from mindfulness, futurism, design, our environment, medicine, etc. 8:00 AM – Liberate We will set you free on a high-energy note. We will pump-up the music and the rest will be up to you. You can network with like-minded friends, dance your ass off while you burn some calories and get ready to have a kick-ass day. To learn more, please visit Dawnings.co

S FL Cyber Security Forum
2016-08-16 07:30 - 11:00 | 100 Fairway Drive, Deerfield Beach, FL, 33441, United States
South Florida Cyber Security Forum, presented by Symantec and ITS Partners, takes place on August 16 at 7:30am at the Double Tree Biscayne Bay. As IT no longer rules the roost, device and data explosion coupled with data breaches and targeted attacks continue to make cyber security grow. Join leading IT Professionals, local CISOs, and security experts as they gather in one room to help solve this complex problem and get back to securing infrastructure and freeing IT.
In addition to hearing about the Current State Of Cyber Security, topics covered will include:
tWhat’s Your Incident Response Recipe?
tTemperature of your Security Program
tThe Internet of Things and healthcare.
This is a free morning event with a working breakfast. Agenda has been set to hear from colleagues, thought leaders and IT Professionals along with time set aside to network. Registration is required to attend. Click HERE to register. (https://its.partners/29SFoIL)
