Financial Projections for Startups Bootcamp
2017-09-27 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | 2121 NW 2nd Ave Suite 203, Miami, FL, 33127, United States
Do you love being an entrepreneur but you are overwhelmed by finances? Don’t let the numbers get the best of you. Learn how to create sound financial projections and build up your confidence when discussing them with anyone – from team members to potential investors. Join Mike Lingle, Managing Partner at 10xU, for the Financial Projections bootcamp scheduled for September 27, 2017, where we will walk you through a very easy to use spreadsheet you can use to create projections, pitch decks, budgeting, and more.

Xavier Gonzalez, CEO of eMerge Americas | "The Tech Event Startup"
2017-09-27 18:00 - 20:00 | 1515 North Federal Highway #Suite 108, Boca Raton, FL, 33432, United States
KEYNOTE: Xavier Gonzalez, CEO @ eMerge Amaericas
Xavier is the Founding Executive Director and current CEO of eMerge Americas, the tech event of the Americas he’s led since day one.
MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: Nebular Agency
STARTUP DEMO: Visual Creatives
PARTNER SPOTLIGHT: TK2 Academy Coding Bootcamp
PRESENTING SPONSOR: Withum
BEER SPONSOR: TBD
TABLE SPONSORS: TBD
AFTER PARTY: Call of Duty Tournament

Wynfo Session - Codecademy 101: HTML
2017-09-27 18:30 - 20:30 | 549 Northwest 28th Street, Miami, FL, 33127, United States
It’s dangerous to go alone! Take us!
Wyncode will be hosting Codecademy 101: HTML! Our head instructors will walk you through the HTML course and answer questions for you along the way. Learning on your own can be tough; which is why we are opening our doors to all past and present Codecademy students.
We will start from the first chapter and go until we can’t code anymore! So bring your laptop and your questions and our team will be on site to help you with any challenging questions you have.
Wyncode is proud to be the #3 most reviewed in-person code school in the country on the industry-leading website Course Report with a 4.63/5 star rating.
Wyncode is the place tech companies look for developers. Our hiring partner network includes 300+ companies looking for developers. 100+ companies in our hiring network have hired a Wyncoder, with over 45 hiring more than one graduate. Some of our top hiring partners are Carecloud, MDLIVE, Kipu Systems, SATO Global Solutions and Cloud Logistics, all companies that have hired over 5 Wyncoders. Kipu Systems and MDLive, have hired over 7 Wyncoders each. But the company that has hired the most is Carecloud with 10 Wyncoders.
If you seek to enhance your professional skills, this introductory lesson is the first step! During the session, we will explain exactly what coding is, why everyone should learn to code and what you can build with those skills. Bring your laptop and get ready to try it for yourself, as you’ll write your first lines of Ruby code. Interviews are happening on a first-come, first served basis now to sign up for the course in August.
If you are not able to make one of our introductory lessons feel free to contact us directly at admissions@wyncode.co and we will set up a meeting for you to learn about our program. Wyncode immerses ambitious individuals in a demanding and inspiring learning environment engineered to develop successful coders with business acumen. The first of its kind in South Florida, 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. Wyncode is licensed by the Florida Department of Education Commission for Independent Education.

Machine Learning Office Hours
2017-09-28 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

Thursday Gathering @ Venture Cafe Miami
2017-09-28 16:00 - 21:00 | 1951 NW 7th Ave, Miami, FL, 33136, United States
Connect with hundreds of Miami’s amazing innovation and startup community every week. Gather to enjoy, engage and learn from each other at our free Thursday Gathering @ Venture Café.
The Venture Cafe Thursday Gathering serves as a physical nexus for helping innovators and entrepreneurs find one another and collaborate to bring their dreams to reality. Through connections and scheduled programming, Venture Cafe Miami is working to strengthen the growth of our innovation community. Please check our calendar for more information on weekly programs.
No need to RSVP, and parking is free!

State of Container Storage Persistence Mesos, Kubernetes, and Docker
2017-09-28 18:00 | 14700 Caribbean Way, Miramar, FL, 33027, United States
Containers rock! They provide a lot of efficiencies in infrastructure deployment by giving developers control and operations consistency. Many of today’s “containers in production” applications are ephemeral and have a short life-span, but what do you do about those containers that store data? Is there such a thing as a “dataless” datacenter? We need the ability to containerize any application whether its a database, key:value store, or that random java app your company built and persist its data. In fact, 7 of the top 10 downloaded Docker containers all need data persistence! However supporting container storage persistence in production, and at scale, is a new activity for most. A lot of innovation in this area has occurred in the container orchestrators with Kubernetes, Docker Swarm and Mesos. Recently, the industry has begun working through community and open source to create standards for container storage to facilitate interoperability and user friendliness.
Join us for a presentation, demo and more importantly a discussion led by Josh Bernstein, VP of Innovation and Open Source at Dell EMC, along with the {code} team (https://codedellemc.com/) on the state of container storage and approaches to managing persistence for major container orchestrators. And as usual we will have great food and drink.
Josh Bernstein ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbernstein/) ;
Josh is an open source advocate and lifelong technologist. As the VP of Technology for Dell, he’s at the helm of {code}, the open source arm of the organization focused on advancing emerging technologies to support software-based infrastructures. Prior to Dell, Josh ran the Siri Deployment and Infrastructure Architecture team at Apple and took Siri from launch to tens of thousands of servers, deployed in more than a dozen locations worldwide, in under 5 years.

Bitcoin Networking: The Bar at Level 25 at the Conrad
2017-09-28 18:00 | 1395 Brickell Ave, Miami, FL, 33131, United States
It is the last Thursday of the month. Join us on the 25th floor of the Conrad Miami Hotel at The Bar at Level 25 to talk Bitcoin and all things related to cryptocurrency and decentralized systems.
As always, we expect a wide variety of developers and professionals of all types to attend. Stop by to network and learn about Bitcoin in a casual, networking format.
Bitcoin Networking events are a great opportunity to meet and network with fellow Bitcoin enthusiasts, and all knowledge levels are welcome. The event starts at 6 p.m. and has no fixed end time. We look forward to seeing you soon!
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About the Venue:
The Bar at Level 25 is a bar in Brickell, located on the 25th floor of the Conrad Miami Hotel with plenty of quiet seating, beautiful city and bay views, and tasty food options.
When entering the Conrad Miami Hotel lobby from Brickell Avenue, walk past the first set of elevators and turn right, proceed toward the front desk and take any of the elevators to the 25th floor. Once on the 25th floor, make your way around the corner to the bar area.
We will be in the bar area on the 25th floor of the hotel. If you cannot find us, ask a hotel representative for help finding the bar.
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Transportation and Parking:
Lyft or Uber are always convenient options when visiting densely populated areas. If you do bring your car, there are valet, street parking, and parking garage options in the area.

Startup Weekend Latinx Miami
2017-09-29 18:00 - 2017-10-01 20:30
Have you ever seen a new product, app, or business and thought to yourself, “that was my idea a few years ago!”? If you have, then that means you did not have a process for taking that idea and building it out into a prototype.
Startup Weekend is your chance to learn how to take any idea from concept to creation within a matter of days! Whether you are looking to…
get introduced to the world of startups and entrepreneurship
learn the process of putting your ideas into action
meet experienced, talented, and passionate entrepreneurs in Miami
join or build an all-star team
make meaningful connections and become part of a global community
beef up your resume
Startup Weekend is your destination for the weekend of September 29th through October 1st!
It doesn’t matter what you do or where you come from, Startup Weekend is designed as an inclusive event and program that brings all sorts of people together including…
aspiring & experienced entrepreneurs,
developers and other tech-related professionals,
designers of all types,
non-technical talent (i.e. business, sales, finance, legal, etc.)
students from universities and high schools,
professionals looking to switch careers,
passionate visionaries,
and learners from all around Miami and the surrounding area!
For the full-weekend ticket you get:
Access to the full weekend-long event
Opportunity to pitch your idea on Friday night @ Pitch Fire
Mentoring by all-stars from the local Miami startup community
Meals all weekend
Collaboration with awesome professionals from throughout Miami
All-star judges ready to listen to your final presentations and providing expert feedback
Membership in the Startup Weekend Community (>200K alumni) #SWMafia
And over 100 new awesome Facebook friends!
Why LatinX in Tech?
The complex intersectionalities of the Latinx (La-teen-ex) population in the U.S. coupled with their increasing technology consumption make this ethnic group one of the most misunderstood, yet powerful communities of our time. By 2060, over a quarter of the entire U.S. population will be Latinx – that’s about 119MM people – representing over a trillion dollars of economic power.
As of 2013, Latinx Millennials and Gen-Z comprised 58% of the Latinx population. These groups are proving to be a game-changing consumer segment across markets because of the way they are influencing their communities across race, culture, politics, gender identity and language — case in point, the term Latinx.
Imagine what could happen if we gathered 500 entrepreneurially-minded Latinxs and allies over 54 hours, in 5 different cities, to identify and design technology solutions to problems disproportionately facing the U.S. Latinx community? What if we facilitated mentorship by some of the most talented technologists, business innovators, and prominent investors?
This Startup Weekend event is part of a 5-city LatinX in Tech campaign going on throughout Hispanic Heritage Month. Join us in this special edition of Startup Weekend Miami and help us prove that we can all learn, work, and create together in order to deliver better outcomes.
Need based scholarships available – contact us at with questions and requests miamilatinx@startupweekend.org

Value Driven and Adaptive Planning Workshop
2017-09-30 09:00 - 2017-10-01 17:00 | 3600 FAU Boulevard, Boca Raton, FL, 33431, United States
The accelerated rate of change brought about by the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous nature of today’s world requires a value driven, iterative, and adaptive approach to requirements and planning. It requires a deep, creative collaborative and a short feedback loop between the team doing the work, and the stakeholders who are impacted, to discovering and delivering valuable outcomes.
This workshop offers participants the first hand knowledge, experience, and confidence to tackle the requirements and planning of products, solutions, and services using an Agile, value driven and adaptive approach.
Beginning with a clear understanding of value, what is valuable, who we are creating value for and the role of Product Ownership, including the critical role of Product Owner and the evolving role of the Business Analyst in the discovery and communication of value.
From an understand of how Agile requirements and planning differ from a more traditional approach, participants take a deep dive into User Stories – learning how to collaboratively elicit and capture requirements from the perspective of the user and how to structure those requirements into vertical slivers of functionality that enable early and frequent delivery of value.
The hands-on experiential nature of the workshop has participants working in teams to simulate real-world equirements elicitation and planning through a team project – using popular and effective Agile tools and techniques including Personas, Product Visioning, User Story Mapping, User Story Writing, High Speed Estimating, Planning Poker, Story Splitting, Acceptance Criteria and more.
The Agile planning process is incomplete without the elements of inspection and adaptation. Throughout the workshop, participants learn how to use feedback loops that are part of Scrum and other Agile methodologies to more accurately forecast outcomes and adapt to ensure the product, solution, or service delivered consistently delights customers and generates value.
Includes:
Lunch and refreshments on both days
A comprehensive workshop
Certificate of Completion
Duration:
2 – Days
Target Audience:
Product Owners, Business / Functional / Systems Analysts, Product Managers, Project Managers, Functional Managers, Directors, Agile Execs, and Agile Team Members or anyone else interested in learning how to take a value driven and adaptive approach to planning and requirements.
Learning Objectives:
Send an email to aleon@ppl-coach.com for detailed learning objectives
Learning Credits:
14 PDUs for PMI
14 SEUs for Scrum Alliance
Facilitator:
Anjali Leon is a veteran Agile Coach and Trainer who has introduced Agile principles and practices in a variety of industries including high-tech, energy, education, healthcare, retail, and government. Her experience as an Agile Practicioner and her prior fifteen years of technical and leadership experience in a variety of roles – including Lead Software Engineer and Director of Product Development, give her the unique perspective of the delicate balance between rigor and flexibility necessary for organizations to be agile and remain competitive.
Anjali brings her vast experience, an interactive, participatory and engaging teaching style, and Training from the Back of the Room techniques to create an experience that not only leave her learners feeling inspired, knowledgeable, competent, and energized to put their learning into practice, but looking forward to the next time they can attend one of her classes!
Her credentials include a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Drexel University. She also holds certifications as a PMP (Project Management Professional), PMI-ACP (Agile Certified Professional), CSM (Certified Scrum Master), CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner), CSP (Certified Scrum Professional), SPC4 (Scaled Agile Professional) and is a recognized Agile Team Facilitator (ICP-ATF) and Agile Coach (ICP-ACC) through IC Agile. She is also certified as an AgilityHealth Facilitator (AHF). Anjali is an active member of South Florida’s Agile community and regularly speaks and volunteers at Agile events and conferences. She founded the South Florida Women In Agile group and mentors budding agilists.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anjali-leon-a97b636
Cancellation Policy:
Organizer reserves the right to cancel the class with a full refund.
Cancellation before Sept 14, 2017 – Full refund
Cancellations within 2 weeks – 50% refund or full credit towards a future class
Building Community and Giving Back:
Be a part of building community! PPL is committed to giving back to the South Florida community.
For a public training offered by PPL, we reserve some free seats for those who may not be able to afford the class.
Your company can unlock one of these free seats! Any company that purchases 2 tickets unlocks a free slot for someone who is in transition (between jobs) or a full-time student.
If you are a person in transition or a full-time student interested in this class, contact Anjali at aleon@ppl-coach.com to get on the waitlist for a free seat.

Weekly Open Hack Night
2017-10-02 19:00 - 21:00 | 1951 NW 7th Avenue, 1st Floor, Miami, FL, 33136, United States
Join us for our weekly civic hack sessions @ Cambridge Innovation Center. Anyone interested in civic hacking and engagement is welcome.
You can contribute to an existing Code for Miami Project (see our projects at https://codefor.miami/projects) or come share your idea, and maybe start a new collaboration.
As always, bring a laptop; beginners are always welcome!
We ask that participants at Code for Miami events follow our Code of Conduct to ensure that our group is a safe and welcoming space.

Social Media Marketing (SMM) Mastery Basic & Advanced Strategies
2017-10-03 08:00 - 12:30 | 8181 NW 36th Street Suite 21A, Doral, FL, 33166, United States
Social Media Marketing (SMM) Mastery Basic & Advanced Strategies
Implement a real, practical Social Media Marketing Strategy that provides positive Return On Investment (ROI) for Small, Medium and Large businesses, Entrepreneurs, Franchisees, and Local Business owners. Students will be able to immediately apply proprietary formulas such as G.A.S. and C.C.E., along with understanding Social Media M-Levels and how it applies to the implementation of practical Social Media Marketing strategies. Students will learn conventional Social Media tools along with non-conventional but powerful ones!
This Social Media Marketing course in meant for business owners, managers and entrepreneurs who are looking for ways to effectively market their business and achieve positive Return On Investment (ROI). Whether you have prior experience or not, this course will educate you on practical usage of Social Media Marketing tools such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest and others. This course is for you if you are looking to grow your business.
You should place a hold on all your Social Media Marketing spending until you take this course. Prepare an Excel spreadsheet and list all of your Social Media Marketing accounts, including logins and passwords.
Understand why you must start using Social Media Marketing. Participants will learn what is Social Media (SM), Social Book Marking (SB), Blogs, Microblogs and how to effectively use Google, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Linkedin, YouTube, blogs, PR releases and other social media tools to build a powerful online brand. This is a practical course with real, working Social Media Strategies.
Register Now:
https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07ee7jags279245b98&llr=niazh9cab
FEE:
3 Hours – $97.00
Doral Chamber Members FREE (Use Promo Code)
Location:
Doral Chamber of Commerce
2900 NW 112th Ave
Doral, FL 33172
Schedule:
8:30 am to 9:00 am – Networking and Check-In
9:00 am to 12:30 pm – Workshop

Office Hours @ the MIC
2017-10-03 10:00 - 17:00 | 1010 NE 2nd Ave, Miami, FL, 33132, United States
Microsoft Technical evangelists will be available on site hosting office hours to help answer questions, provide technical guidance on your engineering projects. Need help getting setup with Azure or perhaps developing that tricky SQL query? Come down to the open office hours and be part of the learning community dedicated to helping solve each others problems and growing new skills.

Learn 21st Century Marketing with Visual Storytelling Masterclass
2017-10-04 05:30 - 08:00 | 315 Northeast 2nd Avenue Building 8, 5th Floor. Room 8525, Miami, 33132, United States
Nearly 5 billion items are published online every day.
The average person’s attention span on the Internet is down to 8 seconds.
Half of all small businesses fail in the first four year due to poor marketing.
It’s obvious that old marketing is no longer working. So how do you achieve the objectives you set out for your business and yourself?
Discover how you can tell a better business story, revamp your social media messages and achieve a competitive advantage for your business or in getting your dream job in digital marketing & communications.
Join us FREE on October 4th, as the team at the Visual Storytelling Institute will guide you on how to test-drive your product or service with its signature visual storytelling framework to maximize business impact.

StartUP FIU: Welcome to The Future
2017-10-04 18:00 | 11200 Southwest 8th Street, Miami, FL, 33326, United States
Ever wanted to try Virtual Reality? Create objects with 3D printers? Meet FIU’s tech community? This is the event for you!
Welcome to the Future. Join us and learn from over ten companies and and FIU organizations who will be showcasing their products in these emerging technologies. Experience virtual reality in first hand and have the opportunity to ask questions to founders and the makers of these projects themselves.
The event will be a very relaxed atmosphere with workshops on Virtually Reality, Machine Learning, and 3D printing for you to check out.
Food and refreshments will be provided too!

Who is this event for?
This event is ideal for individuals who are curious about these emerging technologies, their application, development and are interested in seeing first hand what are current ways they are being implemnted. If you are someone who wishes to network and meet other’s in your same wavelengths we encourage you to get out of your comfort zone and pass by! Welcome to the Future is open to everyone – from students and faculty to all residents of our South Florida community no matter your age. (We do ask, that if you are 16 years or younger you please bring a legal guardian with you).
What is StartUP FIU WEST KENDALL?
StartUP FIU WEST KENDALL is a community space which aims to promote innovation and education within technology in the West Kendall community. Launching on the 25th of October, our West Kendall space will be open to the community, who will have access to events, workshops and co-working space all free of charge.
Directions to StartUP FIU and Parking:
We know FIU can be pretty confusing to get around! If you are visiting us from outside the university, we highly suggest you Google Map: StartUP FIU to have the exact location. StartUP FIU is located in the MARC building on the third floor (circled in blue) . For community members there will be available parking in PG 1 and PG 2 (orange in the map below) on the lower levels with the Pay by Phone app. If there is no available parking spaces in PG 1 or PG 2 there will be spaces within P5 (labeled in green). If you have any troubling finding the building please call 305-348-7156.

Wyncode & Vetpreneur - Vets Who Code
2017-10-04 18:30 - 20:30 | 400 NW 26th St, Miami, FL, 33127, United States
Wyncode is one of only a handful of code schools in the nation that accepts GI Bill. We have some incredible developers who transitioned from military life to tech life in 10 weeks. Come hear their incredible journeys on October 4th at Wynbase
We are proud to have Arturo Polanco, Shannan Muench, and Carlos Ramos speak about their journey into learning to code, and how new opportunities have resulted from learning such a valuable skill set. This event is proudly co-hosted with Vetpreneur.
Arturo Polanco
Software Engineer at Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
Carlos Ramos
Cloud Associate Apprentice at Amazon Web Services
Shannan Muench
Entrepreneur at Lasting Impressions Marketing, Inc.
This event is proudly co-hosted with Vetpreneur.

Start-Up Doral Series City of Doral & Doral Chamber
2017-10-05 09:00 - 11:00 | 8181 NW 36th Street Suite 21A, Doral, FL, 33166, United States
Start-Up Doral Series City of Doral & Doral Chamber
“How to Start and Run a Successful Business in Doral”
1st Thursday of Each Month 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. | FREE Admission
9:00 am – 10:00: Networking and City of Doral Staff “How to Start a Business in Doral”
10:00 am – 11:00 am: Workshop Presentation
Today’s Workshop:
10:00 am – 11:00 am: “The real issues faced by real business owners!”
If you are like most business owners, you spend the majority of your time working in your business instead of on your business. That means important planning issues can go unaddressed. realBUSINESS is an interactive, video–based seminar that tackles these issues head on; no actors, no scripts – only real stories about real concerns told by real business owners. The realBUSINESS seminar addresses these important questions: • What is the plan for my business when I retire?
Can my business continue in the event of my or my partner’s untimely death or disability?
Have I done everything I can to attract and retain my key employees?
Have I given sufficient thought to who is the right successor to my business?
Do I understand the importance of knowing what my business is worth?
Please RSVP by
October 4th, 2017
Please feel free to bring a guest
Speakers:
Joe Arbolaez
jarbolaez@hotmail.com
Albert Chavez
albertchavez51@gmail.com
Attention Doral Business Owners
If you have a business in Doral and you’d like to host one of our workshops
please email us at info@doralchamber.com
The “Start-Up Doral” workshops are offered free of charge through a partnership between the Doral Chamber of Commerce, the City of Doral and local area businesses, on the first Thursday of the month, from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Workshops are to be held at the Doral Government Center (3rd Floor Training Room), 8401 NW 53rd Terrace 33166.
Fee: Free
Register Now!
https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07eeltb3tp762a6c26&llr=niazh9cab
Contact:
Carmen Lopez
The Doral Chamber of Commerce
(305) 477-7600 / carmen@doralchamber.com
