The Launch Pad

Training Your StartUP Salesforce: Day 2
2017-03-30 18:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL, 33174, United States
In partnership with StartUP FIU Mark Crofton, a leader of the SAP Academy (the global sales training program for developing the next generation of SAP sales executives), will hold a 2-day workshop training individuals how to train your workforce.
The second session will cover Enterprise Sales Management, Hiring Sales People, and Coaching Sales People.
Who is Mark Crofton?
Mark Crofton is Global Vice President and Early Talent Sales Coach at SAP SE. In this capacity, he trains, mentors and coaches SAP sales executives at the beginning of their careers. He draws on his years of experience in sales, sales management and sales enablement to drive the performance of the next generation of sales leaders. Prior to his current role, Mark led the SAP Academy for Sales, the flagship SAP sales training program for Early Talent. Previously, he was VP Sales, Latin America, launching and leading the Mobility business in that region. He has also held positions in the North America Sales and Corporate Development organizations. His expertise is in leading sales teams and implementing Go-to-Market strategy with a focus on attaining revenue targets. Prior to joining SAP, Mark was a consultant with McKinsey & Company and worked at early-stage venture capital firms in the US and Latin America. He began his career at Thomson Reuters with roles in client services, pre-sales and sales. When he left Thomson Reuters, Mark was an Account Executive based in Argentina with territory responsibility for all of Latin America. Mark has a BA from Tufts University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He is fluent in Spanish and German and resides in Miami.
What is StartUP FIU?
StartUP is an initiative focused on creating traditional and social entrepreneurship among students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members. We assist in creating and grow traditional companies, high-tech ventures, and social enterprises.
Who should attend?
Our seminar series is open to students, faculty/staff, alumni and community members who are interested in learning about startups and entrepreneurship. It is also an excellent opportunity for early-stage startups to familiarize themselves with StartUP FIU.

FREE: Ironhack Miami Hackshow!!
2017-03-30 18:30 - 22:00 | 120 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL, 33130, United States
Ironhack is getting ready to graduate another two groups of students who decided to take the non-traditional approach to learning. They now have the tools and confidence to enter the global technology marketplace.
The Hackshow exhibits the fully functioning web apps that our coding students learned to build on their own (some with zero prior coding experience!), and the high fidelity prototypes of our UX/UI Design students! Just a hundred cups of coffee and a whole lot of hard work later, they’ve successfully evolved into Jr. Web Developers and Jr. UX/UI Designers.
Each Ironhack student will have 60 seconds to pitch their project to the audience (that’s you) who will vote for the top 2 presentations from each of the courses, from which our panel of esteemed judges will pick a winner. Plus, join us after the Hackshow in celebrating with free beer and music on our rooftop terrace at Building.co!!

The Journalism unConference
2017-03-31 | 0910 SW 17th St, Miami, Florida, 33199, United States
Connect and share ideas with bright and innovative minds – from journalism professionals to members of the journalism consuming public and everyone in between.
With tracks on Truth, Transparency, Community and Innovation the event is sure to be massively engaging, dynamic and exciting.
We are bringing together all the stakeholders of the journalism ecosystem for interactive sessions, networking, and compelling presentations designed to spark conversation & unleash innovation.
Read our FAQ page to learn about the unconference model and to see how you can participate, and check out our proposed sessions page and the organizer and team list to see who’s involved. Join us – it will be fun.

Microsoft Bot Framework Workshop
2017-04-01 09:00 - 13:00 | 549 Northwest 28th Street, Miami, FL, 33127, United States
Microsoft Bot Framework allows you to build and connect intelligent bots to interact with your users naturally wherever they are – whether it be via text/SMS, Skype, Slack, Office 365 mail or other popular services. Imagine a customer being able to visit your website or send a text message to interact with a bot to find out the status of their order using natural language? That’s just one of many examples!

Microsoft Technical Evangelist Joe Raio will walk you through how to get started building bots in C# and Node.js, and walk you through all the capabilities. To learn more visit https://dev.botframework.com/
Please bring a laptop (PC or Mac are fine).
About the instructor:
Joe Raio is a Microsoft Technical Evangelist based in Miami, Florida. As a technical evangelist, Joe primarily focuses on presentations leveraging the Microsoft Stack focused on website development and cloud technology. Prior to becoming an evangelist for Microsoft, Joe successfully owned and operated three small businesses centered around website development and marketing. To learn more about Joe, visit his website at https://joeraio.com or on twitter @joescars.

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JavaScript: ES6 and Functional Programming with YDKJS's Kyle Simpson
2017-04-01 09:00 - 16:00 | 100 North Biscayne Blvd, Suite 1400, Miami, FL, 33132, United States
MiamiJS and Kyle Simpson (aka Getify) writer of the You Don’t Know JS series of books, are teaming up to bring you a two-day workshop delving into ES6 and Functional Programming with JavaScript.
You can come to one or both days. Only 35 seats available. Early bird prices available until Mar. 7th.
Day 1 Overview
On the first day, we’ll dig into a bunch of new changes to JavaScript as of ES6 and get a glimpse of a few things on the horizon. The most important takeaway is that ES6 is not about new capabilities but rather new expressivity.
If our goal is to write cleaner, clearer, more understandable code—and it should be—ES6 offers myriad improvements that make our efforts so much more effective.
Topics include:
tArrow functions
tBlock scoping
tRest/spread operators
tDefaults
tDestructuring
tTemplate literals
tIterators
Day 2 Overview
Armed with our new-found knowledge for writing clean, expressive, declarative ES6+ code, we’ll turn our attention to functional programming (FP).
If statements like “a monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors” intimidate or confuse you or if you’re not already steeped in the traditions of formality, notation, and academia that seem to drive most discussions around FP, don’t worry; you’re not alone. Many of us quickly get lost wading through all those terms and symbols. But hidden under all that noise, there’s a wealth of powerful concepts that all programmers can and should be using to bring their code up from merely working to readable and maintainable. I call this approach “Functional-Light JavaScript.”
We’ll walk step by step through each practical FP pattern, staying as far from those crazy functor-like words as we can. We’ll see just how sensible and intuitive many parts of FP really are.
Topics include:
tSide effects versus pure functions
tFunction composition
tValue immutability
tClosure
tPartial application and currying
tRecursion
tList operations (map, reduce, filter)
tFusion and transducing
Lunch
Pizza and drinks will be served for lunch and we’ll be right across the street from Bayside Marketplace if you prefer to go grab something else for lunch.
No refunds

Weekly Open Hack Night
2017-04-03 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 | April 4
2017-04-04 08:30 - 12:30 | 8181 NW 36TH STREET, SUITE 20-G, DORAL, FL, 33166, United States
Social Media Marketing | April 4
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=a07edykis995976773b&llr=niazh9cab
FEE:
3 Hours – $97.00
Doral Chamber Members FREE (Use Promo Code)
Location:
Doral Chamber of Commerce
8181 NW 36th Street, Suite 21-A
Doral, FL 33166
Schedule:
8:30 am to 9:00 am – Networking and Check-In
9:00 am to 12:30 pm – Workshop

Office Hours @ the MIC
2017-04-04 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.

Building Your Company Culture
2017-04-04 18:00 - 20:00 | 400 Northwest 26th Street, Miami, FL, 33127, United States
Workplace culture is key to a thriving and successful organization. Join a panel of esteemed industry leaders to learn how to create and foster an innovative company culture.
Moderator:

Susan Duffy, Executive Director of the Center For Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership at Babson College
As the Executive Director of the Babson College Center for Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership (CWEL), Susan Duffy educates, inspires and empowers women to transform their entrepreneurial potential into social and economic impact. Under her leadership the CWEL offers a portfolio of world class programs for undergraduate, graduate and executive women; disseminates research into the unique skills and experiences of women entrepreneurial leaders; and advances gender enlightenment as a growth strategy for all individuals and organization. She is the co-founder of Babson’s Women Innovating Now (WIN) Lab, an early stage venture accelerator for women who are ready to think big, be bold, and grow successful companies. The CWEL and WIN Lab have been recognized as one of Boston’s 50 on Fire, a pedagogy award finalist for “Specialty Programs” by the United States Association of Small Business & Entrepreneurship, and a Stevie Award winner for “Women in Business”.
Before entering academia Susan was a leader in healthcare foodservice, co-owned a commercial construction company, and owned and operated Ho-Lee-Chow, a Chinese fast-food franchise. She is an advisor to several early stage companies and an angel investor. She also serves on the boards of the Tory Burch Foundation and the Walmart Foundation International Advisory Council.

Panelists:

Marilyn Blanco-Reyes, VP of Legal & Regulatory Affairs for FedEx Express Latin America and Caribbean Division
Marilyn Blanco-Reyes is the Vice President of Legal and Regulatory Affairs for the FedEx Express Latin America and Caribbean Division, headquartered in Miami. In addition to her role as General Counsel, Blanco-Reyes is part of the Division’s senior management team and is actively involved in long-range planning, strategic business initiatives, alliances and new business development.
Fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese, Blanco-Reyes’ expertise in international business transactions, commercial and corporate law, labor and employment issues, as well as aviation and customs matters has set her on an accelerated career path within FedEx.
Blanco-Reyes is three-time recipient of the prestigious FedEx Five-Star Award, a significant recognition bestowed on employees who demonstrate leadership, creativity, superior performance and distinguished efforts in support of FedEx customers. In 2007, the World Trade Center of Miami presented Blanco-Reyes with the International Woman’s Day Award for Exceptional Leadership.
A subject-matter expert on Brazilian-US relations, Blanco-Reyes frequently travels the Americas to lecture on Latin America’s transportation industry, trade facilitation issues and customs and regulatory improvements. She has served as President of the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce of Florida and currently sits on its Board of Directors. She is a trustee of the Pan American Development Foundation and sits on the Global Board of Directors of the International Women’s Forum (IWF). She also sits on the Board of Directors of the Brazil-US Business Council.
Prior to joining FedEx, Blanco-Reyes practiced law as an international attorney with one of Brazil’s top law firms in São Paulo, and with two prominent Miami law firms; Adorno & Zeder and Blackwell & Walker.
She has a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Florida International University and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Miami School of Law, where she graduated cum laude.

Rebekah Monson, Co-Founder of WhereBy.Us
Rebekah Monson is the cofounder and VP of Product of WhereBy.Us, a local media startup that connects people to their cities through storytelling and experiences. Its first publication, The New Tropic, produces an email newsletter, original journalism and events in Miami that reached more than half a million curious locals in 2015. WhereBy.Us achieved profitability in its first year of operation. The company launched The Evergrey in Seattle in October and will scale to new markets in 2017.
Before starting WhereBy.Us, Rebekah worked in many newsroom jobs, including reporter, editor, and design director. She also ran communications at the University of Miami School of Communication, where she pursued an M.F.A. in Interactive Media before leaving to start WhereBy.Us. Rebekah also cofounded Code for Miami, a Code for America brigade of volunteers working to transform civic technology in Miami-Dade County, and Hacks/Hackers Miami, a local chapter of an international grassroots organization of journalists, designers and developers who are reinventing media.

Danielle Ungermann, Former Director of Community at LiveNinja
Danielle Ungermann is the Marketing Coordinator for McKenzie Construction + Craft, a boutique, client-focused group based out of Allapattah. In her previous role, she worked as the Director of Community for LiveNinja, a Miami-based communications software startup that was recently acquired by IDT Telecom. In her time there, she helped launch and organize their 3-year running weekly networking event, Waffle Wednesday, which has worked with the startup and tech scene in their weekly, waffle-filled practice pitch sessions.
Outside of her work with LiveNinja, Danielle has contributed to the growth of the Miami startup scene through her weekly curation of the Miami Startup Digest newsletter, and as co-captain of Code for Miami, a local civic hacking brigade focused on helping citizens and government better serve each other.

FREE Workshop: Learn the secret to designing products people love!
2017-04-05 08:00 - 17:00 | 1951 Northwest 7th Avenue, Miami, FL, 33136, United States
Our Event
We all know Apple, Coca-Cola, and Starbucks as successful billion dollar companies. But what you may not know is that they share something important in common: they are all driven by a focus on great UX design! UX Design (short for User Experience Design) is the process of creating products that are built around the end-user’s needs. The idea is that if you create products that solve real pain points and are easy for customers to use, more customers will want to use them! During Ironhack’s workshop at Venture Cafe, we’ll teach you all the basic information you need to know about UX Design, and guide you through an exercise that puts your new learnings to the test!
Our discussion and workshop will focus on:
1. What is User Experience (UX)?
2. How do we “DESIGN” the User Experience?
3. Why is UX so important?
4. Who practices UX Design?
Following the discussion on UX Design, we’lll break out into groups to complete an exercise that puts all of our new learnings together! You’ll leave with a protoype of a mobile app that targets a real user’s pain points!
Our speaker
Maite Dalila is a UX Design Consultant with experience working on international projects for Mercedes, Regus, Tesco, Fortnum & Mason as well as many start ups.
Currently, she is a User Experience Designer at Kairos, a facial recognition start up, in Miami, FL.
At work, she develops UI requirements from concept to release. She defines features, user flows, and content. Her goal is to create enjoyable, seamless experiences.
Who should come
The principles behind UX design are applicable to any profession that works with people, or has people as the end consumer of a product or service. This means that anyone in marketing, business development, entrepreneurship, etc. (even doctors!) will leave with a valuable way of thinking to impact their approach to creating and providing.
In Ironhack’s UX Design course, we’ve seen students come from all sorts of backgrounds, including public policy, literary magazines, consulting, and graphic design. And they’ve all left with new skills that have made them more productive in the workplace.
Want to learn more?
Email the Ironhack team at mia@ironhack.com for questions about the free workshop or our UX/UI Design course!

Waffle Wednesday with Visa, ReNu Shops & CA Publishing Group
2017-04-05 09:00 - 10:30 | 120 Northwest 25th Street Loft 301, Miami, FL, 33172, United States
Waffle Wednesday is a local Miami community event hosted at the LiveNinja offices in Wynwood, Miami. Every Wednesday morning (except for the last Wednesday of the month – check out our Waffles After Work event) we cook up delicious waffles in our office and host local entrepreneurs, artists, activists, and more to mingle over breakfast and some brief presentations by our weekly featured guests. We are sponsored by the Knight Foundation, and are honored to be considered a staple in the Miami entrpreneurial and tech communities.
As always, we want this to be an open conversation! Bring your ideas, questions, and we will bring waffles, coffee, juices and fruits.

City of Doral & Doral Chamber of Commerce: StartUp Doral ™
2017-04-06 09:00 - 11:00 | 8401 NW 53rd Terr, Doral, Florida, 33166, Select a Country:
City of Doral & Doral Chamber of Commerce:
StartUp Doral ™
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
Today’s Workshop:
9:00 am – 10:00: Networking and City of Doral Staff
10:00 am – 11:00 am: “StartUps in the ‘New’ Business Environment” Innovative Lessons for the “New” Entrepreneur
Speaker:
Philippe Houdard
Co-Founder of Pipeline
About our Speaker:
Prior to co-founding Pipeline, Philippe founded SkyBank Financial and served as its CEO. He is also founder and president of Developing Minds Foundation, an organization that builds schools and supports education projects in areas affected by armed conflict and poverty. Previously, he served in executive positions in sales, marketing, and mergers & acquisitions for mid-size and Fortune 500 companies. Philippe graduated with a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a BS in Business Administration from University of Florida.
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!
Event Link: https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07edx1le5cb17c35f4&llr=niazh9cab
Contact:
Seidy Sleiman
General Manager at Pipeline Doral
8400 NW 36th Street
Suite 450 | Doral, FL 33166
305-358-1841
ssleiman@pipelineworkspaces.com

Machine Learning Office Hours
2017-04-06 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
2017-04-06 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!

Bitcoin Basics: Using Bitcoin, How Bitcoin Works and Other Intro Topics
2017-04-06 19:00 | 1458 Ocean Dr, Miami, FL, 33139, United States
It is the first Thursday of the month. Join us at the Front Porch Cafe to talk Bitcoin and all things money and digital currencies. We expect a wide variety of developers and professionals of all types. Stop by to network and learn everything you have wanted to know about Bitcoin and digital currencies. Event starts at 7 PM and is over when the last question is answered. Look forward to seeing you soon!
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About the Venue:
Front Porch Cafe is a great spot in Miami Beach, with a pool table and other games. It is also quiet enough to host most events such as this one.
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Transportation and Parking:
When visiting South Beach, Lyft or Uber is often the easiest option. Should you decide to bring your own car, there is parking close by. You may be able to find street parking, but the best thing to do is park at the municipal garage which charges $1/hour at:
100 16th St, Miami Beach, FL 33139
There are two garages on 16th Street on opposite sides of the street, so be sure to park at the city garage as it is much nicer and cheaper.
