The Launch Pad

Weekly Open Hack Night
2017-12-11 19:00 - 21:00, 2017-12-04 19:00 - 21:00, 2017-11-27 19:00 - 21:00, 2017-11-20 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | 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.

Thursday Gathering @ Venture Cafe Miami
2017-12-07 16:00 - 21:00, 2017-11-30 16:00 - 21:00, 2017-11-23 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!

Machine Learning Office Hours
2017-12-07 10:30, 2017-11-30 10:30, 2017-11-23 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

Breakfast with the Arts and Technology
2017-12-06 08:00 - 10:00 | History Miami Museum, 101 West Flagler Street, FL, 33130, United States
More info

Office Hours @ the MIC
2017-12-05 10:00 - 17:00, 2017-11-28 10:00 - 17:00, 2017-11-21 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.

CoE Distinguished Speakers Series Fall 2017
2017-11-27 15:30 | Storer Auditorium, University of Miami School of Business Administration
Monday, November 27, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Dr. David Tirrell
Ross McCollum-William H. Corcoran Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and Provost (effective October 1, 2017) California Institute of Technology, Member of the National Academies of Engineering, Sciences, and Medicine
Storer Auditorium, University of Miami School of Business Administration
For the live broadcast, please visit coe.miami.edu/speaker/tirrell

Reinterpreting the Genetic Code: How to Do It and Why You Might Want to
The genetic code, elucidated in the 1960s through the work of Nirenberg, Ochoa, Khorana and their coworkers, provides a set of molecular instructions for translating nucleic acids into proteins. Over the last decade, cells have been outfitted with modified translational machinery that enables the participation of an expanded set of amino acids in protein synthesis. These developments have provided a basis for powerful new approaches to macromolecular design and to spatially and temporally resolved analysis of protein synthesis in complex biological systems.

In collaboration with the following colleges and schools, institutes and programs:

Light refreshments will be provided.
Parking Information
Parking is available at the Ponce de Leon and the Pavia garages. Parking meters also are available in various locations. To view parking locations, please visit
https://welcome.miami.edu/about-um/campuses/coral-gables-map/index.html.
If you park at a garage, there are UM shuttles available at no cost.
For more information, please contact Maria Rojas at mrojas@miami.edu or
Helena Solo-Gabriele at hmsolo@miami.edu or at (305) 284-2908.

The College of Engineering Distinguished Speaker Series honors professionals who, through their research and educational accomplishments, have made significant contributions to the engineering profession and to society at large.
coe.miami.edu

Transforming Lives Through Education, Research, Innovation and Service

CANCELED - GEW at UM - Featuring DeepBlocks and EveryMundo
2017-11-16 18:30 - 21:00 | Korach Gallery at UM School of Architecture, 1225 Dickinson Drive, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Thursday November 16th, 2017
Schedule:
6:30-7:00PM – Reception (Food & Drinks provided)
7:00-8:00PM – Deep Blocks
8:00-9:00PM – EveryMundo

Note the UMiami Men’s Basketball team will be playing at the Watsco Center at the same time so be aware of traffic and parking issues that may occur.
Join us on Thursday November 16th, as we round out the Global Entrepreneurship Week with some great entrepreneurs who are taking on both the real estate and travel industries head on.
EveryMundo is one of the fastest growing companies working in the marketing technology space. EveryMundo is a member of the Endeavor Global Network and employs over 40 people in the Miami area.
Deep Blocks is pairing artificial intelligence, machine learning, and high performance computing to transform the real estate investment market. Deep Blocks is using technology to overhaul the real estate investment decision making process making investors smarter, faster, and reducing their overall risk profile
Olivia Ramos
Olivia Ramos is an inventor and entrepreneur who was born in Havana, Cuba and educated at Columbia University (Master of Architecture), University of Miami (Master of Real Estate Development and Urbanism), and University of Florida (Bachelor in Design). Olivia is co-founder and CEO of Deep Blocks Inc. a young startup coming out of Silicon Valley leveraging artificial intelligence for real estate development. She is a graduate of Singularity University’s 2016 Global Solutions Program, SU Incubator, and SU Accelerator as well as an inventor in residency at the DARPA’s Innovation House 2012. At DARPA, her design for a multisensory Big Data navigation software won first place in innovation and second place overall. Olivia co-founded Work Untitled magazine in 2014 and was awarded an artist residency at Cannonball Miami in 2013, while holding a graduate level adjunct professorship of architecture and finance at Florida International University and Florida Atlantic University.

Seth Cassel
Seth Cassel has had a long career in the media and entertainment industry having worked with major record labels like SonyBMG and Universal records. Seth studied at Harvard for both his undergraduate degree and his MBA. Seth is the co-founder of EveryMundo, one of the fastest growing travel focused technology and marketing companies.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sethcassel/
