THE CENTER OF GRAVITY FOR ENTREPRENEURS IN TEXAS
After launching our Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter of Bunker Labs in November, we’re kicking off 2020 by introducing as many veteran and military spouse-owned businesses and startups as we can to the Dallas Entrepreneurship Ecosystem and showcasing as many Entrepreneurship Ecosystem resources to the military community as possible. You don’t want to miss this!
This event is part of Bunker Brews, a monthly meetup where the Bunker Labs community, including veterans, military spouses, and civilians, comes together to network with subject matter experts, investors, thought leaders, and more in an environment focused on growth and development.
This event is for you if…
1. You’re interested in meeting more like-minded, action-oriented entrepreneurs in a fun, casual setting.
2. You’re interested in getting involved in the local entrepreneur community.
3. You’d like to learn more about companies being created by veterans in our community
About this Event
Shardus continues to gain momentum with their framework for launching linearly scalable decentralized networks with state sharding. Shardus was one of the first team’s in the world to demonstrate linear scaling functionality on a decentralized blockchain network at their Q3 meetup event. Come and join Shardus for their Q4 meetup event at the Capital Factory in Dallas, TX to see advancements in offloading data to the Shardus Archive Server, learn about growth in the Shardus ecosystem and hear from new partners building with Shardus. Linear scaling means that the throughput of the distributed ledger increases with each node added to the network. This event gathers developers, business professionals, investors, and enthusiasts to learn more about blockchain and distributed ledger technology as well as provide an opportunity to network.
Who is attending:
- Business professionals interested in Blockchain.
- Developers and DFW entrepreneurs.
- VCs and angel investors.
- DFW blockchain professionals.
- Students interested in Blockchain.
- 40+ registered to attend
Agenda:
Saturday Jan 18th, 2020
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch and Networking
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Shardus Presentation and Demonstration
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm Q&A + Networking
The Austin Blockchain Collective Community Meetup group is a monthly educational and community meeting. The meetings generally cover news from the Collective, and showcase the blockchain and crypto innovation happening in and around Austin.
PyLadiesATX is a social/professional group for lady Python enthusiasts at every experience level. Beginners are always welcome! We represent Pythonistas from a wide variety of disciplines and interest areas – full-time developers and hobbyists alike.
Unless otherwise noted, PyLadiesATX events are exclusively for PyLadies and their invited guests. We are a group for women and other gender minorities. Trans women are welcome and recognized as women. If you are a woman who enjoys learning about and writing Python, we would love to have you come join us.
This group is for those Interested in Elixir and/or Erlang and using them to develop distributed, fault-tolerant and reliable applications.
Related sites:
* Lonestar ElixirConf (http://lonestarelixir.com)
* ElixirConf (https://elixirconf.com/)
* IntelliJ Elixir (https://github.com/KronicDeth/intellij-elixir)
* Elixir (http://elixir-lang.org)
Join Capital Factory to find out how you can get plugged into the Defense Innovation Startup Scene. Come hear an overview from experienced government contractors and leaders in the defense innovation sector and get a chance to introduce yourself and ask questions!
This AMA will focus on the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC). The CMMC is a certification procedure, developed by the Department of Defense (DoD), which certifies that contractors have the means to protect sensitive data— including Federal Contract Information and Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI).
Already taken a tour of Capital Factory? Awesome! The event starts at 4:30PM after the 4PM tour.
This month we are featuring Kevin Landtroop, Defense Venture Partner at Capital Factory, and Luke Barnes, Founder & Managing Partner of Fidelis Risk Advisory.
SPEAKERS
Kevin Landtroop is a cross-functional leader and entrepreneur with 20 years of operations and legal experience in National Security. Kevin founded Overmatch Materiel Advisors, LLC and Co-Founded the Texas Defense Innovation Forum to bring together his passion for National Security and desire to work inside the innovation ecosystem in Silicon Hills. As a Defense Venture Partner, Kevin connects early-stage companies on the bleeding edge with future-force technology requirements while helping Army Futures Command, Defense Innovation Unit, AFWERX, and other similar government and defense S&T organizations connect with startups.
Fidelis Risk Advisory is an Austin-based consulting firm specializing in cybersecurity risk management and translating complicated cybersecurity issues into business-speak. Luke has served as a trusted advisor supporting companies ranging from Fortune 500 to start-ups in industries such as fintech, energy, aerospace and defense, software, legal, and telecom. Among other services, his firm focuses on executive advisory, cybersecurity risk assessments, network and application security, security program development, compliance, cloud security, and cybersecurity awareness training. Luke is a reserve Marine Corps officer with experience in information warfare within both the conventional and Special Operations communities.
WHAT TO EXPECT
4:00 PM Tour
4:30 PM Intro to Defense Innovation
5:00 PM Guest Speaker & Ask Me Anything
6:00 PM Happy Hour
YOU’LL GET ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS LIKE…
-Why startups should work with the government
-What opportunities there are for your startup
-How contracting with the government works
-What is a “solicitation?”
-How to be protect yourself against risks
-Examples of successful startups
-FedBizOpps
-The FAR
-Departmet of Defense – Defense Innovation Unit
-US Army – Army Futures Command
-Air Force – AFWERX
-Special Operations – SOFWERX
Plus answers to your own questions!
YOU WILL FIND OUT ABOUT…
-Why Austin?
-Capital Factory
-Department of Defense – Defense Innovation Unit
-Government Contracts
-Defense Innovation fast track programs
-Incubators & Accelerators
-Examples of successful startups that won government contracts
We have one goal here: to foster an ecosystem that helps people progress in their career and get people hired!
This is a networking and educational group that is actively focused on improving the strategy of job seekers (active or passive) to help them step up their game! We also partner with recruiters to help facilitate a better hiring system.
Join us for a night of networking and pitches. You’ll hear 5 Austin based start-ups pitch their product for 99 seconds!
Founders Live is an unforgettable happy hour competition sweeping the country where up to five handpicked companies take the hot seat, with only 99 seconds to pitch their company and describe their value proposition in front of an eager audience. After the pitches and audience Q&A, the crowd will vote on a winner who will not only receive an award, but recognition from the crowd and also the opportunity to talk more about their product or service. So bring your friends and coworkers, grab some food and drink, get to know your local entrepreneurs and vote for what you think will be the next big thing… built in Austin
Sponsors:
AWS (presenters receive 5,000AWS credits)
Google Cloud (presenters receive 3,000 Google Cloud credits)
The aim of this group is to create a regular meeting for anyone currently working on or interested in music related startups! Austin is one of the best cities on earth for music and for tech startups, so this group will fuse two of the best parts about Austin! Entrepreneurs, developers, investors, service firms, music industry folks and anyone with a passion for tech and music should join! Let’s all work together to make our music startups better or to start the next great music tech company!
We bring people together to share knowledge and techniques on producing, recording, mixing and mastering techniques, industry trends, and to network with other people: producers, engineers, musicians, singer-songwriters who are also passionate about music.
We take a deep dive into current industry standard DAW’s like Ableton Live, Logic Pro X, Propellerheads Reason & Protools, and collaborate on projects.
No Appointment Necessary
Stop by for a tour any Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday at 4pm. We're located at 7th and Brazos in the middle of downtown Austin. Get Directions
