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This Week

Monday, June 10th, 2019

• Open Hack Night - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Javascript Development: The browser Web Storage API - 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Daniel Shrader (FPL) - 'Intro to Docker' - 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
• Biz To Biz Networking at Brimstone Woodfire Grill - 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM

Tuesday, June 11th, 2019

• Cloud OnBoard - 09.00 AM to 05.30 PM
• Book Club Q&A with Robert Hoekman Jr. - Author of Experience Required - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• VueJS Ft. Lauderdale - Monthly Meetup - 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• How technology is changing mobility - 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Wednesday, June 12th, 2019

• SFTA vBeers @ Broward - 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• JobNewsUSA.com South Florida Job Fair - 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
• Biz To Biz Networking at American Social - 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM

Thursday, June 13th, 2019

• The State of Business in South Florida - 3:30 PM to 6:00 PM
• Apple WWDC 2019 Review - 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• SoFloPHP Boca (Monthly Meetup) - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Nerd Nite Miami - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Hackology 101 - The Series - Cracking the P@ssw0rd! with Andrew J Cichewicz - 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Biz To Biz Networking at American Social Brickell - Miami - 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
• Palm Beach Digital Solutions - Elite Lunch Meeting - 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
• Sheryl Pattek, CMO, Forrester: Marketing's Next Frontier: How Brand Purpose & Customer Experience Are Redefining Marketing - 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• VMware and Flagler Technologies invite you to an exclusive hands-on NSX Multi-Site & Cloud Networking Workshop - 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM

Friday, June 14th, 2019

• Let's combine Art and Technology and get creative! - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Blockchain Center Miami Grand Opening - 6:45 PM to 10:00 PM

Saturday, June 15th, 2019

• Women's Code and Coffee - Share and Support - 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Next Week

Monday, June 17th, 2019

• Python Data Science Development: Introduction to NumPy - 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Miami Ruby Brigade - 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
• Python Data Science Development: Introduction to NumPy - 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
• Alex Ortiz (Child Rescue Coalition) - Beyond Threat Detection in the Digital Age - 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
• UX+DEV PROCESSES DECODE - 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Tuesday, June 18th, 2019

• Facebook Advertising for Businesses: A Step-by-Step Guide to Attracting Customers Online - 7:00 PM to 09:00 PM
• Software Testing with AI-Driven Agents - 6:45 PM to 9:00 PM
• Front-End Social - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• UX DECODED FOR DEVELOPERS - 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• Monthly Linux Meetup (also covering Open Source, UNIX and UNIX-Like Systems) - 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• Brainfood Speaker Series Featuring David Lekach - 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM

Wednesday, June 19th, 2019

• SFTA's vBeers@Boca - 8:30 PM to 12:00 PM
• Robotic Process Automation with a side of Machine Learning - 5:30 PM to 08:15 PM
• OpenHackNight @ Ultimate Software - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• WTF GraphQL - 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
• Biz To Biz Networking at YOLO - 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
• Discover Your Strengths - Morning Workshop on Friday, July 19th With Kelly Merbler - 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM

Thursday, June 20th, 2019

• CIO-CTO Industry Networking Event in association with the Miami Dolphins, office of the CIO - 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• ISSA June 2019 Monthly Meeting - 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• BestHire - Fort Lauderdale Job Fair - 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM
• Shay Berman Founder & President, Digital Resource - 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Tech Startup Pitch Event, Thurs, June 20th in Boca Raton at Cendyn Spaces - 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Friday, June 21st, 2019

• ISACA South Florida - 3rd Annual GRC Conference - 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM

Saturday, June 22nd, 2019

• Launch Your First Facebook Ad Bootcamp + Results Lab - 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
• Plugins and ROI, Power up your WP-CONFIG, Q&A and more... - 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM

Later This Year

Monday, June 24th, 2019

• Florida CISO Executive Summit Q2 - 6:00 PM to 5:00 PM Tuesday, June 25th, 2019

Thursday July 25th, 2019

• SUP-X - The Startup Expo - Thursday July 25th, 2019

Details at SF IT Events Website.

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Hard Rock Stadium - Miami Gardens

Why Attend (Insane ROI!)

• Admission includes a pair of Dolphins tickets, valued at over $160.00! (You have to be at the event to claim your tickets)
• Network with South Florida's top technology decision makers and influencers
• Mingle with Hard Rock Stadium suite holders, corporate members, and IT vendors
• Meet the CIOs behind the regions top sports teams
• Open bar and buffet
• A panel composed of the technology leadership of the regions top sports teams
• Datacenter tour
• Prizes and giveaways
• Proceeds support the CIO Council Scholarship Funds

Hosted by the CIO Council of South Florida

Biergarten Boca - Boca Raton

These informal networking/social events provide a relaxed environment to meet with other hands-on IT professionals and promote the growth of IT in South Florida. Come out and connect with other professionals in your industry! vBeers is a great event meant to promote growth of the IT industry here in South Florida. Register today so you can be a part of this great monthly event! Feel free to invite all of your friends and co workers who work in the IT industry!

Hosted by John J. McLaughlin

Funky Buddha - Oakland Park - Wednesday, June 12th

Come out and connect with other professionals in your industry! vBeers is a great event meant to promote growth of the IT industry here in South Florida. Register today so you can be a part of this great monthly event! Feel free to invite all of your friends and co workers who work in the IT industry!

Hosted by John J. McLaughlin

TechLaunch - Miramar

In today's world, you can never be too careful with your passwords. Password cracking is the process of attempting to gain unauthorized access to restricted systems using common passwords or algorithms that guess passwords. In other words, it's an act of obtaining the correct password that gives access to a system protected by an authentication method.

With today's technology, password complexity is the key to information protection. Knowing how to create a strong complex password is one thing. . . Knowing how to crack it, makes it that much more interesting!

Back by popular demand, Florida Vocational Institute will be hosting the best of our Cyber Hackology 101 Series with our Cyber Security Engineer & Tech Expert, Andrew J. Cichewicz. Join us this Thursday, June 13, as we dive deep into the mind of an ACTUAL computer hacker.

Hosted by Alejandra Gomez TechLaunch

Capital One Cafe - West Palm Beach

The Share and Support events are to regroup and share thoughts on past classes such as Perusing Through Python. If you need any assistance with Git, text editors, or terminal, join us!

These events are relaxed and informal, intended as a way for our community to work and play together while providing each other with ongoing support and feedback.

Hope you can join us and bring some awesome ideas to promote inclusivity and future class topics you'd be interested in learning!

Hosted by Sylke Lopez from Learn to Code in Palm Beach

Boca Raton Innovation Campus - Boca Raton

In today's age of technology and product development, developers are being tasked to understand UX, work more closely with designers, make interactive design decisions and be the ones responsible for bridging the gap between technology and design.

Furthermore, for product teams to remain competitive, every person in the product life cycle is responsible for maintaining the user experience. Developers included.

In this session, you'll learn about the fundamentals of UX, how to think contextually and learn the impacts between technology vs. design. You'll take away a deep understanding of UX, understand how development impacts the UX and be able to provide developer user-centric solutions to the team.

Hosted by Ignacio GH and Wilfred Rios Ortiz

Venture X - Palm Beach Gardens

Palm Beach Tech Talks are monthly happy hours to network, learn and engage with local technology & entrepreneurial leaders that have experiences to share!

GUEST SPEAKER:

• Daniel J Shrader Jr | Sr Programmer @ FPL

Hosted by Christopher Cabrera from Tech Talks : Palm Beach Gardens

Robot Brewing Company and Quixotic Lounge - Boca

Palm Beach Tech Talks are monthly happy hours with the sharpest & most witty folks in our tech community!

GUEST SPEAKER: Alex Ortiz | Director of Business Development @ Child Rescue Coalition

TOPIC:

"Beyond Threat Detection in the Digital Age"

AGENDA:

• :40 Minutes of Networking
• :5 Minutes of Introductions
• :15 Minute TED Style Talk

Hosted by Ashley Marie Taylor From Tech Talks - Boca Raton

NSU - Davie

Monthly Linux Meetup covering Open Source, UNIX and UNIX-Like Systems

Meeting in the NSU Carl DeSantis Building, Room 1048-1049, Ground Floor.

Help make your FLUX meetings better! Send your suggestions for FOSS topics you would like to know more about, or give a presentation on, to suggestions@flux.org.

About FLUX: A meetup group for IT Professionals who use Linux, UNIX or UNIX like Operating systems including Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu (and other Linux distros.), MacOS, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Android/Chrome.

Hosted by Douglas Sensenig

Blockchain Center - Miami

Come celebrate with us as we reopen the tech hub for the America's on historic Flagler street!

Hosted by Nick Spanos, one of blockchain industry's earliest pioneers, featured on the Netflix Documentary Banking on Bitcoin, Spanos boldly opened the Bitcoin Center New York in 2013, the world's first ever cryptocurrency trading floor, He is now reviving the movement in Miami.

Miami is already the Silicon Valley of Latin America, with local government officials like Mayor Francis Suarez understanding the opportunity, the city is coming together to support the initiative to make Miami a leader in blockchain technology.

Special Guests: Nick Spanos, Mayor Francis Suarez

Hosted by Bitcoin Center Miami

Lynn University - Boca Raton

Join Kelly Merbler and her team member Marlena Coco, both Certified Gallup Strengths Coaches and Trainers for a powerful and engaging workshop.

This workshop is based on the #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller StrengthsFinder 2.0.

Did you know that only 30% of the American workforce goes to work each day feeling engaged in their jobs? According to Gallup research, that is the statistic that our workforce reported. Of the 70% of people who go to work each day feeling disengaged in what they are doing, most are not using the talents that they possess to do the job they for which they are being paid. This is costing companies millions of dollars and countless hours of time. It takes so long to hire great people but how do you retain them and keep them engaged in their jobs?

Donald Clifton the Founder of StrengthsFinders stated, "What will happen when we think about what is RIGHT with people rather than fixating on what is wrong with them?"

Join my workshop, 'Unleash Your Power & Discover Your Strengths' and you will gain access into how to develop and implement such a plan. This highly interactive session has been designed to deliver high performance results by identifying the natural talents and strengths of each employee which fosters a culture of engagement and retention. This program offers a personalized assessment to discover strengths and develops an action plan for application of those strengths.

"Good recruiters can help with talent acquisition. I help with talent activation so you can retain them." - Kelly Merbler

Hosted by Kelly Merbler

Miami Beach

Cloud OnBoard is a free, instructor-led training event, that will provide you with a technical introduction to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Through a combination of presentations and technical demonstrations, you will learn how to get started with virtual machines, containers, applications, big data, and machine learning.

Hosted by Google

StartHub - Miami

Our meetups aim to teach and help developers grow in their environment, we want to give tools that will help developers solve common problems that can be encountered in any project.

Come and meet new developers and share your experience with them, if you have a coding problem together we can find the best solution to them, and if you're just starting out we'll set you up, and you can start coding right away!

Hosted by Angel lacret and Andrea Urdaneta from Software Developers of Florida

General Provision - Fort Lauderdale

VueJS all the things. This group is for everyone interested in Vue! We'll have talks, show and tell sessions, and just talk about cool Vue stuff.

Hosted by Doug Steinberg From VueJS Ft Lauderdale

WeWork - Miami

Trains, planes, and automobiles! They are all being disrupted by technology.

Join us for an intimate fireside chat with Bird, Brightline, Getaround and the Miami Downtown Development Authority as we dive into the many ways technology is changing how we get from point A to point B. Learn how technology is tackling our city's transportation problems, as well as what opportunities exist in the market.

Agenda:

• 6:30PM to 7:15PM - Networking, drinks and light bites
• 7:15PM to 8:30PM - Fireside chat and Q&A

Hosted by Maria Derchi Russo of Refresh Miami

Gramps Bar - Miami

Nerd Nite is a monthly event during which several folks give fun-yet-informative presentations across all disciplines - while the audience drinks along. It's like the Discovery Channel... with beer! This month's speakers and topics:

• 1000 Mermaids Artificial Reef Project
• Pufferfish, Neat!
• Everything I Know About Human Nature I Learned From Making Video Games

Hosted by Melissa From Nerd Nite Miami

Galuppi's - Pompano Beach

It's the age of the customer and customers are in control, turning your life upside down. They no longer make buying decisions based solely on product selection, price or perceived value. Instead, your consumers' moral values are changing their expectations of your brand. Today, your customers are assessing what your brand says, what it does and what it stands for. And, they will support companies whose brand purpose aligns with their beliefs; rejecting those that don't, with one in five walking away forever.

Hosted by the SFIMA

StartHub - Miami

Our meetups aim to teach and help developers grow in their environment, we want to give tools that will help developers solve common problems that can be encountered in any project. - Come and meet new developers and share your experience with them, if you have a coding problem together we can find the best solution to them, and if you're just starting out we'll set you up, and you can start coding right away!

For this meeting we'll be talking about:

1) NumPy, a package for scientific computing with Python, it can also be used as an efficient multi-dimensional container of generic data.

Hosted by Angel lacret and Andrea Urdaneta from Software Developers of Florida

"When it comes time to look for a new role, seasoned IT pros may be tempted to go on autopilot. After all, it's not your first job hunt. While tried-and-true advice certainly has a place - mine the networks, customize the resume for the role, make sure you highlight hot skills - sometimes you need to shake things up. If you conduct a job hunt the way you always have, you'll probably get similar jobs..."

Crowne Plaza - Ft Lauderdale

Are you ready to interview with hundreds of employers? Best Hire Career Fairs is hosting another job fair in Fort Lauderdale. Get dressed up and sharpen up your resume. Once you arrive, you will check in to the event letting employers know that you are here. Then You will visit all the employers and see what they are offering; this allows you to try and see yourself in that role and ask plenty of questions. If you are a match for the job and look the part, you could get hired on the spot.

Hosted by BestHire

Broward College Willis Holcombe Center - Ft. Lauderdale

Here is the 50% discount code you can use: itnbizhack

Join Facebook advertising expert Dan Grech of BizHack Academy for a power-packed 2-hour session on Facebook Advertising for Businesses. Bring your laptops in this hands-on workshop, where you'll learn everything you need to start attracting customers online using social media advertising: We'll show you how to build a Facebook Business Page, create Facebook Business Manager and Advertising Manager accounts, and give you a tour highlighting the key features of the world's most powerful ad platform.

Hosted by BizHack Academy

Brimstone Woodfire Grill - Pembroke Pines

Join Biz To Biz Networking at Brimstone Woodfire Grill in Pembroke Pines

14575 SW 5th St, Pembroke Pines - Shops at Pembroke Gardens

Everyone is welcome to attend. There will be a table setup for your flyers and business cards.

Hosted by Biz To Biz Networking

American Social - Miami

Join Biz To Biz Networking at American Social Brickell - NETWORKING IN MIAMI

Everyone is welcome to attend. There will be a table setup for your flyers and business cards.

Hosted by Biz To Biz Networking / Expos

Research Park at FAU - Boca Raton

A subject for this meetup not firm yet, but it is bound to be good even if we simply get together and chat about what we are all up to lately.

Most of these meetups include FREE pizza and drinks provided by the current months sponsor. These meetups are alcohol free and a learning atmosphere, though we usually socialize before and after the topic of the month.

Hosted by Adam Culp

Wyncode Academy - Miami

This is our regular monthly meetup. Watch this space for more about this event.

Hosted by Bryce Kerley From Miami Ruby Brigade

TechLaunch - Miramar

Join us as we create art using some of the latest technology available for artists. This fun, hands on activity will allow each person to get involved in the creation process.

Learn about what is happening today in Art Tech, all the roles that technology is playing in art, how it is enabling interactivity in art installations, and how innovations of today are shaping the industry.

Hosted by Inov8Labs

InterContinental - Miami

Hear from local leaders as they discuss how growing industries and new businesses are shaping the local economy and what to expect from the year ahead.

Hosted by the SFBJ

Florida International University - Miami

How do you know if the plugins you are using are adding to your bottom line. How do you connect the success of the back end of your website with the business part of it. In this talk, Mariano Villalba will answer those and more.

Ever wonder what wp-config.php was for (besides connecting your database). In this talk we will look at the wp-config and how to make edits to it so that we can:

Hosted by Jesse Velez From South Florida WordPress Meetup Group

The LAB Miami - Miami

Prior to the sale of his company in May of 2018, David Lekach was the Chief Executive Officer of Dream Products LLC. As the architect of the company's growth strategy, David was responsible for managing all aspects of the business, including sales, marketing, manufacturing and finance. Dream Products manufactures and markets Dream Water, a natural, zero calorie, 2.5oz liquid sleep enhancer, that is also available in a powder format that you can take with or without water.

Without any real hobbies and a real passion for entrepreneurship, David has spent his last 6+ months investing the proceeds of the sale and consulting for a variety of companies with topics and mandates ranging from innovation, to executive team building, to legal/deal structuring projects, and a host of different strategic development initiatives with companies in the CPG, cannabis, direct to consumer/Amazon platforms, and travel retail spaces.

Hosted by LAB Miami Ventures

FIU Campus - Miami

Please join us for our June 2019 Meeting. 2 technical talks followed by networking. This month we will be at FIU. Networking to follow nearby.

Hosted by Michael Brown from South Florida ISSA Chapter

Ultimate Software - Weston, FL

Join us for our OpenHackNight at Ultimate Software! We'll be in the Think Tank Room on the third floor in Phase 10. Go to the front desk in the lobby on the first floor and Ryan will help everyone get to the room.

Breakout: Projects and Brainstorms

Use this as an opportunity to hack on a project, learn something new, and meet fellow citizens interested in open gov/open data.

Got something to share? Email us to present it next Weds.

Hosted by Rob Davis and Ryan Gates

Cambridge Innovation Center - Miami

Join us for our bi-weekly civic hack sessions @ Cambridge Innovation Center. Anyone interested in civic hacking and engagement is welcome.

What to bring

• As always, bring a laptop; beginners are always welcome!

Important to know

• You can contribute to an existing Code for Miami Project

Hosted by Danielle Ungermann and Jules Kramer from Code for Miami

Digital Resource - West Palm Beach

Do you want to know more about marketing your company or how to start one? - Discover how Shay Berman started his company Digital Resource, how he made it so successful and what you should avoid when starting yours.

Discover how Shay Berman started his company Digital Resource, how he made it so successful and what you should avoid when starting yours.

• 6:00 PM Mingle & Network
• 6:45 PM Fireside Chat
• 7:30 PM Audience Q&A
• 7:45 PM Wrap Up & Network

Shay Berman is the founder and president of Digital Resource, a full-service digital marketing agency located in South Florida. Shay's clear-cut approach to internet marketing has driven his clients' businesses to new heights and landed Digital Resource on the Inc. 500 list after just four years.

Hosted by Alice Figuerola from Startup Grind Palm Beach

Greater Fort Lauderdale-Broward County Convention Center

Tickets on Sale Now, Priced from $29-$299!

Sponsorships Opportunities on Sale Now, Packages from $250-$12,500!

Key Facts About SUP-X:

• 1000+ Attendees
• 4 Stages, 60+ panels, speeches, pitches, and demos
• 100+ exhibitors, special exhibition opportunities for venture oriented startups and community partners
• Startup competition with $25,000+ in cash and prizes, exhibition and pitch opportunities
• #Women4Women, our morning forum focused on female founders, entrepreneurs, and investors

For more information visit SUP-X.ORG

Presented by TechLauderdale Powered by SFTA

The Westin - Fort Lauderdale

A new agile and innovative approach is required to solve the hyper-distribution of applications and data as they move from the data center to the edge to the cloud. Network and security policies must follow the application to provide security across any environment.

VMware and Flagler Technologies invite you to an exclusive, hands-on workshop where you can learn how VMware NSX can help extend your security across multiple sites and into the public cloud.

Hosted by VMware and Flagler Technologies

Ultimate Software Group - Weston

We are pleased to have David Adamo of Ultimate Software join us to present AGENT (AI Generation and Exploration in Test), an open source project that autonomously explores and evaluates the GUI of web applications. See through the hype surrounding Artificial Intelligence and Software Testing as David explains the mechanics, possible future directions and limits of the AI-based techniques employed by AGENT as a first step toward true test automation.

Hosted by Slav Kurochkin from South Florida Test Automation

Ultimate Software - Weston, FL

The Rise by Design Book Club is a monthly book club that focuses on a book selected by the community to engage with and grow ourselves as designers.

SOFLUX is excited to bring you the next Rise by Design Book "Experience Required" by Robert Hoekman Jr.

Hosted by Lauren From SOFLUX - The South Florida UX Meetup & UXPA Int'l Chapter