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Monday, March 13th, 2023

• Founders Live (March 13th) - 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Tuesday, March 14th, 2023

• AWS: Innovate faster with the most comprehensive set of AI/ML services (March 14th) - 12 PM to 4 PM
• DARKReading: The Importance of Bespoke Security (March 14th) - 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EST

Wednesday, March 15th, 2023

• vBeers South Florida (March 15th) Biergarten Boca - 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• SNIA: Training Deep Learning Models in the Cloud (March 15th) - 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
• IDC: How to Use Low-Code Developer Technologies Like a Mature Digital Innovator (March 15th) - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EST
• TechTalk: VIRTUAL SOUTHEAST (March 15th) - 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
• Startup Grind South Florida 2nd Annual Acceleration Tour - 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
• DevOps: Buidling the Perfect Dataset (March 15th) - 11:00AM to 12:00 PM EST
• Empowering Women for the Future - 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
• Boca Code Presentations and Hiring Fair - 1:00 PM to Thursday, 16th 5;00 PM
• The #MiamiTech Happy Hour! - 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT

Thursday, March 16th, 2023

• March SF ISSA 2023 Monthly Meeting - 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Techstrong Con 2023 (March 16th) - 8:50 AM to 3;00 PM EST
• Pitch Night MIA (March 16th) - 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• blackhat: Discovering Sensitive Data Flows In Applications: A Code Scanning Approach (March 16th) - 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM EST

Friday, March 17th, 2023

• Miami Cyber Security Summit (March 17th) - 7:30 AM to 6:00 PM

Monday, March 20th, 2023

• Gartner: The 12 Principles of Organizational Change That Every Leader (March 20th) - 10:00 AM to 11:00 PM
• Gartner CIO Leadership Forum (March 20th) - 8;30 AM to 5:00 PM EST

Tuesday, March 21st, 2023

• CIO: Cloud Governance for Visibility and Full Optimization, Compliance, and Security (March 21st) - 3:00 PM tp 4:00 PM EST
• TechHub: Female Founders Pitch Workshop - Early Stage South Florida (March 21st) - 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023

• OWASP South Florida Chapter Meeting March 2023 - 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST
• EPIC iO Tech Tour Fort Lauderdale - 2:30 PM to 6:30 PM EDT

Thursday, March 23rd, 2023

• DARKReading: Emerging Cybersecurity Technologies: What You Need To Know (March 23rd) - 11:00 AM to 5:15 PM EST
• InformationWeek: How to Grow From DevOps to DevSecOps (March 23rd) - 11:00 AM to 5:15 PM

Tuesday, March 28th, 2023

• DARKReading: Building Out the Best Response Playbook for Ransomware Attacks (March 28th) - 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM EST
• IIBA: Power Skills Workshop - Communication For Business Analysts (March 28th ) - 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EST
• Brickell Tech Tuesday - 06:30:00 PM to 7:30 PM

Wednesday, March 29th, 2023

• Angelbeat: Healthcare & Life Sciences (March 29th) - 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM EST
• IDC: Tech Expectations: the CEO View for 2023 (March 29th) - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EST
• Innovation Ventures Summit (March 29 - 31) - 9:00 AM Wed, Mar 29, 2023, to 10:00PM Fri, Mar 31

Thursday, March 30th, 2023

• ITProToday: Cloud Security: How the Game is Changing in 2023 (March 30th) - 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM
• NETWORKComputing: The Path to Convergence Through Secure Networking (March 30th) - 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EST
• InformationWeek: Cloud Security: How the Game is Changing in 2023 (March 30th) - 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST
• DARKReading: Ten Emerging Vulnerabilities Every Enterprise Should Know (March 30th) - 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EST

Friday, March 31st, 2023

• Data Vault For Data Mesh - TDWI South Florida Q1 Meeting - 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM

Thursday, March 16th, 2023

• Final Project Showcase - 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Starting and Building a Career in Data - 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Monday, April 3rd, 2023

• Fort Lauderdale Tech Meetup (April 3rd) - 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Tuesday, April 4th, 2023

• AWS: Startup Day Miami (April 4th) - 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM EST
• SNIA: Cyberstorage and XDR: Threat Detection through a Storage Lens (April 4th) - 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EST

Tuesday, April 12th, 2023

• Data Science Innovators Conference 2023 (April 12th-13th) - 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Thursday, April 13th

Wednesday, April 12th, 2023

• CIO's Cloud & Data Summit (April 12th) - 11:30 AM to 5:00 PM EST

Thursday, April 13th, 2023

• SNIA: Top 12 Trends in Data and Cloud Storage (April 13th) - 2:00 PM to

Friday, April 14th, 2023

Miami's AI Future: A Hackathon for Innovation and Progress

Saturday, April 15th, 2023

• SoFlo Dev Con 2023 (Sat. April 15th) - 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM

Thursday, April 20th, 2023

• eMerge Americas April 20 + 21 - 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Friday April 21st
• React Miami 2023 (April 20 - 21) - 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Friday April 21st

Thursday, May 18th, 2023

• Bitcoin 2020 (Miami Beach, May 18-20) - 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Saturday, May 20th

Friday, May 19th, 2023

• HackMiami Conference 2023 - 8:00 AM to 11AM

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• FAU Tech Runway
• Tue, March 21, 2023, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM EDT
• Hosted by SFTH

This event will seek to inspire and educate attendees and participants in a relaxed friendly environment. Each South Florida Startup that enters will be given the opportunity to make a five-minute pitch followed by a five-minute Q/A and feedback.

This event is meant to encourage the endeavors of our South Florida Startup Community and foster a creative dialogue with feedback from attendees for the startup founders. Attendees will critique the startups and provide feedback on how you can improve and move forward, and get ready for an even BIGGER pitch night to come at the end of the year (cash prize)!

*Startups involved in Tech Hub startup events throughout the year will be eligible for involvement in the annual Ignite Florida Startup Summit during Global Entrepreneurship Week in November! *

This time, we discuss the iPhone moment in AI and the ensuing AI gold rush, virtual quantum computers, and how silicon photonics can change the chip industry.

Today's guest is Supreet Kaur, Assistant Vice President at Morgan Stanley. She's spent the last five years working in data spaces across financial services and life sciences, along with essential advocacy work in mentoring a diverse next generation of data science leaders. In conversation with Emerj CEO Daniel Faggella, Supreet tells business leaders three metrics they need to measure their enterprise AI success. Later, they dissect common approaches to ROI from leadership and IT teams that are at odds with AI adoption's experimental nature.

BrainStation, Miami

Our Starting and Building a Career events will help you break into some of the fastest-growing careers in tech.

Connect With Industry Professionals

• Hear from industry professionals who have started and grown their own careers in tech.

Discover Tech Career Paths

• Explore what it takes to start your career in tech and learn how to get started today.

Network with Like-Minded Professionals

• Meet and work with other ambitious professionals who are all excited about careers in tech.

Agenda

• INTRODUCTIONS AND KICK-OFF
• TECH INDUSTRY GROWTH AND TRENDS
• MULTI-DISCIPLINARY CAREER PANEL AND Q&A
• NETWORKING
• WRAP UP & NEXT STEPS

Hosted by BrainStation

In an era of continual disruption, the role of CIO is evolving rapidly. CIOs must amplify their impact to lead IT beyond the function, partnering with C-suite peers to accelerate digital business models, enable the future of work and drive business growth. At Gartner CIO Leadership Forum 2023, CIOs have access to expert guidance, actionable tools and CIO peer insights to amplify their impact and lead digital business acceleration.

We invite you to apply for this exclusive conference for CIOs, uniquely curated to offer insights and inspiration that will leave you reinvigorated as a leader.

Miami Dade College Idea Center

eMerge Americas and Ironhack have teamed up again this year to present the annual eMerge Americas Hackathon!

Over 100 developers, designers and tech enthusiasts will be tasked to create an innovative and unique solution using AI that drives impactful progress within the Miami ecosystem. Our hackathon is designed for anyone to participate, regardless of skill level. We encourage beginners that are interested in web development and design to participate and interact with other hackers and industry mentors.

The general theme for this hackathon consists of creating a tool using AI to drive innovation within 3 specific industries in Miami. The industries and specific guidelines will be disclosed the day of the event.

Hosted by ironhack and eMerge Americas

Hilton Miami Downtown

Admission is $195 each, giving you access to all Interactive Panels, Discussions, Catered Breakfast, Lunch & Cocktail Reception.

Top 8 Reasons to Attend the Cyber Security Summit

• Learn
• Evaluate Demonstrations
• Time, Travel & Money
• Engage, Network, Socialize & Share
• CEUs / CPE Credits
• Investment
• Atmosphere
• Reality Check

Hosted by Cyber Security Summit

Virtual

Business analysts focus on requirements. We will step back and learn to collaborate. Then shine the spotlight on communication. These are the true lingua Franca, Power(soft) skills. This interactive workshop is going to focus on Communication skills for business analysts effectively communicate with developers and project managers. This will be an interactive session.

Hosted by IIBA South Florida

vBeers meetups are informal networking events for South Florida Tech professionals.

In-person, after work vBeers have resumed! Hang out with IT colleagues after work! Please share this message!

Schedule

• 2nd Wed - Funky Buddha, Oakland Park
• 3rd Wed - Biergarten Boca, Boca Raton

Hosted by John J. McLaughlin, Board Member, South Florida Tech Hub

InterContinental Hotel Miami

There's a reason more startups build on AWS than any other provider: we're here to help you succeed, from inception to IPO. At this event, we'll show you how - with an agenda purpose-built for startups operating within Florida. Gain valuable knowledge and insights from AWS leaders, technologists, partners, VC investors, and founders. It's the best of the best within the Miami startup ecosystem, all under one roof, in a time efficient, day-long format.

Startup Day Miami features an all-star lineup of breakout sessions, technical workshops and training, panels, partner demos, and business networking. Tracks are designed for specific roles and stages within the startup journey (see agenda below).

The future looks bright. AWS and its partners are ready to deliver vital education to power Miami startups' next decade of growth and innovation - and enable you to prove what's possible.

Hosted by AWS

Miami Beach Convention Center

Bitcoin 2023 is the world's largest Bitcoin gathering featuring the top speakers, sponsors and guest list in the industry. The parent company of the conference is BTC, Inc whose mission is 'propelling the world towards hyperbitcoinization'.

Bitcoin 2023 is hosted at the Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach, FL.

Industry Day is hosted on May 18, 2023 accessible for Industry Pass and above. The GA main conference days are on May 19 and 20, 2023.

Hosted by BTC Media

Miami Beach Convention Center

Experience and demo the latest technology advancements & solutions, all while networking with some of the industry's heavyweights.

eMerge continues to monitor COVID-19, and we are committed to the health and wellbeing of our attendees, partners and the community as a whole. We are following state and local guidelines and will be putting necessary safety measures in place at eMerge 2023.

We look forward to hosting you in April, with an extraordinary lineup of keynote speakers, interactive exhibits, live workshops, innovation challenges, and much more. Get ready to experience Miami's tech scene like never before.

Hosted by eMerge

Marenas Beach Resort, Sunny Isles Beach

HackMiami X 2023 Conference will consist of training classes on May 19, 2023 and speaking tracks on Saturday May 20, 2023.

Track 1 - NuWorld0rder - A novice track will be available for hackers who are learning the game. If you have a presentation that you believe would be beneficial to the community and will give attendees a information that can be used to advance their skills, knowledge, and/or careers, then this is the track for you. Total presentation time is 45 minutes with 10 minutes of Q&A.

Track 2 - 0ldWorld0rder - An advanced track for the hackers looking to show off their latest projects and research. If you have any hot research, code drops, vulnerability disclosures, or attack methodologies that you want to present on, then this is the track for you. Total presentation time is 45 minutes with 10 minutes of Q&A.

Hosted by HackMiami

Miami Beach Convention Center

Your ticket to React Miami includes:

• Full Access to 2 conferences - React Miami and eMerge Americas!

• 2 full days of 28 expert speaker sessions

• Opening Party with React Documentary viewing at the Rooftop Cinema Club South Beach

• Afterparty at Backyard at Marseilles

• and so much more!

28 Expert Speaker Sessions

Covering topics such as Performance, TypeScript, GraphQL, Design Systems, Infrastructure, Web3, Animations, Testing, Micro Frontends, and more!

Hosted by G2i and JS World Conferences

FREEHOLD 2219 NW 2nd Ave Miami, FL 33127

You're invited to join Tech Hub for our #MIamiTech Happy Hour with some of South Florida's tech professionals to enjoy a night of networking and connections!

This is a casual recurring happy hour for new and old Miamians interested in connecting with fellow entrepreneurs, investors, tech folks, and a diverse group of awesome people. Come grab a drink and catch up!

A few logistical details:

• We host this gathering every other week, at the FREEHOLD - find us in the outdoor area!
• We start at 6 PM. It usually lasts for a few hours - come and go when works for you.
• There is street parking around the area.
• By attending, all participants commit to upholding and being subject to our Code of Conduct.
• By attending, participants also acknowledge and grant permission for the use of photographs they may appear in for promotional material by the organizers or sponsors. If you would like to rescind this permission, please contact us directly.

Hope to see you soon! -- Natalia + Chris

Hosted by Natalia + Chris

FIU College of Engineering & Computing

This Thursday we will be holding a roundtable/ members panel and discussing current events.

Afterwards, we will have our usual networking portion afterwards, possibly at a local watering hole!

We are very excited to see you all.

Hosted by Michael Brown from SF ISSA

NSU

Dear South Florida BI/DW and Analytics Professionals,

We cordially invite you to attend our upcoming TDWI South Florida Chapter meeting on Friday, March 31st, 2023. Come meet other local professionals, swap business cards, share ideas, and exchange career advice while listening to quality presentations in a vendor-neutral setting, which is the hallmark of TDWI education. Our speaker, Cynthia Meyersohn is one of only Certified Authorized Data Vault 2.0 Instructors, and is the president of DataRebels, LLC., and she also serves as the Chief Operating Officer of DataVaultAlliance Holdings, LLC

Hosted by TDWI

The Fitz, Ft. Lauderdale

Founders Live is an unforgettable happy hour competition sweeping the globe 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 south Florida.

Hosted by Marc Lissade

The Lab Miami

Pitch Night MIA was designed with one idea in mind: Collaboration breeds innovation. See the trajectory of the Miami start-up scene. Learn from startups working on the next wave of technology and the investors who evaluate them. Join us for a fun night of entertainment, entrepreneurship, and competition. Offer up your ideas, and take home inspiration from the most creative minds in the city. It is our goal to open up as many people as possible to new opportunities by spending an evening with friends who can help you on the road to success.

Hosted By James I. and Roxette I.from Pitch Night MIA

We're excited to bring EPIC iO's 2023 Tech Tours to Florida!

Our goal is to offer solutions that are in demand, easy to sell, and fast to deploy.

Agenda Highlights:

• EPIC iO AURA is a briefcase-sized device that uses AI and IoT to disinfect enclosed spaces, including regular rooms, cold storage rooms, and refrigerated transport.

• Solar-powered Security Trailers: Security that goes anywhere when you can't. Designed to scale your video solution to include temperature, air quality, and other environmental sensors for full site management.

• 5G Connectivity: Equip your customers with 5G ready solutions for failover, wireless WAN as primary, bonded wireless, private LTE and more. Learn why successful multi-location rollouts are key to long-term customer success.

We look forward to connecting with you! -- Todd Holsombeck

Virtual

We will be hosting this meeting online. The meeting's URL will become visible on the meetup page after you RSVP.

Please join us virtually for our March 2023 Meeting. Once again we are starting the year with the Owasp Top 10!

BYOB - Bring Your Own Beverage

Agenda +Chapter updates/announcements, etc.

• The Owasp Top 10 2021 Demystified

This is a fast paced and and hands-on security training session to go over the 2021 Owasp Top 10. This will cover the following:

• Understand the latest OWASP Top 10 and the differences between the 2021 and the 2017 Top 10
• Find and fix security issues
• Understand how to defend against these risks
• Think defensively while developing applications
• Demos of attacks and defense techniques will be provided.

Hosted By Rohini S. and Adesina A. from OWASP South Florida

During this webinar you will:

• Learn how Darktrace works under the hood, and why that matters.
• Gain a realistic perspective on the threats facing your organization.
• Understand the importance of bespoke security and defense in depth to combat the evolving cyber threat landscape.

Presented live by featured speakers Toby Lewis and Hanah-Marie Darley. Moderated by Peter Krass.

Hosted by DARKReading

Ransomware, cyber extortion, zero-day exploits, cloud threats, and supply chain attacks: a seemingly nonstop barrage of new exploits and attack campaigns emerge each day, leaving enterprises wondering if their existing security defenses can thwart the latest - and increasingly sophisticated - threats.

In Q1 2023, Dark Reading will hold a full-day virtual event designed to update your team on some of the most promising emerging cybersecurity technologies and how you can adopt and deploy them in your enterprise.

This event, Emerging Cybersecurity Technologies: What You Need to Know is a free, one-day online conference produced by the editors of Dark Reading, that offers an in-depth look at the latest security technologies and services.

Hosted by DARKReading

How good are our backups? What does our insurance provider say? How well the organization weathers the attack will depend on how well the organization prepared the answers in advance. In this webinar, learn what processes and procedures should go into your ransomware response playbook, and learn about the tools and techniques that will help you bounce back from a ransomware infection.

Hosted by DARKReading

Organizations need to be able to harness the power and the agility cloud services afford, but securing those payloads is mission critical. You can't afford a weak link - literally, as ransoms continue to grow. High-profile breaches impact the intellectual property and stock prices of major corporations every day.

AGENDA

• 11:00 AM - Best Practices for Cloud Security
• 12:15 PM - Remote Workforce Endemic Era: Building Security into The New Daily Reality
• 1:20 PM - Getting a Head Start in the Race Against Ransomware
• 2:45 PM - Working with External Teams to Optimize Security

Hosted by ITProToday

Organizations need to be able to harness the power and agility cloud services afford, but securing those payloads is mission-critical. You can't afford a weak link - literally, as ransoms continue to grow. High-profile breaches impact the intellectual property and stock prices of major corporations every day.

Topics Include:

• Securing Your Remote Workforce
• Best Practices for 2023 Cloud Security Maintenance and Implementation

Hosted by InformationWeek

AWS Innovate is an online conference. After completing the online registration, you will receive a confirmation email containing the instructions that you will need to access the platform.

You will create a username and password to complete your registration and access the event on live day. If you have any questions, contact us at innovatesupport@amazon.com.

Explore seven session tracks, designed for you:

• from technical sessions for builders and practitioners to non-technical sessions for business leaders, you'll walk away from this event with new inspiration and skills to grow your career and business.

Dive deep into any of the 40+ business and technical sessions. Don't forget to prepare your questions and get them answered live by our AWS experts.

Hosted by AWS

Increasingly, the ability to repeatedly deliver innovative digital capabilities determines market leaders from laggards. Low-code developer technologies provide a set of tools that organizations can employ to build innovative digital solutions more efficiently and to free up scarce developer resources for additional complex and innovative work.

Hosted by IDC

In today's data-driven world, having a robust and comprehensive dataset is critical for the success of machine learning models. But building the perfect dataset is not a simple task.

Join us and you'll learn:

• What's the difference between traditional modeling and data-centric AI, and why is it happening now?
• What's the worst mistake people can make with their datasets?
• What's the most powerful way to automatically label huge datasets?
• As a follow-up, can we fine-tune or augment that automatic labeling process with humans in the loop?
• Is it possible to build a massive dataset without web scraping?
• How do we store all that data? Is there any dream system that can do text, video, images, and more all equally well?

Hosted by DevOps.com

Regardless of which change methodology or approach an organization adopts, every leader must incorporate 12 principles for organizational change to be successful. This complimentary change management webinar breaks down the 12 key principles of organizational change that every leader must know, and how you can incorporate them into your change initiatives.

• Find out what has changed in the world of change
• Determine how to improve the likelihood of change success
• Identify the 12 key principles of organizational change every leader must know

Hosted by Gartner

In this webinar we will explore the key priorities, opportunities, challenges and expectations business leaders have around digital tech and what this means for tech vendors and service providers. Investments and spending on digital tech are rising, but so are expectations for measurable returns.

This dynamic is putting increasing pressure on tech vendors to deliver business outcomes, while also managing an ever-changing set of risks around economic uncertainty, inflation, skills shortages, cybersecurity and digital sovereignty. This session will highlight key findings from IDC's Global CEO Survey and interview series.

Hosted by IDC

Enter "Cyberstorage", a term coined by Gartner, which is defined as doing threat detection and response in storage software or hardware. A parallel, related trend in the security industry is eXtended Detection and Response (XDR) which shifts some of the threat detection from centralized security monitoring tools (SIEMs) down into each domain (e.g., endpoint, network) for faster detection and automated response. Factor in the growing impact of ransomware and all these forces are driving the need to find creative, new ways to detect malware, including from inside the storage domain.

In this session we'll discuss:

• Cyberstorage and XDR - what are these emerging trends?
• Threat detection and response methods through a storage lens
• Possible approaches for detection when used in conjunction with security tooling
• Why silos between security and storage need to be addressed for successful threat detection

Hosted by SNIA

It's no secret that cloud and data are critical to innovation, transformation, and growth. But are you getting the business value you want from your cloud and data strategy and investments? Explore the key to cloud and data success at CIO's Future of Cloud Summit. Register for this one-day virtual event to optimize your business results through hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, data lakes, AI/machine learning/analytics, and more.

Hear strategies from tech leaders driving innovation and transformation with secure, scalable cloud and data operations - and get an inside look at the challenges they faced in their goal to optimize their outcomes. Don't wait - register today!

Hosted by CIO