Techstars Startup Week Seattle 2018

CascadiaJS and PuPPy are teaming up to host a happy hour for developers to celebrate Seattle Startup Week! Don't feel like you have to be a front-end React developer or a big data Python engineer to attend this event. This is an inclusive and friendly networking event for ALL developers.

The event is being hosted at Thinkspace Seattle, located on the Lake Union waterfront. Enjoy drinks, food and good conversation with your fellow hackers courtesy of CascadiaJS and PuPPy.

CascadiaJS - We are a conference for web developers here in the Pacific Northwest taking place Nov 15-16. The conference features 24 talks over the course of 2 days that focus on the cutting edge of JavaScript, Node, web development and engineering culture. We expect to host 500+ developers from all over the PacNW. In addition to the conference, the week of CascadiaJS will feature networking mixers for junior devs, React training workshops and much more!

PuPPy - We are a fun and friendly user group dedicated to proliferating a diverse and talented Python community in the Puget Sound region. We are devoted to exploring Python-based programming knowledge, embracing new and experienced members from all walks of life, and helping those members to achieve their professional goals.

While there seem to be a million resources online about starting a startup, there are very few places to find good information about starting a *hardware* startup.

In honor of Seattle Startup Week, we have some amazing guests who going to share the stories of the hustle and tears that they put into building hardware startups in Seattle.

SPEAKERS:

Christina Cyr - Co-Founder, CTO & CEO - dToor

dTOOR makes “Non-Rectangular Phones for Non-Rectangular People” starting with a phone in the shape of a circle, called The Cyrcle Phone. dTOOR had a successful Kickstarter campaign in September 2016 with a 2G prototype of The Cyrcle Phone, and delivered all rewards (phones, classes, t-shirts, etc.) to backers within 60 days. Christina has degrees in biochemistry and physics, a master’s in engineering, and an unrelenting passion for electronics.

Filipp Shpomer - Co-Founder and CTO - Strive Tech

Filipp's biggest interests have always been physics and computer science. After a few years in industrial automation and many years as a software engineer at Microsoft, he returned to the world of electronics by cofounding athletic wearable company Strive Tech, where his role is to design and build the electronics that collects biosensor information about the athlete.

What we'll do

Meeting at Starbucks HQ for 1st time ever. Thank you Carly Slater, Nicholas Hunt-Walker, and Cris Ewing for pushing this forward.

What to bring

Bring your self. This is a talk format meeting, we will feature speakers

Our event

PuPPy, one of the world's largest Python communities, will feature Python in use at Startups. Our October meeting is a collaboration with Startup Week. We'll feature talks by engineers at Seattle startups. Our speakers will demonstrate how Python drives growth at some of Seattle's fastest growing startups.

Alex Landau of Rover will share his talk, "Building a Culture of Observability at Rover"

TALK DESCRIPTION: Observability is all about achieving a deep understanding of your software. At Rover we strive to build observability into our culture, not only to improve our site reliability and performance but also to empower our developers. In this talk you'll learn about why we've focused on observability, the tools we've built, and the best practices we've learned to ingrain observability into our engineering culture.

SeattleJS is the largest JavaScript meet up in Seattle. We hold our meet ups on the second Thursday of every month at a variety of locations around Seattle. SeattleJS exisits to inform, inspire, and encourage members of the JavaScript community. Our goal is for you to leave inspired and ready to innovate.

Speakers:

• Joe Burgess - Virtual Reality in JavaScript with Aframe.io
• Kelsey Breseman - Firmware 101: How to Talk to Hardware in Javascript (and have it talk back!)
• Joshua Goldberg - Internet Explorer is a Wonderful Browser and an Absolute Pleasure to Work With

48 hours to build the next generation of military spouse/veteran founded companies. Open to all!


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