Tech meetups, week of April 21, 2025
April 21–27, 2025 — 10 events across 4 groups in Hampton Roads.
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Monday, April 21
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3rd Annual virtual Houston Black Tech Symposium
Join Houston's best Black Tech professionals and organizations, plus their allies, for the 3rd Annual Houston Black Tech Symposium. Be enlightened by the 6 Keynotes, 45 Sessions, and evening Workshop presentations on the latest tech topics, career development, and on how to get into tech. Participate in the Career and Vendor Expo, daily from 5:00 - 6:30 pm. Meet other tech professionals in the daily, virtual networking sessions. The event is free to attend, with three concurrent daily sessions. Register HERE.
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Marcus Manning Keynote - Navigating IT Leadership
Join Houston's best Black Tech professionals and organizations, plus their allies, for the 3rd Annual Houston Black Tech Symposium. Be enlightened by the 6 Keynotes, 45 Sessions, and evening Workshop presentations on the latest tech topics, career development, and on how to get into tech. Hear Marcus Manning's expose on Navigating the journey of IT leadership.
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Geeks at a Bar- Peninsula Happy Hour
Do you work with technology or for a tech company? Do you speak geek? Come network with other technology industry workers for a casual, conversational happy hour. This meetup is loosely organized, but very consistently scheduled. If you want to meet up somewhere else, share it in the #peninsula channel at 757dev.org Slack, or in the comments.
Tuesday, April 22
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Ethan Pack Keynote - Shrivel or Shine
Join Houston's best Black Tech professionals and organizations, plus their allies, for the 3rd Annual Houston Black Tech Symposium. Be enlightened by the 6 Keynotes, 45 Sessions, and evening Workshop presentations on the latest tech topics, career development, and on how to get into tech. Hear Ethan Pack's expose on whether to Shrivel or Shine. There are always moments in our careers and in life where things will try to drain us. We can allow the headwinds to squeeze the life out of us, or we can choose to leverage the pressure to shine.
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(CS)²AI Symposium: Cyber Security for Critical Manufacturing
Join industry leaders and experts as we explore the latest cybersecurity challenges and solutions tailored for the manufacturing sector. This symposium will feature insightful discussions, best practices, and real-world strategies to protect critical infrastructure and industrial control systems. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your cybersecurity resilience! CLICK HERE to REGISTER ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Becoming a paid member is quick and easy \(and helps us keep offering these educational opportunities\!\).
Wednesday, April 23
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Ralph Owens Keynote - Building Careers that Last
Join Houston's best Black Tech professionals and organizations, plus their allies, for the 3rd Annual Houston Black Tech Symposium. Be enlightened by the 6 Keynotes, 45 Sessions, and evening Workshop presentations on the latest tech topics, career development, and on how to get into tech. This keynote aims to empower Black tech professionals to use leadership for long-term career success. It focuses on authenticity, visibility, and impact, showing how leadership at any level can create opportunities, increase influence, and drive change.
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Ty Smith Keynote - “Collaboration Is the New Currency"
Join Houston's best Black Tech professionals and organizations, plus their allies, for the 3rd Annual Houston Black Tech Symposium. Be enlightened by the 6 Keynotes, 45 Sessions, and evening Workshop presentations on the latest tech topics, career development, and on how to get into tech. Hear Ty Smith's exposé about our world where speed, scale, and visibility are everything. Collaboration has become the ultimate competitive edge.
Thursday, April 24
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757COLORCODED 3C EVENT
We welcome you to join us to Code, Create and/or Chat! If you're working on a project and want to collaborate in-person on it, have an idea you'd like to brainstorm, or just want to chat with some folks... come join us for an informal get together! NSU Innovation Center 700 Park Avenue Norfolk
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Get Certified in Cybersecurity - 4 Week Cohort (wk. 1)
Obtain your (ISC)2 Certified in Cybersecurity certification. - $50 This is a Members Only course - Join BUiLT HERE. Sign up for the course HERE. Attend the 4 weeks of online self-paced training and study group review sessions to obtain the ISC2 certified in cybersecurity certification. The course provides a self-paced study guide, certification test voucher, and a weekly study group review of the subject matter published in the (ISC)² Certified in Cybersecurity exam outline, which shares the security concepts on which certification candidates will be evaluated, including: Security…
Friday, April 25
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Creating Responsible AI with SCRUM
Attend this half-day, instructor-led training and certification course. Achieving Responsible AI is a SAFe Micro-credential course designed to equip Agile professionals with the skills to implement Responsible AI in their organizations. This course is a blended learning experience that combines a one-hour self-paced eLearning module with a half-day facilitated session focused on practical applications and real-world scenarios.