Tech meetups, week of August 3, 2026
August 3–9, 2026 — 5 events across 3 groups in Hampton Roads.
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Tuesday, August 4
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ISSA-HR Presents: Hiding in Plain Sight
Visit our Eventbrite Page to RSVP How Much of You Is Already Out There Speaker: Margarita Giron Margarita Giron is an Intelligence Analyst who also volunteers as an OSINT analyst for an anti-human-trafficking nonprofit. She holds an open-source intelligence certification from the OSMOSIS Association.
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Peninsula Builders Study Group
New AI tools are dropping every week. Bookmarks are piling up. “To-be-studied” lists are growing faster than we can keep up with. Sound familiar? Peninsula Builders Study Group is a local initiative for students and developers of the Peninsula area who want to stop meaning to learn and start actually doing it—together. There’s no pressure to be an expert, and no bootcamp intensity.
Wednesday, August 5
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(CS)²AI Online™: Engineering Expertise-Core Skills for ICS/OT Cybersecurity
Industrial control systems and operational technology sit at the center of the world's critical infrastructure — and the practitioners defending them need a fundamentally different skillset than traditional IT security teams. Join us for a (CS)²AI Online™ Seminar: Engineering Expertise-Core Skills for ICS/OT Cybersecurity, a panel discussion bringing together leading experts to break down what it actually takes to build and sustain a career in ICS/OT cybersecurity. Our speakers will cover the foundational and advanced competencies every OT security practitioner needs, including:…
Thursday, August 6
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Late Night Builders
Can't sleep? Up late tinkering on a project? Or can't make the usual meetups till the kids are in bed? Late Night Builders is a monthly hangout for builders, tinkerers, and the generally curious. Developers, designers, AI enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, hobbyists — if you make things or want to start, you'll fit in. Bring something you're working on, pick someone's brain, or just show up for cheap wings and good conversation. No agenda, no presentations, no networking cringe. Anyone is welcome at any experience level. Bring your laptop, bring a friend, or just bring yourself.
Saturday, August 8
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HTML Day | Freewrite
This event is in person only. HTML is just writing. You type words, save the file as .html, open it in a browser, done. You've made a website. That's the whole trick. Come spend an afternoon making websites by hand, the old way: no frameworks, no build tools, no drag-and-drop. Just a text file and a browser. Never written a tag in your life? Come anyway. You can write for an hour without touching HTML, or go as deep as you want. Already fluent? Come make something weird and share it. There's no wrong way to do this.