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Happy Tech Week to my fellow developers! 🎉 I'm excited to join you all during Atlanta Tech Week and share insights on "How Data-Driven Innovation Powers Scalable Product Development: Research, Branding, and Presentation Strategies." Catch my session this Thursday at the Indigo Hotel Downtown. Let's drive innovation together! #AtlantaTechWeek #DataDrivenInnovation #ProductDevelopment #TechTalks #Networking #RenderATL

Ah, the Genesis Hackathon frenzy—because apparently, ROCCO decided that tackling the world’s toughest challenges needs to be done in three weeks. And guess what? It’s working! The top solutions from 23 and 24 are now being paraded around industry forums like prized poodles. Who knew solving problems quickly could be this flashy? Brace yourselves for Genesis Hackathons 2025, where you too can join the creative chaos. If you’re an MNO or enterprise with a problem that’s causing you sleepless nights, come on down! Or if you’re a company itching to prove you can handle more than just talking about innovation—whether you know anything about telecoms or not—this is your big moment. Curious how these hackathons really go down? Head over to the website for all the gritty details. https://lnkd.in/dEmcSkU2 Go on, fuel the future. #genesishackathons #roccogenesis # #HackOrSnack #WeekendWarriors #CodeSweatRepeat #TelecomTakedown #InnovationOverload #BrainstormAndChill #SprintAndSuffer #CantHackThis #CoffeeCodeCrash #CtrlAltWin

Forma Hackathon in Oslo next month... this is about creating extensions for Autodesk's Forma (the early stage cloud based building planning and design service... finding financially optimum locations, exploring geometries to maximize ROI, optimize sustainability, and hand-off a BIM to the detailed design folks). Come to Oslo and build your first (or second?) Forma extension. What do Forma customers need? You likely know best but a few "obvious" things Forma customers might find valuable during early stage design... sustainability analysis up through getting permits, landscape, parking requirements and structures, high level structural system decision making, building core area analysis (ie elevators and stairwells), curtain wall optioning, capacity analysis (how much retail, how many offices and meeting rooms to support how many people, how many condos of what sizes), maybe using Generative AI for better faster early design stage decision making... Do take a moment to review the Autodesk Platform Services Forma API to better understand who should join the hackathon, and get a jump start learning the APS Forma API basics. https://lnkd.in/gEAZM-yy Do expect to need a full stack web developer on your Forma hackathon team. Last... This is a unique great opportunity to build a close relationships with the Autodesk Forma team. Really last... Dress warm! Oslo in February... ;-)

💡Mentorship Session: Digital Disruption & Transformation Strategy 🚀 Today, our fellows are learning from a Civic Tech Fellowship alumnus and the Executive Director of Citizens' Gavel, who is sharing invaluable lessons on Digital Disruption and Transportation Strategy! Drawing from Gavel’s experience in using technology to drive impact, the session will equip our fellows with strategies to innovate and transform the civic space 🌎

End of June, we organized the first European Defense Tech Hackathon in Munich – the largest one in mainland Europe We have received a lot of positive resonance and inbound requests. Now, we’re going one step further and announcing today the European Defense Tech Hub – an ecosystem of defense innovators across Europe Same acronym, EDTH, same mission: Fostering Defense Innovation for European Sovereignty What does this mean in practice? 🛠️ More hackathons We are planning several future defense tech hackathons across Europe – more on that very soon 🇪🇺 Community building We’ll do bimonthly meetups and community events – if you’d like to host a meetup, please get in touch 🦾 Supporting defense startups We’re working on an initiative to support early-stage defense startups in navigating procurement, raising the first round of funding, and building a prototype 🚨 Call to action Follow us on social media, subscribe to our email newsletter on our website (link in the comments), and please get in touch with us if you’d like to support us More updates to come very soon! Jonatan H. Luther-Bergquist, Benjamin Wolba & Cyrus Hessabi

Tiger Cage - Mortal Combat Style: Semperis **Special Move** "Identity Lockdown" – Secures and defends identity perimeters with a shield of Active Directory protection. **Fatality** "AD Annihilation" – Unleashes a devastating counterattack that cripples any unauthorized access attempts. Dazz **Special Move** "Cloud Strike" – Deploys rapid automated defenses to detect and neutralize vulnerabilities in the cloud. **Fatality** "Vulnerability Vaporizer" – Annihilates opponent's weak spots with a barrage of automated security fixes. Phosphorus Cybersecurity Inc. **Special Move** "xIoT Enforcer" – Shields all connected #IoT and #OT devices from attacks, turning them into defensive barriers. **Fatality** "Device Devastator" – Overwhelms opponents by remediation and securing every unmanaged endpoint, leaving no room for attacks. #emergingtech #finishhim #chatgpt

In case you missed it, demos from Code for America and the Digital Services Network at Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation's FormFest are live! Our Deputy Director, Ariana Ophelia Soto, moderated this session with the City of Boston and the City of Seattle. 📄 Learn how they're improving forms in local government:

Do you know you can sign up as an organization on AyaLabs to host hackathons? Just follow these simple steps and get started 1. Visit https://www.ayalab.xyz/ and click on “Get started” 2. From the list of user types, select organization and request a demo. 3. Fill and submit the demo 4. You'll be contacted via email shortly after to book your demo session Repost and let other organizations see this!

Are you overwhelmed with deciding which Tech Conferences to attend this year? Budget not matching your desires to attend them all?…Well you’re in luck! Our team at Venture for THEM is sponsoring 2 tickets for you and a friend to attend Roadmap to Billions (powered by Black Women Talk Tech ) in New York from May 16th - May 19th - you don’t want to miss this! How can you win these 2 tickets?? 1. You must be a current HBCU student 2. You must be following Venture for T.H.E.M. and Black Women Talk Tech 3. Tag the one friend that you would take with you, below 4. Our team will select a winner at random this Friday! Stayed tuned for more giveaways to attend the top tech conferences in the world! 🚀

🚀 Only 50 Days until Tech Summit Silicon Valley! 🌟 Get ready to dive into the excitement at Tech Summit San Francisco! 🎉 From interactive workshops to hands-on demos and collaborative discussions, there's something for everyone. Let's elevate our tech game together! 💼💻 #TechSummitSiliconValley #TechSummitSF #InteractiveWorkshop #TechSummitCountdown