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The PNW’s Premiere Monthly Events
You'll Experience the Northwest’s largest and most fun monthly tech community and recruiting events:
Tuesday May 8, 2018
5:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Ticket Information Below
Impact HUB
220 2nd Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98104
On street parking navigation
Parking Garages near Impact HUB
5:30 pm
Doors open, get to know your community!
6:30 pm
Event begins
Community connections
Community shoutouts
Company presentations:
Amazon Mechanical Turk presented by Trenton Lipscomb – How to make crowdsourcing ground truth data for machine learning applications easier.
Vermouth presented by Jamien McCullum – With a new digital currency, Vermouth is reimagining the relationship between consumers and local businesses. #paylocal coming soon!
Gravity Payments presented by Dan Price – We saw independent businesses being overcharged and underserved by their credit card processor. We knew that wasn’t right, so we decided to lower costs, be completely transparent, and provide better service for community business owners.
Dimensional Mechanics presented by Rajeev Dutt – All companies should have access to the power that AI holds for transforming how organizations make discoveries and gain insights from data.
8:00 pm
After-party at Good Bar
Want to sponsor this event? Contact us!
Tuesday May 15, 2018
Women in Tech Event
(Male Allies are Welcome to Attend)
5:30 pm to 8:00 pm
This month, join us to celebrate and empower women in the tech industry, discuss ways we can ensure women will be fully represented, and advance the conversation forward.
Our theme for this month is Women In Tech. It’s no secret, companies with more women and more gender diversity perform better than those with less. We’re excited to invite you to learn about the difficulties, successes, and benefits of women in the tech industry, and what we can all do to ensure women aren’t just fully represented, but thrive.
Ticket Information is Below
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One Bellevue Center
411-108th Avenue NE, Bellevue, WA
5th Floor | Pike Place Event Room
5:30 pm
Doors open, get to know your community!
6:30 pm
Event begins
Community connections
Community shoutouts
Company presentations:
Better Together presented by author, investor & GeekWire Chairman, Jonathan Sposato – Learn how 8 Ways Working with Women Leads to Extraordinary Products and Profits from the first founder to sell two of his companies to Google. Jonathan is also known for his pledge to only invest in companies with a female founder.
Kal Academy presented by Kal Viswanathan – A non-profit organization run by a female tech veteran. Our mission is to make it easier for women to build a career in the tech industry and increase diversity which is critical for innovation.
I Was A Woman In Tech Before It Was Cool presented by Margaret Groves
Transformational Speakers Agency presented by Erin Loman Jeck – Erin is the leading authority on assisting thriving purpose-driven entrepreneurs in how to monetize their message, make an impact, influence change, and inspire action in others.
8:00 pm
After-party at 520 Bar and Grill
Want to sponsor this event? Contact us!
Monday May 21, 2018
New Tech PDX
5:30 pm to 8:00 pm
WeWork Pioneer Place
700 SW Fifth Avenue Portland OR 97204
Join us for NewTech PDX on the 3rd Monday of every month. Portland has one of the most vibrant tech communities in the country, and the more we support our tech ecosystem, the more we’ll all experience and create together!
Join us to learn about the cool and amazing technologies being developed by Portland companies. Event volunteers are welcome! Let us know if you’d like to volunteer.
5:30 pm
Doors Open / Get to know your community
7:00 pm
Event Begins!
Community Announcements: Events, Jobs, etc. (20 seconds/ea)
8:30 pm
After-Party in the bar at Portland City Grill
Business Killers Workshop – How to Avoid the Top Seven Mistakes That Can Kill Your Business
Thursday May 24, 2018
9:00 am to 11:30 am
Summit Law Group, 315 5th Ave S #1000, Seattle, WA 98104
Join us for an exclusive intimate workshop to help you avoid the seven most crucial legal, tax and business operations mistakes that young companies make.
Who should attend:
Business Owners
Managers
Innovators
Entrepreneurs (first time or repeat)
Anyone contemplating a startup
According to Forbes, 8 out of 10 entrepreneurs who start businesses fail within the first 18 months, largely due to market-related issues and leadership and communication breakdowns.
You’ve got to have a great team and a profitable business model with the right market fit and timing. But you can’t be a success with good business fundamentals alone. You also must have your legal and financial house in order, or else a great business could turn into a complete disaster very quickly. Attend this workshop to learn about how to get it right the first time and avoid the big legal, tax and accounting mistakes that can cause businesses to fail.
You know the old adage, Get It Right the First Time. Starting off right is a critical success factor for startups and emerging businesses. Whether your company is in it’s very early stages or a few years down the road, you can learn what to do and not do based on expert experience rather than your own experiences of trial and error.
Frankly, it takes many more of your scarce resources to fix a mistake than to head it off. When you make a poor decision that results from incorrect assumptions or inadequate information—well, some things you may never totally recover from.
For young companies, the right accounting and legal firms can be strategic members of your team to avoid being blindsided by circumstances that put your company in jeopardy.
At this workshop you’ll learn from the experts at Summit Law and Bader Martin, firms with the experience and bandwidth to help address the most significant threats these companies face. These firms will share real-life war stories of how they’ve had to bail out companies that didn’t know what to do to prevent problems that later plagued their businesses.
To realize business success, you need clear goals and plans to achieve them. But you also need to protect your downside and mitigate risks. This is part of your duties to your investors, creditors and employees.
With the help of strategic legal and accounting advisors, you can prepare your business to weather the storms. Our panel, made up of seasoned practitioners, will give you the basics of what you can do now to avoid business failure. You’ll discover how to avoid:
Choosing the wrong type of entity for your business
Beginning with the end in mind
Choosing an LLC, partnership, S or C corporation
Hitting fundraising and funding pitfalls that can end your business
Keeping bad records and missing the records that matter most
Not understanding the rules for state sales taxes, and if you’re subject to them
Not filing tax returns or filing incorrect or incomplete returns
Not understanding, or running afoul of, the rules for hiring and firing people
Not getting the proper protection for your Intellectual Property beyond Non-Disclosure Agreements and patents
Not following “best practices” policies and procedures
Keeping poor, inadequate or erroneous financial or accounting records
Having enforceable written agreements in place with vendors, suppliers, employees, & contractors
Ensuring data privacy
Building diversity and inclusion in your teams and culture
Preventing sexual harassment
Not protecting your company against potential legal, tax and business threats
Getting appropriate insurance coverage
Making the wrong tax elections for your federal returns
Understanding applicable regulatory requirements
Agenda
9:00am – 9:30am Registration / Networking / Continental Breakfast
9:30am – 11:30am Interactive panel discussion with Bader Martin and Summit Law
Speakers
Peter Ku (Partner, Summit Law)
Andy Shawber (Partner, Summit Law)
David Stiefel (Principal, BaderMartin PS)
Scott Usher (Principal, Bader Martin PS)
Don’t take a chance on your business failing because of the issues that you don’t know that you don’t know yet. Discover in two hours what would normally take you two months to research and learn. Grab your ticket today and meet professionals who can increase your companies chances of success tomorrow!
Tuesday July 11, 2018
5:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Ticket Information Below
Court House Square
(formerly Post Hall – the room with blue and purple lights on the 4th floor NW corner of the post office)
1102 A St #450, Tacoma, WA 98402
Directions: From 705, take A Street Exit. The Post Office building will be located 2 blocks north on the left. It’s the room with the blue and purple lights if you’re looking at the building from A Street. Enter the building at the main post office A Street Entrance and then start walking to your left heading South. Take the South stairwell/elevator to 4th floor to The Ballroom.
5:30 pm
Doors open, get to know your community!
6:30 pm
Event begins
Community connections
Community shoutouts
Company Presentations:
TBA
8:00 pm
After-party at En Rama, 1102 A St Suite 220, Tacoma, WA 98402
Want to sponsor this event? Contact us!
Thursday – July 19th, 2018
at Galvanize, 111 S Jackson St, Seattle, WA 98104
Parking Map
Want to have an employer recruiting table at this event?
Contact us at newtechjobfair.com
THIS IS YOUR KIND OF JOB FAIR!
If you’ve ever been to a New Tech Northwest event and experienced our vibrant community, then you already know that this is going to be a great job fair. Grab an early ticket!
You’ll benefit from meeting companies of all sizes hiring IT professionals, UX + UI designers, data scientists, front end developers, back end developers, graphic designers, database administrators, product managers, project managers, full stack engineers, mobile developers, Python programmers, JavaScript programmers, Ruby programmers, Java programmers, social media professionals, sales professionals, marketing professionals, and more.
Job fair ticket time slots indicate what time you can arrive. No matter which slot you sign up for, you can stay until the END of the event.
Agenda
4:00 PM – Registration Check-in begins – Event Opens; please come to registration at the hour you sign up for to ensure a flow of everyone getting in without having a long wait in line.
7:00 PM – Event Closes.
** FEATURED JOBS **
TBA
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