Colorado Tech Weekly #300: The Last Colorado Tech Weekly Post on ScottPantall.com

Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local tech events every Monday morning!

Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local tech events every Monday morning!

This is the last Colorado Tech Weekly post on ScottPantall.com! If you’re getting Colorado Tech Weekly by email, you shouldn’t have to do anything to continue to get Colorado Tech Weekly. However if you subscribe by RSS, you’ll have to subscribe to the new Colorado Tech Weekly RSS Feed to continue to get Colorado Tech Weekly in your RSS reader. All of this can be found on the new ColoradoTechWeekly.com!

ColoradoTechWeekly.com will continue to deliver the top 10 technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local tech events every Monday morning delivered by email, RSS and on the website. It will also include some new additions:

Features that highlight different tech businesses, regions, organizations and people.
The ability to add more contributors!
An option for daily news emails for Patreon subscribers.
Quarterly guides for Patreon subscribers.
Oh, a Colorado Tech Weekly Patreon to help grow and maintain the Colorado tech community! Check out the Patreon page for more plans and dreams for Colorado Tech Weekly!

ScottPantall.com will continue to be a home for my personal projects and my plan is to post more original content based on my own experiences learning and using technology.

Have a great week!

Top Colorado Technology News

Denver-based NextHealth Technologies announces $17M growth equity investment to continue market expansion [NextHealth]
Broomfield’s TermScout files Chapter 7 bankruptcy [BizWest]
Boulder-based Zayo responds to activist investor requests for sale [BizWest]
Scaling company culture with Emma Bindbeutel, Director of People Operations at Denver’s Choozle [Choozle]
Denver’s Pie Insurance lands $45M Series B, will double staff [ColoradoInno]
Denver-based Cloud Elements raises $25M to expand software and grow team [ColoradoInno]
From Madrid to Boulder: Insights for international relocation and growth from Boulder’s Teltoo [ColoradoInno]
EVOTEK expands cybersecurity presence in Denver, adds Matt Shufeldt as Chief Information Security Officer [EVOTEK]
DispatchHealth expands leadership team, announces two new hires [DispatchHealth]
Voting Opens for Colorado Inno’s Tech Madness [ColoradoInno]

Top Upcoming Events

3/13 – Denver Artificial Intelligence – Discover how Ibotta is using ML to help you find what you really want [Denver]
3/13 – Denver Java Users Group – Jim Manico: API/Webservice/REST Security [Denver]
3/13 – Women in Data Science (WiDS) – Gobal Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference Satellite Event [Boulder]
3/13 – Boulder Ruby Group – Monthly Presentation Night with Joe Minock and Ara Howard [Boulder]
3/13 – IoT Colorado Meetup – Building Relationships w/ The Gov: Setting a Course for Success in Industry 4.0 [Denver]
3/14 – BuiltinColorado – Built In Brews at Prologis [Denver]
3/14 – New Tech Colorado – Cannabis Tech Companies at New Tech Boulder [Boulder]
3/18 – Hispanics and Technology – Victor Perez: From Chapter 11 to Billion Dollar Powerhouse to VC Backed IoT Startup [Denver]
3/18 – Boulder WordPress Meetup – What do website owners need to know about the WordPress database [Boulder]
3/19 – Denver Droids – S.O.L.I.D. Principles by Stefen Benton [Denver]

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Colorado Tech Weekly #296: Webroot Gets Acquired and Colorado Tech Continues to Grow

Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local tech events every Monday morning!

Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local tech events every Monday morning!

I’ve been doing this series for almost 5 years and in that time the already thriving Colorado tech community has continued unprecedented growth. When I started at Infinicept, we had 5 employees and when we went out for a company lunch on Friday we went with 23 people!

It would be really easy for me to take our growth for granted but it is important that we not only stay humble about our growth but also that we do so responsibly and with kindness.

Only 4 more Colorado Tech Weekly posts will be on ScottPantall.com. Starting on March 11 (if I’ve done my math correctly) you’ll be able to find them on the new and improved ColoradoTechWeekly.com.

Have a great week!

Top Colorado Technology News

Carbonite to acquire Broomfield’s Webroot for $618.5M [BizWest]
EVS shuffles exec team [BizWest]
Goodbye WorldView-4? Our perspective on the recent Westminster-based Maxar announcement [apollomapping]
Tech’s impact on Denver — A budding scene [InnovatioNews]
Shattering the cybersecurity glass ceiling at the
Air Force Association’s CyberPatriot youth cybersecurity competition in Arvada [YourHub]
Centennial’s proposed Amazon HQ2 site actively marketed for commercial development [DBJ]
Broomfield’s SpotX partners with The Trade Desk for its Unified ID Solution [SpotX]
Denver-based Ping announces updates to its software products [InnovatioNews]
Denver’s Mersive debuts Solstice 4.0 and the Next Generation hardware platform [Mersive]
Our Biggest Year Yet: Colorado Springs-based Titan Robotics gears up for 2019 Expos [TitanRobotics]

Top Upcoming Events

2/13 – Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade – UK and Netherlands Trade Mission Info Session: IT, FinTech, Cybersecurity, and Blockchain [Denver]
2/13 – Denver Java Users Group – Josh Long and Matt Raible: Full Stack Reactive with Spring WebFlux and React [Denver]
2/13 – Denver Software Architects – Denver Software Architecture: Matthew Bonig discusses Docker and Dev/Ops [Denver]
2/13 – Boulder Ruby Group – Performance Profiling for Fun and Profit by Josh Thompson and Set Theory and Cleaner Code by Ricky Ng [Boulder]
2/13 – Refresh Denver – Inducing Ethics: How to Regulate the Internet [Denver]
2/13 – Denver DevOps Meetup – Fear of the unknown in DevOps: Brain dump of lessons from ASG’s Elastic Journey [Denver]
2/13 – Thinkful – APIs: CRUD, REST, and Other Buzzwords [Denver]
2/18 – Hispanics and Technology – I need new skills!!! Which route? Traditional, coding or what?… [Denver]
2/18 – Boulder WordPress Meetup – Improve Your Website Speed with a Couple Simple Tools [Boulder]
2/19 – Denver Droids – WTF is A11y? by Lora Kulm [Denver]

Thank you for reading!

If you know of any other good news stories or sources about tech in Colorado or if you have any news stories or opinions of your own about Colorado tech, email me at COTechWeekly@Gmail.com (where I will actually read them now!).

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Colorado Tech Weekly #291: Every Kind of Technology

Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local tech events every Monday morning!

Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local tech events every Monday morning!

I like when there’s a trend in the tech news or a subject that I can focus on here before delivering the Colorado tech news that I find interesting. But I also really like it when there’s no theme because it shows how much is covered by our tech community! I noticed this especially in the upcoming events. It’s really cool that you can find an event for every kind of tech interest in Colorado!

Speaking of events, I’ll be at the Develop Happy Hour tomorrow night and I’ve made it a point to participate more in the Denver Devs Slack so please say “Hi!”

Here’s your reminder that Colorado Tech Weekly #300 will be the last Colorado Tech Weekly post on ScottPantall.com. Look forward to the new and improved ColoradoTechWeekly.com and have a great week!

Top Colorado Technology News

Denver-based Ping Identity expands leadership team with two new veteran executives [InnovatioNews]
Douglas County’s Dish Network wants to improve TV ads by analyzing your emotions [DBJ]
Boulder company Alpine Media Technology LLC creates chairlift information system [BizWest]
Westminster’s Maxar incorporates in U.S. [BizWest]
Colorado’s internet of roads is a go. Soon cars will “talk” to signs and traffic signals [ColoradoSun]
New year new career? These 25 Denver tech companies have big hiring plans in 2019 [DBJ]
Douglas County’s Dish Network to double down on ‘huge gamble’ a narrowband IoT network [DBJ]
Boulder-based Double Helix Optics raises $1.4 million in capital [BizWest]
Denver’s Catalyst HTI adds Canadian mediation headband company, Muse, to campus [InnovatioNews]
Boulder-based Simple Energy expects to double revenue and help you cut back on energy [DBJ]

Top Upcoming Events

1/9 – Denver Java Users Group – Moving beyond REST: GraphQL and Java with Pratik Patel [Denver]
1/9 – GDG Denver – Machine Learning with TensorFlow by Googler David Chandler [Denver]
1/9 – Boulder Ruby Group – Monthly Presentation Night: Lessons From React and Dive Into Kubernetes [Boulder]
1/9 – Boulder Python – Brandon Rhodes [Boulder]
1/9 – Denver DevOps Meetup – Topic Kubernetes: Adding Operational Magic to Your Clusters Using Reckoner [Denver]
1/10 – BuiltinColorado – Built In Brews at Convercent [Denver]
1/10 – North Denver Metro C++ Meetup – C++: A Beginner’s Easiest, Most Powerful, And Most Obvious Language [Broomfield]
1/14 – Angular Boulder – Building Progressive Web Apps with Angular! (by Patrick Armentrout) [Boulder]
1/15 – Denver Droids – Coroutines: Kotlin’s Flexible Async Approach [Denver]
1/15 – Denver Cloud Security Alliance Meetup – Brian Hileman: Are your cloud servers under attack? [Denver]

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Colorado Tech Weekly #282: My Daughter Knows More About Quizlet Than I Do And GO VOTE!

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The startup I work for (I keep wanting to say “My company” but I don’t want people to think I’m in charge) is hiring for a front-end engineer/designer, a full stack .NET engineer and a software implementation engineer. Infinicept is a very small company so we don’t have a single person to do recruiting and hiring, we just have us and it’s made me appreciate what work is done by a good “people person”. It’s also a great place to work (although I’m admittedly biased)!!

Tomorrow is Election Day so please make sure your vote counts!! Democracy works best for those who show up and if we all show up, it works better for us all.

Just as I was finishing up this post, my 14 year old daughter came home and asked if there was any interesting tech news this week. I find the tech news interesting every week or else I wouldn’t do this but considering she’s a 14 year old girl I wasn’t sure if she would find any of it interesting. I told her about Propeller cuz they’re a drone company and told her about PlayerLync because their early clients were professional sports teams. Then I told her about Quizlet bringing employment to Denver because I like bragging about that. “Oh! We use Quizlet all the time!” she said excitedly. It’s one of the tools her teachers encourage her to use. I had never heard of Quizlet before this week, so it’s neat that even though I spend much of my time reading about the tech industry, I can still have my knowledge humbled by my daughter.

Have a great week!

Top Colorado Technology News

Why Advanced Energy is moving 100 management employees to Denver [DBJ]
Quizlet online learning platform’s new Denver office could bring 300 jobs paying average annual wage of $156K [DenverPost]
Westminster-based Coalfire partners with Virta Labs to enhance medical device security [InnovatioNews]
CU Denver is Colorado’s only CIBER school. Here’s what that means for business. [DBJ]
Drone software company Propeller settling into Denver headquarters with plans to grow [DBJ]
Douglas County’s Arrow Electronics posts record Q3 earnings on sales of $7.49B [DBJ]
Denver-based Platte River Networks acquires Allen Technology Advising [PlatteRiverNetworks]
After CDOT attack Colorado CTO talks layers of defense [GovTech]
Denver’s PlayerLync receives $12.5M in new growth funding led by Volition Capital [InnovatioNews]
Boulder-based JumpCloud’s accelerating growth requires additional office space in Boulder [JumpCloud]

Top Upcoming Events

11/7 – Analyze Boulder – Mobile Game Analytics, Transfer Learning and Dogs, PacMan On-Steroids
11/7 – CTA – APEX Awards
11/7 – Denver Modern Web – Building APIs with GraphQL and AWS
11/7 – Denver Python Meetup – Working Through W3Resource Python Exercises
11/7 – GDG Denver – Polymer 3.0 with Michael Fons
11/8 – New Tech Colorado – New Tech Boulder: Weiser Campaign, FusionAuth and GeoSure
11/12 – Boulder WordPress Meetup – Questions to ask clients before starting a new web project
11/13 – Boulder Java Users Group – Mary Grygleski: Enterprise Hybrid Mobile App with a Cloud Native Backend
11/13 – Denver Droids – Jet into Android Navigation by Krista Horn
11/13 – South Colorado .NET User Group – Progressive Presents: Debugging Your Website with Fiddler and Chrome

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Colorado Tech Weekly #278: Reflecting on Success and Creating More

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We are constantly trying to create more success. It’s to the point that many of us measure success just as a measure of change. If you are just as successful today as you were last year, many people don’t see that as successful and that sucks!

We spend so much time trying to be better than we are now, we often forget to celebrate our current successes. Take some time and celebrate the history of yourself, your company and your community and have a great week!

Top Colorado Technology News

Broomfield’s Conga prepares for growth with three strategic hires [InnovatioNews]
Fort Collins-based BillGO expands to new office space [BillGO]
Denver ethics software maker Convercent moves into new RiNo office, pushes toward $100M revenue goal (Photos) [DBJ]
Fort Collins company DataSplice sold to Prometheus [BizWest]
Boulder-based LogRhythm receives patent for data monitoring tech [InnovatioNews]
Denver health-tech startup Sopris Health raises $3.4 million to expand AI app [DBJ]
Inside the meteoric rise of Fort Collins-born Radar Relay [BizWest]
Boulder’s JumpCloud adds two new experienced exec hires [InnovatioNews]
Denver-based Ibotta’s 6th Birthday: Milestones & Celebrations [Ibotta]
Boulder’s Kickfurther wins $500,000 in startup competition [BizWest]

Top Upcoming Events

10/10 – Denver JUG – Practicing to be Perfect and Introduction to Slice Testing
10/10 – Denver IASA – How to choose a database: Introduction to transactions with Jim Fulton
10/10 – Refresh Denver – Advanced Intelligent Deep Artificial Neural Machine Robot Learning Network
10/11 – Denver Mesos User Group – Azure Cloud: Flexibility, Ease and Choice with DC/OS
10/11 – Rocky Mountain Angular – 😱🔥I’m Not Ready for NgRx! 🔥😱
10/11 – Denver DevOps Meetup – Two presentations on DevSecOps and SRE!
10/16 – Mile High Azure User’s Group – Our journey to the cloud. Real-life move to Azure
10/16 – Denver Droids – The Lean QA by Kelly Shuster
10/16 – Thinkful Denver – Intro to Python: Build a Predictive Model
10/12-10/14 – Maker Faire Denver

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Colorado Tech Weekly #274: Tech is Taking Over Denver

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Growth, expansion, buy-outs, acquisitions. These words have been constant in the Colorado tech community for last the past 5 years and it doesn’t show any sign of stopping. Denver especially has been seeing a lot of growth in tech companies and jobs. Will Denver become known as a tech city in the same way we think of San Francisco or Seattle? OR are we so excited to talk about exciting growth in an exciting field that we’re losing focus on other great industries in Denver? Or maybe a little bit of both.

Have a great week!

Top Colorado Technology News

From Rockets to Jams, SCAPE highlights its latest round of entrepreneurs [DurangoTelegraph]
New Colorado law shows ‘stakes are higher’ for businesses dealing with consumer data [DBJ]
Boulder tech firm JumpCloud growing headcount to 150 with $10M in latest funding [DBJ]
The tech industry is taking over downtown Denver’s office space [Denverite]
Inside the new Choozle office in Denver [Choozle]
Denver-based Silvernest, a startup that connects seniors with a roommate, raises $3 million [DBJ]
Colorado “war games” tests election preparedness [ColoradoPolitics]
Denver-based credit union fintech startup CULedger raises $8.5 million [DBJ]
Downtown Denver keeps up tech momentum as Xero celebrates opening Americas’ HQ on Platte Street [DenverPost]
Loveland to host broadband meetings [BizWest]

Top Upcoming Events

9/12 – Colorado Data Science – End-To-End GPU Computing For Machine Learning [Denver]
9/12 – Denver Java Users Group – Marcus Hellberg: Building modern web apps in Java [Denver]
9/12 – Refresh Denver – Combating Chaos with Campaign-Driven Development [Denver]
9/15 – Denver SQL User Group – SQLSaturday [Denver]
9/15 – TechGirlz – Women in Tech Summit West [Denver]
9/13 – North Denver Metro C++ Meetup – Secure Coding Best Practices: Threat Modeling [Broomfield]
9/18 – Built In Colorado – Built In Colorado’s Top Companies Hiring [Denver]
9/18 – Denver Droids – Getting Started With Flutter by Nick Harris [Denver]
9/18 – Mile High Azure User’s Group – Containers, Microservices, DevOps in Azure [Denver]
9/18 – React Denver – Deploying React Apps and Deliberate Practice [Denver]

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Colorado Tech Weekly #271: Colorado Tech Is Booming, But We Still Need More “Talent”

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When I started going back to school for my computer science degree 5 years ago, Colorado had a small but thriving inclusive tech community. Today we has a large and thriving inclusive tech community that is still growing! Denver and Boulder share the spotlight, but, like we see with the headlines this week, other Colorado areas are also growing and in need of talented workers.

This tempts me to get on a soapbox about “talented workers” but I’ll keep it short. There is a line between being unable to find talented workers for a role and having expectations that are too high for a role. If you are constantly unable to find someone to fit your role, could your expectations be too high? Can you train someone to fit this role? This is not an easy line to define. If I knew how to accurately define where this line exists, I’d be a very well off consultant but I think it’s worth thinking about.

Have a great week!

Top Colorado Technology News

Denver-based Wazee Digital to be acquired by Veritone [InnovatioNews]
Denver’s Greystone Gives Back: Filling backpacks for A Precious Child [Greystone]
Cybersecurity industry booming in Springs, but worker shortage remains [KOAA]
Denver-based AdSwerve acquires Seattle firm for $24 million [DBJ]
Talent acquisition, security breaches weigh on NoCo tech CEOs [BizWest]
Gusto hiring up to 100 in Denver, growing office faster than San Francisco HQ [DBJ]
Xerox spinoff to lay off 410 employees in Colorado Springs, continuing trend of cutting jobs in Colorado [DenverPost]
5 steps to change your career and transition into tech [CodingBlonde]
Denver’s Red Canary and Endgame announce partnership [RedCanary]
Westminster-based DigitalGlobe co-founds and leads new World Geospatial Industry Council [InnovatioNews]

Top Upcoming Events

8/22 – GDG Denver – Programming Google Home, a FREE Build Actions for your Community event (Denver)
8/22 – WomenWhoCode – Annual End of Summer Social
8/23 – CiGDA – Casual Northside / Boulder Game Makers
8/23 – Denver Code Club – Modern Microservices: Building Applications
8/23 – New Tech Colorado – Pitch Night (Colorado Springs)
8/27 – Angular Boulder – How to Add End-to-End Encryption to Your Angular App
8/27 – Denver Vue.js Meetup – Lightning Talk and Work Night
8/27 – Mile High Gophers – Gophercon Pre-Party Meetup
8/28 – Denver Droids – Say Hello to Android Things 1.0 by Dave Smith
8/28 – PySprings – Project Night: GitHub Tutorial, Badge System [snack provided]

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Colorado Tech Weekly #265: TECHNOLOGY IS MADE OF PEOPLE!!!

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When interacting with technology and companies it is very easy to get lost in the names of products and titles. However the harder you look, the more you realize that most tech companies are mostly just about a dozen people who believe in each other. That’s it.

Industry groups, companies, conferences, even meetups are nothing without the people who make them happen.

Celebrate the people around you and have a great week!

Top Colorado Technology News

Rabbit Hole brings cool maker tech to new Louisville escape room [MakerBoulder]
Private equity giant closes deal for Boulder cybersecurity company LogRhythm [DBJ]
New eCommerce platform joins Boulder-based ShipCompliant’s certified partner program [ShipCompliant]
After a most unusual start, Denver health IT company access.moble charts U.S. growth [DBJ]
Westminster-based DigitalGlobe appoints Mike Edwards as VP for defense [InnovatioNews]
TiVo CEO is bolting after 8 months to join Denver-based Liberty Global [DBJ]
Deloitte exec: Why Denver is poised for blockchain growth, especially for certain sectors [DBJ]
Douglas County-based Western Union patent application mentions cryptocurrency, biometric verification [DBJ]
Boulder-based Inovonics Engineer, Christian Huber, dies during high-alpine climb in Pakistan [Inovonics]
Colorado tech raised over $101M in June. Here are the top 5 rounds [BuiltinColorado]

Top Upcoming Events

7/11 – Denver Software Architects – Design and usage of containers and orchestration (Docker and Kubernetes)
7/12 – COVR – Create your first (simple) VR application
7/14 – Bootcampers Collective <> Co-op for Jr. Devs – T-Mobile CODE vs. CODE ▪ Team Hackathon Competition
7/16 – Colorado Springs Open Source Meetup – Benefiting from Java 9 Improvements with Venkat Subramanium
7/17 – Colorado Product Meetup – User Interview Best Practices Workshop
7/17 – Denver Cloud Security Alliance Meetup – Threat Hunting with the Elastic Stack
7/17 – Denver Droids – Introduction to Mobile BAAS (Backend-As-A-Service)
7/17 – GraphQL Denver/Boulder – Hasura.io Co-Founder Tanmai Gopal Speaking on Postgres + GraphQL
7/17 – Mile High Azure User’s Group – Azure Notification Services
7/17-7/18 – Digital Summit Denver – Digital Marketing Conference

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Colorado Tech Weekly #261: Actively Creative People Are My Heroes

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This upcoming weekend is Denver Comic Con. It’ll be my 4th time going and I look forward to it every year. I am inspired every year to create more by talking with artists, authors and all the other creative people I find at DCC.

This weekend is marks the 5th anniversary of Colorado Tech Weekly! Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d be doing this for 5 years. It is beyond time for me to shake things up with this series and add some extra value Now I’ve found a bit of a groove with my new job maybe I can start making some of those changes soon.

Have a great week!

Top Colorado Technology News

Boulder’s Skyland Analytics names Joe Ruth company’s chief software architect [InnovatioNews]
Denver-based software firm Vendavo acquires Swedish company [DBJ]
Behind the CANVAS Cart: How this team embraces creativity to find new applications for its tech in Boulder [BuiltinColorado]
Denver-based Greystone makes the Denver Post Top Workplace list [GreystoneTech]
Fort Collins’ TurboTenant raises $2.2 million in equity offering [BizWest]
Software firm to the health-care industry, Apollo Enterprise Imaging Corp. expands to Fort Collins [BizWest]
SALT Lending nonprofit partners with Regis University to offer blockchain class [DBJ]
Louisville sustainable tech company, PrintReleaf, raises more than $400,000 in capital [BizWest]
Another banner year for the Secretary of State’s “Go Code Colorado” [SecretaryOfState]
Colorado tech raised over $100M in May. Here are the top 5 rounds [BuiltinColorado]

Top Upcoming Events

6/13 – Denver Java Users Group – Geoff Filippi: Spring 5 and Project Reactor
6/13 – WomenWhoCode – Interview Practice & Hack on Projects [Denver]
6/14 – Built In Colorado – Built In Brew at Convercent
6/14 – General Assembly – Inside the Design Studio: Effective
6/14 – West Denver Software Test Engineering Meetup – The Craftsmanship of Automated Software
6/16 – Women in Robotics – Sparkfun V.2018
6/19 – Denver Droids – Custom Drawing with Canvas (Kotlin Edition)
6/19 – General Assembly – Techtalks: Storytelling Skills
6/19 – Mile High Azure Users Group – In-Tune Auto-Pilot
6/19 – SIM Colorado – SIM Summer Jam

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Colorado Tech Weekly #256: I Officially Graduate with My Computer Science Degree… and Other News

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5 years ago I decided to pursue my dream of becoming a software developer and I sign up for my first 3 classes at Regis University. I took every class online while working more than full time as a police dispatcher. I sacrificed time with my family and friends and took classes year round doing homework whenever I could. I did homework at work, at home, while on vacation, in the early morning hours, late at night and all hours in between.

Today I went to the Regis University for the first time. The commencement ceremony was an excellent way to cap off my formal education. for me, my wife and my daughter because they also sacrificed a lot for me. It feels great to be so inspired and inspiring at the same time.

Have a great week!

Top Colorado Technology News

Denver’s Choozle snags #2 spot on Denver Post’s Top Workplaces 2018 [Choozle]
New CTO for Boulder smart home company MindHome [BizWest]
Drones take over Colorado Convention Center [DenverPost]
Boulder-based Misty Robotics announces new Misty II personal robot [InnovatioNews]
Nonprofit Cyber Institute opens new cyber paths for minorities in Pueblo and Colorado Springs [CSBJ]
Boulder’s Zayo misses on earnings for third quarter; COO resigns [BizWest]
A stupefying array of activity for Boulder Startup Week 2018 [Name.com]
Colorado tech raised over $400M in April. Check out the top 5 rounds [BuiltinColorado]
5 Colorado tech companies on why they didn’t leave culture up to chance [BuiltinColorado]
Dream bigger: 7 Colorado tech companies where opportunity awaits [BuiltinColorado]

Top Upcoming Events

5/9 – Big Data for Business – Elasticsearch and Kibana with Hadoop
5/9 – Denver Java User Group – David Blevins: Deconstructing and Evolving REST Security
5/9 – Denver Software Architecture – Scaling serverless architecture with Andrew Puch
5/9 – Refresh Denver – Scot Pryzbylski, Design Director at Notion: Measuring The User Experience
5/9 – WomenWhoCode – Denver WomenWhoGo: MySQL and Go
5/10 – Bootcampers Collective – Careers & Beers: Transition in the Tech Industry
5/12 – Colorado Game Developers Association + AR/VR Group – Summer 2018 Chillfest Colorado Video Games BBQ
5/14 – Code for Denver – Showing of CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap
5/15 – Denver Droids – WTF is an SVG?
5/15 – Mile High Azure User’s Group – Azure Kubernetes

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