Colorado Tech Weekly #280: Combine Companies? Move Offices? Still Colorado!

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Undeniably, the biggest news in Colorado tech last week was the purchase of Denver’s SendGrid by San Fransisco-based Twilio. The immediate reaction is to question the future of SendGrid in Denver and wonder “What does this purchase mean for Colorado?” in very concerned ways.

There’s no reason for concern. When this series started 5 years ago, Rally Software and Quickleft were staples of the Boulder startup community. Now Rally is part of the much bigger CA Technologies and QuickLeft is part of Cognizant and both still have their offices here and I’d bet that those offices are bigger and more stable for their employees. Change is part of growth and growth has been a constant part of our community for the past 5 years. Denver Startup Week was not a smoke-blowing session. Colorado is attracting talent and attention from all over the world.

Enjoy and have a great week!

Top Colorado Technology News

Colorado Springs on front lines of cyber Cold War with Russia [Colorado Politics]
Allen Technology merges with Denver’s Platte River Networks [PlatteRiverNetworks]
HomeAdvisor expands HQ lease in RiNo ahead of moving in [BusinessDen]
Denver fintech platform, FIMAC Solutions LLC, acquired by Birmingham cybersecurity firm [DBJ]
Fort Collins BillGo acquires Prism [BizWest]
Colorado Springs-based Cherwell has big plans to grow Denver office after hiring former Travelocity CEO [DBJ]
Breckenridge OKs $8 million to build town-owned fiber optic network [SummitDaily]
New COO and CFO for Fort Collins’ TurboTenant [BizWest]
Broomfield-based Webroot launches VPN product [BizWest]
Denver’s SendGrid remains ‘committed’ to Denver after $2 billion buyout [DBJ]

Top Upcoming Events

10/24 – Denver WordPress Meetup – WordPress + Gatsby + Netlify == Continuous Deployment [Denver]
10/24 – coloradoSprings.js – Serverless Javascript Web Applications with Machine Learning [ColoradoSprings]
10/24 – Rocky Mountain Software Craftsmanship – Domain Driven Design: Event Storming Workshop [Denver]
10/24 – UX Book Club Denver – Orchestrating Experiences: Collaborative Design for Complexity [Denver]
10/24 – Mile High Gophers – Go 1.11 Modules [Denver]
10/25 – Boulder/Denver BigData Meetup – LogRhythm’s Road to Cloud Analytics [Boulder]
10/28 – CiGDA – 2018 Halloween Party [Denver]
10/29 – Denver Visual Studio User Group – Discussing the Future of the Group [Denver]
10/30 – DenverScript – Stop trying to make `await` a thing with Dan Levy [Denver]
10/30 – Thinkful Denver – Getting Started in Data Science [Denver]

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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 #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 #260: Read All These Stories. Consider All These Events

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There are some weeks where I find a theme in the stories I share. There are other weeks where I just rant about something else before presenting the headlines. This week I’m not sure what to do so read all these stories and consider going to as many of these events as you can because I can’t decide.

Have a great week!

Top Colorado Technology News

Colorado governor signs law requiring more protection of consumer data [DBJ]
PAIRIN and Skillful, two Denver-based companies, announce partnership to increase competency-based hiring [PAIRIN]
Boulder’s Boomtown seeks applicants for health-tech accelerator [BizWest]
Denver-based Choozle is one of Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces 2018 [Choozle]
Boulder’s Redeam Inc. hires new chief executive as company grows [BizWest]
“Data is the new asphalt”: High-tech Colorado road test to be first of its kind in the U.S., may improve traffic and save lives [DenverPost]
Innovation Pavilion CEO resigns amid sexual assault allegations, claims relationships consensual [DBJ]
Boulder cybersecurity firm LogRhythm acquired as it heads into next growth phase [DenverPost]
Enginursday: Boulder Bounces [SparkFun]
Breaking barriers: How 4 Colorado companies are taking an active approach to diversity [BuiltinColorado]

Top Upcoming Events

6/6 – Colorado Data Science – Day In the Life of a Data Scientist: Panel Discussion
6/6 – Denver Modern Web – Pain Free D3 Integration with Matt Wheeler and Michael Gutierrez
6/6 – GDG Denver – All About Flutter
6/7 – Colorado Virtual Reality – Inspired by VR (and AR, MR, or XR)
6/7 – Denver Women in Tech – Giving Yourself Permission to be a Leader
6/7 – Go Code Colorado – Final Competition Event 2018
6/8 – CTA – Women in Technology Conference
6/11 – CiGDA – Northside Casual Game Makers
6/12 – Front Range UXPA – UX Mega-Meetup: A Panel on the State of User Experience
6/12 – Rocky Mountain Angular – Modeling Redux State

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Colorado Tech Weekly #169: Startups, EdTech and Cybersecurity

Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local tech events every Monday morning (Unless it’s a holiday, hope you had a great Labor Day)!

I could rename Colorado Tech Weekly “Startups, EdTech and Cybersecurity Weekly” but that’s a little long. We could even have multiple newsletters! Tech is a big tent. There could be a Colorado Startup Weekly (there was for a few weeks a long time ago), a Colorado EdTech Weekly, a Colorado Cybersecurity Weekly. Then there’s IoT, aerospace, biotech, gamedev and probably at least 5 other Colorado tech communities that could support a weekly newsletter. It’s awesome!

Speaking of weeks, next week is Denver Startup Week which has turned into a great big deal. I’ll be there on Tuesday and I look forward to meeting you in the real world. Have a great week!

Top Colorado Technology News

Stryd: Heck yeah, we’re from Boulder [DenverPost]
Broomfield’s Level 3 warns of internet ‘attack of things;’ your cameras, DVRs are at risk [DBJ]
4 Colorado companies advocating for causes they care about [BuiltinColorado]
Boulder-based LogRhythm captures $50M to continue fighting cybercrime [BuiltinColorado]
ITT Tech stops enrolling new students after feds shut off financial aid [DenverPost]
From game nights to Fitbits, here are 6 Colorado companies’ wellness initiatives [BuiltinColorado]
Denver’s Ibotta leads the way to the app-to-app economy [DBJ]
PC magazine ranks Longmont third nationally for internet speeds [BizWest]
5th annual — and still free — Denver Startup Week getting ready to start Sept. 12 [DenverPost]
Colorado adds academic spokes to existing cybersecurity hub [DenverPost]

Top Upcoming Events

9/7 – Colorado CMS Meetup – Drupal Commerce
9/7 – General Assembly – Developer Showcase
9/7 – Women Who Code – Denver: Networking and Security w/ Jaqueline Ta
9/8 – Denver Hack Nite – Denver Hack Nite!
9/8 – General Assembly – Techstars Alumni: The Good, the Bad, and What Happened Next
9/8 – Women Who Code – JavaScript Study Group
9/12 – UX Happy Hour in Denver – Startup Week! The Experience of Virtual Realities Talk/Happy Hour
9/13 – BDNT – New Tech Fort Collins
9/13 – BuiltinColorado – Built In Brews at OnDeck: Denver Startup Week Edition
9/13 – Women in Tech Hike: Denver Startup Week Edition

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Colorado Tech Weekly #152: Finding Opportunities in Colorado is Easy

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Finding opportunities is easy. Taking advantage of opportunities? That’s the difficult part.

With achievement of my degree within sight and a few projects completed it is time for me to take job searching seriously. Last night I started trying to figure out how to get paid for doing something I love. I looked at a few online job postings but this does not seem like a good strategy considering the network of awesome people I’ve cultivated in the last 152 weeks. Then there’s the question of “What is a good strategy?” Should I put my head down and charge at a dream job or should I keep my eye out for other software developer jobs? My heart wants to go for the dream job but my heart also really wants to get out of this job so I can work as a developer full time as soon as possible!

If you have any job searching advice, I’d love to hear it. If you just have a job offer, I’d love to hear that even more!

Top Colorado Technology News

Denver Tech Center-based cable company, WOW! Internet, Cable & Phone, says it raised $40M [DBJ]
Boulder’s Zayo cuts 21 jobs as growth and and acquisitions created redundancies [DenverPost]
Denver-based Wayin gets new CEO after acquiring UK’s EngageSciences [Tech+]
7 key players in Colorado’s cybersecurity industry [BuiltinColorado]
Break up with your bad job: 7 Colorado companies hiring this month [BuiltinColorado]
Colorado Springs tech storage firm, X-IO Technologies, closes facility, cuts 107 workers [DenverPost]
AT&T’s pledge to hire more veterans for tech jobs in Colorado [Tech+]
Your guide to making the most of Boulder Startup Week [BuiltinColorado]
6 drastic changes some companies are making to lure tech workers [DenverPost]
Bootcamps Vs. Traditional Education: My experience as a new woman in tech [CodeCraft]

Top Upcoming Events

5/11 – CTA – 101 Luncheon
5/11 – Denver Java User Group – Introduction to Reactive
5/11 – Refersh Denver – Eric Martinez: Best Practices That Aren’t and Knowing When to Break the Rules
5/11 – WomenWhoCode – Boulder: Firebase Apps & Twitter Backend Message Processing
5/11-5/12 – The Rocky Mountain Information Security Conference
5/12 – BuiltinColorado – Built In Brews at LogRhythm
5/12 – Galvanize – Learn to Code: Intro to HTML/CSS and Web Basics
5/13-5/14 – iOS Dev Camp Colorado
5/14 – GirlDevelopIt Boulder – Intermediate HTML/CSS & Intro to Responsive
5/16 – BDNT – New Tech Boulder Featuring Techstars 2016 teams

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Colorado Tech Weekly #133: Is ‘I don’t know’ a valid prediction?

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I normally don’t put too much thought into what I write in these paragraphs before the headlines but since I promised predictions I should deliver. I’ve had a hard time figuring out what my predictions should be but I think I figured out a way to make sense of this. So without further ado (I’ve never been a fan of too much ado), my predictions for Colorado tech in 2016 in no particular order:

Dev school hype reaches its peak in 2016: I am in no way saying that dev schools are just hype. I think they’re great! I’ve seen many people in Colorado succeed because of dev schools and I watch them with envy while I plug away at my CS degree part time (only 2 year to go!). I’m just saying the hype and excitement around dev schools reaches crazy-pants levels next year.
The Internet of Things (IoT) sneaks into real life: There’s a funny thing about personal technology. It’s sold as this great, ground-breaking thing but it is always treated as something “in the future” that seems unreachable. Then one day you look around and that unreachable, ground-breaking technology is everywhere! That day will happen for IoT next year.
Cool, sexy tech like driverless cars, virtual reality and artificial intelligence improves but no one appreciates the improvements: Speaking of unreachable, ground-breaking technology, a lot has to happen for those promises to come to fruition. Next year there will be great improvements in these areas, but unless you’re following them closely you won’t really notice.
Colorado tech will see constant growth: Speaking of things we don’t notice (I’m getting pretty good at these transitions), the Colorado tech community will continue to grow at a steady pace. This is awesome but since we tune things out when they’re constant, people won’t really notice. I haven’t decided yet if that’s good or bad yet.

I have typed entirely too much here. Here’s the news. Happy new year!

Top Colorado Technology News

Boulder’s LogRhythm is finalist for two SC Magazine Awards [InnovatioNews]
Google-backed Gusto adds $22M more funding as it grows in Denver [DBJ]
Denver-based Faction doubles down on expansion After $6M round [Xconomy]
Englewood-based Cybergy Partners taps Terrence DiVittorio as new president and COO [InnovatioNews]
Boulder’s SolidFire being acquired for $870M in cash [DenverPost]
Colorado CIOs plan to add, fill tech jobs in 2016 [DBJ]
Tim Spark reviews his time at the Westminster-based DaVinci Coders Bootcamp [TimSpark]
Get to know Denver’s PaySimple better with an inside look at our culture [PaySimple]
Get to know Boulder-based Greystone by the numbers [GreystoneTech]
Yelp Security Head Joins Denver’s Gamma 2 Robotics’ Advisory Board [Gamma2Robotics]

Upcoming Events

1/4 – Code for Denver – Project Night in Colorado
1/5 – BDNT – New Tech Boulder Monthly Meetup
1/5 – CIGDA – January Game Developers Meeting
1/5 – Limn Interactive – Kick off 2016 with ZenPathz

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Colorado Tech Weekly #132: Zayo does good, FullContact makes a good purchase and I make good predictions!

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Last year I made 3 Colorado tech predictions for 2015, let’s see how i did (SPOILER ALERT: I did pretty good):

I predicted that WellTok gets some local competition in health tech and I NAILED IT! Check out the stories below about Catalyst and the interview with Tom Highley in the Confluence Denver article to see how well I nailed this one.
I predicted that Colorado’s information security industry doubles. Anytime you quantify a prediction, there’s a good chance you can’t prove you got it right. The information security industry has definitely grown in Colorado, but I can’t say if it doubled. 2014 saw the first big data breaches. I think 2015 is the year companies try to fix things themselves. I think 2016 will see a lot more of security companies providing more services to other companies. Security companies aren’t that loud so it’s hard to make good predictions about them. I generously give myself half credit.
I predicted that “The next big thing” comes out of Galvanize. I was thinking that a startup that got its start in Galvanize would make a big splash so in that regard, I got this wrong. However, Galvanize seemed to focus a lot more on developer education than startups. Developer boot camps are definitely a huge deal but I can’t give myself credit for getting this one right.

Next week look for my 2016 predictions! They will not be as nearly as expansive as FreeWave’s predictions in their article below.

Also speaking of spoilers, I have not seen the new Stars Wars yet. I’m going to see it tomorrow. I am very impressed and thankful for all the people I follow on Twitter who have seen the movie at least once and have not spoiled it for me. You all rock. Merry Christmas and may the force be with you!

Top Colorado Technology News

Boulder’s SolidFire receives three ‘Best in Biz Awards’ [InnovatioNews]
Denver cloud infrastructure firm Faction raises $6M [Tech+]
Boulder-based Zayo wins Colorado Governor’s Citizenship Medal [Zayo]
Meghan Saylor describes the 4 stages of a Flying Trapeze that is career change [QuickLeft]
An exclusive inside peek at 3 of Colorado tech’s most successful (and swankiest) offices [BuiltinColorado]
Boulder-based FreeWave Technologies makes bold predictions for IIoT in 2016 [FreeWave Technologies]
Denver’s Catalyst Health Tech Innovation adds two new tenants to its campus [InnovatioNews]
Denver-based contact management software maker FullContact buys Dallas’s nGame [Xconomy]
Denver’s Tech Gurus on the Top Startup Stories of 2015 [Confluence Denver]
Boulder-based LogRhythm appoints tech veteran Daniel Wilbricht to head federal sales [InnovatioNews]

Upcoming Events

12/25 – Christmas (There are no tech events between 12/23 and 12/29)

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Colorado Tech Weekly #105: 10-gigabit fiber in NoCo and more jobs and growth in Denver

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Tomorrow I celebrate the 2 year anniversary of the very first Colorado Tech Weekly! It still amazes me that I’ve been doing these posts every week for 2 years! The other crazy thing is that the tone of the news has been mostly the same: More jobs, more growth!

Top Colorado Technology News

Signs of growth abound at Denver digital software company Four Winds [DBJ]
Front Range Internet unveils 10-gigabit fiber network in Northern Colorado [BizWest]
EDC offers $7.8 million to two tech companies to expand in Denver area [DBJ]
Boulder places No. 3 on NerdWallet’s Best Places for STEM Grads list [InnovatioNews]
Denver job market among best in country for women [BuiltinColorado]
Colorado Springs-based Boecore and Summit Technical Solutions land big defense contract [DenverPost]
Denver startup Tectonic expands to New York City [DBJ]
Douglas County-based Dish Network said to be lining up loans to buy T-Mobile (Video) [DBJ]
Boulder’s LogRhythm appoints finance veteran Karen Blasing to directors board [InnovatioNews]
ViaWest to acquire Boulder-based AppliedTrust [BizWest]

Upcoming Events

6/17 – Hack Night – Famous and web sockets
6/17 – WomenWhoCode – Ruby Study Group
6/18 – BDNT – New Tech Denver
6/18 – BuiltinColorado – Built In Brews at CommercialTribe
6/18 – Colorado IAMCP – June Meeting
6/18 – Turing School – Community Night: Lightning Talk Edition
6/22 – HTML5 Denver – “A Tale of 3 Cities” and “Responsive Web Design and the Mobile Web”
6/23 – CTA – Gov-in-Tech: Exponential Technologies – Exponential Innovation
6/23 – Denver Visual Studios User Group – Knockout Fundamentals
6/23 – WomenWhoCode – Data Science Study Group: Pandas and Burritos

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Colorado Tech Weekly #102: Winning the Go Code Colorado Challenge, Visiting Denver Comic Con… Oh and Colorado Tech News

Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local tech events every Monday morning (Unless it’s a holiday. I hope you had a great Memorial Day)!

This past week has been amazing!! Thursday night my Go Code Colorado team, MentorMatter, was one of 3 teams that won a $25,000 contract with the State of Colorado. I worked as a developer on the team to create our site using the Meteor JavaScript framework. I had no prior knowledge of Meteor before the challenge so it was amazing to be able to re-familiarize myself with JavaScript, learn Meteor and contribute to the project all in less than a month. Phew!

This weekend my wife and I got to experience our first ever Comic Con at Denver Comic Con thanks to 2 passes I won from the CTA C-Level event (Thanks for that, by the way)! It was overwhelming, amazing, fun, crazy and amazing (yes, I know I said amazing twice). I loved that Denver Comic Con featured local game development companies and maker spaces with their own section. I would list them all, but I’m afraid I would leave some out. It was so inspiring talking to Colorado authors, artists and developers who get to make a living being creative everyday.

I could go on and on about the Go Code Colorado Challenge and Denver Comic Con and I probably will in separate blog posts, but you didn’t open this post to read about that so without further ado…

Top Colorado Technology News

Boulder’s Sphero launches new Darkside robot toy [InnovatioNews]
Hosting a summer intern? Join Colorado Technology Foundation’s cohort! [CTA]
6 awesome tech companies in Colorado you want to work for right now [BuiltinColorado]
Denver Comic Con exhibitor, Boulder-based Serenity Forge overcomes odds to mingle gaming with education (Slideshow) [DBJ]
5 job openings at Colorado tech startups that’ll exercise your creative muscles [BuiltinColorado]
Denver man hacked airliners but he can’t say what he’s learned (yet) [DBJ]
5 places anybody can learn to code in Colorado [BuiltinColorado]
Go Code Colorado awards three teams $25,000 contracts with Secretary of State [InnovatioNews]
Scott McNealy, founder of Sun Microsystems, takes the helm at Denver tech startup Wayin [DBJ]
Denver’s Welltok acquires Predilytics to enhance health analytics [InnovatioNews]

Upcoming Events

5/28 – CommercialTribe – QA Night
5/28 – Fort Collins Startup Week – Talent Collision/Job Fair
5/28 – IPSO Alliance – CHALLENGE 2015 Brainstorming Hackathon
5/28 – WomenWhoCode – Java Study Group
5/30 – Turing Community Events – Turing Community Night: Lightning Talk Edition
5/31 – Zayo Group – Colorado’s First Tech Start-Up Triathlon!
6/1 – Galvanize – Full Stack Immersive Info Session
6/2 – BDNT – New Tech Boulder
6/2 – DOSUG – JSON at Work: Schema
6/2 – Xero – Developer Day

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