About Startup Weekend: Startup Weekends are 54-hour events designed to provide superior experiential education for technical and non-technical entrepreneurs. Beginning with Friday night pitches and continuing through brainstorming, business plan development, and basic prototype creation, Startup Weekends culminate in Sunday night demos and presentations. Participants create working startups during the event and are ableContinue reading "Startup Weekend Bay Area: AR/VR/AI"

Interested in learning one of the newer Javascript frameworks? In this class, you'll get a crash course in building a simple React app. Join us to expand your skillset! What this class will cover: • App-building concepts including data flow, user interfaces, business logic, separation of concerns and basics of functional programming • Hands-on andContinue reading "Women Who Code – East Bay: Introduction to React"

Are you considering enrolling in a coding bootcamp? If you are, I'm sure one of the biggest questions you have is around how easy or difficult is it to land that first coding position once you graduate. Are there really enough junior level coding jobs out there to support the number of folks graduating fromContinue reading "Is it Easy to Get a Job After Coding Bootcamp? Recent Grads Tell Their Tales."

The Oscars of Startups and Technology TechCrunch kicks off 2016 with the 10th Annual Crunchies Awards Show, the award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet, and technology innovations of the year. 10th Annual Crunchies Finalists Hot New Startup A startup founded or publicly launched this year MarcoPolo Otto Prelude Fertility VIVContinue reading "10th Annual Crunchies Awards"

From February 6-9, 2017, the NewCo Festival provides an opportunity for individuals to visit innovative companies, non-profits and businesses at the Bay Area’s biggest open house event for business. The Kapor Center will host it's session for the event on February 7, 2017, at 1:30 pm. Since 2012, NewCo festivals have welcomed over 30,000 attendeesContinue reading "NewCo Festival"

At TechLore we’re coming together to build a community that promotes self awareness and exploration through literature. Let's empower each other and stay accountable as we critically look at how our work impacts modern society and the greater world.

What should the future of school look like in Oakland? Come with your idea for a school, tech tool, after school program, learning space or redesign concept for part of an existing school. Over the weekend, you'll form a team and build a prototype to bring your idea to life and test it out. ThisContinue reading "Startup Weekend Education Oakland – Schools and Tools"

What does it take to balance growth and affordability in a manner that generates prosperity for all? Longtime Oaklanders have seen the city grow remarkably during their lifetimes, and the recent introduction of new industries like tech has created significant changes in how Oakland looks, feels, operates and costs. In the first part of aContinue reading "Oakland and Prosperity for All: Native Oaklanders Speak"

Join Black IT professionals for an open discussion and lively debate of technology trends, what we're working on, and how we can harness technology to impact our professional lives and community.

It’s time for a change and in 2017, Qeyno will be launching a new portfolio of products that reflect the future that we see every day in our work to transform children’s lives. Our next hackathon school will be the launch of Hackathon Academy’s first hackathon school for reconciliation and innovation — UbuntuHack.