event schedule
Current Meetup
— No Speaker / TBD —
Due to conflicts, this event is on a Tuesday!
November 19, 2024
6:00pm – 9:00pm
GOAT LAB Brewery, Lowell, AR
Next Meetup
— Speaker TBD —
Lightning Project Talks?
December 18, 2024
6:00pm – 9:00pm
GOAT LAB Brewery, Lowell, AR
Would you like to present something?
Tell us about your side project, your non-profit organization, or just about something cool.
Meetup History
| Event Date | Speaker | Topic | Notes |
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| November 19, 2024 | — | — | Tuesday! |
| October 30, 2024 | Rajat Paharia |
“Bootstrapped Solopreneuring a Chrome Extension AI Startup” | Ask Steve |
| September 25, 2024 | Ian Mosley | “Language Detection by Average Letter Distribution” | |
| August 28, 2024 | James Bell |
“NWA Tech Summit” | NWA Tech Summit Website |
| July 31, 2024 | Chris Whittle | “What is GiveCamp” | GiveCamp Website |
| June 26, 2024 | Ryan Hiebert |
“Deploying without Downtime: Shipping when your application has users” | |
| May 29, 2024 | — |
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| April 24, 2024 | — |
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| March 27, 2024 | Matthew Parrott (LinkedIn) |
“Launching the NBA app on the Apple Vision Pro” | |
| February 28, 2024 | Steven Judd | “Things Ops People Want From Devs” | |
| January 31, 2024 | Tiffany Benitez | “Importance of Allyship” | Women+ in Tech Org |
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| December 27, 2023 | Signups at Event | Airing of Grievances – Attendees Edition | |
| November 29, 2023 | Tyler Tracy | “AI Alignment” | |
| October 25, 2023 | Jack Malcom and Josh Hanna | “Getting a Dev Job: From Newbie to Hiring Manager” | |
| September 27, 2023 | Kjartan Kennedy | “Design Principles for Professional Tools” | |
| August 30, 2023 | Nazmuddin Shaikh | “Generative AI and Omni Commerce” | |
| July 26, 2023 | Smit Thakkar | “Delve into dbt: An Introduction to dbt” | Slides |
| June 28, 2023 | Andrew Austin Byrum | “Cloud Native CI with Tekton” | Slides, Demo |
| May 31, 2023 | Nagdev Amruthnath | “Data Engineering” | Slides |
| April 26, 2023 | Evan Black | “The Billion Dollar Mistake” | |
| March 29, 2023 | Josh Hanna | “Scaling a dev team” | |
| February 22, 2023 | Mitchell Phillips | “Github Actions” | |
| January 25, 2023 | Quantarius Ray | “Testing with Cypress” | |
Come meet us. We are nice.
Details
This recurring volunteer-organized event was created to give NWA STEM professionals the opportunity to meet, learn, and grow with one another to create a more connected community. Join us in the brewery room at GOAT LAB Brewery in Lowell, AR on the last Wednesday of every month for some free drinks and the chance to chat with other STEM professionals in Northwest Arkansas.
Schedule
While most of this social event is free-form dialog amongst attendees, there are two times where we will ask for your attention:
From approximately 6:15pm to 6:45pm, there will be a presentation during any month that we have a speaker (which is most of them). It will be a multimedia display projected onto a wall of the brewery. We are currently investigating creating streaming or video-on-demand versions of our speaker content, but will not have it available for this Meetup.
Refreshments
NWA TechFest will be providing a limited drink tab for attendees which will operate under a TBD tab name. If you stop by the meetup first, you’ll be quickly notified about how to get your drinks paid for. Organizers are happy to procure some pizzas for the group, but individual/specialty meals should be handled by attendees.
Notes
– Feel free to come if you are recruiter, but try to keep any hard pitching to the Q&A segment (and only if the audience is receptive). Don’t be surprised if someone asks about salary ranges and benefits.
– Because this event will be in a public establishment, we have no active COVID policies besides encouraging attendees not to show up if they are sick and to wear a mask at all times if they have active health concerns in regards to the virus.
– If you would like to get involved with organizing or supporting this event series, visit the NWATechFest website listed below.
– Because this event will be in a public establishment, we have no active COVID policies besides encouraging attendees not to show up if they are sick and to wear a mask at all times if they have active health concerns in regards to the virus.
– If you would like to get involved with organizing or supporting this event series, visit the NWATechFest website listed below.
Check out the event schedule below!
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 6:00 – 6:15 | Gather together in the back room at GOAT LAB |
| 6:15 – 6:45 | Event Presentation w/ Q&A |
| 6:45 – 7:00 | NWA TechFest – News w/ Community Q&A |
| 7:00 – 9:00 | Socializing |
| 9:30 | Everyone is asked very nicely to leave because GOAT Lab has been closed for 30 minutes. |
*Schedule subject to change