Toledo Tech Events

Join entrepreneur Damon Brown to turn your passion into a viable business with this interactive series in October.

• How to Show. My idea is great. How do I begin?

There will be opportunities for on-the-spot coaching before the event, getting the best-selling books signed, and connecting one-on-one with Damon and your fellow entrepreneurs.

Part of the Toledo Library Entrepreneurship Speaker Residency. Free.

Other events in this series:

• October 9: How to Know (The Bite-Sized Entrepreneur)
• October 23: How to Grow (The Balanced Bite-Sized Entrepreneur)
• October 29: How to Bring Your Worth

Jason Hood on cloud computing and the impact on society.

Scott Blough on cybersecurity education.

Join your fellow Toledo region Information Technology leaders for a breakfast meeting about the Ohio Information Technology Association (OITA). This is a chance for the tech leaders of the Toledo region to make their voices heard.

At the Toledo Kick-off meeting, Nick York, OITA President, will provide an overview of OITA's objectives and how you and your organization can help guide this community-driven organization.

Participate in a discussion about what OITA can do for you as an IT professional, for your business, for the Toledo region, and for the state of Ohio.

FREE, but seating is limited so registration is requested.

We invite all women and men in computing to attend the ACM-W first event of the year where we will have a guest speaker.

Come hear Kristen Bury share her career, the Artemis program and NASA’s plans to send the first woman and next man on the moon.

In July this year, we celebrated NASA’s 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 Moon mission- First Human Landing on the Moon! We are excited to have Kristen share her experiences! This event has no costs.

Light refreshments will be served. This event is hosted jointly by the NWO ACM-W Professional Chapter and the UT ACM-W Student Chapter.

Bio: Kristen Bury is the Integration Manager in the European Service Module (ESM) Integration Office (EIO) at the NASA Glenn Research Center, supporting international programmatic integration related to Orion’s Service Module for the Artemis Program; the Artemis Program will land the first woman and next man on the moon. She has served in this role since late 2017. Previously, Ms. Bury served as a Power Systems Engineer for nearly 10 years, predominantly supporting ESM electrical power system (EPS) integration, modeling, and analysis in support of Orion vehicle and mission design operations decisions. Ms. Bury also served on the Glenn Research Center’s conceptual spacecraft design team as the EPS Design Lead, and completed over 40 EPS designs for a variety of space missions, requiring cross-discipline coordination and compromise to achieve the designs. Kristen holds a BS in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Chemistry from the University of Toledo.

Join us for after-work drinks and snacks for this month's Toledo Web Professionals meetup. We are teaming up with Google Developer Group for a combined event loaded with fun and entertainment.

Show & Tell Sessions

Talks will include Animation in Flutter and explore web scroll triggering where ScrollMagic is combined with GreenSock.

We encourage all our attendees to engage in show & tell lightning talks. Got a neat project you're working on? Want to showcase a new library or technique you've picked up? This is the place to do it. If you have something to show on screen, please bring a computer and everything you need to present. Seed offers a projection system and connections.

Show & tell sessions are limited five to ten minutes each.

Food and beverages provided and you are welcome to bring your own. Please drink responsibly.

Do GDG a solid and join their event too. https://www.meetup.com/GDGToledo/events/265599070/

Trying to find trends in raw data can be difficult. Learn to create pivot tables from your data in Excel. In this course we will create pivot tables and pivot charts from data in Excel as well as external data sources. Learn how to manipulate the information and modify the pivot table to answer your important questions. Fee $40

Join entrepreneur Damon Brown to turn your passion into a viable business with this interactive series in October.

• How to Grow. I'm up and running. How can I balance this in my life?

There will be opportunities for on-the-spot coaching before the event, getting the best-selling books signed, and connecting one-on-one with Damon and your fellow entrepreneurs.

Part of the Toledo Library Entrepreneurship Speaker Residency. Free.

Other events in this series:

• October 9: How to Know (The Bite-Sized Entrepreneur)
• October 16: How to Show (The Productive Bite-Sized Entrepreneur)
• October 29: How to Bring Your Worth

Northwest Ohio’s largest entrepreneurial business pitch competition, “Pitch & Pour” is happy to announce our annual competition will be held on Thursday, Oct 24th.

Pitch & Pour is a competition where startup companies compete for cash and business services and will have the opportunity to pitch their business ideas to the Toledo's entrepreneurial community.

Five fledgling tech companies will come to pitch their hearts out at the Nitschke Technology Commercialization Complex for Launchpad Incubation's annual Pitch & Pour competition. We’ll have industry leaders, entrepreneurs and all the brightest minds in Toledo's tech scene.

Join us for an evening of product demos, expert advice, and invaluable networking. Enjoy drinks, snacks, and as much genius you can handle.

Apply to pitch (deadline is September 17): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdqeisHT7-qnU69_jN3E2KTgKXOV8qIijho7byUOcgT1F7eWg/viewform

Join entrepreneur Damon Brown to turn your passion into a viable business with this interactive series in October.

• How to Bring Your Worth. I have mastered my craft. How can I maximize my impact?

There will be opportunities for on-the-spot coaching before the event, getting the best-selling books signed, and connecting one-on-one with Damon and your fellow entrepreneurs.

Part of the Toledo Library Entrepreneurship Speaker Residency. Free.

Other events in this series:

• October 9: How to Know (The Bite-Sized Entrepreneur)
• October 16: How to Show (The Productive Bite-Sized Entrepreneur)
• October 23: How to Grow (The Balanced Bite-Sized Entrepreneur)

Resources available for Start-Up and Growing Businesses

The Small Business Resource Days will also include several workshops designed to help small business owners enhance their financial skills.

The Small Business Resource Days feature a Small Business Resource Center, including representatives from financial institutions and community partners available to meet one-on-one with current and aspiring entrepreneurs, introducing and explaining the various programs and services available to help them achieve their small business.

University of Findlay Department of Computer Science & The Alliance Present the 18th Annual Information Assurance Forum

Think Global, Act Local Ohio’s Cyber Collaboration Committee Initiative

Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. University of Findlay Campus, Winebrenner TLB Auditorium

This webinar is designed for people who need to upgrade their skills in Excel, but don't have time for an in person class. In this session students will learn how to write basic formulas in Excel and how to create more advanced formulas by including Excel's built in functions. Fee $40

This course is intended to help all novice computer users get up to speed with Excel quickly. We will cover different features of the interface, show users how to print, cover some simple scenarios, and cover the basics of formatting. Fee $135

Learn how to use the macro recorder in Excel to help streamline your work. Students will also be exposed to VBA which is the language used by Microsoft Office programs for macros. Fee $40

At the sixth annual ProMedica Innovations Summit, we will examine the revolutionary changes in healthcare and give you a glimpse of the technology enabled innovations that are impacting the care in your area.

We're bringing together leaders in the areas of healthcare, tech and entrepreneurship for a day of inspiration and connectivity. The future is now! Don't miss one of Northwest Ohio's largest innovation events.

Microsoft Excel 2016 Level 2 builds on skills learned in Level 1. This course offers lessons for Microsoft’s spreadsheet program, including:

Creating advanced formulas Analyzing data with logical and lookup functions Organizing worksheet data with Tables Visualizing data with Charts Analyzing data with PivotTables, Slicers, and PivotCharts Inserting graphics Enhancing workbooks

Fee $135

The BGSU Department of Computer Science is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2019. There will be several special events including a keynote address for the public and a full-day program for our alumni, current and past faculty and students.

Among the scheduled events are a public keynote address on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019, featuring Dr. Alex Aiken, the Alcatel-Lucent Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, and an all-day program on Friday, Nov. 8 for alumni of the computer science program.

Attorneys will provide an overview of intellectual property, explain the differences between patents, trademarks and copyright, and be available to answer your questions.

NWNUG will be doing the 2nd Tuesday morning every month.

Very casual. Just show up and talk tech, cowork, or just hang out.

Learn the specifics about searching for grants through the Foundation Directory Online database.

Presented by David Topoleski, Toledo-Lucas County Public Library

To win grants, you need the most up-to-date, complete information you can get about grantmakers and the grants they've made. How can you get that? Only from the comprehensive database and powerful search tools Foundation Directory Online offers. David Topoleski, of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, will provide an overview of the directory, run sample searches, and answer questions to help grant-seekers understand this valuable tool available for use through the Library.

Have you ever wanted to learn how coding works? This class will take you step-by-step through the process. Come explore coding in an adult intro class.

Microsoft Ignite is a once a year conference where Microsoft reveals many of its latest technical announcements for products like Office. Join us for a panel of Ignite attendees that demonstrate the cool things they learned.

Learn more about Excel's functions to work with data. Topics include IF, AND, OR, SUMIF, SUMIFS, VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP. Fee $40

Businesses need an edge over the competition. The business that works smarter often gets ahead. Learn about Library resources that can give you an advantage. Bring your lunch, laptop or mobile device.

The Library has electronic databases that an owner can use to build targeted lists of prospective customers and that can help businesses learn how their competitive peers are performing. Using American Business/Reference USA/One Source and Mergent either at the Library or from the office or home computer, business owners can get valuable information quickly. Bring your lunch; coffee and tea provided. Feel free to bring your mobile device or laptop of you'd like to follow along.

SAP, Facebook, Epic, Banner -- these are all databases. New employees or those switching to a new role may now be faced with using a system that relies on database fundamentals. In this webinar, we will provide a brief overview of relational databases. Topics include data tables, queries, and relationships between tables. A great course for those with no database experience. Fee $40

Attorneys will provide an overview of intellectual property, explain the differences between patents, trademarks and copyright, and be available to answer your questions.

Blockland Solutions is returning to Cleveland after a highly successful, sold-out 2018 inaugural event.

Unlike any other event of its kind, Solutions doesn’t just talk about what could be: it focuses on what is happening now.

Solutions is an opportunity for change-makers, solution-providers and business leaders to come together to solve real-world problems with practical solutions using blockchain and emerging technologies.

NWNUG will be doing the 2nd Tuesday morning every month.

Very casual. Just show up and talk tech, cowork, or just hang out.

CodeMash 2020 will be Tuesday, 7 January to Friday, 10 January, 2020.

Pre-compiler Tue & Wed. Main conference Thu & Fri.

NWNUG will be doing the 2nd Tuesday morning every month.

Very casual. Just show up and talk tech, cowork, or just hang out.

E-Week | April 20-24, 2020

• Paul J. Hooker Center Hall of Fame (by invitation only) - April 22
• HatchTonight & The Hatch - April 23
• Sebo Series in Entrepreneurship - April 24