5 events you should check out this week

Written by Colin Morris
Published on May. 16, 2016
5 events you should check out this week

Every week, we bring you the best events in Austin tech. This week’s roundup includes an open source conference, a chat with the founder of a promising local startup and information on becoming a product manager. Read on for details, and check out our events calendar for more.

OSCON, May 16 at 10 a.m.

OSCON is the original open source gathering, bringing together the software engineering and developer community to explore what’s new in open source languages, tools, and techniques. Sponsors include GitHub, New Relic and Stack Overflow.

It’s one of five conferences we recommend this summer.

Austin Music Tech Monthly Meetup, May 17 at 7 p.m.

The first event was a big success with a great discussion and lots of passionate music and tech junkies. Hope to see you all at the next one.

A Conversation with Blake Garrett (Aceable), May 18 at 6:30 p.m.

Aceable is changing required education by making it fun, convenient, and effective. Using humor, animation, story, game mechanics and personalized learning techniques, Aceable’s mobile delivery platform makes Driver’s Education and Driver’s Safety engaging, memorable and convenient.

Product Academy Informational: The Growth Product Manager Program, May 18 at 6:30 p.m.

Join Product Academy for an informational session over an evening of food and drinks to learn about an upcoming eight-week program: The Growth Product Manager. This program is geared to helping candidates — including developers, designers and customer success managers — get one of the hottest jobs in the tech industry.

Mobile Makers: Android/Java Development with Women Who Code, May 19 at 6:30 p.m.

Come out to The Iron Yard to learn mobile development with Java and Android! This course, hosted by Women Who Code Austin, is for Object Oriented/Java programmers who want to learn Android. Content will be intermediate level.


Psst. Want to promote your own event? You can add it to our calendar, and even import your entire Meetup group. Just log in to your Built In Austin profile and head over to our events page.

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