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It finally feels like fall, so let's appreciate these events, not just for what they stand for, but also because we can comfortably attend them while wearing a sweatshirt... or a turtleneck. I know winter is coming, but can we please just not thing about that?
Monday, October 12
WalkBoston celebrates its 25-year anniversary this year, and one of the ways it's celebrating is with a panel on the intersection of walkability and technology, its potential impact on health and communities and where opportunities may lie in the future. The panel starts at 5:30 p.m. at Arnold Worldwide on Summer Street, and it's free.
DrinksOnTap holds its October meetup and demo night for Boston-area mobile developers at Ned Devine's in Faneuil Hall, starting at 6 p.m. Demos will be presented by restaurant POS startup Toast, on-demand meal delivery startup Chef Nightly and "smart inhaler" developer CareTRx. It's free to attend, but you better be over 21 years of age. Rascals.
Tuesday, October 13
Tech Breakfast comes back this month for the kinds of folks who are coherent enough in the morning to meet others in Boston's tech scene. The event starts at 8 a.m. in Microsoft NERD's Horace Mann Room, and there will be coffee, bagels and presentations by Barrier1, East Coast Product, Toast and Telestax. All for free. I think that's about it. *falls back asleep*
One Start 2016 Launch Night: This is a call for people who want to enter what is being called the "world's largest life sciences and healthcare accelerator program." The free event starts at 7 p.m. at MassBio's Technology Square building in Cambridge, and it's for anyone who either has a biotech idea they want to commercialize or anyone who just wants to work in this space. " Oh yeah, and you have a chance to win "$150,000 non-dilutive funding for your innovative idea."
Cory Doctorow, that guy who writes for Boing Boing and some apparently awesome sci-fi books, is part of a Tuesday night forum that questions the benefits of smart devices and appliances. "The Remove-Controlled Society" panel is free, and it begins at 6:30 p.m. at Suffolk University's C. Walsh Theatre. The other panelists are Leonid Reyzin, professor of computer science at Boston University; Nina Huntemann, associate professor of media studies at Suffolk; and Rachel Curtin, assistant professor at Suffolk Law School.
Women in Entrepreneurship Breakfast Series: Law firm Gesmer Updegrove continues this monthly series at LogMeIn's Summer Street offices with help from SheStarts, JustJump Marketing and TechHub Boston. The event is free, and it starts at 8:30. For fans of breakfast and women-led businesses. Obviously.
Wednesday, October 14
Women Entrepreneurs Evening and Mass Innovation Nights collides into one event celebrating female entrepreneurs, starting at 6 p.m. at District Hall. There will be products shown off from women-led startups, as well as plenty of organizations that back their cause, like Startup Institute, WITI Professional Association, Mass TLC and We-Bos. The free event is sold out.
TUGG is at it again, this time hitting up Lucky Strike Bowling at 6 p.m. for a night of strikes, spares and raising money for nonprofits. It costs $250 for teams of five and if you don't want to play, you can pay $5 to make fun of how your friend keeps missing that one pin.
Lesbians Who Tech holds a happy hour at Salsify's new Winthrop Square office from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30. All queer women in tech and allies are welcome. The organization represents 9,000 queer women across 22 cities, including Boston. There's a $15 suggested donation.
Thursday, October 15
Boston Post Mortem holds a presentation by Steve Meretzky, VP of creative at GSN Games, who will talk about how to "survive in the ever-changing world of game development," where folks are often devoured whole, chewed up, grinded into a fine powder and then spit out in the gutter. Sounds dramatic, but that's how the event page describes it. The event is free and starts at 5:30 p.m. at Moska in Cambridge.
Fall for Tech Mixer: Tech in Motion Boston hosts this night of networking and drinking at Blazing Paddles on Landsdowne St., where entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts are invited to commingle and maybe even pitch their startup. A little bird tells me there will be pizza available on a first-come, first serve basis, so keep in mind that this thing officially start at 6 p.m. And it's free.
Board Game Night: If you lost that game of Pandemic last time (that was me actually), here's your chance to try again — or just try another board game in general (that might be the healthy decision). The event starts at 6 p.m. at WeWork South Station, and the $5 donation goes to support Resilient Coders, an organization that makes web tech education more accessible for urban youth.
Friday, October 16
Harvard HackED: This three-day education hackathon hosted by Harvard GSE Innovation & Ventures in Education invites student teams to "propose, design, and test solutions to educational challenges." Undergraduate and graduate students from any Boston-area schools are welcome to attend, and no technical skills or programming experience are required. And guess what? It's free.