The Milky Way Tech for Good Pitch Out gives early stage startups an opportunity to pitch in front of their community, compete with their peers for funding and for the Milky Way Tech Hub community to rally around early stage startups. Date and time: Come enjoy an amazing pitch competition featuring tech start-ups in the…
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Momentum in the Milky Way
Momentum in the Milky Way! There were many notable events last week that featured tech, entrepreneurship and networking. Several of which were in celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I was able to attend the “Hack the Dream” event Hosted by i.c.Stars. and had an amazing time! Hack the Dream was an incredible event…
DeepVariant: Genomics Meet Deep Learning
Yesterday I attended a talk on deep learning and genomics by Pi-Chauan Chang, a software engineer at Google. Pi-Chauan gave a high level overview of deep learning and how her team formulates a problem in genomics to successfully apply deep learning techniques. She also discussed DeepVariant – a software built by Google to enable community…
Grace Hopper PitcHer Contest -2018
Yesterday I attended Grace Hopper’s inaugural PitcHer contest. The goal of this pitch competition is to support, encourage, and provide new funding opportunities to women entrepreneurs. The top ten finalist competed for a grand total of $65,000. I was elated to find that the first place prize went to my personal favorite, Shakeia Kegler. Her business idea…
Don’t Just Consume Technology.. Produce it.
Its important to not only be consumers of technology but producers as well. “A new study released Friday sheds light on this issue. The State of Black America 2018, a report published annually by the National Urban League, compares how black and white people fare in a number of areas, including housing, economics, education, social…
