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News, highlights and events throughout the Americas
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10 Events You Won't Want To Miss During Miami Tech Month 2023
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South Florida is gearing up for this year's Miami Tech Month. Join us at eMerge, premier technology is back to anchor Miami Tech Month. The event, which takes place at the Miami Beach Convention Center, connects technology entrepreneurs, investors and venture capital firms with the goal of transforming Miami into the tech hub of the Americas. This year's event will include a keynote address from football superstar Tom Brady.
April is packed with a variety of meetups, happy hours, hiring events and pitch competitions that bring together major players in the region's innovation economy. Check out more events you won't want to miss - including eMerge Americas on April 20-21!
- Source: South Florida Business Journal
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Lazo Launches Startup House To Build Bridges Between LatAm, Miami Tech
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The next decade has a lot in store for Latin American startups. The region is teeming with talent, increasingly attractive to regional and international capital, and has no lack of tricky problems that innovative entrepreneurs can help solve. As the linchpin between Latin America and the US market, Miami stands to gain from our neighbor’s growth. That’s exactly why Juan Manuel Barrero decided to relocate to Miami in June 2021. Back in his native Argentina, Barrero built a business offering boutique financial and legal services to startups and VC firms. But when he moved to the US, Barrero launched Lazo: a platform that gives startups a single source of truth for all their financial needs. To further this mission of helping founders leverage the Miami market, Lazo has teamed up with Draper to open a startup house in the Design District. Think of the house as part co-working space, part event space. The company will hold meetups, music events, mentoring sessions, and other startup-focused programming.
-Source: Refresh Miami
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$6M Raised To Help Miami Students Striving For Tech, Science Careers
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About 250 people attended the Tech for All gala in Miami to celebrate more than $6 million raised primarily for the Venture Miami Scholarship Fund. The fund pays for city students who need financial help to go to college. It was started by Venture Miami, an arm of the city focused on promoting the growing technology sector. Citadel’s billionaire founder and CEO, Kenneth Griffin, paid for the soiree held Wednesday at the Miami Heat arena. He also donated $1 million to the scholarship fund. The Miami Foundation, responsible for managing the scholarship fund, organized the gala, partnering with Venture Miami and the City of Miami. The Venture Miami Scholarship Fund provides tuition support to provide gap funding for city residents who have been accepted into science, technology, engineering and math programs at colleges and universities including Florida International University, Florida Memorial University, Miami Dade College, and the University of Miami. It is for students in high school planning to go to college or individuals who recently graduated from high school.
-Source: Miami Herald
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Say Hello To Your New Tutor: It's ChatGPT
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Schools around the country have banned ChatGPT, the popular artificial-intelligence chatbot, citing concerns that it can spit out inaccurate information, enable cheating or provide shortcuts that could hurt students in the long run. But last week, the private Khan Lab School campuses in Palo Alto and Mountain View welcomed a special version of the technology into its classrooms. Rather than solve a math problem for a student, as ChatGPT might do if asked, Khanmigo is programmed to act like “a thoughtful tutor that’s actually going to move you forward in your work,” says Salman Khan, the technologist-turned-educator who founded Khan Academy and Khan Lab School. Khanmigo was developed in concert with OpenAI, the nonprofit tech start-up that created GPT-4, the underlying technology for the latest version of ChatGPT. The debate over whether to embrace or eschew new AI technologies reaches well beyond the classroom.
-Source: The Washington Post
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NASA Names Artemis II Crew For Mission To Fly By Moon In 2024
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NASA and the Canadian Space Agency selected four astronauts to fly around the moon on a mission that would take people deep into space for the first time in decades. Americans Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman, and Canadian Jeremy Hansen, are the quartet chosen for the flight, officials from the two agencies said. For Artemis II, as the roughly 10-day mission planned for late 2024 is called, the astronauts would fly past the moon after a fiery launch, traveling 6,400 miles beyond its far side before speeding back to Earth. Artemis is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s multiyear exploration program that aims to return astronauts to the moon, establish a long-term presence there and push on to Mars. Artemis II would mark the first since the last Apollo moon-landing mission in 1972 that humans have flown beyond low-Earth orbit, a NASA spokeswoman said.
-Source: The Wall Street Journal
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Twitter's New Dog Icon Is Sending Dogecoin To The Moon
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Today Twitter users are noticing that an image of a dog has been added to a place of prominence. You can see it for yourself on Twitter.com, where you will be greeted with a pup. The particular dog image — a Shiba Inu — corresponds with the logo of the dogecoin blockchain and cryptocurrency. Normally the swapping out or addition of an icon inside an app is not news. In this case cryptocurrency investors sent the value of dogecoin sharply higher in the wake of the inclusion of its logo in Twitter’s app. In short, the social media service’s update has led to a pump. The greater context for this latest bit of Twitter-silliness is that the owner of the social media service, Elon Musk, is in court over dogecoin, looking to dismiss a massive suit relating to the cryptocurrency. In that suit, Musk’s lawyers recently called dogecoin a “legitimate cryptocurrency that continues to hold a market cap of nearly $10 billion,” arguing that Musk’s tweets thereof were just that. We suppose that this app update is part of Musk’s general view on the litigation.
-Source: TechCrunch
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#MiamiTech Month
April 1st -30th | eMerge Americas
#MiamiTech Month is a full month of South Florida’s must-go-to events supporting the entire community of innovators, entrepreneurs, and thinkers. With a diverse range of events from conferences, workshops, networking, community events, and more, our focus is to create a thriving and inclusive ecosystem that brings together our entire community and makes an impact. Whether you’re a tech enthusiast, startup founder, seasoned professional, or wanting to learn more about #MiamiTech, check back daily to discover creative experiences that are transforming Miami’s future into a global tech hub.
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#MiamiTech Month Co-Working Free Day Pass
April 3rd -28th | The Hub @ Office Logic
Come and experience with unlimited day passes during #MiamiTechMonth. The Hub @ Office Logic is a hybrid space of private offices, venues, co-working spaces. We Inspire, Equip and Support Businesses to Thrive. Located in the Heart of Downtown Miami 1501 Biscayne Boulevard. Built for founders, startups and builders to experience The Hub and to create new connections and collaborations.
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Startup Day Miami
April 4th | AWS
Kick off Miami Tech Month with AWS’s one-day conference geared toward founders, business leaders, CTOs, and developers. This multi-track conference will be filled with educational knowledge that you won’t be able to find anywhere else. Join AWS on Tuesday, April 4, 2023, 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM ET at InterContinental Hotel Miami. Reserve your spot now!
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Tech Tuesdays Kickoff Happy Hour
April 4th | Plain Sight
Join us for the Official Kickoff Happy Hour for Tech Tuesdays Miami! Come experience firsthand the free workspace and event series designed to connect and empower founders, funders, coders, creatives, and community builders in the tech.
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Techstars Miami's Coworking Day
April 7th | Techstars
Techstars Miami will open up their Office in Edgewater for Community co-working each Friday of Miami Tech Month. This community co-working space is open to the Miami tech community, founders looking to apply to Techstars, investors and mentors who need an office space.
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Founders Camp
Deadline: April 9th | Founders Camp
Founder Camp is a free 8-week summer program for ambitious students. If you want to learn how artificial intelligence (AI) is changing what determined young people can achieve in careers like law, medicine, business, finance, and engineering, it's probably one of the best opportunities you'll find this summer. You will learn how to use AI to solve a problem you find interesting and will be surrounded by extremely talented people. It's highly selective and will be led by successful startup founders from top schools like Columbia, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, Harvard, and MIT.
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#MiamiTech Innovation Run
April 11th | eMerge Americas
Come join the City of Miami's Chief Wellness Officer, Frankie Ruiz, (and a special guest!) as they help us kick off Miami Tech Month and lead us on a 3.5 mile run throughout Brickell and Downtown Miami, which will end at Miami Dade College's Wolfson Campus for networking, music, food and much more.
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BITE-CON 2023
April 13th-14th | BITE-CON
The Black Innovation Technology and Entertainment Conference (BITE-CON) is the first of its kind burgeoning tech explosion in Florida. The focus is to curate educational events and awareness around Web 3.0, NFTs, the Metaverse, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and eSports to the Black and Brown community.
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eMerge Americas + Ironhack Hackathon powered by Kaseya
April 14th-15th | eMerge Americas + Ironhack + Kaseya
Join the official eMerge Americas annual Hackathon in partnership with Ironhack + powered by Kaseya during Miami Tech Month! During this 48 hour hackathon, teams will utilize AI to build a project and present their demos to a panel of judges. Participants will have the opportunity to win thousands in prizes.
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Inaugural Computing Day at UM
April 14th | University of Miami
The University of Miami is hosting its first Computing Day, Friday April 14, 2023, from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM at the new Frost Institute for Chemistry and Molecular Sciences building on the Coral Gables campus. Computing Day is part of a broad initiative to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation in computing. The event convenes audiences engaged in all facets of computing, corporate and government professionals, faculty and student scholars from throughout the University and other academic institutions, as we design the future.
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Miami Maker Faire
April 15th-16th | Maker Faire
Join us for Maker Faire - a gathering of fascinating, curious people who enjoy learning and who love sharing what they can do. From engineers to artists to scientists to crafters, Maker Faire is a venue for these "makers" to show hobbies, experiments, projects. We call it the Greatest Show (& Tell) on Earth - a family-friendly showcase of invention, creativity, and resourcefulness. Glimpse the future and get inspired!
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eMerge Americas 2023
April 20th-21st | eMerge Americas
Anchoring Miami Tech Month 2023, eMerge Americas returns April 20-21, 2023. eMerge is the premier tech event in Miami that's transforming Miami into a global tech hub. Hear from over 200 speakers, demo products from innovative startups and companies, and network with tens of thousands of thought leaders and industry experts.
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#MiamiTech Earth Day Park & Beach Cleanup + Family Fun
April 22nd | eMerge Americas
Join us as we come together as a #MiamiTech community to help keep our parks and beach clean while having fun! This event is supported by and benefits Blue Scholars Initiative, whose mission is to educate and empower students through hands-on (and virtual) marine science education to foster a connection to the ocean and to launch long-term environmental stewardship.
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Brickell Tech Tuesday
April 25th | Brickell Tech
Brickell Tech Tuesday has grown to be a staple for the local tech community. Do you spend time in github, jira, slack, figma, google drive, etc from your home or office in Brickell? Developers, founders, investors, designers, growth hackers, product experts. Meet others in the Miami Tech community without getting in a car.
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Orbit Innovation Awards
April 27th |Alan B. Levan NSU Broward Center of Innovation
The Alan B. Levan | NSU Broward Center of Innovation is hosting its inaugural Orbit Innovation Awards on April 27, 2023, a celebration of their first anniversary impacting the South Florida innovation community. The Orbit Awards are exactly one year from the Levan Center’s formal grand opening, and we want to honor those who have helped us along the way. The event will have approximately 300 members of the South Florida community, and will honor 13 award recipients recognized for their support and contribution to the South Florida innovation ecosystem.
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US Black Founders Fund 2023
Deadline: May 8th | Black Ambition
Calling all Black, Hispanic, and HBCU-connected businesses: we want to fund your bold ideas! Black Ambition finds, funds, and fuels the businesses of the future. Most importantly, we believe that the future looks like you. Through two separate Prize tracks, the Black Ambition Prize competition provides a platform for Black, Hispanic and HBCU-affiliated founders across the nation to access growth capital, pitch feedback, and mentorship. Eligible ventures will compete for awards between $15,000 to $1,000,000. Up to 250 semi-finalists will be selected, with one grand prize winner receiving $1,000,000.
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