TECH Community Partners

The FedEx Institute of Technology is pleased to work with community partners to bring the technology community in Memphis together. See the information below for the meetups, organizations, and groups currently meeting at the FedEx Institute of Technology.

                                                           October 20th - October 31st

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
20  6:30 – 8:30 PM	21 6:30 – 8:30 PM Python User Group FIT 225	22 6:30 – 8:30 PM PHP User Group FIT 225	23 2- 4 PM DevOps Meetup FIT 225	24 6 – 7:30 PM Agile Meetup FIT 225	25  6:30 – 8:30 PM	26  6:30 – 8:30 PM
27 6:30 – 8:30 PM Python User Group FIT 225	28 6:30 – 8:30 PM Python User Group FIT 225	29 6:30 – 8:30 PM Python User Group FIT 225	30 6:30 – 8:30 PM Python User Group FIT 225	31 6:30 – 8:30 PM Python User Group FIT 225

List of Meetups

TECH 901

Contact: Robert Montague, robert@tech901.org
Website: http://www.tech901.org/

DAMA

Contact: Mark Calbos, mark.calbos@stjude.com

WordPress

Contact: George Spake, gpspake@gmail.com

First Thursday of the month.

DevMemphis

Contact: George Spake, gpspake@gmail.com

First Tuesday of the month.

Machine Learning/Data Science/R

Contact: Walter Heger, heger_walter@yahoo.com
Third Wednesday of the month.

 Web Workers

Contact: Bryan Robinson, bryanrobinson@gmail.com
Second Tuesday of the month.

Game Developers

Contact: Johnathan Schrak, jmschrack@gmail.com
Second Wednesday of every month

MEMPass/Power BI

Contact: Robert Demotsis, rob@demotsis.com
Second Thursday of the month.

PHP

Contact: Joe Ferguson, joe@memphistechnology.org
Second Tuesday of the month.

Python User Group

Contact: Brad Montgomery, bkmontgomery@gmail.com
Third Monday of the month.
Website: http://www.mempy.org/

Tableau

Contact: Wendy Brotherton
See website for scheduled meetup time & date:
(https://usergroups.tableau.com/memtugmar19)

AgileMemphis

Contact: Lisa (LJ) Timmons, lisa.timmons@fedex.com
Fourth Thursday of every month

DevOps

Contact: Dan Petit, https://www.meetup.com/MemDevOps/
See meetup website for next scheduled meetup date & time

NetSquared

Contact: Jodie Mason, mason1342@hotmail.com
https://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Memphis/

 

List of Hackathons

 

SQL Saturday

PASS SQLSaturday is a free training event for professionals who use the Microsoft data platform. These community events offer content across data management, cloud and hybrid architecture, analytics, business intelligence, AI, and more. This event will be held on Oct 05 2019 at FedEx Institute of Technology, 365 Fogelman Drive, Memphis, Tennessee, Memphis.

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HackMemphis

HACKmemphis is an organization that hosts a weekend hackathon event. HACKmemphis is organized by a group in Memphis comprised of developers, makers, hackers, and local tech community supporters. We encourage developers and designers of any background (or technology) to come together to work on whatever projects interest them.

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GiveCamp/ Design for Good

GiveCamp Memphis / Design for Good is a weekend-long event where professionals from designers, developers and database administrators to marketers and web strategists donate their time to provide solutions for nonprofit organizations. Since its inception in 2007, the GiveCamp program has provided benefits to hundreds of nonprofits, worth millions of dollars of developer and designer time in services.

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CodeCrew

CodeCrew is changing Memphis with programs that focus on ensuring that students are taught the principles of information and computation, how digital systems work, and they learn how to put this knowledge to use through programming and software development concepts. CodeCrew programming includes a number of summer camps, after school programs, in-school electives classes, internships and special events.

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ETHMemphis

Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third- party interference. This enables developers to create markets, store registries of debts or promises, move funds in accordance with instructions given long in the past (like a will or a futures contract) and many other things that have not been invented yet, all without a middleman or counterparty risk.

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AthenaTechne

ATHENAtechne is a free event designed to cultivate a positive environment for women in technology from across the region. The event is open to women of all ages and encourages them to collaborate on projects and compound the opportunities for women in technology. 

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List of Community Partners