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Meet the community

Good evening, Baltimore, It's a busy week in the local tech community. Here's a look at a few events coming up:

  • Waterfront Tech Series returns with a Smart City focus on Wednesday, Oct. 20 from 3:30-6 p.m. at Fogo de Chao. Panelists from BGE, Baltimore City, Project Waves and the The Maryland Center for Computing Education will be speaking.
  • Anchor Ventures provides a look at UpSurge Baltimore's work to make Baltimore a destination tech city through the lens of equitech. Join the virtual event at 4 p.m. on Oct. 21.
  • The WELL, aka the Women's Entrepreneurship Leadership Lab, celebrates its third anniversary empowering Black women founders in its first in-person networking since the pandemic began on Oct. 21. Head to Layers Loft from 6-8 p.m.

P.S. Meet us on Technical.ly's own Slack (join here!) from 12-1 p.m. to celebrate the 2021 RealLIST Engineers, and talk tech trends.

 

—Stephen Babcock, Technical.ly deputy managing editor (stephen@technical.ly)


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Events

WITS 10th Anniversary Celebration

Oct 22 to Oct 22 / 06:00 pm to 08:03 pm / Science History Institute, 315 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106 and Virtually Find out more »

WITS Fall 2021 Virtual Summit

Oct 20 to Oct 22 / 09:00 am to 04:00 pm / Virtual Find out more »

DC Startup Week 2021

Oct 18 to Oct 22 / 08:00 am to 07:00 pm / Washington, D.C. & Virtual Find out more »