The Extended List: Sept 13 - Sept 21

🗓️ Sept. 13: Founder Walk: Every other Friday, Ellen Cassidy organizes an early-morning walk around the lake for experienced high-growth tech founders. They meet at Mañana (north of the river) at 7AM. Ping her on LinkedIn for details!

🗓️ Sept. 13: UpLevel Her: A day-long summit from Austin Woman Magazine. The sessions look good – especially the ones on EOS, and becoming an author

🗓️ Sept. 13: Pitch & Run ATX: Chat business with Zeke Torres and a bunch of other founders, funders, and startup folks on a 4.2 mile run around the lake

🗓️ Sept. 13: Ops Not Oops: Sara Loretta is starting up this new coworking session. Two hours of silent deep work every other Friday over at Radio East

🗓️ Sept. 13: Lean Coffee: William Baxter and Duri Chitayat, veterans of Lean Coffee NYC, have brought the format to ATX

🗓️ Sept. 14: The Board Walks: Not strictly business-related, but Elle Beecher’s group is my top rec for anyone new to the city, and lots of founders/investors are regulars

🗓️ Sept. 14: Founders Running Club: Every Saturday, Anette Armenta and Tim Tkachenko host a 5K run around the lake for founders

🗓️ Sept 15: Sprint Club: Every Sunday, Ankith Harathi hosts a sprint workout group – open to all, but most of the attendees are seasoned founders in ATX

🗓️ Sept. 15: Leadership Ruck: Join investor Kevin Noble, and others for a 3.6 mile ruck through hill country

🗓️ Sept. 15-18: Symposium On Trustworthy Autonomous Systems: An academic event, showcasing 25 papers and talks, plus keynotes, networking, and interactive workshops

🗓️ Sept 16: AI Made Easy: A new Lunch & Learn series running Sept. 16-Oct 19, sharing practical use-cases for AI in non-profits, municipal teams, and brick & mortar or non-technical businesses

🗓️ Sept. 17: MPL Live - Work 2.0: The hosts of the Modern People Leader podcast are leading a panel discussion with CPOs from three major companies, plus Jessica Zwaan, author of Built for People

🗓️ Sept. 17: CTO Fireside Chat: Come hear from Damien Kan, co-founder and CTO at Meeko Health, and before that, Shogun (valued at $800m) and founding engineer at unicorn Alto Pharmacy

🗓️ Sept. 17: Book Launch Party - Becoming Fearless: Dr. Benjamin Ritter has coached execs at Google, Amazon, Virgin, Yelp, Doordash, Pinterest, EA, and more.

🗓️Sept. 17: F.I.E.S.T.A.: It stands for Founder, Investor, Entrepreneur, Startups, Techies, and Austin Newcomers. Hosted by Cherie and Jon Werner, this one’s particularly helpful if you’re brand new to town

🗓️ Sept. 17: IP Valuation: Mauricio Uribe is joining the Austin Technology Council to share practical thoughts on IP valuation, licensing, and enforcement

🗓️ Sept. 17: Celebrating Latinidad with DivInc: Kicking off Hispanic Heritage Month with a panel of high growth founders and investors

🗓️ Sept. 17-18: Women In Tech Texas: Two day multi-track conference with talks on everything from machine learning to leadership from C-level execs at major companies

🗓️ Sept 18-19: Scaling Workshop with Codie Sanchez: This looks rad. Codie Sanchez and Ayman Al-Abdullah (who grew AppSumo from $3m to $84m) are hosting a workshop on scaling from 7- to 8-figures

🗓️ Sept. 18: Future of Chatbots & Conversational AI: A summit specifically exploring everything from personalized CX chatbots to AI-powered virtual assistants

🗓️ Sept. 18: The AI-Driven Leader: Geoff Woods is a must-know person. Check out my interview with him at the bottom of this email for more.

🗓️ Sept. 18: Climate Innovation - CPG Event: This month, Jacob Borgeson’s group is focused on innovations in CPG related to climate and sustainability

🗓️ Sept. 18: TurnUp! CPG Happy Hour: Marc Nathan and Bill Murhpy are bringing together dozens of founders from two of the best CPG communities in town

🗓️ Sept. 18: CTO Answers: This is awesome… If you’re a non-technical founder of a post-revenue SaaS company, founder/CTOs Gerardo Vazquez and Pablo Sosa will offer guidance on your dumbest most pressing tech questions

🗓️ Sept. 19: Open Coffee (North): Since 2009, Damon Clinkscales has been hosting this laid back get-together for founders and investors every month

🗓️ Sept. 19: Ecommerce Mornings: Hosted by AJ Davis, who led optimization for brands like CVS and Lululemon

🗓️ Sept. 19: Women Creating IRL Community: Stephanie Thoma, author of The Confident Introvert, is leading a fireside chat with three other ATX community builders

🗓️ Sept. 19: Product Happy Hour: Hosted on the first & third Thursday of every month by Reza Shirazi, and Tulsi Dharmarajan

🗓️ Sept. 19: Event Hosts: St John Studios is hosting an open house party to show off their venue to anyone who’s in the event industry. I’ve been before and it’s rad.

🗓️ Sept. 19: West Austin Chamber - Monthly Luncheon: Guest speaker Joseph Cope will be giving a talk on empathy and leadership. Open to non-members!

🗓️ Sept. 19: Health Tech ATX: Join Ed Melendez, John Brewster, and dozens of other founders in the healthtech space for a chat with Prerna Sharma, GP at Antler

🗓️ Sept. 19: The Singularity Is Nearer: The Austin Forum on Technology and Society is gathering to discuss Ray Kurzweil's latest book

🗓️ Sept. 19: Nerd Night: Like a mini-TED event, this month’s speakers focus on, “the dark corners of the mind with talks about killers and asylums.”

🗓️ Sept. 20: Female Founders & Friends: Hosted the third Friday of every month by Juliette Richert of the Artemis Fund

🗓️ Sept. 20: TWIB Luncheon Celebrating 14 Years: Texas Women In Business has been… well… in business for 14 years. This lunch will be a cool spot to learn more if you’ve thought of joining. Their events fill up fast!

🗓️ Sept. 20: Founder Happy Hour: Every other Friday, Chad Sakonchick hosts an informal happy hour for experienced founders. Open to newcomers - ping him on Twitter to connect!

🗓️ Sept. 22: Doing Business With Japan: The Greater Austin Asian Chamber of Commerce is hosting this market briefing as part of a broader festival celebrating long-standing connection with our sister-city of Oita, Japan