50 on Fire Celebration on Oct 4 in Austin
The Forrest Four-Cast: October 1, 2017
A gathering of innovators, big and small, people and organizations, across multiple categories, 50 on Fire occurs at 7:00 pm on Wednesday evening, October 4 at Impact Hub Austin (5540 North Lamar, 78756).
The 50 best-of-the-best Austin startups, organizations and individuals being honored at this event include 3 Day Startup, Central Texas Angel Network, Civitas Learning, Data.World, Div Inc, Ever Fest, EverlyWell, Flo Sports, GameSalad, Mubariz “Moby” Hayat, Main Street Hub, Phunware, SparkCognition, TrendKite, True Wealth Ventures, TheWaveVR, The Zebra and numerous others.
These 50 honorees hail from 10 different categories: “B2B Tech,” “Consumer Tech,” “Cybersecurity,” “EdTech,” “Health and Life Sciences,” “LifeStyle,” “Marketing / Advertising / Design / PR,” “Social Impact,” “Supporters,” and “Inno Picks.” Each category includes five finalists — and the winner of each category will be announced at the October 4 ceremony.
Tickets for 50 on Fire start at $35 and can be purchased online.
Other events for the week of October 2
October 2: Women Who Code
October 2: Data Visualization and Intro to Tableau
October 3: Intro to Fundraising in Texas
October 3: Funding for Female Founders
October 3: Austin Entrepreneur’s Hour
October 3: FinTech Austin Meet Up
October 3: Creating a Burn Out Plan for You & Your Stakeholders
October 3: New Worlds Space Meet Up
October 3: Talk Data to Me
October 3: iPhone Developers Meet Up
October 3: Tech Town Hall with Council Member Alison Alter
October 3: Finding Your Path to Product Market Fit
October 4: Introduction to Product Management
October 4: Austin Online Marketing for Entrepreneurs
October 4: Data Science and Web Development Info Session
October 5: Austin Quantified Self Meet Up
October 5: ATX + PAK Pitch Showcase
October 5: Laravel Austin Meet Up
October 5: Dataconomy + Big Data Austin
October 6–8: ACL Fest, Weekend #1
October 7: Bolder Board Training
October 7: VR for Social Impact
October 7: Sprites Tech Academy
October 8: User Experience Design Bootcamp
More upcoming events:
October 9–13: Austin Startup Week
October 10: SXSW Featured Speaker Announcement
October 10: Face 2 Face with Jag Bath of Favor
October 11: VentureCrush ATX
October 12–12: Star Wars: A New Hope
October 13: David Carr Prize Entry Deadline
October 13: SXSW Place By Design Entry Deadline
October 13–15: ACL Fest, Weekend #2
October 16: SXSW 2018 Content Announcement
October 17: Zoe Quinn Book Reading
October 17: Tech Town Hall with Council Member Ora Houston
October 17: Austin Forum: Future of Electric Power for a Smart City
October 18: Small Business Forum
October 20: SXSW Music Showcase Application Deadline
October 20: SXSW Film Submission Deadline
October 21: ContentATX
October 26: Fast 50 Cocktail Reception & Awards
November 4–5: Texas Book Festival
November 6–10: Austin Design Week
November 8–9: Developer Week Austin
November 10: SXSW Accelerator deadline
November 10: SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards Deadline
November 10–12: Sound on Sound Fest
February 26-28: Social Media Week Austin
March 9–18: SXSW 2018
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Hugh Forrest serves as Chief Programming Officer at SXSW, the world’s most unique gathering of creative professionals. He also tries to write at least four paragraphs per day on Medium. These posts often cover tech-related trends; other times they focus on books, pop culture, sports and other current events.
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