Startup Weekend HackOut, June 7-10
The Forrest Four-Cast: June 5, 2018
Show your tech pride at the world’s only LGBTQIA-themed Startup Weekend Hackout! Hosted at the Domain-based headquarters of Austin’s HomeAway, Techstars Startup Weekend HackOut begins Thursday evening, June 7 and runs through Sunday, June 10.
The event includes three full days packed with tools, support and passion to help you take your idea for a startup or lifestyle business and manifest it into an actual living, breathing venture. You’ll learn all the nitty-gritty details about how to create a company and meet mentors, investors, co-founders and sponsors ready about able to help you get started.
Startup Weekend HackOut is being organized in partnership with Techstars, StartOut and Lesbians Who Tech. SXSW is thrilled to serve as a contributing sponsor for Startup Weekend HackOut this year.
Finally, if LGBTQIA topics are of interest to you, then also be sure check out content from March Magic 2018, which included community alliances, the gender spectrum, activism, visibility, the movement towards equality, and more. Click here to browse the queer-related content from this year’s event. You can also listen to audio from several of these sessions from SXSW 2018:
Beyond Boxes: The Intersex Case for Intersectionality
Diversity in Tech: It’s Not Just a Gender Problem
Youth Power: Young Activists on the Front Lines
Other Austin events for the week of June 4
June 4: Apple WWDC Keynote Viewing Party
June 4: Intro to the Austin Media Scene — Media ATX
June 4: Best Practices for Prototypes and MVPs
June 4: Austin Virtual League Meet Up
June 4: Austin RB Meet UP
June 5: Austin Forum: The Internet of Things
June 5: Venture Forth Pitch Night and Graduation
June 5: Capital Factory Accelerator Info Session
June 5: Intro to Fundraising in Austin
June 5: iPhone Developers Meet Up
June 5: User Experience Design Info Session
June 5: New Worlds Space
June 5: Product Management Info Session
June 6: Health Tech Austin
June 6: Launch Your Freelance Design Career
June 6: Austin Digital Marketing Conference
June 6: EmacsATX Meet Up
June 6: Austin Online Marketing for Entrepreneurs
June 6: Data Science and Web Development Info Session
June 6: IOT Deep Dive Workshop Meet Up
June 7: Austin Marketo User Group Meet Up
June 7: Laravel Austin Meet Up
June 7–10: Startup Weekend Hackout 2018
June 9: Factom Blockchain Hackathon
Other upcoming Austin events
June 11: Cofounders Wanted Austin Meetup
June 12: How Technology Impacts Success
June 12: Intro to the Austin Startup Scene and Ask Me Anything
June 13: Female Founders Meet Up
June 13: Austin Hispanic Hackers Meetup
June 13: ACG Central Texas’ Growth Awards Lunch
June 14: Video Game Makers Unite!
June 16: Latinitas Party for Chica Power
June 19: SKU 6 Showcase Day — Graduation Pitch Event
June 20: Intro to Seed Funding & SputnikATX
June 20: Convergence of Healthcare and Technology
June 21: Central Texas LGBT-Allies Diversity Summit
June 21: Uncloaking the Crypto World and Unravelling the Blockchain
June 22: DivInc Demo Day
June 23: Austin Ice Cream Festival
June 25: SXSW 2019 PanelPicker Speaking Application Process Begins
August 3–5: RTX Austin 2018
August 22: Snap Judgement LIVE!
October 2: InnoTech Austin
If you have a creativity-focused event that you want listed in this space, then please contact hugh at sxsw dot com.
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.
