Austin Mosaic Awards Return Aug 22
The Forrest Four-Cast: August 8, 2019
At 6pm on Thursday, August 22 at the Google Fiber Space (500 W 2nd St), the second annual Austin Mosaic Awards honor business leaders who represent the very best of the city’s fast-growing diversity and inclusion space. RSVP here to save your spot at this important and inspiring event.
The 47 finalists for 2019 can be found via this story on Austin Inno.
Sponsors for the 2019 Austin Mosaic Awards include WSGR, Google, Notley Ventures, the Entrepreneur’s Foundation, Culturati Summit, Kungfu.ai, Just Works, the Diversity Pledge, the Austin Chamber of Commerce, Capital Factory and SXSW.
Winners from the inaugural Austin Mosaic Awards included Indeed, Galvanize, Chi’lantro BBQ, Threatcare and The New Philanthropists. The Mosaic Awards also honored four individuals for their work — Angelica Erazo, Charlie Jackson, Gloria de Leon and Gary Bledsoe.
Click here to see the full list of 2018 honorees.
Innovation-Focused Events in Austin for the Week of August 5
August 5: SXSW PanelPicker Voting Opens
August 5: Make Mother Earth Great Again
August 5: Free Introduction to Coding: HTML + CSS
August 5: Intro to the Austin Media Scene
August 5: Learn to Code: JavaScript 101
August 5: Close the Gap — MVP to Market & Scale
August 5: BitAngelsTexas Meet Up
August 6: Austin Forum on “Technology, Space & Humanity”
August 6: Capital Factory Accelerator Info Session
August 6: Intro to Texas Fundraising with Nick Spiller & Mike Marcantonios
August 6: Austin Deep Learning Journal Club
August 6: Austin iPhone Developers Meet Up
August 6: Austin Podcasting Meet Up
August 7: 1 Million Cups
August 7: User Experience Design Immersive Info Session
August 7: Austin Online Marketing for Entrepreneurs
August 7: Introduction to Data Science
August 7: EmacsATX Meet Up
August 8: Trends 2019 — The Improv Edition
August 8: IBM Watson Cognitive Tech Meet Up
August 8: Austin WordPress Meet Up
August 8: Working Women Entrepreneur “Coffee Talk” Series
August 8: Austin Coding Academy | Developer Series: React Native
August 8: Introduction to Digital Marketing
More Upcoming Austin Innovation Events
August 15: Diversity & Inclusion in Technology
August 15: Driving Change With Innovation
August 16: Tech for Community Hackathon
August 20: Austin Music Tech Meet Up
August 21: AWS (Amazon Web Services)AI & ML Workshop
August 22: Austin Mosaic Awards
August 28: Army S&T Summit Networking Social
Sept 6: Salman Rushdie Book Reading
Sept 9: Austin Fast Start Mobility Innovation Pitch Event
Sept 14: ContentATX3
Sept 19: Mighty Big Day
Sept 9: EquitySpace: Designing for an Inclusive Community
Sept 30-Oct 1: ARTIFACT
Oct 2–4: ComNet 19
Oct 4–6: Austin City Limits Festival, Weekend 1
Oct 11–13: Austin City Limits Festival, Weekend 2
Oct 26–27: Texas Book Festival
Nov 4–8: Austin Design Week
Nov 6: SpaceATX
Nov 13–14: Time Machine 2019
Nov 19: InnoTech Austin
Jan 12: 2020 Austin Startup Games
March 13–21: SXSW 2020
April 17–19: 2020 Austin Reggae Festival
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.
