July 27–29: Mayor’s Blockchain Challenge
The Forrest Four-Cast: July 22, 2018
The Office of Mayor Steve Adler, along with the the City of Austin Office of Innovation and the Dell Medical School are collaborating to create an innovative solution to a homelessness service delivery crisis in Austin as part of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Mayors Challenge.
Scheduled July 27–29 at the Faulk Library in downtown Austin (800 Guadalupe Street), the Mayor’s Blockchain Challenge aims to erase barriers to important services by using blockchain technology to permanently store and maintain important documents and transactions that make up an identity.
Read more about the Mayor’s Blockchain Challenge via this Medium post from Austin Chief Innovation Officer Kerry O’Connor.
If you are want to participate in this innovative event, click here to read more about the process. Or, if you just want to see the creative homeless-related solutions that arise via this three-day event, then come to the Faulk Library on Sunday, July 29 to watch demonstrations, judging and awards.
More Austin events for the week of July 23
July 23: Texas Crypto Meet Up
July 23: Austin Startup Meet Up
July 23: Action Design ATX
July 23: Introduction to User Experience Design
July 23: Data Visualization and Stability
July 24: Learn to Code Austin Meet Up
July 24: Open Pitch Practice and Pizza
July 24: Future Tech Showcase
July 24: Austin Developing Product Managers Meet Up
July 24: Austin Mobile & Indie Game Dev Meet Up
July 25: The Coding Roadmap to Success
July 25: Get Paid: How to Negotiate Your Salary
July 25: Product School Meet Up
July 26: Intro to Coding: HTML & CSS
July 26: Austin Startup and Tech Summer Networking Mixer
July 26: NonProfit Tech Club Austin
July 26: Design Thinking Crash Course
July 26: Austin Sales & Business Development
July 26: The Austin Web Python User Group Meet Up
July 26: Coolest Companies Fest
July 26: Front-End Web Development Info Session
July 26: Product Management Info Session
July 26: Pierpoint Communications Summer Shindig
July 27–29: The Mayor’s Blockchain Challenge
July 28: Women in Tech Machine Learning Product Hackathon
July 28: Social Impact Summit
July 28–29: Classic Game Fest
More Upcoming Austin Events:
August 1: First day of badge sales for SXSW 2019
August 1: ATI SEAL 2018 Decision Day
August 3–5: RTX Austin 2018
August 7: The Promise and the Peril of Gene Editing
August 9: Team Austin Summer Startup Pitch
Aug 10–12: Iron Dragon Action Fest
August 15: MassChallenge Texas Awards Ceremony
August 22: Snap Judgement LIVE!
August 23: Profiles in Power
August 29: Scale Up
September 4: Austin Forum Cybersecurity Session
September 13–15: Online News Association (ONA) Conference
September 20–22: Creatives Meet Business Experience 2018
September 27–29: 2018 Texas Tribune Festival
October 2: InnoTech Austin
Oct 5–7: ACL Fest, Weekend #1
Oct 9: Texas Voter Registration Deadline
Oct 12–14: ACL Fest, Weekend #2
Oct 25-Nov 1: Austin Film Festival
October 27–28: 2018 Texas Book Festival
November 6: 2018 Midterm Elections
November 9: SXSW Pitch Entry Deadline
November 9: SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards Entry Deadline
November 27–28: Solar Business Festival
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.
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