Smart Resources

Women Who Code- Algorithms
2019-08-26 18:00 - 20:00 UTC | authentic, 101 W. 7th Street, Richmond, VA, 23224, United States
Algorithm (n.) – a set of step-by-step instructions for solving a task
If you have ever followed a recipe or given someone driving directions, you have used an algorithm. Algorithms are used in computer science to solve problems ranging from sorting to programming self-driving cars. In this meetup, we will strengthen our problem-solving skills and logical thinking by solving an algorithm challenge.
All levels are welcome, including beginners. The challenges can be solved in the language of your choosing.
Laptops are strongly encouraged, but not required.
Parking is available in the lot on 6th and Bainbridge or on the street.

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY FAIR
2019-08-23 08:00 - 2019-08-31 17:00 | 10300 Courthouse Road Chesterfield, Va 23832, 10300 Courthouse Road, Chesterfield, VA, 23832
Catch the fun at the 106th Chesterfield County Fair! Enjoy live music, carnival rides, a petting zoo, tasty fair treats, a parade, and much more!

Richmond Java Users Group
2019-08-21 05:30 - 19:30 | The Veil, 1301 Roseneath RD, VA, United States
This month, we’re going to take a break from a speaker so we can have a networking event.
Come cool off, meet some of the community, and drink some beer at The Veil!

Richmond VA Linux Users Group
2019-08-17 10:00 - 12:00 | Richmond Public Library, 101 E. Franklin St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
Please join us this August for a presentation on the Naomi Open Source Voice Assistant, presented by Aaron.
Let us know if there are other topics you would like us to cover either at this or future meetings!

React Native
2019-08-16 18:00 - 20:00 | 3122 W Marshall St, 3122 W Marshall St, Richmond, va
Join us for our first React Native meetup. One of our top React Native gurus Andrew Rumbley will kick us off with an Overview of the React Native Ecosystem and then dive into React Native Developer tools, tips and tricks.
This group and meetup events are open to both advanced and beginner users and are free!
We intend to kick things off around 6:00pm.
If you would like to speak at a future event please contact us through Meetup or send an email to kevon.adonis @ shockoe.com

RVA Python User Group
2019-08-14 18:30 - 20:30 | VCU Engineering East, 401 W Main St. Room 2214, Richmond, United States
Join us for our monthly speaker meeting!
This month, we’re going to have a panel Q&A session! Please send in your questions and we’ll answer as many as we can!
Schedule:
Networking 6:30 PM
Speaker 7:00 PM

Richmond SQL Server Users Group
2019-08-08 18:30 - 20:00 | 4600 Cox RD Glen Allen Va, 4600 Cox Rd, Glen Allen, VA, United States
Geoff Johnson-Working with SSIS Script Component: Some Tips Learned the Hard Way
SQL Server Integration Services is relatively new to me; I started working with it about two years ago. As I have been using the Script Component, I have run into some challenges that I imagine many new users of that tool have also encountered. Now I have a love-hate relationship with the Script Component because it still annoys me in certain ways, but it also makes some transformation steps much easier. In this presentation, I’ll share what I’ve learned while using the Script Component to do conversion projects pulling data from Excel and Access into SQL Server. If you’re just getting started with SSIS and the Script Component, this information should save you some time and frustration. And if you’re an old hand at it, maybe you can help me – and others — overcome those annoying bits.

Richmond Data Science Community
2019-08-06 18:00 - 20:00 | snagajob, 4851 Lake Brook Drive, Glen Allen
Tired of reading blogs and tutorials to help improve your data science skills? Come out to our live Data Science AMA with experienced local data science professionals and get ready for a lively discussion! Our panel of seasoned data scientists have decades of combined experience and will be answering your questions live!
Guest AMA Panel:
* Zachary Anglin – Lead Data Scientist @ S&P Global
* Zachary Brown – Senior Manager, Data Science @ Snag
* Pablo Ormachea – VP Data Science @ West Creek Financial
* Michael Pfaffenberger – Lead Data Scientist @ S&P Global

RICHMOND INTERNATIONAL DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL
2019-08-03 08:00 - 16:30 | Rocketts Landing, 5000 Old Osborne Turnpike, Richmond
Led by the rhythmic beat of a drum, teams of 20 synchronized paddlers, one drummer and one steersperson race 500 meters up the river in 40-foot canoes rigged with decorative Chinese dragon heads and tails.

Richmond International Dragon Boat Festival
2019-07-28 08:00 - 17:00

Richmond Java Users Group
2019-07-17 19:00 - 21:00 | 3431 Ww Leigh St, 3431 W Leigh St, Richmond, United States
Dependency Injection seems like this SUPER complex topic that only the most senior developers understand. At the end of the day, it’s just “inversion of control” where instances of objects/classes are provided to you, instead of created by you. Kotlin’s language features allow us to do this concisely, without a library, and in this talk I’ll show you how to DO IT YOURSELF. This talk will demystify dependency injection and help you understand the huge benefits it provides for testing, maintainability and modularity.

Hanover Tomato Festival
2019-07-14 09:00 - 16:00 | Pole Green Park, 8996 Pole Green Park Ln, Mechanicsville, United States
The Hanover Tomato Festival is a free, family-oriented event featuring Hanover tomatoes (obviously!), live musical entertainment, 150 artisan & business vendors, delicious tomato dishes, the MaterFUN zone (designed for children 12 & under), Bow-Wow Beach (cooling station for pets) and more! Get an early start with Tomato-Palooza on Friday, July 13 with tomato-tastings, live music, vendors, contests, food trucks, and the incredibly fun Papa John’s 4K pizza run & relay.

Richmond SQL Server Users Group
2019-07-11 18:00 - 20:00 | 4600 Cox RD Glen Allen Va, 4600 Cox Rd, Glen Allen, VA, United States
Ever had a manager standing over your shoulder, wanting to know why an instance is running slow or if it can handle additional workload? What information would you use to answer these questions? If only you knew what performance metrics to collect and had them for your existing instances to answer these questions.
In this session, we will discuss sp_whoisactive and Query Store. Then we will be combining three open source tools – Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana – into an inexpensive system that collects performance metrics you can use to troubleshoot issues and answer important questions about your SQL Server instances, including your Linux SQL Server instances. We will learn what metrics to collect, how to use the tools to collect performance metrics and then we’ll put it all together in an interactive dashboard for easy visualization.

RVA Python User Group
2019-07-10 18:30 - 20:30 | VCU Engineering East, 401 W Main St. Room 2214, Richmond, United States
Join us for our monthly speaker meeting!
Schedule:
Networking 6:30 PM
Speaker 7:00 PM
Please contact an organizer if you’re interested in giving a talk.
Watch for upcoming project night meetings.

RVA Software Development User Group
2019-07-03 08:00 - 17:00 | 4800 Cox Rd Ste 100, 4800 Cox Rd Ste 100, Glen Allen, VA, United States
Building platforms is hard. Building platforms that scale is even harder. We will walk through applying principles that will open the up the doors for discovering microservices within our platforms. Ultimately we will learn that how we work is just as important as what we do.
As a lead software engineer at Terazo, Michael Blakeney is on a mission to enable, support, and encourage the efforts of multiple teams engaged in delivering platforms that scale to customers. Leveraging devops principles, cloud technologies like Amazon Web Services, and solid software engineering practices, Michael loves designing and building modern cloud solutions. With experience in applying agile principles, he leads engineering teams to build applications that solve complex problems. Throughout his career Michael has worked with teams in developing serverless API backends, modern database applications, data migrations, and well architected cloud based solutions.

STAR SPANGLED CELEBRATION
2019-07-01 08:00 - 2019-07-04 17:00 | kings dominion, 16000 Theme Park Way, Doswell, United States
Kings Dominion will be decked out in red, white, and blue this Independence Day! Celebrate all weekend long with energetic performances from local military bands and dazzling firework shows each evening, plus all of your favorite rides. Kings Dominion is also honoring service members by offering FREE admission to the park for active and retired military as well as veterans with honorable or medical discharge, and discount tickets for friends and family.

Richmond VA Linux Users Group
2019-06-15 10:00 - 12:00 | Richmond Public Library, 101 E. Franklin St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
Please join us this month, topic TBD!
Let us know if there are other topics you would like us to cover either at this or future meetings!

Richmond SQL Server Users Group
2019-06-13 18:30 - 20:00 | Markel Plaza Building 1, 4600 Cox Rd, Glen Allen, VA, 23060, United States
Recent years have seen an increase in end-user reporting, where reporting tools, notably Tableau, are provided to business teams in order to offload analytics and reporting from Information Technology groups. In practice, this has often resulted in the rise of business reporting teams with varying levels of database and SQL skill. In this presentation, we’ll discuss what it’s like to work on a business side reporting team, capabilities and limitations of Tableau, and business reporting team experiences with source data and data layer teams.

Richmond Bacon Festival
2019-06-09 08:00 - 17:00 | Richmond Farmer’s Market, 100 N. 17th Street, Richmond, 23219, United States
Maple bacon lattes, bacon wrapped hot dogs, bacon mac-n-cheese, bacon cheddar string fries, bacon ice cream sundaes… the list goes on and on, with bacon finding a way into every food group you can imagine. The Bacon Festival takes place at 17th Street Farmers Market and highlights some really great small businesses that share a love for bacon.

Azure Richmond
2019-06-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Markel Plaza, 4600 Cox Rd, Glen Allen, VA, 23060, United States
For June we will explore how to combine the power of Github and Azure DevOps.

Richmond Greek Festival
2019-05-30 11:00 - 2019-06-02 19:00 | Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 30 Malvern Ave, Richmond, VA, 23221, United States
The Greek Food Festival has arrived. Check out all of the music, dancing, and culture that the festival has to offer while feasting on all the Greek delights! In a rush? Go through the drive through and serve it up on the go or at home. And if you can’t wait till June, you can always pay a visit to Greek on Cary or Stella’s.

RVA Software Development User Group
2019-05-21 18:15 - 19:45 | 4800 Cox Rd Ste 100, 4800 Cox Rd Ste 100, Glen Allen, VA, United States
Our presenter for the evening is Dr. Miriam Friedel, Head of Data Science at Skafos (https://skafos.ai/).
Software Engineers and Data Scientists necessarily have different approaches to Machine Learning, sometimes putting them at odds; however, successfully applying ML requires both groups. Understanding both how a Machine Learning model works and how its predictions can be integrated into a product (and thus made useful) are equally critical. The next wave of applications will run on machine learning, so both developers and data scientists will need to be well versed in what it means to deploy models to the edge. In this meetup, we will highlight:
– An introduction to Machine Learning Deployment
– Why a walking skeleton is more important than a perfectly trained model
– Special considerations for ML on Edge Devices
– Use Case: Using an Image Classification model to detect Poison Ivy in an iOS app
– Use a pre-trained model to build an app that can distinguish Cats and Dogs
– Highlight how Juypter Labs can be used to replace the training data and retrain the model to identify Poison Ivy
– Push the retrained model to the app in real time

Dominion Riverrock
2019-05-17 17:00 - 2019-05-19 17:00 | Historic Tredegar, 500 Tredegar Street, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
Richmond’s river system, trails, and outdoor vibes are an integral part of the RVA culture – so much so that there’s a festival for it! And not just any festival, Dominion Riverrock is one of the world’s largest outdoor sports and music festivals. The weekend is packed full of events – mud runs, bike races, white-water kayaking, bouldering competitions, stand up paddle boarding, and more! And you know the high-flying Ultimate Airdogs are back! Anyone (or any dog) can participate in the amateur events, and for all the time between, you’ll find endless music and food!

Richmond SQL Server Users Group
2019-05-09 18:30 - 20:00 | 4600 Cox RD Glen Allen Va, 4600 Cox Rd, Glen Allen, VA, United States
Session Abstract:
When it comes to getting your data into Excel or Power BI, M is your best choice. The M Language (A.K.A Power Query) is a powerful tool for self-service data preparation. However, it’s not clear where it fits compared to tools like SSIS or TSQL. It’s also not clear what it’s limitations are. This session will cover the basics of M and when to use it. In this session, we’ll demonstrate how M is a linear series of transformations, just like a set of steps from a recipe. We’ll show how 80% of what you will ever need to do can be done from the GUI. We’ll also talk about how to write custom code for that other 20%. By the end of this presentation, you’ll be able to take any manual cleanup you do today and turn it into a repeatable process with M.

Women Who Code Richmond
2019-05-06 18:00 - 20:00 | 1717 Innovation Center, 1717 E Cary St, Richmond, VA, United States
Join us for a hands-on, interactive workshop diving into the intersections between the multidisciplinary field of study of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Product Management! In this workshop, we discuss the applications of HCI in building successful, customer-focused products by exploring methods for user needfinding and empathy research, design alternatives, and prototyping within the context of everyday web applications.
Not familiar with Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)? HCI is a multidisciplinary field of study focused on the design of computer technology and, in particular, the interaction between humans (the users) and computers. While initially concerned with computers, HCI has since expanded to cover almost all forms of information technology design.
In this workshop, we will explore the intersections between Human Computer Interaction and Product Management, specifically focusing on the Design Life Cycle. The iterative nature of the Design Life Cycle enables product managers, designers and engineers to continuously ideate and refine to build truly mature, profitable, customer-focused products. We will have a light dinner and beverages and look forward to a fun evening learning hands-on about HCI!
Laptops are strongly encouraged, but not required.
All levels are welcome, including beginners!

HackRVA Open House
2019-05-02 19:00 - 21:00 | 1600 E. Roseneath Rd, 1600 E. Roseneath Rd, Richmond, VA, 23230, United States
Come show off a project, socialize, or just hang out. Thinking about becoming a member, come on in. All are welcome!
Guests, please park on the street, permits are required to park in our parking lot.
Hack.RVA is a member-run non-profit makerspace located in the Scott’s Addition neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia. We’re essentially a space filled with tools, computers, and people who like to build, invent, tinker, learn new skills and expand their minds. In our space you’ll find people into electronics, robots, wood working, embedded software, metal working, music, art, video, photography, 3D printing, sewing, textiles, virtual reality, gaming, lasers and much more.
If you’d like to get some orientation about what HackRVA is and what we do before visiting, please check out our website at hackrva.org (http://www.hackrva.org).

Azure Richmond Virginia
2019-05-02 18:00 - 20:00 | 4600 Cox RD Glen Allen Va, 4600 Cox Rd, Glen Allen, VA, United States
It’s the best thing since sliced bread and management wants their long awaited dashboard. They say it only costs $10 a month, but what does that really mean? There is a lots of hype around Power BI and this session explores the components and pieces you will need for successful construction and deployment of Power BI reports. The session will detail the architecture and vocabulary used by Microsoft for this awesome visualization tool. This session is geared toward those who have not yet implemented Power BI.

French Food Festival
2019-04-26 16:00 - 2019-04-27 20:00 | 1503 Michaels Rd Henrico, VA 23229, 1503 Michaels Rd, Henrico, VA, 23229, United States
Do you love French food? Do you long to stroll the streets of Paris? We can’t help you get to the real thing, but you’ll feel transported straight to France and all its food and drink with Richmond’s French Food Festival. Since 2009, this event has benefitted the Little Sisters of the Poor, which aids the elderly population of Richmond. Last year’s menu featured a “crusty filet of salmon coulibiac with spinach lobster sauce,” and this years’ impressive line-up of chefs includes Alsace-born Paul Elbling. Is your mouth watering yet?

Earth Day Festival
2019-04-21 12:00 - 19:00
Earth Day celebrates the fact that we need to protect the planet we live on, and the Earth Day Festival educates attendees on how to do just that, creating a safer, healthier environment. With that said, the festival is also about fun. Taking place in Shockoe Slip, there’s good food, drinks, animals, and kayaking rentals just a few blocks away.

Event is located
South of 14th Street bridge at Plant Zero, Diversity Park, Hull Street and 1st through 4th Streets in Manchester.

Tech on Tap
2019-04-18 17:00 - 19:00
Join the Richmond Technology Council for Tech on Tap at Ardent Craft Ales! Network, enjoy a drink and engage with the rvatech community!
