1871 Events View this email in your browser Events at 1871 8/10/14 - 8/16/14 Happy Saturday!



Check out what is happening at 1871! ---------- Last Week ---------- Tuesday, August 5 Startup Day Across America U.S. Representative Mike Quigley celebrated Startup Day Across America at 1871, where he met with local startups to discuss the importance of high-tech entrepreneurship and ways the government can support the industry. How to be Customer Obsessed in B2B Influitive and Gainsight hosted an event to teach how to be customer obsessed in B2B. We heard from: Bob Peterson, Research Director at SiriusDecisions

Eric Marcy, VP of Demand Generation and Marketing Operations at SAVO

Mark Organ, Founder and CEO of Influitive

Anthony Kennada, VP of Marketing at Gainsight ---------- Upcoming This Week ----------

Tuesday, August 12 Brewed in Chicago - (5:30-7:30pm) - 1871 Kitchen Experience many new beers that you haven't tried before and make new friends doing it with 1871 startup, Brewed in Chicago .



To attend this event, you are asked to bring one craft beer that is brewed in Chicago. There is a Binny's located three blocks North of the Merchandise Mart. They have a large section dedicated to Chicago Craft Beer. Google Developers Group - (6:00pm-8:30pm) - 1871 Auditorium Come meet other developers who work with and/or are interested in Google Technologies.



Justin Munger will continue presenting on developing for Android Wear, moving from bridged notifications on the phone/tablet into creating functionality that runs directly on Wear. There will be a brief discussion on contextual notifications followed by an introduction to creating full-screen Android Wear apps for both square and round display.



Agenda:

6:00-6:30: Socializing, networking and pizza

6:30-6:45: Announcements

6:45-7:45: Developing for Android Wear, Part 2: Wearable Apps and Data Layer API

7:45-8:30: General discussion



Register here to attend! OpenGov Hack Night - ( 6:00pm-10:00pm ) - IMSA Classroom and is for those looking to This is for people working at the intersection of open government, cities, and technology. It includes civic tech hacking, collaboration, learning and networking and is open to the public. This event is organized by civic tech group Open City and is for those looking to get work done on civic projects

start a new project, or find one to join (including non-coders)

bounce ideas and get help from tech and gov experts

learn about open data, smart cities, and open gov Wednesday, August 13

Personalizing Student Growth with Blended Learning - (9:00am-4:30pm) - 1871 Auditorium 1871 will welcome over 100 school administrators and teacher-leaders for a full-day workshop to focus on personalizing student growth on PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers) Assessments. Speakers include Howard Tullman, Eileen Murphy, Peter Stein, and Douglas O'Roark.

Register here for this event. Have a great week!



The 1871 Team