Detroit | Tech Jobs Tour

Helping Diverse + Non-Traditional Talent Find Jobs.

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This tour will bring together diverse and non-traditional talent with companies who need their skills the most.

Right now America has over 500,000 open tech jobs – by 2020 this number will grow to over 1 million. At the time same time, over 60% of all new coders, engineers and data scientists are emerging from bootcamps and industry-current vocational schools.

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Learn More About How Our Events Work

Speed Mentoring

Speed mentoring == networking that doesn’t suck! It’s a great way to build relationships quickly and connect with other people in tech. We especially seek mentors and mentees in software development and design, QA, data science, and product management. To sign up, just tell us what skills you have and which skills you’d like to learn.

Showcase + Demos

Past Participants: Make School, Dev Bootcamp, Hackbright Academy, Hack Reactor, Grace Hopper Academy, Coding Dojo, Telegraph Track, BLOC, MotherCoders, Floodgate Academy, The Iron Yard, Turing School, Galvanize, Metis, Designation.io, Fullstack Academy, MakerSquare, Rithm School, Epicodus, General Assembly, Apprentice.io by Thoughtbot, Grace Hopper Program, DevMountain, Sabio.la, UT Austin Coding Boot Camp, and more.

Tech Career Fair

We recruit: front end developers, back end developers, mobile developers, graphic designers, UX + UI designers, data scientists, database administrators, tech journalists, product + project managers, IT professionals, full stack engineers, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, and Java programmers, social media professionals, marketing professionals, and more.

#AmericaIsHiring

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Agenda

5:00 PM	Doors Open + Networking Starts
5:55 - 6:00 PM	Welcome by Tech Jobs Tour Team
6:00 - 6:30 PM	Speed Mentoring I
6:45 - 6:50 PM	Welcome by Graig Donnelly (Chief Strategy Officer TechTown)
6:50 - 6:55 PM	Coding Bootcamp 101 with Damien Rocchi (CEO + Founder, Grand Circus)
6:55 - 7:00 PM	Special Guests Ask & Offer: Jill Ford, (Head of Innovation, City of Detroit), Nathan Labenz (CEO + Founder, Waymark)
7:00 - 7:15 PM	Keynote Speaker: Megan Smith (3rd CTO of the United States, Shift7 CEO, Entrepreneur and Engineer)
7:30 - 8:00 PM	Speed Mentoring II
8:30 PM	Doors Close