Episode 59: Annee Ngo of Protohack

Alex & Drew open the show talking about Alex's progress learning to code which she talks about further in her blog. They discuss meetups they attended the past week and then highlight a few upcoming meetups around town in the Vancouver tech scene.

Our guest this week is Annee Ngo of Protohack and PressReader. Protohack activates and supports the start-up community by hosting global events that help people with amazing ideas get mentorship, training, and business requirement validation so they can turn their idea into a real-world business. Protohack also hosts white label events, and the next upcoming event will be on April 29th.

Stay tuned for Annee's upcoming Media hackathon to disrupt mainstream media! If you're interested in getting involved you can reach Annee by email or on twitter: @protohackvan or at @anneengo.

##Meetups Around Town

###Monday, January 16th

NetSquared Vancouver: Tech4Good and Nonprofits (#210 - 128 W Hastings) 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Git Help! and 0-Tech (436 West Pender) 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
VPC: Spring Info Session (90-425 Carrall St) 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Polyglot Vancouver Reading Group (220-750 Hamilton St) 6:00 PM
VPC: AMA with Hussein Hallak (300-128 W. Hastings) 6:00 PM
Vancouver Linux Users Group: Michael Potter - Seatbelts and Airbags for Bash (SFU Harbour Centre, 515 W. Hastings St.) 7:00 PM

###Tuesday, January 17th

VPC: Open Coffee (315 Carrall Street) 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM
Vancouver Robot Operating Systems (ROS) Users Group (shown to members $5.00 entrance) 6:00 PM
Vancouver Digital Project Managers: Rise of Emoji'onal Intelligence & X-Team Communication (Invoke Media, 4th Floor - 322 Water St.) 6:00 PM
DCTRL (436 West Pender) 7:00 PM to 9:15 PM
Vancouver Hack Space - Weekly Open house (#104-1715 Cook St.) 7:30 PM

###Wednesday, January 18th

Vancouver Linux Desktop Meetup (436 W Pender St) 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM
VPC Launch Talk with Milun Tesovic - Technology Trends & What to Build! (Launch Academy, 300 - 128 W. Hastings St.) 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Vancouver Pluralsight Study Group (100 - 425 Carrall St) 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM
.NET User Group of BC (1100-1111 West Georgia St) 5:45 PM
Learn Data Science (555 W Hastings St) 6:00 PM
Vancouver Data Visualization (1141 Hamilton st) 6:00 PM
Lean Agile YVR (Suite #400 - 401 W. Georgia St) 6:00 PM
Vancouver Product Managers Group Roundtable: Lessons Learned from Careers in Product (A Thinking Ape Studios #200 - 1132 Alberni St.) 6:00 PM

###Thursday, January 19th

DDD/CQRS/ES Practitioners (436 West Pender St) 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Women Who Code Vancouver (7th Floor, 725 Granville St) 5:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Vancouver Web Design Meetup (142 W Hastings St) 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
Vancouver Clojure - Hacknight (142 W Hastings St) 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Full Indie (The Butcher and Bullock, 911 West Pender St.) 6:00 PM
Code & Coffee (Mobify, #420 - 725 Granville St.) 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

###Friday, January 20th

Vancouver Internet Technology Talents Networking @ 9CAT.NET Tech & Startup Weekly (Unit 950 - 777 Hornby St.) (call 604-440-1433 / 778-927-3746 to get you in) 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

###Saturday, January 21st

VPC & OpenDataBC(Vancouver) Fraser Health Hackathon (250, 13450, 102 Street, Surrey) 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM Sunday, January 22
Metro Vancouver FPGA Meetup IoT Exploration (Microsoft, 11th Floor, 1111 W. Georgia St.) 11:30 AM to 5:00 PM)

Theme music by A Shell In The Pit from the game Parkitect

Credit for audio engineering to Anthony Morris

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