TechLife Columbus

The focus of this meetup group to accelerate the pace of getting to know really cool tech people in town. Join now and get the insider invites to our get togethers. Some are impromptu and some are planned. Either way you'll never know if you don't sign up. Our events will generally focus on tech community networking, entrepreneurship, environmental sustainability, and professional development.

Please check out a couple of other "on ramps" to our great tech community.

Blog - To stay up date about local tech news - http://columbustech.blogspot.com/ Wiki - To check out and contribute to reference info about our tech community - http://techlife.pbwiki.com/ LinkedIn - LinkedIn TechLife group - http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1776905&trk=hbsideg Facebook - Facebook group - http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=874148703

Peace out, Ben

Twitter: @bblanquera http://www.linkedin.com/in/benblanquera

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Past events

  • DEC Presents: FREE Small Business Legal Consulting with Caroline Z. Worley

    Thu, 11 Apr 2013, 15:00 - 17:00 in Columbus, United States

    Join us from 11:00am-1:00pm in the DEC Metro Conference Room.Receive your FREE Small Business Legal Consultation with Caroline Z. Worley, a small business attorney at Worley Law in Columbus, Ohio. She represents entrepreneurs in all aspects of corporate, business and commercial law, contracts and negotiations, business litigation, and real estate. She also specializes in counseling women entrepreneurs and woman-owned businesses.

  • StartUp Bus - going to SXSW - looking for coders, marketers and designers

    2-3 Mar 2013 in Columbus, United States

    Think you know startups?  Ready to test yourself against the best and brightest from around the country?  Applications are open for talented hackers (coders), hustlers (marketers) and hipsters (designers) looking for an amazing experience on the 2013 Columbus StartupBus.  We?re also looking for a few good sponsors. below to learn how to apply

  • Cultivating and Managing Stakeholders And Leadership Support

    28 Feb-1 Mar 2013 in Columbus, United States

    When we talk about collaboration, we sometimes forget that collaboration extends beyond the team. At one time or another we have all witnessed a brilliant idea or solution, derailed in an instant by a stakeholder or leader. Most of us at some point have experienced a leader overreacting to anecdotal concerns with a change. And we have all felt the consequences of not involving a key stakeholder early in an effort.

  • LOPSA: Getting a Foot in the Cloud

    27-28 Feb 2013 in Columbus, United States

    Get tickets and location via eEvent - Crawford will sharing his experience with establishing a machine as a micro instance using the resources of Amazon Web Services. John will be covering general steps and tools for deploying an architecture with the free resources of Amazon Web Services and will share his recent experience in this area.6:00PM - Introductions6:30PM - Chapter Business7:00PM - PresentationJohn has been working in Information Technology for over 30 years.

  • Software QA & Testing Meetup - Mobile Testing Tools

    26-27 Feb 2013 in Columbus, United States

    The Software QA & Testing meet-up is scheduled for the month of February.Topic: Mobile Application Testing ToolsFor more details and to RSVP, please visit: do not RSVP here)

  • Jelly @ TechDEC

    Thu, 17 Jan 2013, 14:00 - 19:00 in Columbus, United States

    The TechDEC is innovative office space for IT firms, tech-related businesses and startup ventures. The TechDEC is hosted within the Metro Data Center at 565 Metro Place South, Suite 300, Dublin, Ohio 43017.Jelly?s at the new TechDEC are held on the second and third Thursday of each month.Continuing education such as Lunch-and-Learns, workshops and skill-specific training courses will be offered at the new TechDEC on a monthly basis.

  • Jelly @ TechDEC

    Thu, 15 Nov 2012, 14:00 - 17:00 in Columbus, United States

    The City of Dublin is pleased to announce the addition of a second entrepreneur focused facility to compliment the Dublin Entrepreneurial Center “DEC.”The TechDEC is innovative office space for IT firms, tech-related businesses and startup ventures. The TechDEC is hosted within the Metro Data Center at 565 Metro Place South, Suite 300, Dublin, Ohio 43017.Starting in March, we will be posting events for both the DEC location and the new TechDEC.

  • Columbus SQL Server Users Group

    8-9 Nov 2012 in Columbus, United States

    click here for more detailsWe have meetings on the second Thursday of every month.In an ongoing attempt to make the content presented useful to our members we start each meeting with a short introduction and Q&A session.  Unless noted in the meeting notes the schedule for each meeting will be:6:00 - 6:30 - Networking & social time6:30 - 6:45 - Welcome and announcements6:45 - 7:45 - Presentation(s)7:45 - 8:30 - Door prizes and Question & Answer session

  • DEC Presents: FREE Small Business Legal Consulting with Caroline Z. Worley

    Thu, 8 Nov 2012, 16:00 - 19:00 in Columbus, United States

    Join us 11:00am-1:00pm in the 1st Floor Conference RoomReceive your FREE Small Business Legal Consultation with Caroline Z. Worley, a small business attorney at Worley Law in Columbus, Ohio. She represents entrepreneurs in all aspects of corporate, business and commercial law, contracts and negotiations, business litigation, and real estate. She also specializes in counseling women entrepreneurs and woman-owned businesses.

  • QA is everyone's responsibility

    25-26 Oct 2012 in Columbus, United States

    Who is responsible for QA on an Agile team? The answer is ?Everybody?. And yet this is rarely the case. Often the Testers write their test cases and automation in isolation and execute them after development is finished. Developers write their code without talking to the testers except to understand how to reproduce the latest discovered defect. Product Owners elaborate requirements in isolation and then hand them off to the team only to check back at the end of the sprint.

  • M3 Conference - 2nd Annual M3 Conference Tickets Now on Sale

    25-26 Oct 2012 in Columbus, United States

    Get more info and register here: is king, or at least it will be this October 25 th and 26th when the M3 Conference takes over the Ohio Union at The Ohio State  University. This two(2) day conference is the brainchild of Quick  Solutions, Fine Citizens and Sogeti, with founding support from Microsoft and Compuware. It is the only one in the Midwest that  focuses solely on aspects of development, marketing and promotion of  mobile.

  • Jelly @ TechDEC

    Thu, 18 Oct 2012, 13:00 - 16:00 in Columbus, United States

    The City of Dublin is pleased to announce the TechDec, an  entrepreneur focused facility.The TechDEC is innovative office space for IT firms, tech-related businesses and startup ventures. The TechDEC is hosted within the Metro Data Center at 565 Metro Place South, Suite 300, Dublin, Ohio 43017.Jelly?s at the DEC are held the second and third Thursday of each month at the new TechDEC.

  • Columbus SQL Server Users Group

    11-12 Oct 2012 in Columbus, United States

    click here for more detailsWe have meetings on the second Thursday of every month.In an ongoing attempt to make the content presented useful to our members we start each meeting with a short introduction and Q&A session.  Unless noted in the meeting notes the schedule for each meeting will be:6:00 - 6:30 - Networking & social time6:30 - 6:45 - Welcome and announcements6:45 - 7:45 - Presentation(s)7:45 - 8:30 - Door prizes and Question & Answer session

  • NEW LOCATION: TechDEC Presents: FREE Small Business Legal Consulting

    Thu, 11 Oct 2012, 15:00 - 17:00 in Columbus, United States

    Beginning October 1, 2012, Jelly's at the DEC (2nd Thursday of the month) will now be held at the TechDEC located at the Metro Center, 565 Metro Place South, Suite 300 Dublin Ohio.Join us 11:00am-1:00pm on the 3rd Floor.Receive your FREE Small Business Legal Consultation with Caroline Z. Worley, a small business attorney at Worley Law in Columbus, Ohio.

  • Web Analytics Wednesday

    3-4 Oct 2012 in Columbus, United States

    Web Analytics Wednesdays are an opportunity for full-time web analysts, part-time web analysts, and anyone who is interested in learning more about digital analytics to get together and share their experiences! They are always free thanks to the generosity of our sponsors: CRM Metrix, ExactTarget, and Resource.While it's great to RSVP on this site, please also click over to the Web Analytics Wednesdays site and RSVP there as well so we can get a decent headcount.

  • Welcome to SQLSaturday #164 - Cleveland

    Sat, 18 Aug 2012, 12:00 - 15:00 in Columbus, United States

    SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server. This event will be held Aug 18 2012 at DeVry University, 4141 Rockside Road Suite 110, Cleveland, OH 44131. Admittance to this event is free, but we do charge a lunch fee of 10.00 so that we can provide a lunch - not pizza! Please register soon as seating is limited, and let friends and colleages know about the event.click here to register

  • DEC Presents: FREE Small Business Legal Consulting with Caroline Z. Worley

    Thu, 9 Aug 2012, 15:00 - 18:00 in Columbus, United States

    Join us 11:00am-1:00pm in the 1st Floor Conference RoomReceive your FREE Small Business Legal Consultation with Caroline Z. Worley, a small business attorney at Worley Law in Columbus, Ohio. She represents entrepreneurs in all aspects of corporate, business and commercial law, contracts and negotiations, business litigation, and real estate. She also specializes in counseling women entrepreneurs and woman-owned businesses.

  • CloudDevelop Conference

    Fri, 3 Aug 2012, 08:00 - 17:00 in Columbus, United States

    CloudDevelop is the Midwest's premier conference for cloud technologies and application development. CloudDevelop 2012 will be held on Friday, August 3rd in Columbus, OH in The Ohio State University's Ohio Union.

  • Columbus ATDD Developers Group - Lightning Talks

    Thu, 2 Aug 2012, 15:30 - 18:30 in Columbus, United States

    The Columbus ATDD Developers Group exists to give developers and technical-minded testers a place to discuss tools like Cucumber and SpecFlow and other agile testing concepts that are used in acceptance test driven development.This group might be for you if: *You write code using BDD frameworks like Cucumber and SpecFlow *You believe that testing is the responsibility of developers too

  • AgileDotNet Conference

    Wed, 1 Aug 2012, 12:00 - 21:00 in Columbus, United States

    Please note: to officially register you must go to - Enterprises in conjunction with Microsoft will once again bring together the world of .NET development with the world of Agile methods for an exciting one-day experience of discovery, learning and exchange.Attendees can expect informative presentations based on real-world experience from some of the industry?s leading Developers, Project Managers, and Executives who have embraced Agile principles within .NET development environments.

  • TechDEC Presents: Free Small Business 1-on-1 CPA Consultation

    Thu, 19 Jul 2012, 15:00 - 18:00 in Columbus, United States

    Please join us at the new TechDEC from 11: 00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. The TechDEC is hosted within the Metro Data Center at 565 Metro Place South, Suite 300, Dublin, Ohio 43017TechDEC Presents: FREE Small Business CPA Consultation with Stephen C. Smith of Holbrook & Manter, CPAs.Please join us at the TechDEC from 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. in the TechDEC Conference Room to receive your FREE Small Business CPA Consultation with Stephen C. Smith of Holbrook & Manter, CPAs.

  • Jelly @ TechDEC

    Thu, 19 Jul 2012, 13:00 - 16:00 in Columbus, United States

    The City of Dublin is pleased to announce the addition of a second entrepreneur focused facility to compliment the Dublin Entrepreneurial Center “DEC.”The TechDEC is innovative office space for IT firms, tech-related businesses and startup ventures. The TechDEC is hosted within the Metro Data Center at 565 Metro Place South, Suite 300, Dublin, Ohio 43017.Starting in March, we will be posting events for both the DEC location and the new TechDEC.

  • Columbus SQL Server Users Group

    12-13 Jul 2012 in Columbus, United States

    click here for more detailsWe have meetings on the second Thursday of every month.In an ongoing attempt to make the content presented useful to our members we start each meeting with a short introduction and Q&A session.  Unless noted in the meeting notes the schedule for each meeting will be:6:00 - 6:30 - Networking & social time6:30 - 6:45 - Welcome and announcements6:45 - 7:45 - Presentation(s)7:45 - 8:30 - Door prizes and Question & Answer session

  • DEC Presents: FREE Small Business Legal Consulting with Caroline Z. Worley

    Thu, 12 Jul 2012, 15:00 - 18:00 in Columbus, United States

    Join us 11:00am-1:00pm in the 1st Floor Conference RoomReceive your FREE Small Business Legal Consultation with Caroline Z. Worley, a small business attorney at Worley Law in Columbus, Ohio. She represents entrepreneurs in all aspects of corporate, business and commercial law, contracts and negotiations, business litigation, and real estate. She also specializes in counseling women entrepreneurs and woman-owned businesses.

  • Public EVC? Business Case Template Building Training

    Thu, 21 Jun 2012, 14:00 - 17:00 in Columbus, United States

    Glomark-Governan is pleased to invite you to participate in an ?accelerated? training of its EVC Foundation, EVC Practitioner and EVC Advanced courses, to learn how to build Business Case templates for generating effective and compelling business cases for external or internal customers.

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