Vancouver

You might remember how I mentioned the creation of a Vancouver SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytics, and Cloud) Meetup. We had our first meetup on the recently announced Bluemix in June and it went really well. The second event will take place on July 23rd at 6pm at Launch Academy in downtown Vancouver. The topic will be “Hacking 101 and Securing Your Applications”. A very interesting, and often overlooked, subject. If you are in the area, join the meetup group, and consider RSVPing for the security event.

Also relevant to Vancouver and BC residents, the local Bluemix Day of training (that I mentioned before) has been moved to July 24th at Simon Fraser University. You can sign up for the event here. Note that the Bluemix training is split into two sessions, on the same day, a theoretical part and a practical/hands-on one. You might want to sign up for both.

Calgary

Finally, I recently created a Calgary SMAC meetup as well. You can join the meetup here. Our first event will take place this Thursday (July 17, 2014) at 6pm at the Assembly Coworking Space. You can RSVP for the first event (a Bluemix presentation and demo by yours truly), after joining, by following this link.

Edmonton might be next, but I’m still figuring out the logistics of it. I hear that it’s a very startup focused city so I’m excited by the prospective of creating a tech meetup there as well.

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IBM is helping developers embrace the platform by providing free training. The so-called 200 Bluemix Days are worldwide one day events that are divided into two sessions: an overview (called Advantage) and a hands-on part. You can sign up for either or both (the recommended approach). Seating capacity is limited, but if you sign up now you may still have a good shot at getting in.

If you've done development training with large companies before, you know that this process tends to be quite expensive. Here however, you get that same sort of education for free and also get to experience a new development platform that you might find you're quite the fan of (we are talking Node.js and Redis type of cool components, not Mad Men era mainframes that drove Michael Ginsberg crazy).

On June 18th, I'll take part in the Vancouver, BC one (that's being held in Burnaby). If you'd like to sign up for this or other events, please do so here:

• Bluemix Advantage
• Hands-On Workshop

I look forward to seeing you there!

Update: The Vancouver day has been moved to July 24, 2014.

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