Great Lakes Tech Events March & April 2021

By Laura Cowan

Laura K. Cowan is a tech editor and journalist whose work has focused on promoting sustainability initiatives for automotive, green tech, and conscious living media outlets.

AllHandsActive offers a retro tech show and tell for attendees to geek out over their retro devices.

Great Lakes Tech Events: Ann Arbor-Detroit, & Chicago

For this month's Great Lakes region tech events roundup, we are highlighting mostly online events available to you remotely for safety. Many groups have reported that they will be keeping remote live streams to some events after the pandemic, but others will not. It's a great time to check out groups farther from home. This month, we're including tech events from Chicago as well as our usual focus surrounding Southeast Michigan.

Retro Tech Meetup Show & Tell

Online WED, APR 21, 7:00 PM EDT A2 Retro Tech with All Hands Active

_It's the A2 RetroTech meetup! We'll start by introducing ourselves and then do a retro show and tell - you can talk about anything you've been working on, or that interests you as long as it fits loosely into the theme of the meetup! BBSes, Usenet, Apple II, CP/M, MS-DOS, Amiga, C64 - it's all fair game!

If you're interested in presenting during the second hour of this meetup please contact James.

This meetup will be online - please RSVP to see the link._

https://a2retrotech.com/

NewTech Pitch Nights, Cybersecurity, & Coding Meetups

Join in a couple of cybersecurity webinars from Ann Arbor Tech and Blumira Security as well as a code and coffee in Ann Arbor, plus A2 NewTech in Ann Arbor and TC NewTech from Traverse City online.

TUE, MAR 23, 5:00 PM EDT Dr Dan Shoemaker on Cybersecurity

THUR APR 8 1:00 PM EDT Simplifying Cloud Security Roundtable with Blumira and Cybrary

SAT, APR 10, 10:00 AM EDT Code & Coffee

TUE APR 6, 6:00 PM EDT TCNewTech Pitch Event

TUE, APR 20, 6:30 PM EDT Ann Arbor New Tech Meetup

Fireside Chats With Tech Thought Leaders

From Detroit to Silicon Valley, there are a number of roundtables and online networking events going on with thought leaders in the tech space, from tech to diversity and inclusion.

TUE MAR 23 9:00 AM ETD Fireside Chat with YouTube Co-Founder Steve Chen

TUE MAR 23, 6:45 PM EDT Ignite UX Michigan 2021 Night

THU MAR 25, 8:30 AM ETC Windsor Area Tech Homecoming : YQG Edition

THU MAR 25, 11:00 AM EDT Ann Arbor SPARK Washtenaw County Michigan Economic Outlook

THU MAR 25, 12:00 PM EDT Ann Arbor SPARK Creating Equitable Transportation at the Neighborhood Level

THU MAR 25 & SAT MAR 27, DiversiTech Summit

THU APR 1, 5:30 PM EDT Diversity and Inclusion in the Tech Industry {Panel Discussion} Detroit #learntocode

WED APR 7, 9:10 AM EDT 9th Annual Energy Innovators Virtual Conference

MON APR 12, 8:30 AM ETD 2021 Global Symposium on Connected & Automated Vehicles and Infrastructure

APR 27 & 28 Midwest Venture Showcase