This Tuesday, we welcome the Baltimore Code & Coffee community – much of whom overlaps with the Equitech Tuesday community already, but if you don’t know about Code & Coffee – here is Valentine Okundaye, data engineer for EcoMap Technologies and organizer for Baltimore Code & Coffee:
“Code & Coffee is a place for the builders, researchers, designers— and all technologists in our community, to come together, exchange ideas, and create new ones.
We strongly believe that consistent intentional gatherings of like minded people from different backgrounds, working at different companies, and attacking different problems, is a key element to the upkeep and improvement of a city’s tech ecosystem. We’re an informal bunch and put on a variety of events including, regular networking meetups, workshops, job seminars, and one of our most popular events, lighting talks.
At our last lightning talk at the Pava Center, April 2024, an MBA student Daniel Irowa Omoregie gave a talk titled Why Tech and Business Need Each Other. Despite having another talk on why modern day capitalism doesn’t work, Daniel’s talk sparked the most discourse and controversy in the crowd. Some felt that engineers were undervalued by the business people and not taken as seriously as their talent merits. Others felt that at the end of the day the business people hold the power, by virtue of a more direct relationship to the revenues of a company.
While we have in our ranks many who are entrepreneurial, some can see the world of business and marketing as a distant and alien land of buzzwords and balance sheets, a world remote from the hard nosed and technically rigorous discipline of engineering. But Daniel was right. In our world of rapid advancement & high stakes competition, the spheres of tech and business will only continue to intertwine, overlap and merge to the point of inseparability.
That’s why we’re overjoyed to connect with the Upsurge community pursuant to our belief that when like minded people from different backgrounds come together, the new ideas, varied expertise and perspectives will synergize the ecosystem as a whole.”
Catch Valentine and other techies from Baltimore Tech Meetup at Guilford Hall at Equitech Tuesday… where the tech community gathers!
Don’t forget to sign up for June 30th’s event – UpRise: Blank Checks, Not Blank Stares: How to Communicate & Market Technical Solutions with the self-proclaimed nerd-that-talks-good Joel Benge and Co-founder & CEO of NextStep Robotics Brad Hennessie.