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There are so many exciting events this week, we've decided to limit our picks to pre-SXSW events. You can take a gander at a few of our top picks for local SXSW inclusions here. Don't let the weather drag you down and happy SXSW!
Monday, March 9 at 6pm & Wednesay, March 11 at 5pm
Focusing on Affordability and Transportation, www.HackOurCity.com, is happening this week in Austin. Come join professionals from Austin and across the Country and collaborate on ideas/solutions for Austin's Affordability and Transportation challenges through tech.
Tuesday, March 10
9:00-2:00pm
The Longhorn Entrepreneurship Agency's UT Austin Startup Job Fair is a great opportunity for you to meet and interact with innovative students across The Forty Acres. Students from all grade classifications and majors will be attending the fair.
Hooked: How to Build Habit Forming Products
Tuesday, March 10
6:30-8:30pm
Product Austin is excited to bring you Nir Eyal, author of Hooked: How to Build Habit Forming Products to our March 2015 Meetup. Come to this meeting to learn about building habit forming products from Nir. Eyal writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. Nir founded and sold two companies since 2003 and has taught the "Using Neuroscience to Influence Human Behavior" course as a Lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Wednesday, March 11- March 12
12:00pm-12:00pm
Join Brand Knew & LIVESTRONG as we host developers, designers, marketers and product managers in an intensive collaboration to produce impactful technology solutions for non-profit organizations. Teams will have 24 hours to each identify, solve and present a solution for a social problem defined and submitted by a curated list of leading non-profits in the cancer community.
Come alone or join a team of other like-minded individuals during an exciting and impactful 24 hours towards making a real difference. After a casual mixer to kick-off the event, teams will go through a “draft” style selection to choose the problem they’ll be addressing.
Thursday, March 12
5:30-730pm
For the 8th year in a row we're excited to kickoff an exciting 10 days of out-of-town visitors and technology innovation in Austin with our happy hour. Bring along your friends who are coming into town for the festivities, and we'll treat them right. As always you don't need any special badges in order to attend, just register for the event.
Thursday, March 12
5:00-8:00pm
The biggest party to kick off before SXSW! Join us as we showcase the best in talent, startups, and more that this city’s technology community has to offer. Last year we had more than 50 companies and 24,000+ registered crawlers. This year promises to be even bigger. Grab a group of friends and take the shuttle from startup to startup for a free beverage, to drop off a resume, or see office space.
