Why most tech pros are wasting serious time and money on the wrong stacks when launching their business.

The most critical piece of the stack that often gets overlooked.

The biggest mistake I made when launching Hello Tech Pros and what I'm doing about it now.

Why non-technical people often dominate at building business while tech pros struggle to find customers.

How to change the relationship with your audience members from "Who are you again?" to "Please take my money!"

The evolution of early web to content management systems to web 2.0 apps to serverless apps.

The change that has affected the development community because of mobile-first design.

What serverless forms are and how they work.

How to simplify the connections between your forms and APIs.

A slick way to generate the API and bind to the data by designing the form UI.

Where to find the code repos to deploy a serverless form in minutes.

The current differences between image cognition and voice cognition.

The history of image recognition, pioneered by the postal and banking industries.

How some companies are creating computer models that simulate the way the humen brain works.

The industries that will most benefit from image cognition.

Career Hyperdrive Course: Day 4

A droid masterclass that’s going to guide you through the process of selecting the right technology for the right problem, every time.

When you have women in leadership positions in technology, businesses see an increase in productivity and profit.

Sometimes men stop talking shop when women workers walk in the room.

Women built the first computer.

In the 1980s, women dropped out out of tech jobs and STEM degrees.

35% of computing jobs filled by female workers in the U.S has dropped to 26% today.

Women as a whole have to be guarded about what they say about their careers to not damage the relationships with their male colleagues.

Biotech been around for decades, IT came in 1980s.

New biotech are computers integrated into the instruments.

The facilities and instruments are not good at network segmentation.

FDA recently said that the industry is far below standard.

The most basic security features are missing in many biotech areas.

Data security is the best growth area in healthcare IT.

Stephen Gatchell is currently a Chief Data Officer Engineering Analytics & Data Lake at EMC and serves on the EMC Data Governance Office, Master Data Management and Business Data Lake Operating committee’s developing EMC’s corporate strategies for the Business Data Lake, Advanced Analytics and Information Asset Management.  Stephen also serves as a Customer Insight Analyst for the Chief Technology Office analyzing customer technology challenges and requirements.

TradeLive, a recently launched Austin-based startup, is a modern business-to-business marketplace for new and used IT gear aimed at eliminating the pitfalls that make other IT exchanges slow, unreliable and restrictive.

After a close-call with a hippopotamus while canoeing in Africa, Tim Barnes celebrated life with African artists and artisans by commissioning a custom, hand-crafted “hippo chair”. After 25 years of consulting and leading IT organizations, Tim decided to give back to a third-world community — but more than aid — by creating awareness and business opportunities via first-world marketing channels and old-school import/export legwork.

Adam Wallschlaeger started his own consulting and training business 3 years ago, seeking to help business professionals and job seekers use LinkedIn to accomplish their goals.  LinkedIn is his primary area of expertise, but he also helps people start their own small businesses.  He trains people on website development, social media, blogging, podcasting and sales development.  He also hosts a podcast called Unsubscribe From The Cubicle where he interviews entrepreneurs in order to find their roadmap.