BendTECH Blog
Maps + Computers + Beer = MapNight
Join us for MapNight @ BendTECH 11/18 5pm, a local event for GIS Day, a global celebration! What is GIS? Unless you are kicking it old school with a handwritten dead-tree map, most of the maps we use today on smartphones, computers, and even printed, are a result of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). We can use a GIS like Google Maps to find our way around, but it can do much more. Besides being a killer data visualization tool, GIS basically makes the world a complex quilt of data that can be layered, explored, analyzed, and put to good use in decision making and planning. A spectrum of users from students to journalists, firefighters, business leaders, oceanographers, and many more use GIS every day, working towards a better…
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BendTECH Coworking Evolves, Tech Talk This Week
The first question people ask when you arrive in Central Oregon is “what do you do?” because it’s somewhat of a coup to figure out how to live in this singularly beautiful, active, and just urban enough town. Bend is well on it’s way to becoming a mecca for independent workers and startups because many of the…
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The BendTECH Blog Becomes StartupBend
We have a big announcement that involves a little startup, well, started by us. As of today, our blog will now be StartupBend. For the past year, we’ve been working hard to tell the world about both the burgeoning tech and startup community in this most favorite place we call home. Beyond giving us the…
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6th Annual BVC unConference Adds Speed Networking Event
If you’ve been craving to connect with people in the outdoor, bio-science, tech, brewing, or food & beverage industries, you’ll want to take part in our new unConference event: speed networking sponsored by OSU Cascades. Or if you’re trying to win a wild-card concept spot at the Bend Venture Conference (a $15k award) then this is…
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StartupBend
- 500+ Posts Later, StartupBend Founders Close Up Blog and Look to What’s Next February 26, 2020Hello readers! Many of you have been kind enough to notice that it’s been a while since I’ve posted on […]Kelly Kearsley
- Save the Date: unConference Returns for its 10th year w/ Cash Prizes and Fun Oct. 15 October 7, 2019Hello! After a hiatus, the StartupBend blog is back. We have some changes to announce about the blog, and some […]Kelly Kearsley
- The Annual BendTECH Startup Resource Fair Returns 6/6 May 21, 2019FBendTECH Coworking presents the third annual Startup Resource Fair, scheduled for 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 6, […]Kelly Kearsley
- Bend Sextech Startup Lora DiCarlo Secures $2 million in Funding AND Gets Its CES Award Back! That’s a Day! May 8, 2019You know when you want to tell someone two exciting things at once and it’s hard to decide which one […]Kelly Kearsley
- One Tech Meetup to Rule Them All: Cool People + Beer + Prizes! April 29, 2019BendTECH is hosting the second annual One Tech Meetup to Rule Them All, a meetup of all the meetup groups. […]Kelly Kearsley