Open Mic Night

6:00 - 6:15 Welcome & announcements

6:15 - 6:30 Eric Fisher

6:35 - 6:50 Paul Groetzner and John Michael

6:55 - 7:10 Clayton Tillman

7:15 - 7:30 Andy Lech

7:30 - 7:35 Q & A

7:35 - Prizes and Closing

7:40 - After-meeting social

Speaker 1: Eric Fisher

Title: Effecting Change in the Workplace

Summary: When we look around our place of work sometimes we find real ways we could improve things if we could get our company on board, but that's easier said then done. How do we get our employers to change their behavior away from their established ones, what hurdles do we face, and how do we over come them?

Follow him @EricFishor

Speaker(s) 2: Paul Groetzner and John Michael

Title: “Clearance For Takeoff” - A look at our boot-strapped startup and where we’ll go from here.

Summary: Paul Groetzner and John Michael will share their journey from co-workers to co-founders of a startup based here in Orlando. We’ll offer some tips on finding your niche, finding the right people, and making sure you keep the momentum going.We will also provide a short demo of the product we’ve built and what our next steps are.

Follow them @TherapyZenApp and check out their URL: therapyzen

Speaker 3: Clayton Tillman

Summary: A quick overview of ways to utilize Cortana Analytics Suite to make better business decisions. We will look at an experiment which produces two machine learning models for predicting customer churn. Churn is when a customer stops using a product or service. If businesses can accurately and timely predict when a customer will churn, preventative measures can be applied to try to retain the customer.

Follow him at @claytonEtillman and @noesisknows

Speaker 4: Andy Lech
Title: Xamarin Tips and Tricks

Summary: I will briefly summarize the state of Xamarin.Forms before discussing the new ONETUG mobile app being developed with XF. I will cover how issues involving page orientation and different devices sizes were addressed and point the audience to code they can use in their own projects.