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**[Ecuador Tech Week](www.ecuadortechweek.ec)** es la semana más importante de innovación, tecnología y emprendimiento en Ecuador y una de las plataformas emergentes más relevantes de Latinoamérica 🇪🇨 Del **11 al 19 de julio de 2026**, el país se convierte en un hub regional de innovación con más de **120 eventos oficiales en 5 ciudades**, reuniendo a founders, inversionistas, startups, corporativos, creadores y líderes del ecosistema global. 👉🏽 [Explora y regístrate gratis en más de 100 eventos](www.lu.ma/ecuadortechweek) *** ## 🌍 ¿Qué es Ecuador Tech Week? Es una experiencia inmersiva de una semana completa donde el ecosistema tech de Ecuador se conecta con Latinoamérica y el mundo para: * Impulsar startups, nuevos negocios y conectar talento con inversión * Fomentar alianzas estratégicas entre builders, VCs y corporativos * Posicionar a Ecuador como hub emergente de innovación en la región *** ## ⚡ Qué esperar durante la semana Durante los 9 días de Ecuador Tech Week vivirás una agenda diversa de experiencias como: * 🧠 Summits de venture capital e inversión * 🚀 Pitch competitions y demo days * 🤝 Networking con founders, inversionistas y corporativos * 🎤 Panels con líderes del ecosistema global * 🏢 Eventos corporativos y activaciones de marca * 🍸 After offices, brunches y experiencias sociales * 🌎 Eventos simultáneos en múltiples ciudades *** ## 📍 Ciudades participantes Guayaquil • Quito • Cuenca • Manta • Loja • Ambato • Riobamba • Samborondón y más *** ## 🎯 Impacto 2026 * +10,600 asistentes esperados * +120 eventos oficiales * +100 compañías e inversionistas involucrados * Impacto regional en el ecosistema tech de Latam *** ## 🤝 ¿Cómo participar? Puedes unirte como: * **Asistente:** [Participa en +100 eventos oficiales en 5 ciudades del Ecuador durante ETW 2026](https://luma.com/EcuadorTechWeek) * **Anfitrión de eventos:** [Organiza tu propio evento y forma parte del calendario oficial de ETW](https://airtable.com/app8zH6KxJCA5g3qP/paggC8U5YnlTxM9Jq/form) * **Auspiciante:** [Posiciona tu marca con activaciones, networking, leads y visibilidad regional.](https://airtable.com/app8zH6KxJCA5g3qP/pagON8vk9mo9pGddi/form) * **Inversionista:** [Accede a dealflow, founders, LPs y espacios exclusivos de networking](https://airtable.com/app8zH6KxJCA5g3qP/pagffNNDS7ZR0w6wg/form) * **Startup:** [Presenta tu deck a inversionistas, haz reuniones 1:1, compite en pitch events y acelera tu crecimiento](https://airtable.com/app8zH6KxJCA5g3qP/paghBnYmuU2OY8XvP/form) * **Delegación internacional:** [Trae a tu comunidad, compañía o ecosistema para conectar con Latam desde Ecuador](https://airtable.com/app8zH6KxJCA5g3qP/pagPApJBN0VfTdnct/form) *** ### **Eventos Destacados de ETW 2026** * **[11–15 de julio | TechHub by ETW | Guayaquil](https://luma.com/techhubec)**[ ](https://luma.com/techhubec)📍 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM: Punto de encuentro oficial de ETW con tráfico diario estimado de +400 personas. Contará con podcasts, charlas, reuniones uno a uno, activaciones de marca, networking estratégico y experiencias VIP. * **[Sábado 11 de julio | PYME 360: Marketing, Innovación e IA | Ambato](https://luma.com/0j4y0exy)** 📍 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM \| \+100 asistentes: Expertos en marketing\, inteligencia artificial y negocios para hacer crecer tu empresa\. * \*\*[Domingo 12 de julio | Parrillada del TechHub | Guayaquil ](https://luma.com/iils0q3a)\*\*📍 6:30 AM – 10:00 PM \| \+200 asistentes: Parrillada de apertura de TechHub para encender la Tech Week\, conectar con la comunidad tech y compartir buena comida\, música y networking al aire libre\. * **[Lunes 13 de julio | Global Capital Summit | Guayaquil](https://luma.com/8udtkrvw)** 📍 8:00 AM – 2:00 PM \| \+800 asistentes: Summit enfocado en Venture Capital\, inversión de impacto\, sostenibilidad\, y oportunidades de inversión en Latinoamérica\. * **[Lunes 13 de julio | Game Changers | Samborondón](https://luma.com/ci8gxntk)**[ ](https://luma.com/ci8gxntk)📍 5:00 PM – 8:30 PM \| \+500 asistentes: Evento de bienvenida con paneles de founders ecuatorianos\, inversionistas y líderes del ecosistema\, seguido de networking curado y cena privada\. * **[Martes 14 de julio | Pitch Competition | Guayaquil](https://luma.com/n7i8aury)** 📍 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM \| \+100 asistentes: Competencia de startups por con beneficios valorados en más de $6\,000\. * **[Miércoles 15 de julio | Ladies Night | Samborondón](https://luma.com/8n6kryja)**[ ](https://luma.com/8n6kryja)📍 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM \| \+200 asistentes: Velada enfocada en founders\, inversionistas y liderazgo femenino dentro del ecosistema de tecnología e innovación\. * **[Miércoles 15 de julio | IA aplicada a la Gestión de Proyectos by Stack Builders | Quito](https://luma.com/bvqoeudp)** 📍 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM \| \+50 asistentes: Un panel sobre cómo la IA está transformando el project management en tech\, optimizando procesos\, decisiones y eficiencia de los equipos\. * **[Miércoles 15 de julio | Drink and Sell by Mercately | Quito](https://luma.com/wx1w9jp5)** 📍 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM \| \+100 asistentes: Un after office para hablar de marketing de performance\, IA y comercio conversacional entre métricas\, networking y cerveza artesanal\. * **[Jueves 16 de julio | Latam Business Forum | Quito](https://luma.com/owf9cpp8)** 📍 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM \| \+350 asistentes: Conferencia con enfoque corporativo\, innovación empresarial y venture capital en Latinoamérica\. * **[Jueves 16 de julio | Human Bugs, Mucho Git, Poco Fit by Kudert | Quito](https://luma.com/puefcc9w)** 📍 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM \| \+50 asistentes: After Office sin filtro sobre el lado humano del tech: errores de equipo\, post\-mortems reales y cómo evitar que los proyectos fallen\. * \*\*[Jueves 16 de julio | Founders, AI & Capital By BOSKO | Guayaquil ](https://luma.com/eqqk329u)\*\*📍 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM \| \+100 asistentes: After office para startups\, inversionistas y líderes tech\, con charlas sobre IA y fundraising\, además de networking\, pitches y conexiones reales\. * **[Viernes 17 de julio | Empresas en la Era de la IA Agéntica by DotNet | Quito](https://luma.com/hpxixb6l)** 📍 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM \| \+50 asistentes:ppanel sobre cómo los agentes de IA están transformando las organizaciones\, con casos reales\, oportunidades y el futuro del trabajo en los negocios\. * **[Sábado 18 de julio | Top of the World Conference | Mitad del Mundo - Quito](https://luma.com/puhq6djf)**[ ](https://luma.com/puhq6djf)📍 +250 asistentes: Experiencia insignia de ETW con contenido, networking y experiencias en uno de los lugares más icónicos del país. * **[Sábado 18 de julio | Impulsa tu Negocio con Tecnología | Loja](https://luma.com/97gu2efl)** 📍 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM \| \+100 asistentes: Un espacio para emprendedores y empresas que buscan automatizar y vender más con soluciones tecnológicas en el ecosistema lojano\. * \*\*[Domingo 19 de julio | TASTE OF ECUADOR 🇪🇨 | Samborondón](https://luma.com/qdxuo2ln)\*\*📍 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM \| \+100 asistentes: Panel y evento de networking que celebra la identidad\, creatividad e innovación ecuatoriana con una visión local y proyección global\. *** ## 👉🏽 ¿Cómo ayudar? Actualmente estamos buscando oportunidades de colaboración junto a compañías, fondos, corporativos, inversionistas, builders y líderes que estén apostando por Latinoamérica y quieran ser parte del crecimiento del ecosistema ecuatoriano. * **Únete a la Campaña Digital:** * [I'm Attending to ETW2026 Campaign ](https://canva.link/ad6prx4bvyb3yyv)\- Crea tu arte gráfico compártelo en LinkedIn e Instagram y etiqueta a @EcuadorTechWeek * [Invita a tus amigos ecuatorianos y de Latam a registrarse en la página del evento en Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/events/7367340249674383360?viewAsMember=true) \- ya tenemos más de 6\.7K registrados\. * [Regístrate](https://www.ecuadortechweek.ec/) como asistente, anfitrión, inversionista, speaker, voluntario, auspiciante, delegación, sponsor corporativo y partner estratégico * [Descargando este arte](https://drive.google.com/file/d/168CF97pnSqPb4rzKquV5UULykp_LKtof/view?usp=drivesdk) y compartiendo en tus Instagram y WhatsApp stories. * Uniéndote a los grupos de [WhatsApp con +1K Miembros](https://chat.whatsapp.com/B8CObCza1arLot1fgUgcdh?utm_source=luma) y [LinkedIn con +2K miembros](https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12538116/?utm_source=luma). * Si ya estás organizando eventos en la semana, difúndelo y te repostearemos para que más personas se sumen a tu evento. * **Speaker nacional o internacional:** Participa en summits, paneles y espacios clave de la semana - **envía un correo a guillermo@startupgrind.com** * **Sponsor corporativo:** Expande tu presencia en Latam a través de la plataforma y comunidad ETW - **envía un correo a guillermo@startupgrind.com** * **Partner estratégico:** Ayúdanos a conectar Ecuador con el ecosistema global - **envía un correo a guillermo@startupgrind.com** ## 🌐 Links oficiales 👉 Eventos: [www.lu.ma/ecuadortechweek](http://www.lu.ma/ecuadortechweek) 👉 Más info: [www.ecuadortechweek.ec](http://www.ecuadortechweek.ec) 📩 Contacto: etw@startupgrind.com [Ecuador Tech Week® 2026](https://ecuadortechweek.ec/) \| 🇪🇨 100\+ eventos \| 🚀 10\,000\+ asistentes \| 🌎 5 ciudades \| 🤝 Founders\, VCs\, corporativos y builders \| ⚡ Aquí todo es posible

Topic to be announced. **CALL FOR SPEAKERS** Learn more: https://www.awscolumbus.com/get-involved/ **THANK YOU** *VEEAM* for hosting our meetup! To learn more about *Veeam*, please visit their website: https://www.veeam.com/ **DIRECTIONS** 8800 Lyra Dr #450 · Columbus, OH go to 4th floor. **Want to sponsor the pizza and/or bar tab?** Please contact me if you would like to sponsor this meetup's pizza and/or bar tab: angelo@mandato.com

Jimmy V's Grill & Pub in Grandview Heights. You are responsible for your own meal/drinks. We usually don't have any agenda other than eat, drink and talk. :) If the weather is nice we will be on the back patio, otherwise we are in the cigar room. This group has been meeting every Tuesday evening for over a decade. Many attendees do not RSVP on meetup. Please don't let the small number here discourage you. Anyone/everyone is welcome to come. We'd love to have you join us. COTA bus #5 comes to W. 5th and Wyandotte Rd. And it's a minute walk to the restaurant.

Most people use LLMs by feel: ask a question, read the answer, decide whether it “seems good,” and move on. That works for casual use. It does not work when you are building software, automating workflows, writing important documents, or relying on AI for anything that needs to be repeatable. In this talk, we’ll look at how to improve and evaluate the inputs and outputs of LLMs using practical measurement techniques. We’ll cover how prompt changes affect results, how to compare outputs, how to build simple evaluation sets, and how math-based methods like similarity scoring can help you move beyond guesswork. This will be beginner-friendly, so even if you don't know anything about AI, you should get something out of it. However, this will be a little more technical than our intro talks. You do not need to be an AI researcher, but programmers and technically curious attendees will get a lot out of it. We’ll cover: * Why “it looks good” is not enough * How to improve prompts by changing the input, context, and constraints * How to compare LLM outputs more systematically * Basic evaluation techniques for accuracy, consistency, and usefulness * How embeddings, cosine similarity, and scoring can help evaluate results * Where automated evaluation works — and where humans still need to stay in the loop By the end, you’ll have a practical mental model for treating LLMs less like magic and more like systems you can test, measure, and improve. LOGISTICS AND PARKING: The talk starts at 7:00 PM. The first half hour is reserved for everyone to get set up and mingle. Free pizza and drinks! The cheapest parking option is to find street parking, which will only cost you a few bucks. Otherwise, park in the nearby veteran's museum lot for $8. It's highly recommended you avoid the nearby $15 garage parking.

This is an in-person meeting. At this meeting you will get answers to depression and anxiety. Find out the source of them and how to get rid of them. Did you know that unwanted emotions like anxiety, depression, unhappiness, loneliness, hopelessness, anger, fear, or feelings of irritation don’t just fall on you for no reason. They are not random occurrences that simply happen to people's minds. They are definitely not due to a chemical imbalance in your brain from some nebulous chemical reaction "by chance". Your negative emotions are the symptoms of the painful experiences that you have which are not healed, and which are still affecting you. The effects of these painful experiences are exacerbated by the pressures or difficulties of the other problems in your life. Come to our Meetup, where we can introduce you to some of the knowledge, tools and techniques of the breakthroughs in the field of the mind that we can apply to this ever important area of life. Be sure to click on the red "Attend" button below to come to this local event. We look forward to seeing you there. This group is created by the Hubbard Dianetics Foundation of Central Ohio and Church of Scientology of Central Ohio.

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(Note: RSVPing here on meetup does NOT reserve your seat. To do that, you’ll need to register at our website, [HERE](https://www.coreerocks.com/Events.aspx?ID=Picnic-with-a-Purpose-Real-Estate-Networking-That-Actually-Pays-Off-14-7-7-2026).) Real estate is a proven wealth-builder—it has been for generations. But it’s not a solo sport. You need PEOPLE—who can advise you, partner with you, bring you deals, and buy deals from you. We’re all about bringing you the best, most active, most got-your-back people in Central Ohio, which is why our July meeting is all about real conversations with real investors at our annual Picnic with a Purpose. This is where: * Deals get discussed * Partnerships get formed * Funding relationships start * Problems get solved faster Bring your family. Build your network. Strengthen the relationships that actually move your business forward. Members and first-time guests are free. Returning guests are $35. Location is a local park and will be shared after registration. Space is limited, so you’ll want to secure your spot now. Remember, to actually reserve your seat, you have to go [HERE](https://www.coreerocks.com/Events.aspx?ID=Picnic-with-a-Purpose-Real-Estate-Networking-That-Actually-Pays-Off-14-7-7-2026) and register on our website!

Highlights and Hidden Gems in SQL Server 2025 With so much emphasis on cloud data platforms and AI these days, SQL people can feel left behind by all the marketing hype. SQL Server 2025 was officially released in November of 2025, though, and contains a ton of improvements that will make our SQL Server deployments a bit faster, better, and more secure. There are even more improvements tucked into the release that never made a marketing blog or press release that you'll likely be learning about for the first time in this session! Join this session to learn about what makes your high availability a little more available, your performance a bit more performant, and your database more developer and app-friendly. Come spend an hour with SQL people talking SQL Server 2025 – the good, the "not quite ready for prime time", and the hidden awesomeness.