Episode 55: Brent Vatne

Vancouver Tech Podcast

Episode 55: Brent Vatne

Alex and Drew open the show talking about highlights of the previous week's meetups and upcoming meetups in the Vancouver tech scene, including the upcoming web developer conference Confoo.

Our guest this week is Brent Vatne of Exponent!

##Meetups for the week of December 5th
###Special Event

• Confoo.ca - Web Developer Conference (Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre, 1088 Burrard St.) - Monday, December 5th - Wednesday, December 7th

###Monday 5th

• Vancouver Excel Power Users
  Lunch & Learn: Intro to Excel best practices ***FREE (YWCA Hotel, 733 Beatty St.) 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
• GIT Help! and 0-Tech (DCTL, 436 West Pender) 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
• PyLadies Code Jam (Mobify, #420 - 725 Granville St.) 6:00 PM
• Vancouver Hack Space (#104 - 1715 Cook St.) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM *meet-up full, for information only
• Vancouver Windows Platform Developers Group, CodeValue Night - Visual Studio debugging tricks & Native or Cross-Platform? (Microsoft, 11th Floor - 1111 Georgia St.) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Polyglot Vancouver Reading Group (#PapersWeLoveYVR)
  Tango: Distributed Data Structures of a Shared Log (Stage 3 Systems, #220 - 750 Hamilton St.) 6:00 PM
• Vancouver Linux Users Group - VanLUG Board Meeting (SFU Downtown, 515 West Hastings St., Room 1500) 7:00 PM

###Tuesday 6th

• VPC - Open Coffee (Nelson the Seagull, 315 Carrall St.) 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM
• Vancouver Product Managers Group - Winter Networking Social (Mahoney & Sons Public House, 1055 Canada Place, Burrard Landing) 5:30 PM
• VPC - Vancouver Messaging Trends Meetup (Launch Academy, 300 - 128 West Hastings St.) 5:30 PM
• NetSquared Vancouver: Tech4Good and Nonprofits
  Better Data Visualization Using Excel: Hands-On Workshop (Hive Vancouver, #210 - 128 West Hastings St.) 6:00 PM
• PolyglotVancouver - Polyglot Social (St Regis, 608 Dunsmuir St.) 6:00 PM
• PMI Canadian West Coast Chapter - 2016 Holiday Networking Event! (Mahoney & Sons Public House, 1055 Canada Place, Burrard Landing) 6:00 PM
• Van F*Up Nights (Guilt & Co.. 1 Alexander St.) 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
• VPC Spring Holiday Party (Lost + Found Cafe, 33 West Hastings St.) 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Vancouver Hackspace Open House (104 - 1715 Cook St) 7:30 PM

###Wednesday 7th

• Vancouver Excel Power Users - VBA For Beginners & Intermediate (Confidential until registration) 9:00 AM to December 8, 5:00 PM (2 days)
• Vancouver Linux Desktop (DCTL, 436 West Pender) 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM
• yvrTesting Speed Geeking! (The Blarney Stone, 216 Carrall St.) 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
• Pluralsight Study Group (PNI, 100 - 425 Carrall) 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM
• .NET User Group of BC / Vancouver Windows Platform Developers Group - Connect() 2016 highlights (BCIT Downtown Campus, Room 825, 555 Seymour St.) 5:45 PM
• Learn Data Science [Advanced] Data Science Reading Group :: The Parable of Google Flu (SFU VentureLabs Harbour Centre - Rm 1200) 6:00 PM

###Thursday 8th

• Vancouver Lean Coffee (Nelson the Seagull, 315 Carrall St.) 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM
• DDD/CQRS/ES Practitioners (DCTL, 436 West Pender) 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
• Vancouver Israeli Tech Club - Winter Event with Guy Miasnik (Segal Building, Simon Fraser University, 500 Granville St.) 5:30 PM
• Vancouver Azure - Mawr Braains (b34stm0d3) (Microsoft, 11th Floor - 1111 Georgia St.) 6:00 PM
• Vancouver Clojure (CodeCore, 142 West Hastings) 6:00 PM to 9:00

###Friday 9th

• BC Tech Grub in the Hub (887 Great Northern Way) 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
• 9CAT.NET Tech & Startup Weekly (950 - 777 Hornby St.) 6:30 PM

###Saturday 10th

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Theme music by A Shell In The Pit from the game Parkitect

Credit for audio engineering to Anthony Morris

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