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Vets in Tech (ViT), a national non-profit, is expanding into New England and will be hosting an event to launch the local chapter. The launch event will be held at Akamai's Headquarters in Cambridge. Click here for more info and tickets!
Join VetsinTech on 2/26 at Galvanize SF as we host some of the hottest veteran startups and entrepreneurs during the ViT Startup Mixer with 60-second spots (pitches)!!! VC pitch night! VetsinTech - Startup Mixer and Pitch Event for Veteran Entrepreneurs!!
Thanks for all to came out for the VetsinTech "Opportunities in Tech" with top tech employers on Thursday 3/26!! Here are pics from the event (courtesy of Brandon Fernandez)
Click here to see images from the event.
Join VetsinTech for a very special event in honor of Veterans Day - a VetsinTech Gala -"Vets2.0 Beyond the Transition" - honoring amazing accomplishments of veteran led initiatives - Friday, November 6th.
VetsinTech is very pleased to launch our first Cybersecurity training for veterans in collaboration with Palo Alto Networks! A message from our partners at Palo Alto Networks:
We can never thank you enough for all your sacrifices and in your honor on this day, we would like to share a few things we have been up to over the last month to support our veterans......Starting with training of our veterans and kicking off Vetforce with Salesforce.com at Dreamforce with the CA National Guard and 129th Rescue Wing! Check
out the video from October 15th here https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Then on October 29th we partnered with Walmart eCommerce on "Vets2Valley" an tech employer event -
On Nov 6th we were off to DC to launch VetsinTech VetCap event there! Co-sponsored by SBA, SVB, and StreetShares - see our panel teaching veterans about various financing sources...from L to R - Chris Steed - Paladin Capital Group, Craig Cummings - Angel Investor, Megan Scheffel - SVB, Mark Rockefeller - StreetShares, Bob Louthan - VeteranCrowd, Barb Carson - SBA and our MC for the evening Sr. Advisor to ViT - France Hoang
Also in DC on Nov 7th... VetsinTech was honored to be invited to the Vet "Shark Tank" viewing party at DogTag Bakery
And today - we are "in the news" on CNBC on Veterans Dayhttp://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000329263
Join VetsinTech and multiple employers including Salesforce.com, Microsoft, Intuit, Manpower Group Solutions, Icon, Akamai, and more TBD on December 16th for our annual giving-back holiday event to prepare for your 2015 job search! LinkedIn will be present to assist veterans with your LI profiles, employers will review resumes and give feedback, and Fundamentum will lead an "elevator pitch" review!!Click here to get your tickets!
We look forward to supporting you in even bigger and better ways in 2015!
To kick off the year - we will hold our 1st EVER training on a military base - Moffett Field in the heart of Silicon Valley. This should allow veterans traveling from north or south an easier commute, however we are taking candidates from across the country for our Salesforce Admin 201 class which is a 1 week
Instructor Lead Training course. We are also taking names for those interested in the online training as well. Please contact us @vetsintech.co if you are interested! Click here to download the event flyer!
We were pleased to have this excellent article published in OpportunityLives on January 5th. Stay tuned for more exciting news and programs by VetsinTech soon!See Vets in Tech Helps Veterans Break into America’s Fastest Growing Industry
@VetsinTech @Salesforce @Rocktech are hitting the road to discuss #Vetforce and programs for veterans! Join us in Boston on 2/24
Join @VetsinTech @Salesforce to learn about #Vetforce and our joint programs for veterans -
If you are a veteran entrepreneur - Join VetsinTech + SVB at SXSW on March 14th or 16th!!
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And Join VetsinTech for our next big employer event at Auction.com on March 26, 2015!!
Click here for tickets to "Opportunities in Tech" with Top Tech Employers!
VetsinTech is partnering with Sales Hacker on "Sales Hacker Veterans Bootcamp" training. The Sales Hacker Veterans Bootcamp is a 100% FREE 3-day intensive Sales Development Training designed to teach Veterans the necessary skills to find entry level B2B Sales positions at emerging Technology Startups. This program was put together by some of the top Sales Development Managers in B2B Sales and will leave vets with relevant training and job placement in industry leading tech companies. Sign up for the first class in San Francisco on April 18th, 19th and 20th at http://www.saleshacker.com/
In honor of Military Appreciation Month, Please join VetsinTech as we host a number of events around the U.S to pay tribute to our veterans. Stay tuned here for more info on the following workshops and events around Entrepreneurship and Education:
May 19th - VetsinTech @NYU
May 26th - VetCap events to take place in both SF and Austin, TX
May 28th - VetsinTech @ Salesforce World Tour in DC
May is Military Appreciation Month, and for VetsinTech it’s the perfect time to announce some great new partnerships, new chapters, and tremendous opportunities for veteran engagement nationwide.
NEW VetsinTech PARTNERSHIP NEWS!
Approximately 12% of all unfilled jobs in the United States are information technology jobs, and VetsinTech, with its eight national chapters and thousands of veteran members, stands poised to meet employment needs with a network of well-trained, fully-certified transitioning military veterans.
Alongside industry partners like Salesforce, Microsoft, Akamai, Auction.com, ManpowerGroup, and more, VetsinTech is working to create a healthy ecosystem to empower veterans nationwide to tap into tech-related education opportunities, along with related internship and employment placements.
To that end, we’re pleased to announce the following new training partnerships as part of the ViT Internship/Apprenticeship Program: (details to be announced soon)
Join VetsinTech @ LinkedIn SF on July 21st - Click Here
And join the launch of VetsinTech in Chicago!! Click Here
Also, we’re pleased to announce the following new training partnerships as part of the ViT Internship/Apprenticeship Program: (details to be announced soon)
Palo Alto Networks – Cybersecurity Training – Palo Alto Networks is committed to working with VetsinTech to provide cybersecurity training using their Essentials 1, Essentials 2, PCNSE6, and CNSE 5.1 learning modules which are well recognized in the industry
NetApp – will offer at no charge NetApp Certified Storage Associate (NCSA) training materials and certification, assist ViT to develop the training program and will promote certified veterans to NetApp’s ecosystem of customers and partners to help identify apprenticeship opportunities
Salesforce – VetsinTech is an Academic Alliance Partner of Salesforce.com offering training and referring veterans into VetForce to enroll in Salesforce ADMIN 201 training classes. Salesforce.com is committed to helping VetsinTech get veterans trained and into internship programs over the next 5 years: http://www.salesforcefoundation.org/grants/vetforce RockTech is providing free training licenses of its technology to help veterans prepare for the course and certification exam.
Microsoft – Microsoft has joined the VetsinTech employer coalition and ViT is referring veterans into the Microsoft MSSA training program http://westillserve.com/mssa/
VetsinTech is excited to be holding our 3rd class of approximately 20 veterans to be trained as Salesforce Admins. Our next class will be held August 12-14th at Salesforce.com headquarters in San Francisco. Thanks to BlueWolf for providing our instructor and to Salesforce.com and Vetforce for hosting us! For veterans interested in Salesforce Admin training through VetsinTech, please contact us and put "Salesforce Admin training" in the title. We will be in contact to fit you in to one of our future classes!
VetsinTech New England will be hosting the ViT Startup Mixer and Pitch Event for Veteran Entrepreneurs at the MIT Sloan school on August 26th! For veterans interested in joining or pitching your startup - JOIN US!! Click here to registerUpcoming:VetsinTech will be at DreamForce Sept 15-18th!! Full schedule will be out soon, but be sure to join us on Day 1 for "Veteran's Day" at DreamForce. (Click here for a free Expo+ pass)
Workday Foundation will be hosting VetsinTech for a very special employment related event forour veterans on Oct 6th in their new NYC offices in the Empire State Building. More to be announced soon!
Thank you to all our men and women and their families who have served our country - we salute you and are honored to give back for all you have given for our freedom.
We were able to honor so many veteran led initiatives and our partners that do so much to support VetsinTech and our Veterans at our 1st annual Veteran's Day Gala - Vets2.0 "Beyond the Transition" on Nov 6th, 2015 at the beautiful Marines Memorial Club in SF! See our pics here.
And now onto our final event of the year!! Please join VetsinTech and our employer partners for our ViT Employer event + Holiday Party at LinkedIn offices in SF!! Register here.
Finally - congrats to all the winners and every veteran who participated in our 3rd annual hackathon at Facebook on Oct 19th!! Check out our pics here.
Happy 2016! We have great things happening in 2016 and are starting off with a bang! To kick things off with we have two classes starting in January and February - Salesforce Administrator Training and Cybersecurity Training with Palo Alto Networks. The Salesforce Administrator Training will occur from January 27th-29th at Salesforce HQ - 50 Fremont St. in SF and the Cybersecurity Training will be held on Feb.8th-12th at Palo Alto Networks in Santa Clara, CA If you are still interested in either one of the trainings we need to know ASAP. Please hit "reply" and put in the subject line your preference - (either SALESFORCE ADMIN training 1/27-1/29 or Cybersecurity at Palo Alto Networks - Feb 8th-12th). The Salesforce course requires basic knowledge of admin tools, while the Cybersecurity course requires an understanding of network security, such as basic terminology and components(IPS, End-Points, and URL-filtering). Both of these trainings will require MANDATORY attendance throughout the entire session from 8-5pm each day. If you are unable to make any of the dates for Salesforce ADMIN or Cybersecurity, but you wish to take class at a future date (probably in the next 3-6months) please request that we keep you on the "interest" list. |
Our mission is to support our recent and returning veterans – with re-integration and by connecting vets to the tech ecosystem.
ViT will act as an independent, agnostic organization bringing the tech community together in support of our veterans. We are committed to giving back by bringing together a (tech only) network, resources, and programs for our veterans interested in tech...Education, Entrepreneurship, and Employment.
"There is, I am convinced, a sea of goodwill out in the country of people and places yearning to help. We need to tap into it. We need to make that connection. We need to come up with new ways and new ideas to make life better for those affected by this war...""Sea of Goodwill" - Admiral Mike Mullen
As many of you know VetsinTech was launched out of TechCentralSF and we are pleased to announce another version of the very popular hackathon bringing our tech community together to support our veterans during Veterans Day weekend hackathon!! Please join TechCentralSF along with many industry leaders and VIP's at this exciting event! click hereFor more info, schedule, speakers, sponsors and more: click here
Thanks to everyone who participated in our Veteran's Day weekend hackathon Nov 9-11th! Congratulations to our winning teams....1st Place = Bugl.co and 2nd place - NeoSpace with 3rd place going to the Pocket Drill Sergeant!! We would also like to thank Mayor Ed Lee for visiting with us on Veteran's Day - see all the great press here
Announcing Vets in Tech Hackathon @ Facebook - Military Appreciation Month. Vets in Tech is pleased to be partnering with Facebook for our best event ever coming on May 29th 2013 to celebrate Military Appreciation Month!! Learn more: Click hereWhat: Vets in Tech Hackathon @ Facebook - Military Appreciation Month!When: Wednesday, May 29th 2013 - 9am to 8pmWhere: Facebook Campus Bldg 15, 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CARegistration Link: click here
And the winners are...1st place: Campus Drive, 2nd place: Kudo's Loop, 3rd place: Threads!! Congratulations to our winners and thanks to all the teams who participated. See our press: click here
Do you want to learn the secrets of being hired as a military vet into a tech company? Check out this incredible article covering Vets in Tech, with valuable advice about getting hired on Forbes.com!
Join us in SF for the National Launch of VetsinTech!! In honor of Veteran's Day 2013 in addition to SF we will be introducing new ViT chapters and their leaders in DC, NYC, Austin, TX, Los Angeles, Portland/Seattle and San Diego!! Each one of these veteran leaders has already held their first meetup and are helping build the ViT community locally to support our current and returning veterans.
Please join us with other VIP guests to support our veterans and welcome our new ViT leaders! Several sponsors will be in attendance including Intuit, Visa, Twilio, McAfee, Workday and more!!
Register here: http://vitnationallaunch-eorg.eventbrite.com/
Vets in Tech (ViT) and LinkedIn are combining resources to advance education and employment opportunities for current and returning veterans.
IF YOU ARE IN SF.......Join us for our national event exclusively for ViT members on Friday, December 13th!! – Building your Brand: ViT Profile Review. LinkedIn will review your LinkedIn online profile to help you enhance your professional brand. We will have other tech recruiters (Intuit, Visa, Twilio, Workday, Comcast, and more TBD) on hand to look over resumes and help with career advice - so please bring resumes if you would like to have yours reviewed. Be sure to complete all fields when registering as LinkedIn employees will review your profiles in advance and then will work with you in person to enhance your profile where needed.
After the LinkedIn/Employer event we will head out for the VetsinTech Holiday party!! The VetsinTech holiday party will start 4pm at a nearby location - 88 King St (corner of 2nd and King) YOU MUST REGISTER HERE:
If you are NOT in SF......no worries - veterans can still register for an online review of your LinkedIn profile here:
VetsinTech had an awesome year in 2013 with approximately 25 events across the country as we launched in Portland OR, Los Angeles and San Diego CA, Austin TX, Washington DC, and New York City, NY! Our first event of 2014 was a great entrepreneur and education program at Morrison Foerster!! The Vets in Tech Entrepreneur’s Business Basics Legal Workshop presented basic corporate legal issues vital to entrepreneurs thinking about or actually forming their own technology start-up companies (offered in SF, LA, DC, and NYC TBD). If you missed this one, keep an eye out for future events with Morrison and Foerster!
Join us! VetsinTech Social and Networking with Employers!!Join VetsinTech for a casual happy hour and networking event with employers!! For those of you who joined us last March at Pedro's this will be a similar experience - just networking and informal meeting with various employers (they will be color coded so you know who they are :) Employers expected to be in attendance include Intuit, Manpower Solutions Group, GE Software, Thermo-Fisher, Workday, and more TBD!! Refreshments/Appetizers will be served!
Greetings Veterans and supporters! Lots happening at VetsinTech - much good work in support of our veterans. VetsinTech was invited to the White House at the end of February where we attended the Veterans Entrepreneurship Workshop. Click to see pics. Several great ideas in support of our veteran entrepreneurs surfaced and are pushing forward - so watch for more news here, as VetsinTech will be launching a very exciting new program in SF on May 14th at Next World Capital with support from the White House!
On March 20th and 21st VetsinTech hosted the VA at Intuit for a Lean Start-in Design for Delight session and there are great things to come from that as well. Click to see pics. And another one. We held ViT Employer event at the end of that session, welcoming new employers into our coalition including Akamai, GE Software, and Manpower Group Solutions. Together with our group of employers we hosted over 60 veterans who were able to discuss employment opportunities and also help ViT celebrate 2 years since our very first event - The Startup Veterans Hackathon on March 24th and 25th in 2012!
Finally to close out March - GE Garage and VetsinTech DC hosted an amazing event highlighting Advanced Manufacturing and 3D Printing opportunities for veterans careers on March 31st. Click to see pics. We are now on to planning some pretty special events for April, May, and June - stay tuned!!
On May 14, 2014 VetsinTech is kicking off a new, national program called VetCap (capital for veterans) to help veteran entrepreneurs, with the support of the White House and in collaboration with a national network of partner organizations. VetCap is starting with workshops nationwide to teach veteran entrepreneurs where and how to raise capital, and connect them to financing sources. Click here
[caption id="attachment_807" align="alignnone" width="614"] Military veterans gathered in NYC for Vetcap, a new national series of financial workshops sponsored by VetsinTech.
For military veterans looking to break into the tech industry, a friendly audience goes a long way. So say participants in Vetcap, a new national series of workshops launched by VetsinTech (ViT) that gives veteran entrepreneurs a chance to network and “pitch” their startup idea to a panel of industry pros as part of a financial workshop. Sponsored by the New York City chapter of ViT, the latest Vetcap was held at Union Square Ventures on June 18, 2014. Nine vets pitched in all.
“Relative to all things out there for veterans, it’s probably the best thing I’ve done,” says Jonathan Frangakis, a former Major in the Marine Corps. “I got really solid feedback and tons of information I never would have known about.” Click here to read more..
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In honor of Military Appreciation Month and National Small Business Week, VetsinTech kicked off an innovative national program to help veteran entrepreneurs called VetCap (capital for veterans) on May 14th, 2014. The event was a huge success as over 70 vets attended - with 10 vets pitching to fund their own startup!
Thanks to Joining Forces and the White House for the inspiration and recognizing VetsinTech -
http://www.whitehouse.gov/Join Vets in Tech for one of our best events ever!! The 1st EVER Women-VetsinTech hackathon @ Facebook will be a shortened version of our popular weekend event but will be action packed with goal of getting to a MVP (minimum viable product) or demo/pitch by the end of the day. In partnership with the SBA and V-WISE, VetsinTech has an exciting day planned exclusively for women veterans.
Facebook will be bringing in some of their best advisors and fellow veterans to support the teams as well as leading a “LeanIn” session during the day. More information will be announced leading up to the event (keynotes, judges, prizes, etc) so be sure to keep checking back here: http://www.vetsintech.co/women-facebook-hackathon/
VetsinTech would like to thank all the amazing women veteran entrepreneurs that participated in the 1st EVER all Women-VetsinTech
hackathon at Facebook on Monday 8/25!!
Congratulations to the winners:
1st place - Bohdi,
2nd place Vets Helping Vets TV,
3rd Place: Clear PR and My Estate Vault
Read more from Techcrunch (click here) and SF Chronicle (click here)
Join VetsinTech together with members of our employer coalition including Salesforce.com Intuit/DemandForce, ManpowerGroup, GE Software, Walmart e-Commerce, Akamai, Icon, and Medallia on Sept 23rd for Opportunities in Tech!!While developer jobs are the highest in demand in the tech industry, did you know that there are several other career opportunities in tech companies including Sales, Marketing, HR, Operations, Product and Project Management, etc. Come meet with our employer recruiters and hiring managers to learn more about the variety of jobs open in their companies across all departments. Appetizers and refreshments will be provided!
VetsinTech will be at Dreamforce by Salesforce.com Oct 13th-16th!! VetsinTech is very pleased to be working closely with Salesforce.com on all 3E's in our mission - Education, Employment, and Entrepreneurship!! ViT has signed an Academic Alliance Partnership agreement to train veterans as Salesforce Admins and we completed our first class of 20 veterans on October 3rd! We will be kicking off Dreamforce activity with our veterans who will show up to take the exam and get certified as SFDC Admins on Sunday Oct 12th.
VetsinTech will be present in a few events which will be held mostly on "Veterans Day" at Dreamforce on Wed Oct 15th. Please register for the FREE expo pass which will get you into these events:
See complete list of veterans sessions at Dreamforce and be sure to join us at Happy Hour on Thursday!
Click here to see our VetForce overviewIn honor of Veterans Day and Veterans National Small Business Week, VetsinTech is kicking off an innovative national program to help veteran entrepreneurs called VetCap (capital for veterans). VetsinTech DC will host the VetCap event at Microsoft in Chevy Chase, MD on November 6th 2014!VetCap is a new initiative for a national series of workshops to help train veteran entrepreneurs on where and how to raise capital, and to connect them to a network of financing sources. The workshop portion will include a panel of 6 different financing sources including a VC, Angel, Corporate Ventures, Bank/Lender, Crowdfunder, and the SBA. Please register here to attend: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vetsintech-dc-launch-of-vetcap-tickets-13676692355
VetsinTech was very excited to be a big part of Salesforce.com's launch of VetForce at this year's Dreamforce conference. ViT trained 20 veterans to become certified Salesforce Administrators during the week of Sept 29th, 2014 and our cohort plus many more from the VetsinTech network attended VetForce sessions on "Veterans Day at Dreamforce" on Wednesday Oct 15th! Read more about Salesforce.com's effort to get 10,000 veterans hired and VetsinTech role in the efforts here: http://www.cnbc.com/id/
One of the highlights of the entire week was being able to fly with 50 execs from the Dreamforce conference in 2 Chinook helicopters down to Moffett airfield in Mt. View CA!! We were all able to meet the 129th Rescue Wing of California Air and Army National Guard to learn more about their Work for Warriors program. HueyVets flew even more of the ViT veterans at Moffett so they were able to meet tech execs and potential employers. See our pics here.
See more pictures here..
