Events
Tuesday 18 March 2025 7:00 PM
FLUX member Damian Montero will present on Using the DeepSeek R1 LLM Locally.
In this presentation we will learn how to install the latest DeepSeek R1 LLM on a local computer.
We’ll discuss
– What it means to install it locally,
– How it compares to running on the DeepSeek website,
– How it compares to OpenAI and others LLMs,
– Speed, security and other issues.
Discussion begins at 7:00 PM ET.
Please RSVP and get the Zoom URL at
https://www.meetup.com/south-florida-linux-users-group-flux/events/
In-person, after work vBeers have resumed!
Hang out with IT colleagues after work! These meetups are to have a great time while connecting and catching up outside of work.
This is open to anyone in the Tech Field in South Florida
We will either be in the upstairs lounge or at the end of the patio bar.
Enjoy Biergarten’s Wednesday special – 1/2 price burger and fries with a beverage purchase!
The monthly schedule is
- 2nd Wed- Funky Buddha, Oakland Park
- 3rd Wed – Biergarten Boca, Boca Raton
-johnj
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johnj@it-news-and-events.info
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Join us for SFISSA’s 3rd in-person members’ meeting of the year! We’re excited to be hosting this meeting at MDC, a welcoming new venue for 2025 in line with our mission to host meetings through the tri-county area.
Location: Room 1245 is located in Building 1, on the second floor.
Please park in the open lot between 115th and the campus buildings, not the garage.
Navigating PCI DSS Compliance: Common Pitfalls and Solutions
Join Juan Carlos Hernandez, a seasoned PCI DSS Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) from 24By7Security, as he delves into the intricacies of PCI DSS compliance. This presentation will focus on the common pitfalls organizations face when striving to meet PCI DSS standards and provide practical solutions to overcome these challenges. ISSA members, who are often involved in ensuring compliance with various security standards, will gain valuable insights into maintaining robust security practices and avoiding common compliance errors.
In addition to addressing common pitfalls, Juan Carlos will highlight the significant changes introduced in PCI DSS 4.0.1. With the March 31, 2025 deadline fast approaching, it is crucial for organizations to understand and adapt to these updates. Attendees will receive a comprehensive roadmap to ensure timely compliance with PCI DSS 4.0.1, helping them navigate the evolving landscape of cybersecurity standards.
Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your understanding of PCI DSS compliance and prepare your organization for the future of cybersecurity. Juan Carlos Hernandez’s expertise and practical insights will provide the ISSA South Florida attendees with an insightful understanding of the challenges of compliance and implementing effective security measures.
After the meeting (Around 8 PM), we’ll keep the energy going with networking at a local hotspot
Don’t miss this opportunity to be part of the action.
Join us at the next Data Science Salon MIA Meetup on March 26 to connect with local practitioners and managers while hearing about emerging AI and machine learning trends and the enterprise.
We’ll be giving away two tickets to our upcoming Data Science Salon MIA events on September 17! More details here
Agenda:
🔸 6:00pm – 7:00pm – Networking
🔸 7:00pm – 7:30pm – Featured Session 1
🔸 7:30pm – 8:00pm – Featured Session 2
🔸 8:00pm – 9:00pm – Networking
Are you looking to learn about web development but don’t know where to start?
In a fast-growing digital economy, tech skills are becoming essential for various purposes. Perhaps you want to add more skills to your resume, or you have ideas you want to build. For some, it’s an opportunity to move to a new career. For others, it’s an essential language that can open many opportunities.
Join us this month for a practical web development workshop delivered by one of our expert Ironhack instructors. We will help you learn the basics and see just how far you can go by understanding some of the Web Development fundamentals.
In this exclusive online class, we will:
Build a landing page using semantic HTML with a mobile first mindset
Style it to match the latest trends and aesthetics using modern
CSS Deploy it to a cloud provider so that it’s reachable by anyone in the world
We will be following our instructor step by step while we build a real-life digital product, guiding us on useful key concepts to get started.
At the end of the session you will be equipped to build a landing page for your business or new project and have it accessible by anyone, anywhere.
We will provide you not only with techniques but other useful resources that you can access to get started. By registering you will also have access to the recording of the session, as well as all the shared resources.
We look forward to welcoming you to this exclusive session.
What are NFTs you ask? You’re not the only one.
Non-Fungible-Tokens (NFTs) are essentially certificates of ownership for any digital content, and can be bought and sold like any other piece of property. While most digital content can be copied and shared countless times, the buyer of an NFT owns a “token” which proves that they own the “original” work.
Thanks to smart contracts, creators of digital content who sell their work as NFTs can get a cut of any future sale of the token. Anyone can create an NFT, and that’s exactly what we’ll be doing in this 2-part NFT workshop series!
We’ll explore:
✅ NFTs in-depth
✅ NBA Top Shot, BAYC, Crypto Punks and other successful projects
✅ Smart contracts
✅ How to sell an NFT Popular NFT marketplaces
✅ How to promote an NFT collection Popular
✅ NFT release features
✅ Which blockchains to consider launching on
Part 2, will involve creating and launching a collection without writing code! We’ll learn about and use tools that will allow us to:
✅ Create NFT image layers
✅ Blend them together to produce 3,5 or even 10k unique variations
✅ Upload to decentralized storage (IPFS)
✅ Create and deploy the smart contract
✅ Create a minting website (dApp) and wire it up to the smart contract
Ready?! 🙌
All you need to attend is your laptop, a wifi connection and a willingness to be inspired to get your NFT creativity on! All are welcome too, so tell your friends, your family and even your loud-at-times neighbours 📢
Are you looking to learn about UX/UI Design but don’t know where to start? Have you wondered how apps and websites are designed from a user’s perspective?
In a fast-growing digital economy, tech skills are becoming essential for various purposes. Perhaps you want to add more skills to your resume, or you have ideas you want to build. For some, it’s an opportunity to move to a new career.
Join us this month for a practical UX/UI Design workshop delivered by one of our expert Ironhack instructors. We will help you learn the basics and see just how far you can go by understanding some of the UX/UI Design fundamentals.
In this exclusive online class, we will cover:
✅ The Design Thinking 5-stage process, while applying it together in a Challenge
✅ Tools to translate user research into actionable information
✅ Tools to generate multiple ideas to solve real problems
✅ How to build Wireframes and Prototypes on Figma
✅ We will be following our instructor step by step while we build a real-life digital product, guiding us on useful key UX/UI Design frameworks.
✅ You’ll learn key concepts that you can start applying in your future work.
At the end of the session you will be able to apply a user-centered methodology to solve real problems in both digital and offline environments.
We look forward to welcoming you to this exclusive session.
vBeers / ITBeers in an informal, after work, peer-to-peer networking event for senior IT professionals – technical people who have been in Enterprise IT for at least 5 years.
Hang out with IT friends and colleagues after work! I host two events each month:
- Funky Buddha 2nd Wednesday of each month.
- Biergarten Boca 3rd Wednesday of each month.
At The Funky Buddha I usually grab a table at the back of the tap room, near the hallway to the meeting and games area.
The tap room has great wi-fi and a pleasant ambiance for anyone who wants to arrive early and work of their laptop instead of dealing with commuter traffic. I try to be on-site by 4:00 PM at my co-working space with beer instead of coffee!
The Funky Buddha now has a full restaurant license so they serve food, beer, wine and spirits. Happy hour menu is from 4:00 PM to 6:30 PM and includes a Spent Grain Pretzel and a Pub Burger for $6 each. There are also Happy Hour drinks.
-johnj
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Are you looking to learn about web development but don’t know where to start?
In a fast-growing digital economy, tech skills are becoming essential for various purposes. Perhaps you want to add more skills to your resume, or you have ideas you want to build. For some, it’s an opportunity to move to a new career. For others, it’s an essential language that can open many opportunities.
Join us this month for a practical web development workshop delivered by one of our expert Ironhack instructors. We will help you learn the basics and see just how far you can go by understanding some of the Web Development fundamentals.
In this exclusive online class, we will:
Build a landing page using semantic HTML with a mobile first mindset
Style it to match the latest trends and aesthetics using modern
CSS Deploy it to a cloud provider so that it’s reachable by anyone in the world
We will be following our instructor step by step while we build a real-life digital product, guiding us on useful key concepts to get started.
At the end of the session you will be equipped to build a landing page for your business or new project and have it accessible by anyone, anywhere.
We will provide you not only with techniques but other useful resources that you can access to get started. By registering you will also have access to the recording of the session, as well as all the shared resources.
We look forward to welcoming you to this exclusive session.
Are you looking to learn about UX/UI Design but don’t know where to start? Have you wondered how apps and websites are designed from a user’s perspective?
In a fast-growing digital economy, tech skills are becoming essential for various purposes. Perhaps you want to add more skills to your resume, or you have ideas you want to build. For some, it’s an opportunity to move to a new career.
Join us this month for a practical UX/UI Design workshop delivered by one of our expert Ironhack instructors. We will help you learn the basics and see just how far you can go by understanding some of the UX/UI Design fundamentals.
In this exclusive online class, we will cover:
✅ The Design Thinking 5-stage process, while applying it together in a Challenge
✅ Tools to translate user research into actionable information
✅ Tools to generate multiple ideas to solve real problems
✅ How to build Wireframes and Prototypes on Figma
✅ We will be following our instructor step by step while we build a real-life digital product, guiding us on useful key UX/UI Design frameworks.
✅ You’ll learn key concepts that you can start applying in your future work.
At the end of the session you will be able to apply a user-centered methodology to solve real problems in both digital and offline environments.
We look forward to welcoming you to this exclusive session.
Please RSVP and get the Zoom URL at
https://www.meetup.com/south-florida-linux-users-group-flux/events/
This will be an ONLINE-ONLY meetup, NOT a lecture-style meeting.
The agenda is generally set when someone poses a question, so bring those questions!
What topics, projects, activities, and/or questions are most interesting and relevant to you?
Do you have an interest that others might find interesting or useful?
Have you tried a new disto and can report your findings and impressions?
Bring something fun or interesting to share.
Discussion begins at 7:00 PM ET.
Are you looking to learn about Data Analytics but don’t know where to start?
Have you ever wondered what you can achieve by knowing how to understand and process data in your career?In a fast-growing digital economy, tech skills are becoming essential for various purposes. Perhaps you want to add more skills to your resume, or you have ideas you want to build. For some, it’s an opportunity to move to a new career.
Join us this month for a practical Data Analytics workshop delivered by one of our expert Ironhack instructors. We will help you learn the basics and see just how far you can go by understanding some of the fundamentals of Data Analytics.
In this exclusive online class, we will cover:
✅ How data analysts look at data
✅ How we can interpret data to learn about someone’s habits
✅ How to model those habits so we can make predictions about future choices
We will be following our instructor step by step while analyzing the data . You’ll learn key concepts that you can start applying in your future work. At the end of the session you will be able to think of new uses for data that is already collected in your organization.
We will provide you not only with techniques but other useful resources that you can access to get started.
By registering you will also have access to the recording of the session as well as all the shared resources.
We look forward to welcoming you to this exclusive session.
In-person, after work vBeers have resumed!
Hang out with IT colleagues after work! These meetups are to have a great time while connecting and catching up outside of work.
This is open to anyone in the Tech Field in South Florida
We will either be in the upstairs lounge or at the end of the patio bar.
Enjoy Biergarten’s Wednesday special – 1/2 price burger and fries with a beverage purchase!
The monthly schedule is
- 2nd Wed- Funky Buddha, Oakland Park
- 3rd Wed – Biergarten Boca, Boca Raton
-johnj
John J. McLaughlin, South Florida Tech Hub Board Member
johnj@it-news-and-events.info
Editor-in-Chief, IT News and Events
https://itnewsandevents.com
https://www.myitnewsletter.com
https://www.sfitevents.com
Don’t forget to have a look at my weekly newsletters:
IT News And Events
IT Vendor News
IT Sales and Marketing News
South Florida IT Events