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This Week in Memphis Tech

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Demystifying WordPress at Design and Code: Practical Mechanics, Real Questions, and Shared Knowledge

Design and Code

A working-room WordPress session where Memphis builders learned in public: sharing practical skills, real questions, and community-rooted knowledge that moves projects forward.

When Copilot Meets Real Analytics Work: Inside a Memphis Data Professionals Working Session

Inside the BDPA Winter Celebration: Where Memphis Tech Paused to Reflect, and Dance

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Learning in Public

First projects, aha moments, lessons from the messy middle—stories from people figuring it out as they go.

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Learning in Public

Demystifying WordPress at Design and Code: Practical Mechanics, Real Questions, and Shared Knowledge

A working-room WordPress session where Memphis builders learned in public: sharing practical skills, real questions, and community-rooted knowledge that moves projects forward.

Design and Code Memphis

Learning in Public

When Copilot Meets Real Analytics Work: Inside a Memphis Data Professionals Working Session

A look at how Memphis Data Professionals explored Copilot's role in real analytics workflows, and what it means for local talent.

Memphis Data Professionals

Learning in Public

How Memphis Builds the Future: A Community Recap of Melanie Suria's Talk on AI

Memphis Tech Scene: Melanie Suria's call to harness AI's promise, confront its risks, and lead with responsibility.

FedEx Institute of Technology

Learning in Public

Joey Brown on Kafka at Memphis Data Professionals

Demystifying Kafka and Celebrating Memphis Tech Talent.

Memphis Data Professionals

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Community & Culture

Events, traditions, profiles, and perspectives that make Memphis tech feel like home.

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Community & Culture

Inside Tech901's Mario Kart Night: Where Memphis Tech Comes To Play

How a simple game night at Tech901 turned into a reminder of why connection, joy, and shared spaces still power Memphis' tech community.

Tech901

Community & Culture

Inside the BDPA Winter Celebration: Where Memphis Tech Paused to Reflect, and Dance

An intimate year-end gathering where BDPA Memphis reflected on growth, celebrated culture, and showed what community-driven innovation looks like in practice.

BDPA Memphis

Community & Culture

The Night Memphis Showed Up for Its Founders

A look inside ZeroTo510 Demo Day, where founders, builders, and community leaders showed what's possible when Memphis innovation moves together.

Epicenter Memphis

Community & Culture

Deltech 2025: Where Southern Innovation Met Soul

A celebration of culture, connection, and the creative grit driving innovation across the Delta. Deltech conference 2025 recap.

Epicenter Memphis

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Career & Growth

Navigating interviews, leveling up, switching roles, and building sustainable tech careers in Memphis.

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Career & Growth

The Work Behind 35 Years: What D'Bo's Teaches Memphis Founders About Staying Power

A grounded look at the operational lessons, hard-won discipline, and community wisdom behind D'Bo Daiquiris & Wings' 35-year journey. And what Memphis builders can take from it.

The Crews Center of Entrepreneurship

Career & Growth

Memphis Means Business: Cyber Resilience Starts with Community

From layered defenses to AI threats, the AI & Cybersecurity Conference delivered a tactical playbook for small businesses and Memphis showed up ready to lead.

Black Chamber of Memphis

Career & Growth

Culture Is the Firewall: Memphis Builds Cyber-Aware Teams from the Inside Out

At the AI & Cybersecurity Conference, local leaders showed how trust, training, and teamwork are Memphis' secret weapons in digital defense.

Black Chamber of Memphis

Career & Growth

Code, Culture, and Clarity: LeMoyne-Owen's College AI + Cybersecurity Summit

From AI teammates to digital resumes, local leaders dropped gems and rallied the next gen to build boldly, speak loudly, and dream without limits.

LeMoyne-Owen College

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Builders & Creators

Side projects, open source contributions, creative experiments, and things built for the joy of building.

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Builders & Creators

Highlights from January 2026's Code & Share Virtual Meetup

Memphis technologists came together at January's Code & Share to share projects, sharpen their voice, and learn as a community across experience levels and disciplines.

Code Connector

Builders & Creators

When Memphis Builders Shared the Work and the Struggle: Inside BDPA's Code, Create + Conversate

Game developers, bootcamp grads, and IP strategists gathered at Aldar Cafe for something rare: unstructured time to share projects, question AI tools, and talk about what building costs.

BDPA Memphis

Builders & Creators

Experimentation Over Polish: Inside February's Code & Share

At the Code Connector's Code and Share event, Memphis technologists shared unfinished ideas, asked honest questions, and learned faster by building together.

Code Connector

Builders & Creators

Hack Memphis 2025: Innovation with Civic Purpose

See how Hack Memphis 2025 turned civic challenges into visionary prototypes that serve our city.

Innovate Memphis

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