May 14 — 12:00PM (Virtual)

GIS work is getting more complex. This session breaks down how teams are moving CAD data into usable mapping systems without losing accuracy or time. A strong room for analysts, planners, and anyone shaping Memphis infrastructure through data.

May 16 — 9:00AM (In-Person)

No experience required. Just curiosity. CodeCrew turns software concepts into approachable challenges that help first-timers learn by doing instead of watching. A welcoming entry point into the people and pathways growing Memphis tech talent.

May 16 — 2:00PM (In-Person)

Bring your laptop. Stay for the momentum. Developers, learners, and curious builders gather here to work through ideas, unblock projects, and trade knowledge in real time. One of the simplest ways to plug into Memphis’s grassroots coding community.

May 11 — 6:30PM (In-Person)

Career transitions are easier with people around you. This workshop helps attendees sharpen how they tell their story in interviews while getting live feedback from others navigating similar moves. Arrive early. The conversations start before the session does.

May 13 — 6:00PM (In-Person)

Leadership shapes more than companies. This conversation brings together voices thinking seriously about how Memphis grows teams, talent, and civic trust at the same time. Worth attending if you're leading people or preparing to.

🍻 Tech on Tap with Lia

May 13 — 5:30PM (In-Person)

No slides. No pressure. Just a room full of tech people unwinding after work and talking shop, culture, careers, movies, or whatever the night turns into. One of the easiest ways to meet the humans behind the Memphis tech ecosystem.

🛠️ Midsouth Makers Weekly Friday Open House

May 15 — 7:00PM (In-Person)

Things get built here. Walk through the makerspace, meet the people soldering, printing, designing, and experimenting after hours, and see how Memphis creativity extends beyond software. A low-pressure way to find your corner of the community.

May 14 — 10:15AM (In-Person)

Fast-moving conversations happen here. People across Memphis are comparing AI workflows, testing automation ideas, and sharing what’s actually useful beyond the hype cycle. Short, casual, and easy to join whether you're experimenting or deploying already.

May 13 — 5:00PM (In-Person)

Money changes what survives. This Chase bank session focuses on how founders and business owners can prepare for funding conversations before the stakes get high. If you're building for longevity instead of quick wins, this is a valuable room to be in.

May 14-15 | In-Person

Part of the respected global DevOpsDays series, this regional event blends DevOps and AI insights with practical, practitioner‑led sessions. A strong option for Memphis teams looking to sharpen delivery, resilience, and modern engineering practices.

June 5 | In-Person

Memphis Microsoft Community Day brings technologists, makers, and leaders together for a full day of learning, connection, and hands‑on growth. With sessions led by Microsoft experts, MVPs, and community builders, you’ll explore AI, automation, cloud, and collaboration tools while strengthening skills that move Memphis’s tech ecosystem forward.

October 3 | In-Person

BSides Memphis is a community-driven cybersecurity conference organized by local volunteers and part of the global Security BSides event series. The event brings together security professionals, students, researchers, and technology enthusiasts to share knowledge, research, and real-world security experiences. With technical talks, community discussions, and opportunities to connect with others in the field, BSides Memphis aims to strengthen and grow the region’s cybersecurity community.

On a cool spring afternoon, the usual rhythm of Code & Share shifted. The crowd was smaller than usual, but nearly everyone in the virtual room had something to show. This wasn’t a session of enthusiastic observers. It was a working floor, quiet in the way a studio gets quiet when people are actually making things.

Olaoluwa Akinfenwa opened with a WordPress plugin built to do something deceptively simple: delete a site completely. What made it worth the room’s attention wasn’t the deletion itself, but the intentionality baked into the UX. Showing users exactly what’s being removed, file by file, category by category, before anything disappears. An attendee pushed the conversation toward design and color choices, but the real thread was about informed consent in tooling. People shouldn’t just click “delete.” They should understand what that means.

Seth Johnson brought Pet2Go. A scheduling and care app that solves a problem most pet owners feel but rarely name: their pets don’t make it onto the calendar. Built with Grok LLM and RAG, the app tracks pet care commitments, sends email summaries, and surfaces scheduling conflicts before they happen. The next step is pulling from a personal calendar without merging into it. A technically modest goal with a quietly meaningful premise.

John Hall returned with Dogfood v2, the evolving project he’s building around a core question: if AI is writing the code, who actually understands it? His answer is a documentation-first tool that tracks architectural decisions, maps what each process does, and creates what he calls bookkeeping for AI-produced software. A participant asked about token spend, and Hall answered practically: smaller models, local inference, tighter scope. The conversation felt less like Q&A and more like shared debugging of an industry-wide problem.

JC Smiley closed the demos with two hackathon builds: M-Town Match, a Memphis date-spot finder born at BDPA’s Dumb Hackathon, and MyVillage, a postpartum support app created at Epicenter Memphis and won 3rd place. MyVillage drew a thoughtful question: could the real-time “village need board” extend beyond new parents to anyone navigating care without nearby family? The founders didn’t deflect. They sat with it.

What carried through the afternoon wasn’t volume; it was density. The support was quieter than a typical Code & Share, more emoji than exclamations, but the demos themselves were doing more work. Builders came ready. And in a room that size, that shows.

The Memphis Python User Group is looking for speakers starting in May 2026. The group meets virtually on the 3rd Monday of the month at 6:00 PM US Central time. Speakers of all experience and skill levels are welcome. You don't need to have an hour long presentation. A 10 or 15 minute (many people are surprised how limiting that ends up being) talk about a project or an interesting feature you discovered can spark a discussion.

First-time speakers are very much welcomed and encouraged to submit. BSides Memphis is a community-driven cybersecurity conference organized by local volunteers and part of the global Security BSides event series. Event will be hosted on October 3, 2026 at the Epicenter Memphis downtown location.

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