Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10  technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local tech events every Monday morning!

When I started going back to school for my computer science degree 5 years ago, Colorado had a small but thriving inclusive tech community. Today we has a large and thriving inclusive tech community that is still growing! Denver and Boulder share the spotlight, but, like we see with the headlines this week, other Colorado areas are also growing and in need of talented workers.

This tempts me to get on a soapbox about “talented workers” but I’ll keep it short. There is a line between being unable to find talented workers for a role and having expectations that are too high for a role. If you are constantly unable to find someone to fit your role, could your expectations be too high? Can you train someone to fit this role? This is not an easy line to define. If I knew how to accurately define where this line exists, I’d be a very well off consultant but I think it’s worth thinking about.

Have a great week!

Top Colorado Technology News

• Denver-based Wazee Digital to be acquired by Veritone [InnovatioNews]
• Denver’s Greystone Gives Back: Filling backpacks for A Precious Child [Greystone]
• Cybersecurity industry booming in Springs, but worker shortage remains [KOAA]
• Denver-based AdSwerve acquires Seattle firm for $24 million [DBJ]
• Talent acquisition, security breaches weigh on NoCo tech CEOs [BizWest]
• Gusto hiring up to 100 in Denver, growing office faster than San Francisco HQ [DBJ]
• Xerox spinoff to lay off 410 employees in Colorado Springs, continuing trend of cutting jobs in Colorado [DenverPost]
• 5 steps to change your career and transition into tech [CodingBlonde]
• Denver’s Red Canary and Endgame announce partnership [RedCanary]
• Westminster-based DigitalGlobe co-founds and leads new World Geospatial Industry Council [InnovatioNews]

Top Upcoming Events

• 8/22 – GDG Denver – Programming Google Home, a FREE Build Actions for your Community event (Denver)
• 8/22 – WomenWhoCode – Annual End of Summer Social
• 8/23 – CiGDA – Casual Northside / Boulder Game Makers
• 8/23 – Denver Code Club – Modern Microservices: Building Applications
• 8/23 – New Tech Colorado – Pitch Night (Colorado Springs)
• 8/27 – Angular Boulder – How to Add End-to-End Encryption to Your Angular App
• 8/27 – Denver Vue.js Meetup – Lightning Talk and Work Night
• 8/27 – Mile High Gophers – Gophercon Pre-Party Meetup
• 8/28 – Denver Droids – Say Hello to Android Things 1.0 by Dave Smith
• 8/28 – PySprings – Project Night: GitHub Tutorial, Badge System [snack provided]

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