Tech, security, and maker events around Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point — plus a few worth-the-drive NC events. Click any event for details and ticket links.
On-Demand for the month
Best of Fal.Con 2026 — CrowdStrike CrowdCast — Highlights and keynotes from Fal.Con 2026 (Kurtz, Jensen Huang, Greg Brockman and more). Watch anytime. Free with registration.
BOOKS AND GUIDES
The Next Job Success Engine — Building an AI-Run Job Search Around the Next Five Years, by Jack Heath.
Bad Plumbing — An Agile guide explaining why one-size-fits-all projects fail, showing how treating an organization like a plumbing system—focused on flow instead of force—makes Agile practices make sense.
Self-Paced Learning Platforms
freeCodeCamp — Offers over 1,000 hours of interactive coding and web development curricula with free certificates in responsive web design, JavaScript, and data science.
MIT OpenCourseWare — Provides free, openly-licensed digital notes, assignments, and video lectures from more than 2,500 real MIT university courses.
OpenLearn — Features introductory digital and computing modules from The Open University covering cyber security, artificial intelligence, and machine translation.
Coursera — Allows free audits of course video modules and select introductory badges (such as Google and Microsoft AI or Excel essentials), with optional upgrades for credentials.
Alison — Hosts certified self-paced IT and computing classes spanning programming languages, cybersecurity, blockchain, and Microsoft 365.