Another blog from my phone. There seems to be something that happened to my photo transfer app when I upgraded. I’ll get to the bottom of that tomorrow. Just home after a long afternoon and evening of nerdiness. Today was the Vermont tech jam put together by my good friend Cathy R. It’s a great showcase of high-tech companies working in Vermont looking to hire and some great talks and panel discussions.

It was so much fun seeing so many friends from so many different connections there today.

I let a panel on what Ayite meant to the state of Vermont. I had four great panel is Milo who is a high school student from CVU, Jill who is the president of the local AFL-CIO and a retired letter carrier, Polly who’s the chief data scientist at a start up and my good friend Tim who has his own AI start up around horse racing.

The panelists were really good… And so was the audience. We quickly used up to 45 minutes and ended up going an extra half hour and could’ve gone on for much longer because the audience was really responding… But we had to get out of the way for another panel .

There was an award Sarah Moni later on and my friend Jake won a big prize… Again… Last year he won something here too

After tech gym I went home and pick Dianne up and we met a bunch of friends at Queen city brewery… It was a very interesting mix. We met up with our friends Tim and Paula… But also our friends Avery and Jen and JIM who were there for a family reunion… Our friend Hannah was there and she picked up our friend Julia who is in visiting from Montana. Cathy from tech jam also showed up.

Nice eclectic mix Of people

We finished off the night by stopping in at a going away party that my friend Karen was throwing for her self at Muddy Waters. Karen has decided to move to France on Monday. I’ll miss her ! She’s a very interesting and fun person.

Time for bed. More tomorrow

Nite all, nite Sam

-me