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Join BOT for tonight's First Sale to Successful Startup Exit fireside chat with Joel Martin and Robert “Bobby” Torres! 🎤 They'll discuss topics ranging from connecting with advisors to landing your first sales with ease. 🚀

🎟️ Rsvp for Free at tinyurl.com/3kdkvhh7

🌟 Event Details:
Thursday, September 24, 2026
6PM - 8PM
1001 N Orange Ave, Orlando, FL

Meet Joel Martin and Bobby Torres🚀
Combined, they’ve worked in many aspects of media, sales, and tech. Swipe to learn more about Joel and Bobby ahead of their First Sale to Successful Startup Exit fireside chat tomorrow night! ➡️

🎟️ Rsvp for Free at tinyurl.com/3kdkvhh7

🌟 Event Details:
Thursday, September 24, 2026
6PM - 8PM
1001 N Orange Ave, Orlando, FL

Meet Naziah Riaz 🌟
For this week's 10-year Impact Story, BOT would like to highlight her growth through BOT's programs!💻 Learn more about Naziah's journey with BOT and how support led to her to becoming a Certified PMP. 🚀

🔗Naziah’s story: tinyurl.com/yy9wz2zs

🎉 Flashback Friday 🎉

Back in September 2017, before BOT was the community it is today, Felecia Hatcher — then leading Black Tech Week in Miami — came out to speak to us on "Combating Innovation Deserts."

At a time when we were still building our foundation, she gave us her time, her insight, and her belief in what we were trying to build. Fast forward 10 years later, we're still here, still growing, and still grateful.

Today Felecia is CEO of Pharrell Williams' Black Ambition Opportunity, where her work has helped connect entrepreneurs to over $100M in funding and resources. A 2014 Obama White House Champion of Change and Harvard Young American Leader, she's been building inclusive innovation ecosystems ever since — and we're proud to say she helped build ours too.

Thank you, Felecia, for believing in BOT early on. 💙

Heads up, BOT fam! 📱 Our iOS Accessibility Workshop has a new date:
Thursday, October 1, 2026
6:00PM to 8:30 PM, still at CREDO Conduit.

If you're building with SwiftUI, this one's for you. We'll test real iOS accessibility tools, walk through practical techniques for writing more inclusive code, and pick up habits you can use on any project going forward.

Bring a MacBook with Xcode if you want to code along, but everyone walks away with something useful.

Get your ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/making-apps-for-everybody-an-ios-accessibility-workshop-tickets-1998258437779?aff=oddtdtcreator

Today only: Microsoft is having an Agent-a-Thon from 11 AM - 2PM EST. Join for Free now: tinyurl.com/yc4ruk9s

🚨Important Event Announcement🚨
Both of the events scheduled to take place this week are POSTPONED! BOT is actively working to reschedule these events. We will update our community as soon as we have new event information.