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SUMMARY:ENRG HTX - September 2026
DESCRIPTION:Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/enrg-htx-september-2026-tickets-1992148129683 \nENRG (Entrepreneurial Networking Resource Group) is a community for entrepreneurs with 10-250 employees running on EOS or EOS Curious. \n\n\n\nENRG (pronounced energy) is here to stay in Houston! \nErick Garcia\, Lesa A Skipper and Craig Ceccanti are teaming up to build the Houston ENRG Chapter and we could not be more excited to invite entrepreneurs running on EOS or EOS Curious to this collaborative room! Join us on September 18th at 8:30am at the Ion District (Downstairs 028) for the first meeting! \nWhat is ENRG?\nThe vision is to establish an ENRG (Entrepreneurial Networking Resource Group) in Houston for entrepreneurs with 10-250 employees. This is a free EOS Worldwide aligned community for entrepreneurs led by one EOS Implementer and one Integrator. \nEach monthly meeting includes:\n– Practical training on an EOS tools\n– Peer-to-peer issue solving\n– Valuable networking\n– Content that helps move the needle on your business\n– Exposure to Subject Matter Experts\nNo sales pitches here though\, we’re here to help all tides rise! \nThis is WHERE entrepreneurs find the WHOs and the HOWs to move their business forward.
URL:https://iondistrict.com/event/enrg-htx-september-2026/
LOCATION:Ion – Conference Room 028\, 4201 Main St.\, Houston\, TX\, 77002\, United States
CATEGORIES:3rd Party Registration
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SUMMARY:Houston Startup Speedrun
DESCRIPTION:Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wades-houston-startup-speedrun-at-the-ion-tickets-1988360089553?aff=erelexpmlt \nThe Houston Startup Speedrun is an intensive and fast-paced program designed to provide both early-stage founders and aspiring entrepreneurs with a comprehensive understanding of the Startup Founder’s Journey and the Houston startup ecosystem through a carefully curated curriculum consisting of 10 consecutive 50-minute sessions. Wade Pinder\, your host and facilitator\, is an experienced and trusted ecosystem guide for many Houston-based stakeholders. With a focus on efficiency and accommodating the schedules of full-time working professionals\, this program aims to quickly give you a “lay of the land” while preparing you for your entrepreneurial journey.
URL:https://iondistrict.com/event/houston-startup-speedrun-8/
LOCATION:Ion – Conference Room 029\, 4201 Main St.\, Houston\, TX\, 77002\, United States
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SUMMARY:NASA Tech Talks: Enhancing Autonomous Onboard Navigation Systems
DESCRIPTION:We want HOU! Join us to discover NASA’s toughest tech challenges—and apply your skills and expertise to solve them. \nMost spacecraft rely on ground communications to navigate robustly\, which poses a risk for loss of mission in the event of extended communication loss. The Orion spacecraft has an Optical Navigation system that uses an onboard camera to estimate vehicle position based on measurements of Earth/Moon limb. This enables onboard navigation even in PCL scenarios\, but only at intermediate ranges where the limb is visible. A Target & Range-adaptive Optical Navigation system (TRON) has been developed at NASA JSC that incorporates additional types of Optical Navigation to estimate position from crater images at near ranges and from unresolved planets at far ranges\, enabling onboard navigation over a wider variety of mission profiles. This talk will provide an overview of this new tool suite\, its release as an integrated software application\, and details on two upcoming test flight demonstrations. \nPlease join us after the talk for drinks and networking at Second Draught! \nAbout the Speakers \nJorge Chong got his Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2017 doing research on smart materials for in-space thermal control systems. He then went to work for the Aeroscience & Flight Mechanics Division at NASA Johnson Space Center on the Orion Optical Navigation team (supporting both Artemis I & II) and more broadly as a GNC test engineer. In 2024\, he started Project TRON and has been the project manager for that team since then. \nMontgomery B. Goforth   has more than 40 years of experience as both Engineer and Manager in a variety of highly technical space and defense-related efforts.  After working for a small defense contractor specializing in anti-submarine warfare\, he joined NASA’s Johnson Space Center in 1990.  He has held leadership positions in multiple JSC Directorates and Program Offices. In his previous role as Assistant Director of the JSC Engineering Directorate\, he established a framework to better focus Engineering’s efforts towards Human Spaceflight technology and systems development consistent with JSC and Agency goals for exploration. Mr. Goforth is now serving as Acting Director of the Business Development & Technology Integration Office at JSC\, and as the JSC Chief Technologist.  In these capacities he will be helping to expand the Houston Aerospace Community through the identification of opportunities to develop space/terrestrial technologies of interest to JSC and Human Space Exploration.  Mr. Goforth was born in East Texas\, raised in Southern California and Arizona\, and graduated from Rice University (BSME 1982\, MSME 1987). \n\nAbout NASA Tech Talks \nIn these presentations\, occurring the fourth Thursdays of the month\, Mr. Montgomery Goforth and other aerospace subject matter experts will discuss the technology development challenges faced by NASA’s Johnson Space Center and the surrounding Aerospace community in our ongoing efforts as the hub of human spaceflight. Presentations will focus on the ways in which these challenges\, and the associated opportunities\, can be leveraged by Houston’s innovation community. We will continue to identify potential space/terrestrial technologies of interest to Human Spaceflight.  Past NASA Tech Talks have included topics such as: \n\nFrom Space to Startup: Leveraging NASA Technology and Innovation to Propel Your Growing Enterprise\nDisruptive Filter Technology for Spacecraft Water Treatment:  The New Promise of Graphene\nLunar dust capture using novel multiplexed inertial filter\nLunar Passive Fuel Cell Technologies:\nMicrobes in Space
URL:https://iondistrict.com/event/nasa-tech-talks-22/
LOCATION:Ion\, 4201 Main Street\, Houston\, TX\, 77002\, United States
CATEGORIES:Aerospace,Founders & Startups,General Community
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SUMMARY:Houston Linux User Group
DESCRIPTION:Are you interested or already invested in the Linux Operating System? \nJoin us at the Houston Linux User Group\, one of the oldest user groups involved with the Linux Operating System. We discuss new trends in operating system usage\, software development\, and current technological trends\, as well as provide one-on-one training or class-based instruction. Learn about how to get more out of your computer or how to leverage any of the Linux-based computational platforms. \nAll are welcome to attend\, regardless of whether you’re a seasoned Linux professional intent on networking or a new Linux user struggling with installation or the command line.\nThis monthly meeting includes all of the standard Houston Linux User Group meeting activities\, which include meet-and-greet\, presentations of personal projects\, multi-meeting classes\, as well as organizational and coordinating announcements. \nVisit our website at: https://www.houstonlinux.org/\nVisit our calendar and the agenda of each week’s meeting at: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=houstonlinuxusergroup@gmail.com \nJoin us on social media.\nDiscord: https://discord.gg/MPzYfeJz\nReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/houstonlinuxusergroup/
URL:https://iondistrict.com/event/houston-linux-user-group-7/
LOCATION:Ion – Conference Room 030\, 4201 Main St.\, Houston\, TX\, 77002\, United States
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