From: bizjournals.com

Summer is winding down, but September is a busy month for the Boston tech community. Here’s a list of the top events to add to your calendar this month.

StayInDrops is hosting an event at Boston-based startup accelerator program MassChallenge about fundraising for startups. The event is titled ” Funding for Startups — Learn From Founders” and is scheduled for Sept. 2. Founders of Boston-area startups Wanderu, Misfit Wearables and Ministry of Supply will be featured.

The Venture Forum, based out of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, will be hosting a session on emerging technologies called ” Making the Digital Physical: Breakthroughs in Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing.” The session will be held on Sept. 8 and WPI and speakers include Micaelah Morrill, program manager at Somerville-based Greentown Labs and Joe Bush, scientist and executive director of the Institute for Energy and Sustainability.
Hundreds of marketers, celebrities, entrepreneurs and authors will be attending Inbound 2015 from Sept. 8 to 11, the Cambridge-based sales and marketing software firm HubSpot’s annual conference. Speakers and performers range from Chelsea Clinton to comedian Aziz Ansari. The goal of the conference is to help marketing and sales professionals, business owners, and agency executives deepen their knowledge of inbound marketing, according to the Inbound website.

For the first year, Boston will be the site of the Demo Traction Growth Conference event on Sept. 16 at the Westin Waterfront in Boston. The conference is “focused obsessively on growth by connecting the most promising growth startups with prospective customers, investors and strategic partners,” according to the event website. About 30 fast-growing startups will be presenting their technologies and speaking about how they are bringing new technologies to market.

The Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council ( MassTLC) will be hosting its 18th annual gala on Sept. 16 at the Seaport World Trade Center. The gala will be recognizing MIT professor and serial entrepreneur Michael Stonebraker for his contributions to the field of big data. MassTLC has more than 550 member companies and bills itself as “the premier network for tech executives, entrepreneurs, investors and policy leaders.”
The MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge is hosting a technology and fashion-themed event called Fashion 4WRD: Revealing the future of design and technology, on Sept. 17 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Panelists include Suzanne Lee, creative director of Modern Meadow, Chris Wawrousek, lead designer of New Balance InnovationStudio and Amanda Parkes, fashion technologist and chief of technology and research for manufacture New York. Boston-based e-commerce menswear startup Ministry of Supply, founded by MIT graduates, will also be demonstrating technologies at the event.
Technology Underwriting Greater Good ( TUGG) is hosting Tech Gives Back 2015 on Sept. 17. The event is a day of community service that will bring more than 1,500 members of the Boston tech community together to work on more than 50 projects. That’s equivalent to more than 9,000 hours of community service. Projects will benefit Boston’s homeless, veterans, seniors and at-risk families and youth. TUGG is launching a crowdsourcing campaign this week to select three new nonprofits that will compete for grants at the after-party.
The Boston Data Festival will be hosted on Sept. 18 through Sept. 23 at the Microsoft New England Research and Development Center. The third annual festival’s goal is to bring together the data-centric community for an energetic week of events, according to the event description. There will be a theme to each day, ranging from Big Data Innovation Day to Internet of Things Innovation Day and Healthcare Data Science Night.
Two demo day events are scheduled for the same day this month: one hosted by startup accelerator program Techstars and one hosted by TechHub, both on Sept. 1.