JAX Business Calendar

10/16/2026

Anyone can say they’ve done the work. But can they prove it?

That question gets a lot more interesting in the age of AI.

This week’s Startup Spotlight: ProofSites, a Jacksonville startup taking on the gap between claiming experience and proving it.

Meet ProofSites and the Jacksonville founders building it: https://jaxbusinesscalendar.com/articles/ai-can-generate-the-claim-can-you-prove-it

The PB & Jacksonville Podcast

Jacksonville startup ProofSites is building a way for fractional executives to turn the results hidden i...

10/15/2026

What room do you want to be in next week?

Plenty of opportunities are coming up across Jacksonville to meet new people, learn from others, discover local organizations, and stay connected to what’s happening in our business community.

Here are a few to start with. 👇

Don’t wait until the day before - find your events and make your plans now.

👉 Explore next week's full list at Jax Business Calendar

10/14/2026

There’s an entire side of Jacksonville most of us drive past every day without really seeing. Behind our ships, military installations and logistics network is a workforce that has to be ready for what comes next.

That’s where NDTA JAX Chapter is doing some fascinating work, bringing military, industry, and education into the same room.

Our latest Community Spotlight takes you inside this Jacksonville nonprofit and the work happening behind Northeast Florida’s defense and logistics community.

There’s a lot happening behind what we see every day. You may see Jacksonville a little differently after reading it. 👇
https://jaxbusinesscalendar.com/articles/what-if-the-career-you-havent-considered-yet-is-already-here

And if the story makes you curious, step into the room yourself this Friday. NDTA JAX is hosting its Mini-MIB Educational Breakfast Symposium, bringing industry and education leaders together around the future of the First Coast’s maritime sector.

📅 Friday, October 16
⏰ Registration: 7:45 AM | Program: 8:30–11:00 AM
📍 UNF Adam W. Herbert University Center
Reserve your seat now: 𝘄𝘄𝘄.𝗻𝗱𝘁𝗮𝗷𝗮𝘅.𝗰𝗼𝗺

Behind the ships, aircraft and military installations we see across Northeast Florida is an enormous net...

10/13/2026

Most opportunities don’t announce themselves as opportunities.
They usually look like ordinary moments.

Here are a few rooms worth showing up for this week.

Find your room. Show up. See what happens.

10/12/2026

A new week, new rooms, new conversations, and new reasons to get out from behind the screen.

Need a place to begin? This week's newsletter might point you toward the right room.

Swipe through. Find your room. Show up. See what happens. 🙌

10/09/2026

Small room. BIG energy.

Our first JAX Business Calendar Advisory Board gathering started as a chance to get everyone together and talk about what’s next.

Then the ideas started flying. Questions. Challenges. “What if we…” And a whole lot of dreaming about what JAX Business Calendar could become for Jacksonville.

We walked in expecting a good conversation.

We walked out dreaming pretty damn big.

Grateful for every person in this room — and everyone in our corner.

10/09/2026

How many opportunities have you turned down because you couldn’t see the opportunity yet?

That coffee you almost skipped.
That introduction that didn’t seem relevant.
That meeting with no obvious payoff.

Sometimes the value is two conversations down the road.

Take the meeting. ☕

In his latest article, Joe Muskus argues that there may be no such thing as a bad cup of coffee, and that being “referral-based” still means getting out there, having conversations, and staying in motion.

If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a hundred times. I’ll...

10/08/2026

Next week has some BIG rooms, Jacksonville.

Galas. Summits. Awards. Symposiums.

The kind of events that fill ballrooms, bring industries together, and put a lot of familiar faces under one roof.

But don’t stop here. These are just a few of the rooms filling up across Jacksonville next week.

👉 Check the Calendar. Find your room. Show up.

10/07/2026

What if preventing bullying started by building confidence before bullying ever had the chance to tear it down?

October is National Bullying Prevention Month, and here in Jacksonville, Lesson aLIVE is approaching it in a way you might not expect.

There are bikes. There are tricks. There’s adrenaline.

But underneath all of that, they’re building confidence, belonging, and a place where kids know they matter.

Sometimes making a difference in a young person’s life doesn’t start with a lecture. Sometimes it starts by giving them the right place — and the right people — to grow.

Today, we’re proud to share their story as our latest Community Spotlight.

👉 Take a few minutes to read it. This is the kind of work happening quietly in our community that deserves to be seen.
Let’s make sure Lesson aLIVE knows Jacksonville is paying attention — and is behind what they’re doing. ❤️

Lesson aLIVE is turning school assemblies into memorable conversations about perseverance, kindness,...