SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2018 is open for registration! The event will be held on  August 11, 2018. Please visit the website and sign up if you're interested.

If you're interested in development at all this is a must attend event. The sessions span all areas of development. As the site says:

For the 10th year, SQLSaturday Baton Rouge is coming to LSU!

SQLSaturday is a global event to bring Information Technology speakers and professionals together for a community-driven, community-attended free day of technical training. The Baton Rouge SQLSaturday event is sponsored by the Baton Rouge SQL Server and .NET User Groups, and will be our annual event on campus at LSU. We expect 600+ regional IT professionals and national speakers to join us. This free conference is open to the public and is perfect for students, CIO's, database administrators, developers, IT managers, server admins and job-seekers.