Halloween Open Source Spooky Party 👻🎃 🦸♀️🎊🥳
Details
IMPORTANT 👻 Everyone attending is REQUIRED to show their Halloween spirit by wearing a Halloween costume 🧛♀️ 🎃 🤠 🥳 🏴☠️ 🐥👩🎤👨🚒 🧙♂️🧝♀️🧚 👑
🍄🦸♀️ 🧟♀️ A frightening developer festival for our local tech community, with a strong focus on knowledge exchange, networking, and learning 🌟 Get together with Seattle Spark + AI, PyLadies Seattle, GDG Bellevue, PyData Seattle and Women Techmakers Seattle meetups
Program:
5:30 PM: Registration & Mingling ♥️ Food: Hamburgers, Fried Chicken, Tamales, Tacos, Cuban Sandwich, Vietnamese Sandwich, Mochi Donuts, and many more surprises! - Donated by Snowflake ❄️ and Stacklok 📚✨ Swag: Databricks and Delta Lake, Google 👩🚀💙🚀 💕🌷 🧁🍩
6:00 PM: Announcements + Welcome Remarks by:
Honorable MC: Mae LaPresta Software Engineer at Google
6:10 PM ➡️ 👻 Spooky Talk 1: Unstructured Data Processing with Snowpark Python
Speaker: Jianzhun Du Senior Software Engineer at ❄️ Snowflake
6:40 PM ➡️ 🎃 Spooky Talk 2: YOLO Image Segmentation With Mosaic AI
Speaker: Yang Yang Senior Specialist Solutions Architect (GenAI/ML/DS)
7:10 PM ➡️ Keynote Talk: CEO in the Open Source Arena
Keynote: Surprise special guest.
8:00 PM: NEW!!! Impromptus Open Source Community Lighting Talks
Give a short 2-5 min presentation in something cool that you feel passionate about anything related to open source tools or tech. We encourage Halloween theme 🥳 Every presenter will receive a swag bag! 🛍✨👕🚀
8:20 PM: 🧛♀️ 🎃 Halloween games + Costume Contest Prizes 👻👩🚀🦹🏽
8:30 PM: Good night
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Celebrating lessons learned and triumphant moments in our open source journey ✨🚀
♥️ This meetup group is run by 100% volunteers who support the Seattle open source community. ✨ We’re a committed team, pouring our hearts into every event, made possible by the incredible generosity of our sponsors and their in-kind donations.🎗Our meetup group exclusively welcomes in-kind donations and does not accept monetary contributions. Despite our very limited resources, we’re always striving to make each event better than the last! 🥳
🌷Your reviews truly mean so much—they help us keep uplifting the incredible open source community and secure more in-kind donations!"
Join us and support the open source community! 🥳🌟 In-person event - This is your chance to connect with an extensive open source community with over 50+ Enterprises, Startups and Academia 🌎🚀
Your network is your fortune. Growing and nurturing your network is one of the most important things you can do for your career ♥️
🚨 Attention
Due to venue restrictions, please note that children are not permitted. Thank you for your kind understanding.
💟 WiFi: TBD
We recommend to arrive early as seats are limited and are first come first serve 🌷🌸🌼
Parking options:
TBD.
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🌷 Our meetup events are made possible thanks to the open source community and a group of volunteers from a diverse background doing the best they can in every event 🌟 Volunteering opportunities - Details here 💟
Supporting over 13,250+ software engineers and data scientists enthusiasts in the Seattle area 🌷 We provide all our meetup services free of charge thanks to generous sponsors that provide us with in kind donations at every event.
♥️🌎🚀✨ Call For Proposals 👩🚀♥️🌎🚀
We’re thrilled to invite you to share your ideas with our vibrant meetup community! If you have a 15–45-minute presentation, workshop, or lightning talk, please submit a brief proposal here: Form. 💟 For more inquiries connect with our host, Eloisa Elias T. Join us in creating an inspiring event! 💖 We especially encourage women and first-time speakers to submit proposals for our distinguished tech meetups in Seattle and Bellevue.
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💙🌎 NumFOCUS, 501(c)(3) a nonprofit that supports world-class, innovative, open source scientific projects for Data Science, including: Pandas, NumPy, Julia, SciPy, Sympy, scikit-learn, R project and many more!. NumFOCUS envisions an inclusive scientific and research community that utilizes actively supported open source software to make impactful discoveries for a better world.
♥️🚀 The Apache Software Foundation - Software for the Public Good
Apache Spark is a multi-language engine for executing data engineering, data science, and machine learning on single-node machines or clusters.
Spark has a thriving open source community, with contributors from around the globe building features, documentation and assisting other users.
Agenda
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Hosted By
Eloisa Elias T, Data Scientist
I'm Data Scientist and Tech Community Organizer of PyData by NumFOCUS, PyLadies and Women Techmakers Seattle. Founder of Women in Data Science conferences in the Seattle area. As an active member of our tech community, I collaborate with nonprofit tech organizations and enterprises to promote diversity and inclusion programs to support women in the field.
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Partners
PyData Seattle (https://www.meetup.com/pydata_seattle/)
💚💙 seattle.pydata.org @PyDataSeattle meetup is a regional chapter of the international conference series PyData by NumFOCUS a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that supports and promotes world-class, innovative, open source scientific computing projects including: Pandas, Julia, IPython, Jupyter, Numpy and Matplotlib.
Group organizer Elo Elias (@pydataseattle; eloeliasds@gmail.com)
PyLadies Seattle (https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-PyLadies/)
Seattle PyLadies is a Python programming group that welcomes members from all over the Puget Sound region.
PyLadies is an international mentorship group with a focus on helping more women become active participants and leaders in the Python open-source community. Our mission is to promote, educate and advance a diverse Python community through outreach, education, conferences, events and social gatherings.
PyLadies also aims to provide a friendly support network for women and a bridge to the lar
Seattle Spark + AI (https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-Spark-Meetup/)
This is a meetup for Seattle / Eastside users of Spark (www.spark-project.org), the high-speed Scala-based cluster programming framework. We'll be rotating among locations in Seattle and Bellevue.
We'll also discuss other Spark and AI projects including spark-packages, MLflow, TensorFlow, Keras, etc.
We will include introductions to the various Spark+AI features, case studies from current users, best practices for deployment and tuning, and future development plans.
Snowflake (https://signup.snowflake.com/)
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Delta Lake (https://delta.io/)
Build Lakehouses with Delta Lake
Delta Lake is an open-source storage framework that enables building a
Lakehouse architecture with compute engines including Spark, PrestoDB, Flink, Trino, and Hive and APIs for Scala, Java, Rust, and Python.
Women Techmakers (https://developers.google.com/womentechmakers)
We're building a world where all women can thrive in tech.
Google’s Women Techmakers program provides visibility, community, and resources for women in technology.
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