Python talk night at GitHub

Join us for an exciting talk at Github's office in Bellevue!

Agenda:

5:30-6pm: Doors open/networking
6-6:10pm: Opening remarks
6:10-6:35pm: Talk #1
6:35-6:50pm: Intermission
6:50-7:05pm: Lightning talk
7:05-7:30pm: Talk #2
7:30pm-8pm: Networking/teardown

What we'll do:

This event will feature the following presentations:

Talk #1: Simulating the 3-Polarizer Experiment on a Quantum Computer
Speaker: Brandon Warren, SW Dev Engineer at Zonar Systems
Description: This talk will allow the audience to see the 3-polarizer experiment in action and simulate it using an understandable quantum circuit.

Lightning talk: Why I love planning and you should too!
Speaker: Hanna Landrus, Senior Data Scientist at Bevy
Description: Do you feel your work life is always encroaching on your personal life? Do you wish you could work through the pile of tech debt? In this talk, I'll step through some practical advice on how to make the project planning process work for you.

Talk #2: The Rising Sea
Speaker: Matt Drury, Principle Machine Learning Engineer at Remitly
Description: We discuss the pleasure of problem solving by dissolution. Alexander Grothendieck gave the analogy of a rising sea as a metaphor for his approach to problem solving. While it is sometimes possible to solve a problem through sheer force, to Grothendieck, more satisfying and fruitful is a slow process that builds careful theory, where each step is as simple and trivial as possible, until the problem simply dissipates. We discuss what this strategy looks like in the context of programming, giving examples from Advent of Code.

What to bring:

Since this is a talk format meetup, you don't need a computer. Food and non alcoholic beverages will be provided.

Building access:

The elevators lock at 6pm so if you arrive after 6pm, we may not be able to guarantee access after then.

There is paid parking in the Skyline garage underneath the building, accessible via 110th Ave NE between 4th and 6th going southbound only

Please keep an eye out for an email from GitHub before the event to register for building access. You can also fill out the building access agreement onsite.