A Gamers Party! 👾💟🚀🎉 OSS event 🌎🥳

An event 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

👾🤠📚🐥 Dinosaurs inflatable ♥️🌟🎊 LED glasses, LED tiaras, books raffle, lots of food, cakes + pies, lasers, music! 🍿🍬🧁

Event program:
6:00 - 6:30 - Candy 🍭🍬 eat, beverages, swag and network Hamburgers, Fried Chicken, Tamales, Tacos, Cuban Sandwich, Vietnamese Sandwich, Mochi Donuts, desserts! - Donated by Databricks and Delta Lake 🍩🍿🍔 Swag: Google 👩‍🚀💙🚀 💕🌷 Perfect Day Games 👕🌟
6:30 - 6:40 - Announcements
6:40 - 7:00 - Denny Lee Sr. Staff Developer Advocate Databricks
7:00 - 7:30 - Speaker 1 - Tyler Wright CEO Wanderheart - Talk: How to Build a Gamemaster: A Look at How Games are Made.
7:30 - 8:00 - Speaker 2 - Jonas Wills Founder and Game Designer - Talk: Designing Games With Data.
8:00 - 8:30 - Keynote - Josh Ayala CEO at Perfect Day Games - Talk: A Games business focused on Cross Platform Games with Mobile as primary for Reach.
8:30 - 8:45 - Networking + Cake bar! 🍭🍰🧁

💟 WiFi: Industrious Guest

We recommend to arrive early as seats are limited and are first come first serve 🌷🌸🌼

Parking options:

• There is pay parking at the building.
• Bellevue Place and Lincoln Square parking is complimentary with validation from Bellevue Place and Lincoln Square retail, restaurants and entertainment. After 8:00 p.m. – No validation is necessary.

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• Dec 4 - Christmas Party ☃️🎄

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