🌼🌸🌷🌎✨International Women’s Day 2025 🌸🌷👩‍💻👩🏽‍🔧 Women Leadership and AI

Come celebrate with us International Women's Day 2025 and the vibrant local tech community at this in-person event! 🥳 💟 We welcome and celebrate all women and non-binary individuals. To all our allies, this is an inclusive event 🌷 and you are welcome to attend. 💕 🌸

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 ♥️

🥳 🍬 🍭🍿 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, Women Techmakers Seattle, Seattle Artificial Intelligence Workshops, R-Ladies Seattle and Seattle Women in Machine Learning and Data Science meetups

Event program:
5:00 - 5:30 - 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, Microsoft 👩‍🚀💙🚀 💕🌷 🧁🍩
5:30 - 5:45 Announcements
5:45 - 6:45 - Panel 1 - Theme: Women in Leadership: Breaking Barriers - Moderator: Oli Dinov , Speakers: Tao Tao Director of Engineering at Databricks , Robin Cole VP of Engineering at Microsoft, 3, 4
* 10 min - Networking Bingo 🎯
7:00 - 8:00 - Panel 2 - Theme: The future of AI [Technical] - Moderator: Anusua (Anu) Trivedi Head of GenAI @ Oracle Health, Speaker: 1, 2, 3, 4
* 10 min - Ice breaker 🤠
8:15 - 8:45 - Keynote - TBD
8:40 - 9:00 - Pies and cake bar! 🥳🍰🧁

📸 We will also have a photo booth for fun photos or headshots!

✨🌷ATTENTION: ✨🌟🔊 Confirm you attendance by filling out this form and you'll receive a QR code.
FORM: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfvCYjtKKjEYkJRoqn1crAklUQo25bmAa8EIkXd5z3hWVzjdQ/viewform?usp=preview
With the QR code you'll:

• Access the event
• Pick up your swag bag

🚨 Attention

• Due to restrictions at our venue, strictly no children allowed.

💟 WiFi: Industrious Guest
We recommend to arrive early as seats are limited and are first come first serve 🌷🌸🌼

Parking options:

• There is paid parking at the building.
• Bellevue Place, Lincoln Square parking and Hyatt Bellevue are 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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💙🌎 NumFOCUS 501(c)(3) nonprofit that supports and promotes world-class, innovative, open source scientific projects for Data Science, including: Pandas, NumPy, Project Jupyter, Julia, Scipy, Sympy, scikit-learn, R 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.