🤠🚀 May the --force be with you 💪🏽🥳 Open Source Event!

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 ♥️

🥳 🍬 🍭🍿 An event for our local tech community, with a strong focus on knowledge exchange, networking, and learning 🌟 Get together with:
PyData Seattle | Seattle Spark + AI | PyLadies Seattle |
Google Developer Group (GDG) Bellevue / (WTM) Women Techmakers Seattle

Event program:

• 5:00 PM: Registration & Mingling ♥️ Food: Hamburgers, Fried Chicken, Tamales, Tacos, Cuban Sandwich, Vietnamese Sandwich, Mochi Donuts, and many more surprises! - Donated by Databricks and Delta Lake 🍿🍔 Swag: Google 👩‍🚀💙🚀 💕🌷 🧁🍩
• ​​5:30 PM: Announcements + Welcome Remarks by:
• Mae LaPresta, Software Engineer at Google + PyLadies Seattle Organizer
• ​​6:00 PM ➡️ Session #1: Managing Healthy OSS Projects: Insights from Apache Spark™, Apache Iceberg™, Delta Lake, MLflow, Unity Catalog, and more!
• Denny Lee Apache Spark and MLflow contributor; Developer Relations at Databricks
• ​​6:30 PM ➡️ Session #2: Multi-year exabyte-scale lakehouse migration from one open source data management stack (Apache Spark on Iceberg and Parquet) to another nascent open source data management stack (Ray on DeltaCAT and Arrow).
• Patrick Ames Principal Engineer working on data management and optimization for big data technologies
• 7:00 PM ➡️ Keynote: "May the --force Be With You," celebrates lessons learned and triumphant moments in your startup's journey.
• Saurabh Sarkar Chicory - Co-Founder. Chicory automates data preprocessing and ML workflows with AI agents, enhancing productivity 100x on your existing tech stack.
• ​​7:55 PM: Closing Remarks by:
• Mae LaPresta, Software Engineer at Google + PyLadies Seattle Organizer
• ​​8:00 PM: Good night

♥️ About Databricks
​​Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Block, Comcast, Condé Nast, Rivian, Shell and over 60% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to take control of their data and put it to work with AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe, and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse and Apache Spark™.
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🚨 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:

• 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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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. 💟 Connect with our chair, Eloisa Elias T , at pydataseattle@gmail.com and complete the form. 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.