IWD 2024 open source celebration! 🎉🥳🧁😎💕

To all our allies, this is an inclusive 🌷 everyone is welcome to attend 💕 🌸 Celebrate with us the International Women's Day PARTY! 🥳 💟

We all have the power and the responsibility to impact the future of technology and society. We can also inspire the next generation of women in tech who will continue to impact the future with their own ideas and innovations.

🌟 Get together with Seattle Spark + AI, PyLadies Seattle, GDG Bellevue, PyData Seattle and Women Techmakers Seattle, Seattle Artificial Intelligence Workshops, R-Ladies Seattle meetups

Event program:
6:00 - 6:20 - Candy 🍭🍬 eat, beverages, swag and network - Donated by Databricks, Delta Lake, Google, Bytewax, Posit, UW, Microsoft Reactor, TryoLabs, SEATRAC, LanceDB 🍿🍔 Hamburgers, Fried Chicken, Tamales, Cuban Sandwich!
6:20 - 6:30 - Tiffany A. Dedeaux, Tech Career Coach Honorable MC - Announcements
6:30 - 6:40 - Ginger Holt Sr Staff Data Scientist at Databricks
6:40 - 6:55 - Megan Kiest-McFarland Talk: “It doesn’t hurt to ask (or you don’t want to work there anyway)”
6:55 - 7:10 - 'Compensation negotiations for women' QA Panel: Megan Kiest-McFarland + Tessa Wilder + Julia Spector
7:10 - 7:30 Jasmine Wang + Qian Zhu Talk: “A Leap of Faith to Your Next Startup”
7:30 - 7:45 Lara Rubbelke Talk: "Building a Global Engineering Organization - Lessons Learned"
7:45 - 8:05 Katrina Rogan (Co-Founder Unio.AI) Talk: "Chaos as Opportunity: learning from change and challenges in a start-up"
8:05 - 8: 35 - Keynote speaker Holden Karau - Co-author of O'Reilly's Learning Spark and High Performance Spark.
8:35 - 8:45 - Cake bar! 🍭🍰🧁
8:45 - 8:50 - Closing remarks
8:50 - 9:00 - Networking 🥳🤠👩‍🎤🎉

💟 WiFi: Industrious Guest

2 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.

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

We all have the power and the responsibility to impact the future of technology and society, with AI as a major part of shaping our world. We can also inspire the next generation of women in tech who will continue to impact the future with their own ideas and innovations.

🌷 Holden Karau
Holden is a transgender Canadian open source developer with a focus on Apache Spark, Airflow, Kubeflow, Ray, Dask and related "big data" tools. She is the co-author of Learning Spark, High Performance Spark, Scaling Python with Ray, and Kubeflow for Machine Learning. She is a committer and PMC on Apache Spark. She was tricked into the world of big data while trying to improve search and recommendation systems and has long since forgotten her original goal. She has worked at Amazon, Apple, and Google and is now working at Netflix.

Join Us at Our Next Event!
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• May 16 - Playing with Data Mini-Conference 🚀📈📊💕
• Sep 12 - A Gamers Party 👾🥳💟🔥

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