Name: 🎊🌟 'AMA' - Gavita Regunath, Ph.D|Advancing Analytics + Denny Lee|Databricks
Start: 2024-03-12T18:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-03-12T20:30:00-07:00
Location: Databricks Bellevue

An event for our local tech community, with a strong focus on knowledge exchange, networking, and learning 🌟 Get together with [Seattle Spark + AI](https://www.linkedin.com/company/seattle-spark-ai/), [PyLadies Seattle](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pyladies-seattle/), [GDG Bellevue](https://www.linkedin.com/company/gdg-bellevue), [PyData Seattle](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pydata-seattle/) and [Women Techmakers Seattle](https://www.linkedin.com/company/wtmseattle), [Seattle Artificial Intelligence Workshops](https://www.meetup.com/seattle-artificial-intelligence-workshops/), [R-Ladies Seattle](https://www.meetup.com/rladies-seattle/) meetups

💚🚀 Great food including Free lard Tamales, Dick's Burgers, Rachel's Ginger Beer, Hello Robin cookies, & other great #Seattle local food joints!

**Event Program**:
✅ 6:00 - 6:30 - Candy 🍭🍬 eat, beverages, swag and network - Donated by [Databricks](https://www.linkedin.com/company/databricks/) and [Delta Lake](https://www.linkedin.com/company/deltalake/) 🍿🍔 Hamburgers, Fried Chicken,
✅ 6:30 - 6:45 - [Yujian Tang](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yujiantang/overlay/about-this-profile/) \- Vector Embeddings are All You Need
✅ 6:45 - 7:00 - [Artit Wangperawong](https://artitw.github.io/about-me.html) \- Talk Text2Text: run your own private LLM for free\. GitHub: [https://github.com/artitw/text2text](https://github.com/artitw/text2text)
✅ 7:05 - 8:00 - [Gavita Regunath, Ph.D.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavitaregunath/) + [Denny Lee](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dennyglee/): Ask Us Anything
✅ 8:00 - 8:30 - Eat, drink, and network some more!

💟 WiFi: Industrious Guest

2 Parking options:

* There is pay parking at the building.
* [Bellevue Place and Lincoln Square parking](https://bellevuecollection.com/visit-here/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 🌷🌸🌼

Gavita Regunath, Ph.D. and Denny Lee for a LIVE "Gavita and Denny - Ask Us Anything!" where they will answer your data engineering questions from building a data platform to ingestion to ETL to analytics. With their background in SQL Server and BI to Apache Spark and Delta Lake - we want to show you how to build your own lakehouse.

As this session is interactive, come prepared to ask questions all throughout the session! Be prepared for another geeky, trans-Atlantic event from two data nerds.

⭐ Speakers ⭐

[Gavita Regunath, Ph.D.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavitaregunath/) is the head of AI. I am responsible for the overall direction and management of the team. I am passionate about fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation and am committed to building a strong data-driven foundation for the organization. In addition to my professional pursuits, I am a Microsoft AI MVP, and enjoy sharing my knowledge and expertise through blogging and public speaking.

**Denny Lee** is a Developer Advocate at Databricks. He is a hands-on distributed systems and data sciences engineer with extensive experience developing internet-scale infrastructure, data platforms, and predictive analytics systems for both on-premise and cloud environments. He also has a Masters of Biomedical Informatics from Oregon Health and Sciences University and has architected and implemented powerful data solutions for enterprise Healthcare customers. His current technical focuses include Distributed Systems, Apache Spark, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, and Genomics.

**Join Us at Our [Next Event](https://www.meetup.com/seattle-spark-meetup/events/)!**
[https://www.meetup.com/seattle-spark-meetup/events/](https://www.meetup.com/seattle-spark-meetup/events/)

* May 16 - Playing with Data Mini-Conference 🚀📈📊💕
* Sep 12 - A Gamers Party 👾🥳💟🔥
* Oct 23 - Developer Festival - Dia De Los Muertos 🎃👻
* Nov 13 - Generative AI - Party 🥳
* Dec 4 - Christmas Party ☃️🎄

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