🌼🌸🌷🌎✨International Women’s Day 2025 🌸🌷👩‍💻👩🏽‍🔧 Women In Tech Party!

In-person event - Get together with the open source community! 🥳🌟 This is your chance to connect with an extensive open source community with over 50+ Enterprises, Startups and Academia 🌎🚀

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

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, and Seattle Women in Machine Learning and Data Science meetups

🥳 Join us and celebrate with us! We're having swag bags, t-shirts, LED glasses, LED tiaras, inflatables, roses + flowers, books riffle, lots of food, cakes + pies, lasers, music, and a super cool all women speakers line up!

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 , Denny Lee 🍿🍔🛍🎊 Swag bags: Google , Statsig , Perfect Day Games , Josh Ayala , NVIDIA , Tom Drabas , Bianca Pryor , O'Reilly , Escalon Services , ➤ Robert Ricciardelli ★ , GitHub , Jon Peck , Chicory , Saurabh Sarkar , MotherDuck , Ryan Boyd , Anaconda , Sheikh Shuvo , Snowflake , John Kew , Hal9 , Javier Luraschi , Quansight , Evan Leugers , MinT Mentors In Tech , Intel Corporation , Ezequiel Lanza 👩👩‍🚀💙🚀 💕🌷 Cupcakes: Frisco Analytics , Vikas Punna , Apertu Capital 🧁
5:30 - 5:50 Announcements - Honorable MC - Rena Cummings, PM, TM. Scrum
5:50 - 7:10 - Panel 1 - Theme: Women in Leadership: Breaking Barriers - Moderator: Oli Dinov Director of Developer Relations and Operations Bytewax, Speaker: Tao Tao Director of Engineering at Databricks , Anquida Adams - Founder/CEO, Let's Talk Disability Global, Linda Wagner Program Director, Academic Programs, Robin Cole VP of Engineering at Microsoft.
* 10 min - Bingo 🎯 Micheleen Harris Data Scientist
7:20 - 8:40 - Panel 2 - Theme: The future of AI [Technical] - Moderator: Anusua (Anu) Trivedi Head of GenAI Oracle. Speaker: Ming Wu Head of Engineering Atlassian, Holden Karau Co-Founder Fight Health Insurance, Laura Peaslee VP Data & AI at Kandji , Ya Gao Staff Researcher at GitHub.
* 10 min - Ice breaker 🤠 Mae LaPresta Software Engineer at Google and Hemie Choi Software Engineer | Game Developer
8:50 - 9:00 - Closing remarks! 🥳🍰🧁

✨🌷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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Spark has a thriving open source community, with contributors from around the globe building features, documentation and assisting other users.