What we’re about
We are a friendly and welcoming user group dedicated to helping grow the data science community in the Seattle Area and beyond by bringing together data science and machine learning enthusiasts for workshops and talks. Our educational workshops and talks have one or several speakers who will talk about concepts, show code and/or give time for practice. We usually hold these events during evenings and on weekends, encouraging networking and mentorship throughout. We support our members championing the use of data science and machine learning responsibly through ethical AI practices. Whether you are new to data science/ML or an experienced pro, we welcome you to join for a workshop or talk!
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See all- 🌼🌸🌷🌎✨International Women’s Day 2025 🌸🌷👩💻👩🏽🔧 Women Leadership and AIDatabricks Bellevue (27th Floor), Bellevue, WA
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, Executive Engineering and Business Development Leader 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
- 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.
Join Us at Our Next Event!
https://www.meetup.com/seattle-pyladies/events/🌷 Our meetup events are made possible thanks to the open source community and a group of volunteers from a diverse background doing the best they can in every event 🌟 Volunteering opportunities please fill in the details here 💟
Supporting over 9500+ 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 in every event.
💙 💚 Sponsor the open source community
Host an event at your company or provide some delicious food or snacks for our tech community attending our world class events 🍬 🍭🍿 Please fill out the form here 💟💙🌎 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.
- Open Source AI Hackathon (March 2025)Microsoft Building 20, Redmond, WA
Please sign up at https://lu.ma/9bx3hw3v to get all the information and so we have accurate information for ordering lunch.
Come ready to learn how to build on LLMs and work with a team to build an AI Application! We'll start with a hands-on tutorial, so come ready to code! Bring your laptop!
You will need to have:- A recent version of Python (I use 3.11)
- A vague idea of what an LLM is
- An enjoyment of building things with code
You will get:
- A hands-on, practical training to learn how to build AI
- Pizza, the classic lunch fuel for hackathons
You will have roughly 6 hours to make:
- A public GitHub repo containing your project code
- A presentation that you will get to give in front of the whole class (I mean group of hackers) and some Venture Capital judges
- New friends :)
Here's the itinerary. Please arrive by 9:15am!
9:00am - Arrive and Welcome
9:15am - Tutorial
9:45am - Team Formation
10:00am - Hack!
12:00pm - Lunch Break
3:59pm - Submit your projects
4:00pm - Pitching and Snacks
5:00pm - Judging
5:30pm - Award Ceremony
6:00pm - Bye bye!
Sponsored by Arize
