The Database is the Heart of the Business ♥️

**♥️ 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 **[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/)**

**Event program:**
**6:00 – 6:30 -** Candy eat, beverages, swag and network Hamburgers, Fried Chicken, Tamales, Tacos, Cuban Sandwich, Vietnamese Sandwich, Mochi Donuts, desserts! – Donated by **[Databricks](https://www.databricks.com/)** and **[Delta Lake](https://delta.io/)** Swag: **[Google](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7196412671196385282/#) ** ****
**6:30 – 6:40** – Announcements
**6:40 – 7:15** – **Speaker 1 – Talk**
**7:15 – 7:45** **- Speaker 2** – **[Tim Hesterberg](https://www.linkedin.com/in/timhesterberg/overlay/about-this-profile/)** Staff Data Scientist at **[Instacart](https://www.instacart.com/)**
**7:45 – 8:40** – **Keynote** – **[Ryan Boyd](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryguyrg/overlay/about-this-profile/)** Co-Founder **[MotherDuck](https://motherduck.com/)**
**8:40 – 9:00** – Pies and cake bar!

** 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](https://bellevuecollection.com/visit-here/parking/)** 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-spark-meetup/events/)**
https://www.meetup.com/seattle-spark-meetup/events/

* Dec 4 – Christmas Party

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](https://forms.gle/9E2xQvPGn9zG3LPc6)**

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.

♥️ **Call For Proposals** ♥️
If you have a presentation of between 10 minutes up to 40 minutes that you would like to share with our meetup group, please submit a short proposal. You can propose a talk, workshop or lightning talk.
**[Form](https://forms.gle/NYANSMusgBYwyqLL6)** https://forms.gle/1gvQi1sFJxm2VEKr7

**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](https://forms.gle/mavd5xyikCuGnDYc6)**

**[NumFOCUS](https://www.linkedin.com/company/numfocus/)** 501(c)(3) nonprofit that supports and promotes world-class, innovative, open source scientific projects for Data Science, including: **[Pandas](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pandasdev/), [NumPy](https://www.linkedin.com/company/numpy/), [Project Jupyter](https://www.linkedin.com/company/project-jupyter/)**, **Julia, [Scipy](https://www.linkedin.com/company/scipy/), Sympy, [scikit-learn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/scikit-learn/), R** and many more!

**[NumFOCUS](https://www.linkedin.com/company/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](https://www.apache.org/)** – Software for the Public Good
**[Apache Spark](http://www.spark-project.org)** is a multi-language engine for executing data engineering, data science, and machine learning on single-node machines or clusters.

**[Spark](https://spark.apache.org/)** has a thriving open source community, with contributors from around the globe building features, documentation and assisting other users.