Community Events

The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron is an international bestseller on the subject of creativity. Whether you see yourself as an artist or not, this book and class can be an incredibly useful resource to tap into your creative side which can benefit many parts of your lives. The 2 hour a week 12 week long class will take students through the 12 chapters with an emphasis on the accompanying chapter exercises and additional creativity exercises and strategies (i.e. meditation tools). This material can work with anyone, no matter how dormant or energized their creative life may be.

Julia Cameron uses three basic tools for students to enhance their lives and their creativity: morning pages (writing 3 pages longhand of stream of consciousness writing), artist’s dates (solo fun dates with yourself) and completing creativity exercises at the back of each chapter. Students report that as a result of going through our Artist’s Way class they more fully and genuinely know themselves, they discover or re-discover their gifts and talents and have more fun and joy in their lives.

To quote Julia, “In order to retrieve your creativity, you need to find it.” The basic tools and the additional creativity exercises that we incorporate into the 12 week course can help you do just that. No prerequisites required for this class. Maximum 11 students per class.

Section I: May 6 – July 29th
Mondays, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
$395
Note: No class May 27
Instructor: Kate Gavigan
Location: Class held in Wallingford at Windows Art Gallery, 4131 Woodland Park Ave. N., Seattle

Section II: May 10 – August 2
Fridays, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
$395
Note: No class July 5

To Register or for more information:
http://www.seattleartistswaycenter.com

For Testimonials from past students:
http://www.seattleartistswaycenter.com/class-testimonials

“You will find that this class helps you begin a journey of freedom in becoming the creative person that you really are.” – Roxanne W, Summer 2018 Artist’s Way Student

Kate Gavigan is passionate about The Artist’s Way having seen the positive changes in her students’ lives and having personally experienced the benefits of the materials. Kate worked in social services as a trainer for over 10 years when she found herself drawn to the material in The Artist’s Way, which helped her uncover a passion for theatre and the arts. She credits her mid-life career change (now working at her dream jobs as an Artist’s Way Instructor and Speaker, a Creativity Coach, a Home Organizer and pursuing her interest in Acting) to having gone through The Artist’s Way.

REGISTER FOR THE EVENT HERE FOR FREE: https://www.meetup.com/ctc-emerging-leaders/events/261303315/

Agenda:
6pm: Drinks, food, and networking
7pm: Pitches start
8pm: Networking

Pitch Deck Karaoke is an unforgettable happy hour improv game where you pitch an audience without knowing the contents of your deck. It’s a game that tests your skills, gets people laughing, and keeps everyone wondering what will happen next.

After the pitches the crowd and judges will vote on winners and prizes will be handed out. Bring your friends and coworkers for drinks for a very unique event at the top of Seattle.

Additionally, we’re excited to have Christina Brennan (https://www.linkedin.com/in/brennanchristina/) and Jeremy Diamond (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerdiamond/) presenting on what makes an effective pitch and how to successfully communicate you points to an audience.

Christina Brennan:

Christina Brennan has coached over 200 startup founders and entrepreneurs on their pitch through Founders Live, 1 Million Cups, and her quarterly workshop – Practice Your Pitch. Her specialty is identifying value/impact and success stories that will win over any audience.

Jeremy Diamond:

Jeremy Diamond works with early-stage startups on everything short of engineering. He has a particular facility with pitch decks — he writes occasionally about them at startupdeckreview.com (https://startupdeckreview.com/). Since 2016, he has worked with founders to raise more than $5 million in angel and seed capital.

Emerging Leaders Society:

Emerging Leaders is a committee within the Columbia Tower Club whose mission it is to create value for the local entrepreneur, startup, and emerging leader community. We do this by hosting unique and high-value events that help you engage with like-minded individuals looking to build relationships and grow business.

Special Invitation from The Columbia Tower Club:

Want to learn more about this community and a special membership offer? Contact JoJo or John at 206.622.2010 for a tour anytime in advance of the big event, and have the opportunity to spend time in the space on the 23rd before Pitch Deck Karaoke kicks off.

The Columbia Tower Club is a private club that sits high above downtown Seattle and boasts one of the most spectacular views of the city. With onsite business amenities and high-tech conferencing capabilities, the Club also sets the stage for the city’s most sought-after networking events for personal enrichment.

Come join us at Epicodus’ next Demo Day event, where alumni will be showing off a variety of applications they’ve built from start to finish. If you’re considering hiring a junior developer or partnering with Epicodus to host interns, we’d love to have you!

The event will be running from 1 pm to 3 pm on Thursday, May 23rd, and will be held at Epicodus located in downtown Seattle at 1402 3rd Ave Suite 505. Feel free to join us at any point throughout the event!

For companies attending with the intent to hire, we will have on site interview space available. Demo day is entirely free to attend, but for logistic’s sake we do ask that you let us know if you plan to attend and how many will be in your party. If you’d like to join us please RSVP below!

Feel free to contact danielle@epicodus.com, and we hope to see you there!

Rover is a marketplace for pet services that connects pet owners to sitters, walkers, or groomers. Rover uses machine learning to power its core search and provider matching, as well as a wide variety of internal tools. In this presentation, we will discuss some of the challenges of managed marketplace businesses, how Rover applies machine learning to address these challenges, and the tools you can use to build and deploy your own production-ready machine learning models.

About the presenter:

Sawyer manages the machine learning platform engineering team at Rover.com. He has previously worked in the data engineering and machine learning fields at companies like Microsoft, Intentional Software, and Sprout Social.

Join our community in celebrating the accomplishments of our 401 graduates while also getting an exclusive look at the projects that are created during a week-long development sprint. The group presentations will give you a great sense of the stories and backgrounds of the graduates coming out of Code Fellows, while also providing insights into the skill sets gained over the past 10 weeks. In just 5 days, these students plan, build, and launch an MVP to demonstrate their development capabilities.

There is no better way to be part of our community while also gaining early access to the talent from our program than joining for this event!

Join our community in celebrating the accomplishments of our 401 graduates while also getting an exclusive look at the projects that are created during a week-long development sprint. The group presentations will give you a great sense of the stories and backgrounds of the graduates coming out of Code Fellows, while also providing insights into the skill sets gained over the past 10 weeks. In just 5 days, these students plan, build, and launch an MVP to demonstrate their development capabilities.

There is no better way to be part of our community while also gaining early access to the talent from our program than joining for this event!

Are you a founder who struggles to explain your product or business in a clear and compelling way? Does it come off sounding “meh”?

Get the breakthrough you need to tell a bolder story about your startup…no matter how complex your product is. Join messaging strategist Emma O’Brien for a workshop to help clarify and strengthen your startup’s story.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

In this small workshop, you’ll learn 3 proven strategies — illustrated by real-life examples — to frame your startup in a way that gets people genuinely interested. You’ll learn:

The top 3 reasons why pitches fall short

How to clarify the value your business offers

The power of your driving purpose

And more…

You’ll be guided through simple exercises and have the opportunity to get on-the-spot feedback from Emma.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This workshop is for any founder who struggles to explain their product or business in a clear and concise way. Whether you’re pitching prospects or raising money, you feel like people take too long to “get” what your company is all about. (In fact, it’s driving you a little nuts…)

WHO’S TEACHING?

This workshop will be led by Emma O’Brien, Founder of Punchy, a messaging consultancy. Emma gets purpose-driven founders from “we can’t explain this clearly” to playing bigger in their markets through strategic positioning and messaging. She helps founders and CEOs extract the most compelling aspects of their products and articulate them in a clear, concise way that resonates with their audiences. This breakthrough clarity improves sales and marketing, energizes the team and quickens growth. Emma has worked with a wide range of clients, including DiscoverOrg, Outreach, theBoardlist, Winmo, Scroll and Proscia.

Learn more at www.punchy.co

This event is free to Riverter members.

Looking for ways to grow your business? Join us on 5/30 to get the insight, tools, and local resources to start, grow, or scale your company. New Tech Northwest, the Seattle Office of Economic Development, GSBA, SURF Incubator, Craft3 and Salesforce are proud to bring you this free half-day event.

What to expect at Growth Camp:

Panels featuring some of Seattle’s brightest business minds
Expert advice for growth from business leaders and local organizations
Networking with dozens of top local entrepreneurs
Hands-on workshops to learn how to find, win, and keep customers
New professional headshot photos

Register here: bit.ly/2VzcUuv

Join us for an incredible spring evening at Thinkspace as you hang with other entrepreneurs and hear from 5 awesome Seattle startups.

Founders Live is an unforgettable happy hour competition sweeping the globe where up to five handpicked companies take the hot seat, with only 99 seconds to pitch their company and describe their value proposition in front of an eager audience. After the pitches and audience Q&A, the crowd will vote on a winner who will not only receive an award, but recognition from the crowd and also the opportunity to talk more about their product or service. So bring your friends and coworkers, grab some food and drink, get to know your local entrepreneurs and vote for what you think will be the next big thing… built in Seattle.

We continue the great Seattle startup tradition this month at Thinkspace and $10 for all attendees, which includes a great time! Food and drinks will be available.

Companies of all sizes, ranging from startups to large enterprises, face unique challenges and opportunities when dealing with emerging technologies. Our guest speakers will discuss their first-hand experience on how companies are solving these challenges and what motivates them to do so. Audience participation in the discussion is encouraged!

Agenda:

6pm – doors open
6-7pm – pizza, beer, and networking
7-8pm – interactive discussion with our guest speakers
8-9pm – networking and after-party with lounge music.

Discussion speakers:

Merita Vilen, Strategic Change Management Consultant
Merita is passionate about the importance of the culture factor in organizational transformations. She has a wealth of experience from telecommunications sector. She is also an author of the book on Nokia’s successes and failures, where she outlines several lessons learned.

Anton Kishchenko, Cloud Architect
Anton leads Cloud Architecture at TZOA — an IoT startup with R&D Lab in Vancouver, Canada, that develops an indoor air-quality monitoring solution. He has previous background in cyber forensics and telecom security. In his spare time, he teaches cloud technologies at British Columbia Institute of Technology to aspiring startup developers, and jumps from cliffs with a paraglider.

Andre Podnozov, IoT Architect
As an IoT Architect at Luxoft, Andre covers a wide industry spectrum: from energy and utilities, to healthcare and life sciences. His past experience includes companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Intel, Getty Images, Columbia Sportswear, among others. He is passionate about IoT and has helped dozens of clients build IoT projects in support of their Digital Transformation initiatives.

Location:

Please sign in at the lobby of World Trade Center East building. Parking is available in the building’s parking garage and also on the street.

Join Jobscan and other local startups for happy hour, where you can learn about what other entrepreneurial minds are working on and network with other founders, engineers and creatives! Any local startups are welcome to come. Attendance is free and snacks and drinks will be provided, but we ask that you register on Eventbrite to confirm attendance. The event will be held at Jobscan’s headquarters in the heart of Pioneer Square.

Jobscan is a local Seattle startup that helps jobseekers land interviews by optimizing their resumes.

Jobscan’s address is 89 Yesler Way Suite 203, Seattle, WA 98104. Buzz suite 203 when you arrive. Do not navigate with Jobscan’s address listed on Google as it will take you elsewhere.