Community Events

Inviting startups across the globe to redefine the guest and employee experiences with the renowned Melco Group! 🌏

To stay one step ahead and anticipate the ever-changing needs of the guests and employees, the entertainment and hospitality industry has to offer an ecosystem that creates exhilarating and engaging digital experiences as well as sustainable business growth.

As one of the largest entertainment and hospitality groups, Melco understands the value of innovating with disruptive startups. This year’s startup challenge is looking for startups across different industries with the opportunity to take away three POCs worth a total of up to USD 50,000!

Take part in the challenge by Friday, 20th December 2019 at 23:59 (GMT 8)!

Startups will need to submit a 10-slide PPT including their solution in one of the two tracks:

– Guest Experience & Loyalty
– Employee Experience & Efficiency

What is at stake?

Top participants will have the opportunity to win:

– Three Proof of Concepts worth a total of USD 50,000
– AWS Cloud credit
– Cash prizes
– Network with top management from Melco and AWS

Take part in the challenge today and become a driver in changing the entertainment and hospitality industry with one of its most exciting and distinguished leaders.

Zoho’s holding a free educational seminar on November 12th in Seattle. 

Register now: zco.to/calendar19

Learn how to enhance your business’ productivity, increase customer satisfaction, and increase growth with one cloud-based platform. Zoho experts will go over how you can manage everything from sales and marketing to finance, support, analytics, and beyond. They’ll also cover basics and best practices, and even show you tips and tricks to drive more sales and collaborate seamlessly. Free breakfast included.

Some highlights:

Learn best practices for managing your business online: From finance to HR and CRM to support, we’ll help optimize your business processes.
Learn how to maximize your CRM to drive sales and get a unified overview of your business. 
Bring all your questions for our Zoho One experts to answer.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER NOW: zco.to/calendar19

Today’s persistent threats need a persistent learning solution.

Join Microsoft and Circadence for lunch featuring an immersive, gamified cyber learning demonstration for cyber professionals.

Circadence’s Project Ares cyber learning platform, available on Microsoft Azure Intelligent Cloud allows cyber professionals to learn-by-doing in realistic emulated digital environments that scale and adapt to company’s changing needs. Available 24/7, this level of cyber learning empowers professionals to better protect today’s companies from tomorrow’s threats.

You will learn:

How cloud-based cyber range environments support skill development

New cyber scenarios to teach and test cyber professionals’ competencies

Why gamified, continuous-learning approaches resonate with today’s professional

How performance monitoring and player assessment strengths overall security posture

Agenda

11:30 – 11:45 Arrivals and check-in

11:45 – 12:00 Lunch | Introductions: Circadence & Microsoft

12:00 – 12:45 Project Ares Demo by Circadence

12:45 – 1:00 Q&A/Discussion

Lowell Ricklefs (Traction Advising) is a former entrepreneur/CEO who raised money and now works with angel investors listening to a lot of pitches and hearing critical feedback from other Angel investors. He thinks it is important for entrepreneurs to truly understand what Angel Investors care about so you don’t spend (waste) your time and theirs talking about things that are not important. He has created insight into the top 10 things that Angel investors care about that every entrepreneur should know.

Lowell raised money from angels and now spends much of his time on the other side advising and investing with startups. He is the founder/managing partner for Traction Advising helping entrepreneurs sell their companies (M&A for b2b SaaS companies) – recent transactions include advising 10,000ft on their acquisition by smartsheet. He speaks globally to share his experience scaling, investing, buying and selling companies.

Have a great idea? Want to start a company? Have you started a company but want to broaden your skill set? Join the Master of Science in Entrepreneurship team at the UW Foster School of Business for an informative session where you’ll learn about the details and benefits of this one-year, full-time master’s program.
Register at: https://foster.radiusbycampusmgmt.com/ssc/eform/I7B71wd78822x6700kN70o.ssc

If you aren’t available on this date, please reach out to us directly at msentre@uw.edu and we will be happy to set up a time to talk one on one.
Discover more at www.foster.uw.edu/startup

Details
*Event Update*
We now have a second speaker.

Hear from Vlad Mkrtumyan, CEO of Logic Imbound, about how he helped start a 500k agency that is 4 years old.

Then learn from Tim Mehta, a Senior Optimization Strategist at Portent, about the importance of frustration with User Experience (UX).

**Vlad Mkrtumyan**
*Topic Title*
How to Grow Your Agency

*Topic Description*
Find out how an agency or consultant owner can grow, the tactics and strategies Vlad and his team have used in the past to grow, and what they are currently focused on and why.

*About Vlad Mkrtumyan*
Vlad is the CEO of Logic Inbound, a 500k agency that’s 4 years old. At age 19 he started an app company, Shoplletes. Then at 21 he started a real estate CRM, Skyreal.

You can find him on LI at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vladimir-mkrtumyan/

**Tim Mehta **
*Topic Title*
Why Frustration is the Most Important Emotion in User Experiences (UX)

*Topic Description*
Marketers and UX Professionals have been talking about evoking emotion in their content for years.

Humor, inspiration, love, shock, the list goes on.

Although, they are forgetting about the most important emotion: Frustration.

If you ignore frustration, none of the emotions you want your users to feel will make it through. Sometimes it’s actually better to have as little emotion as possible in your experiences.

In this talk Tim Mehta will expose the common practices that brands are getting wrong, some heuristics on how you can identify frustration in your experiences, and the right way to use emotion in your content to engage with your users.

*About Tim Mehta*
Tim Mehta is a seasoned experience optimizer. His passion lies behind improving user experiences in ways that adds value to the user first. He believes that if you put your customers before yourself, your business will naturally develop more sustainable revenue and advocacy.

His favorite resources are books about behavioral psychology and blogs about UX. You can also find him on Twitter calling out bad UX and shamelessly sharing his opinion on it.

***Event Pricing***
Guests are only $15
Admission for SSN annual members is FREE!

***Additional Info***
Networking, light food & beverages start at 6:00pm.
Presentation/s start at roughly 6:20pm.

***About Our Venue Sponsor***
Seattle Search Network expresses its grateful acknowledgement of the essential role our sponsor Portent plays in making these events possible. Visit https://www.portent.com/ to learn about openings for industry professionals.

Join renowned author, mythologist and storyteller Michael Meade for an evening of myths of renewal, tales of transformation, and a call to find unity in this time of conflict and confusion.

As the chaos in the world increases, most ideas of the future become fatalistic. Yet, the situation only seems “hopeless” when viewed from the narrow logic of a collapsing world view. Old ways of seeing the world are blocking more vital paths of imagination, vision and healing.

The point is not simply evolution or progress, rather there needs to be a collective rite of passage that transforms our world view. Transformation is required to move us from despair and overwhelm to awakening and imagination. We are either on the way to transformation or on the road to greater tragedy.

The agony of the earth calls for each of us to defeat the growing alienation and isolation of life in order to become more human and be more present. The issue is not the pretension of “saving the planet,” but rather finding deeper ways of serving the earth.

This world, despite all its troubles, remains a place of ongoing creation. Yet, creation can only work through the souls of those alive at a given time. What we learn from mythic stories and imagination is how our human nature can make us part of the ground of being and the vital pulse of the living world.

“Climate change and eco-degradation can become the context in which the core values of humanity become redeemed rather than lost.” – Michael Meade

TICKETS:
$12 General / $8 Student
Doors open at 6:30 pm

DATE:
Wednesday, November 13, 2019, 7:00 – 9:00 pm

LOCATION:
Vashon United Methodist Church
17928 Vashon Highway Southwest
Vashon, WA, 98070

CONTACT INFO:
Mosaic Multicultural Foundation
info@mosaicvoices.org
206-935-3665
www.mosaicvoices.org

LINKS:

Ticket link: https://www.mosaicvoices.org/events/2018/8/28/living-in-truth-e2btl-czpwx-dpbap-zphcz
Event Website: https://www.mosaicvoices.org/events
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MichaelMeadeMyth
Podcast: https://www.mosaicvoices.org/podcast
Video: https://www.youtube.com/user/mosaicvoices/videos

A renowned “Tech Hub,” Seattle has been home to some of the Internet’s biggest success stories, like Amazon and Microsoft, as well as over 1,500 growing tech companies. As the digital transformation continues to unfold, It is critical for tech companies to recognize the importance of collecting data is a secure and private manner.

Brought to you by OWI, Uniken, Sentinel, and Blueprint, this KNOW Identity forum will dig into the narratives around the data economy, exploring the balance between aggregate data sets and privacy concerns. The evening’s program will address the most pressing data privacy questions such as:

How will dynamic data privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA, affect the next-generation of product development? Are these regulations sufficient guardrails to protect personal data or can we be doing more?
What are the most promising privacy-enabling technologies and techniques available in the marketplace today?
How can digital platforms maintain a competitive advantage over the competition while prioritizing data privacy and user security?
What are the most important characteristics of effective, enforceable data privacy policies?
The evening will also include interactive activities, exclusive peer-to-peer networking, small bites and refreshments.

Attendance is limited to 75.

Forum Agenda

5:00-6:00 Registration and Networking

Mix and mingle with peers from companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Sentinel, and DocuSign

6:00 Welcome Remarks

Travis Jarae (CEO @ OWI)

6:00 – 6:45 LIVE State of Identity Podcast Recording Session

Cameron D’Ambrosi, host of the SOI, sits down with Kelsey Finch, Senior Policy Counsel at the Future of Privacy Forum, to discuss leading data privacy topics.

Kelsey Finch ( Senior Policy Counsel @ Future of Privacy Forum)

Cameron D’Ambrosi (Principal @ OWI)

6:50 – 7:10 Featured Presentation

TBD

7:15 – 8:00 Panel Session

Expect 45-minutes of expert predictions, tales of past launch failures, and how to succeed in building leading privacy practices into your products. Panelists:

Aaron Weller ( Co-founder and VP of Strategy @ Sentinel)

Chris Carter (Managing Director @ Blueprint Technologies)

Cameron D’Ambrosi (Principal @ OWI)

Nishant Kaushik (CTO @ Uniken)

8:00-9:00 Networking

Keep the conversation going, and enjoy drinks and refreshments

**Drinks and heavy appetizers will be provided**

In response to your popular demand of our womxn in tech and diversity in tech events, we’re launching monthly Humanity in Tech events! You’ll have deeper experiences with monthly opportunities to connect to your peers, mentors, and influencers leading the way on building a more inclusive Seattle tech community.

It’s no secret, companies with more diversity, whether it’s racial, ethnic, or gender, perform better than those with less. We’re excited to invite you to learn about the difficulties, successes, and benefits of diversity in the tech industry, and what we can all do to ensure opportunities are available for all of us, and make diversity the standard, not the exception.

Join us to celebrate the cool tech being created in your backyard. Come enjoy fun, light appetizers, beer, wine, great people and fantastic presentations of innovative new tech created in your community!

Following a brief overview of the West Coast Energy Sector from a data-centric point of view, Enviro Software Solutions’ founder Todd Greenwood-Geer will demo his open source toolkit Energy Dashboard which uses data science tools such as Jupyter Notebooks, Pandas and SQLite to deep dive into one of the largest publicly available energy sector data sets from CA ISO.

https://github.com/energy-analytics-project/energy-dashboard

The goal of this presentation is to enable anyone to accelerate energy sector de-carbonization. With these tools and this data, you can perform your own analyses and help inform public and private policy.

In addition, we have the opportunity to take a tour of the Clean Energy Test Beds led by Director Michael Pomfret.

We will bring the beer and pizza, please bring yourselves, a business card, and your transformative ideas in sustainability for the PacNW.

Build your space startup idea in 54 hours!

Do you have an idea you’d like to pursue or a problem you’d like to solve but don’t know where to start or who to start with?

Techstars Startup Weekend is the place to look for a team, create a prototype of your idea, validate your business idea, and receive feedback from experienced entrepreneurs, all in one weekend.

What do you need to bring?

Lots of energy! You’ll pitch your own idea or listen to others, then vote on the most interesting ideas and form teams with diverse skill sets. You can come with friends, but you’ll get the full experience if you participate in separate teams. Remember, it’s all about the team.

Your idea should be something you have not previously worked on. The idea you pitch and the problem you set out to solve can span social, educational, financial, environmental, or other issues. Over the course of the weekend you’ll be challenged to create a prototype of your MVP, or minimum viable product, that fits the needs of your target customer. You’ll get feedback, iterate, and likely pivot your approach entirely! Important: You cannot have worked previously on your idea.

Techstars Startup Weekend is a full weekend long experience. Your ticket includes:
• 7 full (and delicious) meals over the course of the weekend
• Benefits and discounts from our global partners
• One-on-one time with amazing mentors
• A new network of developers, designers, and entrepreneurs eager, like you, to change the world.
• All the internet and coffee you can consume.

Calling all hackers, developers, designers and project leads!

Samsung B2B invites you to join our Enterprise AppDev Launchpad Seattle Hackathon. It’s your chance to show off your ability to innovate and create compelling, real-world solutions, utilizing Samsung’s ecosystem of devices.

During the hackathon, we will get you ramped up on the latest Samsung SDKs and APIs and arm you with the proper tooling, tech knowledge and understanding of Samsung devices. Then you will be able to immediately address challenges in one of the following areas: Finance, Manufacturing, Public Safety and Retail.

The winning team will receive Samsung Start-Up Starter kit including the Notebook 9 Pro, Galaxy Note10, Galaxy Tab S6 and a 32″ 4K UHD Space Monitor.

Team Prize Categories for “Most Innovative Implementation”, “Best Use of Samsung Ecosystem” and “Most Original/Inventive UX/UI” will win a Galaxy Watch and Galaxy Buds.

Don’t miss this chance to use Samsung’s range of devices—including the Galaxy Note10 and Galaxy Watch—and differentiating technology—including Knox, DeX, the S Pen and to connect with the Samsung team.

Register now!

Join us for an exciting fall evening event, with appetizers and a free drink!

GratiFI Summit brings together technology and industry thought leaders to discuss the future impact of cutting edge technologies in disruptive industries.

XR (Extended Reality) has immense opportunities for Healthcare in areas including therapeutics, telemedicine, and education. Learn about some of these uses cases, the success stories, ethics, and the opportunities & challenges ahead.

What to expect:
-Talks by executives leading AR/VR innovation in Healthcare.
-Thought provoking, dense, and highly impactful discussions.
-Insightful projections and future outlook.
-Engaging speakers to discuss your ideas!
-Networking with a like minded group of technologists, entrepreneurs, researchers, and industry professionals with a mission to innovate in an impactful way.

Join us for Seattle’s first Techstars Startup Weekend event solely focused on space entrepreneurship. We’ll bring together engineers, tinkerers, entrepreneurs, and everyone in between to create the future of space!

About Techstars Startup Weekend: Techstars Startup Weekends are 54-hour events designed to provide superior experiential education for technical and non-technical entrepreneurs. Beginning with Friday night pitches and continuing through brainstorming, business plan development, and basic prototype creation, Techstars Startup Weekends culminate in Sunday night demos and presentations. Participants create working startups during the event and are able to collaborate with like-minded individuals outside of their daily networks. All teams hear talks by industry leaders and receive valuable feedback from local entrepreneurs. The weekend is centered around action, innovation, and education. Whether you are looking for feedback on an idea, a co-founder, specific skill sets, or a team to help you execute, Techstars Startup Weekends are the perfect environment in which to test your idea and take the first steps towards launching your own startup.

Code 102: Intro to Software Development

Not sure where or how to start learning software development? Just want a little help getting ready for Code 201? Or maybe you’re discouraged by the confusing interfaces, unclear error messages, and unexplained concepts of online coding tutorials.

If you’re ready to get unstuck and move beyond the concepts covered in Code 101, come work with experienced developers who can help guide you through your learning. Join us for Code 102! You’ll blast through the prework for Code 201 while getting a tour of the tools and techniques of modern developers.

View the Course Page »

Class meeting times:
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM on Monday – Friday

Outcomes:

At the end of this workshop, you will:

Complete the entirety of Code 201’s required prework.
Configure your computer and see the workflow for serious software development, with free and open-source tools.
Get introduced to programming concepts like variables, conditionals, and loops.
Be more prepared for the challenges ahead in Code 201, or in learning to code anywhere.
Have a wider network of new and experienced developers, and prepare your resume for all the awesome new skills you are about to learn.
Prerequisites:

Required: Computer updated with the latest version of OS, all security patches installed. See “Material Requirements” below.
Recommended: Code 101
Recommended: Be able to type at least 30 words per minute.
Topics:

Web Development

Tie together HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in an interactive web page.
Use the same tools utilized by professionals across the tech industry, right on your own laptop.
Learn the benefits of version control with Git.
JavaScript Programming

Variables & Storing Data
Conditionals
For Loops
Everything you need to know for the 201 Entrance Test.
Collaboration Time

Open time during each class session to work on independent and paired challenges.
Get help from an experienced instructor or teaching assistant.
Ask questions related to the code assignments, or programming in general.
Prepare for the career change with guided coaching on how to set up your resume.
Material Requirements:

You are required to supply your own laptop that meets the below requirements. Chromebooks are not suitable for this course since you can’t directly control installed software. You are responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of your computer throughout the course. The course will include a class session dedicated to configuring your computer to be ready for professional-grade software development.

64-bit Operating System, like macOS or Windows 10.
Fully up to date, with the latest version of the operating system and all security updates installed.
At least 50GB of free space on the hard drive.
At least 8GB of RAM. 16GB RAM strongly preferred.
Free of viruses, and in general working order.
By the first day of class you will also need:

The Web Design with HTML & CSS, JavaScript & jQuery book set by Jon Duckett
Professionalism:

Punctuality, participation in discussions, completion of assignments, and demonstration of professional courtesy to others are required. Attendance will be taken at the beginning of the workshop. Passing requires attendance to the full workshop. By signing up for this course, you agree to Code Fellows’ Code of Conduct.

Questions? Email seattle@codefellows.com

DigiMarCon World 2019 is your chance to …
– Hear from some of the most audacious and thought provoking speakers in the digital marketing industry.
– Gain insight into emerging strategies, the latest innovative technologies, and best practices to move your business to the next level.
– Network with thought leaders, collaborate with your peers and build your network in a beautiful atmosphere.

DigiMarCon World 2019 Digital Marketing Conference & Exhibition will be held Online from November 19th to 21st, 2019, available live stream and on-demand. It is the largest Digital Marketing Event in the World and will be attended by thousands of Digital Marketing Professionals. Whatever your goal is; reinforcing customer loyalty, improving lead generation, increasing sales, or driving stronger consumer engagement, the DigiMarCon World 2019 line up has been specifically designed to help you develop your audience.

Immerse yourself in topics like digital strategy, programmatic advertising, web experience management, usability / design, mobile marketing & retargeting, customer engagement, user acquisition, social media marketing, targeting & optimization, video marketing, data science & big data, web analytics & A/B testing, email marketing, content marketing, conversion rate optimization, search engine optimization, paid search marketing, geo-targeting, predictive analysis & attribution, growth hacking, conversion rate optimization, growth marketing tools, marketing & sales automation, sustainable growth strategies, product marketing & UX / UI and much, much more!

At DigiMarCon World 2019, you will receive all the elements you need to achieve digital marketing success! Conventional thought will be challenged, new ways of thinking will emerge, and you will leave with your head and notebooks full of action items and ideas to lead your agency / team / account to even greater success.

Be a part of DigiMarCon World 2019 and discover how to thrive and succeed as a marketer in a rapidly evolving digital world.

Secure your seat now and take advantage of our discounted super early bird registration rates.

For more details visit https://digimarconworld.com.

Twenty years ago this November, the world’s attention turned to Seattle where a meeting of the World Trade Organization was disrupted by thousands of protesters who filled the city’s streets. The conflict that followed shook Seattle and laid bare deep frustrations with the excesses of globalization and fears about the impact of free trade.

While it failed to stop the WTO, the three days of conflict did renew the power of grassroots political protest in the U.S. It set the course for Occupy Wall Street and other populist movements, and helped to shape the dialogue around economic equity in the 21st century.

Joined by prominent figures from the events, historians and today’s political analysts, we look back at the WTO with the benefit of hindsight to revisit those dramatic days, and to consider what the protests, responses and anxieties of those times may have foretold about our economic and political reality today.

Panelists include:

Nikkita Oliver – Seattle-based creative, community organizer, abolitionist, educator and attorney.
John Sellers – WTO protest leader and President of the Ruckus Society.
Norm Stamper – Former Seattle Police Chief.
Edgar Villenueva – Expert on social justic philanthropy

ACTIVE EXECUTIVES FROM NORTHWEST MARKETS TO ATTEND AND PARTICIPATE FOR DISCUSSION, DEBATE AND NETWORKING: NORTHWEST EVENT OF THE YEAR

It has been a busy yet exciting time for CAPRE’s International Data Center Series. As 2019 nears an end, we are hosting one of our final events of the year: The Great Northwest Cloud Summit: Hyperscale, Colocation, Edge & Beyond. Taking place November 20 – 22, we will be bringing you three days of leading content by industry experts and exciting venues. This premier event will convene greater Seattle, suburban Washington, greater Portland and emerging Oregon markets. The multi-day event will kick-off with an opening workshop and data center tour, concluding the day with an evening reception. The full-day conference will take place on day two at the scenic Columbia Tower Club. The third day will feature a concluding workshop and tour. Come join industry trailblazers discussing leading trends around cloud infrastructure, renewable power, design and construction, connectivity, investment opportunities, and much more. If you work or have interest in data centers, real estate or anything in between, this event is for you.

November 20: Opening Workshop and Data Center Tour

CAPRE’s Great Northwest Cloud Summit will kick off with a highly-interactive data center tour and workshop at an innovative mission critical facility. This hands-on workshop will allow attendees to see first hand the innovations in today’s mission critical facilities and ask great questions of engineers, architects and property managers.

November 21: Full-Day Conference

CAPRE will convene the most active and innovative executives for vital discussion, debate and networking high above Seattle at the Columbia Tower Club. This exclusive venue rises 75 floors above Downtown Seattle with spectacular views, food and networking.

November 21: CAPRE Great Northwest Cloud Summit Reception at MUSEUM OF POP CULTURE

Join CAPRE and your colleagues for networking and tours of the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle. MOPOP maintains the largest collections in the world of artifacts, hand-written lyrics, personal instruments, and original photographs celebrating the music and history of Seattle musicians Nirvana and Jimi Hendrix. This will be an exciting networking event for all who attend CAPRE’s Great Northwest Cloud Summit!

November 22: Concluding Workshop & Tour at Data Center/Mission Critical Facility

CAPRE’s Great Northwest Cloud Summit will conclude the three-day mega summit with a highly-interactive data center tour and workshop at an innovative mission critical facility. This hands-on workshop will allow attendees to see first hand the innovations in today’s mission critical facilities – and the future.

Have a great idea? Want to start a company? Have you started a company but want to broaden your skill set? Join the Master of Science in Entrepreneurship team at the UW Foster School of Business for an informative online session where you’ll learn about the details and benefits of this one-year, full-time master’s program.

Register at: https://foster.radiusbycampusmgmt.com/ssc/eform/G0A88cd70x7c0x6702fB4.ssc

If you aren’t available on this date, please reach out to us directly at msentre@uw.edu and we will be happy to set up a time to talk one on one.

Discover more at www.foster.uw.edu/startup

About Webinar

In this digital age, every business has one aim in common and that is the desire to achieve higher revenue and faster growth. And to achieve the same, a business needs to gather quality leads, acquire more customers, optimize productivity and increase ROI. Moreover, driving customer and revenue growth is also important, for which businesses must strengthen their marketing activities. Some of the prime marketing activities which are also challenging to achieve are accelerating the sales funnel, aligning sales and marketing, improving the rate of sales closed and gaining performance insights. Marketing automation provides an ideal solution to address these marketing challenges and generate a return on marketing investment.

Marketing automation platforms do all the groundwork for marketers so that they can focus on more important things. Some of the industry-leading tools in the market are equipped with AI capabilities that enable intelligence from data unlike ever before. They also offer seamless integration with other systems, providing a clearer picture to marketers with the ability to add context at an unprecedented level.

In this webinar, our experts will discuss how marketing automation is important and how your business can leverage a variety of software it offers to simplify and organize your marketing tasks in a productive manner.

Register Webinar – https://bit.ly/2PigNjj

Webinar agenda
• Why marketing automation is the answer to your business woes
• History, evolution and adoption of marketing automation
• Myth-busting
• Popular platforms and tools
• The role of automation in digital transformation
• Common features of marketing automation
• Advantages of marketing automation
• Marketing automation workshop
• Q & A

Whether you’re new to test-driven development, automated testing, or development as a whole, come join us on Thursday, November 21st from 6-9pm at thinkspace to try out test-driven development.

Test-driven development is a popular development philosophy that has you write tests before you even start writing code. Many professional developers swear by it. At the very least, it’s an interesting approach. You never know when it might come up in an interview!

To kick off our November event, we’ll work through a simple application together in Javascript, writing it using the test-driven development philosophy. After that, stick around because you’ll have a chance to pull out your own projects and make progress on them with help from our mentors.

You’ll meet other awesome people too, who, like you, are learning to become developers. Many of our members are still learning. Some are already looking for work. Others have found awesome jobs and completed their transition. Our members have great stories to share from all over the spectrum. Come out and talk to someone you don’t know. It’s amazing what you can learn!

Oh yeah. There’s also free pizza. 🍕 You can’t go wrong with that!

Come out and experiment with us. 🧪 Hope to see you at the event!

Join renowned author, mythologist and storyteller Michael Meade for an evening of myths of renewal, tales of transformation, and a call to find unity in this time of conflict and confusion.

As the chaos in the world increases, most ideas of the future become fatalistic. Yet, the situation only seems “hopeless” when viewed from the narrow logic of a collapsing world view. Old ways of seeing the world are blocking more vital paths of imagination, vision and healing.

The point is not simply evolution or progress, rather there needs to be a collective rite of passage that transforms our world view. Transformation is required to move us from despair and overwhelm to awakening and imagination. We are either on the way to transformation or on the road to greater tragedy.

The agony of the earth calls for each of us to defeat the growing alienation and isolation of life in order to become more human and be more present. The issue is not the pretension of “saving the planet,” but rather finding deeper ways of serving the earth.

This world, despite all its troubles, remains a place of ongoing creation. Yet, creation can only work through the souls of those alive at a given time. What we learn from mythic stories and imagination is how our human nature can make us part of the ground of being and the vital pulse of the living world.

“Climate change and eco-degradation can become the context in which the core values of humanity become redeemed rather than lost.” – Michael Meade

TICKETS:
$15 General / $10 Student
Doors open at 6:30 pm

DATE:
Thursday, November 21, 2019, 7:00 – 9:00 pm

LOCATION:
First Baptist Church
1111 Harvard Ave., Seattle, WA 98122

CONTACT INFO:
Mosaic Multicultural Foundation
info@mosaicvoices.org
206-935-3665
www.mosaicvoices.org

LINKS:

Ticket link: https://www.mosaicvoices.org/shop/#!/Chaos-Climate-Creation-Seattle/p/148612459
Event Website: https://www.mosaicvoices.org/events
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MichaelMeadeMyth
Podcast: https://www.mosaicvoices.org/podcast
Video: https://www.youtube.com/user/mosaicvoices/videos

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 renowned author, mythologist and storyteller Michael Meade for a day-long workshop of myths of renewal, tales of transformation, and a call to find unity in this time of conflict and confusion.

This workshop will draw upon the redeeming function of myth as a vessel of imagination and regeneration that can open new ways to envision life and new paths of initiation to follow whether at a younger or older stage of life.

It is our collective fate to live in a time of climate crisis and eco-disasters that call for fundamental changes in our relationship to the living earth. The change from an isolating world view to one that realigns with the heart of nature involves not simply a shift of attention, but acts of true imagination and heartfelt service. We are in the midst of a collective rite of passage that requires that we not simply change, but truly transform our way of being in the world.

Hard facts must be faced and scientific data must be accepted and utilized. However, if we reduce the world to what we can measure and count, we lose all that is immeasurable and transformative about life. A true transformation moves the heart as well as the mind and carries us beyond our current understanding of both ourselves and the living world around us.

Awakening at the level of the heart and soul becomes necessary to change the collective attitudes about the earth; acting upon what moves our hearts can connect us to the heart of nature. The heart’s purpose appears as both deeply personal and world involving, as both unique vision and world connecting.

In terms of mythic imagination, the seeds of renewal can be found precisely within the conditions of chaos, disorder and disintegration. Awakening the soul leads to acts of truth and courage, but also practices of devotion and sacred service. The awakened soul becomes the source of vision and creative agency that can inspire a collective renewal at both the level of survival and of transformation.

THEMES INCLUDE:
• Myths of restoration of the Earth and renewal of life that help us see the world with different eyes
• Working with the genius loci or spirit of place
• Aligning our inner genius and character with service in the world
• Finding a “dharma path” that helps us live amidst chaos and can help restore the life force of the world
• Using healing rituals that can deepen our sense of community and create reservoirs of hope

“The agony of the earth calls for each of us to defeat the growing alienation and isolation of life in order to become more human and be more present. The issue is not the pretension of “saving the planet,” but rather finding deeper ways of serving the earth.” — Michael Meade

TICKETS:
$85

DATE:
Saturday, November 23
9:30 AM – 4:30 PM

LOCATION:
First Baptist Church
1111 Harvard Ave
Seattle, WA

CONTACT INFO:
Mosaic Multicultural Foundation
info@mosaicvoices.org
206-935-3665
www.mosaicvoices.org

LINKS:

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Event Website: https://www.mosaicvoices.org/events
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MichaelMeadeMyth
Podcast: https://www.mosaicvoices.org/podcast
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