To celebrate Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈, we are holding a mini-conference at the Microsoft Redmond Reactor to showcase speakers from the Greater Seattle Area and LGBTQIA+ community in the domain of Human-centered AI (HCAI).  All are welcome to attend!

HCAI refers to the technological advances in artificial intelligence that prioritize augmenting, amplifying, empowering, and enhancing people's lives. HCAI emphasizes fairness, inclusiveness, accountability, transparency, privacy & security, and reliability in AI systems. We will have a range of speakers from leaders in industry as well as academia to discuss the latest advances in these fields. This will be a great networking opportunity to build a stronger community in the Greater Seattle area. 💟

Program:

5 - 5:45pm - Warm welcome 🏳️‍🌈, swag, food and networking 🍿🍔 🍭🍬

5:45 - 6pm - Word from our sponsors and collaborating Meetups 🎉

6 - 7:45pm - 3 awesome featured speakers in the fields of HCAI, HCI and Responsible AI 🥳 🔥

7:45 - 8pm - Closing

Speakers:  to be announced very shortly, stay tuned! 🍿

🌟 Get together with Seattle Spark + AI, PyLadies Seattle, GDG Bellevue, PyData Seattle, Women Techmakers Seattle, and Seattle Artificial Intelligence Workshops Meetups.

💟 Many thanks to our open source community organizers: Denny Lee, Simran Saxena, Eloisa Elias, Jenny Spadoni and the many volunteers for this super cool party!

🌷 Our meetup are made possible thanks to the open source community a group of volunteers from a diverse background doing the best they can in every event 💙

💚 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.

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! https://numfocus.org/

Parking is free at Microsoft Building 20, the Reactor space, (with overflow parking at Building 25).