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Event date: October 24, 2019 
Nomination period: April-July 
Magazine feature: November issue

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Event Date: April 2020
Nomination period: October-January 
Magazine feature: May issue

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WE HACK! is a two-day coding event hosted by We Lead at TUNE, focused on female undergraduate students who demonstrate a passion for computer science, UI/UX, HCDE, hardware or software engineering, and information technology. We want to celebrate the female presence in technological industries, facilitate imaginative and innovative thinking, and raise awareness for challenges that women face at school and in the workplace. Take a look at the event page here!

The Detlef Schrempf Foundation will combine their annual Golf Classic and Ripple of Giving Gala in a one day event on Monday, June 27, 2016. The Detlef Schrempf Celebrity Golf Classic will take place at Glendale Country Club, followed by the Gala, Auction and Concert that evening at Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue. A long day, but well worth it, when you consider Grammy Award-winning country group, THE BAND PERRY will be performing at the Gala with sibling sensations Kimberly, Neil and Reid Perry.

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Please join our celebration of The Arc of King County's eighty year anniversary advocating for the rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. The evening includes the ninth annual presentation of The Legacy Awards, exciting silent and live auctions, three-course dinner, and live performances from United by Music, a talented group of musicians with developmental disabilities. Awards to be presented to Devon Adelman, a self-advocate who recently attended the First Lady's Reach Higher Summit in D.C.; and to Dr.

NewSpace is the only conference that brings the three pillars of the space industry — startups, established companies, and government agencies — together with private investors and tech innovators. The three-day conference focuses on the current, near term, and future issues and challenges in commercial space and is attended by distinguished members from all sectors and verticals of the space industry, making this conference a hotbed of innovation and partnership.

Reign Awards Gala | May 19, 2016
Melrose Market Studios
5:30pm-8:30pm
Networking 5:30-7:15
Awards Program 7:15-8:15
Wrap Up Networking 8:15-8:30

Join Nicholson Kovalchick Architects for an evening featuring Zack Semke of Hammer & Hand, presenting Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Jevons, a refutation of The Jevons Paradox and a call-to-arms to fight clim

Nonprofit Cares of Washington will host its annual Opening Doors, Changing Lives reception Saturday, May 14, 2016, in support of people with disabilities and low incomes in the Puget Sound region.

Held at the Pacific Tower in Seattle from 7 to 10 p.m., the reception will raise funds for the organization's job training and placement services. Former University of Washington footballer Mario Bailey will keynote.

Join us for Happy Hour with Jazz on the Dock on May 19th. $25 donation includes wine, beer, appetizers and live music lakefront on Lake Union. 100% of the proceeds go towards Partners for Work, a non-profit that finds meaningful local employment opportunities for young adults with development disabilities. Your donation is tax deductible.

Future Planning: How to Grow and Retain the Next Generation of Firm Leaders

“The Future belongs to those who prepare for it today.” - Malcolm X

What does it mean to do “good business?” We’ll hear from a panel of leaders in diversity and social equity from major agencies in the state of Washington. We’ll explore current and upcoming changes for contracting requirements for both primes and subconsultants, and the impact to project delivery methods. Finally, we’ll learn how architecture, engineering and construction companies can better partner with public agencies to achieve business equity goals, and have the opportunity to ask the panel your questions surrounding social equity, diversity and inclusion.

SMX Advanced (June 22-23, Seattle)

The Landfill Harmonic Orchestra will present a special concert in the Pigott Chapel at Providence Mount St. Vincent. Members of this Paraguayan youth orchestra live next to a giant landfill, playing music from instruments made entirely out of garbage. Now known globally, their music is the portal to a life beyond the cycle of extreme poverty.

The concert is presented by The Lift Every Voice Foundation, Providence Health & Services and Providence Mount St. Vincent. It is free to the public although donations for the orchestra will be greatly appreciated.

This is a family friendly 5K, which will take place at the Seattle Center Mural Amphitheatre. 

Are you an MD, ND, PS, LAC, DO, DC, LP, NP, LMT, CN, RN, ARNP, RD, or CCN? 

June 2nd 6pm Free Webinar

The tech world is abuzz with talk of Docker and containerization, but many companies are just starting to consider implementation.

Join us for an evening of drinks, billiards, networking and the panel, Containerization: Moving Beyond the Buzz. This panel will be a barebones dialog about the realities of starting with Docker/Containerization initiatives. We will discuss how companies are approaching it, what is working, what's not and lessons learned.

Join us for an all-day symposium where we will explore the future of nanomedicine. Scientists from around the world will come together to discuss products and how to advance nanotechnology solutions for the molecular understanding and treatment of disease.  

Attend etailz U (https://www.etailzu.com/2016), the place for vendors and retailers to learn how to optimize their brand’s presence on Amazon, Jet, eBay, and Walmart. Attendees learn best-in-class tools, tricks, and tips with etailz, a top-performing third-party merchant with more than $250 million in sales on Amazon. Speakers include Amazon GM, overseeing Marketplace Seller Development, Tom Christenson; Jet.com Senior Manager Jason Brenner and others.

Zipwhip is hiring, and we want you to meet our team!

After a successful happy hour in June, we'll be holding another one in July! 

We're hiring Account Executives who will help sell our product to growing companies, and we're hosting an open house on Friday, July 15th. Potential candidates can tour our office, meet with current employees, interview, and network. Food and drinks will be provided.

How to Build a Healthy Organizational Culture

A healthy organization is one that has all but eliminated politics and confusion from its environment. 

Companies with a healthy culture get more done in less time. They avoid losing their best people. They identify problems earlier and solve them faster. They beat rivals who waste time, money and energy fighting among themselves, which ultimately drives away good employees and customers.

Google For Nonprofits

The Google for Nonprofits program offers organizations like yours access to free or highly discounted tools like Adwords, Apps, and YouTube, which can help you find new donors and volunteers, work more efficiently, and drive supporters to take action. Learn more and hear from Google staff about how these tools can help your organization on August 4th from 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at Google’s Fremont offices. Reservations required – RSVP at http://goo.gl/RLDcS7  

Millennials are swaying elections, disrupting industries, and reshaping America’s cities. From finding a cause to building a brand, Millennials are driving change through social innovation and entrepreneurship. Millennial thought leaders and innovators will discuss the challenges facing this generation, and how Millennials are shaping major brands from the inside out.

Healing Art - Featuring the Art of Internationally Renowned Artist Emmanuel Nkuranga. Join us for an evening of innovative multi media paintings, and other art, and meet the artist Emmanuel Nkuranga.

Emmanuel Nkuranga is a self-taught painter and mixed-media expressionist and one of the founders of Inema Art Center in Kigali, Rwanda. Internationally recognized, Nkuranga's work defines contemporary African art with pieces that immerge from experimentation with a range of unexpected material.

The Smart Kitchen Summit is the leading event dedicated to exploring the intersection of tech, food, design and commerce in the connected kitchen. After just its first year, the Smart Kitchen Summit has become the must-attend event for the food, appliance, home and consumer product leaders to discuss and understand how we will shop for, cook, store and prepare our food in the future.

WSCAR is proud to host another Education Day in the picturesque Spokane Valley! Join other professional commercial real estate brokers in this annual event filled with up-to-date seminars highlighting current trends and opportunities to expand your network.

If you're unable to make the morning classes and seminars, we're also offering an Ethics Class in the afternoon. 

Event Time:

7:30 AM - 4:00 PM

7.5 CE  hours pending

Registration opens at 7:30AM 

Program is from 8:00AM - 4:00PM

FusionTek, an intelligent IT managed service firm and partner of Microsoft is hosting a FREE Lunch-n-Learn Seminar on Cyber Security. Cyber-crime has become more and more complex, and small to medium size businesses are a hacker’s ‘sweet spot’. The average cost of a data breach in 2016 is $4 million…up 29% since 2013, and 48% of those breaches are malicious attacks. There are simple steps business owners can take to protect themselves.

The day-long Conference during the two-week Seattle Design Festival (September 10-23, 2016) offers Festival attendees the opportunity to examine in-depth the 2016 theme, Design Change. The conference includes workshops, panels, films, lectures, and installations presented by community organizations.

“One of the things that I really strongly believe in is that we need to have more girls interested in math, science, and engineering. We’ve got half the population that is way underrepresented in those fields and that means that we’ve got a whole bunch of talent … that is not being encouraged...” President Barack Obama, February 2013 

Thank you for your interest in the 11th Annual ALPFA Seattle Gala & Student Aid Fundraiser.  The Gala is ALPFA Seattle's largest marquee event, bringing together over 300 esteemed members of the techonology and business community for a night of networking, great speakers, awards and celebration of the chapter accomplishments.  

We look forward to celebrating with you.

Cheers,

ALPFA Seattle Board

The Seattle Business Architecture Community is hosting its second meet up in downtown Seattle on September 13th from 5:30 to 7:30 PM. The first 30 minutes will be open for socializing and refreshments. Then, we will focus on capability maps where two local experts will lead discussions on practical guidance and interesting use cases.

The aerospace industry continues to experience high demand for rapid development, efficient delivery, and the best and latest for exceptional customer experience. The global race to meet the growing needs of the future aircraft is happening now. Is your company…

Join PSAMA members and board members at Percy's & Co. in Ballard on Sept. 21 for a relaxed evening of drinks, hors d'oeuvres and socializing. Learn more about the PSAMA's membership services, programs, and events, as you have fun and get to know fellow members.

Come to enjoy great food and drink while meeting with Clean Air Lawn Care's CEO and top owner. This event will be a casual event to learn more about the business opportunities available in Seattle and see the success that the area already has. With our current Clean Air owners in Seattle having an estimate request overflow, we are excited to introduce new owners to start-up with clients eager for organic lawn care. We can't wait to meet you and chat about your goals and how to accomplish them with your own Clean Air Lawn Care business.

TADHack, the world’s largest communications-focused hackathon, will be held across more than 30 cities over the weekend of October 14-16. And for the first time Seattle’s students, innovators and developers can join in the fun.

TADHack’s mission is to bring together startups, students, developers and business types – anyone interested in adding communications capabilities to their innovative applications, services or business processes - and show them the tools, skills and support to bring their creations to life.

Are you still looking for that golden career opportunity that will allow you to build a solid future for yourself and your family? United Career Fairs can help! We have over 20 years of experience in connecting candidates just like you with hiring managers at companies ranging from small local businesses clear on up to Fortune 500 corporations. Register now to attend our upcoming career fair in the Seattle area! 

15+ Hiring Companies!

• Mingle with like-minded people interested in philanthropy and global poverty. 
• Hear from powerful speakers.
• Learn about how our work helps people living in poverty to improve their lives.
• Take a virtual trip into the field to meet with inspiring clients.
• Please consider bringing a table of friends or colleagues to learn about Global Partnerships.

The next steps after college graduation can be a blind pathway. Learn from a panel of young professionals on how they each shed light on their career path with the help of a mentor.

• Learn how a mentor can help facilitate the career development of a young marketing professional
• Increase your network of marketing professionals

What do leaders need to understand about diversity? How does diversity make its way to the top of a CEO’s agenda? Leaders send a powerful message when they do more than just talk the talk, but also walk the walk as they demonstrate a commitment to diversity and inclusion. Knowing how to work amongst differences gives companies a competitive edge. Plus, studies show that organizations that understand how to utilize diverse talent benefit enormously.

CIO Executive Council and Randstad Technologies are pleased to invite you to join us for an exclusive reception series designed specifically for executive women in technology. Join us for an evening of networking and hors d’oeuvres as we celebrate the advancements that we have made as women in technology and provide you with the opportunity to connect with your peers. 

Please note: This reception is invite-only & reserved for senior IT practitioners. Registration is not open to consultants, vendors or consulting firms.

Networking with potential clients, succeeding at interviews, and giving presentations are vital to gaining new clients and winning work. But are you doing those things as well as you could? How many times have you attended a lunch meeting or networking event and wondered, what will I say? What if there are awkward silences? In interviews and presentations, how will you respond to unexpected questions and situations?

Get inspired by #FPFinal14 as they pitch their social impact endeavors. Be a changemaker and support ideas that will benefit the community. Enjoy a high-energy, fast-paced evening with Seattle’s entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and impact investors.

PROVIDENCE O'CHRISTMAS TREES - SILVER BELLS LUNCHEON

Start your holidays with a tradition in the true spirit of the season - Providence O'Christmas Trees' 32nd anniversary Silver Bells Luncheon! Celebrate the spirit of the season while you peruse 15 designer decorated Christmas trees and vote for your favorite, shop in the Grand Lobby Shops featuring glassybaby and more, and enjoy a fantastic performance by the Seattle Men's Chorus. Proceeds benefit seniors and hospice patients served by Providence Health & Services' Senior and Community Services.

EVENT OVERVIEW

This seminar will highlight key legal and business concerns foreign companies face when expanding their business presence to Japan. The discussion will primarily focus on intellectual property, corporate, labor, and tax law concerns.

This event is recommended for C-level executives, business owners, entrepreneurs, and startups with plans to establish a branch or office in Japan. Companies who have not yet developed a business plan for expansion but are interested in doing so are also encouraged to attend. 

The Seattle Business Architecture Community (SBAC) is pleased to host a special 2 hour workshop on business model design geared primarily for practitioners or consumers of business architecture. The first 1/2 hour will consist of a light potluck and networking followed by a 90 minutes of lecture and hands on exercises.

Book Reading and Signing

Sara Harvey Yao is an Executive Leadership Consultant who specializes in helping leaders strengthen their presence and improve their impact. She writes a compelling explanation about why being present is so challenging and how leaders can access clarity, connection, and courage in the midst of their chaotic lives, inside and outside of work.

Shortly after pop star Prince died in April, it became apparent that he had no will. The same was true for deceased singers Michael Jackson, Amy Winehouse, Sonny Bono, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Tupac Shakur, James Brown and Bob Marley, NFL quarterback Steve McNair and Martin Luther King Jr. Even President Abraham Lincoln died without a will!

Join DocuSign for a half-day of digital discovery on Thursday, November 17. Now it’s your chance to get critical details and peer-to-peer insights on how DocuSign can significantly improve your employee and customer experiences while also creating greater revenue opportunities. Hear from DocuSign executives and customers to learn how DocuSign can impact your business. 

We would love for you to join us for our annual FUNdraiser party to support our annual "Survive the Streets" event for Seattle's homeless. Yes for 17 years we have been helping the homeless and this is our first FUNdraising event.

This will be our 17th year of gearing up Seattle's homeless so they can survive the winter. We expect to serve over 300 homeless people with our pop up store in Pioneer Square on Thanksgiving day, so we hope you will come to the party and support our mission.

“Changes in the Business Lending Landscape”

At the December 8th CEOtoCEO Breakfast Al Davis and Bill Lawrence of Revitalization Partners will lead the discussion on how the business lending landscape is changing and why not recognizing the changing market puts companies at risk.

The 9th Annual International Chowder Day celebration will be held at all six Duke's Chowder House locations on November 10, 2016. Veterans receive complimentary bowl of chowder while other guests pay $1 for a small bowl. Duke's matches every dollar and urges you to help! All money raised goes to support Veterans who are being cared for at Seattle Veteran's Hospital.

The best thing your business can do these days is: Be Shared. When others excitedly share your business, a stream of clients and revenue pours in with zero effort.

Looking to return to work after a career break?
Leading corporations in Seattle are hiring reacHIRE professionals. reacHIRE– a company focused on helping professional women re-enter the workforce– is recruiting for 15+ positions in the Puget Sound area.We are actively recruiting talented women eager to return to the workforce after a voluntary career break. If you have a track record of past professional success, outstanding academic credentials, and a strong desire to restart your career in a full-time job, then reacHIRE may be the program you are looking for!

Join General Assembly and industry leaders for networking and a discussion on the future of tech in Seattle.

Speakers from major Seattle tech companies will talk about their perspectives on innovation. You'll hear from the best leaders right here at home about how products can change a traditional industry, how corporations can foster ingenuity within the startup scene and how company culture can be made into an invaluable resource for innovation.

Agenda:

More and more companies are looking for talent on a global level and employees are seeing the value and freedom of the digital nomad/remote work lifestyle. In this discussion we'll dive into SMART Technologies' practices of operating in different countries with teams of people working both remotely and in the office.

Agenda:

• 5:30: Doors open and networking
• 6:00 - 7:30: Panel discussion and Q&A
• 7:30 - 8:00: Networking

The Freelance Economy is truly booming with two-sided marketplaces providing the platform for freelancers to connect with employers from around the globe.

Join General Assembly and Uncommon Cartography for drinks, networking and learn how to freelance part or full-time, how to price yourself, how to develop your portfolio, where to look for potential projects and what it takes to become an independent contractor.

Don’t wait until the last minute to send your holiday greetings this year—cross everyone off your list in one swoop of the pen at Warby Parker’s Just Add Words event.

Choose from a variety of fill-in-the-blank letters to send your friends, family, and secret admirers. (We've got one for everyone on your list.) And for your loved ones that have been extra good this year, we're offering our full collection of frames (and gift cards!) in special holiday packaging designed exclusively by artist Sue Doesken.

You are invited to join America’s Foundation for Chess for lunch on January 17th, 2017!  Please help us welcome Phiona Mutesi, Ugandan Chess Champion and subject of the recent Disney movie Queen of Katwe, her enthusiastic chess coach Robert Katende, and inspiring speaker Salome Thomas-El, aka principal El. This lively fundraising event will begin at noon at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue.

Major savings is the focus at the 34th annual Tacoma RV Show® as Northwest RV dealers showcase the latest and most fuel-efficient motor homes, fifth-wheels, toy haulers and travel trailers. Presented by Boeing Employees Credit Union (BECU), the four-day event runs January 19-22 at the Tacoma Dome.

GoGreen empowers business decision makers with sustainability strategies, tools and connections to create positive change within their organizations by facilitating environmental, economic and social performance improvement through our topics and best practices covered at each conference. View the 2017 Conference Program and join us for an action packed day of driving social and sustainable change in your organization!

What Does Leadership Excellence Mean Today?

 The February CEOtoCEO Breakfast will feature 2017 Seattle Business Executive Excellence Award Winning CEOs Karen Lee, CEO of Pioneer Human Services and Benson Porter, CEO of BECU. The award recognizes their excellent vision, integrity and outstanding execution in guiding their companies or not-for-profit organizations to success. 

Individually and as a couple, this year’s recipients of the Seattle-King County First Citizen Award (now in its 79th year) have been described as “representing the epitome of public service.”

Bill and Jill Ruckelshaus, are widely respected for their dedication to causes, community, and country, as well as for their devotion to family and friends. Throughout their remarkable careers, their significant achievements in both public and private sector service have “always been about the greater good.”

The evidence is clear, inclusive leaders and inclusive organizations outperform those that are not. According to a Catalyst report, firms with more women on their boards outperform their rivals with a 42% higher return on sales, 66% higher return on invested capital and 53% higher return on equity. 

Leaders send a powerful message when they demonstrate a commitment to inclusion. Yet we know women remain underrepresented in all ranks of management, especially in the C-suite.

The Experts in Mystery Entertainment are now performing live public and private interactive murder mystery dinner shows in Seattle, Lynnwood and surrounding areas throughout the Washington area. Join us for a night of intrigue, deception, and delicious food in this comedic thriller!

The art of collaboration and immersion comes to life in the Next Level Marketing Workshop.  Designed to stretch your comfort zone and get you into action, dive into the pieces of your business that drive revenue, beginning with your brand and culture, evolving into your marketing strategy, and finally weaving into a solid digital marketing plan. 

Seattle is a global brand, known for its innovation and entrepreneurialism. From personal computing to coffee, from how we travel to how we shop, greater Seattle has changed the world. Global challenges—whether in the economy, trade, or politics—are inherently local challenges. Join the World Affairs Council and the World Trade Center Seattle for a series exploring how Seattle’s business leaders are addressing some of the global challenges they and their peers face.

The purpose of this conference is to show off and bring light to all of the great culture shifters that are fighting for and creating a better world through the well being at the workplace right here in Seattle and the bigger picture that is coming out of it. Also for you guys to all meet and catalyze these ideas as the new story is created.

West Seattle Content Desk presents:

August: Plan With Me Workshop
 
Wednesday, August 23, 11:00am-12:30pm, Seattle
 
MORE INFO: http://www.contentplanning101.com/workshops
 
Content Workshop Overview
Monthly in-person workshops will move you to plan & implement:
* website updates, as needed & recommended
* a consistent flow of social media posts
* clearly written and regularly published blog posts to improve search rankings

The Experts in Mystery Entertainment are now performing live public and private interactive murder mystery dinner shows in areas throughout the United States. Join us for a night of intrigue, deception, and delicious food in this comedic thriller!

Seattle Murder Mystery Dinner

Global Partnerships,  Seattle based impact investing non-profit organization, is hosting our annual fundraising event. We would love if you could join!

Global Partnerships Mission:

Global Partnerships is a nonprofit impact investor whose mission is to expand opportunity for people living in poverty. GP currently has impact-led investments in 64 social enterprise partners in 16 countries across Latin America, the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa.

Annual Luncheon:

Seattle, WA – The Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS) Seattle Chapter will present an exclusive 3-event day with B2B marketing thought leader Josh Miles, acclaimed author of Bold Brand 2.0, on October 24, 2017.

Beyond Diversity: Creating an Inclusive Workplace

Diversity by itself is not enough: The October CEOtoCEO Breakfast will provide insights on how leaders and their organizations can move beyond diversity alone to capture the potential that comes from inclusion. If diversity is “the mix,” then inclusion is making the mix work by leveraging the wealth of knowledge, insights, and perspectives in an open, trusting, and diverse workplace.

SEATTLE: James Beard Award winner and Iron Chef alumnus Ashley Christensen has been named the All-Star chef at Seattle's upcoming James Beard Foundation "Taste America" dinner. Along with the best and brightest of Seattle's local chefs, Christensen will help prepare a four-course dinner for attendees, preceded by a reception featuring bites prepared by Seattle's most buzzed-about chefs and restaurateurs.

Join us to celebrate the holiday season, British style, with friends and colleagues. Enjoy a pre-luncheon reception, sumptuous traditional British Christmas lunch, lively program and activities, Christmas crackers, photo booth, a grand raffle, holiday raffle, silent auction, and more!

We're excited to host our fourth annual seminar geared toward entrepreneurs, startups and emerging-growth companies at W Seattle on Thursday, December 7. This year we'll be focused on "Building to Scale"with a slew of panel discussions featuring investors, entrepreneurs and industry experts providing guidance and lessons learned on how you can build your business (and bottom line) at minimal cost. The day will conclude with a complimentary happy hour reception. Confirmed speakers include:

Join us on Wednesday, November 1, 10:00am at the Pelton Auditorium, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center for a special speaking session about advancements in synthetic biology.

B & E Meats and Seafood and McCarthy and Schiering Wine Merhants team up to support a great cause - helping survivors of Hurricane Maria by collecting funds and needed items to send back to islanders. Learning of the plight of a large family in rural Guayama, Puerto Rico, Owners Jeff Green and Steve Dunaychuk, along with Queen Anne store Manager, Gordy Maggs, made a decision to step up to help. McCarthy and Schiering, a neighboring wine shop, also agreed to participate. Together the two companies will be sampling delicious bites and tasty wines donated by some wonderful vintners.

Little Creek Casino Resort – Western Washington’s best resort for everyday escape – presents their Christmas Market in the Skookum Creek Event Center Nov. 24 – 26, from 11am to 8pm each day.

A variety of exhibits will showcase holiday gifts, one of a kind jewelry, local hand made goods, assorted wines, spirits and more. Special products and gifts baskets from Seven Inlets Spa and Salish Cliffs Golf Club will also be available for purchase. The Christmas Market will feature live entertainment from the Cheryl Sergio Trio and Bobby Medina’s Red Hot Band.

A tree lighting ceremony will take place Friday, Nov. 24 at noon. Pictures with Santa will also be available. Admission is free for the whole family.

Vendors interested in participating can apply online: http://www.little-creek.com/admin/uploads/christmas-market-2017-vendor-r...

For more information: www.littlecreek.com or call 360.432.7300.

The Bellevue Collection has expanded and so has Snowflake Lane--Now featuring a nightly parade. This year’s celebration kicks off on Nov. 24th in downtown Bellevue and continues nightly until Christmas Eve.  Snowflake Lane takes place along Bellevue Way between NE 4th St. and NE 8th St. with its new extended route. You can enjoy seeing all your favorite characters — with falling snow, beautiful lights, and delightful holiday music. The nightly parade can be seen from any place on the sidewalks on both sides of Bellevue Way.

Indulge and delight with the whole family at The Shops at the Bravern this season during Brunch with Santa hosted at the celeb favorite destination: Sugar Factory American Brasserie in Bellevue. Fresh off a festive grand opening outfitted as Mariah Carey’s “Christmas Factory,” Sugar Factory is decked out in holiday decorations and welcomes all to experience a one-of-a-kind dining experience serving specialty drinks, as well as mouth-watering menu items in an atmosphere full of holiday spirit. Each event will include photos with Santa, free valet parking, a gift bag, and more.

Experience the Realtime implementation of Liferay projects by exploring different features of General familiarization to Liferay Training tools and their applications, Problem formulation and how to handle very complex tasks, Difference between internet and intranet and etc. This Training is the quickest way to learn best practices for developing Liferay plugins, successful deployment, administration, or tuning of Liferay Portal.

About Mindmajix:

Mindmajix - Online global training platform connecting individuals with the best trainers around the globe. With the diverse range of courses, Training Materials, Resume formats and On Job Support, we have it all covered to get into IT Career. Instructor Led Training - Made easy.

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Start your holidays with a tradition in the true spirit of the season - Providence O'Christmas Trees' 33rd anniversary Silver Bells Luncheon. Celebrate the spirit of the season while you peruse 14 designer decorated Christmas trees and vote for your favorite, shop for holiday gifts and enjoy a fantastic performance by the Seattle Choral Company. Proceeds benefit seniors and hospice patients served by Providence Health & Services' Senior and Community Services.

Event date: May 2020
Magazine feature: May issue

Food Tank’s inaugural Seattle Food Tank Summit: Growing Food Policy, will be hosted in partnership with Seattle University on March 18th at Pigott Auditorium (Seattle University). The event will feature key policymakers, food policy advocates, farmers, businesses, and other stakeholders. Through panel discussions on themes including urban agriculture and technology in the food system, and featured speakers with a range of experiences and viewpoints, our hope is to foster creative and hopeful discussion towards mutual understanding.

Join the Bellevue Downtown Association and more than 400 business and civic leaders at Meydenbauer Center to celebrate the continued growth and evolution of Downtown Bellevue. Network with hundreds of stakeholders, enjoy fine dining and spirits, and join the BDA in recognizing leading organizations and accomplishments in Downtown Bellevue. Features distinguished keynote speaker, Rebecca Ryan, who will identify trends that will shape the future of our city and describe how to plan for them.  

Selling on Amazon isn't difficult. But there is a steep learning curve to do it efficiently and most importantly, profitably.

This is a meetup where we share best practices of listing on Amazon, improving your products' search relevancy, and leveraging Amazon Marketing Services and other tools to maximize revenue and profits.

Come learn, discuss, and indulge your curiosities with Tik Yip, Director of Amazon Marketing at Add3. He's managed a portfolio of clients totaling over 500k in products and 50mm a year in revenues on Amazon across many categories.

Join us for breakfast on March 15th at the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce for our annual Economic Forum and discover what's in store this year and into 2019 amidst financial, policy, and regulatory shifts! This year’s dynamic panel of experts includes  Ross Allen, Director, North America, Department for International Trade; Aya Hamilton, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs; Len Jordan, Managing Director, Madrona Ventures; and Ian Toner, Chief Investment Officer, Verus. Our speakers will explore economic forecasts from around the world and their likely impact on U.S.

Seattle, WA – The Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS) Seattle Chapter will present a luncheon education program on Digital Marketing Trends from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM on February 20, 2018, at the Washington Athletic Club, 1325 Sixth Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98101.

EMC storage refers to the various storage products, systems and services being offered by EMC Corporation, which include disk, flash and hybrid storage systems and arrays.  A storage area network (SAN) is a network which provides access to consolidated, block level data storage. EMC SAN allows storage devices to exist on their own separate network and communicate directly with each other over very fast media.

Mindmajix Oracle TM Training makes you an expert in concepts like Tuxedo Admin API, Data-Dependent Routing (DDR), Secure Socket Layer (SSL), Link-Level Encryption (LLE), Tuxedo Java Servers, Oracle Tuxedo, and Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC)...etc.

Course Features:
* 30 Hrs of intructor led training
* Lifetime access to recorded sessions
* 24*7 Support
* Real world use-cases
* Certified Trainers

The average salary of a full stack developer in the Seattle area is over $100K, according to Glassdoor. In this course you will learn some of the most highly marketable and in-demand skills. Learn how to build your own web applications using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and JavaScript frameworks such as jQuery, Node.js, Express, and Mocha.

This 16-week course will cover the following:

The first half of the course will concentrate on front-end development while the second half will center around server-side development.

Business Among Moms' 4th Annual Success Summit Conference is a one-day conference designed for the female entrepreneur who is passionate about her business and wants actionable tools to help her business grow.

To highlight the strengths of Seattle's life-science community, as well as its challenges, look no further than two major deals that kicked off 2018.

Join us from 7 p.m. – 11 p.m. Thursday, May 10 at the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) in Seattle for one of the region’s most-anticipated and hotly-contested tech events: The GeekWire Awards. Continuing this great tradition, we’ll reveal the winners of the Pacific Northwest’s annual startup and technology awards, as nominated and chosen by GeekWire readers.

MealPal is coming to Seattle! Celebrate the launch of your favorite lunch subscription service with free tastings from top restaurant partners, door prizes, exclusive swag, and the chance to mingle with the MealPal team. RSVP for you and your friends by April 25 at: https://mealpalseattle.splashthat.com/

The FileNet P8 family of products includes back-end services, development tools, and applications that concentrate on enterprise content and process management requirements. It provides an entire set of system organization tools that let for monitoring, validation, and configuration changes from a central location with a dispersed deployment. It provides the baseline components for enterprise content management solutions. These elements deal with enterprise content management and business process management requirements.

As with any growth plan, expanding internationally requires financing.  Growing globally requires special capabilities when it comes to finances.  Understand financial opportunities and success strategies by learning how to tap into government and private sources of financing and figuring out ways to make sure you are getting paid.  While financing is always an issue, government interest in boosting exporting and recent financial innovations have made getting funding and getting paid easier than ever.  One of the most popular sources of financing for businesses expansion overseas is the

When you think about doing business with China, what picture comes to mind? Did you know that, just like America cannot be generalized by New York, LA, Louisiana, Texas, or Kansas City culture, China also cannot be generalized as Beijing, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Lanzhou, or Zhengzhou culture? Come get a lay of the land of which China you are interested in engaging, and discover with our speaker how to best engage the local business culture. 

Mule as an ESB, the world's most commonly used open source ESB. Mule is lightweight but highly scalable, allowing you to begin small and connect more applications over time. The main benefit of an ESB is that it allows different applications to communicate with each other by acting as a transit system for carrying data between applications within your enterprise or across the Internet. The ESB can be deployed anywhere, can integrate and orchestrate events in real time or in batch, and has universal connectivity.

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What does it take to get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice... and about $200,000! That's how much money the Liberty High School Choirs need to raise. The Choir Program at Liberty, under the direction of Robin Wood, was recently honored with an invitation to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York City on March 31, 2019.

Part of this choir community is created by the many fundraisers the choirs host. This year they will embark on a brand new fundraiser, and once again it promises to be a campaign that serves their supportive community as well.

Seattle, WA – The Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS) Seattle Chapter will present the annual Reign Awards Gala from 5:30 – 8:30 PM on Thursday, June 14, 2018, at Salty’s Alki Beach, 1936 Harbor Avenue SW, Seattle, WA, 98126.

SMPS Seattle will accept entries for the Reign Awards until Monday, May 7, 2018. Award submittals are open to both member and non-member firms as well as individuals.

Tivoli Software became a brand in IBM's Cloud & Smarter Infrastructure division. IBM originally grew the software portfolio under the Tivoli brand through development and attainment. Presently Tivoli software is used by many large companies. There are many Tivoli products, among them IBM Tivoli Identity Manager is one of the best product. As it has more response many individuals are eager to learn IBM TIM.

Chef Duane Sunwold, who changed his diet to save his kidneys, will deliver the keynote address at Northwest Kidney Centers' 16th annual Breakfast of Hope. The fundraiser will raise money to support nutrition services for dialysis patients, nutrition education for the public, and charity care.

The Pacific Wolf Coalition is excited to host the first ever Howling for Wolves event. The Pacific Wolf Coalition is a 30-member coalition of conservation non-profits dedicated to the long-term recovery efforts of the gray wolf as they return to the Pacific West states of WA, OR and CA.

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TIBCO Business Events assists organizations produce more sense of the information gathered so they can generate insights and guidance to a degree that not possible ever before. This helps the business maintain agility, and all the way through analytical modelling, give the sense of future unforeseen developments as they may occur. With the increase of lot and quick data, implementing an event processing platform to guide instant decision-making is very significant than ever – TIBCO BE Training Institution

The Blockchain is an incorruptible digital ledger of economic transactions that can be programmed to record not just financial transactions but almost the whole thing of value. Originally Blockchain devised for the digital currency, Bitcoin, (Buy Bitcoin) the tech community is now finding other potential uses for the technology.

Present days DevOps Foundation has become very trending technology and it is chosen by many students as a career. For those who are beginning their career in DevOps Foundation VirtualNuggets is the best DevOps Foundation Online Training Institute. Many organizations are choosing DevOps since it has a lot of advantages and ability to combine continuous software delivery with fast fixes to problems in a stable operating environment.

Join us for an opportunity to gain insight on:

• The recent economic relations between Washington State and Japan
• Specific business sectors in Japan that would be great opportunities for engagement
• Business development strategies for making contact with potential partners in Japan
• Japanese business etiquette

• Speaker: Kenji Ushimaru, President of Infra Innovation

Pega is a Java-based BPM tool which is used to build enterprise applications. Among the entire BPM tool in the market, Pega is the leading and No- 1 BPM tool.

• What we'll do
The founder of Cryptoslate Nate Whithall is our featured speaker. https://cryptoslate.com/ is a crypto news site that gets 250k views a month.

After the Q/A session with Nate we will network.

Reinventing Yourself to Stay Relevant

You're vulnerable if you rest on your laurels, but also if you are constantly reinventing yourself. 

Relevance means sustaining relationships with longtime customers even as you innovate your way into new markets.  Profitability from customer relationships over time is higher for companies that are focused on changing ways of providing value to customers.

Your company may seem relevant to you, but from the outside, is it hitting home with your customers?

Join us for an insiders perspective, discussion with former U.S. Ambassador to China, Gary Locke & Roger Nyhus, President & CEO, Nyhus.

Running a business is a demanding, non-stop endeavor. Meet the women who are building and growing thriving companies here in the Pacific Northwest. The World Trade Center Seattle, in conjunction with Berntson Porter & Company, assembled an impressive group of local women in business who will share their perspectives on key issues including effective executive management, financial and operational success and achieving work/life balance.

Experience an elevated runway experience at Fashion Week’s Runway Show on September 15th. Watch models take the runway at Neiman Marcus wearing upscale apparel and jewelry from the latest collections of the world’s leading luxury brands. 

Pega is a BPM tool developed on Java and oops concepts. Pega is much faster than Java in developing strong business applications. Strong analytical skills and core object orientation advancement is necessary in using this tool. A variety of frameworks piled in Pega support differs according to business requirements. While using Pega tool, good awareness on JavaScript coding skills aids a lot - Pega training institute in Chennai, TamilNadu, India.