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🌦 Hello, friends!
As April showers bring May flowers, we're reminded that brighter days and spring events are just around the corner!
While we eagerly await the bloom of those May flowers, we're bursting with excitement for the array of events blooming on our calendar this spring. From vibrant talks to engaging partnerships, there's something delightful for everyone.
Come say hi, share your stories, and let's make this season one to remember!
Coming events
In the upcoming months, we will be partnering with the Wisconsin LGBT Chamber of Commerce and UW-WiT.
Coming up in April, we're getting together with UW-Women in IT for our annual speed networking event at UW Memorial Union. Later this month, we're partnering with a variety of organizations for an online panel focused on women in gaming, and getting together with the LGBT Chamber to talk about using ChatGPT for small businesses.
In May, we will be co-hosting with Doyenne at 100State for a hybrid event about legal business aspects to consider when starting and building your company. Then, we're partnering with our amazing friends at MadPy for an event on mastering pythonic data validation and transformation with pydantic.
To close out May, we've rescheduled our event on exploring language as tech, as data, and as identity for May 30th!
Warmest wishes 🌸
- Anna, Pao, Steph, Sara, Hilary and Isabel
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If you're interested in becoming a sponsor for Madison Women in Tech job listings or events, let us know! You can learn more at http://sponsorship.madisonwomen.tech, or reach out to us directly via admin@madisonwomen.tech.
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Date: Thursday, April 4th
Time: 4:30pm to 6pm CT
Location: Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St · Madison, WI
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We're delighted to partner again with the UW Women in IT for this event, geared toward making networking engaging and as low-stress as possible. We'll be at the UW Memorial Union for this year's event - join us for structured networking, and hopefully some time on the terrace after!
All genders are welcome. Let's make some new connections together! 🎊
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Date: Friday, April 19th
Time: 11:30am to 1pm CT
Location: Online
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NOTE: We're co-hosting this panel with a variety of other organizations; to register, please visit https://www.witwisconsin.com/event-5566250/Registration. Thanks!
Madison Women in Tech, Women in Technology Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Games Alliance are hosting a virtual panel for high school students, college students, and young professionals, about women and careers in the video game industry. We've joined forces to bring experts from multiple gaming leaders in our industry.
If you’re curious about how to get into gaming, are a parent of a gamer, or want to better understand career opportunities in gaming, we'd love to have you join this free event.
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Date: Wednesday, April 24th
Time: 5:30 pm to 7 pm CT
Location: Best Western Plus Inntowner, 2424 University Ave., Madison
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NOTE: This event will be both in-person AND online via zoom, to support the convenience of all of our members. ❤️
Join us for an engaging conversation, co-hosted with the Wisconsin LGBT Chamber of Commerce!
Generative AI like ChatGPT represents a cutting-edge addition to everyone's arsenal, especially small businesses owners with limited resources. This presentation will offer insights and highlight risks, encompassing legal, ethical, and regulatory aspects.
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Date: Wednesday, May 1st
Time: 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm CT
Location: 100state, 17 S Fairchild St, 7th Floor
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NOTE: This event will be both in-person AND online via zoom, to support the convenience of all of our members. ❤️
Interested in someday starting your own tech business? There are numerous legal aspects to consider, so we're here to help break it all down!
We're co-hosting this event with Doyenne, a Madison organization focused on women and marginalized gender entrepreneurs. Thanks to 100State for hosting us!
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Date: Thursday, May 9th
Time: 6:30pm CT to 8:00pm CT
Location: Madison Public Library - Central, 201 W Mifflin St · Madison, WI
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We're excited to partner again with Madison's Python meetup, MadPy, for this educational deep dive into Pydantic from Sydney Runkle!
In this talk, attendees will have the opportunity to learn about Pydantic, Python's leading data validation library. Powered by type hints, Pydantic rapidly validates, with support for easy-to-use custom validators and serializers. Pydantic also offers JSON schema generation, which allows for easy integration with tools across platforms.
Attendees will learn about basic usage of Pydantic, and how the tool can be applied to a wide variety of applications, from LLM response validation to API request/response structural support. We'll also touch on some little-known performance tips and recently released features.
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Date: *New Date* Wednesday, May 30
Time: 12:00pm CT to 1:00pm CT
Location: Online. The Zoom room will open up at 11:55am and the Zoom URL for this event will be shared day-of.
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This event was originally scheduled in March as a hybrid event, but inclement weather and school closings led to us postponing it for later in spring.
Language does more than you think it does. Join Samantha Beaver and Women in Tech for an exciting evening of linguistic exploration: learn to reframe language as a technology, leverage language samples as business-critical data, and understand your own self as being indexed by the language you use.
Both theoretical and practical, this talk is a great opportunity to dive deep into a fascinating topic - with a real linguist - that too often goes under-examined in the workplace.
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📅 SAVE THE DATE
- SPRING / SUMMER TBD: LinkedIn / Resume review
- SUMMER TBD: Social with Out Professional Engagement Network
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Madison Women in Tech prioritizes being an inclusive, safe organization. Our code of conduct applies to all who attend Women in Tech events or participate in designated spaces (both offline and online). Anyone who attends our events or participates in our Meetup community online agrees to abide by its stipulations.
If you have any questions, or if there are any other ways we can be more supportive or inclusive of members, please don't hesitate to reach out: admin@madisonwomen.tech.
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DevFest WI is an annual conference on inclusivity in tech that Madison Women in Tech helps organize.
This year's conference will be held Thursday, Aug. 22nd at the UW Memorial Union, and we want YOU to be a speaker!
We are seeking presentations on a broad range of topics related to inclusivity; we are particularly interested in talks on topics that the you, the speaker, are excited about and that can be understood and appreciated by non-specialists.
Learn more!
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Job listings are available for WiT members to browse over at our website: https://madisonwomen.tech/members/job-openings
Good luck!
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The Madison WiT Digital Digest is an email sent by Madison Women in Tech organizers every other week to keep you informed of news, community events, conferences, volunteer opportunities and job postings.
If there's something you'd like to see included in the digest, let us know and we'll pass it along in the next appropriate edition.
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