Yael will go through some of the basic concepts in ML from features to deep learning to give a high level overview of common tools used by today’s data scientists. No programming or ML experience required!

Have you seen any headlines lately about hackers ruining someone’s day? Have you wondered how the hackers pulled it off and what the good folks are doing every day to stop more hackers? Join us as we try to demystify “hacking” and have a conversation about the many opportunities in the Information Security industry. Attendees will come away with an appreciation for some of the challenges in industry and an idea of where they can go for resources and learning materials so that they can one day help with solving those challenges, while also learning some basic security hygiene to stay safe online. No prior background or knowledge required!

Come build a browser-based version of the classic arcade game frogger with us in just 30 minutes! Then, you'll use those skills to replicate another arcade game of your choosing, or create a totally original arcade game of your own.

This talk is for developers who do not think open source is for them (it is), and organizers of open source projects who want to encourage and attract more talent. When I was a junior developer, open source never seemed quite “open” to me. Attempts to navigate interesting open source projects always ended in frustration as I sat alone at my computer, not knowing how to begin or who to contact. I am now a director of an organization that serves as a nexus point of open source projects for social good. As an organizer, I formalized the pain points and trust signals encountered in my personal journey with open source in an effort to remove blockers for hack night attendees. I will present some of those learnings in this talk to show that well-formed open source communities can, and should, be accessible to everyone.

In this workshop, we will cover the basics of SVG - especially SVG paths and the cubic bezier curve command - as well as an introduction to D3.js's selection, data-binding, and enter-update-exit patterns. The culmination of the workshop will be to create a set of flowers out of movie data, a simpler version of the film flowers here.

Let's make a Twitter bot - In this workshop you will learn how to make Twitter bots for fun and art, not for fake news. We will learn the library Tracery to generate sentences and use the platform Cheap Bots Done Quick to deploy our bots.

Have you ever felt like you can't even? You're constantly surrounded by success stories of people bringing out-of-this-world ideas (startups, tech, communities, perspectives) to life. You want to bridge the gap between your desire to use your skills to change the world and actually making an impact; so, where should you get started? In this talk, Matt Scott, part of the Global Organizing Team for NASA's Space Apps Challenge and Founder of 180° of Impact, will share 3 steps to "hacking for change" and becoming a real-world super hero, collected from countless hours of recorded conversations with change makers worldwide.