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For over 12 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 125 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 60 Availability Zones (AZs) within 20 geographic regions, spanning the U.S., Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Sweden, and the UK. AWS services are trusted by millions of active customers around the world—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—to power their infrastructure, make them more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.

Google Cloud is designed to be the most customer-friendly, intelligent, and secure public cloud for organizations of all types and sizes (with large enterprises being a core business) - helping users achieve goals they never thought possible. It applies the same design principles used in Google's multi-billion-user systems to make running and growing any business on the cloud simpler and easier, with more strategic impact/competitive advantage. More and more customers are choosing Google Cloud for its best-in-class infrastructure, leadership in data analytics and ML, emphasis on openness/avoidance of lock-in, and customer-friendly economics. Google Cloud customers now serve 1 billion users every day.

Atomist is the software delivery machine for modern software teams who want visibility and control of every aspect of their craft.

Conversant is a leader in interaction management, empowering brands to transform ordinary customer experiences into meaningful, human experiences. Our connected suite of personalized digital media products and services combines leading-edge identity management, data science expertise and privacy by design to create human connections that count, everywhere. We do this with truth, proof and transparency at our core. As part of Epsilon, Conversant employs more than 2,100 associates in 17 offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.conversantmedia.com or follow us on Twitter at @Conversant.

Meet FullStory, the app that captures all your customer experience data in one powerful, easy-to-use platform. Our tiny script unlocks pixel-perfect session playback, automatic insights, funnel analytics, and robust search and segmentation – empowering everyone in your organization to help build the best online experience for your customers.

Humio is a log aggregation and analysis tool for Developers and Operation teams. Handling 1TB/day of raw log ingest on a single node and enabling users to easily visualize and monitor the right metrics at the right time, Humio empowers you to explore any system confidently. Available as an On-Premise and Cloud solution.

The Oracle Cloud offers complete SaaS application suites for ERP, HCM and CX, plus best-in-class database Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) from data centers throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information about Oracle, please visit us here.

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers develop cloud-native applications, integrate existing and new IT applications, and automate and manage complex environments. A trusted adviser to the Fortune 500, Red Hat provides award-winning support, training, and consulting services that bring the benefits of open innovation to any industry.

Red Hat is a connective hub in a global network of enterprises, partners, and communities, helping organizations grow, transform, and prepare for the digital future.

SAP is the market leader in enterprise application software, helping companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best: 77% of the world’s transaction revenue touches an SAP system. Our machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics technologies help turn customers’ businesses into intelligent enterprises. Our end-to-end suite of applications and services enables more than 425,000 business and public customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and make a difference. For more information, visit www.sap.com.

Trifork is a leading full service supplier of high-quality custom-built applications and end-to-end solutions. To learn more, visit us here.

Twilio is a cloud communications platform for software developers to build, scale and operate real time communications in their software applications.

Twilio powers the future of business communications, enabling phones, VoIP, and messaging to be embedded into web, desktop, and mobile software. We take care of the messy telecom hardware and expose a globally available cloud API so developers can interact with intelligent & complex communications systems.

Founded in 2005, WSO2 is the world's #1 open source integration vendor, helping digitally driven organizations become integration agile. Brand-name customers choose us for our broad, integrated platform, approach to open source, and agile transformation methodology. The company’s hybrid platform to develop, reuse, run and manage integrations prevents lock-in through open source running on-premises or in the cloud. With offices in Australia, Brazil, Sri Lanka, UK and US, WSO2 employs over 500 engineers, consultants, and professionals worldwide. Today, 100’s of leading brands and 1,000’s of global projects execute over 5 trillion transactions annually using WSO2 integration technologies.

Synopsys helps development teams build secure, high-quality software, minimizing risks while maximizing speed and productivity. With a combination of industry-leading tools, services, and expertise, only Synopsys helps organizations optimize security and quality in DevSecOps and throughout the software development life cycle.

Hazelcast is the leading open source in-memory data grid with tens of thousands of installed clusters and over 40 million server starts per month. The Hazelcast operational in-memory computing platform helps leading companies, like Capital One, Chicago Board Options Exchange, Deutsche Bank, Ellie Mae, and Mizuho Securities USA, manage their data and distribute processing using in-memory storage and parallel execution for breakthrough application speed and scale.

Hazelcast’s "developer friendly" approach makes it easy to modernize existing applications while providing a platform for building new innovative solutions.

Netlify is the simplest way to develop, build, deploy web projects on the JAMstack. We're changing the way the web is built by collapsing the modern front-end development process into a single, simplified workflow.

Confidently deploy static sites and apps in just a few clicks and integrate dynamic features and functionality as your projects become more sophisticated. Get started at www.netlify.com.

Salesforce is a trusted cloud platform that helps companies connect with their customers. We run 24x7 systems at massive scale, and give our customers innovative new capabilities with social, mobile and data science apps.

Scalyr is the log management and observability platform for the new stack. Purpose-built to handle the scale and complexity of modern cloud architectures, Scalyr changes the dynamics of delivering healthy applications by allowing engineers to quickly troubleshoot problems and focus on doing what they love - coding. With 96% of searches completing in under one second and thousands of active users, Scalyr has transformed logs from afterthought into advantage. Scalyr’s rapidly-growing customer base includes NBCUniversal, Business Insider, Valentino, Giphy, Zalando and OkCupid. The company has the highest rating in its category in G2 Crowd, is a Gartner 2018 Cool Vendor, and was recognized as a 2018 Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Star. Visit us at scalyr.com and follow us on Twitter (@scalyr).

Spantree is a Chicago-based consultancy focused on data engineering, devops-centric infrastructure and application development. We are polyglots at heart and specialize in tools like Elasticsearch, Docker, AWS, and JVM languages.

Split is the leading product decisions platform for engineering and product teams who want to rapidly – and safely – deliver valuable software to customers. Unlike systems that are homegrown, point solutions, or those not built for engineering and product teams, only Split provides a unified feature flag and experimentation solution that is trusted by engineers and built for teams of any size to make data-driven decisions. Split ingests large volumes of data and performs near real-time statistical analysis to look for the impact of every feature release on metrics that matter to you. Engineering and product teams at Twilio, Salesforce, and JPMorgan Chase trust Split with their feature management and decisions.

To learn more about Split, contact hello@split.io, or get started for free at www.split.io/signup.

Tempo is a cloud-first software company that helps teams at 12,000+ companies—SMBs and large-scale enterprises—collaborate, plan and schedule resources, manage budgets, and track time directly from their daily workflow. We offer three efficiency and visibility-enhancing products that extend Jira to help IT, software development, consultancy, and business teams work smarter. Tempo is one of the largest, award-winning, top-selling developers in the Atlassian ecosystem. The Tempo team has over 100 peers with offices in Reykjavík, Iceland and Montréal, Canada.

With VictorOps, “on-call” isn’t a four-letter word. Using IT data, VictorOps software is a single-pane-of-glass into system health supporting both automated alerting and critical communication. Receive context-rich notifications and collaborate cross-functionally for fast, efficient resolutions.

Carbon Five is a digital product development consultancy. We partner with our clients to create exceptional products and grow effective teams.

At JetBrains, code is our passion. For over 15 years we have strived to make the strongest, most effective developer tools on earth. By automating routine checks and corrections, our tools speed up production, freeing developers to grow, discover and create.

Kin Insurance is an insurtech startup that sells affordable, user-friendly homeowners insurance. Unlike many startups that gather users and figure out how to be profitable later, we are selling a product that homeowners need and depend on now.

Because the insurance industry is stuck in the last century, we’re essentially innovating in a space largely untouched by tech. So we are always thinking big: we intend for Kin to be a brand that people still know and respect in 20 years.

That forward thinking informs every part of our culture, including our hiring practices. If we’re building a company that’s unlike anything that’s come before, we need creators and dreamers to lead the way.

Lyft was founded in 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation, and is available to approximately 95 percent of the United States population as well as select cities in Canada. Lyft is committed to effecting positive change for our cities by offsetting carbon emissions from all rides, and by promoting transportation equity through shared rides, bikeshare systems, electric scooters, and public transit partnerships.

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PagerDuty digital operations management platform empowers teams to proactively mitigate customer-impacting issues by automatically turning any signal into the right insight and action, so you can innovate with confidence.

Pivotal transforms how the world builds software. Pivotal combines the Silicon Valley state of mind, modern approach, and infrastructure with organizations’ core expertise and values.

We enable the leading companies in the world to innovate by employing an approach focused on building software.

Bloomberg is building the world's most trusted information network for financial professionals. Our 5,000+ software engineers, SREs and data scientists around the globe are dedicated to building and managing the applications and infrastructure that power the Bloomberg Terminal, thereby helping our clients solve complex, real-world problems. ​We work on purpose. Come find yours.

ACM Chicago is a non-profit professional group that meets regularly to discuss diverse topics in computer science such as predictive analytics, applied machine learning, statistical modeling, open data, and data visualization, user experience, user research, and artificial neural networks. Meeting topics are varied and range from tutorials on basic concepts and their applications, to success stories from local practitioners and academic students, to discussions of tools, new technologies, and best practices. ACM Chicago is powered by the Chicago ACM Professional chapter and ACM Local at Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.

Catapult Chicago is the first collaborative community aimed to support growing later-stage tech startups. Catapult has already fostered over 90 founders from 45 companies that have raised over $170 million in capital. Our peer-selection model creates a community of Chicago’s best and brightest, working together to grow the next generation of successful startups. As a non-profit entity, we are supported by the generosity of corporate sponsors that provide professional services, people and mentorship.

Centro is a global provider of enterprise-class software for digital advertisers. Its technology, Basis, is the industry’s most powerful, comprehensive and automated digital media management platform. Through a single user interface, Basis converges the entire advertising workflow, enabling marketers to plan, buy, analyze and streamline campaigns for programmatic, direct, search and social. By unifying all major aspects of digital media into one platform, Basis breaks down silos, improves performance, and helps businesses grow profitably. Headquartered in Chicago with 40 offices across North America, Centro has received numerous accolades for its programmatic software, commitment to employees, and workplace culture.

Global brands use ChallengeRocket.com to hire top-performing tech talents using online challenges and hackathons. According to Facebook for Developers ChallengeRocket is the world’s best solution for software developers and engineers to assess and improve their technical skills (Fb Developer Award 2017). Learn more on: http://bit.ly/GOTOChall

This AWS user group is a user-run, user-focused community in Chicago. We hold monthly, free evening events in the Loop. We rotate host offices and topics but aim for consistent schedules. Events include pizza and drinks up front, introductions, 2 to 3 quality non-sales presentations, then wrap with q&a. Learn more on: Chicago AWS User Group

We are passionate about creating spaces for women to share their personal and professional projects, work collaboratively, and create Python focused workshops to continue our learning. Preparing for a conference or looking for a PyLadies social outing? Go no further! PyLadies of all backgrounds and skills are welcome, from n00b to hacker we want to get to know you! We welcome all, men and women alike, that uphold our Code of Conduct.

Have ideas for events or want to host an event? Tweet us @PyLadiesChicago!!!

ChicagoRuby is a group of Ruby on Rails enthusiasts with events in Chicago and in the northern suburbs. We facilitate a monthly speaker series and a monthly hands-on hack night in the loop, as well as a hybrid meetup each month in Northbrook. ChicagoRuby has been a Chicago staple for over 12 years and has been the driving force behind the local Ruby on Rails conference, WindyCityRails. We believe that when smart people challenge each other to grow, great things happen! Keep in touch by tweeting @ChicagoRuby or visiting us at ChicagoRuby Website!

This is a group of professionals (and hackers), managers, engineers (both dev and ops) and entrepreneurs coming together to learn about and share information on DevOps practices. Learn more on: DevOps Chicago

EIN Presswire has a distribution "foot-print" that includes millions of users of our EIN Newsdesk media monitoring services. We also maintain one of the world's leading media directories providing us with up-to-date contacts for media in every country and U.S. state. Further distribution is achieved via RSS, email, partner websites, and social media. We are both a destination (EIN Newsdesk) and a distributor (EIN Presswire) for news. In one place you can distribute your news to the targeted audiences you select and monitor news on that topic published by thousands of worldwide sources. For more information or to try us FREE by clicking here.

Flatiron School is a global school that trains students in 21st century skills like software engineering, data science, and UX/UI Design. Flatiron School's on-campus and online courses have a proven track record of impressive job placement outcomes and include dedicated career coaching, job placement support, and a money-back guarantee (see details). Since its founding in 2012, Flatiron School has graduated thousands of students. Acquired by WeWork in 2017, Flatiron School’s mission is to empower people to change things — their careers, lives, and the world.

Girl Develop It is a national nonprofit organization that exists to provide affordable and accessible programs to women who want to learn software development through mentorship and hands-on instruction.

Manning is an independent publisher of computer books and video courses for software developers, engineers, architects, system administrators, managers and all who are professionally involved with the computer business.

React Chicago is focused on bringing everyone together who have an interest in React, React Native, and its ecosystem. Be prepared to learn a lot and meet great people from the community! You can also visit us at http://www.reactchicago.org

Sticker Mule is the fastest and easiest way to buy custom printed products. Order in 60 seconds and we'll turn your designs and illustrations into custom stickers, magnets, buttons, labels and packaging in days. We offer free online proofs, free worldwide shipping and super fast turnaround.

Meet other local Software Developers interested in the Scala programming language and tools built on Scala. Discuss the advantages of Scala, such as full support for Object-Oriented and Functional Programming, a succinct syntax, and other improvements over Java. Discuss the pros and cons of Scala compared to other languages. Anyone attending our events is expected to abide by our Code of Conduct

You may also find Chicago Scala enthusiasts hanging out in the following places: our Gitter chat room & the #scala channel in the Chicago Tech Slack.

WITS Midwest is coming to Chicago on May 3rd. WITS is a technology conference that has all women speakers! With speakers, panels and workshops on current trends in technology, as well as career development topics, WITS is the conference for women working on both the technical and business sides of technology at all stages of their careers. Details available at WITS Midwest Website