Blockchain technology has been around for a while now, and to the surprise of many, has not completely died. In this talk you will be given a foundation to identify if blockchains are relevant to what you're doing: It will give an overview of what this new(ish) technology can and cannot do, and detail what importance it has to the world, and likely doesn't have to your business.
About the speaker
Thomas is a PhD student in cryptography at the University of Edinburgh, and part of its the Blockchain Technology lab, as well as a researcher for IOHK. He holds a BSC in computer science, also from the University of Edinburgh.
Thomas' research is primarily into the privacy of distributed protocols, in particular of smart contract systems.
CREATIVE PEOPLE NEED DATA!
Nicola Osborne (#CreativeInformatics, University of Edinburgh) with a reprise of her Edinburgh Fringe Festival Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas show.
Nicola reckons data-driven technologies are inspiring new and unexpected opportunities for creative people and organisations to think about what they do, how they do it and how they make a living from doing what they love.
Data will shape media, performance, crafts, whole new cultural experiences and forms of value. Do you agree? Do you know what data-driven technologies are? Is this all promising too much? Bring wild ideas, questions or your (data-driven) heckles!
https://www.designinformatics.org/person/nicola-osborne/
http://codi.beltanenetwork.org/event/creative-people-need-data-nicola-osborne/
DATA COMICS AND STORY TELLING
Data comics are a way of effectively communicating with data through data visualizations. They are inspired by the visual language of comics. This page lists examples we found online and those created during our research. We hope this website and our examples support a wider discussion and inspire journalists, artists, data scientists, and others to create their own data comics and help exploring and discovering this novel medium.
http://datacomics.net
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Why change from Mondays?
We asked you over summer what weekday you most prefer to meet, and the result was Thursdays. So that's our default from now on (though due to speaker availability, etc., some events may have to be on other days).
Food and refreshments provided ヽ(•‿•)ノ (and due to which we will be taking a slightly longer break and finishing a little later).
Sponsored by Cirrus Logic.
Cirrus Logic's engineers and data scientists design intelligent audio chips that power the smartphone in your pocket, consumer and car audio systems, and smart homes. As a major presence in the buzzing local tech ecosystem, Cirrus Logic is proud to sponsor the Edinburgh Data Visualisation Meetup.
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As usual, there's time and space if you would like to share anything.
We're always open to suggestions for topics and speakers, so let us know if you have someone or something in mind.
See you at the meetup, and do bring along your friends & colleagues.
Cheers,
Brendan (Hill), Ben (Bach), Uta (Hinrichs)
VENUE: this meeting is at our existing venue, Inspace at the University of Edinburgh's Bayes Centre for Data Science. See below for details.
EdinburghJS is a casual event, presenting short talks and a chance for discussion with other local JavaScripters, whatever your experience or job title is. Our goal is to have an awesome and inclusive community meetup where people meet, hang out together, chat, listen to talks, exchange ideas and make new friends.
We'll be looking for monthly contributors who want to talk about the technologies they're most comfortable with, looking at the pros, cons and unknowns. Drop us a message if you fancy speaking.
CREATIVE PEOPLE NEED DATA!
Nicola Osborne (#CreativeInformatics, University of Edinburgh) with a reprise of her Edinburgh Fringe Festival Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas show.
Nicola reckons data-driven technologies are inspiring new and unexpected opportunities for creative people and organisations to think about what they do, how they do it and how they make a living from doing what they love.
Data will shape media, performance, crafts, whole new cultural experiences and forms of value. Do you agree? Do you know what data-driven technologies are? Is this all promising too much? Bring wild ideas, questions or your (data-driven) heckles!
https://www.designinformatics.org/person/nicola-osborne/
http://codi.beltanenetwork.org/event/creative-people-need-data-nicola-osborne/
DATA COMICS AND STORY TELLING
Data comics are a way of effectively communicating with data through data visualizations. They are inspired by the visual language of comics. This page lists examples we found online and those created during our research. We hope this website and our examples support a wider discussion and inspire journalists, artists, data scientists, and others to create their own data comics and help exploring and discovering this novel medium.
http://datacomics.net
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Why change from Mondays?
We asked you over summer what weekday you most prefer to meet, and the result was Thursdays. So that's our default from now on (though due to speaker availability, etc., some events may have to be on other days).
Food and refreshments provided ヽ(•‿•)ノ (and due to which we will be taking a slightly longer break and finishing a little later).
Sponsored by Cirrus Logic.
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As usual, there's time and space if you would like to share anything.
We're always open to suggestions for topics and speakers, so let us know if you have someone or something in mind.
See you at the meetup, and do bring along your friends & colleagues.
Cheers,
Brendan (Hill), Ben (Bach), Uta (Hinrichs)
VENUE: this meeting is at our existing venue, Inspace at the University of Edinburgh's Bayes Centre for Data Science. See below for details.
We are currently arranging the speaker, stay tuned...
Meetup @ 6pm (speaker starts @ 6:30pm)
Everyone is welcome, we have members and regular attendees who are widely varied in their WordPress Skills, beginners through to experts. Combine this with a variety of interests and backgrounds and you have a recipe for a great meetup. So please do come along regardless or your WordPress knowledge!
There is always a social side to the WP Edinburgh meetups, many attendees have found this to be of great benefit & an opportunity to meet others to share & learn on all things WordPress and beyond :)
To be decided but will normally be one or more of:
• Short/Lightning Talks
• Agile Game/Workshop
• Lean Coffee - a structured but agenda-less meeting, the participants decide what to discuss using http://leancoffee.org (http://leancoffee.org/) format.
We are planning to do a Lean Coffee session but our organiser availability for this particular day is struggling (night before schools return). So, are there any willing volunteers who would be able to assist in facilitating a few lean coffee sessions? If so, please post here and depending on this turnout, we can make a decision on whether to go ahead.
The venue will be Spaces in Fountainbridge which has some good spaces for Lean Coffee (excuse the pun!).
For those unfamiliar with Lean Coffee, some more information on it here:
• Lean Coffee - a structured but agenda-less meeting, the participants decide what to discuss using http://leancoffee.org (http://leancoffee.org/) format.
We are planning to do a Lean Coffee session but our organiser availability for this particular day is struggling (night before schools return). So, are there any willing volunteers who would be able to assist in facilitating a few lean coffee sessions? If so, please post here and depending on this turnout, we can make a decision on whether to go ahead. EDIT: thanks for volunteers below, we should be fine to host a few lean coffee sessions. If You have any questions or thoughts you’d like to discuss, bring them along to the session
The venue will be Spaces in Fountainbridge which has some good spaces for Lean Coffee (excuse the pun!).
For those unfamiliar with Lean Coffee, some more information on it here:
• Lean Coffee - a structured but agenda-less meeting, the participants decide what to discuss using http://leancoffee.org (http://leancoffee.org/) format.
Don’t forget, there’s also pizza and some drinks courtesy of Modulr! There will also be plenty of chance for networking before and after the event. Looking forward to see you all there.
We are planning to do a Lean Coffee session but our organiser availability for this particular day is struggling (night before schools return). So, are there any willing volunteers who would be able to assist in facilitating a few lean coffee sessions? If so, please post here and depending on this turnout, we can make a decision on whether to go ahead.
It’s likely that the venue will be Spaces in Fountainbridge but I just need to confirm someone is available to close up at the end of the night.
For those unfamiliar with Lean Coffee, some more information on it here:
• Lean Coffee - a structured but agenda-less meeting, the participants decide what to discuss using http://leancoffee.org (http://leancoffee.org/) format.
Speaker 1
Angus Neilson - Technical Architect at Wood Mackenzie
Working for the last year + on the new data platform for Wood Mackenzie with a focus on data ingestion framework and processing using Kafka, Python, Java and AWS Serverless. Keen interest in Data Engineering.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/angusneilson/
Title:
The Metamorphosis of Data at Wood Mackenzie
Abstract:
Wood Mackenzie have been on a journey of transformation from a highly influential but traditional Data Analyst business to becoming a leading technology company providing insights at scale to customers and partners in the global energy sector. From ingestion and processing to delivery to their Wood Mackenzie Lens® platform (https://www.woodmac.com/research/lens/). Angus will be focusing on the data platform which is being built at Wood Mackenzie and the journey that they have been through using a range of different technology. He will be talking about how the technology that they are using and how it is essentially going to benefit their data teams, the way data is uploaded, stored, shared, analysed and distributed to their clients.
CREATIVE PEOPLE NEED DATA!
Nicola Osborne (#CreativeInformatics, University of Edinburgh) with a reprise of her Edinburgh Fringe Festival Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas show.
Nicola reckons data-driven technologies are inspiring new and unexpected opportunities for creative people and organisations to think about what they do, how they do it and how they make a living from doing what they love.
Data will shape media, performance, crafts, whole new cultural experiences and forms of value. Do you agree? Do you know what data-driven technologies are? Is this all promising too much? Bring wild ideas, questions or your (data-driven) heckles!
https://www.designinformatics.org/person/nicola-osborne/
http://codi.beltanenetwork.org/event/creative-people-need-data-nicola-osborne/
DATA COMICS AND STORY TELLING
Ben Bach + guest speaker
Details to follow.
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Why change from Mondays?
We asked you over summer what weekday you most prefer to meet, and the result was Thursdays. So that's our default from now on (though due to speaker availability, etc., some events may have to be on other days).
Food and refreshments provided ヽ(•‿•)ノ (and due to which we will be taking a slightly longer break and finishing a little later).
Sponsored by Cirrus Logic.
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As usual, there's time and space if you would like to share anything.
We're always open to suggestions for topics and speakers, so let us know if you have someone or something in mind.
See you at the meetup, and do bring along your friends & colleagues.
Cheers,
Brendan (Hill), Ben (Bach), Uta (Hinrichs)
VENUE: this meeting is at our existing venue, Inspace at the University of Edinburgh's Bayes Centre for Data Science. See below for details.
In this fortnightly coding club for 7-17 year olds, we will be working on different creative coding projects influenced by your interests and what you want to do. Meeting at the Stockbridge Library with some experienced mentors, we will help you to build different digital projects like websites, games, apps or even robots!
Where possible, please bring along a device such as a laptop or chromebook but we will have some extra devices in case you need something.
The dates for the club are as follows,
23/09
07/10
21/10
04/11
18/11
02/12
If you have any questions, please get in touch at tanya@coderdojoscotland.com
In this fortnightly coding club for 7-17 year olds, we will be working on different creative coding projects influenced by your interests and what you want to do. Meeting at the Stockbridge Library with some experienced mentors, we will help you to build different digital projects like websites, games, apps or even robots!
Where possible, please bring along a device such as a laptop or chromebook but we will have some extra devices in case you need something.
The dates for the club are as follows,
23/09
07/10
21/10
04/11
18/11
02/12
If you have any questions, please get in touch at tanya@coderdojoscotland.com
In this fortnightly coding club for 7-17 year olds, we will be working on different creative coding projects influenced by your interests and what you want to do. Meeting at the Stockbridge Library with some experienced mentors, we will help you to build different digital projects like websites, games, apps or even robots!
Where possible, please bring along a device such as a laptop or chromebook but we will have some extra devices in case you need something.
The dates for the club are as follows,
23/09
07/10
21/10
04/11
18/11
02/12
If you have any questions, please get in touch at tanya@coderdojoscotland.com
In this fortnightly coding club for 7-17 year olds, we will be working on different creative coding projects influenced by your interests and what you want to do. Meeting at the Stockbridge Library with some experienced mentors, we will help you to build different digital projects like websites, games, apps or even robots!
Where possible, please bring along a device such as a laptop or chromebook but we will have some extra devices in case you need something.
The dates for the club are as follows,
23/09
07/10
21/10
04/11
18/11
02/12
If you have any questions, please get in touch at tanya@coderdojoscotland.com
In this fortnightly coding club for 7-17 year olds, we will be working on different creative coding projects influenced by your interests and what you want to do. Meeting at the Stockbridge Library with some experienced mentors, we will help you to build different digital projects like websites, games, apps or even robots!
Where possible, please bring along a device such as a laptop or chromebook but we will have some extra devices in case you need something.
The dates for the club are as follows,
23/09
07/10
21/10
04/11
18/11
02/12
If you have any questions, please get in touch at tanya@coderdojoscotland.com
In this fortnightly coding club for 7-17 year olds, we will be working on different creative coding projects influenced by your interests and what you want to do. Meeting at the Stockbridge Library with some experienced mentors, we will help you to build different digital projects like websites, games, apps or even robots!
Where possible, please bring along a device such as a laptop or chromebook but we will have some extra devices in case you need something.
The dates for the club are as follows,
23/09
07/10
21/10
04/11
18/11
02/12
If you have any questions, please get in touch at tanya@coderdojoscotland.com
Termux - Unlock the power of the terminal on Android!
Description changed:
This month's talk is brought to you by JB
Unlock the power of the terminal on Android via Termux!
Learn how your phone/tablet can be used as a full programming environment (editor, compilers, git...), back-up your phone to your computer over Wifi using standard UNIX tools, and create customized scripts that interact with Android's native menus and file-sharing capabilities.
The talk targets both beginners, for whom Termux is an easy way into the Linux command-line world; and advanced users, who can use Termux to configure (break) their systems in more creative ways.
About the speaker:
JB is a developer spending way too much time in the terminal
already, and found out one day that his phone has one too.
Meeting at 7pm, for a tentative talk start at 7:15pm
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If you have never been to one of these meetings, just know that it's friendly and informal - grab a pint or a soda, come ask questions, get help with open source software and Linux, and enjoy some geeky company!
There is often a Linux laptop on hand for a quick show and tell for anyone who is curious, and you can also bring your own laptop to troubleshoot Linux, or try Linux on your own laptop - without installing it.
A meetup to help underrepresented people to learn to code in a safe and inclusive environment. At our workshops students can either work alone on tutorials or be paired up with more experienced developers to provide coaching and support.
Our normal format is 30 minutes of socialising with food and drink, followed by coding.
We welcome students from any underrepresented group to come along, whether you want to learn the basics, if you have a goal to become a full time developer, or if you just want to have fun trying out a new skill.
We also welcome developers (from any background) who want to support the growth of a diverse tech community by volunteering as coaches. Coaches encourage students, help them understand programming concepts and share their experience and knowledge.
URL changed:
http://codebar.io
Ticket URL changed:
https://codebar.io/workshops/1448
Start changed:
Wed 25th Sep 2019 6:00pm (Europe/London)
End changed:
Wed 25th Sep 2019 8:30pm (Europe/London)
Country changed:
changed
Timezone changed:
Europe/London
Venue changed:
changed
Is Virtual changed:
No
Is Physical changed:
Yes
Code of Conduct changed:
THE QUICK VERSION
Our events are dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of our members in any form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any of our events, including talks, workshops, parties, Twitter and any other online media. Members violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the event and any future events at the discretion of the organisers.
The longer version can be found on the website https://codebar.io/code-of-conduct
This is our monthly informal gathering - just turn up, grab a drink, take a seat and start talking UX! You'll find us upstairs at The Outhouse (off the top of Broughton St.) - take the stairs to the right of the bar as you enter the venue.
Each month we'll have a short talk followed by some discussion around the things that interest you most. Add your ideas to our sketchbook - http://bit.ly/2khJxvg
Timeline:
5.30pm. If you've not been before, come along and say "Hi" and find out what we're all about.
6pm. Arrive, secure drinks, chat.
6.30pm. Group announcements (job opportunities, upcoming events etc.)
This is our monthly informal gathering - just turn up, grab a drink, take a seat and start talking UX! You'll find us upstairs at The Outhouse (off the top of Broughton St.) - take the stairs to the right of the bar as you enter the venue.
Each month we'll have a short talk followed by some discussion around the things that interest you most. Add your ideas to our sketchbook - http://bit.ly/2khJxvg
Timeline:
5.30pm. If you've not been before, come along and say "Hi" and find out what we're all about.
6pm. Arrive, secure drinks, chat.
6.30pm. Group announcements (job opportunities, upcoming events etc.)
This is our monthly informal gathering - just turn up, grab a drink, take a seat and start talking UX! You'll find us upstairs at The Outhouse (off the top of Broughton St.) - take the stairs to the right of the bar as you enter the venue.
Each month we'll have a short talk followed by some discussion around the things that interest you most. Add your ideas to our sketchbook - http://bit.ly/2khJxvg
Timeline:
5.30pm. If you've not been before, come along and say "Hi" and find out what we're all about.
6pm. Arrive, secure drinks, chat.
6.30pm. Group announcements (job opportunities, upcoming events etc.)
This is our monthly informal gathering - just turn up, grab a drink, take a seat and start talking UX! You'll find us upstairs at The Outhouse (off the top of Broughton St.) - take the stairs to the right of the bar as you enter the venue.
Each month we'll have a short talk followed by some discussion around the things that interest you most. Add your ideas to our sketchbook - http://bit.ly/2khJxvg
Timeline:
5.30pm. If you've not been before, come along and say "Hi" and find out what we're all about.
6pm. Arrive, secure drinks, chat.
6.30pm. Group announcements (job opportunities, upcoming events etc.)
This is our monthly informal gathering - just turn up, grab a drink, take a seat and start talking UX! You'll find us upstairs at The Outhouse (off the top of Broughton St.) - take the stairs to the right of the bar as you enter the venue.
Each month we'll have a short talk followed by some discussion around the things that interest you most. Add your ideas to our sketchbook - http://bit.ly/2khJxvg
Timeline:
5.30pm. If you've not been before, come along and say "Hi" and find out what we're all about.
6pm. Arrive, secure drinks, chat.
6.30pm. Group announcements (job opportunities, upcoming events etc.)
This is our monthly informal gathering - just turn up, grab a drink, take a seat and start talking UX! You'll find us upstairs at The Outhouse (off the top of Broughton St.) - take the stairs to the right of the bar as you enter the venue.
Each month we'll have a short talk followed by some discussion around the things that interest you most. Add your ideas to our sketchbook - http://bit.ly/2khJxvg
Timeline:
5.30pm. If you've not been before, come along and say "Hi" and find out what we're all about.
6pm. Arrive, secure drinks, chat.
6.30pm. Group announcements (job opportunities, upcoming events etc.)
Join us for a day of discussions, debates and action. Hear some of the world’s leading experts on data and democracy, free expression and digital privacy.
ORGCon is hosted by Open Rights Group. We challenge the government’s mass surveillance programme, protect free expression online, and push for better digital privacy protections.
Scotland Fintech Festival - FinTech Scotland - https://www.fintechscotland.com/scotland-fintech-festival/
Scotland Fintech Festival will take place in September 2019 between the 9th and the 27th across Scotland.
The festival will contain conferences, meet-ups, morning breakfast sessions, evening networking events and much more.
Scotland Data Science & Technology Meetup are delighted to have Doug Gowans - Technical Partner Manager - UiPath Alex Croucher - Director - VKY Intelligent Automation presenting.
Presentation 1 - Bringing an automation first mindset to finance. How Robotic Process Automation can bring Artificial Intelligence into the context of established business processes and customer interactions.
Despite the failures, the promise of digital transformation remains.
Intelligent automation finally enables banks to deliver on that promise.
Speaker - Alex Croucher - Director - VKY Intelligent Automation - https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-croucher
Having spent 10 years delivery business and technology change at Sky, Alex founded VKY Intelligent Automation. He has worked on major automation programmes including the Clydesdale Bank implementation of Automation Anywhere and later leading VKY's Automation and Innovation practice which has seen him work with clients such as Skipton Building Society, Ingenico Group, Abellio Scotrail, Ascensos and others. He is a regular writer and contributor on automation and AI related topics, in particular adoption in Scotland, the economic impacts of automation and the future of work.
Alex has been the driving force behind establishing VKY as the leading Scottish Intelligent Automation services business and the only one to have secured partner status with UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Microsoft, IBM Watson, AWS and Liveperson.
"Alex was a central and key figure in our rapid scaling of automation across the operation" - Dave, Head of Transformation, CYBG
As we don't have a talk scheduled this month, the meetup will take place in the Amber Rose pub. It has a wide range of food on offer so many of us will be getting our dinner here! Arrive any time you like from 6pm.
In the unlikely event you can't find us, write a comment in the meetup event page and we will find you.
We look forwards to seeing you there!
edPUG
We have access to the CodeClan vending machines but you might want to bring your own drink/sandwich/salad. There is a nearby Sainsbury's on West Port/Lady Lawson St junction. There will be some social time, technical (python) question time, maybe a presentation or two (short) and planning for the forthcoming sessions.
This is a very casual and welcoming meetup - come along to code in company, chat about learning to code or coding in general and learn from other people over a beverage of your choice.
All languages and levels of experience welcome, you don't have to be a beginner and you also don't have to know anything yet to come along!
There's no structure for this event, it's just for socialising and learning - drop in for however long you like.
I'll bring a paper meetup sign so you can find me on the day.
This is a very casual and welcoming meetup - come along to code in company, chat about learning to code or coding in general and learn from other people over a beverage of your choice.
All languages and levels of experience welcome, you don't have to be a beginner and you also don't have to know anything yet to come along!
There's no structure for this event, it's just for socialising and learning - drop in for however long you like.
We will have a table reserved at the back of Akva so just ask for the coding meetup when you arrive.
Scotland Fintech Festival - FinTech Scotland - https://www.fintechscotland.com/scotland-fintech-festival/
Scotland Fintech Festival will take place in September 2019 between the 9th and the 27th across Scotland.
The festival will contain conferences, meet-ups, morning breakfast sessions, evening networking events and much more.
Scotland Data Science & Technology Meetup are delighted to have Doug Gowans - Technical Partner Manager - UiPath Alex Croucher - Director - VKY Intelligent Automation presenting.
Presentation 1 - Bringing an automation first mindset to finance. How Robotic Process Automation can bring Artificial Intelligence into the context of established business processes and customer interactions.
Despite the failures, the promise of digital transformation remains.
Intelligent automation finally enables banks to deliver on that promise.
The Docker Edinburgh meetup takes place at Codebase, in their Event Space, which is accessible from the entrance on 38 Castle Terrace. The Meetup will run from around 18h00 to 20h00, with further discussion afterwards in the pub! This month, Exception will sponsor the food (normally pizza) and a range of drinks.
Please let us know what sort of speakers or topics you would like to see at future Meetups, or if there are alternative formats like lightning talks that would prefer.
We're always looking for new speakers, so please get in touch if you have something you'd like to present about Docker or the wider DevOps & Cloud Native community!
Agenda
6:00 PM: Doors Open: Check-In
6:30 PM: Food & Drink
Food and drinks provided by our sponsors
7:00 PM: Talk: Deploying Blockchains in Docker
Gabriele Cacciola will describe how Ocyan dockerised and automated the deployment and maintenance of their blockchain infrastructure. All services run in Docker containers in order to offer our customers production SLAs and simple deployments.
7:30 PM: Talk: TBA
8:00 PM: Discussion continues at appropriate venue...
Usually the Blue Blazer :)
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Speaker
Gabriele Cacciola - Ocyan (CTO)
CTO at Ocyan
Hosted By
Adrian Mouat, Chief Scientist
Working with containers since the early days. Wrote "Using Docker" published by O'Reilly. Regularly give talks and write blogs on everything Docker, Kubernetes and Microservices.
Mark Lehmann, DevOps
connor.reid, Community Leader
Alasdair Hendry, Community Leader
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Partners
ECS Digital (https://ecs-digital.co.uk)
Exception (http://exceptionuk.com/)
Exception, a Docker Partner, is an independent Digital Solutions company that helps customers transform digitally and realise the opportunities for better business outcomes. Headquartered in Edinburgh our customers are based throughout the UK and Europe.
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THIS IS A FREE EVENT - PLEASE RSVP USING THIS LINK
