Last month a group of Yelp engineers attended the Grace Hopper Conference in Houston. We had a great time presenting on crucial conversations and talking to amazing women at our after party. To keep the momentum going through the holiday season, we’re ramping up to launch our 18th internal hackathon at the beginning of this month!

On November 7th, we’re excited to be partnering with Next.ML to bring machine learning workshops and panels to Yelp HQ. We’ll be hearing from leaders in the industry on a number of topics and will contribute to the presentations by sharing some of the recent work we’ve been doing on our photo classification systems.

Later this month, for the first time in its history, the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) will be touring technical companies in the Bay Area. They’ll be coming to Yelp to gain career insight and advice from our team as part of the Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Innovation Summit! This organization focuses on minority education and provides operating funds for colleges and universities, in addition to providing scholarships and internships for students as well as professional training. During their tour, UNCF will also be hosting workshop sessions with Rachel Williams, Yelp’s Head of Diversity and Inclusion, who will be leading a few of them! We’re delighted to work with UNCF as they make their way around the Bay and are looking forward to building out our partnership.

• Saturday, November 7, 2015 - 9:00AM - Hands On Workshops & Industry Use Cases (Next.ML)
• Tuesday, November 10, 2015 - 6:30PM - Apache Kafka and the Rise of The Stream Data Platform (SF Big Analytics)
• Wednesday, November 18, 2015 - 6:45PM - Slack Growth Strategies (Products That Count)

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