Most of July was spent ramping up for our internal hackathon so it was a little slower for us. Last month, we hosted a small PyLadies workshop and celebrated the Designers + Geeks 4 year anniversary (2.5 years of which have been hosted at Yelp!). We also had Tera- Nicholle Nelson, the VP of Marketing for MyFitnessPal and Under Armour, stop by our office to discuss how to “disrupt” yourself.

Since hackathon recently wrapped up, we’re slowly recovering from dinosaurs, hacking, and our food comas (look out for our official hackathon post coming out soon!).

Coming up this month, we’ve got some talks happening back to back at Yelp HQ and also at the BSides and DefCon security conferences in Vegas! Tasneem Minadakis, one of our Ads Managers, will be sharing her personal career story with students from HackingEDU as well.

Later this month, we’ll be hosting our third tech talk in the Yelp Tech Talk Series. This time, we’ll be focusing on ads and how we display and target local advertising. Be sure to RSVP to this event early because tickets go quickly!

• Wednesday, August 12, 2015 - 6:15PM - Practical Python 3: Fixing Things and Moving On + Jython 2.7/3.x ( SF Python)
• Thursday, August 13, 2015 - 5:30PM - Macbrained’s August Meet-Up @ Yelp ( MacBrained)
• Wednesday, August 19, 2015 - 6:00PM - HackingEDU’s Fireside Chat ( HackingEDU)
• Thursday, August 20, 2015 - 6:30PM - Designers vs. Geeks ( Designers + Geeks)
• Tuesday, August 25, 2015 - 6:30PM - Yelp Tech Talks- The Science and Systems Behind Local Advertising ( Yelp Engineering)
• Wednesday, August 26, 2015 - 6:45PM - TiVo Chief Engineering and Design on Disrupting TV ( Products That Count)

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