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December Welcome Wagon w/ Philly Startup Leaders

***Website Accessibility: Guest Speaker***

This month’s presentation will share tips, tools and resources to create inclusive and enjoyable accessibility to all visitors of your website. You’ll learn what to consider in the early stages of website design, to content updates and maintenance. Ensuring all visitors have proper access to the information on your site increases retention and reduces drop-off. During this course, you will also gain resources to follow legal expectations, too.

**The agenda:**
7:00-7:15pm: Announcements
7:15: Presentation
Happiness Bar to follow with any remaining time

What is a \*WordPress Happiness Bar? This is where WordPress members help you solve your WordPress questions and issues. So, it is a WordPress crowd tech support.
If you need assistance with your site, we ask you bring your laptop and present the issue to the group as a whole. We believe with the size and combination of skills of attendees, this will allow members to get the full benefit of the group and hopefully, quicker resolution.
**We Want To Help You!**

For time sensitive questions and to stay in the WordPress Knoxville loop, please join our Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/groups/138836500068775
and also enable communication in your Meetup.com profile.

***For WordPress to continue to provide quality education, support, sustain and grow the organization, we need your assistance!***
We continue to seek core members and volunteers! As we get to know each other, we are also looking to gauge interest in folks willing to join our core volunteer team. We would love to spin back up and start putting on great Meetups again such as workshops, lightning talks, and more. We need a few awesome WordPress'ers to join the crew, so come out and let us know you're down! No experience necessary.
Show up and we will figure out together how you can fit in! We would love to have your help.
Above all else, we just wanna have a good time getting to know each other, these are our first Meetups since we shut down and we'd love to see how everyone is doing.

Website Accessibility- Guest Speaker: Alice Wershing

**[Register here for your event access link!](https://ctrly.io/LgHWd)**

Join us for an immersive virtual career workshop designed to equip tech professionals with the technical skills to thrive in the ever-evolving tech landscape of 2025. This workshop features a series of interactive sessions led by industry experts, covering essential topics for career advancement.

Choose from workshops in cloud computing, data analytics, product management, and more! Attend one session or explore multiple topics based on your expertise and interests. Check out the agenda and register on the [event page!](https://ctrly.io/LgHWd)

**Featured Workshops** (more coming soon!)

* Future-Proofing Your Career: Top Skills in Demand (Workshop Kickoff)
* How to Leverage GenAI for Data Analytics: Analyzing Your Data Sets, Generating Python Code, etc.
* Building Secure AI Workloads with Google Cloud

Tech Career Workshop: 5 Sessions to Upskill for 2025

CyberMarketingCon 2024

It's time for December Hack Night!

If you want to attend Hack Night virtually, many projects have hybrid setups. Please [join our slack](https://codeforphilly.org/chat) and check with project leads to get the specific zoom link for each project.

Indy Hall’s new space includes lots of space to spread out, lots of high quality & natural airflow, and (weather permitting) an outdoor patio that has a beautiful view of the city.

We have limited space. Please be respectful: If you register, and decide not to attend, please cancel your RSVP to make room for someone else from the waitlist.

There will be food! Pizza and a vegan option as well.

**Agenda:**

6:00pm - Doors Open

6:00-6:15pm - Schmoozing, grab food

6:15-6:30pm - Announcements, project lead/Code for Philly introductions

6:30-8:30pm - Hack! (Work on projects)

Recommended but not required: Bring your laptop, so you can start working on a project if your skills align with one of the project team's needs.

If you're not currently part of a project and aren't able to find one that aligns with your skills/interests, you're still welcome to hang out and socialize amongst yourselves.

**How to join us:**

1. To access the building, **there will be a sign on the door with instructions to text a number that will give you the door code.**
2. Walk to the back of the hall and ride the elevator **to the 3rd floor**. Turn left out of the elevator lobby and you'll find us. Or feel free to take the stairs if that's your thing.

Note that this door code only works until 8pm. You will need to contact someone inside to let you in after that time!

See you there!

Code for Philly December Hack Night

Tech Forum Holiday Party

Energy and utility organizations must embrace AI to stay competitive and meet the demands of a sustainable energy future. However, the growing demand for AI also puts immense strain on current infrastructure. How can we address this paradox? Could AI solve the very energy problem it creates? Join Method and Dave Goddard from Hitachi Energy to discuss challenges and opportunities of AI in this critical industry.

**Panelists:**
[Brittany Ston](https://www.linkedin.com/in/brittanyastone/)e (Method) - Principal, Digital Solutions
[Dave Goddard](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-goddard/) (Hitachi Energy) - Chief Digital Officer

**Location**:
Please join us in the [Method Charlotte](https://www.method.com/locations/charlotte/) office. We're in the Charlotte Plaza building on the 8th floor (Panera on the ground floor). Take the escalator to the second floor and use the elevator bank to the 8th floor.

**Parking**:
We're happy to validate parking for attendees who park in the [Charlotte Plaza Parking Deck](https://www.parkme.com/lot/82095/charlotte-plaza-parking-charlotte-nc). Please bring your parking ticket to the event.