A Shopping SPREE! – a Raleigh tradition for over 30 years – is considered the area’s premier and most original shopping event.  This annual four-day shopping fundraiser showcases regional and national exhibitors for shoppers seeking the latest in fashion and home decor trends, unique gifts and holiday merchandise. This is a juried event ensuring a well-balanced selection of products and quality merchandise.

Proceeds from A Shopping SPREE! help support the Junior League of Raleigh’s Center for Community Leadership and community projects, particularly in the League’s focus area of promising youth.  The League has donated more than $1.6 million and more than 237,000 volunteer hours to programs and projects that impact youth in our community such as BackPack Buddies, SAFEchild, Brentwood Boys & Girls Club, StepUp Ministry, Helping Horse, Heritage Park Community Learning Center, Kids on the Block and AventWest Children’s Mentoring.

- A Shopping SPREE!

LARGEST OPEN TECHNOLOGY EVENT ON THE EAST COAST BACK IN RALEIGH

The world’s top developers, technologists, and decision makers will gather in Raleigh, NC for the sixth annual All Things Open conference. Three days of programs, keynotes, talks, workshops and networking opportunities will be presented on the most important topics in open source, open tech, and the open web in the enterprise.

More than 3,500 attendees are expected from all over the United States and the world. The 2017 event was attended by more than 3,200 from 32 states and 19 countries, including nearly every major technology company in the country. Just a few companies participating in 2018 will include Amazon, Red Hat, Netflix, Twitter, Facebook, Cisco, Box, VMWare, Microsoft, GitHub, Fidelity, Bank of America, The Walt Disney Company, Lyft, Google, Metlife, SAS Institute, Red Ventures, IBM, and many more.

More than 200 speakers and 200 sessions will be featured over both days of the event. Content will focus on the most relevant and in demand technologies in the open space today and will be geared toward technologists and decision makers, and the person interested in future trends.

The conference will take place at the Raleigh Convention Center in downtown Raleigh, NC on Sunday, October 21, Monday, October 22 and Tuesday, October 23.

- All Things Open