Charlotte Danielsson

If you’re a community leader looking for a collaborator — not a sponsor — to help your local builders gain real cloud and AI skills, this is how we work. In September 2025, fifty-four builders gathered at a coworking space on R Street in Sacramento for the city’s first-ever AWS hackathon. They weren’t following a script. They were building generative AI knowledge base applications from scratch — prototyping, debugging, and presenting working demos by end of day.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has reached the congressionally mandated H-1B cap for fiscal year (FY) 2017 of 65,000 so the cap was once again reached within the first 5 business days of the filing period which began on 4/1/16. The additional 20,000 H-1B slots made available to people with US advanced degrees have also been used up.