BILHack #1 - Digital Identity and Blockchain Hackathon
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The inaugural BILHack will be held in Edinburgh at the Universitiy's Merchiston Campus across the 29 and 30 of September 2018.
The Blockpass Identity Lab is a multi-year research collaboration between the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University, and Blockpass IDN, a self-sovereign digital identity and KYC compliance solution provider.
The lab invites participants from all backgrounds to come together and build things related to 'digital identity' and/or blockchain or other distributed ledger technologies, identifying use-cases and prototyping applications for these emerging and revolutionary advances.
This is the fifth in a series of seminars located at Edinburgh Napier University and organised by the Informing the Good Society project, which is funded by the AHRC.
Jane Carnall, who blogs as the EdinburghEye has kindly agreed to share her experiences as a blogger, providing valuable insight to the blogging world. Jane's talk will be followed by a Q&A session and for those who are able to stay for further networking, refreshments will be available from 3pm.
Please join us for the second AWS User Group Scotland in association with CirrusHQ and Edinburgh Napier University.
We have a number of interesting speakers lined up:
How FanDuel uses EMR & Redshift, John Sutherland, FanDuel
In this talk we'll discover how FanDuel arrived at the decision to use Amazon's EMR (Elastic Map Reduce), and Redshift products; how the rest of the company interacts with the data warehouse; and what their plans are for the future.
Best Practices for EC2 Reserved Instance Purchasing, James Lucas, CirrusHQ
A dive into EC2 reserved instances purchasing and sharing the best methods for optimising your EC2 costs.
Staying lean as you scale on AWS, Stuart Grant, Geo.me
Stuart will take us through Geo.me's usage of AWS since 2008, how they have grown and what services they use
How STV uses AWS, Michael Maclean, STV
STV have recently moved their web platform over to AWS. This talk provides an overview of how STV use AWS services to deliver their high-traffic websites, video on demand and native mobile applications, and what we learned on the lead up to the move.
Please signup via http://awsusergroupscotland2.eventbrite.co.uk so that we know that you are coming.
Open Knowledge Foundation Scotland: Edinburgh Meet-up #11
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Open Knowledge Foundation Meet-ups are friendly and informal evenings for people to get together to share and argue all areas of openness. Come and join discussions around open knowledge and open data -- from politics and philosophy to practicalities of theory and practice. Information about some of our past meet-ups can be found at http://scot.okfn.org.
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