With growing concern over the effects of technology on our private lives, democracy and society as a whole, Open Rights Group’s biennial convention ORGCon comes along right on time. NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden joins via videolink, while UK and international experts will discuss Artificial Intelligence, the Internet Of Things, online censorship, and human rights in the age of big data. Expect live podcast recordings, informed debate and interactive exhibits at a day-long event that will shed light on the dark corners of the digital world.
Friends House, 173-177 Euston Rd, London NW1 2BJ
13 July
10am-6pm
Tickets from https://orgcon.openrightsgroup.org/
Open Rights Group is dedicated to creating an environment where people with an interest in our issues and work can come together, learn from each other, and contribute their skills, ideas and energy. Everyone is entitled to enjoy a respectful and inclusive environment. We will not tolerate harassment behaviour that detracts from that goal. We prioritise the creation of an inclusive work environment and this extends to and includes events we hold. All attendees agree to abide by the anti-harassment policy. We reserve the right to refuse entry.
This unique workshop takes the best elements of emotional design and the Google Design Sprint and boils them down to one day. Come along with your ideas and we’ll take you through exercises that blast them apart before turning them into something that works for real people. We’ll help you define key users, conceptualise your minimum viable product and create your product roadmap.
What will you get?
An intense user focused product development session
An understanding of how Design Sprints work
Practical skills to enable you to use Design Sprint methods to help your team to develop ideas, fast
The opportunity to ask the experts more about product development, and how you can move forward
Facilitators
Richard Edwards has delivered & designed many of Outlandish's Design Sprints for clients, including the British Council, Prospect (the UK's professionals union), and Moodle. He joins Outlandish from a career in the BBC and NGOs, including CARE International UK as Digital Manager.
Kayleigh Walsh has been with Outlandish as a Project Manager since 2016 and will cover this workshop with Richard. When Kayleigh Walsh isn't managing projects, running user-testing sessions or holding design workshops she is working as a community developer, reaching out to other coops and charities. Kayleigh is also a member of the Worker Coop Council, and is involved in many initiatives to support women in technology.
Further Reading
Read more about Design Sprint In A Day and how the workshop can be useful for you
https://outlandish.com/blog/products/design-sprints-at-outlandish/
Who are Outlandish?
Outlandish is a co-operative tech company. We want to make the world a fairer, better place with the use of technology, from web apps, data dashboards and monitoring tools that aid the discovery of new insights from complex data, to mass-impact campaigns and websites that promote your causes and mobilise your key audiences.
Our clients include BBC, British Council, Now Pensions, Care International, Moodle, Greenpeace and UNICEF.
We use Sociocracy as part of our business model and have done for more than 5 years. For us, getting this buy-in throughout the organisation has been invaluable and we want to share that experience and knowledge with others.
Please note the price includes VAT and we have deliberately priced these workshops accessible for individuals & SME's. Lunch is provided. Book Now!
Whole team workshops available and more dates available on request.
If you like to find out more contact [masked] or visit our website https://outlandish.com/
This unique workshop takes the best elements of emotional design and the Google Design Sprint and boils them down to one day. Come along with your ideas and we’ll take you through exercises that blast them apart before turning them into something that works for real people. We’ll help you define key users, conceptualise your minimum viable product and create your product roadmap.
What will you get?
A thorough understanding of how Design Sprint works. Want to improve the lives of others through tech? Got an idea for a website, service or app? Whatever the stage of your product, get it defined at our intensive London workshop.
Practical skills to enable you to use Design Sprint .
An opportunity to ask the experts about how Design Sprint works and how you can benefit from it.
Facilitators
Our own Kayleigh Walsh will cover this workshop, she has been with Outlandish since February 2016. When she’s not managing projects, running user-testing sessions , holding design workshops, she works as a community developer, reaching out to other coops and charities. Kayleigh is also a member of the Worker Coop Council, and is involved in many initiatives to support women in technology.
Richard Edwards is an UX expert and has been part of the Outlandish Team for many years. He will cover everything you need to know about Design Sprint In A Day and help you develop your idea/product.
Further Reading
Read more about Design Sprint In A Day and how the workshop can be useful for you.
Outlandish is a co-operative tech company. We want to make the world a fairer, better place with the use of technology, from web apps, data dashboards and monitoring tools that aid the discovery of new insights from complex data, to mass-impact campaigns and websites that promote your causes and mobilise your key audiences.
Our clients include BBC, British Council, Now Pensions, Care International, Moodle, Greenpeace and UNICEF.
We use Sociocracy as part of our business model and have done for more than 5 years. For us, getting this buy-in throughout the organisation has been invaluable and we want to share that experience and knowledge with others.
Please note the price includes VAT and we have deliberately priced these workshops accessible for individuals & SME's. Lunch is provided. Book Now!
Whole team workshops available and more dates available on request.
If you like to find out more contact [masked] or visit our website https://outlandish.com/
***This event is being run by Skills Matter. Get your tickets at https://skillsmatter.com/conferences/11213-fullstack-london-2019-the-conference-on-javascript-node-and-internet-of-things***
FullStack 2019 returns to London in its sixth edition during July. Now hosted at the Business Design Centre, FullStack London has been growing each year and still remains the best place to connect with the international JavaScript community!
FullStack is the go-to JavaScript, Node, Angular and IoT conference in London. Other topics explored will include Web-Animation, ES6, CSS3, Machine Learning, Functional Programming, Software Craftsmanship, Testing and various frameworks including D3js, React, Angular, Node, Babylon, Ember and more!
Check out the line up of speakers and get tickets at: https://skillsmatter.com/conferences/11213-fullstack-london-2019-the-conference-on-javascript-node-and-internet-of-things
***This event is being run by Skills Matter. Get your tickets at https://skillsmatter.com/conferences/11213-fullstack-london-2019-the-conference-on-javascript-node-and-internet-of-things***
FullStack 2019 returns to London in its sixth edition during July. Now hosted at the Business Design Centre, FullStack London has been growing each year and still remains the best place to connect with the international JavaScript community!
FullStack is the go-to JavaScript, Node, Angular and IoT conference in London. Other topics explored will include Web-Animation, ES6, CSS3, Machine Learning, Functional Programming, Software Craftsmanship, Testing and various frameworks including D3js, React, Angular, Node, Babylon, Ember and more!
Check out the line up of speakers and get tickets at: https://skillsmatter.com/conferences/11213-fullstack-london-2019-the-conference-on-javascript-node-and-internet-of-things
***This event is being run by Skills Matter. Get your tickets at https://skillsmatter.com/conferences/11213-fullstack-london-2019-the-conference-on-javascript-node-and-internet-of-things***
FullStack 2019 returns to London in its sixth edition during July. Now hosted at the Business Design Centre, FullStack London has been growing each year and still remains the best place to connect with the international JavaScript community!
FullStack is the go-to JavaScript, Node, Angular and IoT conference in London. Other topics explored will include Web-Animation, ES6, CSS3, Machine Learning, Functional Programming, Software Craftsmanship, Testing and various frameworks including D3js, React, Angular, Node, Babylon, Ember and more!
Check out the line up of speakers and get tickets at: https://skillsmatter.com/conferences/11213-fullstack-london-2019-the-conference-on-javascript-node-and-internet-of-things
Building Trust in Data using practical tools at the Co-op
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The Co-op has a vision to be ‘Trusted with Data’ and to use that data to fuel the Co-op and have been using the ODI Data Ethics Canvas as a tool to help progress against that vision. They have been applying this with Digital teams that are designing digital products and services to enable them to make sensible decisions with data within their projects.
Danny McCarthy and Claire Hadfield will be sharing their experience at this lunchtime session, of implementing this work. The session will also be streamed.
About the speakers:
Danny McCarthy is a Data Governance Manager, and has over 15 years working with Data – analysis, BI & reporting, cleanse, migration, projects, warehousing, quality and governance at in the public and private sectors for organisations like GE, Royal London, Manchester City Council. Claire Hadfield has more than 6 years’ experience working with data, working in the NHS as part of a data governance team for a large Mental Health Trust before moving on to the Co-op, and is now working with the Data Management team to embed and roll out Data Ethics into the design of new Digital products and services at the Co-op.
Monty Widenius and Vicentiu Ciorbaru from the MariaDB Foundation will be in London, and will meet the Community. Monty is the creator of MySQL and MariaDB. Vicentiu is a software engineer of MariaDB Foundation.
THE CALL FOR PAPERS FOR LIGHTNING TALKS IS OPEN!
To propose a 5mm talk, please send an email to: info@federico-razzoli.com
AGENDA
* 18:00 - Welcome and networking
* 18:20 - Introduction, by Federico Razzoli
* 18:30 - Lightning talks
* 19:00 - MariaDB and MySQL - What Statistics Optimizer Needs Or When and How Not to Use Indexes by Vicentiu Ciorbaru, software engineer @ MariaDB Foundation
* 19:30 - Pause
* 19:40 Meet the creator of MariaDB and MySQL - by Monty Widenius, CTO @ MariaDB, founder @ MariaDB Foundation
Afterwards, we can move to a nearby pub.
ABSTRACTS
Vicențiu Ciorbaru
MariaDB and MySQL - What Statistics Optimizer Needs Or When and How Not to Use Indexes
When your SQL query reaches the DBMS, it's the optimizer's job to decide how to execute it for you to get the result as fast as possible. To make this decision optimizer can examine the actual table data, but with multi gigabyte and terabyte tables, the only practical solution is to use various data statistics that were collected in advance. The better the statistics and the more precisely it describes the actual data, the faster the plan will be because the optimizer image of reality will be closer to the actual reality.
In this talk, you'll learn what data statistics MariaDB and MySQL can collect, what statements do that, how to tell the optimizer to use it (it won't necessarily do it automatically!) and how it can make your queries many times faster.
And, of course, when not to use indexes, when up-to-date statistics is enough.
Michael (Monty) Widenius - Meet the creator of MariaDB and MySQL
Ever wondered why MariaDB was created in the first place and where it is going now? Or perhaps you are curious what Monty thought when designing MySQL initially?
Come ask Monty anything you would like to know about MariaDB or MySQL, all while enjoying a nice drink in a relaxed atmosphere.
Peter Zaitsev, Percona's CEO, will be at our meetup. He will give a talk, and will answer any question from the community.
Before his talk, there will be the opportunity to give lightning talks, with a length of 5 minutes.
THE CALL FOR PAPER FOR LIGHTNING TALKS IS OPEN!
We'd really love to see some lightning talks to open the evening. It's an opportunity to give a short, low-effort speech in a friendly environment, at the presence of Peter Zaitsev and his audience.
To propose a lightning talk, please send an email to info@federico-razzoli.com
ABOUT PETER
Co-author of the highly regarded O’Reilly book High Performance MySQL, Peter is a long-time vociferous supporter of open source software at its most noble. He managed the High Performance Group within MySQL until 2006, when he co-founded Percona. He’s since stayed rigidly to his commitment free and open-source software, and in my view knows all there is to know about running a business underpinned by a truly open source software model. He’s also a well-known speaker at conferences and events such as All Things Open
AGENDA
18:00 - Welcome and networking
18:20 - Introduction, Federico Razzoli
18:30 - Lightning talks (TBD)
19.00 - Peter Zaitsev: Ten things developers should know about databases
19:50 - Pause with beer and food kindly offered by Percona
20:00 - Peter Zaitsev: Ask me anything
Afterwards, we can move to a nearby pub.
This talk works for developers or experienced database people. If you’re a developer there could be some surprises. If you’re a DBA then it’s good to get a perspective of things that may not come so naturally to developers. The points are valid for all flavours of open source database.
Peter has views on open source, on database technologies, on licensing, and on all kinds of other things. It’s good to talk, you can ask PZ anything! :)
Night of music from code at Corsica Studios in South London
Join Algorave Elephant + warm up for the summer solstice with top notch algorithmic music + visuals over two rooms - one for dancefloor bangers and one for stranger chill-out + ill-out experiments.
The algorave movement started in London and has since reached over 90 cities around the world. Algoraves showcase diverse creativity around live coding - artists manipulating code to make cutting edge music + visuals.
"The scene at an algorave is often what you'd expect from any good techno night - a dark room, engaging visuals. a decent, bass-heavy speaker set-up, and lots of people ready to dance. .. performers at algoraves respond to each other and the audience in real time, often projecting the lines of code onto the walls as they type. lt’s coding as improvisation and experiment.." - The Wire magazine
"Live coders write computer programs live, while the programs generate their music, but the focus is on people dancing and seriously enjoying themselves" - Dazed and Confused
".. not so much a revolution as a de-volution, a rolling back to the backend of music production, where the possibilities of the encoded information inside computer software is open and endless" - Mixmag
A bit different from our usual Meetups, this event is the second year we have hosted Goodnight Disruption, a London Tech Week Party. It's hosted by CoTech, a £10million UK alliance of 36 worker-owned tech businesses.
Discover the innovation projects designed and built by the 36 CoTech company members; meet the coding graduates of the latest Founders & Coders cohort; and throw off the tired cliches of disruption to instead discuss meaningful tech careers, innovation and positive social impact.
Doors at 6.30pm, speakers from 7pm and then dance floor from 8pm.
Short talks about internet freedom, data and democracy, worker ownership and more from:
Naomi Alexander Naidoo, The Finance Innovation Lab, @thefinancelab
Martha Dark. Open Rights Group, @OpenRightsGroup
Rob Gamm, Library of Things, @libraryofthings
Dr Sara Gorgoni, University of Greenwich, @SaraGorgoni
Kayleigh Walsh, Outlandish, @outlandish
Plus a VR and AR demo room from Animorph Coop, showcasing their Virtual Inclusion empathy machine, and 'Holopedia' their Magic Leap One app that uses object recognition to extract relevant information from Wikipedia.
Who should attend?
- Organisations who want to achieve positive social impact through tech
- Developers, designers, project managers, user researchers and innovators
- People wanting to use their tech skills for social change
- Freelancers looking to collaborate or curious about worker-owned companies
- Commissioners of projects who want to know why passionate, worker-owned tech businesses make better products
- Startup founders tired of chasing investors - own and resource yourselves!
Sponsored by:
Suma - one of the UK’s largest food co-ops.
And CoTech members:
Agile Collective - websites for socially positive organisations
Outlandish - technology for a fairer, better world
Go Free Range - we build software and solve problems
Animorph - virtual, augmented and mixed reality. Solving problems not yet diagnosed…
CoTech is a UK -wide network of creative technology companies, fully owned and controlled by the people who do the work.
What to be aware about memory when running JVM apps & Write Now, Run Anytime
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What to be aware about memory when running JVM apps in shared-container environments
Running Java-based applications in shared container-scheduler systems (such as Kubernetes or ECS) is a popular way of running systems nowadays. However doing so often leads to problems - especially around managing memory in a way that is both efficient and not prone to instability.
In this talk, David Borsos will explore the typical pitfalls of memory configuration when running JVM applications in shared-container environments, the underlying reasons and advice on how to avoid them.
Write Now, Run Anytime
Neil C Smith is developer of PraxisLIVE, an open-source hybrid-visual IDE for live programming, built on top of the NetBeans platform. While the IDE is primarily aimed at creative coders, its underlying forest-of-actors runtime supports real-time coding Java in general. PraxisCORE brings aspects of Erlang, Smalltalk and Extempore into the Java world, providing a powerful platform for media processing, data visualisation, sensors, robotics, IoT, and lots more!
We will explore some of the trials and tribulations of designing a just-in-time programming system in Java, including actors, classloaders and reactive dataflows, with the aid of some hypnotic visuals and bleepy sounds.
Neil may be unique amongst Java developers in regularly live-coding lambdas in venues to make breakbeat music. The talk may end with a short demo!
About the speakers
David Borsos is a software engineer with 10+ years of industry experience working with distributed systems, Java web applications, automation tools, cloud, and big data. His focus is on cutting-edge, open-source technologies
Neil C Smith is an Artist & Technologist from Oxford, UK. An artist working with code, he builds interactive spaces & projections, and improvised & live-coded performances. A technologist with a creative edge, he is lead developer of PraxisLIVE, maintains various Java media libraries including the bindings for GStreamer, and is an Apache NetBeans committer.
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A big thanks to Skills Matter for hosting us and GridGain Systems for sponsoring the meetup.
Agenda
6.30pm: Registration and pizza sponsored by GridGain Systems (https://www.gridgain.com/)
7pm: What to be aware about memory when running JVM apps in shared-container environments - David Borsos (approx 30 minutes)
7.30pm: Write Now, Run Anytime - Neil C Smith (approx 45 minutes)
This event is organised by RecWorks on behalf of the London Java Community.
You can see our latest jobs here: https://recworks.co.uk/java-developer-jobs-london/.
You can see our privacy policy here: http://recworks.co.uk/privacy-policy
Continue the conversation at our Slack Group: https://londonjavacommunity.slack.com
Sign up here if you're not a member: https://bcrw.typeform.com/to/IIyQxd
It’s AGM time again and this time we will be in the London. The 2019 OSMUK Annual Gathering will be held on Saturday 29 June at Newspeak House in Bethnal Green.
People will be arriving from near and far, so we’ve arranged kick-off for after lunch. It is very close to Brick Lane so there are ample opportunities for beer, curry, and bagels but not necessarily all three at once. Keep an eye on the @osmuk Twitter account and #osmuk hashtag for informal gatherings. The Directors may be busy setting up the room which is on the ground floor on the other side of the cafe.
The official AGM will be at 1pm and shouldn’t last more than 30 minutes. We are arranging some speakers for talks and discussions immediately afterwards. Come along to meet fellow mappers from around the country.
Register to attend – it’s free! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/openstreetmap-uk-annual-gathering-tickets-62262798707
From 3pm onwards we will be joined by the London Wikidata Meetup. The plan is to get people interested in Wikidata to meet people from the OSM community and talk about possible areas of collaboration.
There will no doubt be a trip to the pub and maybe curry afterwards.
To be guaranteed entry to the AGM (first 15 to 30 minutes) you must be a member. After that anyone can attend for the rest of the OSM UK gathering and for the OSMUK+Wikidata gathering starting at 3pm.
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Acceptance Testing in Microservices - Dimos Raptis
Microservices is being widely adopted as an architectural pattern during the last decade thanks to the business agility it enables. This pattern incentivises teams owning separate business domains to move as independently as possible. However, the need remains to test and verify that all these services will work as expected in cooperation. This can end up being harder at times given there are more moving parts that need to be setup appropriately in order to perform the necessary testing.
This talk is essentially a story from the trenches, which goes through some of the challenges we faced with testing in a microservices environment and how we overcame some of them.
Get better at what you do—with intent - Sergey Soloviov
As a freelancer, you want to bring more value and charge more for it. But you’re on your own to build out your skill set. If you don’t help yourself, no one else will. All it takes is showing intent. In this talk, we’ll look at tactics that one can use to build a little system to push your own boundaries. It’s light-weight but helps create discipline and transparency in the process.
About the speakers
Dimos Raptis is currently working as a Software Engineer for R3 on the Corda blockchain platform. He has been working with microservices architecture for the last 3 years. His main areas of interest are distributed systems, clean & elegant software and testing, but this list keeps growing alarmingly. He is blogging at https://dimosr.github.io/blog and tweeting at @dimosr7.
Sergey Soloviov works as a mentor and coach. Having worked with dozens of tech teams over 15 years he now helps product people progress in their craft. In this talk, he will take the effective techniques he uses with his clients and apply them to the freelance world.
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A big thanks to Skills Matter for hosting us and GridGain Systems for sponsoring the meetup.
Agenda
6.30pm: Registration and pizza sponsored by GridGain Systems (https://www.gridgain.com/)
Talentful Talks- Putting Manchester on the map- Thurs 13th June
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We will be bringing together some of the most innovative tech companies in Manchester to increase the awareness of tech opportunities in Manchester to London-based individuals; as well as providing further information about what makes Manchester such a brilliant place to live and work.
5 reasons you should consider Manchester:
- 62,500 tech jobs were created in Manchester in 2018
- 10,200 people moved from London to Manchester in 2018
- Consumer Prices in Manchester are 17.92% lower than in London
- Rent Prices in Manchester are 56.55% lower than in London
- Groceries Prices in Manchester are 11.57% lower than in London
The format of the event will include the following:
- A careers-style fair with stands of the North West’s best businesses including;
- Disney Streaming Services
- On The Beach
- Moonpig
- Arctic Shores
- Responsetap
- Skiddle
- BeyondTrust
- Moneysupermarket
- Peak
- Broadstone Engage
- Infinity Works
- Push Doctor
- Cloud Imperium Games
- AO.com
- Well Pharmacy
- Mojo Mortgages
- DigitalBridge
- Experts presenting on specialist subjects such as housing prices in Manchester, local VC investment, the cost of living and relocation experts
Agenda for the main stage:
5pm-530pm;
Presentation from PWC scale-up around the growth of the smaller tech organisations in the last 2 years.
545pm - 615pm;
Property Analysts talking around the rental/buying market, and trends in the last 2 years.
630pm - 7pm;
Cost of living experts, comparing the cost of living in London to Manchester
715pm - 745pm;
Beringa discussing the volume of investment in the North West
8pm - 830pm;
Panel discussion with 3 individuals that have made the move from London to Manchester, how have they found the move.
845pm - 9pm;
Keynote wrap up by Talentful
Goodnight Disruption '19: A London Tech Week party
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A bit different from our usual Meetups, this event is the second year we have hosted Goodnight Disruption, a London Tech Week Party. It's hosted by CoTech, a £10million UK alliance of 36 worker-owned tech businesses.
Discover the innovation projects designed and built by the 36 CoTech company members; meet the coding graduates of the latest Founders & Coders cohort; and throw off the tired cliches of disruption to instead discuss meaningful tech careers, innovation and positive social impact.
Doors at 6.30pm, speakers from 7pm and then dance floor from 8pm.
Short talks about internet freedom, data and democracy, worker ownership and more from:
Naomi Alexander Naidoo, The Finance Innovation Lab, @thefinancelab
Martha Dark. Open Rights Group, @OpenRightsGroup
Rob Gamm, Library of Things, @libraryofthings
Kayleigh Walsh, Outlandish, @outlandish
Who should attend?
- Organisations who want to achieve positive social impact through tech
- Developers, designers, project managers, user researchers and innovators
- People wanting to use their tech skills for social change
- Freelancers looking to collaborate or curious about worker-owned companies
- Commissioners of projects who want to know why passionate, worker-owned tech businesses make better products
- Startup founders tired of chasing investors - own and resource yourselves!
Sponsored by:
Suma - one of the UK’s largest food co-ops.
And CoTech members:
Agile Collective - websites for socially positive organisations
Outlandish - technology for a fairer, better world
Go Free Range - we build software and solve problems
Animorph - virtual, augmented and mixed reality. Solving problems not yet diagnosed…
CoTech is a UK -wide network of creative technology companies, fully owned and controlled by the people who do the work.
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Write Now, Run Anytime
Neil C Smith is developer of PraxisLIVE, an open-source hybrid-visual IDE for live programming, built on top of the NetBeans platform. While the IDE is primarily aimed at creative coders, its underlying forest-of-actors runtime supports real-time coding Java in general. PraxisCORE brings aspects of Erlang, Smalltalk and Extempore into the Java world, providing a powerful platform for media processing, data visualisation, sensors, robotics, IoT, and lots more!
We will explore some of the trials and tribulations of designing a just-in-time programming system in Java, including actors, classloaders and reactive dataflows, with the aid of some hypnotic visuals and bleepy sounds.
Neil may be unique amongst Java developers in regularly live-coding lambdas in venues to make breakbeat music. The talk may end with a short demo!
Speaker Bio
Neil C Smith is an Artist & Technologist from Oxford, UK. An artist working with code, he builds interactive spaces & projections, and improvised & live-coded performances. A technologist with a creative edge, he is lead developer of PraxisLIVE, maintains various Java media libraries including the bindings for GStreamer, and is an Apache NetBeans committer.
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A big thanks to Skills Matter for hosting us and GridGain Systems for sponsoring the meetup.
Agenda
6.30pm: Registration and pizza sponsored by GridGain Systems (https://www.gridgain.com/)
7pm: Write Now, Run Anytime - Neil C Smith (approx 45 minutes)
This event is organised by RecWorks on behalf of the London Java Community.
You can see our latest jobs here: https://recworks.co.uk/java-developer-jobs-london/.
You can see our privacy policy here: http://recworks.co.uk/privacy-policy
Continue the conversation at our Slack Group: https://londonjavacommunity.slack.com
Sign up here if you're not a member: https://bcrw.typeform.com/to/IIyQxd
Acceptance Testing in Microservices & Get Better At What You Do—With Intent
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Acceptance Testing in Microservices - Dimos Raptis
Ok, you've adopted the microservices architecture and now you have to think how you can test all these services? What if I told you there's a way to test them without having to setup copious integration and end-to-end tests, while also being able to verify that everything works as expected?
This presentation describes an approach of testing a microservices architecture in an easy and agile way, while being able to cover a lot of use-cases and scenarios of your business domain.
Get better at what you do—with intent - Sergey Soloviov
As a freelancer, you want to bring more value and charge more for it. But you’re on your own to build out your skill set. If you don’t help yourself, no one else will. All it takes is showing intent. In this talk, we’ll look at tactics that one can use to build a little system to push your own boundaries. It’s light-weight but helps create discipline and transparency in the process.
About the speakers
Dimos Raptis is a software geek with an MSc in Software Engineering and working experience from both small software shops and big tech companies. He's been working with microservices architectures for the last 4 years, constantly looking for new approaches on designing, implementing and verifying distributed systems.
Sergey Soloviov works as a mentor and coach. Having worked with dozens of tech teams over 15 years he now helps product people progress in their craft. In this talk, he will take the effective techniques he uses with his clients and apply them to the freelance world.
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A big thanks to Skills Matter for hosting us and GridGain Systems for sponsoring the meetup.
Agenda
6.30pm: Registration and pizza sponsored by GridGain Systems (https://www.gridgain.com/)
FullStack 2019 returns to London in its sixth edition during July. Now hosted at the Business Design Centre, FullStack London has been growing each year and still remains the best place to connect with the international JavaScript community!
FullStack is the go-to JavaScript, Node, Angular and IoT conference in London. Other topics explored will include Web-Animation, ES6, CSS3, Machine Learning, Functional Programming, Software Craftsmanship, Testing and various frameworks including D3js, React, Angular, Node, Babylon, Ember and more!
Check out the line up of speakers and get tickets at: https://skillsmatter.com/conferences/11213-fullstack-london-2019-the-conference-on-javascript-node-and-internet-of-things
FullStack 2019 returns to London in its sixth edition during July. Now hosted at the Business Design Centre, FullStack London has been growing each year and still remains the best place to connect with the international JavaScript community!
FullStack is the go-to JavaScript, Node, Angular and IoT conference in London. Other topics explored will include Web-Animation, ES6, CSS3, Machine Learning, Functional Programming, Software Craftsmanship, Testing and various frameworks including D3js, React, Angular, Node, Babylon, Ember and more!
Check out the line up of speakers and get tickets at: https://skillsmatter.com/conferences/11213-fullstack-london-2019-the-conference-on-javascript-node-and-internet-of-things
FullStack 2019 returns to London in its sixth edition during July. Now hosted at the Business Design Centre, FullStack London has been growing each year and still remains the best place to connect with the international JavaScript community!
FullStack is the go-to JavaScript, Node, Angular and IoT conference in London. Other topics explored will include Web-Animation, ES6, CSS3, Machine Learning, Functional Programming, Software Craftsmanship, Testing and various frameworks including D3js, React, Angular, Node, Babylon, Ember and more!
Check out the line up of speakers and get tickets at: https://skillsmatter.com/conferences/11213-fullstack-london-2019-the-conference-on-javascript-node-and-internet-of-things
Hack Coworking is a two day event for prototyping new products and services that can improve peoples experience at coworking spaces. We would love to see professionals with diverse backgrounds come together and innovate on new ways to improve the experience in coworking spaces for members, managers and building owners. By joining you have the chance of winning some of the amazing prices prepared by our sponsors.
Will new social media regulation damage free expression online?
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The UK Government recently published proposals to address “online harms” ranging from terrorist content to cyber bullying. The new rules promise to dramatically impact social media companies (and social media users).
At a time of creeping Government control of the Internet it's time to question whether plans to make the Internet safer will come at a cost to free expression online.
The Centre for Investigative Journalism and the Internet Futures and Human Rights Research Stream at Goldsmith’s University of London present a talk by Open Rights Group’s Executive Director Jim Killock about an alternative rights-based approach to address online harms that will also protect the free and open Internet.
Mr. Killock will also tell you how to make your voice heard by responding to the Government’s public consultation on their Online Harm White Paper.
All are welcome to this free event. All you need is a concern about protecting the free and open Internet.
Killing "Low Code" with Jakarta EE and MicroProfile
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Killing "Low Code" with Jakarta EE and MicroProfile
Why esoteric languages? "Low Code" ideas are also perfect working with boring technologies like Jakarta EE and MicroProfile.
At this meetup, Adam Bien would like to implement a Java EE / Jakarta EE + MicroProfile, Cloud Native application from scratch and focus on "built to last" design and (hexagonal) architecture. Fast turn-around cycles, high productivity, observability and low noise included.
Questions are highly welcome and are going to be immediately answered.
About the speaker
Adam Bien has been working as a freelancer with Java since JDK 1.0, with Servlets/EJB since 1.0 and before the advent of J2EE in several large-scale applications. He is an architect and developer (with usually 20/80 distribution) in Java (SE / EE / FX) projects.
He has written several books about JavaFX, J2EE, and Java EE, and is the author of Real World Java EE Patterns—Rethinking Best Practices and Real World Java EE Night Hacks—Dissecting the Business Tier.
He participates in the JCP as an Expert Group member for the Java EE 6 and 7, EJB 3.X, JAX-RS, CDI, and JPA 2.X JSRs. Adam is a Java Champion, NetBeans Dream Team Founding Member, Oracle ACE Director, Java Developer of the Year 2010 and he was chosen by attendees of his sessions as JavaOne 2009 and double 2011, 2012, 2014 and triple 2013 Rock Star.
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Agenda
6.30pm: Doors open
7pm: Killing "Low Code" with Jakarta EE and MicroProfile (approx 60 minutes plus questions)
8.30pm: Carry on the conversation at the pub! Location TBD
This event is organised by RecWorks on behalf of the London Java Community.
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Election week special: Dangers of political advertising and electronic voting
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Join us for a special EU Election week event focused on technology’s worrying impacts on UK democracy.
Nearly a year after the General Data Protection Regulation was implemented, questionable data practices on social media advertising are threatening UK elections. We’ll hear from Who Targets Me about their innovative browser extension that improves transparency in online advertising by showing users who is targeting political ads at them and why.
We’ll also hear from our new Data & Democracy Project Officer Pascal Crowe about why we should be concerned about electronic voting trials in the UK. We’ll also hear about ORG’s upcoming event ORGCon.
No technical expertise are necessary, all are welcome to this free event.
Discover the Swedish innovations and trends that are shaking up the food and retail landscape and making strides to solve the food industry’s most pressing issues. We’ll be exploring the forward thinking developments in Swedish food and retail, and how these innovations can be brought to new markets.
We at YFood love Swedish companies because they are strong, sustainable and disruptive - exactly what YFood is all about! We can’t wait to bring this event to London Food Tech Week and give you the chance to learn from the leading pioneers of Sweden’s food retail scene and find out more about collaboration and partnership opportunities.
There are a limited number of free tickets so get yours today here:
This event is part of London Food Tech Week 2019 - the week-long festival celebrating and connecting all the incredible people, companies and innovations in Food Tech is the must attend event of 2019.
YFood is dedicated to providing a welcoming, safe and productive environment for all who attend our events, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age or religion. We do not tolerate any form of intimidation, harassment, or disrespectful conduct at our events.
Harassment includes offensive verbal comments and inappropriate or demeaning language related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, religion. Participants asked to stop any harassing behaviour are expected to comply immediately.
If a participant engages in harassing behaviour, the event organisers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from the event. If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, contact an event organiser immediately.
Augmented Humanity: tech and humans working together are the key to customer loyalty in the future! Hosted by Vita Mojo
Powered by Humans: At the centre of the model is us, humans.
We know humans are pretty amazing already, and we believe that digital is a way of enhancing our human qualities and enabling us to really focus on the things that technology can’t do – like human connections. Digital takes a human and makes them super humans!
Software and restaurant company Vita Mojo and employee engagement & service excellence consultants NKD bring you an experimental and thought provoking interactive session. Taking insights from across a spectrum of service sectors.
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This event is part of London Food Tech Week 2019 - the week-long festival celebrating and connecting all the incredible people, companies and innovations in Food Tech is the must attend event of 2019.
YFood is dedicated to providing a welcoming, safe and productive environment for all who attend our events, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age or religion. We do not tolerate any form of intimidation, harassment, or disrespectful conduct at our events.
Harassment includes offensive verbal comments and inappropriate or demeaning language related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, religion. Participants asked to stop any harassing behaviour are expected to comply immediately.
If a participant engages in harassing behaviour, the event organisers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from the event. If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, contact an event organiser immediately.
FoodBytes! by Rabobank is a food & agri pitch competition-meets-networking platform, that brings together startups, corporates and investors pioneering a more sustainable future of food and agriculture. YFood was thrilled that Rabobank was bringing this platform, and the incredible opportunity it provides for our community of startups, to London and partnered with them last year on their first ever London event which saw YFood Community members Mimica and Winnow winning the London and New York People’s Choice awards.
FoodBytes! by Rabobank will be hosting an exclusive event for the YFood and London Food Tech Week community to celebrate the event coming to London again on 7 November 2019, and are looking for startups to apply to pitch!
Come and find out more about what FoodBytes! can offer and hear the success stories of previous participants . This event is an unmissable opportunity for startups to meet the FoodBytes! by Rabobank Team, the leading global bank in food and agriculture, and network with their guestlist of clients and industry professionals - all on Rabobank’s spectacular central London rooftop which overlooks the Thames!
There are a limited amount of free tickets so get yours today here:
This event is part of London Food Tech Week 2019! This week-long festival celebrating and connecting all the incredible people, companies and innovations in Food Tech is the must attend event of 2019.
YFood is dedicated to providing a welcoming, safe and productive environment for all who attend our events, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age or religion. We do not tolerate any form of intimidation, harassment, or disrespectful conduct at our events.
Harassment includes offensive verbal comments and inappropriate or demeaning language related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, religion. Participants asked to stop any harassing behaviour are expected to comply immediately.
If a participant engages in harassing behaviour, the event organisers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from the event. If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, contact an event organiser immediately.
Scale-up! Innovation in the Blue Economy with EIT Food.
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Nearly three quarters of our planet is covered by oceans. Bodies of water, from oceans and seas to rivers, lakes, marshes, and bays collectively host over 2 million species of plants and diverse wildlife that represents over 50% of life on earth!
The Blue Economy is a growing movement that aims to harness these coastal and maritime resources for economic growth, whilst protecting its ecosystems. Our oceans are a hugely under-utilised resource with enormous potential for our future. EIT Food invites you to an immersive breakfast discussion on the progress being made in this sector, where you will have the chance to see, smell and taste the latest innovations in the Blue Economy.
Come along to learn the key sustainability lessons from thought leaders Thor Sigfusson, Hordur G. Kristinsson and Isabel Hoffmann as they chart the sector’s incredible journey from traditional to high-tech sustainability success story - and the whole event will be recorded for EIT Food’s innovation podcast!
There are a limited amount of free tickets so get yours today here:
This event is part of London Food Tech Week 2019 - this week-long festival celebrating and connecting all the incredible people, companies and innovations in Food Tech is the must attend event of 2019.
YFood is dedicated to providing a welcoming, safe and productive environment for all who attend our events, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age or religion. We do not tolerate any form of intimidation, harassment, or disrespectful conduct at our events.
Harassment includes offensive verbal comments and inappropriate or demeaning language related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, religion. Participants asked to stop any harassing behaviour are expected to comply immediately.
If a participant engages in harassing behaviour, the event organisers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from the event. If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, contact an event organiser immediately.
Deliveroo are more than just a delivery platform. They are changing the way people eat and helping restaurants to grow and expand. Deliveroo have built a community of restaurant partners that they support in engaging with tech and reaching new markets.
Spend a morning getting to know the Deliveroo team and hearing from some of their up and coming restaurant partners about how they have achieved growth by working with Deliveroo.
There are a limited amount of free tickets so get yours today here:
This event is part of London Food Tech Week 2019! This week-long festival celebrating and connecting all the incredible people, companies and innovations in Food Tech is the must attend event of 2019.
YFood is dedicated to providing a welcoming, safe and productive environment for all who attend our events, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age or religion. We do not tolerate any form of intimidation, harassment, or disrespectful conduct at our events.
Harassment includes offensive verbal comments and inappropriate or demeaning language related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, religion. Participants asked to stop any harassing behaviour are expected to comply immediately.
If a participant engages in harassing behaviour, the event organisers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from the event. If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, contact an event organiser immediately.
Have you thought about how to leverage a community to build a consumer facing brand? With insights from industry experts and leading food and beverage brands, this event will explore how building and nurturing a community can fuel your growth and create a real competitive advantage. Come and learn from the masters in the field and see how you can use the same approach to take your startup to the next level.
There are a limited amount of free tickets so get yours today here:
This event is part of London Food Tech Week 2019! This week-long festival celebrating and connecting all the incredible people, companies and innovations in Food Tech is the must attend event of 2019.
YFood is dedicated to providing a welcoming, safe and productive environment for all who attend our events, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age or religion. We do not tolerate any form of intimidation, harassment, or disrespectful conduct at our events.
Harassment includes offensive verbal comments and inappropriate or demeaning language related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, religion. Participants asked to stop any harassing behaviour are expected to comply immediately.
If a participant engages in harassing behaviour, the event organisers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from the event. If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, contact an event organiser immediately
An event looking at how technology is helping to raise public scrutiny of politicians. We'll be looking at some real-life examples of targeted campaigns and tools that help us to understand what politicians are up to and how we can have a say in their priorities.
Joaquim d'Souza and Hazel Sheffield
In March, the Huffington Post published #SoldFromUnderYou, an investigation revealing that local councils are selling off billions of pounds worth of publicly owned property just to make ends meet. #SoldFromUnderYou was the result of a year of Freedom of Information requests sent to all 353 English councils by the Bureau Local, part of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and reporting by journalists through the Bureau Local's network of local reporters. It came with a map, created by Joaquim d'Souza, allowing anyone to search the location of the 12,000 spaces that have been sold since 2014. Joaquim and Hazel Sheffield, who worked in collaboration with the Bureau Local on the project, will speak about how the investigation came together, how they created the searchable map, and what's next for the project.
Seena Shah, Director of Marketing at PolicyMogul
Seena is listed as a top 50 women in digital under 30 by The Drum. Her interest in change at Government level led her to her current role with PolicyMogul where she is Director of Marketing. Seena will be discussing how important it is to have diversity in those who influence policy and policy-makers, in order to create a politics that is truly reflective of society.
Matt Chocqueel-Mangan, Policy Tracker & Vote for Policies
Matt is an experienced agile coach and digital service designer, on a mission to create what he describes as a 'sustainable democracy'. Matt created Vote for Policies and more recently Policy Tracker which focus on transparency and accountability to increase participation.
The objective of agility in software is to fulfil evolving customer requirements while delivering high quality software on time and within budget. A number of agile methodologies have been developed promising to achieve this objective. But their adoption has proven to be challenging leading to cargo culting and bikeshedding practices that challenge project success. A review of Agile Manifesto and principles of agile methodologies distills them into 3 fundamental components. This talk suggests that a disciplined pursuit of these fundamentals while adopting agile practices increases an organisation’s chances of success.
Reduction is key to agility. It is of fundamental consequence to not just iteration planning and execution but in all aspects of project execution. Smaller stories simplify estimation, implementation and pivoting in addition to reducing intra-team dependencies. Smaller merge sizes reduce risk of merge conflicts and enable focused reviews leading to better code quality. Fewer technical dependencies make software flexible. Fewer inter-team and intra-team dependencies increase flow. Finally smaller team sizes focused on features and functionality enhance team cohesion and reduce inter-team dependencies.
Focus ensures that teams’ eyes are on the prize. Sprints need to be thematic focused on delivering end-to-end features that can be demonstrated to customers to obtain and act on feedback. Large features may not be completely delivered in a single sprint. In such cases, sprints may be grouped into packages which incrementally deliver features. Hence packages, unlike sprints, may not all be of the same length but all sprints within a package must focus on incremental completion of a feature. Cross functional teams tend to deliver end to end features better than technology specialist teams.
Finally, visibility is essential for teams to review their progress and make arrangement to reduce risks. It is important to create necessary and useful information radiators for the team members. These include sprint dashboards showing the progress on stories, burndown charts and defect trends. Additionally RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies) and logs dependency matrices highlight risks that teams face in achieving their targets.
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About the speaker
Omar Bashir graduated as an avionics systems engineer and transitioned to software engineering after his post graduate education. He has developed systems in diverse domains ranging from defence and telecommunications to logistics and finance. He has been programming in Java since its release in 1996.
Agenda
6.30pm: Registration and pizza sponsored by GridGain
A huge thanks to Skills Matter (https://skillsmatter.com/) for hosting us, and our sponsors GridGain (https://www.gridgain.com/) for the pizza!
Don't forget to let Skills Matter know you'll be attending by signing up on their website - https://skillsmatter.com/meetups/12348-london-java-community-april. This allows them to allocate us the correct size room and send you a code so you can register quicker on the night.
This event is organised by RecWorks on behalf of the London Java Community.
You can see our latest jobs here: https://recworks.co.uk/java-developer-jobs-london/.
You can see our privacy policy here: http://recworks.co.uk/privacy-policy
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Joaquim d'Souza and Hazel Sheffield
In March, the Huffington Post published #SoldFromUnderYou, an investigation revealing that local councils are selling off billions of pounds worth of publicly owned property just to make ends meet. #SoldFromUnderYou was the result of a year of Freedom of Information requests sent to all 353 English councils by the Bureau Local, part of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and reporting by journalists through the Bureau Local's network of local reporters. It came with a map, created by Joaquim d'Souza, allowing anyone to search the location of the 12,000 spaces that have been sold since 2014. Joaquim and Hazel Sheffield, who worked in collaboration with the Bureau Local on the project, will speak about how the investigation came together, how they created the searchable map, and what's next for the project.
Seena Shah, Director of Marketing at PolicyMogul
Seena is listed as a top 50 women in digital under 30 by The Drum. Her interest in change at Government level led her to her current role with PolicyMogul where she is Director of Marketing. Seena will be discussing how important it is to have diversity in those who influence policy and policy-makers, in order to create a politics that is truly reflective of society.
Matt Chocqueel-Mangan, Policy Tracker & Vote for Policies
Matt is an experienced agile coach and digital service designer, on a mission to create what he describes as a 'sustainable democracy'. Matt created Vote for Policies and more recently Policy Tracker which focus on transparency and accountability to increase participation.
Great Business Opportunity - Meet with leading Tech Companies from Gaziantep Teknopark, Turkey.
IDETEK UK present a special B2B event for UK and Turkish Technology companies to get together on Tues 30th April 2019, 5-7pm at the Turkish Trade Center, London EC1N 8UH.
18 Turkish Software and Technology companies will be visiting the UK for this event.
They cover the following sectors: MedTech, FinTech, BlockChain, Education, Mobile Apps, VR/AR, ERP, HR, Game, E-Commerce, Cyber Security and more.
Reach new markets and capitalise on a potential partnership with Gaziantep's fast-growing Technology companies.
To Register and Book your Meeting Slot, please go to:
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Great Business Opportunity - Meet with leading Software & Tech Companies from Gaziantep Teknopark, Turkey.
IDETEK UK present a special B2B event for UK and Turkish Technology companies to get together on Tues 30th April 2019, 5-7pm at the Turkish Trade Center, London EC1N 8UH.
18 Turkish Software and Technology companies will be visiting the UK for this event.
They cover the following sectors: MedTech, FinTech, BlockChain, Education, Mobile Apps, VR/AR, ERP, HR, Game, E-Commerce, Cyber Security and more.
Reach new markets and capitalise on a potential partnership with Gaziantep's fast-growing Technology companies.
To Register and Book your Meeting Slot, please go to:
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Free Biz 2 Biz Event - Meet with Tech Companies from Gaziantep Teknopark at the Turkish Trade Centre, London
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Great Business Opportunity - Meet with leading Software & Tech Companies from Gaziantep Teknopark, Turkey.
IDETEK UK present a special B2B event for UK and Turkish Technology companies to get together on Tues 30th April 2019, 5-7pm at the Turkish Trade Center, London EC1N 8UH.
18 Turkish Software and Technology companies will be visiting the UK for this event.
They cover the following sectors: MedTech, FinTech, BlockChain, Education, Mobile Apps, VR/AR, ERP, HR, Game, E-Commerce, Cyber Security and more.
Please see the full list of our visiting companies from the following link: www.idetek.co.uk
Reach new markets and capitalise on a potential partnership with Gaziantep's fast-growing Technology companies.
To Register and Book your Meeting Slot, please go to:
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What is blockchain and why do we care? You might have heard about hash chains, blockchains, Merkle tree, UTXO, Crypto accumulator, but what do they actually mean? Why are those concepts so powerful that they could fuel such a revolution? Now all of these concepts are great but where and how would you apply them to a project?
In this session, we will take you through the basic concepts behind blockchain, explore the type of use cases where blockchain can make a difference and introduce you to a real-life example of a Java application leveraging Hyperledger Fabric.
This talk is aimed at developers and architects who are keen to learn more about Blockchain.
About the speaker
As an IBM Certified IT Architect with over 20 years of experience, Luc Desrosiers has the chance to work in different roles: developer, consultant, pre-sales architect. He recently moved with his family from Canada to the UK to join one great lab: IBM Hursley. This is where he had the opportunity to join the IBM Blockchain team. He is now working with clients across multiple industries to help them explore and understand how Blockchain technologies can enable transformative use cases and solutions.
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A huge thanks to Kings College London for providing the venue. Their Department of Informatics run a number of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes including their Urban Informatics MSc: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/taught-courses/urban-informatics-msc. The course equips students with the technical, analytical, and communication skills required to conduct effective urban data analysis, with experience of detailed case study topics and the communication of results to effect change.
This event is organised by RecWorks on behalf of the London Java Community.
You can see our latest jobs here: https://recworks.co.uk/java-developer-jobs-london/.
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An increasing number of projects starts incorporating reactive programming. On their journey they start to discover that the only way to get the full benefit of that change is to ensure that they have a fully reactive stack.
There are a number of messaging systems and data stores that enable a fully reactive stack, but there has been a big piece missing when it comes to accessing relational database systems in a fully reactive way.
This talk presents the Reactive Relational Database Connectivity (R2DBC) initiative. This project aims for what a reactive API would look like when paired with relational database access. This talk explains how the API works, the benefits of using it, and how it contrasts with the ADBA project proposed as a successor to JDBC.
About the speaker
Mark Paluch is a Software Craftsman working as Spring Data Engineer at Pivotal. He has a strong focus on reactive infrastructure and works on R2DBC, MongoDB, Redis, and Apache Cassandra modules. Mark is also is project lead of the Lettuce Redis driver. He blogs at http://www.paluch.biz
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Agenda
6pm: Registration and pizza sponsored by GridGain: https://www.gridgain.com/
A huge thanks to our sponsors GridGain: https://www.gridgain.com/
This event is organised by RecWorks on behalf of the London Java Community.
You can see our latest jobs here: https://recworks.co.uk/java-developer-jobs-london/.
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Continue the conversation at our Slack Group: https://londonjavacommunity.slack.com
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Transparent, Meritocratic & Peer-owned: Open Source Technology and the 21st Century Cooperative
This event will bring together experts and innovators in the field of open source technology and the co-operative movement. We'll be examining the similarities in the two movements, in terms of the philosophies and decentralised organising methods. We'll be delving into how and why these movements are breaking away from mainstream for-profit companies and technologies.
Terry Tyldesley
Terry is a producer and musician, and Chair of Resonate, a new, ethical music streaming co-operative harnessing blockchain technology. Resonate is out to create a fairer music ecosystem using a #stream2own model, and by building a variety of artist-empowering services. It is going open source and believes sharing technology is vital for the co-operative movement.
Nic Wistreich
Nic is an active contributor to the open-source community, with a particular interest in the world of film and cinema. He has written on Coops and Open Source for New Internationalist's People Over Capital book, and is an active member of the CiviCRM community. Nic will be exploring the idea that if open source and and coop communities could wise up to their weaknesses and learn from each other’s strengths, there could be not only be a new economic and governance model; but a new method for solving complex problems.
Abi Handley
Abi is a member of Outlandish, a worker owned co-operative, that actively contributes to the open source community and open source projects to deliver the majority of its client work. Abi will talk about the technical reasons for preferring open source technology: a wider community checking each others work leads to better results, particularly in terms of security and ease of use.
Graham Mitchell
Graham is a web developer who has been involved with and founded numerous projects to support the co-operative movement. Most recently he has helped develop platform6.coop, a platform which aims to pool skills, resources and knowledge to facilitate coops to thrive. Graham will talk about how the open source movement can borrow from the co-op movement to become more sustainable.
To find out more about open source technology, visit http://opensource.org/. Please note that this is not an official event hosed by the Open Source Initiative.
Are you an experienced coder, tester or designer that wants to contribute your skills to a socially and ecologically transformative project? Are you new to software and want to join a project that will help you develop your skills? Do you hate a series of vague questions attempting to lure you into something before you know enough to be excited?
Then read on!
The Open Food Network are thrilled to announce our first ever UK Hackathon. Over the weekend of the 4th and 5th of May we’ll be nestling into Newspeak House to spend two days working on real issues for the global open source project. Together we hope to expand our exciting community, bring in new people that believe in what we do and share our experience in building a successful remote open source community. And of course we will share great food, laughs and fun!
Open Source Technology and the 21st Century Cooperative
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Transparent, Meritocratic & Peer-owned: Open Source Technology and the 21st Century Cooperative
This event will bring together experts and innovators in the field of open source technology and the co-operative movement. We'll be examining the similarities in the two movements, in terms of the philosophies and decentralised organising methods. We'll be delving into how and why these movements are breaking away from mainstream for-profit companies and technologies.
Terry Tyldesley
Terry is a producer and musician, and Chair of Resonate, a new, ethical music streaming co-operative harnessing blockchain technology. Resonate is out to create a fairer music ecosystem using a #stream2own model, and by building a variety of artist-empowering services. It is going open source and believes sharing technology is vital for the co-operative movement.
Nic Weistrich
Nic is an active contributor to the open-source community, with a particular interest in the world of film and cinema. He has written on Coops and Open Source for New Internationalist's People Over Capital book, and is an active member of the CiviCRM community. Nic will be exploring the idea that if open source and and coop communities could wise up to their weaknesses and learn from each other’s strengths, there could be not only be a new economic and governance model; but a new method for solving complex problems.
Graham Mitchell
Graham is a web developer who has been involved with and founded numerous projects to support the co-operative movement. Most recently he has helped develop platform6.coop, a platform which aims to pool skills, resources and knowledge to facilitate coops to thrive. Graham will talk about how the open source movement can borrow from the co-op movement to become more sustainable.
To find out more about open source technology, visit http://opensource.org/. Please note that this is not an official event hosed by the Open Source Initiative.
Distilling Agile for Effective Execution - Omar Bashir
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Distilling Agile for Effective Execution
The objective of agility in software is to fulfil evolving customer requirements while delivering high quality software on time and within budget. A number of agile methodologies have been developed promising to achieve this objective. But their adoption has proven to be challenging leading to cargo culting and bikeshedding practices that challenge project success. A review of Agile Manifesto and principles of agile methodologies distills them into 3 fundamental components. This talk suggests that a disciplined pursuit of these fundamentals while adopting agile practices increases an organisation’s chances of success.
Reduction is key to agility. It is of fundamental consequence to not just iteration planning and execution but in all aspects of project execution. Smaller stories simplify estimation, implementation and pivoting in addition to reducing intra-team dependencies. Smaller merge sizes reduce risk of merge conflicts and enable focused reviews leading to better code quality. Fewer technical dependencies make software flexible. Fewer inter-team and intra-team dependencies increase flow. Finally smaller team sizes focused on features and functionality enhance team cohesion and reduce inter-team dependencies.
Focus ensures that teams’ eyes are on the prize. Sprints need to be thematic focused on delivering end-to-end features that can be demonstrated to customers to obtain and act on feedback. Large features may not be completely delivered in a single sprint. In such cases, sprints may be grouped into packages which incrementally deliver features. Hence packages, unlike sprints, may not all be of the same length but all sprints within a package must focus on incremental completion of a feature. Cross functional teams tend to deliver end to end features better than technology specialist teams.
Finally, visibility is essential for teams to review their progress and make arrangement to reduce risks. It is important to create necessary and useful information radiators for the team members. These include sprint dashboards showing the progress on stories, burndown charts and defect trends. Additionally RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies) and logs dependency matrices highlight risks that teams face in achieving their targets.
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About the speaker
Omar Bashir graduated as an avionics systems engineer and transitioned to software engineering after his post graduate education. He has developed systems in diverse domains ranging from defence and telecommunications to logistics and finance. He has been programming in Java since its release in 1996.
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6.30pm: Registration and pizza sponsored by GridGain
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FusionONE, taking place at Tobacco Dock, London, UK, is a new developer conference for Financial Services.
At this hands-on developer day, you will get a world-first play with Finastra’s Open APIs. We will provide hands-on training for developers, to understand how to tap into the APIs of existing cores and start to collaborate to innovate using Microsoft Azure. #CollaborateToInnovate
On the day you’ll also learn how FusionFabric.cloud, the open development platform for banks and Fintechs enables increased developer productivity:
- Build applications faster
- Deploy from the Microsoft Azure cloud using automated application distribution tools
- Monetise your app through FusionStore marketplace
- Reach new audiences, promote to thousands of Finastra's bank clients worldwide
