Microservices promise a scalable architecture, increased flexibility, and better performance. But then you find out what’s actually involved in designing and running a microservices-based architecture. Turns out it’s not that straightforward after all.
Often the discussion around microservices is framed by a false dichotomy between the messy monolith and the lean and mean microservices architecture. Fortunately, there’s a third way: the modularized application. Functional decomposition doesn’t imply that every component has to become its own independent process.
Modularization is about strong encapsulation, well-defined interfaces, and explicit dependencies. Many languages offer in-process modularization features (for example, Java with its all-new module system). In this session we explore the right (and wrong) reasons for going with a microservices architecture, as well as what a modularized application entails. There’s a place for both independently deployed microservices and larger applications with a strong internal modular structure. Choose wisely.
'Migrating to Java Modules'
The module system delivered in Java 9/10 is a great advancement for the Java language, and we would like to migrate existing code to make use of the module system. Migrating an existing code base from the classpath to any kind of module system can be a challenging task.
The Java module system comes with a number of features to ease migration. This includes automatic modules and the unnamed module. While these features provide great value, they do require an understanding of the module system to use them to their full potential.
In this talk we look at examples of migrating real code, based on a Spring/Hibernate application. We’ll face common problems we run into during migration, which gives us practical tips to apply, but also a good understanding of the module framework itself and the various migration features it supports. This talk is an excellent preparation to start migrating your own code.
About the speaker
Sander Mak is a Fellow at Luminis in The Netherlands, where he crafts modular and scalable software, most often on the JVM, but with a touch of TypeScript when needed.
He also is a Java Champion and author of the O'Reilly book 'Java 9 Modularity' (see https://www.javamodularity.com).
As an avid conference speaker, Sander loves sharing knowledge, also through his blog at http://branchandbound.net and as Pluralsight instructor.
You can follow him on Twitter at @Sander_Mak
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Join us on Thursday 10th January for a Project Valhalla and Java event.
Uberto Barbini will start with a short introduction to Valhalla. He'll discuss the remaining open problems and look at examples on the current syntax. Following this, there will be a Valhalla workshop where attendees will be given time to try it out.
After a short break we'll hear from Simon Maple and Heather VanCura who will give us an overview on the future of Java. Following this, you will have the opportunity to download and try out Java 12 early access builds and give your feedback before its release in March 2019.
You can find more information on Project Valhalla here - https://openjdk.java.net/projects/valhalla/
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Uberto Barbini is an expert on designing and building software products, currently working with financial institutions in London. He has more than two decades experience, in many industries in building great sw products. He has been practising TDD and Agile since 2001. He writes technical articles, regularly speaks at conferences around Europe and organises courses. Last but not least he is a passionate polyglot programmer, he started as a kid with a ZxSpectrum he hopes to continue for many years to come.
Heather VanCura leads the JCP Community and Program Office. In her role she is responsible for the day-to-day nurturing, support, and leadership of the community. Heather oversees the JCP.org web site, JSR management, community building, events, marketing, communications, and growth of the membership. She is also a contributor and leader of the community driven Adopt-a-JSR programs. In 2014, Heather became Spec Lead for JSR 364, Broadening JCP Membership, as part of the ongoing JCP.Next effort. Heather is passionate about Java and developer communities. She enjoys trying new sports and fitness activities in her free time.
Simon Maple is the Director of Developer Relations at Snyk, a Java Champion since 2014, JavaOne Rockstar speaker in 2014, Duke’s Choice award winner, Virtual JUG founder and organiser, London Java Community co-leader and RebelLabs author. He is an experienced speaker, having presented at JavaOne, JavaZone, Jfokus, DevoxxUK, DevoxxFR, JavaLand, JMaghreb and many more including many JUG tours. His passion is around user groups and communities. When not traveling, Simon enjoys spending quality time with his family, cooking and eating great food.
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The National DevOps Conference is targeted towards C-level executives interested in learning about the professional movement and its cultural variations that assist, promote and guide a collaborative working relationship between Development and Operations.
The National DevOps Conference is an annual, UK-based conference that provides the IT community at home and abroad with invaluable content from revered industry speakers; practical presentations; executive workshops, facilitated and led by key figures; as well as a market leading exhibition, which will enable delegates to view the latest products and services available to them.
We are pleased to bring you the next event of the Docklands.LJC, a group within the main London Java Community that focuses on the developer community in and around Canary Wharf each month. January's speaker is Dave Farley.
Reactive Systems
21st Century problems cannot be solved with 20th Century software architectures. So why is the starting point for so many projects built on the assumption of a simplistic monolithic, three-layer architecture sat on top of a RDBMS? Hardware has progressed. It has changed many of the assumptions that such architectures were built upon. Modern systems are distributed, deal with massive throughput of data and transactions. Users expect 24/7 service.
The Reactive Manifesto describes what it takes to build systems that meet these demands. Such systems are Responsive, Resilient, Elastic and Message Driven. What does this mean in terms of software architecture and design?
This presentation will introduce these ideas and describe how systems built on these principles work.
Speaker Bio
Dave Farley, founder and director of Continuous Delivery Ltd, is a thought-leader in the field of Continuous Delivery, DevOps and Software Development in general.
Dave is co-author of the Jolt-award winning book 'Continuous Delivery' a regular conference speaker and well known blogger.
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6.15pm: Doors open
6.30pm: Reactive Systems
7.30pm: Questions
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Rolling Your Own: Domain-Specific Languages in Java
Domain-specific languages (DSLs, or “little languages” as they’re sometimes known) can have great benefits for making your source code more readable, correct, and maintainable and overall provide improvements to the efficiency of the whole team. Everybody has seen and used DSLs before, be it good old SQL, or languages like Docker, Kubernetes, Fn Flow, Terraform, or GraphQL. But isn’t it difficult to build and maintain your own language?
In this talk, Dr Steffen Zschaler hopes to convince you otherwise. Through a series of live-coding examples, we will explore different ways of building helpful DSLs quickly. We will start by looking at how to use fluent interfaces for your APIs to build a simple DSL directly embedded in your Java code. While this makes for great readability, we will soon reach the limits of this particular technique. We will then look at building our own DSL outside of Java, complete with IDE integration and translation into full-blown Java code. We will use the Xtext language workbench, which makes it easy to get our DSL off the ground quickly, get great IDE integration with a minimum amount of work, and maintain all of the language definition in a standard Git repository.
About the speaker
Dr Steffen Zschaler is a senior lecturer in computer science at King’s College London. He has been researching domain-specific languages, software modelling, and code generation for almost 20 years and has built a number of tools as well as developing foundational theory. Steffen is always looking to convert people to the benefits of using domain-specific languages as part of their development workflow and is happy to discuss this at length with or without drinks at hand.
Agenda
6.30pm - Doors open
6.45pm - Rolling Your Own: Domain-Specific Languages in Java (approx 90 minutes)
7.30pm - Break
7.50pm - Talk continues
8.35pm - Finish
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BeyondTech is a forum for layered discussions on diversity and accessibility, tech ethics, and tech for good.
Across two days, speakers will look at what enterprises and individuals can do to encourage, manage and communicate diversity. The conference is an open conversation to dissect the paths taken in tech, the decisions we make and where they are leading society as a whole.
Discussions will dive into our accountability for what we create, and for who, why, and how we ship new software and concepts. Through these discussions, we hope we can learn how all of us can benefit from diverse perspectives to create products that have a lasting and positive impact on the future.
Join F# eXchange 2019, the go-to conference to discover and learn all the latest developments in the F# world. Curious about running F# on .NET Core, compiling it to Javascript, deploying F# actors with Akka.NET on Docker, creating cross-platform Xamarin apps, and much, much more? Then come and join us at the F# eXchange in London: meet the international F# community and bring your skills to the next level with some of the world's top experts.
We are excited to announce that Evelina Gabasova and Kit Eason will be sharing keynotes at F# eXchange 2019. We're looking forward to learning from these F# champs and we hope you are too!
iOSCon 2019 - The conference for iOS and Swift Developers
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iOSCon 2019 is the go-to conference to discover and learn all the latest developments in the iOS and Swift world. Join leading experts in the iOS & Swift realm, who will share the latest technologies, tools, ideas and practices developing and evolving within iOS, Swift and Mobile Technology.
We are very excited to announce that 2019's programme will include keynotes from John Sundell, Gwendolyn Weston and Jaimee Newberry. Keep an eye on the programme for all the updates to the line-up!
We are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all. Learn more in our Code of Conduct (https://skillsmatter.com/go/code-of-conduct).
Rolling Your Own: Domain-Specific Languages in Java
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Rolling Your Own: Domain-Specific Languages in Java
Domain-specific languages (DSLs, or “little languages” as they’re sometimes known) can have great benefits for making your source code more readable, correct, and maintainable and overall provide improvements to the efficiency of the whole team. Everybody has seen and used DSLs before, be it good old SQL, or languages like Docker, Kubernetes, Fn Flow, Terraform, or GraphQL. But isn’t it difficult to build and maintain your own language?
In this talk, Dr Steffen Zschaler hopes to convince you otherwise. Through a series of live-coding examples, we will explore different ways of building helpful DSLs quickly. We will start by looking at how to use fluent interfaces for your APIs to build a simple DSL directly embedded in your Java code. While this makes for great readability, we will soon reach the limits of this particular technique. We will then look at building our own DSL outside of Java, complete with IDE integration and translation into full-blown Java code. We will use the Xtext language workbench, which makes it easy to get our DSL off the ground quickly, get great IDE integration with a minimum amount of work, and maintain all of the language definition in a standard Git repository.
About the speaker
Dr Steffen Zschaler is a senior lecturer in computer science at King’s College London. He has been researching domain-specific languages, software modelling, and code generation for almost 20 years and has built a number of tools as well as developing foundational theory. Steffen is always looking to convert people to the benefits of using domain-specific languages as part of their development workflow and is happy to discuss this at length with or without drinks at hand.
Agenda
6.30pm - Doors open
6.45pm - Rolling Your Own: Domain-Specific Languages in Java (approx 90 minutes)
7.30pm - Break
7.50pm - Talk continues
8.35pm - Finish
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Banking in the Cloud: Ultra-High Reliability Architectures
When building the software systems for a bank reliability is key. How do you create a software architecture that provides you with extremely high reliability, whilst still allowing you to deploy code at a reasonably rapid pace? This talk will focus on the experience of Starling Bank, which has spent the past 3 years building and running a bank with just such an architecture. It will explain the construction of the self contained systems that make up the bank, how those systems are designed to be deployed and scaled independently whilst still providing incredibly high reliability, and how this system is expected to scale in the future.
About the speaker
Jason Maude is a coder, coach, debater, and public speaker. He has over a decade of experience working in the financial sector, primarily in creating and delivering software. He is passionate about explaining complex technical concepts to those who are convinced that they won't be able to understand them. He currently works at Starling Bank as their Head of System Analytics and host of the Starling podcast.
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Banking in the Cloud: Ultra-High Reliability Architectures
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Banking in the Cloud: Ultra-High Reliability Architectures
When building the software systems for a bank reliability is key. How do you create a software architecture that provides you with extremely high reliability, whilst still allowing you to deploy code at a reasonably rapid pace? This talk will focus on the experience of Starling Bank, which has spent the past 3 years building and running a bank with just such an architecture. It will explain the construction of the self contained systems that make up the bank, how those systems are designed to be deployed and scaled independently whilst still providing incredibly high reliability, and how this system is expected to scale in the future.
About the speaker
Jason Maude is a coder, coach, debater, and public speaker. He has over a decade of experience working in the financial sector, primarily in creating and delivering software. He is passionate about explaining complex technical concepts to those who are convinced that they won't be able to understand them. He currently works at Starling Bank as their Head of System Analytics and host of the Starling podcast.
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Feeling overwhelmed by the continuously changing technology landscape? Struggling with the pace of disruption, the latest technology tools, platforms, and the shiniest new things? What should you be paying attention to?
Powerful, new digital innovations are ready to transform organisations and industries across Europe. But, which ones?
Join us on December 13th to learn about these technologies that are on the edge of making a big impact and could reach a tipping point in just a few years:
5G
Artificial Intelligence
Quantum Computing
Open Banking
The UK is already leading the democratic world in mass surveillance. Now the Government’s new digital safety strategy suggests they want to lead in censorship as well.
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 Internet censorship in the UK today. From the use of web blocking to combat terrorism and copyright infringement to age verification technology meant to shield children from pornography, we’ll consider the dangers these methods pose to free expression online. These authorities, while often engaging in important work, can be prone to mistakes, operate takedown opaque policies, and often do not offer any independent means of redress.
The event will commemorate the release of a new Open Rights Group report series on UK Internet regulation. Whether you’re a student, campaigner, concerned citizen or activist, you’ll have a chance to discuss important digital rights issues and learn how to get involved.
Internet Futures and Human Rights at Goldsmiths University
https://sites.gold.ac.uk/technologies-worlds-politics/welcome-to-the-technologies-worlds-politics-research-theme/internet-futures-and-human-rights/
Centre for Investigative Journalism
https://tcij.org
The UK is already leading the democratic world in mass surveillance. Now the Government’s new digital safety strategy suggests they want to lead in censorship as well.
The Centre for Investigative Journalism and Goldsmiths University of London present a talk by Open Rights Group’s Executive Director Jim Killock about Internet censorship in the UK today. From the use of web blocking to combat terrorism and copyright infringement to age verification technology meant to shield children from pornography, we’ll consider the dangers these methods pose to free expression online. These authorities, while often engaging in important work, can be prone to mistakes, operate takedown opaque policies, and often do not offer any independent means of redress.
The event will commemorate the release of a new Open Rights Group report series on UK Internet regulation. Whether you’re a student, campaigner, concerned citizen or activist, you’ll have a chance to discuss important digital rights issues and learn how to get involved.
The UK is already leading the democratic world in mass surveillance. Now the Government’s new digital safety strategy suggests they want to lead in censorship as well.
The Centre for Investigative Journalism and Goldsmiths University of London present a talk by Open Rights Group’s Executive Director Jim Killock about Internet censorship in the UK today. From the use of web blocking to combat terrorism and copyright infringement to age verification technology meant to shield children from pornography, we’ll consider the dangers these methods pose to free expression online. We show that these authorities, while often engaging in important work, can be prone to mistakes, operate takedown opaque policies, and often do not offer any independent means of redress.
The event will commemorate the release of a new Open Rights Group report series on UK Internet regulation. Whether you’re a student, campaigner, concerned citizen or activist, you’ll have a chance to discuss important digital rights issues and learn how to get involved.
Housing Co-Ops and Tech Co-Ops: Combining the Movements
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Hundreds of housing co-ops are using technology to manage their communities and activities. Some are even home to progressive technologists, and are hotbeds of radical innovation.
We'll showcase exciting projects, outline difficulties and challenges when it comes to developing and implementing technology, and open a debate on how the tech co-op scene and the housing co-op scene can work together to solve issues in co-ops and in wider society.
Levent Kerimol
Lev works at the new www.communityledhousing.london resource and advice hub, hosted by CDS Co-operatives and funded by the GLA. He was previously in the GLA Regeneration team, leading on affordable workspace, and establishing the Small Sites Small Builders programme (www.london.gov.uk/smallsites). He contributed to the London Plan and has managed a range of masterplans, developments, and public realm projects around London. Lev also worked with LB Lewisham on the early stages of the RUSS project at Church Grove.
Leo Francisco
Leo lives in Gung Ho housing co-op in Birmingham (currently at https://gunghocoop.wordpress.com/) and will talk about their plans for various anti-capitalist/solarpunk tech hijinks: setting up air quality monitoring station, network-wide adblocking, running a tor relay, and peer2peer and punk2punk sharing amongst radical housing co-ops.
Nick Sellen
Semi-nomadic sometime frequenter of https://kanthaus.online/en. He will talk about the co-operatively run house project, the open source software projects it supports (https://foodsharing.de/, https://karrot.world), and showcase the super cool tech infrastructure that monitors resource usage around the house. He's also looking to find people to create a similar project in the UK.
Szczepan Orlowski
Szczepan lives in Sanford housing co-op (http://sanford.coop), the oldest purpose-built housing co-op in the UK. The co-op has recently overhauled G suite in favour of Nextcloud. Earlier this year Sanford kickstarted a Community Land Trust initiative made of housing activists from local community groups and several other housing co-ops in South East London (https://slcash.org/). Szczepan would like to outline the challenges they are facing and discuss potential collaborations between housing and worker co-ops.
The healthcare system is facing massive challenges and opportunities when it comes to adopting new technologies. Technological innovation offers huge opportunities for more convenient, cheaper and better healthcare. But there are massive structural issues getting these to be adopted at scale and fairly distributed. There are also ethical concerns about data ownership, security, and profit.
Join us to hear from a range of experts and join the discussion.
Matthew Honeyman
Matthew is a researcher in the Kings Fund's policy team, contributing to research and analysis on a range of projects across health and social care policy and practice. Matthew has a special interest in the relationship between health care, public policy and digital technology, and writes about how new technology can be deployed in the health system. He is a member of the scientific committee for the Fund’s annual Digital Health and Care Congress.
Matt will provide an overview of digital health R&D, policy and the challenges and dilemmas involved with getting it into practice at scale. His talk will be centred on a couple of interesting cases like GP at Hand and clinical AI tech.
Yasmine Boudiaf
Yasmine makes virtual reality experiences that change people’s behaviour. She uses VR as a training tool to immerse people in challenging social situations.
Yasmine will present on "From idea to delivery; the struggles of innovating with NHS". The long and frustrating journey of producing a VR training pilot for an NHS Trust an the friends made along the way.
Dr.Lisa Murphy
Dr. Murphy is a clinical fellow at Public Health England, endeavouring to use technology to improve population health, clinical care and NHS operations. She is also a fellow at Newspeak House, bringing together the health community with other fields to share knowledge and develop innovative solutions for our common goals.
Lisa's talk will highlight the ethical considerations of health technology, within the domains of health systems, patients and data discovery and dissemination. Combining clinical experience and research, it aims not only to raise emerging issues but stimulate discussion on how we can tackle them.
Emily Savundra and Tomi Gbajumo
Emily and Tomi represent Medefer, a Virtual Hospital that provides specialist healthcare and advice once patients are referred by their GP. They will explain Medefer's vision to reduce avoidable hospital outpatient activity and how this led to the implementation of the UK's first 'Virtual Hospital'.
We are pleased to bring you the next event of the Docklands.LJC, a group within the main London Java Community that focuses on the developer community in and around Canary Wharf each month. November's speaker is Andrzej Grzesik - JavaOne Rockstar and Java Champion.
9, 10, Java 11!
Happy days, Java 11 is on us! Was it Java 10, just moments ago? Let's put the truth to Java's release cadence. What do you need to access the new versions (hint: still FREE!), Where can you get support, and where did JavaFX go. Finishing the picture with a suggested path of migration. These changes are here for a reason: new features, in the platform, more often. We will cover some of the best, as well as talk about exciting projects coming: lambdas, inference, changes to G1, and who is Shenandoah.
Speaker Bio
Andrzej Grzesik likes distributed systems in all shapes and forms. Coding since the age of 8, he loves simplicity and continuous delivery. While he has written in many languages, he favours the JVM. Since "most software problems are people's problems", he has community communities, organizes and speaks at conferences (he is a JavaOne Rockstar!). And he is a Java Champion!
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'Why Devs hate Agile' & 'Journeys to Cloud Native Architecture'
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Why Devs hate Agile and what to do about it
The current success of Agile is based on theft. Agile was stolen from developers and is now imposed back. No wonder developers roll their eyes when Agile is mentioned!
The Agile approaches and toolset are a great way of involving the whole team in the management of a software development effort. But the same tools, in the wrong hands, make very effective micromanagement tools.
Developers need to take back control of development and put quality at the top of the agenda. The latest thinking in Agile - Continuous Delivery, #NoProjects, #NoEstimates, Mobbing, BDD and #BusTech - offer exciting alternatives for those who want to create great software.
Journeys to Cloud Native Architecture: Sun, Sea and Emergencies
For many businesses looking to embrace modern business practices, deliver and scale faster, adopting a Cloud Native mindset and architecture makes sense. In this talk Nicki Watt, from OpenCredo, will explore the realities of making that journey for a number of clients. Far from being a smooth journey to the promised land, during this talk you will also learn about the numerous detours, bumps and challenges encountered along the way. Microservices, Kubernetes, Success, but also Bandages and Crutches; This talk is for you if you want to gain some pragmatic insight into what is entailed with such endeavours.
About the speakers
Allan Kelly helps companies large and small enhance their agility and boost their digital offering. Clients include: Virgin Atlantic, Qualcomm, The Bank of England, Reed Elsevier and many more small innovative companies you've never heard of. He invented Value Poker, Time-Value Profiles and Retrospective Dialogue Sheets. He is the author of "Dear Customer, the truth about IT" and books including "Project Myopia", "Continuous Digital", "Xanpan" and "Business Patterns for Software Developers". His blog is at https://www.allankellyassociates.co.uk/blog/ and on twitter he is @allankellynet
Nicki Watt is the CTO at OpenCredo where she helps organisations to embrace, build and discover innovative solutions to their problems. A techie at heart, her personal motto is “Strive for simple when you can, be pragmatic when you can’t”. Experienced in leading a variety of different development and architectural projects across a wide range of industries, her current focus lies in the cloud, data engineering and continuous integration and delivery space. Nicki is also a co-author of Neo4j In Action, a comprehensive guide to the graph database, Neo4j.
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Do you run a business or organisation in or near Islington? Or are you thinking of setting one up?
Do you want the people who work with your organisation to retain as much profit and control as possible?
If so, a co-operative might be for you! Join us for this event to find out more...
A co-operative is a business that is owned and governed by the people who work in it, or who have a direct stake in it. Generally, co-operatives do not have external share holders, so the value created by the business, stays in the business. We would like to see more co-operatives thrive in Islington, so we are organising an event to support and inform local people.
If you're not in Islington but you're interested in the issues, feel free to come along anyway.
We will have some short presentations by experts and practitioners, followed by an opportunity for you to ask them specific questions, and to share your knowledge with the rest of the group. We will be joined by:
Cllr Asima Shaikh, Islington Council
Cllr Shaikh is Executive Member for Economic Development in Islington. She will speak generally about how the council would like to promote coops as an alternative business ownership model. This is relevant within the context of the council wanting to develop a more inclusive economy which works for all residents. Islington would like to encourage more democratic forms of economic activity that sees local people have meaningful participation and control over their lives.
John Atherton, Co-Ops UK
John is head of membership at Co-Ops UK, the network body for Britain's co-ops which works to promote, develop and unite member-owned businesses. John will provide a high-level overview of the coop economy, putting this into a global context.
Siôn Whellens
Siôn Whellens is Client Services Director at the design and printing coop Calverts, and a coop adviser/mentor with Principle Six partnership. He works mainly with worker, community and consortium coops, and groups planning to start up new coops.
Siôn will focus on the difference between coops and other businesses; converting existing businesses into coops; and how local enterprises can come together to meet their shared commercial and community needs, using cooperative values and organising principles.
Kayleigh Walsh
Kayleigh is a project Manager and Community Developer for Islington-based digital design co-operative Outlandish. Kayleigh also helps to co-ordinate CoTech, a network of more than 30 co-ops in the technology sector, who focus on the worker, customer and end-user needs, rather than on generating private profit. She is also a member of the Co-operatives UK Worker Co-op Council, which shapes strategic priorities for worker co-ops, and acts as a sounding board on important issues.
Kayleigh will discuss the process of setting up a co-operative and what some of the joys and challenges are.
The healthcare system is facing massive challenges and opportunities when it comes to adopting new technologies. Technological innovation offers huge opportunities for more convenient, cheaper and better healthcare. But there are massive structural issues getting these to be adopted at scale and fairly distributed. There are also ethical concerns about data ownership, security, and profit.
Join us to hear from a range of experts and join the discussion.
Yasmine Boudiaf
Yasmine makes virtual reality experiences that change people’s behaviour. She uses VR as a training tool to immerse people in challenging social situations.
Yasmine will present on "From idea to delivery; the struggles of innovating with NHS". The long and frustrating journey of producing a VR training pilot for an NHS Trust an the friends made along the way.
Dr.Lisa Murphy
Dr. Murphy is a clinical fellow at Public Health England, endeavouring to use technology to improve population health, clinical care and NHS operations. She is also a fellow at Newspeak House, bringing together the health community with other fields to share knowledge and develop innovative solutions for our common goals.
Lisa's talk will highlight the ethical considerations of health technology, within the domains of health systems, patients and data discovery and dissemination. Combining clinical experience and research, it aims not only to raise emerging issues but stimulate discussion on how we can tackle them.
Matthew Honeyman
Matthew is a researcher in the Kings Fund's policy team, contributing to research and analysis on a range of projects across health and social care policy and practice. Matthew has a special interest in the relationship between health care, public policy and digital technology, and writes about how new technology can be deployed in the health system. He is a member of the scientific committee for the Fund’s annual Digital Health and Care Congress.
Matt will provide an overview of digital health R&D, policy and the challenges and dilemmas involved with getting it into practice at scale. His talk will be centred on a couple of interesting cases like GP at Hand and clinical AI tech.
Emily Savundra and Tomi Gbajumo
Emily and Tomi represent Medefer, a Virtual Hospital that provides specialist healthcare and advice once patients are referred by their GP. They will explain Medefer's vision to reduce avoidable hospital outpatient activity and how this led to the implementation of the UK's first 'Virtual Hospital'.
The current success of Agile is based on theft. Agile was stolen from developers and is now imposed back. No wonder developers roll their eyes when Agile is mentioned!
The Agile approaches and toolset are a great way of involving the whole team in the management of a software development effort. But the same tools, in the wrong hands, make very effective micromanagement tools.
Developers need to take back control of development and put quality at the top of the agenda. The latest thinking in Agile - Continuous Delivery, #NoProjects, #NoEstimates, Mobbing, BDD and #BusTech - offer exciting alternatives for those who want to create great software.
About the speaker
Allan Kelly helps companies large and small enhance their agility and boost their digital offering. Clients include: Virgin Atlantic, Qualcomm, The Bank of England, Reed Elsevier and many more small innovative companies you've never heard of. He invented Value Poker, Time-Value Profiles and Retrospective Dialogue Sheets. He is the author of "Dear Customer, the truth about IT" and books including "Project Myopia", "Continuous Digital", "Xanpan" and "Business Patterns for Software Developers". His blog is at https://www.allankellyassociates.co.uk/blog/ and on twitter he is @allankellynet
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OWASP Introduction, Welcome and News - Sam Stepanyan, Sherif Mansour, Greg Fragkos
Welcome and a brief update on OWASP Projects, Events and Conferences from the OWASP London Chapter Leaders
"If You Liked It, You Should Have Put Security On It" - Zoë Rose
"Lessons From The Legion (The OWASP London Remix)" - Nick Drage
"A holistic view on Cyber Security in evolutionary terms (food-for-thought)" - Dr. Grigorios Fragkos
Code of Conduct
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Pitch your project idea for how to use technology to advance international development in front of a panel of expert judges and a live audience.
If you don't have a project idea but you're interested in the subject, come along for a chance to hear from innovators and vote of which idea you think it most promising.
This event is intended to be a safe environment for Tech for Good founders who are considering or developing solutions to international development challenges to have their idea and concept constructively challenged by practitioners with real world experience. Our 4 judges will provide feedback and the audience will also be encouraged to participate, ask questions and interrogate the idea.
This event will also be an opportunity for people work in relevant fields to network and collaborate.
There is time for 4 projects to pitch. 5 minute pitches will each be followed by 10 minutes of questions, feedback and suggestions for further consideration. The winning idea will receive more in-depth support from our expert judges after the event.
If you would like to pitch your idea, please take the time to fill in his short questionnaire, and we will chose the most interesting 4 to pitch on the night.
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About the judges:
Andrew Parkes
After starting his professional career as an environmental scientist, Andrew has been an aid worker for the past 13 years, leading strategic initiatives at a global level, and delivering on the ground in conflict zones, natural disasters and development contexts in countries across Africa and South East Asia. Andrew also supports organisational and inter-agency initiatives on supply chain professionalisation, process improvements (reduced bureaucracy) and using technology and innovation where possible.
Abigail Handley
Abi has worked in digital development as a project and programme manager for 14 years, cutting her teeth in BBC Learning working on free to access and progressive elearning content before moving to help BBC World Service develop their social media strategy and train journalists on effective social media practice.
Since joining Outlandish (a worker owned tech co-operative that exists to make the world a fairer place) in 2011 Abi has steered project delivery and operations and been involved in shaping the working practices that make it what it is.
Henri Habershon
Henri has worked for ten years as an aid worker and development practitioner, delivering response projects in post-disaster countries and most recently in developing/emerging markets. In the last few years Henri has been focusing on strategy and business development for NGOs. She recently moved into the private sector where she works for Every1Mobile, a digital technology and services company, building digital solutions to support social change in sub-Saharan Africa. Every1Mobile focuses on finding ways to best leverage digital technology and mobile reach to engage people around social issues.
Tom Lord
Tom has been working in ICT4D with tech co-operative Aptivate since 2004, after searching for a way to use computer skills for equality and social justice. Tom has evaluated the UN Research4Life (R4L) academic journals access system in Ghana, and taught basic IT skills in Zambia. He continues to work on the R4L project, and has also recently managed a migrant support system in the US, a drought insurance project for farmers being piloted in several sub Saharan African countries, a refugee camp rumour tracking system in Bangladesh, and knowledge hubs for both Gender and Development and Climate and Development in the UK.
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This is a pilot event that we hope will turn into a long-term regular series. If you do not get the opportunity to pitch this time round, there may be later opportunities.
This event is being co-hosted by the London International Development Network https://www.facebook.com/groups/LondonDev/
Yasmine makes virtual reality experiences that change people’s behaviour. She uses VR as a training tool to immerse people in challenging social situations.
Yasmine will present on "From idea to delivery; the struggles of innovating with NHS". The long and frustrating journey of producing a VR training pilot for an NHS Trust an the friends made along the way.
Dr.Lisa Murphy
Dr. Murphy is a clinical fellow at Public Health England, endeavouring to use technology to improve population health, clinical care and NHS operations. She is also a fellow at Newspeak House, bringing together the health community with other fields to share knowledge and develop innovative solutions for our common goals.
Lisa's talk will highlight the ethical considerations of health technology, within the domains of health systems, patients and data discovery and dissemination. Combining clinical experience and research, it aims not only to raise emerging issues but stimulate discussion on how we can tackle them.
Matthew Honeyman
Matthew is a researcher in the Kings Fund's policy team, contributing to research and analysis on a range of projects across health and social care policy and practice. Matthew has a special interest in the relationship between health care, public policy and digital technology, and writes about how new technology can be deployed in the health system. He is a member of the scientific committee for the Fund’s annual Digital Health and Care Congress.
Matt will provide an overview of digital health R&D, policy and the challenges and dilemmas involved with getting it into practice at scale. His talk will be centred on a couple of interesting cases like GP at Hand and clinical AI tech.
Emily Savundra and Tomi Gbajumo
Emily and Tomi represent Medefer, a Virtual Hospital that provides specialist healthcare and advice once patients are referred by their GP. They will explain Medefer's vision to reduce avoidable hospital outpatient activity and how this led to the implementation of the UK's first 'Virtual Hospital'.
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The London Java Community (LJC) hosts a 'unconference' every year that allows developers to come together for a full day of discussions, sharing experiences, learning and spending time with our peers in the industry. This is the 11th unconference we've hosted and it's most certainly the premier event of our user group. This year we're sculpting the event on JCrete®, arguably the best Java unconference in the world.
What is an Unconference?
An unconference is a loosely structured, participant-driven meeting. It does not follow the traditional conference program structure. You decide what you want to talk about and which topics you want to discuss. The unconference starts with an empty schedule. No topics are mandated, no separations are made between “speakers” and “audience”. All participants work out a schedule by suggesting, planning, holding and evaluating sessions, collaboratively.
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Bruno Borges (@brunoborges) from Microsoft and Jakub Pilimon (@jakobpilimon) from Pivotal are coming together for a round of cloud education followed by a round of drinks! Plus great food and swag.
Going Reactive with Spring Boot
Reactive programming offers Java developers a way to build message-driven, elastic, resilient, and responsive services...yet many Java developers don't know where to begin. The Reactive Streams initiative provides a baseline and Project Reactor provides a great way to become immediately productive, leveraging reactive capabilities from end to end. Whether you're coming from a Spring MVC environment or a functional perspective, Reactor empowers you to spin up fully reactive Spring Boot 2 applications quickly and efficiently.
Taking Spring Apps for a Spin on Microsoft Azure Cloud
Found your app built and ready for deployment? It’s time to take them for a spin! Whether you pack and deploy as a Docker container, standalone or on Kubernetes, you will learn and see first-hand what open source tools and services are available for bringing your apps to the Cloud with ease and full DevOps pipeline. This talk will bring you up to speed with current best practices for Cloud Native deployment on Azure, and upcoming features.
Speaker Bios:
Bruno is part of the Microsoft Azure Cloud Developer Advocacy group leading a team of great Java advocates in a mission to help Microsoft engineers enhance and advance the Azure developer experience for Java developers. Conference speaker, open source contributor, Java influencer, Twitter junkie, beer sommelier. Before Microsoft, Bruno was Oracle’s Product Manager responsible of Developer Relations Strategy for Oracle Cloud, Java, governance of open source projects on GitHub, and all things related to application development with Oracle technologies.
Jakub is Spring Developer Advocate at Pivotal, blogger, passionate programmer and trainer. He loves to tackle complex enterprises with Domain Driven Design, Test Driven Development and Spring. Being a microservice freak, architecture is his main area of interest too. When he does not program he rides motorbike, skis or grows his beard. Also, here is his DZone MVB awarded blog: pillopl.github.io
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Tonight in conjunction with Hazelcast (https://www.hazelcast.com) and the Hazelcast User Group (https://www.meetup.com/Hazelcast-User-Group-London-HUGL/) we'll be discussing 'Easy and Fast Stream Processing' with Neil Stevenson, Senior Solution Architect at Hazelcast.
In this session you will learn all about directed acyclic graph (DAG) and why it is so powerful for Big Data processing. We will walk you through the evolution of Big Data computing from sequential to DAG as well as other techniques such as SP/SC, Cooperative Multithreading, Data Locality, In-Memory sources and sinks, and WaitFree algorithms that power the third generation of Big Data processing.
This presentation will also feature an introduction to Hazelcast JET, an Apache 2 licensed, DAG-based platform for in-memory streaming and fast batch processing that illustrates many of the techniques found in a third generation Big Data platform.
We will walk you through coding common tasks in Java and then step it up to writing full-blown applications in less than a hundred lines of Java code, for applications such as Bitcoin, Twitter sentiment analysis and real-time monitoring of worldwide commercial aircraft.
About the speaker
Neil is a Solution Architect for Hazelcast, the leading operational data management company. In more than 25 years of work in IT, Neil has designed, developed and debugged a number of software systems for companies large and small.
Agenda
6pm Registration and Networking
6:30pm Talk - Neil Stevenson, Hazelcast
7:30pm Snacks and Drinks. Raffle draw to win a pair of Bose Wireless Headphones (https://www.bose.co.uk/en_gb/products/headphones/over_ear_headphones/quietcomfort-35-wireless-ii.html#v=qc35_ii_black)
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What makes an effective digital story? What tools do you need to win people over to your cause of campaign? How can we keep the stories we tell fresh and relevant to a diverse audience?
Ieva Padagaite
Ieva is a member and director of Blake House. Blake House Cooperative is a video production agency. We are contributing to systemic change through the production of authentic and effective documentary, creative and socially engaged video work for good organisations.
Ieva will briefly rant about who makes bad videos for good organisations, the common mistakes of commissioning video and then calmly explain why video is a power drill in your toolbox and what we can do to use video more effectively for good causes.
Will Hill
Will is Co-Founder of the Stronger Stories movement. After 15 years in creative agency roles working with clients such as Coca-Cola, Unilever, and EDF Energy, Will co-founded Stronger Stories, a not-for-profit movement of storytellers excited about the abundance of good ideas that can have a positive impact on our world.
Will is going to talk about why stories are important in helping good ideas grow, why people with good ideas aren’t always great storytellers and what we can do to help them.
Luke Walter
Luke Walter is a Campaigns Manager with Small Axe, a non-profit creative campaigns and communications agency. Small Axe works to inspire people to act on the most pressing issues of our time by partnering with courageous causes, from trade unions and charities to social enterprises and international coalitions.
Luke will present his talk 'Rethinking visual storytelling: using living ideas instead of flogging dead ones.'
Florencia Minuzzi
Florencia is the writer and co-founder of Tea-Powered Games. They make games that focus on communication and conversation in everyday life.
As an interactive medium, video games are in a prime position to offer stories that engender empathy and understanding through the player's actions. Florencia will talk about making relatable, non-violent games that help people reflect on their own approaches to conversation.
International Development and Humanitarian Aid are huge sectors with complex requirements. It's reassuring that many development agencies are bold and creative when it comes to developing technologies to make their work more efficient and their impact greater. At this Meetup we'll be discussing some examples of successful technologies in the field, and we'll also be looking at technical, political and ethical challenges faced by the sector, and discuss possible solutions.
Speakers include:
Alan Jackson
Alan has worked at the intersection of IT and international development
for 15 years. His key interests are Agile methodologies, Participatory
approaches to international development and Consensus decision making. Alan is a member of Aptivate, a not-for-profit software cooperative that works exclusively in the humanitarian and development sector. They have worked with small and large charities, UN bodies and government departments.
Alan will discuss a rights-based approach to participatory software design. Software mediates relationships between people and represents power structures. Users must be included in the design process of software if they are ultimately to be empowered.
Kate Strivens
Kate is Program Officer at Start Network, an international humanitarian network of 24 leading NGOs working together to quickly fund relief for small to medium-sized crises. Start Network recently worked with Outlandish to create an alerts map, which is a key way that donors, supporters and members find out about current, past and anticipatory funding alerts. This map makes responding to crises far more quick and efficient.
Kate will discuss the need for this type of innovation and the challenges that they faced in realising the project. She will focus on key aspects of the project: the need for greater transparency, the professionalisation of the Start Network brand, and reducing transaction costs.
Chris Man
Chris is a co-founder of FieldWorks, a UK-based social enterprise that champions socially accountable NGOs in low-middle income countries. FieldWorks exists to facilitate mission-driven partnerships between local organisations and funders seeking to maximise impact through direct giving. Their aim is to reduce the burdens of developing strong partnerships with local NGOs, and in doing so increase the number of innovative actors addressing the SDGs.
Chris will be discussing the challenges of shifting power in international development from large multinational development organisations to smaller local NGOs.
Andrew Braye
Andrew is a GIS team lead with British Red Cross and a volunteer for Missing Maps. Andrew will talk about the technology behind Missing Maps, a project that is taking place in disaster zones across the globe, where places are literally 'missing' from any map and first responders lack the information to make valuable decisions regarding relief efforts. Missing Maps is an open, collaborative project which relies of hundreds on volunteers to meet the needs of people affected by disaster.
Jenny Casswell
Jenny is the Insights Manager of the Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation (M4H) programme at the GSMA. GSMA is an umbrella body representing the mobile communications industry and the M4H programme seeks to accelerate the delivery and impact of digital humanitarian assistance.
Jenny will present findings from the M4H research stream which seek to understand how mobile technology can play a greater role in supporting humanitarian assistance, through reducing barriers to access, improving coverage for displaced people, and working with humanitarian organisations and the mobile industry to develop and implement technologies that support people affected by crises.
The National DevOps Conference is targeted towards C-level executives interested in learning about the professional movement and its cultural variations that assist, promote and guide a collaborative working relationship between Development and Operations.
The National DevOps Conference is an annual, UK-based conference that provides the IT community at home and abroad with invaluable content from revered industry speakers; practical presentations; executive workshops, facilitated and led by key figures; as well as a market leading exhibition, which will enable delegates to view the latest products and services available to them.
Most of us are familiar with the game tic-tac-toe. It is used frequently as a coding exercise, to implement the rules of the game in a computer program. But how quickly can it be done? And how about in a functional style, how fast can it be implemented while avoiding mutating state?
Codurance crafter Richard Wild thinks it can be done in 45 minutes, while driven completely by tests. Along the way he demonstrates the power of the functional programming features introduced in Java 8 for writing concise, straightforward code, and shows also that a problem domain and its solution do not always have to closely resemble each other.
Java EE: Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah! Stayin Alive!
There are multiple ways to get into Java software engineering. Many people will have heard of Java EE. They might be aware of the history of enterprise Java computing, some will know about the origins of Java EE, its controversial past, but also the surprising imaginative concepts of this fundamental piece of commercial and open source work, and how Java EE was a standard bearer for most of the life of the Java Virtual Machine.
This talk will give a background in Java EE, we will pick up the pieces and find out the answers to several questions. We will examine several terrific innovations, we will also find why these were simply not enough to beat the competition. We will look at Java EE’s prognosis and answer 'How will Jakarta EE meet the challenge of micro-services oriented architecture M/SOA?' and 'How does the Microprofile deliver the sustainable promise for the current cloud-native and future digital applications?'
Speaker Bios
Richard Wild
Richard has been programming for his living since 1998, but he has loved the craft ever since teaching himself assembly language as a teenager on the family computer. He apprenticed for many years grinding data on Oracle databases, picking up C, Java, C# and other languages along the way. At present he primarily programs in Java, but he is very interested in functional programming with Clojure.
Richard was switched on to Software Craftsmanship by some excellent agile coaches who taught XP, and through the association of some inspiring Software Craftspeople he has been fortunate to work with. In addition to honing his craft, he loves mentoring and teaching others how to practice TDD and how to write clean pragmatic code. Aside from programming, Richard is a keen club runner with the Bedford Harriers, doing all distances from 5K to marathons. He also enjoys cycling, blogging and making music. Richard lives in Northampton with his partner Sarah.
Peter Pilgrim
Peter is a Technical Architect and Cloud-Native Platform Engineer. He develops Java and Polyglot software, usually for `Bluechip Enterprises'. He is currently the Managing Director of PEAT LTD.
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Join us for an opportunity to pitch your project idea for how to use technology to advance international development. If you don't have a project idea but you're interested in the subject, come along for a chance to hear from innovators and vote of which idea you think it most promising.
This event is intended to be a safe environment for Tech for Good founders and ideators who are considering or developing solutions to international development challenges to have their idea and concept constructively challenged by practitioners with real world experience. A panel of 4 expert judges will provide expert feedback and the audience will also be encouraged to feedback, ask questions and interrogate the idea.
This event will also be an opportunity for people work in relevant fields to network and collaborate.
There will be time for 4 projects to pitch. 5 minute pitches will each be followed by 10 minutes of questions, feedback and suggestions for further consideration. The winning idea will receive more in-depth support from our expert judges after the event.
Please register your general audience attendance by signing up here on MeetUp.
If you would like to pitch your idea, please take the time to fill in his short questionnaire, and we will chose the most interesting 4 to pitch on the night.
https://chris2865.typeform.com/to/SDS4DF
Please note that this is a pilot event that we hope will turn into a long-term regular series. So if you do not get the opportunity to pitch this time round, there may be later opportunities.
This event is being co-hosted by the London International Development Network https://www.facebook.com/groups/LondonDev/
Join us for an opportunity to pitch your project idea for how to use technology to advance international development. If you don't have a project idea but you're interested in the subject, come along for a chance to hear from innovators and vote of which idea you think it most promising.
This event is intended to be a safe environment for Tech for Good founders and ideators who are considering or developing solutions to international development challenges to have their idea and concept constructively challenged by practitioners with real world experience. A panel of 4 expert judges will provide expert feedback and the audience will also be encouraged to feedback, ask questions and interrogate the idea.
This event will also be an opportunity for people work in relevant fields to network and collaborate.
There will be time for 4 projects to pitch. 5 minute pitches will each be followed by 10 minutes of questions, feedback and suggestions for further consideration. The winning idea will receive more in-depth support from our expert judges after the event.
Please register your general audience attendance by signing up here on MeetUp.
If you would like to pitch your idea, please take the time to fill in his short questionnaire, and we will chose the most interesting 4 to pitch on the night.
https://chris2865.typeform.com/to/SDS4DF
Please note that this is a pilot event that we hope will turn into a long-term regular series. So if you do not get the opportunity to pitch this time round, there may be later opportunities.
How low can you go? Ultra low latency Java in the real world
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How low can you go? Ultra low latency Java in the real world
Join us for a state of the world update on the latest technologies used in high frequency trading. In this talk we'll look at:
Java's place in the ultra low latency world
Designing an ultra low latency contract
The necessity for DevOps
Microservices in the ultra low latency space
Come along to this session for a discussion of coding techniques and best practices for extreme low latency coding.
About the Speaker
Daniel Shaya has been coding in Java since it was in beta. For the past 10 years he's been working on ultra low latency banking systems. Previous to his consulting roles at investment banks Daniel spent a number of years working at Chronicle, the open source low latency Java framework.
Agenda:
6pm: Doors open/Registration
6.30pm: How low can you go? Ultra low latency Java in the real world - Daniel Shaya (running time approximately 1 hour)
7.30pm: Q+A
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What’s your data challenge?
Is your non-profit collecting supporter data, fundraising data, or programme reporting data?
What can be done with it all? Do you have hopes for better using it to achieve your organisation goals? Or maybe to cut down your admin time, spot opportunities or better engage with your supporters?
If you work at a charity or non-profit, the Data Breakfast is for you!
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The Data Breakfast is a free networking and problem solving event at London’s Space4. The inaugural Breakfast will focus on charities and non-profits, to help them unlock the opportunities their data gathering offers.
Who’s it for?
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Everyone’s welcome - non-profits, charities, developers, tech agencies, business advisors. We especially welcome anyone working or interested in tech for good.
If you’re a non-profit:
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Over coffee we’ll ask you to simply tell us your ‘dream’, ‘cream’ and ‘bread & butter’ data problems that you’d like help with.
Maybe your ‘bread & butter’ problem is: “Me and my team need to better understand our organisation’s data”
Your ‘cream’ is something that, if solved, would make a real difference to your work. E.g. “It’d be great if we could have an up-to-date visualisations of our data, because the manual monthly reporting is such a chore.”
And your dream? Think big. For example: “It’d be awesome if AI could use our data to make recommendations on how to increase recurring donations”
Agency, developer or other?
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Simply be ready to tell the group:
-- Bread & butter: What your core offerings are. Yep, your bread & butter work.
-- Cream: The interesting, bigger challenges you’d like to take on.
-- Dream: The biggie. The kind of projects you’re aching to work on; the clients you’d love to help.
So bring your problems and offerings! We’ll host croissant-powered discussions and also form groups of common interest. And with your peers and data experts on hand, you’ll likely hear possible approaches to help develop your thinking.
We are living in a time of significant change in terms of the work that we do. Traditional forms of work-based organising are being eroded and unions are struggling to maintain their levels of membership, particularly when it come to freelancers and non-contracted workers. Moreover, with the rise of platforms facilitating low-waged, low-security work, technology is currently seen as a force for eroding workers rights.
However, there are examples of innovative technology being used for good, which we will discuss and showcase at this event. We will also examine what more needs to be done to harness technology to support workers and workplaces.
Our speakers include:
Dan Tomlinson
Dan is a researcher at the Resolution Trust – where he’s taken a particular research interest in trends in trade union membership and has worked with Bethnal Green Ventures to launch the WorkerTech programme, which supports start-ups looking to make use of technology to improve work for the better.
Dan will talk about the power imbalances in the workplace, and how we run the risk of technology being used to worsen outcomes for workers in the UK, rather than improve them. But it doesn’t have to be like this. There are reasons to be optimistic about the capacity of unions and other organisations to use tech to improve the world of work.
Nat Whalley
Nat is Executive Director of Organise, a digital platform that gives people the tools, network and confidence to collectively make change happen at work. Nat will talk about how and why she set up Organise, the difficulties she has encountered on the way and the aspirations for the future.
Harry Robbins
Harry will talk about the importance of technology to the labour movement and the opportunities and threats that digital technologies offer to co-operatives, unions and mass-political parties.
He'll talk about the emergence of new worker-owned networks such as CoTech, Happy Dev, TechWorker and Enspiral - and their power to transform both the technology industry and the labour movement. He'll cover the material conditions that have led to the emergence of these structures and some of the challenges that will determine if they succeed or fail.
Harry will also crowdsource ideas to feed into the emerging discussion of the viability of a "trade union digital service" to co-ordinate the digital strategies of trade unions. You can see his latest blog post about this here: https://outlandish.com/blog/a-call-for-the-creation-of-a-trades-unions-digital-service/
Imogen Farhan
Imogen is Policy and External Affairs Officer at IPSE - the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self Employed. IPSE is a not-for-profit organisation representing the 4.8 million self-employed people in the UK. It is owned and run by its members. IPSE advocates for freelancers through working with government and industry.
Imogen will present IPSE's research on the gig economy, which highlights the diversity of those working in this sector. She will discuss the policy changes that IPSE has developed to better support freelancers, including improving access to training opportunities, better parental rights and defining self-employment in law.
Speaking at conferences, meetups and the like can be a major boost to your career. Getting started though can be tough. Not only do you need to summon the courage to stand up in front of your peers you often find that to get accepted to a conference you need a video of you speaking. Talk about a catch-22.
The LJC, RecWorks and IBM team want to help new speakers overcome these challenges.
Track 1: Dedicated Women's Track
Our dedicated women's track will give new female speakers the chance to get feedback and advice from developers and conference speakers including Holly Cummins, Margriet Groenendijk, Stefania Chaplin and Katherine Stanley.
Track 2
New speakers will get the chance to get feedback and advice from seasoned developers who speak at conferences and meetups including Richard Warburton and Martijn Verburg.
If you want to take advantage of this opportunity to practise speaking and get that video, sign up today! The only requirement is that you come along with a 5 minute lightning talk all ready to go. The subject can be on anything related to computers. No slides are necessary (though you can bring them if it helps)
IBM will be providing a professional film crew who will film each speaker and create individual 5 minute videos. Only 20 places are available so please register as soon as possible.
To make this more realistic we need more than new speakers - we need an audience. So even if you don’t want to speak at a conference come along and support those brave developers who do. All attendees will be entered into our raffle for a chance to win prizes including JetBrains Licenses and O'Reilly books.
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Tonight's venue and refreshments are kindly provided by IBM. Big thanks to JetBrains and O'Reilly Media for providing the raffle prizes.
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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Most of us are familiar with the game tic-tac-toe. It is used frequently as a coding exercise, to implement the rules of the game in a computer program. But how quickly can it be done? And how about in a functional style, how fast can it be implemented while avoiding mutating state?
Codurance crafter Richard Wild thinks it can be done in 45 minutes, while driven completely by tests. Along the way he demonstrates the power of the functional programming features introduced in Java 8 for writing concise, straightforward code, and shows also that a problem domain and its solution do not always have to closely resemble each other.
Java EE: Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah! Stayin Alive!
There are multiple ways to get into Java software engineering. Many people will have heard of Java EE. They might be aware of the history of enterprise Java computing, some will know about the origins of Java EE, its controversial past, but also the surprising imaginative concepts of this fundamental piece of commercial and open source work, and how Java EE was a standard bearer for most of the life of the Java Virtual Machine.
This talk will give a background in Java EE, we will pick up the pieces and find out the answers to several questions. We will examine several terrific innovations, we will also find why these were simply not enough to beat the competition. We will look at Java EE’s prognosis and answer 'How will Jakarta EE meet the challenge of micro-services oriented architecture M/SOA?' and 'How does the Microprofile deliver the sustainable promise for the current cloud-native and future digital applications?'
Speaker Bios
Richard Wild
Richard has been programming for his living since 1998, but he has loved the craft ever since teaching himself assembly language as a teenager on the family computer. He apprenticed for many years grinding data on Oracle databases, picking up C, Java, C# and other languages along the way. At present he primarily programs in Java, but he is very interested in functional programming with Clojure.
Richard was switched on to Software Craftsmanship by some excellent agile coaches who taught XP, and through the association of some inspiring Software Craftspeople he has been fortunate to work with. In addition to honing his craft, he loves mentoring and teaching others how to practice TDD and how to write clean pragmatic code. Aside from programming, Richard is a keen club runner with the Bedford Harriers, doing all distances from 5K to marathons. He also enjoys cycling, blogging and making music. Richard lives in Northampton with his partner Sarah.
Peter Pilgrim
Peter is a Technical Architect and Cloud-Native Platform Engineer. He develops Java and Polyglot software, usually for `Bluechip Enterprises'. He is currently the Managing Director of PEAT LTD.
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A big thank you to Skills Matter for sponsoring this event.
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
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International Development and Humanitarian Aid are huge sectors with complex requirements. It's reassuring that many development agencies are bold and creative when it comes to developing technologies to make their work more efficient and their impact greater. At this Meetup we'll be discussing some examples of successful technologies in the field, and we'll also be looking at technical, political and ethical challenges faced by the sector, and discuss possible solutions.
Speakers include:
Alan Jackson
Alan has worked at the intersection of IT and international development
for 15 years. His key interests are Agile methodologies, Participatory
approaches to international development and Consensus decision making. Alan is a member of Aptivate, a not-for-profit software cooperative that works exclusively in the humanitarian and development sector. They have worked with small and large charities, UN bodies and government departments.
Alan will discuss a rights-based approach to participatory software design. Software mediates relationships between people and represents power structures. Users must be included in the design process of software if they are ultimately to be empowered.
Kate Strivens
Kate is Program Officer at Start Network, an international humanitarian network of 24 leading NGOs working together to quickly fund relief for small to medium-sized crises. Start Network recently worked with Outlandish to create an alerts map, which is a key way that donors, supporters and members find out about current, past and anticipatory funding alerts. This map makes responding to crises far more quick and efficient.
Kate will discuss the need for this type of innovation and the challenges that they faced in realising the project. She will focus on key aspects of the project: the need for greater transparency, the professionalisation of the Start Network brand, and reducing transaction costs.
Chris Man
Chris is a co-founder of FieldWorks, a UK-based social enterprise that champions socially accountable NGOs in low-middle income countries. FieldWorks exists to facilitate mission-driven partnerships between local organisations and funders seeking to maximise impact through direct giving. Their aim is to reduce the burdens of developing strong partnerships with local NGOs, and in doing so increase the number of innovative actors addressing the SDGs.
Chris will be discussing the challenges of shifting power in international development from large multinational development organisations to smaller local NGOs.
Andrew Braye
Andrew is a GIS team lead with British Red Cross and a volunteer for Missing Maps. Andrew will talk about the technology behind Missing Maps, a project that is taking place in disaster zones across the globe, where places are literally 'missing' from any map and first responders lack the information to make valuable decisions regarding relief efforts. Missing Maps is an open, collaborative project which relies of hundreds on volunteers to meet the needs of people affected by disaster.
We believe that more diverse teams create better workplaces, and better products.
Much more needs to be done to recognise and celebrate the role that LGBTQ+ people play in the tech scene and beyond. We need to make sure that we introduce structures and checks into our teams to make them truly diverse. We are also living in a time when technology is starting to embody social bias. What can we do to counteract this?
This event will showcase inspiring projects that advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and recognition. Short talks from our speakers will be followed by an opportunity to network with drinks.
Our speakers include:
- Emma Green is the Head of Diversity and Inclusion at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. She oversees D&I work across HR and public policy, and has a particular interest in the role of business in social justice. She’ll be talking about external D&I impact in the context of organisational culture and development, with some tips for making change locally and nationally.
- Bisi Alimi is an “Angelic Troublemaker Incarnate”- PASSIONATE and
ENERGETIC public speaker, storyteller, television pundit, campaigner,
actor and Vloggers. His expertise on Social Justice ranges from Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity to Race and Race Relations, Feminism, Education and Poverty Alleviation. He has done a lot of work around “Intersexuality” and currently on a global Intersectionality tour. Bisi will talk about LGBT rights in Nigeria. He will share his story and insights into how tech can make a difference.
- Jac Bastian is Head of Education at Diversity Role Models, a charity that actively seeks to embed inclusion and empathy in the next generation. Through working with young people and the adults around them, Diversity Role Models aim to create an inclusive education system where all students feel accepted, supported and encouraged to be themselves and thrive.
Jac will introduce how Diversity Role Models use positive LGBT+ and ally role models to empower young people. Jac will explore how DRM use the power of storytelling to prevent homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying and how we can work together with teachers, governors, parents and carers to ensure schools are more LGBT+ inclusive.
- Dr J, Harbinger of Change at ThoughtWorks, brings queer theory (with a slice of humour) into the tech space, building on Thoughtworks’ dedication to inclusivity and intersectionality. Dr J takes a strategic view of cultural change in Technology through a few lenses, notably queer theory.
Dr J will be presenting on 'The fine art of not fitting in; Being Genderqueer in a corporate world'.
It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that diverse teams produce better outcomes. But how do we make a diverse team inclusive? How do we make space for differences in thinking, and understanding on our teams.
Through personal stories of an adult life in technology, queer theory, and practical examples that cost nothing to implement (they don’t even need policies!) this talk shows how you can make space in your team for difference.
International Development and Humanitarian Aid are huge sectors with complex requirements. It's reassuring that many development agencies are bold and creative when it comes to developing technologies to make their work more efficient and their impact greater. At this Meetup we'll be discussing some examples of successful technologies in the field, and we'll also be looking at technical, political and ethical challenges faced by the sector, and discuss possible solutions.
Speakers include:
Alan Jackson
Alan has worked at the intersection of IT and international development
for 15 years. His key interests are Agile methodologies, Participatory
approaches to international development and Consensus decision making. Alan is a member of Aptivate, a not-for-profit software cooperative that works exclusively in the humanitarian and development sector. They have worked with small and large charities, UN bodies and government departments.
Alan will discuss a rights-based approach to participatory software design. Software mediates relationships between people and represents power structures. Users must be included in the design process of software if they are ultimately to be empowered.
Kate Strivens
Kate is Program Officer at Start Network, an international humanitarian network of 24 leading NGOs working together to quickly fund relief for small to medium-sized crises. Start Network recently worked with Outlandish to create an alerts map, which is a key way that donors, supporters and members find out about current, past and anticipatory funding alerts. This map makes responding to crises far more quick and efficient. Kate will discuss the need for this type of innovation and the challenges that they faced in realising the project.
Chris Man
Chris is a co-founder of FieldWorks, a UK-based social enterprise that champions socially accountable NGOs in low-middle income countries. FieldWorks exists to facilitate mission-driven partnerships between local organisations and funders seeking to maximise impact through direct giving. Their aim is to reduce the burdens of developing strong partnerships with local NGOs, and in doing so increase the number of innovative actors addressing the SDGs.
Chris will be discussing the challenges of shifting power in international development from large multinational development organisations to smaller local NGOs.
Andrew Braye
Andrew is a GIS team lead with British Red Cross and a volunteer for Missing Maps. Andrew will talk about the technology behind Missing Maps, a project that is taking place in disaster zones across the globe, where places are literally 'missing' from any map and first responders lack the information to make valuable decisions regarding relief efforts. Missing Maps is an open, collaborative project which relies of hundreds on volunteers to meet the needs of people affected by disaster.
We are living in a time of significant change in terms of the work that we do. Traditional forms of work-based organising are being eroded and unions are struggling to maintain their levels of membership, particularly when it come to freelancers and non-contracted workers. Moreover, with the rise of platforms facilitating low-waged, low-security work, technology is currently seen as a force for eroding workers rights.
However, there are examples of innovative technology being used for good, which we will discuss and showcase at this event. We will also examine what more needs to be done to harness technology to support workers and workplaces.
Our speakers include:
Dan Tomlinson
Dan is a researcher at the Resolution Trust – where he’s taken a particular research interest in trends in trade union membership and has worked with Bethnal Green Ventures to launch the WorkerTech programme, which supports start-ups looking to make use of technology to improve work for the better.
Dan will talk about the power imbalances in the workplace, and how we run the risk of technology being used to worsen outcomes for workers in the UK, rather than improve them. But it doesn’t have to be like this. There are reasons to be optimistic about the capacity of unions and other organisations to use tech to improve the world of work.
Nat Whalley
Nat is Executive Director of Organise, a digital platform that gives people the tools, network and confidence to collectively make change happen at work. Nat will talk about how and why she set up Organise, the difficulties she has encountered on the way and the aspirations for the future.
Harry Robbins
Harry will talk about the importance of technology to the labour movement and the opportunities and threats that digital technologies offer to co-operatives, unions and mass-political parties.
He'll talk about the emergence of new worker-owned networks such as CoTech, Happy Dev, TechWorker and Enspiral - and their power to transform both the technology industry and the labour movement. He'll cover the material conditions that have led to the emergence of these structures and some of the challenges that will determine if they succeed or fail.
Harry will also crowdsource ideas to feed into the emerging discussion of the viability of a "trade union digital service" to co-ordinate the digital strategies of trade unions. You can see his latest blog post about this here: https://outlandish.com/blog/a-call-for-the-creation-of-a-trades-unions-digital-service/
What’s your data challenge?
Is your non-profit collecting supporter data, fundraising data, or programme reporting data?
What can be done with it all? Do you have hopes for better using it to achieve your organisation goals? Or maybeto cut down your admin time, spot opportunities or better engage with your supporters?
If you work at a charity or non-profit, the Data Breakfast is for you!
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The Data Breakfast is a free networking and problem solving event at London’s Space4. The inaugural Breakfast will focus on charities and non-profits, to help them unlock the opportunities their data gathering offers.
Who’s it for?
Everyone’s welcome - non-profits, charities, developers, tech agencies, business advisors. We especially welcome anyone working or interested in tech for good.
If you’re a non-profit:
Over coffee we’ll ask you to simply tell us your ‘dream’, ‘cream’ and ‘bread & butter’ data problems that you’d like help with.
Maybe your ‘bread & butter’ problem is: “Me and my team need to better understand our organisation’s data”
Your ‘cream’ is something that, if solved, would make a real difference to your work. E.g. “It’d be great if we could have an up-to-date visualisations of our data, because the manual monthly reporting is such a chore.”
And your dream? Think big. For example: “It’d be awesome if AI could use our data to make recommendations on how to increase recurring donations”
Agency, developer or other?
Simply be ready to tell the group:
Bread & butter: What your core offerings are. Yep, your bread & butter work.
Cream: The interesting, bigger challenges you’d like to take on.
Dream: The biggie. The kind of projects you’re aching to work on; the clients you’d love to help.
So bring your problems and offerings! We’ll host croissant-powered discussions and also form groups of common interest. And with your peers and data experts on hand, you’ll likely hear possible approaches to help develop your thinking.
What makes an effective digital story? What tools do you need to win people over to your cause of campaign? How can we keep the stories we tell fresh and relevant to a diverse audience?
Ieva Padagaite
Ieva is a member and director of Blake House. Blake House Cooperative is a video production agency. We are contributing to systemic change through the production of authentic and effective documentary, creative and socially engaged video work for good organisations.
Ieva will briefly rant about who makes bad videos for good organisations, the common mistakes of commissioning video and then calmly explain why video is a power drill in your toolbox and what we can do to use video more effectively for good causes.
Will Hill
Will is Co-Founder of the Stronger Stories movement. After 15 years in creative agency roles working with clients such as Coca-Cola, Unilever, and EDF Energy, Will co-founded Stronger Stories, a not-for-profit movement of storytellers excited about the abundance of good ideas that can have a positive impact on our world.
Will is going to talk about why stories are important in helping good ideas grow, why people with good ideas aren’t always great storytellers and what we can do to help them.
Luke Walter
Luke Walter is a Campaigns Manager with Small Axe, a non-profit creative campaigns and communications agency. Small Axe works to inspire people to act on the most pressing issues of our time by partnering with courageous causes, from trade unions and charities to social enterprises and international coalitions.
Luke will present his talk 'Rethinking visual storytelling: using living ideas instead of flogging dead ones.'
Join us for a day of collaboration, building new tools to help people exercise their data rights.
Data Rights Finder is a new tool to help people understand their data rights. Even when people are aware of their rights around how data about them is used, the information they need to exercise them is often buried in long privacy policies.
Using a new open source dataset of machine-readable privacy policies, Data Rights Finder makes it quicker for people to find out how organisations use data and make GDPR-related requests.
We are looking for developers to join us for a hackday on October 13. Together, we’ll work with the dataset and API to imagine and develop creative ways that Data Rights Finder could be used to help people with challenges around data use and protection. Whether that’s finding out what information a company has about them, or challenging a decision around a loan application.
