Why are co-ops relevant in a time of political and economic crisis?
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We're looking forward to welcoming you to the first CoTech Meetup for a while! Before 2020 we were already witnessing growing levels of inequality and precarious work. Now, with the effects of the global coronavirus pandemic colliding with the UK's exit from the EU, we seem to be entering a period of massive economic and social change. This may well lead to spiralling levels of unemployment.
How could coops grow and form to change this prediction?
Join us for an informal evening, with short presentations for 4 great speakers, and an opportunity for discussion.
e2e Tests With BDD Specifications & Tales from a front-end dev on call
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Tales from a front-end dev going on call
Steve Hornsey will share his experience of going on call, what he learned and how it made him a better developer.
The Ultimate Mashup: Combining e2e Tests With BDD Specifications
Testing the workflow of any application can be challenging to automate. Unit tests are great to perform isolated testing on a given frontend component. However, it proves difficult to test a full screen workflow across components, nevermind the interactions taking place across the technology stack.
End to end testing frameworks provide an opportunity to address such challenges. However, even though such obstacles are overcome, the testing format adopted by e2e testing frameworks isn’t really stakeholder friendly. It can take time for new developers to understand the workflow and tests, especially if they are new to e2e testing.
In this talk Carly will share her experiences on how combining Behavioural Driven Development specifications with e2e testing frameworks can help produce more accessible user testing. She’ll also share an example of best practices using Cucumber and Protractor, and discuss the options you have when looking to test your application end to end.
About the speakers
Steve Hornsey is a full stack developer at Elliptic. You can find him on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevehornseydeveloper/
Carly Richmond is a technical lead at Morgan Stanley, working within the Treasury Technology area. Before becoming a developer in the firm’s graduate programme in 2011, she was a Software Engineering student at Glasgow University. She is an Agile evangelist, UI enthusiast, regular blogger on Medium and avid tea drinker.
This event is organised by RecWorks on behalf of the Front Endgineers London.
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://frontendgineerslondon.slack.com
Sign up here if you're not a member: https://frontendgineers.typeform.com/to/olzT58
AI for Good Meetup - Data to Combat Domestic Abuse and Violence
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This is a special edition meetup focused on data gathering and analytics to combat domestic abuse and violence.
Over recent months, thanks to an experienced charity worker, we got in contact with big and small charities and noticed how they produce and collect data but don’t know how to make the most out of it (such as providing better and more support to those experiencing abuse, being more efficient, fundraising, etc.). So, we agreed we would find possible ways to put charities in contact with data experts as well as researchers in academia. Read more here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15E418mFqZ8CdsHFvFlplJYA28Jkx3Tr4cnLOfofv9vc/edit?usp=sharing.
At this point, we would like to invite Data Analysts, Data Scientists, Data Engineers and Academic Researchers in the Combat Domestic Abuse & Violence space to provide input and collaborate on a pilot project.
If you are one of those or you know anyone with a relevant skillset - please join and invite your friends to this meetup by sharing this page link with them. Furthermore, we welcome people from all backgrounds as long as they are passionate to collaborate and use their skills for the greater good.
Some house rules to join this meetup:
- Please sign the T&Cs regarding contributing to community projects: http://bit.ly/2lW5NLR
- Join our slack to stay tuned: http://bit.ly/2p8icye
Agenda:
18:00-18:10 Introduction
18:10-18:20 Checking the latest status
18:20-19:00 Project discussion and next steps
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Photo credit: Dan Meyers from Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/photos/hluOJZjLVXc
We are hosting an Interview style discussion with financial technology founders globally touching upon decentralized finance, blockchain technology, cryptocurrency, digital securities & fintech and discussing industry trends, challenges, corporate and investment strategy. This month we are excited to be hosting Phil Mochan of Koine for a quick one-hour chat. Koine is a modern financial institution which delivers safeguarding and transactional services using digital assets and digital fiat money.
Date and Time: Thursday, February 25 at 9am PST (12pm EST, 5pm GMT)
Title: Chat with Phil Mochan of Founder, Head of Strategy & Corporate Development Koine Money Ltd.
Live Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZCHs6aVQQ92UOrvVrciXfg
Speaker: Phil Mochan, Koine Money Ltd., https://www.linkedin.com/in/philmochan/?originalSubdomain=uk
With over 35 years of international experience, Phil has founded, held C-level positions and managed international teams at a number of businesses across a diverse range of industries including technology, payments, telecoms and media.
A six-year stint in British Telecm in Product Management for the pre-internet business services preceded nearly a decade of strategic consulting to European enterprises.
As a principal financier, Phil completed a number of significant transactions exploiting regulatory arbitrage, and managed international teams for projects worth hundreds of millions in ITC outsourcing and management consulting businesses.
Phil has founded several businesses in media and payments, and has held non-executive director positions in various high growth companies in telecoms and technology.
In his youth he co-founded an international wargaming fanzine and produce two hit computer games. He now mentors young entrepreneurs with a strong interest in the history of economic development and foresees the coming revolution arising from the digitalisation of finance.
Business Summary: Koine Money Ltd., www.koine.com
Koine offers segregated, institutional custody & settlement of digital assets, providing essential Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI).
This brings together the full suite of governance, compliance, risk management and audit of real-world asset trading to the digital asset ecosystem for the first time. Institutional clients can engage with digital assets while fully adhering to regulated market practices.
Koine’s 'Digital Air Locks' technology embeds ‘EAL7+’ military grade security to secure digital assets and prevent them being compromised.
Its ground-up architecture, team, governance and systems make it the only choice for the professional trading community, delivering a truly institutional service for all trading styles, from passive holding to high-frequency trading, across multiple venues with real-time gross settlement.
Host: Alfred Ritter, Montgomery Securities, https://www.linkedin.com/in/j-alfred-ritter-3966726/
Alfred Ritter, CEO and Managing Partner of Montgomery Securities providing investment banking services to financial technology companies, including the private placement and underwriting debt and equity securities, and mergers and acquisitions.
Kindest regards,
Zee & Team
For future speakers & sponsors please drop us a line/ text zee@fundsurfer.com +447588812528
The Ultimate Mashup: Combining e2e Tests With BDD Specifications
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***This is a placeholder for the event being run on Eventbrite. Please sign up with your full name at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ultimate-mashup-combining-e2e-tests-with-bdd-specifications-tickets-141820562119?aff=meetup ***
Testing the workflow of any application can be challenging to automate. Unit tests are great to perform isolated testing on a given frontend component. However, it proves difficult to test a full screen workflow across components, nevermind the interactions taking place across the technology stack.
End to end testing frameworks provide an opportunity to address such challenges. However, even though such obstacles are overcome, the testing format adopted by e2e testing frameworks isn’t really stakeholder friendly. It can take time for new developers to understand the workflow and tests, especially if they are new to e2e testing.
In this talk Carly will share her experiences on how combining Behavioural Driven Development specifications with e2e testing frameworks can help produce more accessible user testing. She’ll also share an example of best practices using Cucumber and Protractor, and discuss the options you have when looking to test your application end to end.
About the speaker
Carly Richmond is a technical lead at Morgan Stanley, working within the Treasury Technology area. Before becoming a developer in the firm’s graduate programme in 2011, she was a Software Engineering student at Glasgow University. She is an Agile evangelist, UI enthusiast, regular blogger on Medium and avid tea drinker.
This event is organised by RecWorks on behalf of the Front Endgineers London.
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://frontendgineerslondon.slack.com
Sign up here if you're not a member: https://frontendgineers.typeform.com/to/olzT58
In depth interview with Phil Mochan, Founder, Head of Strategy & Corp @Koine.
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Hi Rebels,
We are hosting an Interview style discussion with financial technology founders globally touching upon decentralized finance, blockchain technology, cryptocurrency, digital securities & fintech and discussing industry trends, challenges, corporate and investment strategy. This month we are excited to be hosting Phil Mochan of Koine for a quick one-hour chat. Koine is a modern financial institution which delivers safeguarding and transactional services using digital assets and digital fiat money.
Date and Time: Thursday, February 18 at 9am PST (12pm EST, 5pm GMT)
Title: Chat with Phil Mochan of Founder, Head of Strategy & Corporate Development Koine Money Ltd.
Live Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/s/89430340727?pwd=SVRIL0NRS1FsYWUxTi8zWE80ZjFEUT09
Speaker: Phil Mochan, Koine Money Ltd., https://www.linkedin.com/in/philmochan/?originalSubdomain=uk
With over 35 years of international experience, Phil has founded, held C-level positions and managed international teams at a number of businesses across a diverse range of industries including technology, payments, telecoms and media.
A six-year stint in British Telecm in Product Management for the pre-internet business services preceded nearly a decade of strategic consulting to European enterprises.
As a principal financier, Phil completed a number of significant transactions exploiting regulatory arbitrage, and managed international teams for projects worth hundreds of millions in ITC outsourcing and management consulting businesses.
Phil has founded several businesses in media and payments, and has held non-executive director positions in various high growth companies in telecoms and technology.
In his youth he co-founded an international wargaming fanzine and produce two hit computer games. He now mentors young entrepreneurs with a strong interest in the history of economic development and foresees the coming revolution arising from the digitalisation of finance.
Business Summary: Koine Money Ltd., www.koine.com
Koine offers segregated, institutional custody & settlement of digital assets, providing essential Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI).
This brings together the full suite of governance, compliance, risk management and audit of real-world asset trading to the digital asset ecosystem for the first time. Institutional clients can engage with digital assets while fully adhering to regulated market practices.
Koine’s 'Digital Air Locks' technology embeds ‘EAL7+’ military grade security to secure digital assets and prevent them being compromised.
Its ground-up architecture, team, governance and systems make it the only choice for the professional trading community, delivering a truly institutional service for all trading styles, from passive holding to high-frequency trading, across multiple venues with real-time gross settlement.
Host: Alfred Ritter, Montgomery Securities, https://www.linkedin.com/in/j-alfred-ritter-3966726/
Alfred Ritter, CEO and Managing Partner of Montgomery Securities providing investment banking services to financial technology companies, including the private placement and underwriting debt and equity securities, and mergers and acquisitions.
Kindest regards,
Zee & Team
For future speakers & sponsors please drop us a line/ text zee@fundsurfer.com +447588812528
(This is an additional/alternative date for the session from CAST & IVAR on Weds 3rd Feb on the same topic. Please only sign up to one, not both, events https://lu.ma/eqctebvx)
2020 saw many small voluntary organisations grappling with tech and taking their services online for the first time.
In the space of a few short months, new tools were trialled, new service delivery approaches were tested, new skills were learned and new knowledge was built.
About the session
This event is run by the NetSquared London and NetSquared Midlands tech for good communities, but open to organisations based anywhere in the UK. We host events for nonprofits and techies to come together to share ideas, learn new skills, ask questions, and collaborate around using technology for social benefit.
We are part of the international NetSquared community.
This is a space to take stock, share and learn from others who've been on a similar digital journey. It'll be an open, safe, lightly-facilitated space to reflect and listen.
Who it's for
This meetup is aimed specifically at small charities. Because we know some of the tech and digital challenges facing small charities are unique to this group.
Why attend
Research shows that peer support and involvement in Tech for Good communities helps accelerate progress with digital - building confidence, resilience and valuable connections. Plus, it's free!
How to sign up
Please complete this form https://lu.ma/eqctebvx and once your registration is approved, you'll be sent a confirmation with Zoom joining instructions.
Please share this with any other small organisations you think would find this helpful :)
AI for Good Meetup - Data to Combat Domestic Abuse and Violence
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This is a special edition meetup focused on data gathering and analytics to combat domestic abuse and violence.
Over recent months, thanks to an experienced charity worker, we got in contact with big and small charities and noticed how they produce and collect data but don’t know how to make the most out of it (such as providing better and more support to those experiencing abuse, being more efficient, fundraising, etc.). So, we agreed we would find possible ways to put charities in contact with data experts as well as researchers in academia. Read more here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15E418mFqZ8CdsHFvFlplJYA28Jkx3Tr4cnLOfofv9vc/edit?usp=sharing.
At this point, we would like to invite Data Analysts, Data Scientists, Data Engineers and Academic Researchers in the Combat Domestic Abuse & Violence space to provide input and collaborate on a pilot project.
If you are one of those or you know anyone with a relevant skillset - please join and invite your friends to this meetup by sharing this page link with them. Furthermore, we welcome people from all backgrounds as long as they are passionate to collaborate and use their skills for the greater good.
Some house rules to join this meetup:
- Please sign the T&Cs regarding contributing to community projects: http://bit.ly/2lW5NLR
- Join our slack to stay tuned: http://bit.ly/2p8icye
Agenda:
18:00-18:10 Introduction
18:10-18:20 Checking the latest status
18:20-19:00 Project discussion and next steps
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Photo credit: Dan Meyers from Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/photos/hluOJZjLVXc
AI for Good Meetup - Climate Change & Misinformation (NLP)
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This is a virtual meetup from the AI for Good Community, where we collaborate to use AI and NLP in fighting misinformation and Climate Change denial.
This time our community members will be joined by Jack Hampson from Deeper Insights. We are developing a tool that provides facts vs. fiction about climate change to verify news and social media posts everyone is reading online. There are two fundamental approaches we are trying to experiment with at the moment:
1) Clustering and manual labeling
2) Training a model on a Grist dataset
If you know a thing or two about climate change, Natural Language Processing, web plugins, or simply feel passionate and keen to use your skills for good - please join our meetup and let's act together!
First time here? Here's a document outlining the project we are working on: https://bit.ly/2TTlt00
Join our slack to catch up with the latest activities in this group: http://bit.ly/2p8icye - Please jump on the #climate-misinformation channel once you join.
Before you join this meetup, please sign the T&Cs regarding data usage and the overall rules of contributing to our community projects.
Agenda:
18:00-18:10 Introductions and updates
18:10-18:30 Discussing the latest news and progress
18:30-19:00 Feedback and brainstorming
AI for Good Meetup - Climate Change & Misinformation (NLP)
Description changed:
This is a virtual meetup from the AI for Good Community, where we collaborate to use AI and NLP in fighting misinformation and Climate Change denial.
This time our community members will be joined by Jack Hampson from Deeper Insights. We are developing a tool that provides facts vs. fiction about climate change to verify news and social media posts everyone is reading online. There are two fundamental approaches we are trying to experiment with at the moment:
1) Clustering and manual labeling
2) Training a model on a Grist dataset
If you know a thing or two about climate change, Natural Language Processing, web plugins, or simply feel passionate and keen to use your skills for good - please join our meetup and let's act together!
First time here? Here's a document outlining the project we are working on: https://bit.ly/2TTlt00
Join our slack to catch up with the latest activities in this group: http://bit.ly/2p8icye - Please jump on the #climate-misinformation channel once you join.
Before you join this meetup, please sign the T&Cs regarding data usage and the overall rules of contributing to our community projects.
Agenda:
18:00-18:10 Introductions and updates
18:10-18:30 Discussing the latest news and progress
18:30-19:00 Feedback and brainstorming
Tech and digital for small voluntary organisations
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(This is an additional/alternative date for the session from CAST & IVAR on Weds 3rd Feb on the same topic. Please only sign up to one, not both, events https://lu.ma/eqctebvx.)
2020 saw many small voluntary organisations grappling with tech and taking their services online for the first time.
In the space of a few short months, new tools were trialled, new service delivery approaches were tested, new skills were learned and new knowledge was built.
About the session
This event is run by the NetSquared London and NetSquared Midlands tech for good communities, but open to organisations based anywhere in the UK. We host events for nonprofits and techies to come together to share ideas, learn new skills, ask questions, and collaborate around using technology for social benefit.
We are part of the international NetSquared community.
This is a space to take stock, share and learn from others who've been on a similar digital journey. It'll be an open, safe, lightly-facilitated space to reflect and listen.
Who it's for
This meetup is aimed specifically at small charities. Because we know some of the tech and digital challenges facing small charities are unique to this group.
Why attend
Research shows that peer support and involvement in Tech for Good communities helps accelerate progress with digital - building confidence, resilience and valuable connections. Plus, it's free!
How to sign up
Please complete this form https://lu.ma/eqctebvx and once your registration is approved, you'll be sent a confirmation with Zoom joining instructions.
Please share this with any other small organisations you think would find this helpful :)
This is a special edition meetup focused on the AI for Good's COVID-19 Simulator tool for refugee camps and other humanitarian settings.
The Simulator is a web tool for NGOs and local authorities to model COVID-19 outbreak inside refugee camps and prepare timely and proportionate response measures needed to flatten the curve and reduce the number of fatalities. This tool helps to predict the possible outbreak scenarios and their potential outcomes and help first responders design an optimal intervention strategy. Read more here: https://www.aiforgoodsimulator.com/
We would particularly seek help from Web App and Dash (plotly) Engineers, Python Engineers, Epidemiology and Modeling Specialists, and people experienced with the refugee aid sector. No worries, though, if you have any of these skills as we welcome people from all backgrounds as long as they are passionate to collaborate and use their skills for the greater good.
We are going to use Google Meet, here's a link to join: https://meet.google.com/nic-stbd-iur
First time here and interested in contributing? Join our slack to stay tuned: http://bit.ly/2p8icye
Before you join this meetup, please sign the T&Cs regarding contributing to community projects: http://bit.ly/2lW5NLR
Agenda:
18:00-18:15 A round of introductions
18:15-19:00 Project discussion and brainstorming
AI for Good Meetup - Data to Combat Domestic Abuse and Violence
Description changed:
This is a special edition meetup focused on data gathering and analytics to combat domestic abuse and violence.
Over recent months, thanks to an experienced charity worker, we got in contact with big and small charities and noticed how they produce and collect data but don’t know how to make the most out of it (such as providing better and more support to those experiencing abuse, being more efficient, fundraising, etc.). So, we agreed we would find possible ways to put charities in contact with data experts as well as researchers in academia. Read more here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15E418mFqZ8CdsHFvFlplJYA28Jkx3Tr4cnLOfofv9vc/edit?usp=sharing.
At this point, we would like to invite Data Analysts, Data Scientists, Data Engineers and Academic Researchers in the Combat Domestic Abuse & Violence space to provide input and collaborate on a pilot project.
If you are one of those or you know anyone with a relevant skillset - please join and invite your friends to this meetup by sharing this page link with them. Furthermore, we welcome people from all backgrounds as long as they are passionate to collaborate and use their skills for the greater good.
Some house rules to join this meetup:
- Please sign the T&Cs regarding contributing to community projects: http://bit.ly/2lW5NLR
- Join our slack to stay tuned: http://bit.ly/2p8icye
Agenda:
18:00-18:10 Introduction
18:10-18:20 Checking the latest status
18:20-19:00 Project discussion and next steps
-----
Photo credit: Dan Meyers from Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/photos/hluOJZjLVXc
AI for Good Meetup - Climate Change & Misinformation (NLP)
Description changed:
This is a virtual meetup from the AI for Good Community, where we collaborate to use AI and NLP in fighting misinformation and Climate Change denial.
This time our community members will be joined by Jack Hampson from Deeper Insights. We are developing a tool that provides facts vs. fiction about climate change to verify news and social media posts everyone is reading online. There are two fundamental approaches we are trying to experiment with at the moment:
1) Clustering and manual labeling
2) Training a model on a Grist dataset
If you know a thing or two about climate change, Natural Language Processing, web plugins, or simply feel passionate and keen to use your skills for good - please join our meetup and let's act together!
First time here? Here's a document outlining the project we are working on: https://bit.ly/2TTlt00
Join our slack to catch up with the latest activities in this group: http://bit.ly/2p8icye - Please jump on the #climate-misinformation channel once you join.
Before you join this meetup, please sign the T&Cs regarding data usage and the overall rules of contributing to our community projects.
Agenda:
18:00-18:10 Introductions and updates
18:10-18:30 Discussing the latest news and progress
18:30-19:00 Feedback and brainstorming
AI for Good Meetup - Covid-19 Simulator for Humanitarian Settings
Description changed:
This is a special edition meetup focused on the AI for Good's COVID-19 Simulator tool for refugee camps and other humanitarian settings.
The Simulator is a web tool for NGOs and local authorities to model COVID-19 outbreak inside refugee camps and prepare timely and proportionate response measures needed to flatten the curve and reduce the number of fatalities. This tool helps to predict the possible outbreak scenarios and their potential outcomes and help first responders design an optimal intervention strategy. Read more here: https://www.aiforgoodsimulator.com/
We are going to use Google Meet, here's a link to join: https://meet.google.com/nic-stbd-iur
First time here and interested in contributing? Join our slack to stay tuned: http://bit.ly/2p8icye
Before you join this meetup, please sign the T&Cs regarding contributing to community projects: http://bit.ly/2lW5NLR
Agenda:
18:00-18:15 A round of introductions
18:15-19:00 Project discussion and brainstorming
AI for Good Meetup - Data to Combat Domestic Abuse and Violence
Description changed:
This is a special edition meetup focused on data gathering and analytics to combat domestic abuse and violence.
Over recent months, thanks to an experienced charity worker, we got in contact with big and small charities and noticed how they produce and collect data but don’t know how to make the most out of it (such as providing better and more support to those experiencing abuse, being more efficient, fundraising, etc.). So, we agreed we would find possible ways to put charities in contact with data experts as well as researchers in academia. Read more here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15E418mFqZ8CdsHFvFlplJYA28Jkx3Tr4cnLOfofv9vc/edit?usp=sharing.
At this point, we would like to invite Data Analysts, Data Scientists, Data Engineers and Academic Researchers in the Combat Domestic Abuse & Violence space to provide input and collaborate on a pilot project.
If you are one of those or you know anyone with a relevant skillset - please join and invite your friends to this meetup by sharing this page link with them. Furthermore, we welcome people from all backgrounds as long as they are passionate to collaborate and use their skills for the greater good.
Some house rules to join this meetup:
- Please sign the T&Cs regarding contributing to community projects: http://bit.ly/2lW5NLR
- Join our slack to stay tuned: http://bit.ly/2p8icye
Agenda:
18:00-18:10 Introduction
18:10-18:20 Checking the latest status
18:20-19:00 Project discussion and next steps
-----
Photo credit: Dan Meyers from Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/photos/hluOJZjLVXc
We are hosting an Interview style discussion with financial technology founders globally touching upon decentralized finance, blockchain technology, cryptocurrency, digital securities & fintech and discussing industry trends, challenges, corporate and investment strategy.
This month we are excited to be hosting Sandro Bruehlmann for a quick one-hour chat...
Date and Time: Thursday, January 21 at 9am PST (12pm EST, 5pm GMT)
Title: Chat with Sandro Bruehlmann of portfolio manager at Swiss asset manager, Tavis Digital
Live Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89113011432?pwd=ek1uVU4xZE91VkZ5emZHa0hIZEVDdz09
Topic: Tavis Digital is an innovative Swiss asset management company that focuses entirely on the portfolio management of digital assets.
Alfred Ritter, CEO and Managing Partner of Montgomery Securities providing investment banking services to financial technology companies, including the private placement and underwriting debt and equity securities, and mergers and acquisitions.
Speaker Biography:
Sandro started his career as an intern in the mergers & acquisitions department of an IT-consulting firm. He joined Tavis Capital in 2017 as a part-time employee besides his master’s studies at the University of Zurich in Banking & Finance. Sandro started investing in cryptos back in 2017 and ever since then he has gained a lot of experience in the crypto market and digital securities. After the spin-off of Tavis Digital, he joined the newly formed company as a portfolio manager for tokenized assets. Sandro is responsible for the fund investments, focusing on tokenized Venture Capital, as well as selected direct investments via Security Token Offerings.
Sandro holds a Master of Arts in Banking & Finance with a focus on Corporate Finance and a Bachelor of Arts in Banking & Finance from the University of Zurich. He wrote his master’s thesis about investments in tokenized assets and the opportunities and implications for professional investors.
Tavis Digital bio:
Tavis Digital is an innovative Swiss asset management company that focuses entirely on the portfolio management of digital assets. As a spin-off of Tavis Capital AG, a finma-regulated asset manager with over CHF 1 billion AUM from institutional investors, Tavis Digital positions itself as a pioneer in the asset management industry.
TD has built a fully digital portfolio of tokenized venture capital funds, with each token representing a diversified portfolio of fast-growing, "brick-and-mortar" companies (real companies, not protocols). The portfolio currently consists of 23 companies, including two Unicorns and several leading technology companies, and continues to grow. The product is offered to investors as a security with a Swiss ISIN, allowing them to invest in this sector without any technical know-how.
Kindest regards,
Zee & Team
For future speakers & sponsors please drop us a line/ text zee@fundsurfer.com +447588812528
Fintech Marketing - Ethical Hacks to Accelerate the Growth of Your Brand @Speed
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Hi Rebels,
As an ethical fintech company, how do you connect with your target audience? In this meetup Kathryn Strachan, Managing Director of Copy House, explains what fintech companies can do to stand out from the crowd and use purpose-driven content to grow their brand. The audience will walk away with three key 'hacks' that they can employ today to improve their visibility and attract new customers.
Kathryn Strachan is the Managing Director of Copy House Ltd., a content marketing agency specialising in technology and FinTech content.
Kathryn launched Copy House in April 2019 after working in-house at digital agencies and then successfully running a freelance copywriting business. Her copywriting business quickly transformed into a content marketing agency with a seven person team and globally renowned clients including Klarna, Modulr, Travelex, and Cigna.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathryn-strachan/ where you’ll find frequent posts and articles on entrepreneurship and technology.
Then joined by a fintech panel:
James Sullivan TheBlackdogcollective.com
AI for Good Community Meetup: Climate Change & Misinformation
Description changed:
This is a virtual meetup from the AI for Good Community, where we collaborate to use AI and NLP in fighting misinformation and Climate Change denial.
This time our community members will be joined by Jack Hampson from Deeper Insights. We are developing a tool that provides facts vs. fiction about climate change to verify news and social media posts everyone is reading online. There are two fundamental approaches we are trying to experiment with at the moment:
1) Clustering and manual labeling
2) Training a model on a Grist dataset
If you know a thing or two about climate change, Natural Language Processing, web plugins, or simply feel passionate and keen to use your skills for good - please join our meetup and let's act together!
First time here? Here's a document outlining the project we are working on: https://bit.ly/2TTlt00
Join our slack to catch up with the latest activities in this group: http://bit.ly/2p8icye - Please jump on the #climate-misinformation channel once you join.
Before you join this meetup, please sign the T&Cs regarding data usage and overall rules of contributing to our community projects.
Agenda:
18:00-18:10 Introductions and updates
18:10-18:30 Presentations of annotation and classification experiments
18:30-19:00 Feedback and collaboration
Digital Safeguarding - how to deliver safe services online
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Details
** Please register for this event via the following link: https://lu.ma/digitalsafeguarding **
How can charities and community organisations continue to deliver safe and effective services online?
Since the start of the pandemic, many organisations across the UK have been rushing to shift their face-to-face services online. Delivering essential services to vulnerable groups in this new context has come with a number of safety challenges. With many organisations working out how to best transfer their safeguarding knowledge to a digital format, it’s been hard to find what best practice looks like.
This virtual session organised by Netsquared London, Tech for Good Brighton and Superhighways will explore in more detail how to put safeguarding at the heart of your online service delivery during the Covid-19 pandemic.
You’ll hear talks from:
Charné Tromp of the Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology (CAST) & Eva Kestner of Against Violence & Abuse
Charné and Eva will talk you through DigiSafe (https://digisafe.thecatalyst.org.uk/), your new step-by-step guide to digital safeguarding. The guide was written by a network of organisations as part of the Catalyst Network specifically for charities designing new digital services or taking existing ones online.
Emma Anderson, Safeguarding Lead at Oxford Hub
Oxford Hub is a charity running a range of programmes using hundreds of volunteers from across the city. In March, Oxford Hub set up a community response to support people affected by the Covid 19 lockdown. This meant putting in a range of safeguarding measures in place to ensure that everyone is kept safe and still able to get the support they need. Emma will talk about their Safeguarding Framework which captures their learnings from the past 9 months.
There will be time after the talks to share your own reflections, tips and challenges.
Please note that the talks will be recorded so we can share it with people that can't make it in person.
Hi Rebels,
Please join us for an interactive webinar where we will be discussing the various regulatory issues and challenges faced by those operating in the digital assets and blockchain space, including:
The approach of the UK regulators, including the implications of Brexit
The FCA ban on crypto-derivatives to ‘retail’ consumers
The different approaches of overseas regulators and what the UK can learn from them
GDPR and its impact on digital assets and blockchain activity
The practical implications of the various regulations on businesses operating within the space... https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/4416056142531/WN_rNxHO8MRQRqKo92I5cfilw
Joining Nigel Brahams (Partner), Patrick Wheeler (Partner) and Imogen Jones from Collyer Bristow’s FinTech team will be Sophia Grami, CSO of CrypPro and Phil Mochan, Founder, Head of Strategy & Corporate Development at Koine.
Future Forecasting [Hot topic ] Famous Predictions event 2021
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Hi Rebels,
We are always gazing into the future. Maybe from behind the curtains for 2021. But in this slightly Black Mirror Universe we are proud to be bringing you some exceptional speakers to share with you their hot topics & trends for next year in Fintech, Insurance, Legal, health, and Virtual Reality.
Hosted by Ex CNN/ BBC Alex Mohacs CEO of www.Askd.io
www.linkedin.com/in/alexmohacs/
We are welcoming:
Andrew Gough is the Global Business Development Manager for CREALOGIX Group. After leaving the world of professional cycling 11 years ago, Andrew transferred his energy and drive into software and security. He joined CREALOGIX from the Mite Group Plc where he was a Solutions Director focusing background checking including KYC/AML and related activities.
CREALOGIX, a Swiss listed Fintech 100 company, is the digital banking software provider. For over 25 years, we have partnered with some of the world’s leading banks and wealth management firms, providing them with in-depth expertise and innovative technology to digitally engage with their customers. https://www.linkedin.com/in/agough1/
Toby Unwin - Legal Tech / Insurtech
Toby Unwin was inaugurated as The Republic of Austria’s Honorary Consul in Orlando in 2006. Inventor of the PremonitionTM Artificial intelligence system, which mines Big Data to find Attorney Win Rates for General Counsel. Unwin serves as Chairman of The Municipal Guarantee Fund, a non-profit organization which provides financing to banks and insurance companies, winning Fund of the Year 2013.
He is the bestselling author of several books, 10 patents and a best selling video series teaching commercial property investment, buying developments throughout Florida. Unwin founded and sold NetSearch, one of the most profitable Internet companies in Europe and sits on numerous boards such as Maximum Life Medical Research Foundation and the Central Florida Ballet. An accomplished pilot, he holds a World airspeed record and speaks five languages.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobyunwin/
Andrew Dunbar GM, Europe at Appnovation & YPO Member.
Andy was the COO for the London office of Mirum Agency - a groundbreaking digital agency named as Visionary by Gartner in their magic quadrant of Global Digital Marketing Agencies.
Appnovation is a global digital solutions and managed services provider, delivering strategy, application development and enterprise integration on leading open technologies. Appnovation’s in-house experts strategize, build, and deploy high-performing, secure digital experiences across many industries, while also offering a wide range of creative capabilities, with 24/7 support and maintenance. With overburdened healthcare systems struggling to service patient diagnoses and treatments, #COVID19 has amplified the demand for a self-service economy at a pivotal time for #healthcare. But what does this mean for key industry players – and how can tech pave the way to permanent change? https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewdunbar1/
Dr John Holder - Mixed reality/ VR/AI Guru
Heading the development and creative direction of virtual, augmented and mixed reality experiences for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Microsoft Hololens, Samsung GearVR and Google Cardboard utilising WebGL, Unity and 360° video. I have a focus on humanitarian issues, trans-media art and real-world uses of immersive communication technologies.
Exhibited our VR films at Sundance, Berlinale, Cannes film festival, London ArtRooms and Paris VR film Festival. We have also spoken at the World VR forum, London Boutique Hotels forum, the British Film Institute, London Comic convention and Shanghai Film Festival and many others all in 2016. https://www.linkedin.com/in/holder/
We are looking forward to seeing you there https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4603665596
AI for Good Community Meetup: Climate Change & Misinformation
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This is a virtual meetup from the AI for Good Community, where we collaborate to use AI and NLP in fighting misinformation and Climate Change denial.
This time our community members will be joined by Jack Hampson from Deeper Insights. We are developing a tool that provides facts vs. fiction about climate change to verify news and social media posts everyone is reading online. There are two fundamental approaches we are trying to experiment with at the moment:
1) Clustering and manual labeling
2) Training a model on a Grist dataset
If you know a thing or two about climate change, Natural Language Processing, web plugins, or simply feel passionate and keen to use your skills for good - please join our meetup and let's act together!
First time here? Here's a document outlining the project we are working on: https://bit.ly/2TTlt00
Join our slack to catch up with the latest activities in this group: http://bit.ly/2p8icye - Please jump on the #climate-misinformation channel once you join.
Before you join this meetup, please sign the T&Cs regarding data usage and overall rules of contributing to our community projects.
Agenda:
18:00-18:10 Introductions and updates
18:10-18:30 Presentations of annotation and classification experiments
18:30-19:00 Feedback and collaboration
Front Endgineers London Meetup: The State of Angular
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In this presentation, we’ll look at the current state of Angular and its tooling infrastructure. Along the way, we’ll dive into the theory and motivation driving the direction of the framework.
In the second part of the talk, we’ll focus on the roadmap of Angular and peek into the future of the framework.
About the speaker
Minko Gechev is an engineer at Google where he works on the Angular framework. Previously he co-founded Rhyme.com, a platform for interactive, hands-on classes in the browser. He has a big passion for open source and loves to experiment with theoretical computer science concepts and apply them in practice.
Minko teaches, speaks and writes about JavaScript and Angular. Some of the projects he works on are his books “Switching to Angular”, Guess.js, codelyzer, the official Angular style guide, Angular Seed and many others.
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[Fintech Focus] Archax the 1st FCA regulated digital securities exchange @UK
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Hi Instigators,
We are hosting an Interview style discussion with financial technology founders globally touching upon decentralized finance, blockchain technology, cryptocurrency, digital securities & fintech and discussing industry trends, challenges, and corporate strategy.
This month we are excited to be hosting Graham Rodford for a fireside chat...
Date and Time: Thursday, November 19 at 9am PST(12pm EST, 5pm GMT)
Title: Fireside Chat with CEO of Archax
Live Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TCYonacAQRSZLcipY4MOgQ
Topic: Archax is the first ever FCA regulated digital securities exchange and custodian in the UK. Learn what this important milestone for the emerging global digital securities ecosystem means.
Host: Alfred Ritter, Montgomery Securities, https://www.linkedin.com/in/j-alfred-ritter-3966726/
Speaker: Graham Rodman, Archax Ltd, https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-rodford/?originalSubdomain=uk
Host Biography: Alfred Ritter, CEO and Managing Partner of Montgomery Securities providing investment banking services to financial technology companies, including the private placement and underwriting debt and equity securities, and mergers and acquisitions.
Speaker Biography: Graham Rodman is a qualified accountant, with over 18 years’ experience in financial services. Prior to Archax, Graham was COO, CCO and Partner of Omni Partners, a $1.4 billion hedge fund based in London, where he was responsible for all operational activities and compliance. Before Omni, Graham held several senior operational, finance and compliance roles in the asset management and banking space, including HSBC, Caliburn Capital, Leo Fund Managers and Coutts Bank.
Archax bio: Archax is a global, regulated, digital securities exchange, brokerage and custodian based in London. Founded by experts from the regulated financial markets world and backed by an accomplished advisory board, Archax offers a credible bridge between the new blockchain-centric crypto community and the traditional investment space.
Archax was the first ever firm to receive FCA regulation as a digital securities exchange, custodian and brokerage. It was also the first ever firm to be listed on the FCA’s cryptoasset 5MLD register. Archax has been designed specifically for institutional investors to trade in digital securities, and is built using existing, proven, resilient, scalable, high-performance exchange infrastructure, hosted in top-tier datacentre space, and integrated into existing institutional trading workflow.
Kindest regards,
Zee & Team
For future speakers & sponsors please drop us a line/ text zee@fundsurfer.com +447588812528
Voting Tech & Security: Perspectives on the US, the DRC, and Nigeria
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Even if Donald Trump won't acknowledge the U.S. presidential election is now over, we will! On Friday 13 November, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which led federal election protection efforts in the United States, stated that the presidential election was the “most secure in American history”. But how many of us remember the 2016 U.S. presidential election and 2018 midterm elections, which were not at all secure?! How have U.S. exports of "digital democracy" affected countries elsewhere in the world?
Our incredible guest speaker, Dr Joseph Lorenzo Hall, will be joining us at our post-elections November 2020 ICT4D Meetup to talk about voting technology and elections security, sharing perspectives on efforts in the U.S., the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Nigeria. In the U.S., Joe will touch on how "digital democracy" came to be so maligned, an evaluation of the DRC's voting system, and fingerprint reading technology used in Nigeria for voter registration.
SPEAKER'S BIOGRAPHY: Joseph Lorenzo Hall is the Senior Vice President for a Strong Internet at the Internet Society (ISOC), a global non-profit organization dedicated to an open, globally-connected, secure, and trustworthy Internet for everyone. Hall leads ISOC's Strong Internet portfolio including encryption, routing security, time security, open-standards-based secure servers, and making the case for the Internet Way of Networking.
Prior to joining ISOC in 2019, Hall was the Chief Technologist and Director of the Internet Architecture project at the Center for Democracy & Technology. Before that, Hall was an academic, completing postdoctoral research with Helen Nissenbaum at New York University, Ed Felten at Princeton University and Deirdre Mulligan at University of California, Berkeley. Hall received his Ph.D. in information systems from the UC Berkeley School of Information in 2008. His Ph.D. thesis used electronic voting as a critical case study in digital government transparency.
Hall holds master's degrees in astrophysics and information systems from UC Berkeley and was a founding member of the National Science Foundation's ACCURATE Center (A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable and Transparent Elections). He has served as an expert on independent teams invited by the States of California, Ohio and Maryland to analyze legal, privacy, security, usability and economic aspects of voting systems. Hall is the Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the California Voter Foundation, a member of the Board of Directors of the Verified Voting Foundation and a member of technical advisory boards to the Los Angeles County's Open Technology Advisory Group, the Electronic Registration Information Center, TechCongress, the Center for Civic Design, and VotingWorks.
In 2012, Hall received the John Gideon Memorial Award from the Election Verification Network for contributions to election verification. In 2017, Hall was part of a team that received the Researcher Award at the 2017 O'Reilly Security Defender Awards in recognition of the team's dedication and innovative contributions to election security for organizing the first Voting Machine Hacking Village at DEFCON 25.
We hope you join us for this incredible opportunity to hear from one of the greatest minds and defenders of voting technology and security!
AI for Good Community Meetup: Climate Change & Misinformation
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This is a virtual meetup from the AI for Good Community, where we collaborate to use AI and NLP in fighting misinformation and Climate Change denial.
This time our community members will be joined by Jack Hampson from Deeper Insights. We are developing a tool that provides facts vs. fiction about climate change to verify news and social media posts everyone is reading online. There are two fundamental approaches we are trying to experiment with at the moment:
1) Clustering and manual labeling
2) Training a model on a Grist dataset
If you know a thing or two about climate change, Natural Language Processing, web plugins, or simply feel passionate and keen to use your skills for good - please join our meetup and let's act together!
First time here? Here's a document outlining the project we are working on: https://bit.ly/2TTlt00
Join our slack to catch up with the latest activities in this group: http://bit.ly/2p8icye - Please jump on the #climate-misinformation channel once you join.
Before you join this meetup, please sign the T&Cs regarding data usage and overall rules of contributing to our community projects.
Agenda:
18:00-18:10 Introductions and updates
18:10-18:30 Presentations of different classification approaches
18:30-19:00 Feedback and collaboration
Front Endgineers London Meetup: Understanding State Management in React
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This talk is an introductory presentation into the concept of state management in a React application. We'll also discuss global and local state in React Applications and state management libraries. This talk is best suited to intermediate developers.
About the speaker
Jemima Abu is a self-taught Front End Developer and school-taught Systems Engineer from Lagos, Nigeria. She currently works at Telesoftas, a software company in Lithuania. She’s passionate about accessibility in web development and diversity and intersectionality in the tech-space. She's also slightly obsessed with cats and spends a lot of time reading slice-of-life / shounen manga.
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MoneyNext Summit is the leading event to address the financial landscape in 2021 and beyond – offering unparalleled access to decision makers, visionaries, influencers and disruptors from the world of finance. 200 inspirational speakers and 25 of the most innovative next-gen vendors discuss, demo and showcase the latest industry innovations.
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This event is being run in partnership with the London Java Community.
We're back with our 10th Lunchtime Lightning Talks session with talks including 'Hypermedia-Driven RESTful Web Service with Clojure, Liberator, HAL, and OpenTelemetry', 'How technology empowers remote working ' and more.
This is going to be run in a similarly informal style to an unconference, in that the right talks will be done by the people that are there. We will aim to have a maximum of 4-5 lightning talks. You can tune in and tune out as you wish. The talks can be on anything you’re interested in.
We will keep it very light (pardon the pun) and hopefully it will be a bit of fun before the weekend to enjoy over your lunch hour.
As we’ve often talked about, lightning talks are a great opportunity to try, test or hone your speaking and presentation skills. They are usually under 7 minutes, with 2 minutes of Q+A. If you'd like to give a talk at the event please get in touch or sign up on Eventbrite and select the "I'd like to give a lightning talk" ticket.
This event is organised by RecWorks on behalf of the London Java Community and Front Endgineers London.
You can see our latest jobs here: https://recworks.co.uk/java-developer-jobs-london/.
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This event is being run in partnership with the London Java Community.
We're back with the 8th LJC Lunchtime Lightning Talks session.
Speaking at this session are:
🎤 Sarah Hsu - 'Going serverless- Let’s build your first serverless backend in AWS'
🎤 Jeremy Chan - 'Automating your life with Selenium'
🎤 Suleyman Yildirim - 'A guide to AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam for Java Developers'
🎤 Anirban Santra - 'MongoDB NoSQL for banking services - Practical journey of migrating banking backend to a distributed NOSQL and Microservice environment - the challenges and solutions'
This is going to be run in a similarly informal style to an unconference, in that the right talks will be done by the people that are there. We will aim to have a maximum of 4-5 lightning talks followed by a session in the breakout rooms. You can tune in and tune out as you wish. The talks can be on anything you’re interested in.
We will keep it very light (pardon the pun) and hopefully it will be a bit of fun before the weekend to enjoy over your lunch hour.
As we’ve often talked about, lightning talks are a great opportunity to try, test or hone your speaking and presentation skills. They are usually under 7 minutes, with 2 minutes of Q+A.
This event is organised by RecWorks on behalf of the London Java Community and Front Endgineers London.
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This event is being run in partnership with the London Java Community.
We're back with the 8th LJC Lunchtime Lightning Talks session.
Speaking at this session are:
🎤 Sarah Chunwei - 'Going serverless- Let’s build your first serverless backend in AWS'
🎤 Jeremy Chan - 'Automating your life with Selenium'
🎤 Suleyman Yildirim - 'A guide to AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam for Java Developers'
🎤 Anirban Santra - 'MongoDB NoSQL for banking services - Practical journey of migrating banking backend to a distributed NOSQL and Microservice environment - the challenges and solutions'
This is going to be run in a similarly informal style to an unconference, in that the right talks will be done by the people that are there. We will aim to have a maximum of 4-5 lightning talks followed by a session in the breakout rooms. You can tune in and tune out as you wish. The talks can be on anything you’re interested in.
We will keep it very light (pardon the pun) and hopefully it will be a bit of fun before the weekend to enjoy over your lunch hour.
As we’ve often talked about, lightning talks are a great opportunity to try, test or hone your speaking and presentation skills. They are usually under 7 minutes, with 2 minutes of Q+A.
This event is organised by RecWorks on behalf of the London Java Community and Front Endgineers London.
You can see our latest jobs here: https://recworks.co.uk/java-developer-jobs-london/.
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LJC Virtual Meetup: What I Wish I Knew About Maven Years Ago
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About the event
Apache Maven is seen by many developers as the defacto build tool in the Java space. Since its early days back in April 2002, Maven has helped developers build projects and assemble artifacts. On the surface not much appears to have changed in the design, structure, and build file syntax, but in reality, there are quite a good number of features that have been added through the years that make Maven a powerhouse.
Come to this talk if you want to learn more about these hidden nuggets and make the most of your Maven builds.
About the speaker
Andres Almiray is a Java/Groovy developer and a Java Champion with more than 20 years of experience in software design and development. He has been involved in web and desktop application development since the early days of Java. Andres is a true believer in open source and has participated on popular projects like Groovy, Griffon, and DbUnit, as well as starting his own projects (Json-lib, EZMorph, GraphicsBuilder, JideBuilder). Founding member of the Griffon framework and Hackergarten community event.
This is an online event starting at 12.30 pm BST.
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To celebrate Java turning 25 we're hosting a panel of Java champions & experts. They'll be sharing their memories of Java over the years & taking questions from the audience.
We'll be joined by Trisha Gee of JetBrains, Alex Blewitt of Santander, Ben Evans of New Relic, Richard Warburton of Opsian & Martijn Verburg of Microsoft. Jim Gough will be fielding an initial set of questions & we will take Q&A from the audience.
About our panellists
Trisha Gee has developed Java applications for a range of industries, including finance, manufacturing, software & non-profit, for companies of all sizes. She has expertise in Java high performance systems, is passionate about enabling developer productivity, & dabbles with Open Source development. Trisha is a leader of the Sevilla Java User Group & a Java Champion, she believes healthy communities & sharing ideas help us to learn from mistakes and build on successes. As a Developer Advocate for JetBrains, she gets to share all the interesting things she’s constantly discovering.
Ben Evans is Principal Engineer & Architect for JVM technologies at New Relic. Prior to joining New Relic, Ben co-founded jClarity (acquired by Microsoft) & was Chief Architect (Listed Derivatives) at Deutsche Bank. Ben is the author of 5 books - "The Well-Grounded Java Developer", "Java: The Legend", "Optimizing Java" & the recent editions of "Java in a Nutshell". He is the track lead for Java / JVM at infoq.com, writes regularly for industry publications & is a frequent speaker at technical conferences worldwide.
Alex Blewitt has been working with Java since its first release & has worked on JVM projects at Goldman Sachs & Credit Suisse, where he was the JCP representative until 2016. He co-founded the Docklands.LJC & has spoken about Java and performance at several conferences & writes for InfoQ about Java & JVM topics. Before moving to Santander in 2020 he worked at Apple on Swift & has authored books in Swift & Eclipse plugin development.
Martijn Verburg is the Principal Engineering Group Manager (Java) at Microsoft. ex CEO at jClarity, a Machine Learning for Java/JVM performance analysis company. He is the co-leader of the London Java User Group (LJC), sits on the Java Standards Body (JCP) Executive Committee & leads the global Adopt a JSR & Adopt OpenJDK efforts to enable the community to contribute to Java standards and OpenJDK.
Richard Warburton is the co-founder of Opsian.com and maintainer of the Artio FIX Engine. He has written the book “Java 8 Lambdas” for O’Reilly & helps developers learn via http://iteratrlearning.com and http://www.pluralsight.com/author/richard-warburton. Richard is an experienced conference speaker, having spoken at dozens of events & sat on conference committees for some of the biggest conferences in Europe and the USA.
About our host
James (Jim) Gough is an executive director & developer at Morgan Stanley, where he’s focused on building customer-facing technology. A Java developer & author, Jim first became interested in Java during his degree program at the University of Warwick; after graduating, he became a member of the London Java Community. Community has remained central to Jim’s contributions, which include working on the design & testing of JSR-310 and serving on the Java Community Process Executive Committee for several years.
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We're back with our 4th LJC Lunchtime Lightning Talks session.
This is going to be run in a similarly informal style to an unconference, in that the right talks will be done by the people that are there. We will aim to have a maximum of 4-5 lightning talks followed by a session in the breakout rooms. You can tune in and tune out as you wish. The talks can be on anything you’re interested in.
We will keep it very light (pardon the pun) and hopefully it will be a bit of fun before the weekend to enjoy over your lunch hour.
As we’ve often talked about, lightning talks are a great opportunity to try, test or hone your speaking and presentation skills. They are usually under 7 minutes, with 2 minutes of Q+A.
This is an online event starting at 12.30pm BST. Attendees will be sent a link on or before the day of the 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/.
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We're back with our 3rd LJC Lunchtime Lightning Talks session.
This is going to be run in a similarly informal style to an unconference, in that the right talks will be done by the people that are there. Here are some of the speakers so far, we'll continue to update this page as more talks are announced:
Karsten Silz - Google Jib: Smaller & Faster Docker Images for Java Applications
César Tron-Lozai - Blazing fast Fibonacci with Kotlin and Arrow
Lakshmi Rao - Productionizing Machine Learning Pipelines for online prediction
Rossano D'Angelo - Deploy a webapp in minutes with Firebase
Ilan Pillemer - Web Assembly, Run compiled code in the Browser? What?! Join me as I walk through the experience so far
Chris Melikian - GraphQL: an intro and why it was crucial for our project
Zameer Hassam - Faster Hash Tables: Linear Probing - What is it? Why do a lot of high performance collections libraries use it? In what circumstances should I use it?
We will aim to have 4-5 lightning talks followed by a session in the breakout rooms. You can tune in and tune out as you wish. The talks can be on anything you’re interested in.
We will keep it very light (pardon the pun) and hopefully it will be a bit of fun before the weekend to enjoy over your lunch hour.
As we’ve often talked about, lightning talks are a great opportunity to try, test or hone your speaking and presentation skills. They are usually under 7 minutes, with 2 minutes of Q+A.
This is an online event starting at 12.30pm BST. Attendees will be sent a link on or before the day of the 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/.
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LJC Virtual Meetup: An Experiment in Continuous Deployment of JVM applications
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About the event
A couple of years ago, continuous integration in the JVM ecosystem meant Jenkins. Since that time, a lot of other tools have been made available. But new tools don’t mean new features, just new ways. Besides that, what about continuous deployment? There’s no tool that allows deploying new versions of a JVM-based application without downtime. The only way to achieve zero downtime is to have multiple nodes deployed on a platform, and let that platform achieve that e.g. Kubernetes.
And yet, achieving true continuous deployment of bytecode on one single JVM instance is possible if one changes one’s way of looking at things. What if the compilation could be seen as changes? What if those changes could be stored in a data store, and a listener on this data store could stream those changes to the running production JVM via the Attach API?
In this talk, we'll demo exactly that using Hazelcast and Hazelcast Jet - but it’s possible to re-use the principles that will be shown using other streaming technologies.
About the speaker
Nicolas Frankel is a Developer Advocate with 15+ years of experience consulting for many different customers, in a wide range of contexts (such as telecoms, banking, insurances, large retail and public sector). Usually working on Java/Java EE and Spring technologies, but with narrower interests like Software Quality, Build Processes and Rich Internet Applications. Currently working for Hazelcast. Also double as a teacher in universities and higher education schools, a trainer and triples as a book author.
This is an online event starting at 7 pm BST. Attendees will be sent a link on or before the day of the event.
This event is organised by RecWorks on behalf of the London Java Community.
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LJC Virtual Meetup: Introducing GraalVM : The Fast, Polyglot JVM
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About the event
GraalVM is a new PolyGlot Run-time from Oracle, that lets you run Java, Scala and Kotlin programs faster, as well as being able to run Java, Scala, JS, Node, R, Python and more all on the same run-time.
In this talk, we will look at what GraalVM is, how to build small, fast cloud native executables with it and how to run multiple languages at the same time.
About the speaker
Kris Foster works with Oracle Labs to promote GraalVM in the programming community and works with customers looking to try GraalVM out. Before working at Oracle, Kris was, for the longest time, a freelancer working with Java / Web / Content Management / Everything-else.
This is an online event starting at 7 pm BST. Attendees will be sent a link on or before the day of the event.
This event is organised by RecWorks on behalf of the London Java Community.
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LJC Virtual Roundtable: Speaking at events and conferences
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Speaking at events and conferences - From getting started to giving keynotes
We are big believers in supporting and nurturing new speakers within the LJC. Many industry speakers gave their first talks at LJC events, it’s a tradition we’re keen to encourage. So whether you’re thinking about doing your first lightning talk or have given a few talks at events and want to step it up to the conference circuit over the next few years, virtual or otherwise you will benefit from talking to others that have been there and done it.
This is an LJC event, it will be in a slightly different format from usual and will be a virtual roundtable event. You can expect a lively discussion with questions and specific challenges submitted from attendees, facilitated by Barry Cranford and answered by a selection of experienced speakers.
Who should attend?
- Those that have never spoken before, but want to hear what it’s all about
- Experienced or veteran speakers with battle scars and stories to tell
- Those that are on the journey but have ambitions to step up to the next level
You are welcome to sign up in any of the following capacities:
- A mentor/someone happy to share your story
- Someone with questions
- A spectator to enjoy the debate
This is an online event starting at 12.30pm BST. Attendees will be sent a link on or before the day of the 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/.
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We're back with our 3rd LJC Lunchtime Lightning Talks session.
This is going to be run in a similarly informal style to an unconference, in that the right talks will be done by the people that are there. Here are some of the speakers so far, we'll continue to update this page as more talks are announced:
Karsten Silz - Google Jib: Smaller & Faster Docker Images for Java Applications
César Tron-Lozai - Blazing fast Fibonacci with Kotlin and Arrow
Lakshmi Rao - Productionizing Machine Learning Pipelines for online prediction
Rossano D'Angelo - Deploy a webapp in minutes with Firebase
Ilan Pillemer - Talk tbc
We will aim to have 4-5 lightning talks followed by a session in the breakout rooms. You can tune in and tune out as you wish. The talks can be on anything you’re interested in.
We will keep it very light (pardon the pun) and hopefully it will be a bit of fun before the weekend to enjoy over your lunch hour.
As we’ve often talked about, lightning talks are a great opportunity to try, test or hone your speaking and presentation skills. They are usually under 7 minutes, with 2 minutes of Q+A.
This is an online event starting at 12.30pm BST. Attendees will be sent a link on or before the day of the 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
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LJC Virtual Meetup:Using Graph Theory to Explore your Microservices Architecture
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About the event
So your microservice system has been up and running for a while. You know you’ve diligently employed every ounce of your experience and knowledge over time to design a sensible application architecture, with hopefully sensible boundaries.
But time is now throwing new questions your way:
Are my boundaries still sensible?
Have any anti-patterns crept in, have I inadvertently created the dreaded distributed monolith?
This talk explores how network science and graph theory techniques can be applied to help gain insight into, and explore questions about your microservices architecture.
About the speaker
Nicki Watt is the Chief Technology Officer for OpenCredo responsible for the overall direction and leadership of technical engagements. A techie at heart, her core expertise lies in problem solving and enabling pragmatic, practical solutions. Over the years at OpenCredo Nicki has worn many hats which have included the development, delivery and leading of large scale platform and application development projects involving Cloud, DevOps and Data. Nicki is also co-author of the book Neo4J in Action.
This is an online event starting at 12.30pm BST. Attendees will be sent a link on or before the day of the 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/.
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We're back with our 3rd LJC Lunchtime Lightning Talks session.
This is going to be run in a similarly informal style to an unconference, in that the right talks will be done by the people that are there. Here are some of the speakers so far, we'll continue to update this page as more talks are announced:
Karsten Silz - Google Jib: Smaller & Faster Docker Images for Java Applications
César Tron-Lozai - Blazing fast Fibonacci with Kotlin and Arrow
Ilan Pillemer - Talk tbc
We will aim to have 4-5 lightning talks followed by a session in the breakout rooms. You can tune in and tune out as you wish. The talks can be on anything you’re interested in.
We will keep it very light (pardon the pun) and hopefully it will be a bit of fun before the weekend to enjoy over your lunch hour.
As we’ve often talked about, lightning talks are a great opportunity to try, test or hone your speaking and presentation skills. They are usually under 7 minutes, with 2 minutes of Q+A.
This is an online event starting at 12.30pm BST. Attendees will be sent a link on or before the day of the 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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LJC Virtual Meetup: Robin Moffatt's Apache Kafka Series
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Join the LJC over the next 3 weeks for a series of Apache Kafka talks by Robin Moffatt. Robin is a Senior Developer Advocate at Confluent, the company founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka, as well as an Oracle ACE Director (Alumnus).
Talk 1: Apache Kafka and ksqlDB in Action: Let’s Build a Streaming Data Pipeline! - Wednesday 29th April at 7pm
Talk 2: From Zero to Hero with Kafka Connect - Wednesday 6th May at 7pm
Talk 3: Introduction to ksqlDB - Wednesday 13th May at 7pm
Apache Kafka and ksqlDB in Action : Let’s Build a Streaming Data Pipeline!
Kafka is a whole lot more than just a message bus! It includes stream processing and integration capabilities, and this talk will be mostly live coding to demonstrate what can be built around it, how to do it - and why to do it.
Have you ever thought that you needed to be a programmer to do stream processing and build streaming data pipelines? Think again! Apache Kafka is a distributed, scalable, and fault-tolerant streaming platform, providing low-latency pub-sub messaging coupled with native storage and stream processing capabilities. Integrating Kafka with RDBMS, NoSQL, and object stores is simple with Kafka Connect, which is part of Apache Kafka. ksqlDB is the source-available SQL streaming engine for Apache Kafka, and makes it possible to build stream processing applications at scale, written using a familiar SQL interface.
In this talk, we’ll explain the architectural reasoning for Apache Kafka and the benefits of real-time integration, and we’ll build a streaming data pipeline using nothing but our bare hands, Kafka Connect, and ksqlDB.
From Zero to Hero with Kafka Connect
Integrating Apache Kafka with other systems in a reliable and scalable way is often a key part of a streaming platform. Fortunately, Apache Kafka includes the Connect API that enables streaming integration both in and out of Kafka. Like any technology, understanding its architecture and deployment patterns is key to successful use, as is knowing where to go looking when things aren’t working.
This talk will discuss the key design concepts within Kafka Connect and the pros and cons of standalone vs distributed deployment modes. We’ll do a live demo of building pipelines with Kafka Connect for streaming data in from databases, and out to targets including Elasticsearch. With some gremlins along the way, we’ll go hands-on in methodically diagnosing and resolving common issues encountered with Kafka Connect. The talk will finish off by discussing more advanced topics including Single Message Transforms, and deployment of Kafka Connect in containers.
Introduction to ksqlDB
You’ve got streams of data that you want to process and store? You’ve got events from which you’d like to derive state or build aggregates? And you want to do all of this in a scalable and fault-tolerant manner? It’s just as well that Kafka and ksqlDB exist!
This talk will be built around a live demonstration of the concepts and capabilities of ksqlDB. We’ll see how you can apply transformations to a stream of events from one Kafka topic to another. We’ll use ksqlDB connectors to bring in data from other systems and use this to join and enrich streams—and we’ll serve the results up directly to an application, without even needing an external data store.
This event is organised by RecWorks on behalf of the London Java Community.
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We're back with our 3rd LJC Lunchtime Lightning Talks session.
This is going to be run in a similarly informal style to an unconference, in that the right talks will be done by the people that are there. Here are some of the speakers so far, we'll continue to update this page as more talks are announced:
Karsten Silz - Google Jib: Smaller & Faster Docker Images for Java Applications
Ilan Pillemer - Talk tbc
We will aim to have 4-5 lightning talks followed by a session in the breakout rooms. You can tune in and tune out as you wish. The talks can be on anything you’re interested in.
We will keep it very light (pardon the pun) and hopefully it will be a bit of fun before the weekend to enjoy over your lunch hour.
As we’ve often talked about, lightning talks are a great opportunity to try, test or hone your speaking and presentation skills. They are usually under 7 minutes, with 2 minutes of Q+A.
This is an online event starting at 12.30pm BST. Attendees will be sent a link on or before the day of the 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
Sign up here if you're not a member: https://barrycranford.typeform.com/to/IIyQxd
***This is a placeholder for the event being run on Eventbrite. Please sign up with your full name at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ljc-virtual-lunchtime-lightning-talks-registration-104431936734?aff=meetup ***
We're back with our 3rd LJC Lunchtime Lightning Talks session.
This is going to be run in a similarly informal style to an unconference, in that the right talks will be done by the people that are there. So we don’t yet know what will be on. We will update this when we know.
We will aim to have 4-5 lightning talks followed by a session in the breakout rooms. You can tune in and tune out as you wish. The talks can be on anything you’re interested in.
We will keep it very light (pardon the pun) and hopefully it will be a bit of fun before the weekend to enjoy over your lunch hour.
As we’ve often talked about, lightning talks are a great opportunity to try, test or hone your speaking and presentation skills. They are usually under 7 minutes, with 2 minutes of Q+A.
This is an online event starting at 12.30pm BST. Attendees will be sent a link on or before the day of the 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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