Roy Derks is coming all the way from Holland to give a talk about Context API and Hooks. I met Roy at React Native conference in Poland this year, where he was one of the speakers. He is really cool and clever guy. You can check his talk here:
https://youtu.be/oYimRomwJYo
The meetup will be hosted in CodeBase this time. We will start at 6PM.
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The Agenda
• 6:00pm - 7:00pm: Pizza, beers and networking
• 7:00pm - 7:45pm: Fast and Beautiful: Modern Image Delivery Techniques by Doug Sillars
• 7:45pm - 8:15pm: Short break
• 8:15pm - 9:00pm: Using the React Context API With Hooks for Identity Management by Roy Derks
• Drinks at nearby pub - TBC
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The Talks
---> Talk 1: Fast and Beautiful: Modern Image Delivery Techniques by Doug Sillars
The average mobile website page weight is ~50% images. Toss in the complication of thousands of differently sized screens, and it might appear that efficient delivery of images to every device is an impossible task. But all is not lost! In this talk, we’ll examine strategies to send the perfect image to every device, ensuring a fast, beautiful rendering of your content. We’ll look at progressive images, placeholder images, lazy loading and other techniques and real world examples that will improve the usability of your site or app. Attendees will come away with an understand of the current ‘state of the art’ for optimizing visual content on the web.
Bio
Doug is is a freelance mobile performance expert, having helped thousands of developers speed up their mobile apps and websites. A Google Developer Expert and the author of O’Reilly’s “High Performance Android Apps”, Doug regularly speaks at conferences, and blogs at www.dougsillars.com. He is currently working as a freelance digital nomad, traveling with his family in Europe.
---> Talk 2: Using the React Context API With Hooks for Identity Management by Roy Derks
Bio
Roy Derks (@gethackteam) is a startup CTO and Senior Frontend Developer at the City of Amsterdam. In his "spare" time he likes to share his knowledge with the JavaScript community on Twitter and during meetups, workshops and conferences.
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If you have enquiries or would like to get in touch, send us a message on Meetup directly.
We have a real treat for you this time. Roy Derks is coming all the way from Holland to give a talk about GraphQL. I met Roy at React Native conference in Poland this year, where he was one of the speakers. He is really cool and clever guy. You can check his talk here:
https://youtu.be/oYimRomwJYo
The meetup will be hosted in CodeBase this time. We will start at 6PM.
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The Agenda
• 6:00pm - 7:00pm: Pizza, beers and networking
• 7:00pm - 7:45pm: Video Killed My Data Plan by Doug Sillars
• 7:45pm - 8:15pm: Short break
• 8:15pm - 9:00pm: Wrapping and Securing REST APIs with GraphQL by Roy Derks
• Drinks at nearby pub - TBC
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The Talks
---> Talk 1: Video Killed My Data Plan by Doug Sillars (@dougsillars)
Video is one of the fastest growing mediums on the web and in mobile applications. Video files have been shown to increase engagement, and can be a great way to deliver your message quickly. (And who doesn’t love animated GIFs?) However, video that takes a long time to start up leads to frustration and abandonment. The same goes for video that stalls during playback. In this talk, you’ll learn best practices to optimize the delivery of your video to you customers, ensuring fast delivery and minimizing stalls for a great customer experience.
Bio
Doug is is a freelance mobile performance expert, having helped thousands of developers speed up their mobile apps and websites. A Google Developer Expert and the author of O’Reilly’s “High Performance Android Apps”, Doug regularly speaks at conferences, and blogs at www.dougsillars.com. He is currently working as a freelance digital nomad, traveling with his family in Europe.
---> Talk 2: Wrapping and Securing REST APIs with GraphQL by Roy Derks (@gethackteam)
Bio
Roy Derks (@gethackteam) is a startup CTO and Senior Frontend Developer at the City of Amsterdam. In his "spare" time he likes to share his knowledge with the JavaScript community on Twitter and during meetups, workshops and conferences.
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If you have enquiries or would like to get in touch, send us a message on Meetup directly.
A happy new year to everyone! For our second Edinburgh DataVis Meetup we're at our new venue, the University of Edinburgh's Bayes Centre for Data Science* (www.bayes.ed.ac.uk). The group now has over 250 members.
From our consultation exercise at the first meeting, it's crystal clear many of us want to learn more about tools. Hence, this session will be about some simple visualisation applications - and will certainly not be the last of this kind.
We will discuss the following three visualization tools, and we’d love to hear about your favourites too.
1) We'll start with Graphy (graphyapp.com) an impressive new, user-friendly SaaS tool built here in Edinburgh to make collaborative visualisation more accessible to busy teams of professionals. We'll be talking with cofounder Andrey Vinitsky about the journey to this point; he'll demo its capabilities and you'll have an opportunity to try them out, working together.
2) Next, Ben will demo two of his favourites, RAWGraphs (rawgraphs.io) and Datawrapper (www.datawrapper.de). If you bring a computer there will be a chance to follow along and build a simple visualisation there and then with data we provide (and, if you do, others might want to look over your shoulder).
As always, there will be the chance to announce any news or interesting information you may want to share with the group. If you have something relevant to tell everyone that will take more than a few minutes (e.g., you want to demo a tool), please let us know in advance so we can try to fit you in.
Again, with well over 250 members, it's worth booking now!
See you soon.
Cheers,
Brendan (Hill), Ben (Bach), Uta (Hinrichs), and Matt (Harrison)
*Venue: we’re in the Inspace Gallery at the Bayes Centre. The entrance is by the tree in this picture here: www.edinburghguide.com/venue/inspacegallery Unfortunately, the tree isn’t anymore, but the entrance is :)
Webinar - Testing Ask Me Anything | Robots in Automation | Jason Huggins
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Hi MOT Edinburgh,
Ministry of Testing have a new Ask Me Anything live webinar on Tuesday 15th January at 8 pm UK time. This time we're talking about Robots in Automation.
If you have not attended an AMA its an interactive webinar where an SME speaks about a subject informally and takes questions from the attendees, these free events are great if you want to ask a question that comes to you on the night or submit a question before hand.
Once you've registered you could ask Jason any question you might have around Robots in Automation, here are a few more examples:
Why would a tester need a robot?
What can robots do that Appium or Selenium can’t do?
What are some scenarios where a robot is the right tool for the job?
Once registered we encourage you to ask some questions on the topic in advance, ready for the webinar and upvote any questions you'd like to see answered.
Link to register:
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/amarobots/register
A happy new year to everyone! For our second Edinburgh DataVis Meetup we're at our new venue, the University of Edinburgh's Bayes Centre for Data Science* (www.bayes.ed.ac.uk). The group now has well over 200 members.
From our consultation exercise at the first meeting, it's crystal clear many of us want to learn more about tools. Hence, this session will be about some simple visualisation applications - and will certainly not be the last of this kind.
We will discuss the following three visualization tools, and we’d love to hear about your favourites too.
1) We'll start with Graphy (graphyapp.com) an impressive new, user-friendly SaaS tool built here in Edinburgh to make collaborative visualisation more accessible to busy teams of professionals. We'll be talking with cofounder Andrey Vinitsky about the journey to this point; he'll demo its capabilities and you'll have an opportunity to try them out, working together.
2) Next, Ben will demo two of his favourites, RAWGraphs (rawgraphs.io) and Datawrapper (www.datawrapper.de). If you bring a computer there will be a chance to follow along and build a simple visualisation there and then with data we provide (and, if you do, others might want to look over your shoulder).
As always, there will be the chance to announce any news or interesting information you may want to share with the group. If you have something relevant to tell everyone that will take more than a few minutes (e.g., you want to demo a tool), please let us know in advance so we can try to fit you in.
Again, with well over 200 members, it's worth booking now!
See you soon.
Cheers,
Brendan (Hill), Ben (Bach), Uta (Hinrichs), and Matt (Harrison)
*Venue: we’re in the Inspace Gallery at the Bayes Centre. The entrance is by the tree in this picture here: www.edinburghguide.com/venue/inspacegallery Unfortunately, the tree isn’t anymore, but the entrance is :)
A happy new year to everyone! For our second Edinburgh DataVis Meetup we're at our new venue, the University of Edinburgh's Bayes Centre for Data Science* (www.bayes.ed.ac.uk). The group now has well over 200 members.
From our consultation exercise at the first meeting, it's crystal clear many of us want to learn more about tools. Hence, this session will be about some simple visualisation applications - and will certainly not be the last of this kind.
We will discuss the following three visualization tools, and we’d love to hear about your favourites too.
1) We'll start with Graphy (graphyapp.com) an impressive new, user-friendly SaaS tool built here in Edinburgh to make collaborative visualisation more accessible to busy teams of professionals. We'll be talking with cofounder Andrey Vinitsky about the journey to this point; he'll demo its capabilities and you'll have an opportunity to try them out, working together.
2) Next, Ben will demo two of his favourites, RAWGraphs (rawgraphs.io) and Datawrapper (www.datawrapper.de). If you bring a computer there will be a chance to follow along and build a simple visualisation there and then with data we provide (and, if you do, others might want to look over your shoulder).
As always, there will be the chance to announce any news or interesting information you may want to share with the group. If you have something relevant to tell everyone that will take more than a few minutes, please let us know in advance so we can try to fit you in.
Again, with well over 200 members, it's worth booking now!
See you soon.
Cheers,
Brendan (Hill), Ben (Bach), Uta (Hinrichs), and Matt (Harrison)
*Venue: we’re in the Inspace Gallery at the Bayes Centre. The entrance is by the tree here: www.edinburghguide.com/venue/inspacegallery Unfortunately, the tree isn’t anymore, but the entrance is :)
Casey Kuhlman - Demonstration of the Monax Platform
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This event will be in Edinburgh - Dentsu Aegis Network, Capital House, Edinburgh Office Fourth Floor, 2 Festival Square, Edinburgh EH3 9SU
Demonstration of the Monax Platform
Casey, Monax's CEO, will discuss how they blend an emergent blockchain-network which sits at the intersection of public and permissioned blockchain technology with a software-as-a service platform. The Monax Platform includes some of the most advanced Solidity smart contracts in existence and yet is fully understandable to individuals with only a modest understanding of blockchains and smart contracts technology.
In this Meetup, Casey will provide an overview of how the Monax Platform works and how their customers are utilizing the platform to gain insights into their legal contracts which they've been unable to achieve with prior generations of technology.
Casey Kuhlman is the CEO of Monax a blockchain-based contract management system for small businesses. Prior to co-founding Monax, Casey was the head of legal information systems at the US Open Data Institute. A lawyer and international development practitioner for nearly a decade, Casey has worked extensively in the Horn of Africa, including co-founding the first law firm in Somaliland. Casey has also been a New York Times bestselling author, an infantry officer in the Marines, and is an avid participant in open source software development.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/compleatang/
6.00pm : Arrive, Networking, Beer & Pizza
6.30pm: Presentation / Q&A
7.30pm: Networking and Drinks
9.00pm: Finish
A happy new year to everyone! For our second Edinburgh DataVis Meetup we're at our new venue, the University of Edinburgh's Bayes Centre for Data Science* (www.bayes.ed.ac.uk) and we have now well over 200 members.
From our consultation exercise at the first meeting, it's crystal clear many of us want to learn more about tools. Hence, this session will be about some simple visualisation applications - and will certainly not be the last of this kind.
We will discuss the following three visualization tools, and we’d love to hear about your favourites too.
1) We'll start with Graphy (graphyapp.com) an impressive new, user-friendly SaaS tool built here in Edinburgh to make collaborative visualisation more accessible to busy teams of professionals. We'll be talking with cofounder Andrey Vinitsky about the journey to this point; he'll demo its capabilities and you'll have an opportunity to try them out, working together.
2) Next, Ben will demo two of his favourites, RAWGraphs (rawgraphs.io) and Datawrapper (www.datawrapper.de). If you bring a computer there will be a chance to follow along and build a simple visualisation there and then with data we provide (and, if you do, others might want to look over your shoulder).
As always, there will be the chance to announce any news or interesting information you may want to share with the group. If you have something relevant to tell everyone that will take more than a few minutes, please let us know in advance so we can try to fit you in.
Again, with well over 200 members, it's worth booking now!
See you soon.
Cheers,
Brendan (Hill), Ben (Bach), Uta (Hinrichs), and Matt (Marrrison)
*Venue: we’re in the Inspace Gallery at the Bayes Centre. The entrance is by the tree here: www.edinburghguide.com/venue/inspacegallery Unfortunately, the tree isn’t anymore, but the entrance is :)
The OpenStreetMap community in Edinburgh have a social meeting every month, usually on the third Tuesday of the month, from 7:30pm
Everyone is welcome, to come and meet with us. We will try and have either a hi-vis vest and/or OSM related flyers/posters on the table. This is an opportunity to meet with others and hear about what's going on, learn new mapping techniques, s, and just generally discuss all things relating to maps, visualisations, Open Data and GIS etc.
We are currently arranging the speaker, stay tuned...
Meetup @ 6pm (speaker starts @ 6:30pm)
Everyone is welcome, we have members and regular attendees who are widely varied in their WordPress Skills, beginners through to experts. Combine this with a variety of interests and backgrounds and you have a recipe for a great meetup. So please do come along regardless or your WordPress knowledge!
There is always a social side to the WP Edinburgh meetups, many attendees have found this to be of great benefit & an opportunity to meet others to share & learn on all things WordPress and beyond :)
We are currently arranging the speaker, stay tuned...
Meetup @ 6pm (speaker starts @ 6:30pm)
Everyone is welcome, we have members and regular attendees who are widely varied in their WordPress Skills, beginners through to experts. Combine this with a variety of interests and backgrounds and you have a recipe for a great meetup. So please do come along regardless or your WordPress knowledge!
There is always a social side to the WP Edinburgh meetups, many attendees have found this to be of great benefit & an opportunity to meet others to share & learn on all things WordPress and beyond :)
We are currently arranging the speaker, stay tuned...
Meetup @ 6pm (speaker starts @ 6:30pm)
Everyone is welcome, we have members and regular attendees who are widely varied in their WordPress Skills, beginners through to experts. Combine this with a variety of interests and backgrounds and you have a recipe for a great meetup. So please do come along regardless or your WordPress knowledge!
There is always a social side to the WP Edinburgh meetups, many attendees have found this to be of great benefit & an opportunity to meet others to share & learn on all things WordPress and beyond :)
We are currently arranging the speaker, stay tuned...
Meetup @ 6pm (speaker starts @ 6:30pm)
Everyone is welcome, we have members and regular attendees who are widely varied in their WordPress Skills, beginners through to experts. Combine this with a variety of interests and backgrounds and you have a recipe for a great meetup. So please do come along regardless or your WordPress knowledge!
There is always a social side to the WP Edinburgh meetups, many attendees have found this to be of great benefit & an opportunity to meet others to share & learn on all things WordPress and beyond :)
We are currently arranging the speaker, stay tuned...
Meetup @ 6pm (speaker starts @ 6:30pm)
Everyone is welcome, we have members and regular attendees who are widely varied in their WordPress Skills, beginners through to experts. Combine this with a variety of interests and backgrounds and you have a recipe for a great meetup. So please do come along regardless or your WordPress knowledge!
There is always a social side to the WP Edinburgh meetups, many attendees have found this to be of great benefit & an opportunity to meet others to share & learn on all things WordPress and beyond :)
Join us for CodeBase Unfiltered, our caffeine(or decaf) fuelled regular meeting of the minds, for techies & non-techies alike.
It’s a great way to stay up-to-date about your local startup scene, bounce ideas with your peers........and we’re offering free hotdesking for attendees. Pop along anytime from 12:30pm - 13:30pm
Join us for CodeBase Unfiltered, our caffeine(or decaf) fuelled regular meeting of the minds, for techies & non-techies alike.
It’s a great way to stay up-to-date about your local startup scene, bounce ideas with your peers........and we’re offering free hotdesking for attendees. Pop along anytime from 8.30-10.30am.
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Unfiltered is an informal gathering and all are welcome but we do not welcome direct attempts to sell to attendees.
Come for a refreshing drink and friendly chat from all your fellow techies!
The Commons is Edinburgh's monthly get together of everyone tech. No pitches, no speeches, no sales, just an opportunity to meet up and have a drink with those of similar dispositions.
This month's event will be held at 4042 40-42 Grindlay St, Edinburgh EH3 9AP 5:30pm start.
Come for a refreshing drink and friendly chat from all your fellow techies!
The Commons is Edinburgh's monthly get together of everyone tech. No pitches, no speeches, no sales, just an opportunity to meet up and have a drink with those of similar dispositions.
This month's event will be held at 4042 40-42 Grindlay St, Edinburgh EH3 9AP 5:30pm start.
Come for a refreshing drink and friendly chat from all your fellow techies!
The Commons is Edinburgh's monthly get together of everyone tech. No pitches, no speeches, no sales, just an opportunity to meet up and have a drink with those of similar dispositions.
This month's event will be held at 4042 40-42 Grindlay St, Edinburgh EH3 9AP 5:30pm start.
Come for a refreshing drink and friendly chat from all your fellow techies!
The Commons is Edinburgh's monthly get together of everyone tech. No pitches, no speeches, no sales, just an opportunity to meet up and have a drink with those of similar dispositions.
This month's event will be held at 4042 40-42 Grindlay St, Edinburgh EH3 9AP 5:30pm start.
Come for a refreshing drink and friendly chat from all your fellow techies!
The Commons is Edinburgh's monthly get together of everyone tech. No pitches, no speeches, no sales, just an opportunity to meet up and have a drink with those of similar dispositions.
This month's event will be held at 4042 40-42 Grindlay St, Edinburgh EH3 9AP 5:30pm start.
Come for a refreshing drink and friendly chat from all your fellow techies!
The Commons is Edinburgh's monthly get together of everyone tech. No pitches, no speeches, no sales, just an opportunity to meet up and have a drink with those of similar dispositions.
This month's event will be held at 4042 40-42 Grindlay St, Edinburgh EH3 9AP 5:30pm start.
The January meetup will have a developer slant on it with some V8 demos and chats but as always, anything goes so please, come along and join in the chat.
If you would like to demo anything, give a quick 5 min chat about a topic you are passionate about or have an idea for the meetup, please get in touch.
After the meetup, we will head to a local pub for a pint or soft drink, come and join us.
EDINBUUG is a chance to chat about all things Umbraco - whether you are someone who uses Umbraco for their website, you're a developer who builds Umbraco websites or maybe you are a project manager who works with clients who have Umbraco websites - come along. Everyone is welcome.
It's just too slow: Mobile application performance testing
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Hi MOT Edinburgh,
To kick off our 2019 season we have Doug Sillars giving us his thoughts on Mobile Performance Testing. Doug is a friend of the MOT meetups, having spoken at meetups in Ireland and France.
Plan of Attack
18:00 - Doors open - Networking
18:45 - Doug!
19:30 - Activity/Lean Coffee
20:30 - Post Meetup Social (AKA pub)
Synopsis below
Mobile apps and websites are now the predominant ways that users interact with brands. Research has shown that slow sites and apps lose customer engagement. Despite this, most mobile sites and apps have performance issues that can be easily resolved once diagnosed.
In this talk, we will walk through steps to diagnose network performance bottlenecks in mobile services. We'll discuss real world examples and how they were resolved. Attendees will leave this talk armed with the tools to test, diagnose and resolve the top network performance issues that affect mobile today.
Thanks and Sponsorship
Thanks to the Google Digital Garage for hosting this event.
Sponsorship (Pizza and Liquids) kindly provided by Aaron Hamilton (https://www.linkedin.com/in/aahamilton/) from www.harveynash.com\scotland who is a regular attendee to the MOT Edinburgh events and recruits heavily within testing.
About Doug
Doug is is a freelance mobile performance expert, having helped thousands of developers speed up their mobile apps and websites. A Google Developer Expert and the author of O’Reilly’s “High Performance Android Apps,” Doug has spoken at developer conferences in the US and Europe, and blogs regularly at dougsillars.com. He is currently working as a freelance digital nomad, traveling with his family in Europe.
Lean Agile Edinburgh only exists because of you, the community, and your enthusiasm to turn up, ask questions, and share your knowledge.
Every now and again we like to check to make sure that what we're doing is meeting the needs of this community, and this month we're going to put this into a real focus.
To start off, we'll have a talk from Barney Dellar on Imposter Syndrome, hopefully this will encourage you all to be more comfortable in sharing your needs in the group discussion(s) that will follow. This will be focused on how you have found recent meetups, and what you'd like to see this year but don't worry if you've never been to an event before, we're looking for perspectives from everyone.
The Venue will open at 18:30 and sessions will begin around 19:00. Look forward to seeing you there!
18:30 - 19:00 - Sign in, networking, drinks and food!
19:00 - Close - Steve Shanks: Intro to GraphQL followed by Q&A
GraphQL is the new REST and it's going to change the way we develop APIs forever. Or maybe it's just going to take us back to the (allegedly) dark days of SOAP and XML.
Either way, it's a technology that continues to gain in popularity, so there's never been a better time to start learning it.
In this talk we'll look at the basics of GraphQL queries and mutations, and see how a GraphQL API differs from a REST API. We'll then move on to defining our own GraphQL schemas, and look at how to put together a GraphQL API using PHP.
About the speaker
Steve has been a PHP developer for the last 14 years, and is currently a senior engineer at Administrate, where he doesn't write much PHP. He's not a GraphQL expert by any stretch of the imagination, but he's been working with it for about 6 months now. When not doing tech he can be found playing bass or arguing with his cats.
Drinks/food and venue kindly provided by People's Postcode Lottery.
We look forwards to seeing you all for the first PHP meetup of 2019!
Scotland has a mature, experienced and innovative data centre and hosting community delivering key managed services to global clients in Retail, Health, FS, Food & Drink, Government, Energy. These providers deliver colocation, hosting, cloud and hybrid services that support the digital data driven economies all our business work and grow in, to the highest compliance standards.
This half day gathering brings together specialists from in-country expertise – right here on your doorstep – combined with global experts as well as demand side experts from Fintech and Education, offering people from across the data management community the opportunity to hear about the latest developments, existing capabilities and future plans and to network with peers.
Understanding the insider threat, from a lawyer’s perspective
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Understanding the insider threat, from a lawyer’s perspective – the next event in our series of cyber security updates.
It shouldn’t be news to you that employee’s, colleagues and users of IT systems pose a particular security threat to your company.
Do you have effective policies in place that protect confidential information/IP?
Do your staff know about these policies and are they aware of the significance of them?
What are the legal consequences of misusing confidential information?
Can you or should you monitor employee use and removal of sensitive documents?
Join Neeraj Thomas, Senior Associate and Colin Hulme, Partner of Burness Paull LLP to discover more about how the insider threat is one that organisations often fail to fully protect themselves from and discuss ways in which you can mitigate the impact should it become your reality.
You’ll learn more about the legal avenues for recourse, prevention steps that should be taken to ensure you are covered in the event of a breach and hear stories war stories of cases past where mistakes of others will be under the microscope.
Book now and ensure your company is covered.
Agenda
17.30 - 17.50 Registration
17.50 - 18.00 Introduction and welcome from ScotlandIS
18.00 - 18.45 Colin Hulme and Neeraj Thomas of Burness Paull LLP
It's the time again when we look into the future of our fast-changing industry with our popular annual tech trends sessions in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen. Once again Richard Marshall has agreed to be our guide, sharing his expert views into the key technology and software development trends and how they will impact businesses, society and country.
An entrepreneur and published author, Richard is Principal at digital advisors Concept Gap, and with his unique style will again take the audience on an informative and amusing journey into the new future.
An event not to be missed as you plan your business strategy for 2019 and beyond, however please note that these events are always oversubscribed so book early to secure your place.
17.30 - 18.00 Registration
18.00 - 19.00 Richard Marshall presentation
19.00 - 19.20 Q & A
19.20 onwards Networking
ScotlandIS Members: Free
Non Members: £35 + vat
2 people per company maximum.
Cancellation Policy:
All cancellations less than 30 days before the event incur a cancellation charge of 50%. Cancellations within 7 days of the event incur a cancellation charge of 100%.
Technology Entrepreneurship with the League of Entrepreneurs - Edinburgh Chapter
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Come along for an exciting, dynamic and inspiring entrepreneurial event with an exclusive Fireside Chat with an experienced Investor and Entrepreneur (tbc) in the Wash Bar at 6:30pm on Wednesday 23rd January 2019.
Hangout with like-minded Entrepreneurs and Startup Founders from around the world and meet people to help build your startup or even find a startup to join as a CoFounder, Investor, Mentor, Adviser or Intern.
ALSO:
- Share startup war stories
- Gain information on funding opportunities
- Discover ways to increase your chances of success
GETUP AND PITCH!
You will also have an opportunity to tell the group what your idea is and ask for help in finding cofounders, funding or support.
AGENDA:
18:30 Check-In
19:00 Fireside chat and discussion with guest speaker
19:30 'Get up and Pitch' and Ask for CoFounders, Advice or Funding
20:00 Meetup Melee (talk to potential cofounders, people you can help)
21:30 End of Meetup
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Who is this event for?
- Aspiring Entrepreneurs
- Founders who want to find a CoFounder
- Entrepreneurs who want to raise investment
- Angel Investors who want to find startups to support
This event is free to attend for startups, entrepreneurs and anyone else interested in why building a Minumum Viable Product can be such a successful route when building a digital product. The idea behind an MVP is to prove your concept with an initial version of your product which has enough features to satisfy early adopters.
What is the format?
We will begin the event with an informal networking session, followed by a short introduction from Bad Dinosaur. This will be followed by a series of short talks from entrepreneurs and startups who have gone through the MVP process and a chance for some Q&A. Afterwards will be a second chance for networking.
Bad Dinosaur is a software development company based in Edinburgh. Our mission is to provide a complete service for anyone who wants to build a digital product, taking you from an idea in your head to your first paying customers and beyond.
Please join us for the first of a series of Digital Transformation meet-ups in Edinburgh discussing the changing face of IT development and the latest digital transformation subjects. We aim to cover Software Engineering, Data Science, Design and Agile topics over the course of 2019.
In this first event we have presenters covering Quality Engineering and modern Mainframe development. There will also be plenty of time to network with other attendees at this informal meet-up, and food and drink will be provided.
Doors open at 5.45pm for a 6pm start, at the Scottish Widows office at Port Hamilton, Morrison Street, Edinburgh. Entry is by ticket only, so please ensure you bring a printed or electronic copy. Registration is via Eventbrite
This is an informal event for local technology practitioners and those wanting to learn more about Software Engineering, Agile and other digital transformation topics.
This event is brought to you by Lloyds Banking Group Engineering #horsepower
We have a real treat for you this time. Roy Derks is coming all the way from Holland to give a talk about GraphQL. I met Roy at React Native conference in Poland this year, where he was one of the speakers. He is really cool and clever guy. You can check his talk here:
https://youtu.be/oYimRomwJYo
The meetup will be hosted in CodeBase this time. We will start at 6PM.
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The Agenda
• 6:00pm - 7:00pm: Pizza, beers and networking
• 7:00pm - 7:40pm: Wrapping and Securing REST APIs with GraphQL by Roy Derks
• Talk 2 - TBC
• Afterwards moving to a bar
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The Talks
---> Talk 1: Wrapping and Securing REST APIs with GraphQL by Roy Derks
Bio
Roy Derks (@gethackteam) is a startup CTO and Senior Frontend Developer at the City of Amsterdam. In his "spare" time he likes to share his knowledge with the JavaScript community on Twitter and during meetups, workshops and conferences.
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If you have enquiries or would like to get in touch, send us a message on Meetup directly.
Hello everyone,
I created this group to find others like me - people working at tech companies, who want to contribute their skills to good causes. We've created an inspiring growing group and on our meet-ups we discuss our experiences, possibilities, plan next steps on our projects and also have fun!
Join us in Akva on 8th January at 6PM.
See you there!
