Bob Clint - "What a long, strange trip it has been -Reflections on a data career
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Bob Clint (CTO, Spiritus Partners) - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bob-clint-5445ba2
"What a long, strange trip it has been - Reflections on a data career'
Bob is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Spiritus Partners, Inc. Spiritus Partners supports patients' well-being and peace of mind in managing chronic disease while enabling caregivers, clinicians and health systems to improve outcomes in a private, secure and reliable manner through mHealth solutions. A seasoned innovator, Bob has more than thirty years of experience in all aspects of the data management and IT life cycles, including solution development and delivery, project and program management, practice development and management, marketing and sales, and client relationship management. Prior roles have included Global IT Director and Audit Analytics Leader at EY, Senior Partner and National BI Practice Leader at CSC, and VP of Global Analytics at MphasiS.
Bob specializes in:
· Distributed ledger, Blockchain, Smart Contracts
- Analytics and Business Intelligence
· Big Data Analytics
· Master Data Management
· Data Integration
· Enterprise Architecture The full agenda and 2nd speaker will be announced asap.
Charles Hoskinson - Chief Executive Officer IOHK & Co-Founder of Ethereum will also now be speaking!
Blockchain: Reflections on the Revolution
Susan Ramonat, CEO, Spiritus Partners
Always driven to provide over the horizon leadership, Susan Ramonat brings over 25 years of executive experience on Wall Street and in banking. Susan established the Blockchain program strategy for a leading technology service provider to global wealth and investment managers. She speaks frequently about Blockchain, cybersecurity and operational resilience for audiences ranging from healthcare, financial services, and other critical infrastructure industries to academic researchers and government agencies in the US and UK. She also serves on the Industrial Advisory Board for Engineering Science at Loyola University Chicago. Susan is a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University.
Proving the Security of Blockchain Protocols : From proof of work to proof of stake
Prof. Aggelos Kiayias Chair in Cyber Security and Privacy -
Edinburgh Uni School of Informatics & Director of the newly established Blockchain Technology Laboratory in partnership with IOHK Ltd.
Event schedule:
5.45pm : Arrive, Networking, Beer & Pizza
6.30pm: Presentations / Q&A
7.30pm: Networking and Drinks
9.00pm: Finish
Join us for another set of lightning talks! We'll have three or four talks on different topics around the Go programming language from our members lasting between 10-15 minutes with time for questions after each.
Topics and speakers:
- Douglas McCallum - GopherJS
- Alec MacQueen - tbd
There's space for lighting talks so if you think you're up for it please get in touch with me. You can talk about anything Go related, even if it's something you're not an expert on. If you found the topic interesting enough to do a talk on, chances are we'll find it interesting too!
Pizza and refreshments will be served courtesy of our sponsors at Make it Social so come along, have a bite to eat and enjoy some great talks.
The meetup is open to people of all skill levels so whether you're a beginner or an expert you will be sure to get something out of this event.
If you have any questions, please get in touch with me through meetup.com, @edinburghgo on twitter or by email at [masked].
Hope to see you all there!
P.S. If you fancy attending a Golang conference then check out dotGo. We get a 20% discount on tickets if you use the code GOLANGEDINBURGH or check out this link with the discount applied.
Blockchain: Reflections on the Revolution & Security of Blockchain Protocols
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July Blockchain Meetup:
Blockchain: Reflections on the Revolution
Susan Ramonat, CEO, Spiritus Partners
Always driven to provide over the horizon leadership, Susan Ramonat brings over 25 years of executive experience on Wall Street and in banking. Susan established the Blockchain program strategy for a leading technology service provider to global wealth and investment managers. She speaks frequently about Blockchain, cybersecurity and operational resilience for audiences ranging from healthcare, financial services, and other critical infrastructure industries to academic researchers and government agencies in the US and UK. She also serves on the Industrial Advisory Board for Engineering Science at Loyola University Chicago. Susan is a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University.
Proving the Security of Blockchain Protocols : From proof of work to proof of stake
Prof. Aggelos Kiayias Chair in Cyber Security and Privacy -
Edinburgh Uni School of Informatics & Director of the newly established Blockchain Technology Laboratory in partnership with IOHK Ltd.
Event schedule:
5.45pm : Arrive, Networking, Beer & Pizza
6.30pm: Presentations / Q&A
7.30pm: Networking and Drinks
9.00pm: Finish
The Docker Edinburgh meetup takes place at Codebase, in their Event Space, which is accessible from the entrance on 38 Castle Terrace. The Meetup will run from around 18h30 to 20h00, with further discussion afterwards in the pub! Cloudsoft will be sponsoring the meetup, and pizza and beer will be provided.
Please let us know what sort of speakers or topics you would like to see at future Meetups, or if there are alternative formats like lightning talks that would prefer.
We're always looking for new speakers, so please get in touch if you have something you'd like to present about Docker or the wider DevOps community!
Speakers
TBC
Discussion
Current Schedule
18h30 - Pizza and beer (thanks, Cloudsoft)
19h00 - First Talk
19h30 - Second Talk
20h00 - Discussion continues at an appropriate external venue...
Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB.
This event is free of charge and open to all. No registration required - just turn up.
Refreshments and networking from 6:00 pm.
This meeting is supported by NCR.
Synopsis
The way we visually present code today would do little to surprise the first owner of the 1955 IBM typewriter that introduced the Courier typeface. Innovations since then include little more than bigger monitors, syntax colouring and better monospace typefaces. Meanwhile, layout and typography, already centuries old during the desktop publishing revolution thirty years ago, inform the visual presentation of most kinds of text.
The goal of this talk is to reconsider what code looks like. This talk uses step-by-step examples to show how layout and typography can make code beautiful, and considers how this would change the programming experience. After all, as Knuth pointed out, ‘Programs are meant to be read by humans, and only incidentally for computers to execute’.
About the speaker
Peter Hilton is a software developer, writer, speaker, trainer, and musician. Peter’s professional interests are business process management, web application development, functional design, agile software development and documentation. Peter currently works as a programmer and technical writer for Signavio, working remotely from Rotterdam, and delivers the occasional lecture and training course.
Peter’s software development interests include web applications, service architecture, software development methodology and practices, and web-based collaboration. Peter has presented at several European developer conferences, including ACCU, Scala eXchange, Devoxx, Øredev, Jfokus, Javazone, geecon and TopConf. Peter co-authored ‘Play for Scala’ (Manning Publications) and has taught ‘Fast Track to Play with Scala’.
We are currently arranging the speaker, stay tuned...
Meetup @ 6pm (speaker starts @ 6:30pm)
As always everyone is welcome, we have beginners and we have developers in our group, so please do come along regardless or your WordPress knowledge!
The social gathering we have after the talk has been very beneficial for people to meet others interested in WordPress and even get tips and recommendations not associated with the topic of the night.
The event will be hosted at the NN4M office and there will be pizza and beer provided.
We'll be welcoming people into the office from around 6.30. There'll be plenty of time to network and get to know the other members in the community around the talks. There'll also be time before the talks to have introductions and any notices regarding team ups, projects, recruitment etc.
Topics can be more technical with a focus on app development or more focused on the business/monetisation side. The event will cater to app development in general but if the content of an event will be more platform-specific we will try to announce this as early as possible to ensure you sign up for the events most relevant to you.
The event should be over by around 9.
Anyone looking to speak or suggest topics for the event do get in touch!
Our events are now also streamed on the ProductForge YouTube channel available here and can be watched on video afterwards: https://productforge.io/livestreams/
- Or, how I actioned the incident and learned more about the malware to help our organization weather one of the largest malware events to occur in recent history.
Driving remediation in large organisations
Speaker: Andrew Scott
Congratulations! Your vulnerability scanning, penetration testing and bug bounty programmes are all running really well. But what about remediation? When it comes to fixing the problems identified by the various assurance programmes it’s easy to become swamped by the sheer volume and not make enough progress on actual fixes. How do you sort the must fixes from the nice to haves and how do you push the fix rate up and the time to fix down? I’ll look at a number of the challenges here and some solutions.
Please note that registration is required for the event via Eventbrite: https://owaspscotlandaugust2017.eventbrite.co.uk
- Or, how I actioned the incident and learned more about the malware to help our organization weather one of the largest malware events to occur in recent history.
Driving remediation in large organisations
Speaker: Andrew Scott
Congratulations! Your vulnerability scanning, penetration testing and bug bounty programmes are all running really well. But what about remediation? When it comes to fixing the problems identified by the various assurance programmes it’s easy to become swamped by the sheer volume and not make enough progress on actual fixes. How do you sort the must fixes from the nice to haves and how do you push the fix rate up and the time to fix down? I’ll look at a number of the challenges here and some solutions.
One of our regular drop in open nights, no need to call ahead, just turn up! We'll be tinkering with hardware, hacking some code and probably eating. Feel free to come along with a project or idea for some help, use some tools, or just hang out.
One of our regular drop in open nights, no need to call ahead, just turn up! We'll be tinkering with hardware, hacking some code and probably eating. Feel free to come along with a project or idea for some help, use some tools, or just hang out.
One of our regular drop in open nights, no need to call ahead, just turn up! We'll be tinkering with hardware, hacking some code and probably eating. Feel free to come along with a project or idea for some help, use some tools, or just hang out.
One of our regular drop in open nights, no need to call ahead, just turn up! We'll be tinkering with hardware, hacking some code and probably eating. Feel free to come along with a project or idea for some help, use some tools, or just hang out.
One of our regular drop in open nights, no need to call ahead, just turn up! We'll be tinkering with hardware, hacking some code and probably eating. Feel free to come along with a project or idea for some help, use some tools, or just hang out.
One of our regular drop in open nights, no need to call ahead, just turn up! We'll be tinkering with hardware, hacking some code and probably eating. Feel free to come along with a project or idea for some help, use some tools, or just hang out.
One of our regular drop in open nights, no need to call ahead, just turn up! We'll be tinkering with hardware, hacking some code and probably eating. Feel free to come along with a project or idea for some help, use some tools, or just hang out.
One of our regular drop in open nights, no need to call ahead, just turn up! We'll be tinkering with hardware, hacking some code and probably eating. Feel free to come along with a project or idea for some help, use some tools, or just hang out.
One of our regular drop in open nights, no need to call ahead, just turn up! We'll be tinkering with hardware, hacking some code and probably eating. Feel free to come along with a project or idea for some help, use some tools, or just hang out.
One of our regular drop in open nights, no need to call ahead, just turn up! We'll be tinkering with hardware, hacking some code and probably eating. Feel free to come along with a project or idea for some help, use some tools, or just hang out.
One of our regular drop in open nights, no need to call ahead, just turn up! We'll be tinkering with hardware, hacking some code and probably eating. Feel free to come along with a project or idea for some help, use some tools, or just hang out.
Blockchain: Reflections on the Revolution
Susan Ramonat, CEO, Spiritus Partners
Always driven to provide over the horizon leadership, Susan Ramonat brings over 25 years of executive experience on Wall Street and in banking. Susan established the Blockchain program strategy for a leading technology service provider to global wealth and investment managers. She speaks frequently about Blockchain, cybersecurity and operational resilience for audiences ranging from healthcare, financial services, and other critical infrastructure industries to academic researchers and government agencies in the US and UK. She also serves on the Industrial Advisory Board for Engineering Science at Loyola University Chicago. Susan is a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University.
Prof. Aggelos Kiayias Chair in Cyber Security and Privacy - Edinburgh Uni School of Informatics & Director of the newly established Blockchain Technology Laboratory in partnership with IOHK Ltd.
Content TBC
Event schedule:
5.45pm : Arrive, Networking, Beer & Pizza
6.30pm: Presentations / Q&A
7.30pm: Networking and Drinks
9.00pm: Finish
Bob Clint (CTO,Spiritus Partners)- https://www.linkedin.com/in/bob-clint-5445ba2
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Bob Clint (CTO, Spiritus Partners) - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bob-clint-5445ba2
Bob is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Spiritus Partners, Inc. Spiritus Partners supports patients' well-being and peace of mind in managing chronic disease while enabling caregivers, clinicians and health systems to improve outcomes in a private, secure and reliable manner through mHealth solutions. A seasoned innovator, Bob has more than thirty years of experience in all aspects of the data management and IT life cycles, including solution development and delivery, project and program management, practice development and management, marketing and sales, and client relationship management. Prior roles have included Global IT Director and Audit Analytics Leader at EY, Senior Partner and National BI Practice Leader at CSC, and VP of Global Analytics at MphasiS.
Bob specializes in:
· Distributed ledger, Blockchain, Smart Contracts
- Analytics and Business Intelligence
· Big Data Analytics
· Master Data Management
· Data Integration
· Enterprise Architecture The full agenda and 2nd speaker will be announced asap.
Matt Brunt Talk: BDD & Behat: Telling stories through code
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18:30 - 19:00 Networking, beer and PHPizza!
19:00 Talk by Matt Brunt
Brunty is a Web Developer. Nerd. Techy. Lover of tea and jaffa cakes. Bit of a keyboard nut (he likes Cherry MX Blues). Lover of tech & computer hardware.
He's a Software Engineer based in Leicester, UK. If you'd like to know more about his skills, experience etc, check out his CV. If you'd like to read things that he writes sporadically, you can view his blog.
Behaviour Driven Development & Behat: Telling stories through code
Stories? Scenarios? BDD? Are these just more words in the ever-growing list of jargon that developers have to know? Or are they something more important than new terms to memorise?
In this session we'll look at how BDD fits into the software development work-flow, how to tell user stories through features, and how to automate them in Behat.
These techniques will help to ensure you're writing well designed and tested software that focuses on what the users want from a system.
We'll finish up with questions for Matt and discussions, then head across the road to Footlights for drinks
Getting to the room within the venue
There are two ways into Codebase. You want to find the one at the top of the hill (and NOT the one at the bottom with Codebase written on it, very confusing we know!).
Go to the blue arrow on the map.
You will see the upper entrance. Go in here, then take the lift to Floor L.
ScotRUG Edinburgh: Eva Koleli "An Introduction to Arel"
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This month, we have a short talk from Eva Koleli: An Introduction to Arel. Eva works at FreeAgent, and uses Rails and ActiveRecord there to interact with their database. She's had cause to jump down a level of abstraction from ActiveRecord to Arel before, and thinks we all might benefit from adding this tool to our Ruby toolbelt.After the talk, Eva will be running a workshop, providing a toy database to help you play around with Arel directly.
When all that is done, there will be plenty of time for questions and for general chat. We’ll supply some snacks to help get your hunger through to dinner, and CodeBase has water available from their kitchen. We’re a friendly bunch of humans and newcomers are most welcome!
The Docker Edinburgh meetup takes place at Codebase, in their Event Space, which is accessible from the entrance on 38 Castle Terrace. The Meetup will run from around 18h30 to 20h00, with further discussion afterwards in the pub! Cloudsoft will be sponsoring the meetup, and pizza and beer will be provided.
Please let us know what sort of speakers or topics you would like to see at future Meetups, or if there are alternative formats like lightning talks that would prefer.
We're always looking for new speakers, so please get in touch if you have something you'd like to present about Docker or the wider DevOps community!
Speakers
Justin Cormack - The Container Native Stack
Containers were born out of modern operations experience, a few short years ago. But we still use large amounts of infrastructure software that is built for a different world. I will talk about LinuxKit, which we built at Docker partly out of frustration with this, and also about how DevOps and containers are affecting the way we think about and build infrastructure more generally.
Justin is an engineer at Docker, based in Cambridge, and works on LinuxKit, containerd, Docker and more.
Discussion
Current Schedule
18h30 - Pizza and beer (thanks, Cloudsoft)
19h00 - TBC
19h30 - Justin Cormack - The Container Native Stack
20h00 - Discussion continues at an appropriate external venue...
This month, we have a short talk from Eva Koleli: An Introduction to Arel. Eva works at FreeAgent, and uses Rails and ActiveRecord there to interact with their database. She's had cause to jump down a level of abstraction from ActiveRecord to Arel before, and thinks we all might benefit from adding this tool to our Ruby toolbelt.
After the talk is over, there will be plenty of times for questions and for general chat. We'll supply some snacks to help get your hunger through to dinner, and CodeBase has water available from their kitchen. We're a friendly bunch of humans and newcomers are most welcome!
Blockchain: Reflections on the Revolution
Susan Ramonat, CEO, Spiritus Partners
Always driven to provide over the horizon leadership, Susan Ramonat brings over 25 years of executive experience on Wall Street and in banking. Susan established the Blockchain program strategy for a leading technology service provider to global wealth and investment managers. She speaks frequently about Blockchain, cybersecurity and operational resilience for audiences ranging from healthcare, financial services, and other critical infrastructure industries to academic researchers and government agencies in the US and UK. She also serves on the Industrial Advisory Board for Engineering Science at Loyola University Chicago. Susan is a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University.
Prof. Aggelos Kiayias Chair in Cyber Security and Privacy - Edinburgh Uni School of Informatics & Director of the newly established Blockchain Technology Laboratory in partnership with IOHK Ltd.
Content TBC
Speaker 2 TBC
Event schedule:
5.45pm : Arrive, Networking, Beer & Pizza
6.30pm: Presentations / Q&A
7.30pm: Networking and Drinks
9.00pm: Finish
Building The Future: Blockchain, Smart Contracts and Zero Knowledge Proofs
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August Blockchain Meetup:
Building The Future: Blockchain, Smart Contracts and Zero Knowledge Proofs
Bill Buchanan is a Professor in the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University, and a Fellow of the BCS and the IET. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to cyber security. Currently he leads the Centre for Distributed Computing, Networks, and Security and The Cyber Academy (http://thecyberacademy.org). Overall he has published over 250 academy papers and 27 textbooks, and has a number of patents. His main research focus is around information sharing, such as using Trust and Governance Policies, threat analysis, cryptography, Blockchain, e-Health, and triage within digital forensics. This has led to several World-wide patents, and in three highly successful spin-out companies: Zonefox (zonefox.com); Symphonic Software (www.symphonicsoft.com/); and Cyan Forensics (cyanforensics.com). Bill regularly appears on TV and radio related to computer security, and has given evidence to both the UK and Scottish Parliament. He has been named as one of the Top 100 people for Technology in Scotland for every year since 2012, and was also included in the FutureScot "Top 50 Scottish Tech People Who Are Changing The World". Recently his work on Secret Shares received “Innovation of the Year” at the Scottish Knowledge Exchange Awards, for a research project which involves splitting data into secret shares, and can then be distributed across a public Cloud-based infrastructure. He was included in the JISC Top 50 Higher Education Social Media Influencers in 2015.
Event schedule:
6.00pm : Arrive, Networking, Beer & Pizza
6.30pm: Presentations / Q&A
7.30pm: Networking and Drinks
9.00pm: Finish
Making Accessibility testing just part of the process
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Making Accessibility testing just part of the process
Alistair will provide an overview of modern Devops / Continuous Delivery practices, in order to illustrate how the infrastructure used to support these activities can also be used to support effective / efficient accessibility testing.
In his presentation he'll demonstrate;
• some examples that utilise a stand-alone Accessibility Testing Engine (written in JavaScript),
• where in the development pipeline accessibility testing can be done,
• and with what type of tests.
Accessibility testing can simply become part of your process.
Speaker Bio:
Alistair Garrison is the Director of Accessibility Research at Level Access. As a passionate and long-time champion of web accessibility, he has spent the majority of his career devoted to the specification and development of web accessibility evaluation methods, applications, and consultancy services to support inherent accessibility in the enterprise. Over the past few years, he has become progressively more focused on QA tool-supported accessibility testing; and how best to integrate it into Agile development processes. Alistair has been an invited expert for W3C/WAI for many years, and has helped to create several W3C / WAI documents (including the WCAG 2.0 Evaluation Methodology, and WCAG 2.0 Techniques). Alistair currently participates in W3C/WAI’s WCAG 2.0 Task Force for Mobile Accessibility.
As an inclusive design and accessibility meetup, we are dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion.
We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form in any venue, including talks, social events, or other channels of communication.
A meet up participant who violates these rules will be asked to stop.
Should the participant not comply, the participant may be expelled from the meet up.
Meet in Edinburgh’s OX184 bar in Cowgate. We eat, drink and chat about different things – often game related! It’s a really relaxed atmosphere and whilst there’s no pressure to show your work or talk specifically about what you’re working on, you can expect a positive response if you do.
Whether you’re working in the games industry, an indy developer, a hobbyist or simply interested in learning more about game development then please come along!
Meet in Edinburgh’s OX184 bar in Cowgate. We eat, drink and chat about different things – often game related! It’s a really relaxed atmosphere and whilst there’s no pressure to show your work or talk specifically about what you’re working on, you can expect a positive response if you do.
Whether you’re working in the games industry, an indy developer, a hobbyist or simply interested in learning more about game development then please come along!
Meet in Edinburgh’s OX184 bar in Cowgate. We eat, drink and chat about different things – often game related! It’s a really relaxed atmosphere and whilst there’s no pressure to show your work or talk specifically about what you’re working on, you can expect a positive response if you do.
Whether you’re working in the games industry, an indy developer, a hobbyist or simply interested in learning more about game development then please come along!
Meet in Edinburgh’s OX184 bar in Cowgate. We eat, drink and chat about different things – often game related! It’s a really relaxed atmosphere and whilst there’s no pressure to show your work or talk specifically about what you’re working on, you can expect a positive response if you do.
Whether you’re working in the games industry, an indy developer, a hobbyist or simply interested in learning more about game development then please come along!
