This is a special event in the group - because EuroPython is in town we thought why not invite some speakers from the conference to give talks at the meetup too!
Because of this, the format will be talks and lots of opportunities to discuss/network/chat over the topics with the speaker(s). We have Vincent from PyData Amsterdam giving a talk and another speaker to be confirmed.
TALK DETAILS
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TITLE: CSaaCaH: common sense as a cure against hype
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Presenter: Vincent D Warmerdam
Vincent is from Amsterdam: Ask him Anything[tm]. Vincent is an algorithm designer at GoDataDriven who helps run the PyData conference in Amsterdam and he enjoys to evangelise open source tools and machine learning. He’s well known for his blunt honesty on stage, his pokemon antics on linkedin/reddit as well as his writing on his blog http://koaning.io/.
Description:
People sometimes forget that we are merely interested in solving problems … and when you solve a problem: maybe common sense is all you need. You shouldn’t trust the algorithm to do everything for you; artificial stupidity might very well happen. In this talk I’ll discuss a few recent examples that are fed by hype, vanity metrics and other forms of intellectual laziness. The goal is to remind everyone that thinking is still a good idea. Topics include will recommenders, word embeddings, sampling algorithms and … a story about chickens that might make you think differently on modelling … by forcing you to think again.
SECOND TALK: tbc
LOGISTICS
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We've kindly been invited to use the great facilities at Wood Mackenzie— please note all attendees MUST sign up to the Meetup to be admitted.
Doors open at 1815 with refreshments.
Talks kick off with an update on news relating to the PyData community at 1845.
And we'll end the evening with pizza and more refreshments, wrapping up by 2100.
SPONSORS & REFRESHMENTS
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As always, we couldn't do this without our sponsors help to provide a venue and drink & pizzas — Cathcart Associates (https://www.cathcartassociates.com), Wood Mackenzie (https://www.woodmac.com) and Canon Medical (https://research.eu.medical.canon)
CODE OF CONDUCT
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The PyData Code of Conduct governs this meetup. ( http://pydata.org/code-of-conduct.html ) To discuss any issues or concerns relating to the code of conduct or the behavior of anyone at a PyData meetup, please contact NumFOCUS Executive Director Leah Silen (+1 512-222-5449; leah@numfocus.org) or the group organizer.
18:30 - 19:00: Sign in, networking, pizza and beer (provided by our sponsor, Postcode Lottery)
19:00 - 20:00: Talk by Scott Pringle followed by Q&A
What is an event? Events are powerful, events mean something. An event is something that has happened, it is fact. No if's, but's or maybe's, but fact.
In this talk Scott is going to take you through some of the advantages (and disadvantages) of utilising events in how you write your code to abstract away side-effects of business processes.
He'll then delve into some of the more complex applications of using events via event sourcing or distributed messaging.
Hopefully at the end, you'll all want to go away and integrate events into everything you build!
The will be our first ever meetup at The Gyle, home to Tesco Bank who are hosting and many others. Perhaps a chance for some new folks to come along, experience a meetup, and network with LAE members.
Agenda
6:15pm - 7pm - Arrival & Networking
Talks:
Agile Manifesto Revisited - Ian Robertson
Summary/findings from last meetup session
Agile & Agencies - Martin Bate
When contracting out software development, how does "customer collaboration over contract negotiation" work in practice?
Break
The knack and how to get it - Rob Bauld
If you've never seen good, how do you get there? What is the most appropriate practice?
9pm'ish - wrap-up
Food & refreshments kindly provided by Tesco Bank.
If coming from town, Tesco Bank's offices are a short walk from Edinburgh Bankhead tram stop or the #22 bus stops right outside.
The will be our first ever meetup at The Gyle, home to Tesco Bank who are hosting and many others. Perhaps a chance for some new folks to come along, experience a meetup, and network with LAE members.
Agenda
6:15pm - 7pm - Arrival & Networking
Talks:
Agile & Agencies - Martin Bate
When contracting out software development, how does "customer collaboration over contract negotiation" work in practice?
The knack and how to get it - Rob Bauld
If you've never seen good, how do you get there?
Lightning/short talk - TBC
9pm'ish - wrap-up
Food & refreshments kindly provided by Tesco Bank.
Tesco Bank's offices are a short walk from Edinburgh Park tram/train stop. Please enter via main entrance.
The S.E.L.F grouping provides a forum for software engineering leaders, CIO’s and CTO’s across the Scottish tech sector to share ideas and explore common challenges. The meetups also provide opportunities for informal mentoring and potential opportunities for joint working.
The topic for this meetup is Developments in DevOps and will also include a briefing by SICSA. The agenda will be:
17.45 - 18.00 Arrival and refreshments
18.00 - 18.30 SICSA briefing - Topic TBC
18.30 – 18.45 Informal Presentation / Lead in to “Developments in DevOps”
18.45 – 19.45 Discussion
19.45 Networking
This event is for ScotlandIS members only or by invite. If you are interested in being a part of the grouping then please email kelly@scotlandis.com
Brexit and Scotland’s digital tech sector – Discussion with Cabinet Secretary Michael Russell MSP
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Join us for a discussion with Cabinet Secretary for Government Business and Constitutional Relations and Scotland’s Brexit lead, Michael Russell MSP, exploring what the exit from the European Union could mean for Scotland’s digital technologies sector.
This will be an opportunity for ScotlandIS members to get an update on the state of the Brexit negotiations from Mr Russell, ask him questions and put your views to him.
How has the referendum result affected your business so far (if at all)? What opportunities do you see in relation to Brexit for you and the digital tech sector in general? What concerns do you have? What would you like Scottish Government to focus on? Come along and let the Cabinet Secretary know.
The event is free to attend for all ScotlandIS members. Light refreshments and a buffet will be available.
This month’s talk comes all the way from NZ! James Farrier who is on a flying visit to (currently) sunny Scotland is going to talk to us about how he us using AI to help predict where to look for potential defects.
James is a Test lead/manager specializing in Automation. James spoken at meetups in NZ and some conferences including a highlight being Selenium conf 2015.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-farrier/
Synopsis below:
There are a number of challenges faced by software testers throughout the industry, including lack of time and test instability. James will discuss how he has created a tool capable of automating the manual processes involved in test automation. He will also go through how he has used AI to help predict risk and how his company utilizes this to help teams create fewer defects.
Thank you in advance to our hosts and sponsors Scott Logic!
Plan of Attack!
• 18:15 - Doors open, Pizza and Drinks
• 18:45 - Welcome and quick introductions
• 19:00 – Testing with AI
• 19:30 - Break
• 19:45 – Lean Coffee
• 20:30 - Pub
Design It; Build It is back for a one-day conference in Edinburgh for UX designers and web developers, featuring eight presentations from those shaping the future of the web.
EST. 2010
Design It; Build It is firmly established as one of the UK's leading tech conferences.
GREAT SPEAKERS
Design It; Build It delivers inspiring talks from industry thought leaders. Check out our unbeatable conference line-up covering the web from design through to build.
GREAT LOCATION
Our Autumn conference takes place in Edinburgh, one of the biggest tech hubs in the UK.
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http://www.dibiconference.com
Ticket URL changed:
http://www.dibiconference.com
Start changed:
Mon 12th Nov 2018 9:00am (Europe/London)
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Mon 12th Nov 2018 5:00pm (Europe/London)
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Is Virtual changed:
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Is Physical changed:
Yes
Code of Conduct changed:
We want DIBI to be a safe and welcoming place. Please treat all your fellow delegates and the speakers with respect both in person and on social media. If we feel that anyone is disrupting the event or acting in a way not in keeping with the ethos of the event, we reserve the right to remove any individual without refund.
Refunds
If you cancel your registration 30 days or more before the Event you will be provided with a full refund of any Fees paid to us for the Event, subject to deduction by us of an administration fee of £25.00.
All cancellations must be sent by email to jim (at) nxt.co.uk and must be received by us. NXT will not provide any refund where you cancel your registration less than 30 days before the Event or fail to attend the Event for any reason. However, NXT will accept substitutions for employees from within your organisation. You must email any substitutions to jim (at) nxt.co.uk prior to the date of the Event.
Everyone is welcome and no coding experience is necessary!
You are also welcome to bring your own projects or ideas, just drop us a message about it at edinburgh.cc.uk@coderdojo.com
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Sessions registration open for 7-17 years old.
Bring own laptop or use one of ours, make sure to select the right kind of ticket so we can work out allowance!
Laptop must be have a text editor such as Notepad (Windows) or TextEdit (Mac), access to wifi and a web browser such as Chrome.
If you are under the age of thirteen (13), you must ask your parents or legal guardians to complete the registration form. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of thirteen (13) without their parents or legal guardians permission.
Everyone is welcome and no coding experience is necessary!
You are also welcome to bring your own projects or ideas, just drop us a message about it at edinburgh.cc.uk@coderdojo.com
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Sessions registration open for 7-17 years old.
Bring own laptop or use one of ours, make sure to select the right kind of ticket so we can work out allowance!
Laptop must be have a text editor such as Notepad (Windows) or TextEdit (Mac), access to wifi and a web browser such as Chrome.
If you are under the age of thirteen (13), you must ask your parents or legal guardians to complete the registration form. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of thirteen (13) without their parents or legal guardians permission.
Everyone is welcome and no coding experience is necessary!
You are also welcome to bring your own projects or ideas, just drop us a message about it at edinburgh.cc.uk@coderdojo.com
--
Sessions registration open for 7-17 years old.
Bring own laptop or use one of ours, make sure to select the right kind of ticket so we can work out allowance!
Laptop must be have a text editor such as Notepad (Windows) or TextEdit (Mac), access to wifi and a web browser such as Chrome.
If you are under the age of thirteen (13), you must ask your parents or legal guardians to complete the registration form. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of thirteen (13) without their parents or legal guardians permission.
Presentation 1 - Peter Bloomfield - https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-bloomfield-567b4436
Peter Bloomfield will be talking about the Machine Intelligence Garage programme, run by the Digital Catapult. The MI Garage programme provides AI and machine learning startups with access to computational resources to help them scale faster. Peter will introduce the ecosystem research that lead to the setting up of the programme, the resources available and the ways startups can interact with MI Garage. Attendees will have an opportunity to see some examples of companies that have joined the programme
and and the sorts of outcomes we are looking to achieve.
Peter Bloomfield is the AI/Machine learning policy & engagement manager at the Digital Catapult in London. Through the Machine Intelligence Garage, he works with startups to provide them with facilities and support to remove computing constraints from their product development.
He is also working on AI public policy, government strategy and mapping the UK's evolving AI ecosystem.
Before working at the Digital Catapult, Peter was an Neuroscientist working on problems including how different cell populations change when learning new skills, brain changes associated with schizophrenia and new ways to treat multiple sclerosis.
He has also worked as a scientific consultant on projects developing human-computer interfaces for immersive environments."
Presentation 2 - Mark Shilton - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-a-shilton
Mark will present: "Going from zero to data science at a start up"
Mark is a Principal Data Scientist at TravelNest, an Edinburgh based start up focused on making it easier for holiday rental owners to market their properties. He has been on a long journey to data science that started many years ago in transport planning consultancy, writing government and local authority policy documents. He quickly realised it was much more interesting to get into the numbers behind the policy and moved to building huge spreadsheet models for forecasting rail franchise revenues. He managed to mostly ditch the spreadsheets 7 year ago when he joined Skyscanner and actually learned to code and use genuinely large datasets. He joined TravelNest 4 months ago as their first data scientist and Mark will talk about the challenges and opportunities of being a data scientist in a start up with not much data but the remit to build a data science platform, team and data driven products that will contribute to TravelNest's success.
Agenda:
6:30 PM – 7:00 PM: Networking
7:00 PM – 7:30 PM: Peter Bloomfield
7:30 PM – 7:45 PM: Q & A Session
7:45 PM – 8:15 PM: Mark Shilton
8:15 PM – 8:30 PM: Q & A Session
8.30 PM - 9.00 PM: Networking and Drink
We'll be meeting at Milnes bar on Hanover St at about 6:30pm. There *should* be Python logo printouts on the table if you need to find us.
There's *no minimum skill level* for coming along! If you like talking about Python or related technologies, and you're interested in meeting like-minded people and finding out what they're up to, just turn up! If you'd like to be introduced to some people, ask for me - Mark Smith - and I'll be happy to introduce you to some people with similar interests.
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:
- Andrew Williams on fyne.io the UI toolkit and app API written in Go.
- Ovidiu Miron on Go and AWS Lambda functions
- TBD from Obashi
If you'd like to do a talk in the future 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 Obashi 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].
Presentation 1 - Peter Bloomfield - https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-bloomfield-567b4436
Peter Bloomfield will be talking about the Machine Intelligence Garage programme, run by the Digital Catapult. The MI Garage programme provides AI and machine learning startups with access to computational resources to help them scale faster. Peter will introduce the ecosystem research that lead to the setting up of the programme, the resources available and the ways startups can interact with MI Garage. Attendees will have an opportunity to see some examples of companies that have joined the programme
and and the sorts of outcomes we are looking to achieve.
Peter Bloomfield is the AI/Machine learning policy & engagement manager at the Digital Catapult in London. Through the Machine Intelligence Garage, he works with startups to provide them with facilities and support to remove computing constraints from their product development.
He is also working on AI public policy, government strategy and mapping the UK's evolving AI ecosystem.
Before working at the Digital Catapult, Peter was an Neuroscientist working on problems including how different cell populations change when learning new skills, brain changes associated with schizophrenia and new ways to treat multiple sclerosis.
He has also worked as a scientific consultant on projects developing human-computer interfaces for immersive environments."
The will be our first ever meetup at The Gyle, home to Tesco Bank who are hosting and many others. Perhaps a chance for some new folks to come along, experience a meetup, and network with LAE members.
Agenda
6:15pm - 7pm - Arrival & Networking
Talks:
Agile & Agencies - Martin Bate
When contracting out software development, how does "customer collaboration over contract negotiation" work in practice?
The knack and how to get it - Rob Bauld
If you've never seen good, how do you get there?
Lightning talk - TBC
9pm'ish - wrap-up
Food & refreshments kindly provided by Tesco Bank.
Tesco Bank's offices are a short walk from Edinburgh Park tram/train stop. Please enter via main entrance.
This is our monthly informal gathering - just turn up, grab a drink, sit down and start talking UX! If you haven't been before you'll find us on the right as you come in, opposite the bar.
Check out our new discussions board! Feel free to post anything here that you think will be of interest to the group e.g. thoughts/questions related to UX, details of relevant events, local job postings etc.
THURSDAY July 26th 2018 at Wood Mackenzie - Exchange Place 2, 5 Semple St Edinburgh
Speakers:
KEN MUNRO
https://www.pentestpartners.com/consultant/ken-munro/
He's back! Can you believe it's been a year since he debuted with us?! Expect more hacking awesomeness.
LIAM SOMERVILLE (Fanduel)
"Bug Bounty - a view from both sides"
Pizza and beer/wine/soft drinks from 6pm.
Beers after at BREWDOG on Lothian Rd (next to the Sheraton)
This month we have pen-tester Peter giving us a talk about security considerations when setting up your own web server! He'll be going over setup and discussing shortcomings of common setups, and go over SSL/TLS requirements for the modern Internet...
Talk will start at 7:45 this month, and last approx 30min, after which there will be some administrative talk, and a chance to further socialize amongst Linux and Open Source enthusiasts!
Join us for the Google Marketing Live 2018 keynote session in real-time, as Google’s senior leaders take to the stage to reveal upcoming product innovations that will help you transform your business. The event will include a livestream from Google where they will present their latest innovations. We’ll also have Innovation Stations, where you'll be able to see what we've been working on here at Storm ID. Oh, and there’ll be free nibbles and drinks. Register for free now!
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...
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.
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 skills 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 :)
Product Up is a new informal pub meetup in Edinburgh dedicated to product managers and people who are passionate about building quality products. Following the success of the first meetup, we are making it a regular thing!
Come along, meet other product people and chat over a drink. Grab your free ticket now and don't forget to invite your product buddies. We look forward to seeing you!
• Important to know
We want to create a comfortable and relaxed environment for our attendees so we would appreciate it if you could refrain from directly selling products/services or do recruitment at our events. It's fine if deals/transactions come out naturally from conversations.
Product Up is a new informal pub meetup in Edinburgh dedicated to product managers and people who are passionate about building quality products. Following the success of the first meetup, we are making it a regular thing!
Come along, meet other product people and chat over a drink. Grab your free ticket now and don't forget to invite your product buddies. We look forward to seeing you!
• Important to know
We want to create a comfortable and relaxed environment for our attendees so we would appreciate it if you could refrain from directly selling products/services or do recruitment at our events. It's fine if deals/transactions come out naturally from conversations.
Product Up is an informal pub meetup in Edinburgh dedicated to bringing together the product community in Edinburgh. Whether you are a Product Manager, UX designer, Engineer or work in Sales/BD and you are passionate about creating fantastic products - ProductUp is for you.
We started the meetup whilst working as Product Managers when we realised that there is no informal place to share product war stories, discuss challenges and keep track of all the amazing developments happening in Edinburgh.
We meet monthly and as outlined, it’s a completely informal meet up so the discussions are entirely open. We have no speakers as this is all about you and giving you a chance to meet and talk to everyone in the community.
The meetup is free to attend, so invite your product friends. Come along for the beer, stay for the great product discussions!
• Important to know
We want to create a comfortable and relaxed environment for our attendees so we would appreciate it if you could refrain from directly selling products/services or do recruitment at our events. It's fine if deals/transactions come out naturally from conversations.
