After a run of events involving book clubs and conversations on AI, we’ve decided that for our May event we’re going to give the community an opportunity to discuss the topics that matter most to them. That’s right: Lean Coffee is back.
Rather than us dictate a topic, bring along whatever questions you want answered, topics you want to discuss, and issues you feel the need to chat about. We’ll use the Lean Coffee format to cover the things that you, the attendees, want to get into the most.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re new to the industry or experienced, whether you want to ask a question about starting in IT or the ethics behind AI trade-offs, there’ll be the opportunity to engage with your peers on anything you like.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t have a topic, you may be able to provide valuable perspective for others, or learn something new by just listening. It also doesn’t matter if you don’t know the Lean Coffee format, it’s simple and we’ll take the time to explain it before we get started.
Join us for a talk from the BCS Information Security Specialist Group on GDPR.
Chair Ian Fish will be presenting.
Please grab a FREE ticket from the ticket link.
Livestream Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u1RQHM-lP0
Ian's Bio:
Ian Fish FBCS CITP has a long history of volunteering within BCS and has been on the ISSG committee for more than 25 years and is the current chairman. He is also the membership secretary of the ICT Ethics SG. In the past he has been the chair of the Information Privacy Expert Panel and a member of the Security Community of Expertise. Both of these bodies have now been subsumed into the Security and Privacy Executive. Ian was an inaugural member of the Best Practice Committee, founded the BCS IoT Working Group in 2012 and has represented BCS in a number of UN Internet Governance Forums and European Dialogues on Internet Governance."
Find out more about the group: http://www.bcs.org/category/19042
Group's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1182227/profile
Find BCS Glasgow on:
Twitter @BCSGlasgow
Facebook /groups/bcsglasgow
Presentation 1 - Peak - Do Great Things With Data - www.peak.ai/
Tom Liptrot - Head of Data Science at Peak - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomliptrot1
Using the ‘Perfect Prediction’ approach to problem formulation in Data Science
What would you do differently if you could perfectly predict the future? What's the key bit of information that would help you, if only you could foresee it? This talk will reveal how answering these questions can help design a data science strategy in business.
Systematic problem formulation is an often-overlooked element of Data Science. Many data-driven analyses provide interesting insights without giving an obvious way to exploit them. At Peak, we are often approached by businesses who are overwhelmed with data, but don't know what to do with it. Here, Tom will explain how considering what you would do if you had flawless foresight can provide a framework for solving real-world business problems using data science.
Using the ‘Perfect Prediction’ approach to problem formulation in Data Science
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Presentation 1 - Peak - Data Analytics Experts | Put Your Data To Work - www.peak.ai/
Tom Liptrot - Head of Data Science at Peak - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomliptrot1
Using the ‘Perfect Prediction’ approach to problem formulation in Data Science
What would you do differently if you could perfectly predict the future? What's the key bit of information that would help you, if only you could foresee it? This talk will reveal how answering these questions can help design a data science strategy in business.
Systematic problem formulation is an often-overlooked element of Data Science. Many data-driven analyses provide interesting insights without giving an obvious way to exploit them. At Peak, we are often approached by businesses who are overwhelmed with data, but don't know what to do with it. Here, Tom will explain how considering what you would do if you had flawless foresight can provide a framework for solving real-world business problems using data science.
Track 1:
Cucumber with Raspberries workshop
Matt Wynne & Steve Tooke
***LIMITED TO 20 ATTENDEES ONLY***
Track 2:
Guest speakers
Chris McDermott - Wardley Mapping your Team Maturity
+ more TBC
Pizzas and refreshments will be provided from 1730.
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Matt Wynne & Steve Tooke - Cucumber with Raspberries workshop
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THE GOOD STUFF: as an attendee, you will need to bring and use your own laptop
*** workshop limited to 20 places ***
*** due to recent high number of no-shows at Lean Agile Glasgow, the workshop will be on a first come first served basis on the event day ***
Today. we're going to show you how to use Cucumber to test-drive an internet radio running on a Raspberry PI. It's going to be fun. And maybe a bit noisy!
Along the way, you'll learn techniques for isolating your tests from external dependencies.
At work, you probably struggle with tests that call out to other teams' APIs, or hit slow-running databases, or run behind awkward-to-automate user interfaces. Today, you'll be confronted with physical button that's impossible to automate (unless you built a robot!) so what are you going to do?
We'll give each team a kit containing a Pi, a breadboard, a couple of resistors, a button and some connector leads.
They'll use that, with a sample of code that they can download from GitHub, to build their internet radio.
Section 2:
Then we'll give them a new requirement, expressed as a Cucumber Gherkin scenario. We'll discuss as a group about how we could automate this scenario.
We'll give a short presentation of the hexagonal / ports-and-adapters architecture.
Teams will work together to add tests and refactor the existing code to this pattern, extracting adapters for the media player, the button, and the filesystem.
Section 3:
Finally, we'll work on the new requirement, test-first!
We will then supply further scenarios with more requirements as teams are ready, or let teams invent their own.
We'll end with a show and tell and let people reflect on and share lessons learned.
Matt first ran a workshop at Agile 2009, has run workshops at numerous conferences like XP Madrid, XP Edinburgh, Lean Agile Scotland and has spoken at many more.
Join us for a night of Python talks at the central Skyscanner office in Glasgow. We will have two talks (details soon). Skyscanner will be providing us with food and drinks.
Doors open at 17:30, please arrive by 18:30 at the latest.
Pizza will arrive at 18:00.
First talks will start at 18:30.
Talk 1: Building Deep Learning Neural Networks for Developers using Python and Tensor Flow by Keith Harrison
Machine learning has been all over the news recently from beating humans at Go (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40042581) to diagnosing heart failure (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180430160513.htm). I decided to learn what all the fuss was about and soon found that these amazing results were being achieved by Deep Learning Neural Networks and you can build them yourself even if you have no background in Data Science.
In this talk I’ll explain what Machine Learning is and show you how to build a Deep Learning Neural Network from scratch to perform simple hand writing recognition using Keras and TensorFlow. It’s not as hard as you think!
Track 1: Matt Wynne & Steve Tooke - Cucumber with Raspberries workshop
Track 2: Guest speakers
Pizzas and refreshments will be provided from 1730.
Tracks start at 1745.
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Matt Wynne & Steve Tooke - Cucumber with Raspberries workshop
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THE GOOD STUFF: as an attendee, you will need to bring and use your own laptop
*** workshop limited to 20 places ***
*** due to recent high number of no-shows at Lean Agile Glasgow, the workshop will be on a first come first served basis on the event day ***
Today. we're going to show you how to use Cucumber to test-drive an internet radio running on a Raspberry PI. It's going to be fun. And maybe a bit noisy!
Along the way, you'll learn techniques for isolating your tests from external dependencies.
At work, you probably struggle with tests that call out to other teams' APIs, or hit slow-running databases, or run behind awkward-to-automate user interfaces. Today, you'll be confronted with physical button that's impossible to automate (unless you built a robot!) so what are you going to do?
We'll give each team a kit containing a Pi, a breadboard, a couple of resistors, a button and some connector leads.
They'll use that, with a sample of code that they can download from GitHub, to build their internet radio.
Section 2:
Then we'll give them a new requirement, expressed as a Cucumber Gherkin scenario. We'll discuss as a group about how we could automate this scenario.
We'll give a short presentation of the hexagonal / ports-and-adapters architecture.
Teams will work together to add tests and refactor the existing code to this pattern, extracting adapters for the media player, the button, and the filesystem.
Section 3:
Finally, we'll work on the new requirement, test-first!
We will then supply further scenarios with more requirements as teams are ready, or let teams invent their own.
We'll end with a show and tell and let people reflect on and share lessons learned.
Matt first ran a workshop at Agile 2009, has run workshops at numerous conferences like XP Madrid, XP Edinburgh, Lean Agile Scotland and has spoken at many more.
Arduino Day is a worldwide celebration of Arduino’s birthday. Arduino day is where people interested in Arduino get together, share their experiences, and learn more about the platform. Come along and work on your Arduino projects.
Join us for a night of Python talks at the central Skyscanner office in Glasgow. We will have two talks (details soon). Skyscanner will be providing us with food and drinks.
Doors open at 17:30, please arrive by 18:30 at the latest.
Pizza will arrive at 18:00.
First talks will start at 18:30.
With the advent of cloud computing the software development industry has started to undergo massive changes. Reduced barriers to entry and the ease of access to services has seen many new entrants shake up traditional markets. In these changing times how do you ensure that you remain ahead of your competitors? The answer is SPEED. Moving faster than your competitors will help to ensure you remain relevant. Moving quickly can lead to problems however so let's take a look at how you can continue to deploy safely at speed using continuous integration and continuous delivery.
Being a founder of a startup isn’t easy. As a founder you’ll likely experience highs and lows; a real rollercoaster of emotions. That is why support and regular contact with fellow founders is invaluable.
The meetup is a platform for the Scottish startup community to interact on a regular basis. The RookieOven meetup in a monthly opportunity to meet fellow founders in a relaxed environment. Share experience, soak up advice, connect and collaborate.
At the meetup there are no talks, presentations or set agendas just great conversations between Scottish startup founders, employees and enthusiasts.
Being a founder of a startup isn’t easy. As a founder you’ll likely experience highs and lows; a real rollercoaster of emotions. That is why support and regular contact with fellow founders is invaluable.
The meetup is a platform for the Scottish startup community to interact on a regular basis. The RookieOven meetup in a monthly opportunity to meet fellow founders in a relaxed environment. Share experience, soak up advice, connect and collaborate.
At the meetup there are no talks, presentations or set agendas just great conversations between Scottish startup founders, employees and enthusiasts.
Being a founder of a startup isn’t easy. As a founder you’ll likely experience highs and lows; a real rollercoaster of emotions. That is why support and regular contact with fellow founders is invaluable.
The meetup is a platform for the Scottish startup community to interact on a regular basis. The RookieOven meetup in a monthly opportunity to meet fellow founders in a relaxed environment. Share experience, soak up advice, connect and collaborate.
At the meetup there are no talks, presentations or set agendas just great conversations between Scottish startup founders, employees and enthusiasts.
Being a founder of a startup isn’t easy. As a founder you’ll likely experience highs and lows; a real rollercoaster of emotions. That is why support and regular contact with fellow founders is invaluable.
The meetup is a platform for the Scottish startup community to interact on a regular basis. The RookieOven meetup in a monthly opportunity to meet fellow founders in a relaxed environment. Share experience, soak up advice, connect and collaborate.
At the meetup there are no talks, presentations or set agendas just great conversations between Scottish startup founders, employees and enthusiasts.
Being a founder of a startup isn’t easy. As a founder you’ll likely experience highs and lows; a real rollercoaster of emotions. That is why support and regular contact with fellow founders is invaluable.
The meetup is a platform for the Scottish startup community to interact on a regular basis. The RookieOven meetup in a monthly opportunity to meet fellow founders in a relaxed environment. Share experience, soak up advice, connect and collaborate.
At the meetup there are no talks, presentations or set agendas just great conversations between Scottish startup founders, employees and enthusiasts.
Being a founder of a startup isn’t easy. As a founder you’ll likely experience highs and lows; a real rollercoaster of emotions. That is why support and regular contact with fellow founders is invaluable.
The meetup is a platform for the Scottish startup community to interact on a regular basis. The RookieOven meetup in a monthly opportunity to meet fellow founders in a relaxed environment. Share experience, soak up advice, connect and collaborate.
At the meetup there are no talks, presentations or set agendas just great conversations between Scottish startup founders, employees and enthusiasts.
We have plenty of ideas about all the fab stuff we could do at the Glasgow Wordpress meetup... But we would also love to hear what you would like it to be about.
Everyone's welcome regardless of experience. We'll always do our best to hold our events at accessible venues and maintain entry free of charge.
Come along and become part of the growing community!
We'll be posting more information about each particular event as time goes by...
Join us for a talk from the BCS Information Security Specialist Group on GDPR.
Chair Ian Fish will be presenting.
Please grab a FREE ticket from the ticket link.
Ian's Bio:
Ian Fish FBCS CITP has a long history of volunteering within BCS and has been on the ISSG committee for more than 25 years and is the current chairman. He is also the membership secretary of the ICT Ethics SG. In the past he has been the chair of the Information Privacy Expert Panel and a member of the Security Community of Expertise. Both of these bodies have now been subsumed into the Security and Privacy Executive. Ian was an inaugural member of the Best Practice Committee, founded the BCS IoT Working Group in 2012 and has represented BCS in a number of UN Internet Governance Forums and European Dialogues on Internet Governance."
Find out more about the group: http://www.bcs.org/category/19042
Group's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1182227/profile
Find BCS Glasgow on:
Twitter @BCSGlasgow
Facebook /groups/bcsglasgow
The next ScotLUG meeting will be on Thursday 26th April at the usual spot, the Electron Club in the CCA. We should be kicking around the Electron Club around 6:45 PM. We will be aiming to start the talk at 7:30 PM.
This month, we have Andrew Smillie talking about the Linux Subsystem available for Windows. Andrew will be covering what this new update does, and explains the differences between the Linux Subsystem and a Full installation of a Linux Distribution.
Following the talk we will be adjourning to a local bar, this is likely to be the Terrace Bar of the CCA.
