Sky Betting and Gaming are holding our inaugural Sky Bet Tech Talk and we would love for you to come and join us and celebrate the fantastic digital community we have right here on our door step in Sheffield!
Join us on Monday 12th October at the Electric Works for an evening of talks, discussion and hopefully a little heckling. We have 3 excellent speakers lined up to give an insight on their views on Agile, React.JS and Big Data
The night kicks off at 6pm, with the event finishing approx 9pm as we then head off for a few drinks in the Sheffield Tap
6.00 - 6.45 - Welcome food & Drinks
6.45 - 7.15 - Scaling Agile by not talking to each other – Glen Mailer
7.15 - 7.45 - The forefront of front end: React.JS - Dr Naomi Rosenberg
7.45 - 8.00 - Break
8.00 - 8.30 - Big data - From Oracle to Hadoop;
The tears, triumphs & the Italians – Mike Maibaum
Glen Mailer
Over the years with Skybet, Glen has worked with various parts of the business to improve agility and the ability to continuously deliver iterative change
The overarching theme to his roles have been to find ways to allow individuals & small teams to have an impact on the bottom line - without getting in each other's way and bumping into one another. He believes the key to this is in simplicity. His talk discusses how many of the tricks we use to scale complex software applications, can be applied (with a pinch of salt) to scaling software development capabilities, including ways to structure your teams to reduce handoffs while still maintaining some level of consistency in practices.
Dr Naomi Rosenberg
Naomi came into software development from Philosophical Logic and has worked on a variety of projects including phone systems and sensors. She is currently getting into the functional programming aspects of Javascript, and finding Sky Bet a great place to do so.
Her talk covers the benefits of using React.JS and what sets it apart from other JS libraries.
Mike Maibaum
Mike is the Chief Architect at Sky Betting and Gaming, he is responsible for defining the technology strategy of the business as it continues to grow. He is particularly interested in scalability, big data, event processing, continuous improvement, shipping stuff and building things people like to work on. His talk will go over the high and lows of how Skybet-UK migrated from Oracle data warehouse to a Hadoop based solution & how those lessons are shaping Sky Bet’s Greenfield Italian project.
Register for your free ticket now at:
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