Open Tech Calendar

Mode 2 Meetup

We're excited to announce Mode 2 Meetup episode 8, sponsored this time by Standard Life Aberdeen.

Mode 2 is a regular meetup about IT innovation within large companies across central Scotland.

Each meetup will feature two short talks and a chance to connect with IT innovators in a relaxed environment with free beer/wine and pizza. The talks for this meetup are:

1: Alistair Hann, Former CTO (Skyscanner) & Stuart Davidson, Enginering Manager (Skyscanner)

From 26 to 2.6 million releases per year

As Skyscanner scaled from an engineering team of 30 with one website and three services to a team of 100 engineers, release frequency halved. This is the story of the turnaround as the company went on to grow to 400 engineers, with over 100 services, releasing at hundreds of times the previous rate. The next goal is 10,000 releases per day – this talk will share how Skyscanner is approaching that and the implications for tooling, processes, and how the company thinks about writing software.

2: Fergus Strange, Senior Software Consultant (Infinityworks Consulting)

Move fast & don't break things

Testing between apps is hard? It doesn't have to be! In this talk we'll go over the age old problems of microservice integration testing and the toolkits and frameworks used to solve it.

Getting to Standard Life House

The building is on Lothian Road, and you can enter under the main stairs at the doors in the walkway that cuts under the building.

Contact Us:
Mail: mode2meetup@gmail.com
Twitter: @mode2meetup
Periscope: @mode2meetup

What is Mode 2 Meetup about?

Technology is evolving at an amazing rate, and customer expectations with it. Headlines are dominated by tech companies disrupting the world with new technology and fearless business models.

However many of the organisations we work in are far older than the Internet. Legacy technology, organisational silos and hierarchies are all around. Every decision involves many stakeholders and complex processes are everywhere. Change of any kind can be slow and difficult.

Can Silicon Valley thinking translate to our established, risk-exposed, regulated organisations? Should it? In any case, how can we apply technology and creativity to delight our customers and avoid being overtaken by competitors or disruptors?

We're aiming to create a friendly, relaxed environment where we can discuss the reality of innovation in larger organisations. There will be two short talks per month, with plenty of opportunity to network afterwards over free beer/wine and pizza. The talks will cover a broad range of topics about technology, business and culture change.

We need ideas and volunteers for future talks, although the golden rule is: no sales pitches! We're also looking for venues for future events, so please let us know if you are able to host a meetup.

We'd love to build a diverse audience representing the increasingly blurred line between IT and business across different industries: financial services, public sector, energy, consultancies etc.

Hope to see you there!

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mode-2-meetup-tickets-40027338848

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mode-2-meetup-tickets-40027338848

Wed 29th Nov 2017 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Wed 29th Nov 2017 9:30pm (Europe/London)

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Mode 2 Meetup

Mode 2 is a regular meetup about IT innovation within large companies across central Scotland.
Each meetup will feature two short talks and a chance to connect with IT innovators in a relaxed environment with free beer/wine and pizza. The talks for this meetup are:


1: Andrew Kane, Enterprise Solution Architect, Amazon Web Services
What can the Cloud do for us?

We will discuss some of the key drivers of why Enterprises move their workloads to the Cloud, many of which are non-technical in nature. Whilst some customers do literally lift-and-shift their workloads into Cloud environments to take advantage of some aspects of these, some of the real benefits really come through the adoption of Cloud-native technologies. We will touch on a few of our key serverless technologies, and show how one global Enterprise customer used this to help accelerate the pace of Cloud adoption internally as well as radically changed their Deployment and Operational models.

2: Tony Christensen, Head of DevOps Development and Implementation, Royal Bank of Scotland
Achieving Continuous Delivery through DevOps - a maturity model that works!

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mode-2-meetup-tickets-34623700420

Wed 7th Jun 2017 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Wed 7th Jun 2017 9:30pm (Europe/London)

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Mode2meetup

Mode 2 is a regular meetup about IT innovation within large companies across central Scotland.
Each meetup will feature two short talks and a chance to connect with IT innovators in a relaxed environment with free beer/wine and pizza. The talks for our 2nd event are:

Robert McGill - IT's not enough:
Technology is changing faster than our ability to take advantage of it. In this talk Robert McGill, Head of Digital at Standard Life, will talk about some of the challenges IT is facing and share some ideas from his experience about how to handle them.

Clark Ching - ROCK SOLID PROMISES:
How to deliver 95% of YOUR software projects on time or early, without bloating estimates, cutting quality or crossing your fingers.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mode-2-meetup-tickets-22172703152

Wed 23rd Mar 2016 6:30pm (Europe/London)

Wed 23rd Mar 2016 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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Android Development

GDG Edinburgh is back with the help of Standard Life.
This months meet up will focus on Android development with talks on improving performance of android applications using RenderScript and how to manage crash reports when your app fails.
Food and drinks will be provided courtesy of Standard Life.
Speakers:
Verena Beckham - Codeplay - RenderScript
Verena is the team lead of the RenderScript Debugger project at Codeplay. She will be giving an introduction to RenderScript and the challenges her team has encountered while developing a debugger for it.

James Baster - Freelancer - Open Source Android Crash reporting with ACRA
ACRA is an established Open Source crash reporting library. It can give you a massive wealth of information. We'll also look at what service to feed ACRA data into, and looking at one I started working on.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gdg-edinburgh-tickets-17518343838

Tue 7th Jul 2015 7:00pm (Europe/London)

Tue 7th Jul 2015 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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