Dr Abiola Abimbola, Director of Information Security at NetHost Legislation will be giving a talk on Cyber Essentials and GDPR covering many aspects of information security.
Dr Matthew Davis from Wittin will be talking about "The Public Data Gold Rush: Our Journey to Become the General Store", and the usual excellent networking opportunities will be available. Also beer.
Craig Steel from CoderDojo will be joining us this month.
CoderDojo Scotland
CoderDojo is a national network of free coding clubs for young people. The clubs are run by volunteers from technology backgrounds who are keen to share their skills. At the clubs young people learn how to build apps, design games, make wearable technoogy and more. It makes learning to code a fun an socialable experience. Craig will share what has made the clubs so successful, and speak about different ways to get involved.
Bio
Craig Steele is a digital making expert, creative technologist, and is interested in showing how coding can be a fun hobby and creative tool. Craig is a Raspberry Pi Certified Educator and leads CoderDojo Scotland, a network of free coding clubs for young people across the country. In 2016, Craig was nominated as a BBC Make it Digital "One to Watch".
*** CHANGE OF DATE FOR September - Monday 26th ***
Dundee Tech Meetup is back! We have the usual great talks and free beer and pizza!
This month we have a special guest Corentin Guillo CEO/Founder of Bird.i with his talk "It's so simple, you'll forget it's so clever"
Bird.i curates the best of the world's satellite, airborne and drone imagery to create an up-to-date view of our world that everyone can explore, anytime. You don't need to know what kind of images you need, just wnat you want it to show. Tick a few boxes to tell us your needs and our big data analystics platform will do the rest. It takes no time at all to start getting actionable insight from up-to-date, analytically enhanced imagery within location based and mapping applications.
Get your tickets now for what's sure to be an excellent talk.
We have a special speaker for May from training specialists QA.
David Walker, Head of Emerging Technologies at QA, will be talking about ‘The changing culture of application development and how Agile and DevOps are part of a technical lead revolution’ so if you're an app developer or a systems engineer or anything in between it's going to be an interesting discussion. Get your tickets now to get involved and of course, free beer and pizza!
This month we have a special CryptoCurrency/BitCoin edition of Tech Meetup! We have some great talks, networking, and of course free beer and pizza lined up this month. Details of speakers will be announced in due course.
DunDDD is a 4-track, 24-session FREE conference that will take place on Saturday 29th November 2014 at the Queen Mother Building in the University of Dundee.
This is a fantastic opportunity to network with local developers from all across Scotland, learn some new tricks or even revisit some old ones.
NoSQL and Big Data
DunDDD will have an entire track dedicated to the Not Only SQL movement and Big Data which aims to show real alternatives to traditional RDBMS setups.
If you want to know the latest in this rapidly growing area then DunDDD is one conference you don't want to miss!
DunDDD is a 3-track, 20-session FREE conference that will take place on Saturday 29th November 2014 at the Queen Mother Building in the University of Dundee.
This is a fantastic opportunity to network with local developers from all across Scotland, learn some new tricks or even revisit some old ones.
NoSQL and Big Data
DunDDD will have an entire track dedicated to the Not Only SQL movement and Big Data which aims to show real alternatives to traditional RDBMS setups.
If you want to know the latest in this rapidly growing area then DunDDD is one conference you don't want to miss!
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