Welcome to Saturday GeekWeek offline

Now in full swing weekly online conference Geek Week . The day after tomorrow it will end, and this will be the only day of the conference in offline format. At the Moscow office of the Mail.Ru Group, you can listen to speeches by IT specialists from different companies and chat with like-minded people in person. Program - under the cut.

Evgeny Lisovsky, Head of Direction at MAPS.ME
Performance starts : 11:00
Speech: b2b software> e-retail startups> digital goods> co-founder> mass worldwide service

Eugene will tell about his professional development path since 2001, about mega-achievements and epic feil, about the basic principles that he adheres to in work and in life. He will tell you about the concept of components of success and share useful materials and tips for creating, launching and developing your own project. Also, Eugene will voice his opinion about the area in which new projects should be created.
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Oleg Shpilchevsky, Head of GamesLab in Mail.Ru Group
Performance start: 11:40
Speech title: How not to make games

1. Introduction: why making games is cool.
2. Why not make a "dream game."
3. Why you should never make games by “order of the party”.
4. Why copying hits is pointless and merciless.
5. Why you should not be a Citizen of the Stars (Star Citizen) - the dangers of endless frictions.
6. Why it’s strange all the time to radically change one’s expertise.
7. Conclusion: why not listen to all sorts of "not worth it."

Roman Romanov, IKRA
Performance starts: 12:00
Topic: Creative methodologies and their application in IT

- Muse vs creative methodologies
- Was there a creative in the USSR?
- Do I need drama creative?
- Features of lateral thinking and its application.

Dmitry Trubitsin, senior game designer in the Games Mail.Ru project
Performance start: 12:30
Topic: Features of the design of VR games

What things do PC developers or consoles do not think about, but which should be considered?
What opportunities are opening up that are nowhere else?
What are the prospects for the direction of VR-games?

Vadim Balashov, iOS developer at Mail.Ru Mail
Performance start: 13:00
Topic: Smart home and smart watches

How to solve family disagreements with the help of 4 controllers and 2 smart hours for 1 month. “Smart Home” is increasingly confidently migrating from the sphere of geek-exotic in the direction of fairly affordable technologies, with the help of which you can make your home more comfortable, more convenient, more energy-efficient and generally “nice!”. In my speech, I will share with you my own experience of creating a "smart home" system in my apartment.

13:20 - 14:00 Lunch

Mikhail Melanin and Pavel Tiunov, Statsbot
Performance starts : 14:00
Speech: ... and in production or Very Rapid Application Development

Michael and Pavel will talk about the development of an early-stage startup product under conditions of high uncertainty, when traditional approaches such as Scrum, Kanban and Waterfall work poorly or do not work at all.

Evgeny Kartavets
Performance start: 14:20
Speech: How to find your first job as a programmer? From summary to probation.

The question of finding a job sooner or later arises in the life of almost any person. The reasons for this are very different. Someone has just graduated and is looking for his “first job” in his specialty. Someone has ceased to arrange the conditions of his current place of work, and I want to find a more attractive alternative. Let's look at this stage under the microscope.

14:50 - 15:00 Break

Vladislav Ross, programmer of the statistics system Mail.Ru Group
Start of performance: 15:00
Topic: Home weather station

Vladislav will tell how to make a home meteorological station, the first project in the study of Arduino. The station measures more than 10 environmental parameters.

Andrei Drozdov, developer Tarantool
Performance start: 15:20
Speech title : Creating the Restful API on Tarantool

• Tarantool as a document-oriented DBMS.
• The approach to versioning data developed by the Tarantool team: using avro-scheme for validating input data, converting from one version to another at runtime, optimally storing document versions, changing the data scheme without redundancy and problems in previous versions.

Andrei will also demonstrate the process of creating a Restful API on the Tarantool technology stack in the Amazon cloud.

Daria Abramova, co-founder of the Kodabra Children's School of Programming and Digital Creativity
Performance starts : 16:00
Speech: Is it possible to achieve success without specialized training?

Reflections on the topic "Do you need a specialized education," in examples and stories. Personal experience of building a business in IT-sphere without experience and specialized education.

Ivan Gorshunov, Google
Performance start: 16:30
Topic of the speech: Best practices from the world of mobile applications

Technology is moving the market, bringing new and mobile development. However, is it realistic to predict what exactly will change the industry? To try to answer these questions, I will tell you about the Kano Model, and how to use it. While working with mobile applications, I collected a number of interesting cases from around the world. I will talk about best practices, about successful synergy of business and mobile application.

Stanislav Vetlovsky, Project Development Team Leader Mail.Ru
Performance starts : 17:00
Topic of the speech: We talk with the garland

Stanislav will talk about how to control light and color with your voice. How? Easy - only 13 components.

To participate in the last day of the conference you need to register here .

Date: November 19, 2016.
Location: Moscow, Leningradsky Prospect, 39, p. 79.