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IT digest of August events

Summer comes to the finish line: the concentration of exit conferences, bootcamps and picnics reaches the highest point; in cities hold positions mitapy and other chamber meetings. Augustus pleases us with a variety of topics (from design to blockchain, from system administration to Java) and a healthy balance of entertaining and informative events.


Big Data, Meet Big Brother! Conference about big data for business and society

When: July 26
Where: Moscow, st. Novoslobodskaya, 16
Participation conditions: free, registration required
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The complex interaction of big data and small data, the balance of business interests and personal user space will be discussed at a meeting organized by Sistema_VC. Representatives of corporations and start-ups as well as invited psychologists and sociologists will take part in the conversation. In particular, a special guest of the conference, Johan Callebaut, a member of the British Psychological Society, exploring the field of big data, personalization of communications and personality, will offer his view on the problems of privacy in modern society and business. English-speaking reports will be accompanied by simultaneous translation.

EOS Russia Meetup

When: July 27-29
Where: Moscow, Derbenevskaya Embankment, 7 p. 12, Crypto-coworking BLOCK.
Participation conditions: free, registration required

Those who work with the EOS platform are provided with a great opportunity to join the nascent Russian community. The conference will discuss issues specific to young technological niches: how to increase the popularity and level of trust in the blockchain in society, how the educational process should be built, what are the professional and business perspectives of specialists. Those who wish can also take part in the 36-hour hackathon, which will be held during the event - to perform one of two tasks from the UMKA company using the EOS platform and fight for cash prizes.

404 CAMP

When: July 27-29
Where: Samara, camping Park "Volga Discovery"
Participation conditions: from 1 500 rub.

Samara community joins the general open-air conference flashmob. In three days, the participants will have to fit in: reports, sports competitions, tourist outings, DJ evening party, beach rest and all spontaneous entertainment, which has a summer format. The information part of the event is formed by fifteen speakers (CROC, 1C-Bitrix, Vkontakte, local companies) with a variety of interests and expertise: from the blockchain to DevOps and project management, from the technical aspects of development to product requirements.

iOS Party

When: July 31
Where: Yekaterinburg, st. Khokhryakova 10, Business Center Palladium, 4th floor
Participation conditions: free, registration required

iOS developers in Yekaterinburg are invited to a small meeting at the Yandex office - listen to a couple of reports and talk about the sore among themselves and with the organizers. At the moment, the program includes reports on the identification and elimination of vulnerabilities in applications and on the use of the capabilities of ARKit using the example of the game upgrade - the introduction of a multiplayer mode to simple checkers.



Design Thinking Camp

When: August 1-3
Where: Moscow, Kosmodamianskaya Embankment 52, p. 7, SAP Digital Leadership Center
Participation conditions: from 20 000 rub.

The international congress of designers aims to identify the main user trends and discuss new solutions. The morning program consists of reports of local and invited experts from Russia, the USA, Canada, Germany; the afternoons are given under more interactive formats - practical sessions, excursions, discussion of private cases from representatives of large companies (Sberbank, Shokoladnitsa and others).

Yandex.Oblako: plans and opportunities

When: August 2
Where: Moscow, st. Lev Tolstoy, 16, Yandex office, fourth entrance, Moulin Rouge conference hall
Participation conditions: free, registration required

In the Moscow office of Yandex, in the meantime, there will be a presentation of the cloud platform being prepared for public launch. The team hopes to build a productive dialogue with the audience: platform developers will highlight its current capabilities and development in the future, and representatives of technology companies will help them figure out how to best adapt the product to current tasks and requirements.

it-camp 2018

When: August 3-5
Where: Cheboksary, pos. Sosnovka, the recreation center "Petrel"
Participation conditions: free, registration required

System administrators also go to the beach. The event is held under the patronage of Kaspersky Lab and Microsoft employees who are preparing an educational program, reports and quests for participants. In your free time, you can go in for fitness, take part in competitions at the intersection of sports and IT, win something at competitions, dance to live music, or simply talk on more or less professional topics with colleagues and experts.

Course "JAVA JUNIOR PROGRAMMER (ANDROID DEVELOPER)"

When: August 7 - December 7
Where: Moscow, Kutuzovsky Prospect, 36, p. 3
Conditions of participation: 45 960 rubles. (from 11 500 rub. per module)

A four-month course that includes everything a junior needs to know about Android development. The program consists of five modules that consistently set out the basics of creating Java applications: students can select and combine blocks to build a course based on their level of training. The first module contains basic concepts; the second module is dedicated to object-oriented programming; the third one deals with collections and multithreading; The fourth and fifth modules cover the process of prototyping, developing and publishing an application. Two-hour classes take place twice a week, in the evenings on days convenient for the group. Upon completion of the course graduates receive a complete application in the portfolio, certificate and employment assistance.



Geek picnic

When and where:
August 11-12 - Moscow (reserve "Kolomenskoye")
August 15-16 - Krasnodar (Park them. 30 years)
August 18-18 - St. Petersburg (Gorky Park on Yelagin Island)

Participation conditions: from 1000 rub.

Everything that the soul of representatives of the IT community belongs to is on one platform: science, technology, geek culture. This year, the list of zones is: Blockchain Picnic (all about the digital economy, cryptocurrency and mining), Gamedev (with companies like Epic Games, ROVIO, PUBG Corp), Talent Alley (HR-zone where event partners can meet interested parties), Geek Picnic Cup (Hearthstone e-sports tournament) and a host of other events of interest - from space to steampunk. Mixed format - lectures, exhibitions, interactives, shows and other pleasant surprises.

BEMap in Petersburg

When: August 12
Where: St. Petersburg, Piskarevsky Avenue, 2, building 2, BC Benoit
Participation conditions: free, registration required

Regular initiative from Yandex: a small introductory course on the BEM methodology from the people who developed it. Intensive is divided into several blocks: first, the staff will explain the general concept as applied to real-life examples, give good practices for CSS and HTML, and tell about the levels of redefinition and assembly. Then follow a detailed analysis of the project on React.js and instructions for describing the components in a declarative style. Finally, listeners will learn more about bem-react-core and its benefits.

Russia's first JAVABOOTCAMP

When: August 14-28
Where: recreation center "My Dream", transfer from St. Petersburg
Participation conditions: 48 000 rub.

The organizers suggest that those who work with Java in practice or in dreams donate the last two weeks of the summer to upgrade their skills. The victim, however, is small - classes will be held outside the cities and include breaks with active rest. Level of training does not matter: the program is built for each participant individually. For beginners, the emphasis is on basic constructs, data structures, Java 8 and Java 9 features, work with the console and files; for those who continue - for new technologies and frameworks, for advanced ones - for polishing weak points and growth to the level of Middle. In each case, the training will be applied: the mentors will help you learn new things directly during the work on the project.

Clickhouse meetup

When: August 16
Where: St. Petersburg, Piskarevsky Avenue, 2, building 2, BC Benoit
Participation conditions: free, registration required

This meeting with the speaker’s name will be entirely devoted to an unusually rumored fast and productive database management system, which Yandex themselves use and recommend to others. The speakers include team members with announcements and stories about the future development of the project, as well as industry representatives who can offer an unbiased view of users.

Gamedev weekend

When: August 18-19
Where: Berdsk, Microdistrict: Green Island, 9/1 (transit from Novosibirsk, metro station River Station)
Conditions of participation: 1 500 rub.

Pleasant and doubly useful pastime for the representatives of Siberian gamedev: the whole weekend in the tent camp, surrounded by comrades in the workshop, ready to share their accumulated insights. In a single track, themes that affect different aspects of game development are mixed: graphics, programming, localization, Unity 3D, market entry, analytics, job search and employees. There is a place in the program also for parsing several cases. In the evenings - rest in the best traditions: parties and networking.

Open-air conference #CryptoBBQ

When: August 23
Where: Moscow, Stroginskoe Highway, 1, BEREZY Park
Participation conditions: from 4990 rub.

Cryptocurrencies - for the first time in nature. Here you will find everything that you associate with solid crypto-conference - discussion of cases and trends, exhibition of projects from large companies, master classes, networking - only with bonus barbecues, food fair and active rest. Solid experts from the USA, Europe and Asia will join this all, some of whom will be performing in Russia for the first time. The stated topics include: ICO, investment and other aspects of project development, the introduction of the blockchain into various industries and the public sector, the situation in local markets, forecasts for the technology as a whole, technical implementation details.

Robomics 2018

When: August 20-24
Where: Togliatti, Southern Highway, 165
Participation conditions: from 5000 rub.

Intensive aims to dispel the popular myths about the blockchain, protect its reputation from accusations of idle generation and show its real possibilities in building smart cities. For this purpose, Russian and foreign experts will come to the site for four days. Engineering orientation implies that things will not be limited to conversations and presentations - under the leadership of the Airalab team, guests will prototype, create and test simulations on the Ethereum infrastructure, refreshing and complementing their knowledge and solving private cases.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/418267/


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