As promised, we supplement our review of domestic events with summaries for the second half of the month. This time, it is impossible not to note the record number of hackathons, heightened interest in machine learning and data science, as well as a high concentration of courses and intensives.
FashionTechDay 2018When: October 15
Where: St. Petersburg, pl. Victory, 1, hotel «Park Inn by Radisson Pulkovskaya»
Participation conditions: free, registration required
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Startups whose products are applicable in the fashion industry have the opportunity to accelerate the development of the project. The RUSH forum announces a contest of technological fashion solutions of various kinds: modeling in AR / VR, online design, trend forecasting, market research, recommendation systems, production services, monetization systems, smart mirrors and shop windows. To participate, you need to have a tested prototype on hand and prepare a presentation. Only one team will receive the $ 100,000 investment from the Untitled fund, but the rest can get feedback and partnership proposals, get on the media radar and test the viability of the idea.
White nights conferenceWhen: October 16
Where: Moscow, Kutuzovsky Avenue, 2/1, Congress Park of the Radisson Royal Hotel
Participation conditions: from 150 € (11 430 rub.)
The Moscow component of the traditional game development conference will be held this year according to the schedule. We remind: White Nights is the largest international conference on the promotion of games and game design in the technological context, where expertise from reputable market representatives is combined with active networking. This time, listeners are waiting for expert speeches from Facebook, Unity, gumi, Playrix and other major players, both on classic issues (hypothesis testing, eSports mechanics, project life cycle), and on market innovations (features, ICO, machine learning technologies cryptocurrency crowdfunding).
Road Show SearchInform-2018When and where:Moscow - October 16 (Izmailovo shosse, 71, p., Hotel BW Vega)
Nizhny Novgorod - October 16 (115 Maksim Gorkogo Street, Hotel Ibis Nizhny Novgorod)
Surgut - October 18 (Mira Ave., 42, p. 1, Business Hotel Hotel)
Kazan - October 18 (Universitetskaya Street, 7, “Shalyapin Palace Hotel”)
Ekaterinburg - October 23 (st. March 8, 51, BC SUMMIT)
Samara - October 23 (160D, Novo-Sadovaya St., Ibis Samara Hotel)
Baku - October 25 (Koikeb Safaraliyeva St., 5, Holiday Inn Baku Hotel)
Chelbyinsk - October 25 (Molodogvardeytsev str., 3, hotel "Victoria")
Krasnodar - October 30 (109 Krasnaya St., Intourist Hotel)
Participation conditions: free, registration required
Mass event on information security from SearchInform, which until the end of the year will be held along a whole chain of Russian cities. The organizers will present new solutions in the field of information, economic and cyber security, will announce forecasts
on current threats for 2019, they will explain why the effectiveness of current methods is falling and will demonstrate tools from the company's specialists during investigations.
AINL 2018When: October 17-19
Where: St. Petersburg, st. Lomonosov, 9
Participation conditions: from 3200 rub.
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its application to the processing of natural languages. The organizers emphasize the practical orientation of the event: almost all the reports are devoted to the specific problems of mathematical linguistics arising from the analysis of texts. In particular, we will discuss the division into morphemes, the identification of metaphors, the recognition of proper names, the restoration of context, the comparison of syntactic units. On the second and third days, trainings and presentations of cases from large companies will take place at the site.
Voronezh Game Dev Meetup # 1When: October 17
Where: Voronezh, pr. Labor, 65
Participation conditions: free, registration required
The Mail.Ru Group developers gather a game-dev community in their Voronezh office in order to share their own cases from this sphere for the first time. The program includes three reports. The first will be devoted to the migration of high-loaded game projects from MySQL to PostgreSQL: how it was and on what grounds it was undertaken. In the second, the speaker will review the Eclipse Vert.x platform with an analysis of strengths and weaknesses and personal impressions. Finally, from the third report, trainees will learn about brand ways to speed up the loading of a mobile game, from specific formats to the organization of resources.
Focus startWhen: October 18 - December 18
Where: Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok, st. Musa Jalil, 11
Participation conditions: free of charge following the selection results
Curriculum frontend with an eye on immediate employment. The CFT Novosibirsk company is preparing for the recruitment of front-end developers - it will be carried out through a screening test and an interview followed by two months of training. Applicants need to know in general HTML + CSS and JavaScript, to have an idea about the work of web servers and at least some development experience - the rest can be caught up in the classroom. Classes are held in the evening on weekdays + take half a day on one of the weekends.
PHP meetupWhen: October 18
Where: Moscow, st. Leo Tolstoy, 16
Participation conditions: free, registration required
At the next meeting of Moscow-based PHP developers, specialists from Yandex.Ed will talk about the technical problems encountered during the work on the project. Three reports will highlight different aspects of development: ensuring fault tolerance and high availability, the load in the Symfony application, the flexibility of issuing and service availability with limited resources, the organization of the workflow of programmers.
SPBDSM # 12When: October 18
Where: Quay of Kryukov Canal, 12, open film studio “LENDOK
Participation conditions: free
After a short break, the next meeting of St. Petersburg Data Science enthusiasts is scheduled. Four reports are being prepared (XGBoost, nesting, anti-spoofing, noise-stable vector representations of words, respectively) and other surprises, which the organizers will report along the way in the event group.
JUG.ru meeting with Venkat SubramaniamWhen: October 18
Where: St. Petersburg, 10th Red Army, 22A, Kellerman Business Center, 2nd floor, Oracle office
Participation conditions: free, registration required
The opportunity to communicate live with a Java enthusiast, known worldwide as the author of technical books, a talented speaker and teacher. The official theme of the meeting is design patterns in the light of lambda expressions in Java.
Joker 2018When: October 19-20
Where: St. Petersburg, Petersburg Highway 64/1, Expoforum
Participation conditions: from 18 000 rub.
A joker is a thousand advanced Java developers on one site, so it won't be boring anyway. The organizers are keeping the bar: this year the conference will be attended by venerable Spring specialists Josh Long and Yevgeny Borisov, JFrog evangelist from Silicon Valley Baruch Sadogursky and other large figures from the international Java community. The variety of the program is also pleasing to the eye - in addition to classic reports, participants will be able to play freely on the NSC and on legal rights and catch the speakers after the performance, and discuss equally with them professional problems during special BoF sessions, and improve themselves during the trainings. As for the reports - there are a lot of them (four streams and about 50 speeches), they will be read alternately in Russian and English and will deal with a broad range of issues: algorithms, performance, frameworks, security, best practices. The program on the site for better learning is tagged with topics and levels of difficulty.
SECOTHON'2018When: October 19-21
Where: Penza, st. Gagarin, 6k1, Rollerdrom "Olympic"
Conditions of participation: 512 rubles.
The Penza hakaton is almost 72 hours of conscientious work of programmers, designers, designers, managers and start-up teams on ideas that they would like to implement. The results of their efforts will be evaluated according to several sets of criteria - four nominations are foreseen. The first is reserved for technologically sophisticated prototypes, the second is designed for start-up projects that solve current market problems, the third one appreciates the effective use of hardware and software components, and finally, life-hacking solutions that can change the usual course of life are awarded separately.
Advanced UX Design CourseWhen: October 19 - November 25
Where: St. Petersburg, Kronverksky Avenue, 23
Participation conditions: 30 000 rubles.
The opportunity to truly delve into the process of designing the interface and understand the whole of its stages. The course consists of nine lectures, in which the stages of work on the project (dialogue with the customer, analysis of competitors, drafting architecture, editing, testing, presentation), as well as basic concepts and methods (design thinking, OOD, user involvement, game mechanics ). The theory is supplemented with practical tasks, work on one’s own prototype, side workshops and, if necessary, additional Sunday classes with a big eye on pragmatics. After successful protection of the project participants are issued certificates.
Copter hack 2018When: October 19
Where: Moscow, Volgograd, etc., 42, Bldg. 5, Technopolis "Moscow"
Participation conditions: free, registration required
Hackathon, where (if all participants go according to plan) robots will fly. Copter Express, the developer and manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles, offers programmers a non-trivial opportunity to work with software for quadcopters. Owners of personal vehicles can bring their devices, the rest will receive from the organizers all the necessary components for assembly. Special training and experience is not required, but for those who want to be informed, the company organizes a preliminary lecture series (videos will be available on the event website). The 30-hour marathon will end with a competition in flights and awarding the best with both valuable prizes and career opportunities.
Hackathon MosFinDataWhen: October 20-21
Where: Moscow, Bersenevskaya nab., 6, p. 3, Deworkacy "Red October"
Participation conditions: free, registration required
Hackathon from the Moscow Department of Finance for those who know how to work with data. Analysts, developers, designers are encouraged to use data from government agencies to create multi-format socially significant projects in the financial and budgetary sphere: services, bots, applications and extensions, visualization and infographics. The evaluation criterion will be the elaboration of the idea, the implementation algorithm and content, as well as the potential for further development. The prize fund is 150,000 rubles, the winners will be determined in three nominations - software, media, and visual presentation.
DevFest MoscowWhen: October 20
Where: Moscow. st. Lesnaya, 5, office DELOITTE
Conditions of participation: 1000 rubles.
Initiative from Google Developer Groups - the secrets of skill from practicing developers, cases and severe objectivity. In order to avoid conflicts of interest, the discussion of hard and soft skills will be diluted in separate streams. The first will cover mobile development, frontend. backend, AI, machine learning and data science, the second - various aspects of teamwork and community life.
DataStart Conference 2018When: October 20
Where: Moscow, st. Smolenskaya, 8, Azimuth Hotel
Participation conditions: from 6500 rub.
Specialists will gather at the annual conference on Data Science and Machine Learning to discuss the potential for their use in real-world projects and related problems. The program is well balanced: a mix of general theoretical reports on basic concepts and trends, practical tips on specific operations and tools and cases from data analysts of large companies will be offered to the listeners.
GAZ Tech HackathonWhen: October 20-21
Where: Nizhny Novgorod, Lenin Ave, 88
Participation conditions: free, registration required
In the course of the hackathon, GAZ hopes to identify specialists who are able to apply their talents to the automotive industry. The organizers are especially interested in three areas: Big Data and telematics, automation of production processes and high-tech solutions for HR. The idea of ​​your product should be well thought out - you will have to indicate it already at the registration stage. The work will continue for about two days (with breaks for the night pizza) under the supervision and protection of the company's specialists. At the end of the program - distribution of valuable prizes and offers for work.
Data & Science: Application ProgramWhen: October 21
Where: Moscow, Ul. Lev Tolstoy, 16, Extropolis Conference Hall
Participation conditions: free, registration required
More initiatives from Yandex: The Open Data Science community this month is testing a new format by organizing a meeting with an open agenda. This time the range of topics is determined solely by the wishes of the participants. One of these days the final program will be published on the event page. Thanks to this approach, participants will be able to find out how to answer general questions about professional development (how to teach the basics, what to expect from the future, how things are going with ML in different industries), and how to deal with the difficulties that arise directly during the work ( write frameworks, analyze data flow, work with TensorRT).
IT Brain Battle Moscow # 1When: October 21
Where: Moscow, Russia, st. Rusakovskaya, 24
Participation conditions: from 45 000 rub.
Intellectual IT-club continues to live and develop. The format is known to everyone who has ever watched or played “What? Where? When? ”: A question, a minute for discussion, answers are given to the moderator in writing. The duration of the game is two halves with forty questions each. Mikhail Skipsky acts as the leader and author of the assignments. Invited to participate teams formed from representatives of an IT company - a maximum of six employees.
Moscow Python Conf ++When: October 22-23
Where: Moscow, 1st Zachatievsky lane., 4, Infospace
Conditions of participation: 27 000 rubles.
The event, which promises to collect 300 Python-programmers from all over Russia and to build fruitful communication between them. Topics covered include web development, server solutions, machine learning, testing, and embedded devices. In the published program, this diversity is divided into particular problems: flour updates, the architecture of Django applications, the struggle for performance and linters in general.
IT Way'18When: October 24-29
Where: Dimitrovgrad, educational center "Youth" (transfer from Ulyanovsk)
Participation conditions: 2800 rub.
The conference is for those who think about their future and professional prospects and are ready to work for them. Five days can completely give refining skills in the selected area. The “Programming” direction will be divided into two streams according to the level of participants. Novchiki begin to learn programming in the language of Python, the more experienced will get the job corresponding to their specialization. In the section "Iron" you can learn how to work with microcontrollers and create programs on the Arduino, or practice creating devices for the Internet of things. In the “Design” direction, participants will be trained in communication with the client and prototyping.
Slurm-2When: October 25-27
Where: der. Spas-Teshilovo, 3, Hotel Tsargrad (transfer from Moscow)
Participation conditions: from 35,000 rubles.
From this event, participants will have to learn the rare experience of deploying the Kubernetes cluster in the cloud provided by Selectel. The possession of this as yet niche technology, which is just beginning to be actively used in different types of business, can add value to the administrator or developer in the professional market. The course is conducted by administrators with experience in complex Kubernetes implementation.
Middle QA-EngineerWhen: October 26 - November 18
Where: Innopolis, Universitetskaya, 1
Participation conditions: free of charge
Intensive advanced training course for testers from Innopolis University - the opportunity to rise from junior to middle level in just a month. Among the teachers are practicing testers from the partner companies of the University. The program covers all the subtleties of testing a complete cycle, the application of the international standard IEEE 829 testing and applied tools - Selenium WebDriver, NightWatch, Yandex.Tank. The course is conducted in a mixed format: three classroom lessons a week for a full day and about the same amount of homework. The result - a certificate for all and a job offer from the AK BARS innovation laboratory for the elite.
DevFest Gorky 2018When: October 27
Where: Nizhny Novgorod, st. Academician Sakharov, 4, Technopark "Ankudinovka"
Conditions of participation: 1000 rubles.
The event, which is organized around the world by Google, in collaboration with local communities, suggesting interesting topics and pointing to the best speakers. In Nizhny Novgorod, the day promises to be rich: the conference will be attended by local specialists and guests from the capital, the USA, and Europe. The range of topics also differs in breadth - Kotlin and Go, material design and machine learning, Angular, and gamerism as a philosophy. Reports are divided into two streams, each of which represents a mixture of mobile development, cloud services, machine learning and specific programming languages.
MegaSlurmWhen: October 29-31
Where: der. Spas-Teshilovo, 3, Hotel Tsargrad (transfer from Moscow)
Conditions of participation: 75 000 rubles.
We continue to work with Kubernetes clusters - this time the entire installation and configuration process will be considered, as well as application security and resiliency mechanisms. The teachers are all the same experts with an impressive track record. The set was announced small, so that they had the opportunity to work with students individually and develop topics of interest. MegaSlerm and Slurm-2 (above in the list) provide enough material to successfully pass the Certified Kubernetes Administrator exam without additional training.