After a short break, we are back with a new overview of activity in the domestic IT community. In February, the share of hackathons far outweighs everything else, but the digest also found a place for artificial intelligence, data protection, UX design and tech lead meetings.
When: February 6
Where: Moscow, Krasnopresnenskaya nab., 12,
Conditions of participation: free, registration required
Ecommpay IT invites everyone who is used to dealing with high-load systems to come and talk with company employees who have also gained a lot of experience in this area. Communication will smoothly flow from free discussion to presentations from the organizers and vice versa. One of the talks will look at the twenty-five-year history of MySQL and the reasons for moving to the most modern version. The second speaker will demonstrate live the capabilities of Vertica and prove that this DBMS meets all the basic requirements for analytical systems. Finally, the third presentation will be devoted to the specifics of the infrastructure of financial applications, taking into account the increased requirements for stability and fault tolerance.
When: February 10 - 11
Where: Moscow, Krasnopresnenskaya nab., 12
Conditions of participation: 39 000 rub.
A professional conference for team leaders of technical teams on a respectable scale. The program includes two days of reports with a wide range of topics (breaking down tasks into microtasks, building relationships in the I-team-project-customer quadrangle, breeding juniors, selecting candidates, onbroding, risk management ...), as well as four workshops of a practical focus on choice and meetups on interests.
When: February 13, February 27
Where: St. Petersburg, st. Leo Tolstoy, 1-3
Conditions of participation: free, registration required
Two cozy winter evenings at once with conversations about the fate of data science in general and specific development problems in particular. At the first meeting, we will talk about the principles on which speech and speech recognition systems are built in general, as well as the experience of speech synthesis with deep learning from developers working with the Chinese language. Topics for the second February meetup will be announced later.
When: February 14
Where: Krasnodar, st. Suvorov, 91
Conditions of participation: from 6000 rubles.
An event for all 1C specialists - programmers, system administrators, consultants, analysts. The main topics covered in the reports include highload optimization, DevOps in 1C, integration and data exchange, development tools and methods, project and team management, personal motivation problems. To stimulate the exchange of experience between experts, the organizers allocate a special space where each speaker can discuss issues of interest immediately after the speech.
When: February 15
Where: Togliatti, st. 40 years of Victory, 41
Conditions of participation: free, registration required
The next meetup of the Panda group declares its topic to be the alignment of processes in IT teams with all the associated problems. Among other things, the attendees will talk about how to survive for developers who are part of a great variety of project teams, how to manage processes with minimal intervention in the work and how to create a benign working environment. A short presentation by an expert has been prepared for each of the topics, however, the event will not revolve around speakers - live group discussion will be prioritized.
When: 15-16 February
Where: Krasnodar, st. Gagarina, 108
Conditions of participation: free, registration required
Hackathon for those who want to quit needlessly complex systems with many integrations and start living. The organizers offer an interesting challenge - the creation of a multi-link chain of programs, algorithms or functions, each of which performs a strictly defined task and produces a result that is visible to the eye; A complete list of system requirements can be found on the website. Front-end and back-end developers, as well as designers and analysts are invited to participate. The prize is also not quite familiar - Orange Pi One microcomputers with a quad-core Cortex-A7 AllWinner H3 SoC (chip-on-chip) Quad-core 1.2 GHz for each member of the winning team.
When: 15-16 February
Where: St. Petersburg, 8th line V.O., 25
Conditions of participation: free, registration required
An initiative to create everything that is data-driven and can help humanity navigate the coming decade - from research and investigation to services, applications and plug-ins. The UN program is offered as a source of inspiration for the teams; in particular, efforts can be focused on identifying scarcity or poor quality of data, discrimination, conflicts of interest, suspicious activity. Designers, researchers, data scientists, journalists and activists will take part in the event along with programmers. The best team will receive 110 rubles. for the development of the project.
When: 15-16 February
Where: Prospect Mira, 3, building 3
Conditions of participation: free, registration required
The hackathon from PhotoHack aims to develop content generation algorithms for the TikTok service. The main requirement is virality, an original idea that will encourage people to share automatically processed photos. The technical implementation can take the form of a web application or an Android product with any backend. PhotoLab development tools (software for designers and API for developers) will be provided to participants. The prize fund of the first stage, which will evaluate only the viability of the idea and prototype, includes 800 rubles; In total, the company expects to spend two million to support projects.
When: February 19
Where: Moscow, st. New Arbat, 32
Conditions of participation: free, registration required
The theme of the conference is outlined strictly - not abstract artificial intelligence, but artificial intelligence in the realities of Russian business. At the same time, the organizers made sure that it was interesting for both notorious audience segments - both entrepreneurs, who will be able to see what benefits AI technologies are transforming into for customers, and developers, for whom case studies will be presented on working with NLP components, ML tools, control of synthesis and speech recognition. The site will feature a demo area with product prototypes, where you can interact with the robots in person and set them up to evaluate the flexibility of the solutions.
When: February 20
Where: St. Petersburg, st. Flower, 16, lit. P
Conditions of participation: free, registration required
Another, more chamber meeting of team leaders, eager for understanding and sharing experience with colleagues. Two presentations are planned, followed by discussions; The organizers promise to present details of the program soon.
When: February 22
Where: Ufa, st. Komsomolskaya, 15, office 50
Conditions of participation: free, registration required
A classic hackathon for developers of all stripes - backend, frontend, full stack mobile development. General direction - solutions for communications and debugging workflows; narrower tasks will be announced before work begins. A total of about a day is allotted for development, according to the results of the presentation of projects, experts will award three prizes - 30 rubles, 000 rubles. and 20 rubles. respectively, other participants will receive certificates.
When: February 27
Where: Moscow (address to be confirmed)
Conditions of participation: from 4900 rubles.
Another conference on AI with a practical focus and a mixed audience, but on a narrower topic - everyone who performs or uses machine translation will gather at the site. For convenience, a separate block has been allocated for reports and activity of IT specialists, where technical issues related to model training are discussed: how to select and prepare data, what repositories exist, according to what schemes results are evaluated, and demonstrations of tools on the market are conducted.
When: 29 February - 1 March
Where: St. Petersburg (address to be confirmed)
Conditions of participation: from 9800 rubles.
And again, the largest Russian conference for everyone involved or interested in UX design. The first day is devoted to presentations, where the whole variety of problems and bottlenecks in design work will be discussed: how to work with a complex audience, can biometrics be used in research, can good interfaces rise above bad conditions, what is human UX, how to design based on game consoles, online fitting rooms, stressful situations, poor language skills - and much more. On the second day, there will be a series of master classes (they are paid separately) from experts in various fields - at the moment, the range of topics covers idea generation, UX leadership, prototyping cycle, product maps.
When: February 29
Where: St. Petersburg, st. Zastavskaya, 22, building 2 lit. A
Conditions of participation: free, registration required
Quality control at this event will appear before the audience in two guises - safety and performance, with a division into appropriate streams. The Performance stream contains talks on a number of areas and performance testing tools (JMeter, LoadRunner). At the Security stream, speakers will discuss the general principles of security testing, common vulnerabilities in mobile and web applications and methods for detecting them, and security testing practices. It will be possible to consolidate the acquired knowledge at a workshop with elements of a team game: participants will try themselves as hackers, attacking all available vulnerabilities in the presented web applications. The most destructive team will be rewarded.
Source: habr.com