Lightning Talks are back! These short, sharp presentations on a community driven topic, will bring together the tech startup ecosystem to learn, connect and grow. Next month, we’ll be joined by Better Jobs Better Futures – a brand new FREE service in Swansea, soothing the many challenges faced when scaling your team.
community, Lightning talk, meet-up, Members Only, Swansea, TechHub
The last Fintech Camp Bucharest meetup of 2018 brings into the spotlight an exciting topic – Blockchain applied to the financial market, namely transactions & prediction of events. RSVP here to save your front row spot on Thursday, December 6, starting 6:30 PM!
About the event
Andrew Hyde has a passion for community, writing, travel, and startups. He founded Startup Weekend, three other startups, and was employee #1 at Techstars. He also started Ignite Boulder, TEDxBoulder, as well as many other smaller events. During his talk, Andrew will share some insights about building decentralised peer-to-peer marketplaces.
Andrei Nagy has extensive experience in both the public and private sector, in various fields such as telecom (Oberthur Technologies, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise), payments (Mastercard), and tech (IBM). Currently, he is building the ‘Intelligent Web’ and is contributing to products that deliver systematic, scientific, replicable (SSR) processes that are objective, accountable and can be validated and used by the community. In the second part of the meetup, Andrei will talk about how apparently different assets can be analysed using the same type of driven behaviour based on prediction.
Event agenda
Registration
RSVP here to confirm your attendance to Blockchain-enabled Prediction & Transactions.
TechSociety
This event is hosted through TechSociety, an initiative that aims to grow the local tech community stronger by providing free event space, as well as logistical and communication support, to all people that organize free tech-related events.
Thinking about organizing a meetup or an event for the tech community out there? Join TechSociety, and we’ll help you out! All you have to do is submit the registration form available on our website, and we’ll get back to you to set all the details straight!
Blockchain, community, fintech camp, meet-up, meetup, networking, TechHub, techhub bucharest
Want to learn more about CodeSandbox.io? Join BucharestJS and AngularJS Bucharest joint November meetup and prepare yourself to be surprised! RSVP here to save your front row spot on Wednesday, November 28, starting 6:30 PM!
About the event
Ives van Hoorne, Co-founder at CodeSandbox.io will be joining November’s joint meetup as a VIP speaker, so this is a unique opportunity to learn more about CodeSandbox.io and meet Ives in-person.
Event agenda
Registration
RSVP here to confirm your attendance to BucharestJS &AngularJS Bucharest Joint Meetup.
TechSociety
This event is hosted through TechSociety, an initiative that aims to grow the local tech community stronger by providing free event space, as well as logistical and communication support, to all people that organize free tech-related events.
Thinking about organizing a meetup or an event for the tech community out there? Join TechSociety, and we’ll help you out! All you have to do is submit the registration form available on our website, and we’ll get back to you to set all the details straight!
angularjs, Bucharest, code sandbox, community, JavaScript, meet-up, meetup, networking, Public Event, TechHub, techhub bucharest
The Agile Digital & ICT Resources Agreement (ADIRA) is a framework awarded by the National Procurement Service for Wales (NPS) aimed at providing the Welsh public sector with a fast, compliant and cost-effective route to access the skills and expertise required to support the delivery of digital and ICT initiatives.
ADIRA will use standardised Statements of Work to clearly define work packages which will allow for prompt payment based on either time and materials or delivery of outcomes. Whilst there is currently no definitive list of services, an initial catalogue of 17 service types has been defined (https://bloom.services/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/20180920_ADIRA_Category_List_FINAL.pdf) and will evolve over time, based on Customer requirements. Each individual requirement delivered through ADIRA will be valued at less than £500,000, with a duration of no longer than 12 months.
Bloom Procurement Services have recently been appointed as a vendor neutral supply partner and will be delivering the contract in partnership with Welsh-based company Atebion Solutions.
A number of Events have been arranged for any Suppliers interested in joining the ADIRA resource pool and all Welsh Public Sector Bodies interested in purchasing services via the ADIRA framework to understand how the software works as well as the requirements of the framework.
In addition to Bloom Procurement Services and Atebion Solutions, Business Wales will also be present at the event to demonstrate the help they can provide to Suppliers wishing to access the framework.
Please note that this is a free event, but places are limited to 2 members per organisation. The plan for the session is as follows:
08:30 – Registration & Refreshments
09:00 – ADIRA Overview
09:40 – ADIRA Demonstration
10:10 – Business Wales Support
10:25 – Questions and Answers
10:50 – Networking and Business Wales breakout sessions
11:45 – Close
This is a community for those who care and are proud of what they do. For those who are Developers, DBA’s (Database Administrators), Testers, Dev Ops (Developer Operations), UX (User Experience) or UI (User Interface), regardless how experienced they are, who want to improve.
The SSDC (Swansea software development community) meet on the last Monday of every month unless the meet-up falls on a bank holiday and then the meet-up moves forward a week.
For those long November evenings, we have an exciting double bill, featuring two local speakers.
TALK 1: Calvin, From supporting users, to building for users. Everything I’ve learned
Calvin initially started in a support role to assist users and has since transitioned to becoming a full-time software engineer. In this talk he speaks about the benefits of taking this route along with the many challenges involved such as getting familiar with a brand new programming language, switching to a new team, and much more.
Calvin is a Software Engineer on the Core platform at Veeqo, an all-in-one application used by hundreds of retail brands across the world.
TALK 2: Michał Poręba, Not So SQL Anymore
What if I told you that you don’t have to choose between SQL or NoSQL? That wouldn’t be quite true, but the choice is no longer binary. Some document databases offer now features typically associated with relational databases and a lot of relational database engines support document types. The gap between the data models is getting smaller. Let’s see what is possible to do with JSON and XML in SQL Server and how well does it perform.
Michał Poręba is a sort of a DBA who spends more time writing C#, PowerShell, JavaScript or even Ruby code than SQL queries. Server administration can and should be automated, performance is best addressed by good system design and implementation, and working with teams of developers is simply much more fun than spending your days listening to people complaining the database is not fast enough. He lives in Wales where he currently works as a Senior SQL Server DBA at Vizolution in Swansea. In his free time, he speaks obscure languages, plays music with code or dives in local caves trying to find places no human has ever been to before. Recently he started blogging at https://dbain.wales.
Are you curious to see how traders leverage technology? Don’t miss the next Fintech Camp meetup to find out! RSVP here to save your front row spot on Friday, November 16, starting 6:30 PM!
About the event
The panel discussion will focus on tech-enabled trading.
The speakers:
Dragos (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmoldovan/) has been involved in the financial & capital markets since 2012, moving from employee to entrepreneur, becoming the co-founder of Prop Quant and a founding partner of LowLatency FX VPS.
Adrian (https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-filip-79bab844/) is a manager of Prop Quant and a founding partner of LowLatency FX VPS. Since 2012, he has been mainly focused on automated trading systems. Adrian has been working in the capital markets space since 2009.
Ben (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravaru/) was one of Romania’s online marketing pioneers back in 2001. His background spans more than 15 years of direct response marketing in the fields of online publishing, casinos, and health supplements. He has been involved in the financial markets since 2008, developing algorithmic and quantitative trading models. He’s currently the investment manager for Digital Babylon, a cryptocurrency hedge fund.
Event agenda
Registration
RSVP here to confirm your attendance to Trading: the good, the bad and the bots.
TechSociety
This event is hosted through TechSociety, an initiative that aims to grow the local tech community stronger by providing free event space, as well as logistical and communication support, to all people that organize free tech-related events.
Thinking about organizing a meetup or an event for the tech community out there? Join TechSociety, and we’ll help you out! All you have to do is submit the registration form available on our website, and we’ll get back to you to set all the details straight!
Bucharest, community, fintech, meet-up, meetup, networking, Public Event, TechHub, techhub bucharest, trading
Tabara de Testare Bucuresti is celebrating 6 years since their first meetup! RSVP here and let’s celebrate together on Tuesday, November 13, starting 6:30 PM!
About the event
For this special edition, the community has prepared three presentations focused on Agile testing, dealing with lack of resources, task estimation during sprints, and automated testing in Agile.
Event agenda
Registration
RSVP here to confirm your attendance to Anniversary edition – 6 years of TdT Bucuresti!!!
TechSociety
This event is hosted through TechSociety, an initiative that aims to grow the local tech community stronger by providing free event space, as well as logistical and communication support, to all people that organize free tech-related events.
Thinking about organizing a meetup or an event for the tech community out there? Join TechSociety, and we’ll help you out! All you have to do is submit the registration form available on our website, and we’ll get back to you to set all the details straight!
Bucharest, community, meet-up, meetup, networking, Public Event, TechHub, techhub bucharest, testing
Blockchain has many use-cases and voting is just one of them. Interested to find out how this project is evolving? Make sure you RSVP here and save your front row spot on Friday, November 9, starting 6:30 PM!
About the event
Government Blockchain Association (GBA) is made up of government employees, contractors and interested parties in using and promoting government understanding and use of blockchain technology. This meetup will continue the process for identifying few potential blockchain projects that could be proposed to government and administration institutions.
Event agenda
Augustin Jianu, former minister of communication and information society, will be presenting a blockchain based e-voting scheme that guarantees complete system security, unprecedented process transparency, and voter anonymity.
Registration
RSVP here to confirm your attendance to iVotat – Blockchain based electronic voting.
TechSociety
This event is hosted through TechSociety, an initiative that aims to grow the local tech community stronger by providing free event space, as well as logistical and communication support, to all people that organize free tech-related events.
Thinking about organizing a meetup or an event for the tech community out there? Join TechSociety, and we’ll help you out! All you have to do is submit the registration form available on our website, and we’ll get back to you to set all the details straight!
Blockchain, Bucharest, community, meet-up, meetup, networking, Public Event, TechHub, techhub bucharest
Do you want to get started with F# but don’t know where to begin? RSVP here to save your front row spot on Wednesday, November 7, starting 6:45 PM, for a brief overview of F# syntax, some glimpse of interaction with JavaScript libraries, and an Elmish demo!
About the event
Fable is an F# to JavaScript compiler powered by Babel, designed to produce readable and standard code compatible with ES2015 standards, like modules, classes, or iterables. Streamlines the development with advanced language features like static typing with type inference, exhaustive pattern matching, immutability by default, structural equality, units of measure, tree shaking, and more.
This talk will give a brief overview of F# syntax, some glimpse of interaction with JavaScript libraries, and will end with a demo of Elmish in action.
No prior knowledge of F# is needed, although some familiarity with basic FP concepts is desired.
Event agenda
Registration
RSVP here to confirm your attendance to Bucharest FP #36 — Fable.
TechSociety
This event is hosted through TechSociety, an initiative that aims to grow the local tech community stronger by providing free event space, as well as logistical and communication support, to all people that organize free tech-related events.
Thinking about organizing a meetup or an event for the tech community out there? Join TechSociety, and we’ll help you out! All you have to do is submit the registration form available on our website, and we’ll get back to you to set all the details straight!
Bucharest, community, f#, functional programming, meet-up, meetup, networking, Public Event, TechHub, techhub bucharest
Looking to showcase your work to an audience of experts, entrepreneurs and fellow creatives? Well, here’s your opportunity! Design Swansea celebrates the incredible work that exists in the creative industry in Swansea and the surrounding areas. Events are hosted on the first Thursday of the month and showcase the talents and skills from creatives, producers and innovators, who are looking to present their work in an informal and friendly meet-up.
You’ll also be excited to hear that there is free pizza and beer!
More info on the speakers and sign-up here
