December 5, 2018 at 11:00December IT Events Digest (Part One)
Before the holidays, everyone is trying to complete the unfinished and cover the unreached - obviously, this applies to the IT community. Today we have a whole bunch of small meetings on technology and languages, hackathons from around the country interspersed with major conferences on testing, AI and mobile development.
Brno Moscow Python Meetup
When: December 5
Where: Moscow, Maly Konyushkovsky Lane, 2, Boiling Point
Participation Conditions: information is being specified
At the upcoming meeting, the MoscowPython community expects guests - representatives of the Czech online travel agency Kiwi.com. The company's developers have extensive experience working in Python, so they will have something to share with the audience. The methodology of creating a platform of this scale and purpose, the problems of rapid growth, the data distribution scheme in a large team, the uninterrupted updating of the database, the difference in the code base of a young startup and a large company will all be considered in the speeches of the company's leaders. The mitap will end with a small quiz with a prize draw.
Heisenbug 2018
When: December 6-7
Where: Moscow, Europe Square, 2
Terms of participation: from 14,000 rubles.
A concentrated dose of testing insights will be given to participants in a traditional specialized conference. As always, topics will cover automatic and load testing and gravitate to practical aspects and specific examples. Among the speakers are representatives of such companies as Mail.Ru Group, CIAN, Smashing Magazine, eBay, Badoo, JetBrains, EPAM, Yandex. Various types of testing (typesetting, microservices, interfaces), the creation of useful frameworks, the nuances of using certain tools, and finally, the ways of survival in the team and in the market will be considered.
DataBase Meet-Up
When: December 6th
Where:Omsk, st. Pochtovaya, 7, OM Bar
Conditions of participation: free of charge, registration is required
Meeting for everyone who administers the database in Omsk and enjoys the exchange of entertaining stories and life hacks. From the guests - the desire to communicate and perceive the information, from the organizers - three speakers with reports on the CAR patterns, which ensure integrity and consistency in microservice architecture, the struggle for up-to-date statistics, as well as the filling and practical applicability of Hadoop distributions.
Under the hood Yandex.Taxi: Python
When: December 6
Where: Moscow, ul. Leo Tolstoy, 16
Terms of participation: free of charge, registration is required
Many are familiar with Yandex.Taxi - it's time to deepen this acquaintance. The leaders of the development groups offer the Moscow community a rare chance to learn more about the internal kitchen in which the service was created: from creating ML prototypes and debugging uptime to organizing development and testing processes.
I CAN CODE
When: December 7-8
Where: Ryazan, st. Gagarina, 59/1
Conditions of participation: free of charge, registration is required
Competition for students in a funny format: specially trained robots have to make their way through the maze at a speed, but the participants will be specially trained for them. Young developers will be required to program the bot to overcome the obstacle route and collect gold. Participation requires only knowledge of one of the high-level languages - equipment can be obtained from the organizers, as well as friendly advice on the way.
HARVEST
When: December 7
Where: St. Petersburg, st. Leo Tolstoy, 1-3
Terms of participation: free, registration is required
Another charity initiative from the IIDF is an opportunity for beginner IT startups to receive an impetus for development, expert opinion and, possibly, material assistance. The organizers invite everyone who has not yet reached the stage of sustainable profit to participate - the format of the event allows them to take care of different needs. Those who need start-up capital will be introduced to people from a large venture capital fund, those who need sales will be helped to choose a business model and make adjustments to the product, those who are dissatisfied with current results will be pointed to growth areas. In addition to individual work, a small series of reports on product management and startup development will also take place on the site.
Nexign Hack
When: December 7-9
Where: St. Petersburg, ul. Uralskaya, 4
Terms of participation: free of charge, registration is required
. Nexign invites developers, analysts, designers and marectologists to participate in the implementation of socially significant projects. The range of tasks will be closely related to IoT, BSS, QA and BigData. The teams will be offered three cases to choose from: a service that will collect data on location and movement of citizens (IoT), architecture and prototype for distributed execution of business scenarios (BSS), work with a series of updates of IoT product and application of regression tests (QA). Winners will share the prize fund of 300 rubles. and receive an invitation to one of Nexign's innovative IoT projects.
InfoTeCS OpenDay Ufa
When:December 8
Where: Ufa, 2 Verkhnetorgovaya Square, Holiday Inn Ufa, Gafuri Hall
Participation conditions: free of charge, registration is required
The event is designed for everyone involved in the field of information security, without dividing by experience and hardcore levels: students of relevant specialties, and programmers with a solid track record. Conference speakers (experts from InfoTeKS and others) will talk about a systematic approach to the development of secure software, the features of its testing, as well as the development of systems for industrial safety.
Mobius
When: December 8-9
Where: Moscow, pl. Europe, 2, Radisson Slavic
Conditions of participation:from 14 000 rub.
A well-known large conference for mobile developers of a good level, sharpened to the maximum practical benefit for the audience. As usual, the program will include lifehacks for those who are embracing new technologies (Core Bluetooth, Koin, Flutter, VR), hardcore for the harshest, explosive topics that will add animation to the general mood, and practical cases from large companies. Developers from Yandex, Odnoklassniki, Tinkoff, VKontakte, EPAM, Avito are expected.
My_Fintech Hackathon
When: December 8-9
Where: St. Petersburg, 3A Ave. Medikov
Participation conditions: free, registration required
Hackathon for those who want to at least somehow help the country move into the digital economy. The task of the participants is to create economically promising solutions for the urban environment that will be of interest to investors. It can be models of economic interaction of counterparties for new services or prototypes of smart contracts on blockchain NEO (languages: Python, С ֲֳֳֳ #, JS). Each team will need a programmer, economist, lawyer, manager and marketer - all of these people can be picked up in advance or met right on the site. Those who work particularly well will be able to exit the door with a ready-made startup with state support. The main cash prize is 5,000 USD in the Neo Gas cryptocurrency.
QA MeetUP
When: December 8
Where: Nizhny Novgorod, ul. Turgeneva, 30
Terms of participation:free, registration is required
Nizhny Novgorod testers will tell each other and everyone interested how they achieve quality from products and developers. A lot of reports are expected - seven pieces: here are functional safety standards, test automation, analytics and BDD, and signatures. The best practices will be shared primarily by representatives of Intel, as well as testers from Epam, Positive Technologies and Mega.
Krasnodar Frontend: Meetup # 4
When: December 8
Where: Krasnodar, st. Karasunskaya, 60, BC Karasunsky
Terms of participation: 300 rubles.
Gathering of the Krasnodar front-end community with a gentlemanly set of pleasures: reports from developers with good expertise, conversations with colleagues in an informal atmosphere and coffee breaks. The range of topics includes minimal code, a complete overview of the Redux library, strategies for optimizing animation performance, a practical approach to composite layers, and design from the developer’s bell tower.
Golang Meetup
When: December 8th
Where: Nizhny Novgorod, Zelensky congress, 4, FORSELF Space
Conditions of participation: free, registration required
Nizhny Novgorod also wants to talk about everything related to development on Go. The meeting will open with several short reports with point problems (problems of open source projects, language traps, objects with synchronization), and after a break for food, two reports with more extensive problems will follow - Go and the outside world from the experience of the Vkontakte project and tracing applications.
Azure Day Moscow
When: December 10
Where: Moscow, Bersenevskaya Naberezhnaya, 6, p. 3
Terms of participation: free, registration required
The annual cloud conference from the Microsoft MVP community. Programmers will have the opportunity to thoroughly study the development process using Azure services (bots, databases, IoT, AI / ML), and system administrators will receive a detailed overview of the infrastructure (virtual machines, networks, DevOps, security). Several reports will also be devoted to optimizing and building business processes using Microsoft technologies.
CGDevs Moscow Meetup # 1
When: December 11
Where: Moscow, Cosmonaut Volkov, 6A, Coworking GrowUp
Terms of participation: free, registration required
The gamedev-mitap pleases with a variety of possibilities: here you can not only talk about game development, computer graphics and game engines, but also talk about your ideas and find people who are ready to help in their implementation (or sign up for an interesting project yourself). Different topics will be discussed in the speeches - from texturing to interaction in the creative team; those present will also be able to try out new laptop models from the MSI Gaming and Prestige series in the demo zone.
Market Frontend Meetup
When: December 11
Where: Moscow, ul. Leo Tolstoy, 16
Terms of participation: free of charge, registration is required
Yandex employees working on the creation of Yandex.Market will share some useful stories about the process. Participants will learn about how the AST delegation took place, what practices were found for logging and tracing, what the team learned about design systems and autotests for obfuscated React-components, and also get acquainted with the technology stack and architectural features of the project.
Alfa JS MeetUp
When: December 11
Where: Moscow, ul. Bolshaya Polyanka, 2/10, p. 1, Corporate Innovations Hub
Terms of participation: free, registration required
Alfa-Bank team gathers all those involved in JavaScript development. The program includes: effective testing of react-redux applications, development of applications with a large number of forms and Formik as an alternative to redux-form, frontend and backend integration via TypeScript and link layer generation, errors in the application architecture and, finally, burgers. From listeners expect an active public position and a large number of questions - the most distinguished will be awarded.
Meetup # 2: How to Design VueJS Components without Shooting Your Leg?
When: December 12
Where: information to be confirmed
Terms of participation: free, registration required
A mitap with a name that clearly reflects the essence and scope of the problem will be as substantive as possible: live people with successful or unsuccessful experience in solving the problem will come, share the results and summarize. Those who are close to the topic can still offer the organizers their candidacy for speakers. Upon completion of the official part, everyone will join the bonus from sponsors - pizza and beer, as well as the pleasure of socializing in freedom.
AmurHack
When: December 14-15
Where: Komsomolsk-on-Amur, pr. Pervostroiteley, 22
Conditions of participation: free of charge, registration is required
The Far Eastern community also motivates programmers to create technological projects in the social sphere. Developers, designers and 3D artists, financial experts, entrepreneurs, students and just enthusiasts with ideas will be able to put their hands on this. The scope for imagination is not particularly limited - it is enough that the project is relevant, viable and based on modern technology. In the process, the teams will also have the opportunity to learn something new by talking with experts and participating in workshops.
A! ONE
When: December 14-16
Where: Moscow, Kosmodamianskaya Embankment, 52/7
Conditions of participation: from 15 000 rub. (one day)
The multi-format conference is dedicated to the topic of artificial intelligence and its interaction with business. The speakers will highlight the prospects of AI in various fields (medicine, finance, retail, creativity), consider the principles of building and functioning of ecosystems, talk about specific examples of the application of artificial intelligence technologies and machine learning in certain markets. Speeches will be divided into sessions on a thematic basis. In addition, a lot of interesting things will be happening at the venue in parallel: pitch sessions and demos from startups, a hackathon with a focus on AI, a poster session with materials from scientists, technical seminars, master classes and, of course, beer parties.
Waves Blockchain Hackathon
When: December 14-16
Where: Moscow, Bersenevskaya Naberezhnaya, 6, p. 3
Terms of participation: for free, registration is required
Hackathon, where you can master the Waves directly "in battle". The Waves Platform team offers everyone who writes in Scala (preferably knowledge of Akka, Netty, MVStore, Cats, Monix), JS (React, Angular) or Python to solve a number of problems in order to get to know the ecosystem more closely, deepen understanding of smart contracts and join community. For those who would not refuse to strengthen the theoretical base, on the first day two workshops will be held on the basics of blockchain and smart contracts, respectively.
CyberSport Event
When: December 15
Where: St. Petersburg, 3 Medikov Ave.
Participation conditions: free, registration required
An introductory course for anyone interested in e-sports - purely abstract or with the intention of trying. Participants in the St. Petersburg thematic community will talk in detail about how people come to eSports, how they learn, what local tournaments are available for those who wish, what to expect from the future, and how things are with the possibility of participating in the Olympic Games. Questions and other forms of activity are welcome.
rannts # 21
When: December 15
Where: Nizhny Novgorod, st. Timiryazev, 15k2
Terms of participation: free
New Year's meeting of the Nizhny Novgorod community is preparing a pleasant surprise for the participants. After three informative reports (Device plugin for k8s in all its non-triviality, designing code with Dry Python, creating an MVP online service on Flask-Admin), Coding Dojo will be held - a mini-tournament for participants, where they have to compete to solve simple problems.
Kirov Hack Weekend
When: December 15
Where: Kirov, st. Preobrazhenskaya, 65
Participation conditions: free of charge, registration is required
The final hackathon of this release is reserved exclusively for .NET developers. Teams can choose one of three areas: integration, machine learning or gamification to create a solution in 15 hours that can surprise the jury with its promise, technical performance and UX design. Prize fund - 100,000 rubles.
Brno Moscow Python Meetup
When: December 5
Where: Moscow, Maly Konyushkovsky Lane, 2, Boiling Point
Participation Conditions: information is being specified
At the upcoming meeting, the MoscowPython community expects guests - representatives of the Czech online travel agency Kiwi.com. The company's developers have extensive experience working in Python, so they will have something to share with the audience. The methodology of creating a platform of this scale and purpose, the problems of rapid growth, the data distribution scheme in a large team, the uninterrupted updating of the database, the difference in the code base of a young startup and a large company will all be considered in the speeches of the company's leaders. The mitap will end with a small quiz with a prize draw.
Heisenbug 2018
When: December 6-7
Where: Moscow, Europe Square, 2
Terms of participation: from 14,000 rubles.
A concentrated dose of testing insights will be given to participants in a traditional specialized conference. As always, topics will cover automatic and load testing and gravitate to practical aspects and specific examples. Among the speakers are representatives of such companies as Mail.Ru Group, CIAN, Smashing Magazine, eBay, Badoo, JetBrains, EPAM, Yandex. Various types of testing (typesetting, microservices, interfaces), the creation of useful frameworks, the nuances of using certain tools, and finally, the ways of survival in the team and in the market will be considered.
DataBase Meet-Up
When: December 6th
Where:Omsk, st. Pochtovaya, 7, OM Bar
Conditions of participation: free of charge, registration is required
Meeting for everyone who administers the database in Omsk and enjoys the exchange of entertaining stories and life hacks. From the guests - the desire to communicate and perceive the information, from the organizers - three speakers with reports on the CAR patterns, which ensure integrity and consistency in microservice architecture, the struggle for up-to-date statistics, as well as the filling and practical applicability of Hadoop distributions.
Under the hood Yandex.Taxi: Python
When: December 6
Where: Moscow, ul. Leo Tolstoy, 16
Terms of participation: free of charge, registration is required
Many are familiar with Yandex.Taxi - it's time to deepen this acquaintance. The leaders of the development groups offer the Moscow community a rare chance to learn more about the internal kitchen in which the service was created: from creating ML prototypes and debugging uptime to organizing development and testing processes.
I CAN CODE
When: December 7-8
Where: Ryazan, st. Gagarina, 59/1
Conditions of participation: free of charge, registration is required
Competition for students in a funny format: specially trained robots have to make their way through the maze at a speed, but the participants will be specially trained for them. Young developers will be required to program the bot to overcome the obstacle route and collect gold. Participation requires only knowledge of one of the high-level languages - equipment can be obtained from the organizers, as well as friendly advice on the way.
HARVEST
When: December 7
Where: St. Petersburg, st. Leo Tolstoy, 1-3
Terms of participation: free, registration is required
Another charity initiative from the IIDF is an opportunity for beginner IT startups to receive an impetus for development, expert opinion and, possibly, material assistance. The organizers invite everyone who has not yet reached the stage of sustainable profit to participate - the format of the event allows them to take care of different needs. Those who need start-up capital will be introduced to people from a large venture capital fund, those who need sales will be helped to choose a business model and make adjustments to the product, those who are dissatisfied with current results will be pointed to growth areas. In addition to individual work, a small series of reports on product management and startup development will also take place on the site.
Nexign Hack
When: December 7-9
Where: St. Petersburg, ul. Uralskaya, 4
Terms of participation: free of charge, registration is required
. Nexign invites developers, analysts, designers and marectologists to participate in the implementation of socially significant projects. The range of tasks will be closely related to IoT, BSS, QA and BigData. The teams will be offered three cases to choose from: a service that will collect data on location and movement of citizens (IoT), architecture and prototype for distributed execution of business scenarios (BSS), work with a series of updates of IoT product and application of regression tests (QA). Winners will share the prize fund of 300 rubles. and receive an invitation to one of Nexign's innovative IoT projects.
InfoTeCS OpenDay Ufa
When:December 8
Where: Ufa, 2 Verkhnetorgovaya Square, Holiday Inn Ufa, Gafuri Hall
Participation conditions: free of charge, registration is required
The event is designed for everyone involved in the field of information security, without dividing by experience and hardcore levels: students of relevant specialties, and programmers with a solid track record. Conference speakers (experts from InfoTeKS and others) will talk about a systematic approach to the development of secure software, the features of its testing, as well as the development of systems for industrial safety.
Mobius
When: December 8-9
Where: Moscow, pl. Europe, 2, Radisson Slavic
Conditions of participation:from 14 000 rub.
A well-known large conference for mobile developers of a good level, sharpened to the maximum practical benefit for the audience. As usual, the program will include lifehacks for those who are embracing new technologies (Core Bluetooth, Koin, Flutter, VR), hardcore for the harshest, explosive topics that will add animation to the general mood, and practical cases from large companies. Developers from Yandex, Odnoklassniki, Tinkoff, VKontakte, EPAM, Avito are expected.
My_Fintech Hackathon
When: December 8-9
Where: St. Petersburg, 3A Ave. Medikov
Participation conditions: free, registration required
Hackathon for those who want to at least somehow help the country move into the digital economy. The task of the participants is to create economically promising solutions for the urban environment that will be of interest to investors. It can be models of economic interaction of counterparties for new services or prototypes of smart contracts on blockchain NEO (languages: Python, С ֲֳֳֳ #, JS). Each team will need a programmer, economist, lawyer, manager and marketer - all of these people can be picked up in advance or met right on the site. Those who work particularly well will be able to exit the door with a ready-made startup with state support. The main cash prize is 5,000 USD in the Neo Gas cryptocurrency.
QA MeetUP
When: December 8
Where: Nizhny Novgorod, ul. Turgeneva, 30
Terms of participation:free, registration is required
Nizhny Novgorod testers will tell each other and everyone interested how they achieve quality from products and developers. A lot of reports are expected - seven pieces: here are functional safety standards, test automation, analytics and BDD, and signatures. The best practices will be shared primarily by representatives of Intel, as well as testers from Epam, Positive Technologies and Mega.
Krasnodar Frontend: Meetup # 4
When: December 8
Where: Krasnodar, st. Karasunskaya, 60, BC Karasunsky
Terms of participation: 300 rubles.
Gathering of the Krasnodar front-end community with a gentlemanly set of pleasures: reports from developers with good expertise, conversations with colleagues in an informal atmosphere and coffee breaks. The range of topics includes minimal code, a complete overview of the Redux library, strategies for optimizing animation performance, a practical approach to composite layers, and design from the developer’s bell tower.
Golang Meetup
When: December 8th
Where: Nizhny Novgorod, Zelensky congress, 4, FORSELF Space
Conditions of participation: free, registration required
Nizhny Novgorod also wants to talk about everything related to development on Go. The meeting will open with several short reports with point problems (problems of open source projects, language traps, objects with synchronization), and after a break for food, two reports with more extensive problems will follow - Go and the outside world from the experience of the Vkontakte project and tracing applications.
Azure Day Moscow
When: December 10
Where: Moscow, Bersenevskaya Naberezhnaya, 6, p. 3
Terms of participation: free, registration required
The annual cloud conference from the Microsoft MVP community. Programmers will have the opportunity to thoroughly study the development process using Azure services (bots, databases, IoT, AI / ML), and system administrators will receive a detailed overview of the infrastructure (virtual machines, networks, DevOps, security). Several reports will also be devoted to optimizing and building business processes using Microsoft technologies.
CGDevs Moscow Meetup # 1
When: December 11
Where: Moscow, Cosmonaut Volkov, 6A, Coworking GrowUp
Terms of participation: free, registration required
The gamedev-mitap pleases with a variety of possibilities: here you can not only talk about game development, computer graphics and game engines, but also talk about your ideas and find people who are ready to help in their implementation (or sign up for an interesting project yourself). Different topics will be discussed in the speeches - from texturing to interaction in the creative team; those present will also be able to try out new laptop models from the MSI Gaming and Prestige series in the demo zone.
Market Frontend Meetup
When: December 11
Where: Moscow, ul. Leo Tolstoy, 16
Terms of participation: free of charge, registration is required
Yandex employees working on the creation of Yandex.Market will share some useful stories about the process. Participants will learn about how the AST delegation took place, what practices were found for logging and tracing, what the team learned about design systems and autotests for obfuscated React-components, and also get acquainted with the technology stack and architectural features of the project.
Alfa JS MeetUp
When: December 11
Where: Moscow, ul. Bolshaya Polyanka, 2/10, p. 1, Corporate Innovations Hub
Terms of participation: free, registration required
Alfa-Bank team gathers all those involved in JavaScript development. The program includes: effective testing of react-redux applications, development of applications with a large number of forms and Formik as an alternative to redux-form, frontend and backend integration via TypeScript and link layer generation, errors in the application architecture and, finally, burgers. From listeners expect an active public position and a large number of questions - the most distinguished will be awarded.
Meetup # 2: How to Design VueJS Components without Shooting Your Leg?
When: December 12
Where: information to be confirmed
Terms of participation: free, registration required
A mitap with a name that clearly reflects the essence and scope of the problem will be as substantive as possible: live people with successful or unsuccessful experience in solving the problem will come, share the results and summarize. Those who are close to the topic can still offer the organizers their candidacy for speakers. Upon completion of the official part, everyone will join the bonus from sponsors - pizza and beer, as well as the pleasure of socializing in freedom.
AmurHack
When: December 14-15
Where: Komsomolsk-on-Amur, pr. Pervostroiteley, 22
Conditions of participation: free of charge, registration is required
The Far Eastern community also motivates programmers to create technological projects in the social sphere. Developers, designers and 3D artists, financial experts, entrepreneurs, students and just enthusiasts with ideas will be able to put their hands on this. The scope for imagination is not particularly limited - it is enough that the project is relevant, viable and based on modern technology. In the process, the teams will also have the opportunity to learn something new by talking with experts and participating in workshops.
A! ONE
When: December 14-16
Where: Moscow, Kosmodamianskaya Embankment, 52/7
Conditions of participation: from 15 000 rub. (one day)
The multi-format conference is dedicated to the topic of artificial intelligence and its interaction with business. The speakers will highlight the prospects of AI in various fields (medicine, finance, retail, creativity), consider the principles of building and functioning of ecosystems, talk about specific examples of the application of artificial intelligence technologies and machine learning in certain markets. Speeches will be divided into sessions on a thematic basis. In addition, a lot of interesting things will be happening at the venue in parallel: pitch sessions and demos from startups, a hackathon with a focus on AI, a poster session with materials from scientists, technical seminars, master classes and, of course, beer parties.
Waves Blockchain Hackathon
When: December 14-16
Where: Moscow, Bersenevskaya Naberezhnaya, 6, p. 3
Terms of participation: for free, registration is required
Hackathon, where you can master the Waves directly "in battle". The Waves Platform team offers everyone who writes in Scala (preferably knowledge of Akka, Netty, MVStore, Cats, Monix), JS (React, Angular) or Python to solve a number of problems in order to get to know the ecosystem more closely, deepen understanding of smart contracts and join community. For those who would not refuse to strengthen the theoretical base, on the first day two workshops will be held on the basics of blockchain and smart contracts, respectively.
CyberSport Event
When: December 15
Where: St. Petersburg, 3 Medikov Ave.
Participation conditions: free, registration required
An introductory course for anyone interested in e-sports - purely abstract or with the intention of trying. Participants in the St. Petersburg thematic community will talk in detail about how people come to eSports, how they learn, what local tournaments are available for those who wish, what to expect from the future, and how things are with the possibility of participating in the Olympic Games. Questions and other forms of activity are welcome.
rannts # 21
When: December 15
Where: Nizhny Novgorod, st. Timiryazev, 15k2
Terms of participation: free
New Year's meeting of the Nizhny Novgorod community is preparing a pleasant surprise for the participants. After three informative reports (Device plugin for k8s in all its non-triviality, designing code with Dry Python, creating an MVP online service on Flask-Admin), Coding Dojo will be held - a mini-tournament for participants, where they have to compete to solve simple problems.
Kirov Hack Weekend
When: December 15
Where: Kirov, st. Preobrazhenskaya, 65
Participation conditions: free of charge, registration is required
The final hackathon of this release is reserved exclusively for .NET developers. Teams can choose one of three areas: integration, machine learning or gamification to create a solution in 15 hours that can surprise the jury with its promise, technical performance and UX design. Prize fund - 100,000 rubles.