October 10, 2018 at 10:17October IT Events Digest (Part Two)
As promised, we supplement our review of domestic events with summaries for the second half of the month. This time, one cannot fail to note a record number of hackathons, a keen interest in machine learning and data science, as well as a high concentration of courses and intensives.
FashionTechDay 2018
When: October 15
Where: St. Petersburg, pl. Victory, 1, Hotel Park Inn by Radisson Pulkovskaya
Terms of participation: free of charge, registration required
Startups, whose products are applicable in the fashion industry, have the opportunity to accelerate the development of the project. RUSH Forum announces a competition 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 your hands and prepare a presentation. Only one team will get the $ 100,000 investment from the Untitled Fund, but the rest can get feedback and partnership offers, get on the media radar and test the viability of the idea.
White Nights Conference
When: October 16
Where: Moscow, Kutuzovsky Prospekt, 2/1, Congress Park of the Radisson Royal Hotel
Terms of participation: from 150 € (11,430 rubles). The
Moscow component of the traditional gamedev conference this year will be held according to the schedule. We remind you: 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 the speeches of experts from Facebook, Unity, gumi, Playrix and other major players, both on classical problems (hypothesis testing, e-sports mechanics, the project life cycle) and on market innovations (phishing, ICO, the introduction of machine learning technologies , cryptocurrency crowdfunding).
Road Show SearchInform-2018
When and Where:
Moscow - October 16 (Izmailovo Shosse, 71, p., BW Vega Hotel)
Nizhny Novgorod - October 16 (Maxim Gorky St., 115, Ibis Nizhny Novgorod Hotel)
Surgut - October 18 (Mira Ave., 42, p. 1, Business Hotel)
Kazan - October 18 (Universitetskaya St., 7, Shalyapin Palace Hotel)
Yekaterinburg - October 23 (51 Marta St., 51 BC SUMMIT)
Samara - October 23 (Novo-Sadovaya St., 160D, Ibis Samara Hotel)
Baku - October 25 (Koykeb St. Safaralieva, 5, Holiday Inn Baku hotel)
Chelbyinsk - October 25 (Molodogvardeytsev st., 3, Victoria hotel)
Krasnodar - October 30 (109 Krasnaya st., Intourist hotel)
Participation conditions: free of charge, registration required nation
A massive event on information security from SearchInform, which before the end of the year will take place along a whole chain of Russian cities. The organizers will present new solutions in the field of information, economic and cybersecurity, voice forecasts
on current threats for 2019, explain why the effectiveness of current methods is falling and demonstrate tools from the company's specialists during investigations.
AINL 2018
When: October 17-19
Where: St. Petersburg, ul. Lomonosov, 9
Terms of participation: from 3200 rubles.
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Application for Natural Language Processing. The organizers emphasize the applied orientation of the event: almost all the reports are devoted to specific problems of mathematical linguistics that arise in the analysis of texts. In particular, we will talk about dividing into morphemes, identifying metaphors, recognizing proper names, restoring context, matching syntactic units. In the second and third days on the site will be training and presentation of cases from large companies.
Voronezh Game Dev Meetup # 1
When: October 17
Where: Voronezh, pr. Labor, 65
Participation conditions: free, registration is required
Mail.Ru Group developers are gathering a gamedev community in their Voronezh office to share their own case studies for the first time. The program includes three reports. The first will be devoted to the migration of highly 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 a analysis of strengths and weaknesses and personal impressions. Finally, from the third report, students will learn branded ways to speed up the loading of a mobile game - from specific formats to organizing resources.
Focus Start
When: October 18 - December 18
Where: Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok, ul. Musa Jalil, 11
Terms of participation: free of charge according to the selection results
Frontend training course with an eye on immediate employment. The CFT Novosibirsk company is preparing for a set of front-end developers - it will be carried out through a screening test and an interview followed by a two-month training. Applicants need to have a general understanding of HTML + CSS and JavaScript, have an understanding of the operation 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 weekend.
PHP meetup
When: October 18
Where: Moscow, st. Leo Tolstoy, 16
Terms of participation: free of charge, registration is required
At the next meeting of Moscow PHP developers, Yandex.Food experts will talk about technical problems that they encountered while working on the project. Three reports will highlight different aspects of development: ensuring fault tolerance and high availability, load in the Symfony application, flexibility of delivery and service availability with limited resources, organization of the programmers workflow.
SPBDSM # 12
When: October 18
Where: 12 Kryukova Canal Embankment, 12, LENDOK open film studio
Terms of participation: free
After a short break, the next meeting of St. Petersburg Data Science enthusiasts is scheduled. Four reports are being prepared (XGBoost, attachment of sentences, anti-spoofing, noise-resistant vector representations of words, respectively) and other surprises, which the organizers will report about in the course of the event.
JUG.ru meeting with Venkat Subramaniam
When: October 18
Where: St. Petersburg, 10th Krasnoarmeyskaya 22A, Kellerman Business Center, 2nd floor, Oracle office
Participation conditions: free, registration is required
The opportunity to live chat with a Java enthusiast, known around the world 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 2018
When: October 19-20
Where: St. Petersburg, Petersburg Highway 64/1, Expoforum
Participation Conditions: from 18 000 rub.
The Joker is a thousand advanced Java developers on one platform, so it won’t be boring anyway. The organizers are holding the bar: this year's conference will be attended by eminent Spring specialists Josh Long and Evgeny 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 the classical presentations, participants will be able to play at the desktops and ChGK at ease, and legally catch the speakers after the speech, discuss professional problems with them during special BoF sessions, and improve themselves at the trainings. As for the reports - there are a lot of them (four streams and about 50 performances), they will be read alternately in Russian and English and will consider a wide range of issues: algorithms, performance, frameworks, safety, best practices. The program on the site for better learning is tagged with topics and difficulty level.
SECOTHON'2018
When: October 19-21
Where: Penza, st. Gagarina, 6k1, Olimpiysky Rollerdrom.
Participation conditions: 512 rubles.
The Penza hackathon is almost 72 hours of joint work of programmers, designers, planners, managers and startup teams on ideas that they themselves would like to implement. The results of their efforts will be evaluated according to several sets of criteria - four nominations are provided in total. The first is reserved for technologically sophisticated prototypes, the second is designed for start-up projects that solve current market problems, the third appreciates the effective use of hardware and software components, and finally, life-hacking solutions that can change the usual course of life are separately awarded.
Advanced UX Design Course
When: October 19 - November 25
Where: St. Petersburg, Kronverksky prospect, 23
Terms of participation: 30,000 rubles.
The ability to truly delve into the design process of the interface and understand its stages. The course consists of nine lectures in which the stages of work on a project (dialogue with the customer, analysis of competitors, architecture, editing, testing, presentation), as well as basic concepts and methods (design thinking, OOD, user involvement, game mechanics, are successively considered) ) The theory is supplemented by practical tasks, work on our own prototype, side workshops and, if necessary, additional Sunday classes with a big focus on pragmatics. After successful protection of the project, participants are issued certificates.
Copter Hack 2018
When: October 19
Where: Moscow, Volgogradsky pr., 42, bldg. 5, Technopolis "Moscow"
Terms of participation: free, registration required
Hackathon, where (if the participants all go according to plan) robots will fly. Copter Express, a developer and manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles, offers programmers a non-trivial opportunity to work with quadcopter software. 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 in the know, the company organizes a preliminary cycle of lectures (video materials will be available on the event website). The 30-hour marathon will end with a competition in flights and awarding the best - both with valuable prizes and career opportunities.
Hackathon MosFinData
When: October 20-21
Where:Moscow, Bersenevskaya nab., 6, p. 3, Deworkacy “Red October”
Conditions of participation: free of charge, registration is required
from the Moscow Department of Finance for those who know how to work with data. Analysts, developers, designers are invited to use government data to create diverse 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 an idea, 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 categories - software, media, visual presentation.
DevFest Moscow
When: October 20
Where:Moscow. st. Lesnaya, 5, office DELOITTE
Terms of participation: 1000 rub.
The initiative from Google Developer Groups - secrets of excellence from practicing developers, cases and rigorous objectivity. To avoid conflicts of interest, discussion of hard and soft skills will be divided into separate streams. The first will cover mobile development, front-end. backend, AI, machine learning and data science, the second - various aspects of teamwork and life in the community.
DataStart Conference 2018
When: October 20
Where: Moscow, ul. Smolenskaya, 8, Azimut Hotel
Conditions of participation: from 6500 rub.
Specialists will gather at the annual conference on Data Science and Machine Learning to discuss the potential of their application in real projects and related problems. The program is well balanced: a mixture of general theoretical reports on basic concepts and trends, practical advice on specific operations and tools, and cases from data analysts of large companies will be offered to the attention of students.
GAZ Tech Hackathon
When: October 20-21
Where: Nizhny Novgorod, Lenin Ave, 88
Participation conditions: free of charge, registration is required
During the hackathon, GAZ hopes to identify specialists who can 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 HR solutions. The idea of your product should be well considered - it will have to be indicated already at the registration stage. The work will last about two days (with breaks at night pizza) under the supervision and patronage of the company's specialists. At the end of the program - the distribution of valuable prizes and job offers.
Data & Science: application program
When: October 21
Where: Moscow, Ul. Lev Tolstoy, 16, conference room “Extropolis”
Participation conditions: free of charge, registration is required
More initiatives from Yandex: the Open Data Science community is testing a new format this month by organizing open-agenda meetings. The range of topics of reports this time is determined solely by the wishes of the participants. The other day, the final program will be published on the event page. Thanks to this approach, participants will be able to both learn answers to more general questions on professional development (how to teach the basics, what to expect from the future, how things are with ML in different industries), and to deal with difficulties that arise directly during work (how write frameworks, analyze data flow, work with TensorRT).
IT Brain Battle Moscow # 1
When: October 21
Where: Moscow, Russia, ul. Rusakovskaya, 24
Terms of participation:from 45 000 rub.
The intellectual club of IT professionals continues to live and develop. The format is known to everyone who has ever watched or played What? Where? When? ”: Question, minute for discussion, answers are given to the facilitator in writing. The duration of the game is two halves of forty questions each. The role of the leading and author of the tasks is Mikhail Skipsky. Teams formed from representatives of one or another IT company are invited to participate - a maximum of six employees.
Moscow Python Conf ++
When: October 22-23
Where: Moscow, 1st Zachatievsky per., 4, Infospace
Terms of participation: 27 000 rub.
An event that promises to bring together 300 Python programmers from all over Russia and build fruitful communication between them. Topics covered include web development, server solutions, machine learning, testing, and embedded devices. In the published program, this variety falls into particular problems: the agony of updating, the architecture of Django applications, the struggle for performance, and linter in general.
IT Way'18
When: October 24-29
Where: Dimitrovgrad, Youth Center (transfer from Ulyanovsk)
Conditions of participation: 2800 rub.
The conference is for those who think about their future and professional prospects and are ready to work on them. Five days can be completely devoted to practicing skills in the selected area. The direction "Programming" will be divided into two streams according to the level of participants. Newcomers will begin to study programming in Python, more experienced will receive tasks that correspond to their specialization. In the Iron section, you can learn how to work with microcontrollers and create programs on Arduino, or practice creating IoT devices. In the direction of “Design”, participants will be taught communication with the client and prototyping.
Slurm-2
When: October 25-27
Where: der. Spas-Teshilovo, 3, Tsargrad hotel (transfer from Moscow)
Terms of participation:from 35 000 rub.
From this event, participants will have to learn from the rare experience of deploying a Kubernetes cluster in the cloud provided by Selectel. The adoption of this still 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 taught by administrators with experience in the complex implementation of Kubernetes.
Middle QA-Engineer
When: October 26 - November 18
Where: Innopolis, Universitetskaya St., 1
Participation conditions: free of charge, according to the selection results
An intensive 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 intricacies of full-cycle testing, the application of the international standard for testing IEEE 829 and application tools - Selenium WebDriver, NightWatch, Yandex.Tank. The course is conducted in a mixed format: three class sessions per week for a full day and approximately the same amount of homework. The result - a certificate for everyone and a job offer from the innovative laboratory AK BARS for the elite.
DevFest Gorky 2018
When: October 27
Where: Nizhny Novgorod, ul. Academician Sakharov, 4, Technopark "Ankudinovka"
Terms of participation: 1000 rub.
An event organized by Google around the world in collaboration with local communities that showcase interesting topics and point out the best speakers. In Nizhny Novgorod, the day promises to be eventful: both local experts and guests from the capital, USA, Europe will attend the conference. The range of topics is also distinguished by its breadth - Kotlin and Go, material design and machine learning, Angular and gaming as a philosophy. The reports are divided into two streams, each of which is a mixture of mobile development, cloud services, machine learning and specific programming languages.
MegaSlerm
When: October 29-31
Where: der. Spas-Teshilovo, 3, Tsargrad hotel (transfer from Moscow)
Terms of participation:75 000 rub.
We continue to work with Kubernetes clusters - this time we will consider the entire installation and configuration process, as well as the mechanisms for ensuring security and fault tolerance of applications. The teachers are the same experts with an impressive track record. The recruitment was announced small so that they had the opportunity to work with students individually and develop topics of interest. MegaSlerm and Slerm-2 (higher in the list) provide enough material to successfully pass the Certified Kubernetes Administrator exam without any additional preparation.
FashionTechDay 2018
When: October 15
Where: St. Petersburg, pl. Victory, 1, Hotel Park Inn by Radisson Pulkovskaya
Terms of participation: free of charge, registration required
Startups, whose products are applicable in the fashion industry, have the opportunity to accelerate the development of the project. RUSH Forum announces a competition 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 your hands and prepare a presentation. Only one team will get the $ 100,000 investment from the Untitled Fund, but the rest can get feedback and partnership offers, get on the media radar and test the viability of the idea.
White Nights Conference
When: October 16
Where: Moscow, Kutuzovsky Prospekt, 2/1, Congress Park of the Radisson Royal Hotel
Terms of participation: from 150 € (11,430 rubles). The
Moscow component of the traditional gamedev conference this year will be held according to the schedule. We remind you: 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 the speeches of experts from Facebook, Unity, gumi, Playrix and other major players, both on classical problems (hypothesis testing, e-sports mechanics, the project life cycle) and on market innovations (phishing, ICO, the introduction of machine learning technologies , cryptocurrency crowdfunding).
Road Show SearchInform-2018
When and Where:
Moscow - October 16 (Izmailovo Shosse, 71, p., BW Vega Hotel)
Nizhny Novgorod - October 16 (Maxim Gorky St., 115, Ibis Nizhny Novgorod Hotel)
Surgut - October 18 (Mira Ave., 42, p. 1, Business Hotel)
Kazan - October 18 (Universitetskaya St., 7, Shalyapin Palace Hotel)
Yekaterinburg - October 23 (51 Marta St., 51 BC SUMMIT)
Samara - October 23 (Novo-Sadovaya St., 160D, Ibis Samara Hotel)
Baku - October 25 (Koykeb St. Safaralieva, 5, Holiday Inn Baku hotel)
Chelbyinsk - October 25 (Molodogvardeytsev st., 3, Victoria hotel)
Krasnodar - October 30 (109 Krasnaya st., Intourist hotel)
Participation conditions: free of charge, registration required nation
A massive event on information security from SearchInform, which before the end of the year will take place along a whole chain of Russian cities. The organizers will present new solutions in the field of information, economic and cybersecurity, voice forecasts
on current threats for 2019, explain why the effectiveness of current methods is falling and demonstrate tools from the company's specialists during investigations.
AINL 2018
When: October 17-19
Where: St. Petersburg, ul. Lomonosov, 9
Terms of participation: from 3200 rubles.
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Application for Natural Language Processing. The organizers emphasize the applied orientation of the event: almost all the reports are devoted to specific problems of mathematical linguistics that arise in the analysis of texts. In particular, we will talk about dividing into morphemes, identifying metaphors, recognizing proper names, restoring context, matching syntactic units. In the second and third days on the site will be training and presentation of cases from large companies.
Voronezh Game Dev Meetup # 1
When: October 17
Where: Voronezh, pr. Labor, 65
Participation conditions: free, registration is required
Mail.Ru Group developers are gathering a gamedev community in their Voronezh office to share their own case studies for the first time. The program includes three reports. The first will be devoted to the migration of highly 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 a analysis of strengths and weaknesses and personal impressions. Finally, from the third report, students will learn branded ways to speed up the loading of a mobile game - from specific formats to organizing resources.
Focus Start
When: October 18 - December 18
Where: Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok, ul. Musa Jalil, 11
Terms of participation: free of charge according to the selection results
Frontend training course with an eye on immediate employment. The CFT Novosibirsk company is preparing for a set of front-end developers - it will be carried out through a screening test and an interview followed by a two-month training. Applicants need to have a general understanding of HTML + CSS and JavaScript, have an understanding of the operation 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 weekend.
PHP meetup
When: October 18
Where: Moscow, st. Leo Tolstoy, 16
Terms of participation: free of charge, registration is required
At the next meeting of Moscow PHP developers, Yandex.Food experts will talk about technical problems that they encountered while working on the project. Three reports will highlight different aspects of development: ensuring fault tolerance and high availability, load in the Symfony application, flexibility of delivery and service availability with limited resources, organization of the programmers workflow.
SPBDSM # 12
When: October 18
Where: 12 Kryukova Canal Embankment, 12, LENDOK open film studio
Terms of participation: free
After a short break, the next meeting of St. Petersburg Data Science enthusiasts is scheduled. Four reports are being prepared (XGBoost, attachment of sentences, anti-spoofing, noise-resistant vector representations of words, respectively) and other surprises, which the organizers will report about in the course of the event.
JUG.ru meeting with Venkat Subramaniam
When: October 18
Where: St. Petersburg, 10th Krasnoarmeyskaya 22A, Kellerman Business Center, 2nd floor, Oracle office
Participation conditions: free, registration is required
The opportunity to live chat with a Java enthusiast, known around the world 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 2018
When: October 19-20
Where: St. Petersburg, Petersburg Highway 64/1, Expoforum
Participation Conditions: from 18 000 rub.
The Joker is a thousand advanced Java developers on one platform, so it won’t be boring anyway. The organizers are holding the bar: this year's conference will be attended by eminent Spring specialists Josh Long and Evgeny 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 the classical presentations, participants will be able to play at the desktops and ChGK at ease, and legally catch the speakers after the speech, discuss professional problems with them during special BoF sessions, and improve themselves at the trainings. As for the reports - there are a lot of them (four streams and about 50 performances), they will be read alternately in Russian and English and will consider a wide range of issues: algorithms, performance, frameworks, safety, best practices. The program on the site for better learning is tagged with topics and difficulty level.
SECOTHON'2018
When: October 19-21
Where: Penza, st. Gagarina, 6k1, Olimpiysky Rollerdrom.
Participation conditions: 512 rubles.
The Penza hackathon is almost 72 hours of joint work of programmers, designers, planners, managers and startup teams on ideas that they themselves would like to implement. The results of their efforts will be evaluated according to several sets of criteria - four nominations are provided in total. The first is reserved for technologically sophisticated prototypes, the second is designed for start-up projects that solve current market problems, the third appreciates the effective use of hardware and software components, and finally, life-hacking solutions that can change the usual course of life are separately awarded.
Advanced UX Design Course
When: October 19 - November 25
Where: St. Petersburg, Kronverksky prospect, 23
Terms of participation: 30,000 rubles.
The ability to truly delve into the design process of the interface and understand its stages. The course consists of nine lectures in which the stages of work on a project (dialogue with the customer, analysis of competitors, architecture, editing, testing, presentation), as well as basic concepts and methods (design thinking, OOD, user involvement, game mechanics, are successively considered) ) The theory is supplemented by practical tasks, work on our own prototype, side workshops and, if necessary, additional Sunday classes with a big focus on pragmatics. After successful protection of the project, participants are issued certificates.
Copter Hack 2018
When: October 19
Where: Moscow, Volgogradsky pr., 42, bldg. 5, Technopolis "Moscow"
Terms of participation: free, registration required
Hackathon, where (if the participants all go according to plan) robots will fly. Copter Express, a developer and manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles, offers programmers a non-trivial opportunity to work with quadcopter software. 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 in the know, the company organizes a preliminary cycle of lectures (video materials will be available on the event website). The 30-hour marathon will end with a competition in flights and awarding the best - both with valuable prizes and career opportunities.
Hackathon MosFinData
When: October 20-21
Where:Moscow, Bersenevskaya nab., 6, p. 3, Deworkacy “Red October”
Conditions of participation: free of charge, registration is required
from the Moscow Department of Finance for those who know how to work with data. Analysts, developers, designers are invited to use government data to create diverse 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 an idea, 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 categories - software, media, visual presentation.
DevFest Moscow
When: October 20
Where:Moscow. st. Lesnaya, 5, office DELOITTE
Terms of participation: 1000 rub.
The initiative from Google Developer Groups - secrets of excellence from practicing developers, cases and rigorous objectivity. To avoid conflicts of interest, discussion of hard and soft skills will be divided into separate streams. The first will cover mobile development, front-end. backend, AI, machine learning and data science, the second - various aspects of teamwork and life in the community.
DataStart Conference 2018
When: October 20
Where: Moscow, ul. Smolenskaya, 8, Azimut Hotel
Conditions of participation: from 6500 rub.
Specialists will gather at the annual conference on Data Science and Machine Learning to discuss the potential of their application in real projects and related problems. The program is well balanced: a mixture of general theoretical reports on basic concepts and trends, practical advice on specific operations and tools, and cases from data analysts of large companies will be offered to the attention of students.
GAZ Tech Hackathon
When: October 20-21
Where: Nizhny Novgorod, Lenin Ave, 88
Participation conditions: free of charge, registration is required
During the hackathon, GAZ hopes to identify specialists who can 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 HR solutions. The idea of your product should be well considered - it will have to be indicated already at the registration stage. The work will last about two days (with breaks at night pizza) under the supervision and patronage of the company's specialists. At the end of the program - the distribution of valuable prizes and job offers.
Data & Science: application program
When: October 21
Where: Moscow, Ul. Lev Tolstoy, 16, conference room “Extropolis”
Participation conditions: free of charge, registration is required
More initiatives from Yandex: the Open Data Science community is testing a new format this month by organizing open-agenda meetings. The range of topics of reports this time is determined solely by the wishes of the participants. The other day, the final program will be published on the event page. Thanks to this approach, participants will be able to both learn answers to more general questions on professional development (how to teach the basics, what to expect from the future, how things are with ML in different industries), and to deal with difficulties that arise directly during work (how write frameworks, analyze data flow, work with TensorRT).
IT Brain Battle Moscow # 1
When: October 21
Where: Moscow, Russia, ul. Rusakovskaya, 24
Terms of participation:from 45 000 rub.
The intellectual club of IT professionals continues to live and develop. The format is known to everyone who has ever watched or played What? Where? When? ”: Question, minute for discussion, answers are given to the facilitator in writing. The duration of the game is two halves of forty questions each. The role of the leading and author of the tasks is Mikhail Skipsky. Teams formed from representatives of one or another IT company are invited to participate - a maximum of six employees.
Moscow Python Conf ++
When: October 22-23
Where: Moscow, 1st Zachatievsky per., 4, Infospace
Terms of participation: 27 000 rub.
An event that promises to bring together 300 Python programmers from all over Russia and build fruitful communication between them. Topics covered include web development, server solutions, machine learning, testing, and embedded devices. In the published program, this variety falls into particular problems: the agony of updating, the architecture of Django applications, the struggle for performance, and linter in general.
IT Way'18
When: October 24-29
Where: Dimitrovgrad, Youth Center (transfer from Ulyanovsk)
Conditions of participation: 2800 rub.
The conference is for those who think about their future and professional prospects and are ready to work on them. Five days can be completely devoted to practicing skills in the selected area. The direction "Programming" will be divided into two streams according to the level of participants. Newcomers will begin to study programming in Python, more experienced will receive tasks that correspond to their specialization. In the Iron section, you can learn how to work with microcontrollers and create programs on Arduino, or practice creating IoT devices. In the direction of “Design”, participants will be taught communication with the client and prototyping.
Slurm-2
When: October 25-27
Where: der. Spas-Teshilovo, 3, Tsargrad hotel (transfer from Moscow)
Terms of participation:from 35 000 rub.
From this event, participants will have to learn from the rare experience of deploying a Kubernetes cluster in the cloud provided by Selectel. The adoption of this still 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 taught by administrators with experience in the complex implementation of Kubernetes.
Middle QA-Engineer
When: October 26 - November 18
Where: Innopolis, Universitetskaya St., 1
Participation conditions: free of charge, according to the selection results
An intensive 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 intricacies of full-cycle testing, the application of the international standard for testing IEEE 829 and application tools - Selenium WebDriver, NightWatch, Yandex.Tank. The course is conducted in a mixed format: three class sessions per week for a full day and approximately the same amount of homework. The result - a certificate for everyone and a job offer from the innovative laboratory AK BARS for the elite.
DevFest Gorky 2018
When: October 27
Where: Nizhny Novgorod, ul. Academician Sakharov, 4, Technopark "Ankudinovka"
Terms of participation: 1000 rub.
An event organized by Google around the world in collaboration with local communities that showcase interesting topics and point out the best speakers. In Nizhny Novgorod, the day promises to be eventful: both local experts and guests from the capital, USA, Europe will attend the conference. The range of topics is also distinguished by its breadth - Kotlin and Go, material design and machine learning, Angular and gaming as a philosophy. The reports are divided into two streams, each of which is a mixture of mobile development, cloud services, machine learning and specific programming languages.
MegaSlerm
When: October 29-31
Where: der. Spas-Teshilovo, 3, Tsargrad hotel (transfer from Moscow)
Terms of participation:75 000 rub.
We continue to work with Kubernetes clusters - this time we will consider the entire installation and configuration process, as well as the mechanisms for ensuring security and fault tolerance of applications. The teachers are the same experts with an impressive track record. The recruitment was announced small so that they had the opportunity to work with students individually and develop topics of interest. MegaSlerm and Slerm-2 (higher in the list) provide enough material to successfully pass the Certified Kubernetes Administrator exam without any additional preparation.