November 29, 2017 at 14:24The digest of IT events for December
So, imperceptibly the time has come for the final digest of 2017. December, it seems, will be devoted to the search for talent: a wave of hackathons and various events for startups will travel across Russia. During breaks, the community will continue to discuss both fashionable topics like IoT and cryptoeconomics, as well as timeless problems of testing, game development and Java development.
Smart City & IoT Hackathon
When: December 1-3
Where: Tyumen, st. Melnikayte, 72, building 1
Terms of participation: free of charge, registration is required
Tyumen University poses a challenge for the community: to make the city “smarter”. The goal of the hackathon is to generate ideas in the areas of Smart City, IoT and Big Data for the subsequent implementation of the developed technologies in the urban environment. Suitable projects for upgrading the transport system, the housing sector, security, operating time for a smart home or office, as well as any other devices and systems that are capable of solving applied problems. The main prize - 250,000 rubles.
Open Hackathon Cyber Garden
When: December 1-3
Where: Taganrog, per. Nekrasovsky, 44
Terms of participation:free registration is required
Taganrog Marathon for experts in the field of open data. The award will be held in three categories: the best application, the best solution for the development of infrastructure and the best solution to a creative task; incentive prizes from partners are also provided. The three winners selected by the jury will go far, or more precisely, to the next stage of the Open Data of the Russian Federation contest.
Krd Startup Day
When: December 2
Where: Krasnodar, st. Krasnaya, 109, 2nd floor, Intourist conference hall
Participation conditions: free of charge, registration required
Paradise for local startups from IIDF: interested investors, an expert commission for individual sessions, short useful reports on how to bring the project to the market, and cases from those braids managed to successfully take off (B2B Family, HealBe, Lightbox). Between two series of performances, the organizers will hold a pitch presentation contest, for which it is not too late to apply.
CRYPTOHACK
When: December 2-3
Where: St. Petersburg, Medikov Avenue, 3, lit. A
Terms of participation: free, registration is required
Hackathon again, this time for those who have learned blockchain and fintech. Topics for projects announced are: international financial transactions, statistics and data accounting, working with crypto assets and algorithmization and quantum communications in the blockchain. Prizes range from 60,000 to 15,000 thousand rubles, but not as a single money - excellence teams will also be offered internships, partnerships and other opportunities for the project to grow and bring the market to the market.
Hacking Man
When: December 2-3
Where: Moscow, Kashirskoye Shosse, 3, building 2, building 9
Participation conditions: free, registration is required
Hackathon from manufacturers of smart temrinalov Evator will be held under the slogan “living for living”. The company asks for solutions that would really be useful to its customers, and in return it undertakes not only to reward those who succeed, but also to promote their products in a new market with all their might. First of all, the organizers are interested in projects using Big Data, cloud services and applications at the box office, but they are willing to listen to more unexpected offers. “Correspondence” with finished projects are also accepted, although the prize fund for them is more modest.
iOS Dev Meetup
When: December 2
Where: Moscow, Leninsky Sloboda, 19, building 7
Participation conditions: free
This month, a friendly iOS developer company is discussing the creation of its own libraries, tools and techniques that can help save time and adapt the application for iPhone X and CI. technology in development. Well, he eats pizza, of course.
Yandex from the inside: through the eyes of an iOS developer
When: December 5
Where: Moscow, ul. Leo Tolstoy, 16, Yandex office, Extropolis conference room Participation
conditions: free of charge, selection of participants
Teams working on iOS versions of Yandex.Baruser and the corresponding mobile application will break the covers and allow the curious to look under the hood. In their speeches, group leaders will touch upon the technology stack, the specifics of teamwork (general code, code review), and any other questions that students will have.
Pizza Pitch: open presentations at HSE {Inc}
When: December 7
Where: Moscow, 33, ul. Kirpichnaya 2
Terms of participation: 200 rubles.
The next meeting will be held in the usual format: three minutes to present your pitch, ideas or problems and generous help from the audience. The audience, as always, will be motley: from those who just want to understand how young projects are raised and what difficulties this entails, to startups with real products and stories; from those who want to join any project to experts from the HSE. Applications for speeches are accepted until December 6th.
Heisenbug 2017 Moscow
When: December 8
Where: Moscow, Europe Square, 2, Slavyanskaya Radisson
Hotel Participation terms: 26 000 rub.
A conference for those whose workflow involves testing in one way or another. The program includes reports from Russian (Yandex, Tinkoff, Badoo, Avito, EPAM Systems, etc.) and foreign (The Selenium Project, Unity) participants, which will cover a wide range of topics: manual and automatic testing, benchmarking, tools and environment, testing in application development and game development, testing of distributed and modular systems and much more. Discussion area and trainings are included.
Cryptospace Conference
When: December 8th
Where: Novaya ul., 100, Skolkovo (free transfer)
Participation conditions: 5,500 - 11,000 thousand.
This conference is called global for a reason - it will bring together authoritative speakers from Europe, Asia, North America and, Of course, Russia. The range of topics discussed is quite classic: what to expect from the blockchain and why it is on the rise (through the mouths of experts from NEM, Ethereum and others), different points of view on ICOs, prospects for crypto trading and insights on the specifics of this market from major players, and, finally, cryptocurrency in Press (Forbes, Inc, Bitcoin Magazine). Reports will be held in four rooms; ticket price depends on the selected sections.
INGOS TECH 7.0
When: December 9-10
Where: Moscow, st. Butlerova, 17, 4th floor.
Participation conditions: free of charge; participants are selected.
Ingosstrakh also joins the hackathon parade. Those who will cope with the test task will have the opportunity to show themselves and their ability to come up with something suitable for self-testing, create a cool chat bot, develop a useful product for insurance company customers, build an innovative interaction concept for the insurance business or, for starters, build rating model. In the prize fund - 500 000 rubles.
#ITsubbotnik
When: December 9
Where: St. Petersburg, ul. 5 Lodeynopolska Congress Center “PetroCongress”
Participation conditions: free of charge, registration required
Conference for seniors in three areas: data specialists (IOTA architecture, ML design, data modeling), Java developers (MongoDB, Terraform, microservice projects), JavaScript and mobile development (scaling, Vue.js, face recognition, creating vector editor). Speakers are representatives of various teams from EPAM.
Lecture day on the gaming industry at VSBI
When: December 9
Where: Moscow, ul. Trifonovskaya, 57, p. 1
Terms of participation: free
Toy stories from specialists from well-known foreign companies (Richard “Levelord” Gray, Tony Watkins and representatives of the Russian sector) for everyone who is interested in the topic. The reports expect a bit of everything: game cycles, increased player engagement, community, gamification. In addition to the presentations, showcases of projects from the graduates of the Higher School of Law, several partner stands, consultations on legal issues and localization, as well as the opportunity to start employment negotiations are announced.
HolyJS 2017 Moscow
When: December 10-11
Where: Moscow, Europe Square, 2
Terms of participation: 26 000 rub.
The JUG.ru Group is organizing a serious event dedicated solely and exclusively to JavaScript. World-famous stars (Douglas Crockford, Lea Verou, Martin Splitt) and domestic experts are invited. The topics of reports are full technical hardcore (application architecture, optimizations, programming paradigms, synchronization, testing, graphics, engines, Node.js, Typescript, ClojureScript, Elm). For the most part, there will be a frontend on stage, but individual reports will also affect the backend and desktop themes.
Detailed documentation of the tester
When: December 10
Where: St. Petersburg, Krasnogvardeisky per., 23, letter E, office of SCAUT Group of Companies
Participation conditions: 1800 rubles.
Focus training for testers will dot all i in documentation problems. The speaker from EPAM will tell everyone about his own documenting system, in particular: what types of documents it assumes, what we generally mean by a document, what should be taken into account when writing it, what tools to use and what is the point of it all. Upon completion of this mini-course, students will not only be imbued with the important role of documentation, but will also learn how to work with it easier and more focused.
Description of the architecture of the software system using UML
When: December 13
Where: St. Petersburg, Krasnogvardeisky per., 23, letter E, Office of SCAUT Group of Companies
Terms of participation: 2000 rub.
The opportunity to learn and love UML for beginning architects, programmers, testing specialists, analysts ... The workshop will deal with functional and structural decomposition techniques, various types of diagrams (components, placement, sequence, states) and effective methods for describing structural and behavioral components.
IoT-Forum
When: December 14
Where: St. Petersburg, ul. 5 Lodeynopolskaya Congress Center “PetroCongress”
Participation conditions: 7000 rub.
Discussion of the Internet of things internationally. The program is divided into thematic blocks: the first is devoted to the development and integration of software, the second to everything related to hardware. An overview of interesting solutions and innovative products will be carried out as part of the business program, as well as in a specially organized exhibition area. The program is at the formation stage, so those who wish to become a speaker, partner or exhibitor still have such an opportunity.
kazanforum.doc
When: December 14-16
Where: Kazan, st. Universiade Village, 32, KFU IT Lyceum
Terms of participation: free
A mixed-format event - a semi-conference, a half-hackathon - for high school students trying on a career in IT. To participate, it is necessary to send an application with a personal or team project to the organizers and pass the selection. Directly at the forum, an open discussion of the participants' projects will be held, followed by refinement in the coworking mode. Then a smooth transition to the conference format will follow - a number of IT-specialists will make presentations and hold master classes. The forum will end with the award of the best projects and excursions to major IT-sites of the city.
AI Day Ingria
When: December 14
Where: St. Petersburg, 3 Medikov Ave., letter A, Ingria business incubator
Participation conditions: free
Competition of young projects using AI. 12 winners of the qualifying round will tell about their start-ups to the jury, investors and representatives of banks, retailers and simply enthusiasts in the field of artificial intelligence. Everyone whose products are related to machine learning, data mining, forecasting, speech recognition and computer vision, chatbots, trading robots or decision support systems is invited to participate. The best will receive a special prize, all the rest will receive community attention and feedback; In addition, lngria offers contestants assistance in preparing the pitch.
Krasnodar Backend: Meetup # 1
When: December 16
Where: Krasnodar, Krasnoarmeyskaya, 55/1, 11th floor
Participation conditions: free of charge, registration is required
Krasnodar backend mitap for all who are in the subject. On the agenda: authentication in .NET, DevOps, microservices in Java, load testing on NodeJS and an arbitrary program with tea and live communication.
Moneymakers
When: December 19
Where: Moscow, pl. Europe, 2, Radisson Slavyanskaya
Terms of participation: 4890 rub.
Earn cryptocurrency or CPA? Do you dream of earning on cryptocurrency and CPA? Then you are waiting for Moneymakers - a conference for those who make money with risky new methods. The reports will be divided into two corresponding streams and, according to the assurances of the organizer, are as substantive and useful as possible for adjusting their work scheme. Listeners will have the opportunity to better understand the gradation of offers, the pricing of traffic, the problems of affiliate programs and scaling - or the dangers of investing in ICOs, the nuances of trading and the potential of various instruments. From the performance hall, the participants will move to thematic networking zones, and then to the club, to the unthinking after party to consolidate new acquaintances.
Smart City & IoT Hackathon
When: December 1-3
Where: Tyumen, st. Melnikayte, 72, building 1
Terms of participation: free of charge, registration is required
Tyumen University poses a challenge for the community: to make the city “smarter”. The goal of the hackathon is to generate ideas in the areas of Smart City, IoT and Big Data for the subsequent implementation of the developed technologies in the urban environment. Suitable projects for upgrading the transport system, the housing sector, security, operating time for a smart home or office, as well as any other devices and systems that are capable of solving applied problems. The main prize - 250,000 rubles.
Open Hackathon Cyber Garden
When: December 1-3
Where: Taganrog, per. Nekrasovsky, 44
Terms of participation:free registration is required
Taganrog Marathon for experts in the field of open data. The award will be held in three categories: the best application, the best solution for the development of infrastructure and the best solution to a creative task; incentive prizes from partners are also provided. The three winners selected by the jury will go far, or more precisely, to the next stage of the Open Data of the Russian Federation contest.
Krd Startup Day
When: December 2
Where: Krasnodar, st. Krasnaya, 109, 2nd floor, Intourist conference hall
Participation conditions: free of charge, registration required
Paradise for local startups from IIDF: interested investors, an expert commission for individual sessions, short useful reports on how to bring the project to the market, and cases from those braids managed to successfully take off (B2B Family, HealBe, Lightbox). Between two series of performances, the organizers will hold a pitch presentation contest, for which it is not too late to apply.
CRYPTOHACK
When: December 2-3
Where: St. Petersburg, Medikov Avenue, 3, lit. A
Terms of participation: free, registration is required
Hackathon again, this time for those who have learned blockchain and fintech. Topics for projects announced are: international financial transactions, statistics and data accounting, working with crypto assets and algorithmization and quantum communications in the blockchain. Prizes range from 60,000 to 15,000 thousand rubles, but not as a single money - excellence teams will also be offered internships, partnerships and other opportunities for the project to grow and bring the market to the market.
Hacking Man
When: December 2-3
Where: Moscow, Kashirskoye Shosse, 3, building 2, building 9
Participation conditions: free, registration is required
Hackathon from manufacturers of smart temrinalov Evator will be held under the slogan “living for living”. The company asks for solutions that would really be useful to its customers, and in return it undertakes not only to reward those who succeed, but also to promote their products in a new market with all their might. First of all, the organizers are interested in projects using Big Data, cloud services and applications at the box office, but they are willing to listen to more unexpected offers. “Correspondence” with finished projects are also accepted, although the prize fund for them is more modest.
iOS Dev Meetup
When: December 2
Where: Moscow, Leninsky Sloboda, 19, building 7
Participation conditions: free
This month, a friendly iOS developer company is discussing the creation of its own libraries, tools and techniques that can help save time and adapt the application for iPhone X and CI. technology in development. Well, he eats pizza, of course.
Yandex from the inside: through the eyes of an iOS developer
When: December 5
Where: Moscow, ul. Leo Tolstoy, 16, Yandex office, Extropolis conference room Participation
conditions: free of charge, selection of participants
Teams working on iOS versions of Yandex.Baruser and the corresponding mobile application will break the covers and allow the curious to look under the hood. In their speeches, group leaders will touch upon the technology stack, the specifics of teamwork (general code, code review), and any other questions that students will have.
Pizza Pitch: open presentations at HSE {Inc}
When: December 7
Where: Moscow, 33, ul. Kirpichnaya 2
Terms of participation: 200 rubles.
The next meeting will be held in the usual format: three minutes to present your pitch, ideas or problems and generous help from the audience. The audience, as always, will be motley: from those who just want to understand how young projects are raised and what difficulties this entails, to startups with real products and stories; from those who want to join any project to experts from the HSE. Applications for speeches are accepted until December 6th.
Heisenbug 2017 Moscow
When: December 8
Where: Moscow, Europe Square, 2, Slavyanskaya Radisson
Hotel Participation terms: 26 000 rub.
A conference for those whose workflow involves testing in one way or another. The program includes reports from Russian (Yandex, Tinkoff, Badoo, Avito, EPAM Systems, etc.) and foreign (The Selenium Project, Unity) participants, which will cover a wide range of topics: manual and automatic testing, benchmarking, tools and environment, testing in application development and game development, testing of distributed and modular systems and much more. Discussion area and trainings are included.
Cryptospace Conference
When: December 8th
Where: Novaya ul., 100, Skolkovo (free transfer)
Participation conditions: 5,500 - 11,000 thousand.
This conference is called global for a reason - it will bring together authoritative speakers from Europe, Asia, North America and, Of course, Russia. The range of topics discussed is quite classic: what to expect from the blockchain and why it is on the rise (through the mouths of experts from NEM, Ethereum and others), different points of view on ICOs, prospects for crypto trading and insights on the specifics of this market from major players, and, finally, cryptocurrency in Press (Forbes, Inc, Bitcoin Magazine). Reports will be held in four rooms; ticket price depends on the selected sections.
INGOS TECH 7.0
When: December 9-10
Where: Moscow, st. Butlerova, 17, 4th floor.
Participation conditions: free of charge; participants are selected.
Ingosstrakh also joins the hackathon parade. Those who will cope with the test task will have the opportunity to show themselves and their ability to come up with something suitable for self-testing, create a cool chat bot, develop a useful product for insurance company customers, build an innovative interaction concept for the insurance business or, for starters, build rating model. In the prize fund - 500 000 rubles.
#ITsubbotnik
When: December 9
Where: St. Petersburg, ul. 5 Lodeynopolska Congress Center “PetroCongress”
Participation conditions: free of charge, registration required
Conference for seniors in three areas: data specialists (IOTA architecture, ML design, data modeling), Java developers (MongoDB, Terraform, microservice projects), JavaScript and mobile development (scaling, Vue.js, face recognition, creating vector editor). Speakers are representatives of various teams from EPAM.
Lecture day on the gaming industry at VSBI
When: December 9
Where: Moscow, ul. Trifonovskaya, 57, p. 1
Terms of participation: free
Toy stories from specialists from well-known foreign companies (Richard “Levelord” Gray, Tony Watkins and representatives of the Russian sector) for everyone who is interested in the topic. The reports expect a bit of everything: game cycles, increased player engagement, community, gamification. In addition to the presentations, showcases of projects from the graduates of the Higher School of Law, several partner stands, consultations on legal issues and localization, as well as the opportunity to start employment negotiations are announced.
HolyJS 2017 Moscow
When: December 10-11
Where: Moscow, Europe Square, 2
Terms of participation: 26 000 rub.
The JUG.ru Group is organizing a serious event dedicated solely and exclusively to JavaScript. World-famous stars (Douglas Crockford, Lea Verou, Martin Splitt) and domestic experts are invited. The topics of reports are full technical hardcore (application architecture, optimizations, programming paradigms, synchronization, testing, graphics, engines, Node.js, Typescript, ClojureScript, Elm). For the most part, there will be a frontend on stage, but individual reports will also affect the backend and desktop themes.
Detailed documentation of the tester
When: December 10
Where: St. Petersburg, Krasnogvardeisky per., 23, letter E, office of SCAUT Group of Companies
Participation conditions: 1800 rubles.
Focus training for testers will dot all i in documentation problems. The speaker from EPAM will tell everyone about his own documenting system, in particular: what types of documents it assumes, what we generally mean by a document, what should be taken into account when writing it, what tools to use and what is the point of it all. Upon completion of this mini-course, students will not only be imbued with the important role of documentation, but will also learn how to work with it easier and more focused.
Description of the architecture of the software system using UML
When: December 13
Where: St. Petersburg, Krasnogvardeisky per., 23, letter E, Office of SCAUT Group of Companies
Terms of participation: 2000 rub.
The opportunity to learn and love UML for beginning architects, programmers, testing specialists, analysts ... The workshop will deal with functional and structural decomposition techniques, various types of diagrams (components, placement, sequence, states) and effective methods for describing structural and behavioral components.
IoT-Forum
When: December 14
Where: St. Petersburg, ul. 5 Lodeynopolskaya Congress Center “PetroCongress”
Participation conditions: 7000 rub.
Discussion of the Internet of things internationally. The program is divided into thematic blocks: the first is devoted to the development and integration of software, the second to everything related to hardware. An overview of interesting solutions and innovative products will be carried out as part of the business program, as well as in a specially organized exhibition area. The program is at the formation stage, so those who wish to become a speaker, partner or exhibitor still have such an opportunity.
kazanforum.doc
When: December 14-16
Where: Kazan, st. Universiade Village, 32, KFU IT Lyceum
Terms of participation: free
A mixed-format event - a semi-conference, a half-hackathon - for high school students trying on a career in IT. To participate, it is necessary to send an application with a personal or team project to the organizers and pass the selection. Directly at the forum, an open discussion of the participants' projects will be held, followed by refinement in the coworking mode. Then a smooth transition to the conference format will follow - a number of IT-specialists will make presentations and hold master classes. The forum will end with the award of the best projects and excursions to major IT-sites of the city.
AI Day Ingria
When: December 14
Where: St. Petersburg, 3 Medikov Ave., letter A, Ingria business incubator
Participation conditions: free
Competition of young projects using AI. 12 winners of the qualifying round will tell about their start-ups to the jury, investors and representatives of banks, retailers and simply enthusiasts in the field of artificial intelligence. Everyone whose products are related to machine learning, data mining, forecasting, speech recognition and computer vision, chatbots, trading robots or decision support systems is invited to participate. The best will receive a special prize, all the rest will receive community attention and feedback; In addition, lngria offers contestants assistance in preparing the pitch.
Krasnodar Backend: Meetup # 1
When: December 16
Where: Krasnodar, Krasnoarmeyskaya, 55/1, 11th floor
Participation conditions: free of charge, registration is required
Krasnodar backend mitap for all who are in the subject. On the agenda: authentication in .NET, DevOps, microservices in Java, load testing on NodeJS and an arbitrary program with tea and live communication.
Moneymakers
When: December 19
Where: Moscow, pl. Europe, 2, Radisson Slavyanskaya
Terms of participation: 4890 rub.
Earn cryptocurrency or CPA? Do you dream of earning on cryptocurrency and CPA? Then you are waiting for Moneymakers - a conference for those who make money with risky new methods. The reports will be divided into two corresponding streams and, according to the assurances of the organizer, are as substantive and useful as possible for adjusting their work scheme. Listeners will have the opportunity to better understand the gradation of offers, the pricing of traffic, the problems of affiliate programs and scaling - or the dangers of investing in ICOs, the nuances of trading and the potential of various instruments. From the performance hall, the participants will move to thematic networking zones, and then to the club, to the unthinking after party to consolidate new acquaintances.