Geek Week 2015: study, study and study again
Let's be brief: from November 16 to 22, GeekBrains holds the international online conference Geek Week 2015 . Our plan is simple: 7 days of intensive training in programming and communication with experts from leading IT corporations in Russia and the world. Absolutely free and without leaving your computer.
The idea of holding a conference was not accidental: in the course of working with students, we saw a real need to expand practical knowledge. As a result, we found the best speakers and chose an accessible format for everyone online. What we learned from the audience, for whom the conference will be useful, and a few teasers - under the cut.
Modern IT-projects have formed a request for qualitatively new specialists who combine thorough knowledge of their specialization and knowledge of related technical and managerial tools.
The aforementioned requirements force specialists to receive additional education, beginners to pump skills, and students to independently develop practical skills that are so lacking at the university. Unfortunately, among the flow of information, it is sometimes difficult to choose the most necessary and it takes more time to search for material than to master it. Our 7-day knowledge marathon will help you learn something new, decide on a development vector and touch on the professions of the new future: information security, web & mobile programming, 3D modeling, augmented reality, cloud computing, Big Data, robotics, online & multichannel retail.
Novice developers. If you are taking the first steps in programming or you have a good theoretical base, but little practice, intensive online training is provided for you to create sites and mobile applications from the best teachers of the geekbrains.ru portal. There will be a couple of interesting webinars about employment and the start of an IT career.
Middle-developers are guaranteed professional development in its purest form - you will hear a lot of useful information from experts from Yandex, Kaspersky, Google, etc. (more than 20 speakers). The reports are divided by topics and do not take very much time, you can watch or listen to the webinar, almost without distraction from work. Although we cannot guarantee that you will not get carried away and dive headlong into communication with experts.
To managers of commercial services of companies and startups. You don’t fully understand what the developers are doing and why their faces are straining when you ask to screw a small chip for the client? Just look at their world from the inside, and you will understand how the product is created. Immersion in development gives a unique experience, thanks to which PR and marketing become not just a description of functionality or beautiful words about efficiency, but informing customers about the real benefits of the product. Of course, the conference will discuss topics of promotion and positioning of IT-solutions - do not deny yourself the source of ideas and knowledge. By the way, you can also look at your work through the eyes of the developer.
The entire conference consists of many webinars on various topics lasting up to an hour. Lectures are held sequentially, so each participant, in the presence of time and desire, will be able to participate in all sessions. For the most interested, but very busy, a recording will be made. The topics of webinars include programming, language acquisition, design, commercial solutions and even employment. Such a scatter is connected, first of all, with the fact that in modern companies, development, design and commerce work in the same direction - the desire to meet the needs of the client and respond to his requests in a timely manner.
In addition, two free training courses will be held throughout the seven days of the conference.
In general, if we were asked to draw a tag cloud for our conference, it would look something like this:
This is only a small part of the experts who will be able to communicate at the sites of the Geek Week 2015 conference . A full list can be found on the conference page .
No, participation in all Geek Week 2015 events is free. All you need is free time, a computer with an Internet connection, headphones and three friends who will make you company, and at the same time pump yourself. Do not be greedy, share information with those who are interested in it.
PS: Do not forget to turn on the computer. It will be smart.
Register for the conference
The idea of holding a conference was not accidental: in the course of working with students, we saw a real need to expand practical knowledge. As a result, we found the best speakers and chose an accessible format for everyone online. What we learned from the audience, for whom the conference will be useful, and a few teasers - under the cut.
Modern IT-projects have formed a request for qualitatively new specialists who combine thorough knowledge of their specialization and knowledge of related technical and managerial tools.
- If a developer owns the basics of the industry for which he creates software, the profile of using the program becomes more obvious to him, which simplifies the development and testing process.
- If a developer creates an application (mobile, desktop, web), it is important for him to know how to promote this offer on the market and fit into the competitive environment. This is especially true for small startups, when several people are forced to perform the functions of an entire company.
- The manager in charge of the commercial part of the project should also have at least a general idea of the process of developing and creating the product, should understand how the work on the program and testing goes, how long it takes to prepare a release or introduce a new feature. Then he can easily convey the benefits to the consumer, of course, and the phrase “Well, add a SWOT analysis module, it’s just a couple of days,” will never sound inside the company.
- Finally, an understanding of the interconnectedness of all the business and work processes of the company significantly speeds up development, market entry and simplifies the work of the after-sales service.
The aforementioned requirements force specialists to receive additional education, beginners to pump skills, and students to independently develop practical skills that are so lacking at the university. Unfortunately, among the flow of information, it is sometimes difficult to choose the most necessary and it takes more time to search for material than to master it. Our 7-day knowledge marathon will help you learn something new, decide on a development vector and touch on the professions of the new future: information security, web & mobile programming, 3D modeling, augmented reality, cloud computing, Big Data, robotics, online & multichannel retail.
To whom and why will the Geek Week 2015 conference be useful?
Novice developers. If you are taking the first steps in programming or you have a good theoretical base, but little practice, intensive online training is provided for you to create sites and mobile applications from the best teachers of the geekbrains.ru portal. There will be a couple of interesting webinars about employment and the start of an IT career.
Middle-developers are guaranteed professional development in its purest form - you will hear a lot of useful information from experts from Yandex, Kaspersky, Google, etc. (more than 20 speakers). The reports are divided by topics and do not take very much time, you can watch or listen to the webinar, almost without distraction from work. Although we cannot guarantee that you will not get carried away and dive headlong into communication with experts.
To managers of commercial services of companies and startups. You don’t fully understand what the developers are doing and why their faces are straining when you ask to screw a small chip for the client? Just look at their world from the inside, and you will understand how the product is created. Immersion in development gives a unique experience, thanks to which PR and marketing become not just a description of functionality or beautiful words about efficiency, but informing customers about the real benefits of the product. Of course, the conference will discuss topics of promotion and positioning of IT-solutions - do not deny yourself the source of ideas and knowledge. By the way, you can also look at your work through the eyes of the developer.
How will all this work?
The entire conference consists of many webinars on various topics lasting up to an hour. Lectures are held sequentially, so each participant, in the presence of time and desire, will be able to participate in all sessions. For the most interested, but very busy, a recording will be made. The topics of webinars include programming, language acquisition, design, commercial solutions and even employment. Such a scatter is connected, first of all, with the fact that in modern companies, development, design and commerce work in the same direction - the desire to meet the needs of the client and respond to his requests in a timely manner.
In addition, two free training courses will be held throughout the seven days of the conference.
- “PHP. Fast start". Using the example of creating a blog in PHP, the teacher Yuri Zhayvoronok will reveal the general architecture of the website, talk about working with authorization, a database, and templates.
- “Android for beginners. Creation of the game "Eat green circles" . Universal mobilization is already here - there are over 5 billion active mobile devices in the world. Mobile applications have captured business, science, medicine, sports, entertainment and so on ... Teacher Igor Dolgov will talk about the basics of programming for Android and help you create a simple game yourself.
In general, if we were asked to draw a tag cloud for our conference, it would look something like this:
A little about experts through the mouths of experts themselves
The main principles of user-friendly interfaces.
Creating good user interfaces is an easy task. You
only need to learn a few basic principles with which you can
radically improve the quality of your products in the eyes of users. It is
these principles, I would like to share.
The fascinating world of programming.
Programming covers all areas of our lives - from obvious mobile applications and websites, to such interesting areas as generative art and parametric architecture. I’ll talk about how you can easily and excitingly learn programming by drawing more and more complex fractal images using a turtle, as well as other interesting areas of programming application - creating interactive installations using Kinect, about programming electronic microcontrollers and learning about Twitter moods in real time.
Master class for Team Leaders on project management.
I will share with you the principles of teamwork, distribution of roles and effective interaction. I will touch on the basic principles and methods of project management. You will hear about how to set goals and control the achievement of goals, as well as learn about the most common problems of project management and how to solve them.
The world of robots. The visionary look.
We live in an age of innovation and the latest technology. 3D printers and laser engravers will soon appear in every home, smart robots will replace self-service terminals, and robots - waiters will completely change the usual restaurant and hotel industries. Programming robots will become an overclaimed profession. We’ll talk about this today to be “on the crest of the wave” tomorrow.
How to create a mobile masterpiece on the example of Alpha Mobile 6.0.
In my lecture on the example of Alfa-Bank’s mobile application, I will tell you how to plan and implement product user experience improvements in a flexible production environment.
Interactive 3D graphics on WebGL.
WebGL opens up new horizons for 3D on the web. Interactive sites using this technology are becoming more and more. This is not the future, this is our present with you. I want to talk more about this interesting technology.
DevOps.
Water flows, everything changes - you cannot enter the same river twice. Similarly, in IT: system administrators turn into specialists on DevOps. When there will be no classic sysadmins - a short time question ... You need to talk about DevOps, but few people know what kind of steak it is, what degree of roasting is ideal for it and what sauce it goes best for - this is what I will tell you about.
This is only a small part of the experts who will be able to communicate at the sites of the Geek Week 2015 conference . A full list can be found on the conference page .
Surely there are hidden charges, right?
No, participation in all Geek Week 2015 events is free. All you need is free time, a computer with an Internet connection, headphones and three friends who will make you company, and at the same time pump yourself. Do not be greedy, share information with those who are interested in it.
PS: Do not forget to turn on the computer. It will be smart.
Register for the conference