We’re all trying to save the time we spend on repetitive tasks, but as xkcd illustrates, often it’s just not worth wasting your time seeking out new tools and ways to be more productive. We developers at Kiwi.com thought it would be…

We’ve been involved with a lot of interesting IT events for a long time now and we keep track of them in this Google calendar.

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A new community of MATLAB users and fans has been set up in Brno. The first meeting of the Brno MATLAB Meetup Group was held on November 3rd. The selected topic was Data Analytics with MATLAB and it resonated with people. More than 80 attendees…

Christmas LAN Party OpenTTD

Kiwi.com organized a Christmas LAN Party in the Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe. About 40 people attended and created a variety of travel companies.

Kiwi.com, Awscloud and the South Moravian Innovation Centre organised the Travel Hackathon 2016. It was a free-thinking, free-ranging weekend where more than 30 talented developers, designers and managers had just 24 hours to create and develop a travel app from scratch.

Kiwi.com organised our third intensive Python weekend course.

You can see pictures from the event here.

Code.kiwi.com organised the first Elasticsearch meetup in Brno on October 13. The event brought three speakers and more than 70 attendees to discuss this highly scalable open source search engine. Here’s a quick run through of what happened.

We organised a public data challenge competition to create a flight delays algorithm based on the large, real Kiwi.com historical dataset.

79 teams applied, and 17 teams were invited for the Award Ceremony.