Jan 31, 2018

3 min read

HasGeek on Instagram📷, videos from CSM Delhi & ReactFoo Pune📹, Deep Learning bootcamps💻, and updates from 50p 2018💲!

The HasGeek Newsletter💌

Never thought we’d say this but we’ve finally hopped on the Instagram bandwagon(or should we say Instawagon? Okay, yeah, that was a bad joke)! Follow us @has.geek for photos from previous events, geek stories with gifs, and a sneak-peek into what happens behind the scenes. If there’s anything you’d like to see on Instagram, write back to us or tweet @hasgeek.

Videos from CSM Delhi and ReactFoo Pune

ICYMI, we started 2018 with ReactFoo Pune on 19 January and the Cloud Server Management miniconf in Delhi on 20 January. Here are the talk videos from both the events:
CSM Delhi: https://hasgeek.tv/rootconf/cloud-sever-management-delhi
ReactFoo: https://hasgeek.tv/reactfoo/2018-pune

What’s happening this week

Roundtable discussion on AI and Finance

As a pre-event to 50p, CIS, in association with HasGeek and 50p, is conducting a round-table discussion on the role of AI in finance on 7th Feb. CIS is a research & advocacy think tank and tries to influence policy by submitting their research to various government departments & others.

Check out the details and register here: https://50p.in/AI-finance-roundtable/

Deep Learning Bootcamp

Want to get started with deep learning for image and text? Amit Kapoor and Bargava S are back with their deep learning bootcamp. Attend this bootcamp and learn theoretical and practical concepts of building a deep learning solution in the space of computer vision and natural language processing. Post the bootcamp, all the participants would be familiar with the following key concepts and would be able to apply them to a problem.

Date: 10th & 11th March 2018
City: Bengaluru
Instructors: Amit Kapoor and Bargava S
Duration: 2 days

Get your tickets here: https://fifthelephant.in/2018-mar-dl-bootcamp/

50p 2018 is happening next week!

The who’s who of Fintech, crypto and payments will be in Bangalore next week for 50p.

Check out the full list of talks and workshops here: https://50p.in/2018/

If you don’t want the Fear Of Missing Out on everything that’s happening, get your tickets now at the current best price. See you next week.

Tickets: https://50p.in/2018/#tickets

PS: Our 50p panelist Amol Kulkarni, from CUTS International, has written an article on incentivising digital payments. You can read the article here: https://www.medianama.com/2018/01/223-not-way-promote-digital-payments-ad/

On our radar

News and events of interest from partners, friends, and beyond

CodeUp Hyderabad

PayU is organizing its regular CodeUp event in Hyderabad this weekend, in partnership with HasGeek. CodeUp is a series of developer events by PayU with the motto of “Meet, Learn and Network”.

Nullcon Goa

Nullcon aims to bring & talk about innovative reach in the field of cyber security. Their objective is to bring all security experts and decision makers on the same platform, reduce the gap between government, corporations and the academia and increase the awareness of the need for information security to protect critical assets.
Check out more about the event here: https://nullcon.net

They’ve offered a discount for the HasGeek community, which you can use to buy tickets: NullconHasgeek18

Tickets available here: https://www.townscript.com/e/nullcon-international-security-conference-goa-2018-314131/booking

Blogpost from the Tor Mumbai Meetup

Antonela from torproject wrote a blog post about the Tor meetup that HasGeek had helped organize. In case you missed attending, you can read about it here: https://blog.torproject.org/secure-communication-gaining-momentum-india

GeekyAnts blog post about ReactFoo Pune

Our friends at GeekyAnts wrote a blog post about PWA and ReactFoo Pune 2018. You can read it here: https://medium.com/@geekyants/progressive-web-apps-the-next-step-in-web-app-development-372235bf9a99

That’s it from our end. Have a great week!

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