Privacy on the blockchain and how it matters
Talk by Zooko, Rootconf 2018 talks, workshops and a few event updates this week on the HasGeek newsletter✉️
Privacy on the blockchain and how it matters
Zooko Wilcox is in Bangalore this week. He will address developers and the community tomorrow, from 5–7 PM, at Mother Tekla auditorium.
Details and tickets available here: https://50p.in/public-lecture-zooko/
Date: 28 March 2018
Time: 5PM — 7PM
Venue: Mother Tekla Auditorium, 143, General KS Thimayya Rd, Craig Park Layout, Ashok Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560025 https://goo.gl/maps/sZ66TjgBKHJ2
Here’s what Zooko will be talking about tomorrow:
- What are blockchains and why do they matter?
- Bitcoin — the original promise of privacy and current implementation
- Approaches to privacy on blockchains and the genesis of Zcash
- Z-Cash — future roadmap, community building, and supporting developers
- Building, integrating with Zcash
- Critical resources for developers
- Q&A
ReactFoo Mumbai: updates about the schedule
ICMYI, the Mumbai edition of ReactFoo is on 26 May at ISDI, Lower Parel, Mumbai.
Last week, we announced two talks for the event. This week, we have two more talks confirmed for the conference:
- Siddharth Ksheterapal will talk about front-end workflows at Auth0, and how developers and designers can collaborate to push releases faster.
- Subramanya Chakravarthy builds on his talk from ReactFoo Hyderabad about the latest features in React and how developers can leverage these.
Don’t miss submitting a talk for ReactFoo Mumbai.
Submit a talk On Sunday, 27 May, Kiran Abburi will teach a workshop on GraphQL and Apollo.
“Content is king!” echos at ^CMS
We teamed up with the folks from AmiWorks to host a conference centered around Content Management Systems in Pune. Read more about it.
What does it take to implement a policy for diversity in your company? Diversity meetup Walmart Labs on 7 April
Diversity includes persons beyond women. How do you intentionally hire persons of non-binary genders to implement diversity in your organization?
Hear Seema Singh, Chief Human Resources Officer at NestAway, talk about how NestAway arrived at this policy. Seema will also tell us what kind of preparation an organization needs to do to incorporate such a policy. All this, and more on 7 April, at the diversity meetup at Walmart Labs.
Date: Saturday, 7 April.
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:45 PM
Venue: Walmart Labs, Salarpuria Aura, BLOCK A, 1st Floor, Kadubeesanahalli, Bengaluru.
“Machine Learning with SageMaker” workshop is coming to your city!
HasGeek in association with Amazon Internet Services will be conducting a series of hands-on workshops on “Machine Learning with SageMaker” in different cities. Attendees will first learn how to use built-in algorithms to perform complex tasks like image classification or clustering. Then, trainers will teach them how they can bring their own Tensorflow or Apache MXNet script to train deep learning models.
Finally, attendees will deploy their models to SageMaker-managed infrastructure and use that to predict new samples. If your organization is even slightly considering moving to SageMaker or integrating SageMaker to your existing ML workflow, don’t miss out the opportunity to participate in this free workshop.
If you are interested in participating, see the schedule below and request your seat now.
April 4: Bangalore (https://fifthelephant.in/2018-sagemaker-workshop-bangalore/)
April 6: Delhi (https://fifthelephant.in/2018-sagemaker-workshop-delhi/)
April 13: Mumbai (https://fifthelephant.in/2018-sagemaker-workshop-mumbai/)
April 20: Pune (https://fifthelephant.in/2018-sagemaker-workshop-pune/)
April 27: Chennai (https://fifthelephant.in/2018-sagemaker-workshop-hyderabad/)
May 3: Hyderabad
If you are not able to find your city here in this list, signup in this form (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScRlbMIskhw1ID-k7r6WCjRr3ReNn4_rycl_9WrRtuRxYthcw/viewform) . Once we get enough sign ups from your city, we will try to schedule one in your city.
We has talks at Rootconf 2018
You have waited so many days. Here are the first set of confirmed talks at Rootconf:
- Threat hunting and why it is important for your infrastructure by Shamim Reza.
- Shamim will also do a detailed talk on IPv6 and why it is important for your organization.
- Continuing on the security thread, Alisha Gurung will run you through systems security with real-life examples.
- What ISPs do behind the scenes is invisible to most people. Derick Thomas will talk about network protocols and the security practices you can adopt to mitigate the risks of using telco services for your data centres.
- How can you throttle traffic and serve legitimate traffic, Aditya Patawari explains.
- Finally, all of us have been hearing about the wonders of Kubernetes. Swapnil Dubey explains when Kubernetes does not work and what alternatives exist to do better DataOps.
Watch this space for more updates on Rootconf. And don’t wait to buy tickets. We are selling out fast!
Workshop on GraphQL and Apollo: Bangalore : 7th April 2018
Worried about how to handle tricky network requests with React? Kiran Abburi will show you how, in his workshop on the concepts of GraphQL and Apollo. You will learn how to build an e-commerce app with React, GraphQL and Apollo.
Date: 7 April 2018
Venue: HasGeek House, Domlur, Bangalore.
Calendar of events
Diversity meetup at Walmart Labs
07 April 2018
Walmart Labs, Bangalore
https://rootconf.in/2018-diversity-meetup-walmart/
Rootconf 2018
11–12 May
NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bangalore
https://rootconf.in/2018/
Bootcamp: Learning representations of text for NLP
19–20 May 2018
Bangalore
https://anthillinside.in/2018-nlp-bootcamp/
ReactFoo Mumbai
26 May 2018
Mumbai
https://reactfoo.in/2018-mumbai/
Anthill Inside 2018
25 July
NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bangalore
https://anthillinside.in/2018/
The Fifth Elephant 2018
26–27 July
NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bangalore
https://fifthelephant.in/2018/
ReactFoo Delhi
18 August
Delhi
https://reactfoo.in/2018-delhi/
On our radar
News and events of interest from partners, friends, and beyond
DevHack 2018: Ideate | Code| Win PoC Opportunity with Axis Bank
We are very excited to partner with Axis Bank’s Thought Factory & Zone Startups for #DevHack 2018, a hackathon for developers, startups, student entrepreneurs and all the techies to ideate and build prototypes on some brilliant problem statements such as Voice authentication and Photograph Detection. Submit by 31st March.
Register
Meetup: Koffee with Kubernetes
Demos, talks and discussions for application developers running or planning to run Kubernetes in production. Come and learn, explore different use cases, show off your k8s pipeline, discuss the problems you’re facing or help the rest of the community!
Register
Selenium Conference India 2018
A conference that brings together Selenium developers & enthusiasts from around the world to share ideas, socialize, and work together on advancing the present and future of Selenium. The Call for proposals are closing soon.
Attend
