Rootconf videos are out, details on our 6 upcoming conferences
The HasGeek Newsletter ✉️ — May 24th
TL;DR
- Rootconf talks are up on YouTube.
Rootconf Day 1 & 2
DevConf.in - DevOps in Payments Conference is on 8 July, Mumbai:
Call for Proposals
Tickets - The Fifth Elephant, on data science and machine learning, is on 27–28 July, Bangalore:
Call for Proposals
Tickets - Anthill Inside, on deep learning and artificial intelligence, is on 29 July, Bangalore:
Call for Proposals
Tickets - Fragments, on mobile development, is on 12–13 Sept, Bangalore:
Call for Proposals - ReactFoo, on React.js, is on 14 Sept, Bangalore:
Call for Proposals
Tickets - JSFoo, on JavaScript and the web, is on 15–16 Sept, Bangalore:
Call for Proposals
Tickets - Open house on information breaches on Friday, 7 PM onwards:
RSVP - Kilter picnic on 28 May, 8 AM onwards. More information here.
DevOps in Payments
8 July 2017, Mumbai
Building on the discussions and talks we had at 50p earlier this year, we are organizing a conference in Mumbai to talk specifically about devops in the payments industry.
More specifically, how to deal with service availability, security, interoperability, and compliance.
If you’d like to propose a talk (or view all the submissions), visit https://rootconf.talkfunnel.com/devops-for-payments-2017/
You can buy tickets at https://50p.in/devpay2017/#tickets
The Fifth Elephant
27–28 July 2017, Bangalore
The Fifth Elephant is an annual gathering of data scientists, analysts, researchers, and technologists working in the areas of data mining and analysis, data science, machine learning, and deep learning from different domains.
We reopened the CfP for The Fifth Elephant on Monday. Tutorial, talk and off-the-record (OTR) proposals should be submitted by 10 June.
We have put together four OTR sessions for The Fifth Elephant:
A. Data privacy: With companies acquiring large volumes of customer data, privacy is an important concern. In this OTR, we discuss domain-specific concerns — micro-lending, healthcare, payments — around data privacy in India.
B. What are the interesting problems to solve with data science? In 2016, we noticed developers wanting to switch careers to data science. In 2017, the moot question is data science for what? What solutions require data science application?
C. Failure stories: We invite participants to share gravest and silliest disaster stories with data and ML, and learn from each other.
D. Building data pipelines: What are the architectural and implementation challenges in this process? How and why do you make technology and architecture choices? Let’s talk!
More details about OTRs will be published on The Fifth Elephant website and blog by next week.
If there is a topic you want to discuss, propose an OTR session. Head to: https://fifthelephant.talkfunnel.com/2017
You can buy tickets at https://fifthelephant.in/2017/#tickets
Anthill Inside
29 July 2017, Bangalore
Anthill Inside is the new avatar of last year’s Deep Learning Conf. It is a spin off of The Fifth Elephant that focuses specifically on deep learning and artificial intelligence, attempting to bridge the gap and bring theoretical advances closer to functioning reality.
The CfP for Anthill Inside will open on Friday.
If you’d like to propose a talk (or view all the submissions), visit https://anthillinside.talkfunnel.com/2017/
You can buy tickets at https://anthillinside.in/2017/#tickets
Fragments
12–13 September 2017, Bangalore
Fragments is our new conference on the mobile ecosystem in India. We’ve been organising droidconIN since 2011, but have realised that we need to broaden the scope of the conference beyond Android to reflect how modern mobile development is done. Fragments aims to bring together professionals working across the spectrum of mobile applications. Whether Android, iOS, mobile websites, or progressive web apps.
We’ll have more updates in the coming weeks.
We are currently accepting talk submissions: https://fragments.talkfunnel.com/2017/
Buy tickets (on the JSFoo website): https://jsfoo.in/2017/#tickets
(currently only a combination ticket can be bought, we’ll open ticket for Fragments specifically next week)
ReactFoo
14 September 2017, Bangalore
ReactFoo is our new conference on the state of React in India. We’ll have more news on this in the coming weeks.
We are currently accepting talk submissions: https://reactfoo.talkfunnel.com/2017/
Buy tickets (on the JSFoo website): https://jsfoo.in/2017/#tickets
JSFoo
15–16 September 2017, Bangalore
JSFoo is our annual conference on JavaScript. This year, the focus is on building reliable web apps.
We are currently accepting talk submissions: https://jsfoo.talkfunnel.com/2017/
Buy tickets: https://jsfoo.in/2017/#tickets
Open house on information breaches
Friday, 26 May 2017, Bangalore
This Friday at the HasGeek open house, we’re discussing the state of information security in India, the legal and regulatory measures that companies must comply with, and consumers should be aware of. We have Sandesh Anand, InfoSec professional at Cigital and Udbhav Tiwari, policy officer at the Centre for Internet and Society(CIS) to set the tech and legal + regulatory context of information breaches in India and internationally. We will also have Alok Prasanna Kumar, former Supreme Court advocate and Senior Resident Fellow at the Vidhi Centre for Legal policy, moderate the discussion.
RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/299253997189888/
Kilter Picnic
Sunday, 28 May 2017, Bangalore
On Sunday morning 8 AM, we’re hosting a Kilter picnic at Cubbon Park. You can discuss habit formation, trade recipes, stretch, or get active with other Kilterers.
More information here: https://blog.kilter.in/kilter-picnic-2-98f50058b8fc
That’s it from our end. Have a great week!
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