Populate will be speaking at T3chFest
The T3chFest is a free technology event organized in the University Carlos III (Madrid, Spain) by their students during the 1st and the 2nd of March. Two days of talks, workshops, and hackathons where professionals and students meet each other.
Madrid development communities (Javascript, Python, Ruby, Devops, RLadies…) have been called to participate, resulting in a very diverse program with topics such as bots, blockchain, opensource, artificial intelligence, data visualization, Javascript or GraphQL.
From Populate, we submitted a talk with the title “Working for the common good” that was accepted. Come to see us on Thursday after lunch.
“Working for the common good”
We are a company founded a couple of years ago, and last year we managed to work only in civic tech related projects and be profitable to pay our salaries (we are 7 people right now).
With this talk we want to introduce the topics of civic tech and civic engagement and speak about transparency, data, data journalism, working with local administrations and ethics from our company point of view.
We also want to show the kind of projects we and others do to inspire the audience, to show new professional paths while you contribute to governments to be more transparent, to help citizens to be heard and improve the democracy, or to reveal an uncomfortable truth about tax havens.
And finally we want to highlight how ethics are becoming more and more important now that developers and engineers have the power to influence millions of people with the algorithms they program.
Why is important to be in the T3chFest?
We are really happy to be present in the sixth edition of the T3chFest. In 6 years they have managed to scale it from almost a local event to be one of the most important conferences in Spain, keeping it totally free thanks to their persistence looking for first level sponsors.
We want they consider civic tech as a real professional opportunity
For us it’s important to be here mainly because almost half of the assistants are students willing (and able) to learn and get inspired, and this is a great opportunity for them to connect with the real world they will face when they finish their grades. Apart from showing what’s civic engagement and the common well, we want they consider civic tech as a real professional opportunity.
If you haven’t considered assist to the T3chFest, you should. It’s a great and diverse event that we are sure will accomplish your expectations.
