July Porto Tech & Creative Events
July is here & hot weather ahead! 😎🔥
Ok, maybe we’re exaggerating a bit, but it’s not just the weather that’s going to be hot.
Even though we’re still just recovering from the last edition of OPO.js, which had a total of 🔥 120 attendees 🔥 (expect the Wrapping Up article soon), the weather is not the only hot thing we’ve got in store for you.
The photo album for OPO.js #9 is ready!
A huge thanks to our amazing speakers Victor Bjelkholm & Vasco Santos for giving us such high quality content. Expect their talks on our Youtube channel soon as well.
July is going all out with a pretty hot agenda as well, so check out all the events happening in Porto.
Upcoming Porto Events
❤ Here are the events happening in Porto this month. Topics include JavaScript, Design, and pretty much anything creative or tech related.
July 1–5, 9h00–18h00
· misc · Future of Computing
5 days of theory and hands-on classes on GPU-based, quantum, neuromorphic and biochemical computing.
July 2, 13h00–14h30
· dev · Tech Tech Talk #22
Tech Tech Talk is a Founders Founders’ event where a particular technology is presented, followed by a Q&A & networking session. At this edition, Vitor Rodrigues, software engineer at Google, will be speaking about “Product Engineering @ Scale”.
July 2, 18h00–20h00
· dev · ØxＯＰＯＳɆＣ [0x75] — The Meet
Discuss and tackle upsurging security issues by leveraging the expertise and know-how of members of the group.
July 2, 18h30–21h00
· dev · PBIPT #7 — Power BI Service, Flow, PowerApps and all together!
A mix of introductory talks, workshops, live demos and deep dive sessions from experts.
July 2, 19h00–21h00
· dev · Contract Testing with Pact
Lindomar Reitz, Senior Test Automation Engineer at Farfetch, will share his thoughts about the best practices of test automation in a fast changing technology world.
July 2, 19h30–20h30
· misc · Machine Learning as a Service: O Marketing Digital do Presente e Futuro
A session that will approach both machine learning techniques to predict the quality of an e-mail subject (E-goi integration), and how machine learning models can be consumed as services or integrate with other applications.
July 4–12, 9h00–12h30
· dev · VISUM SUMMER SCHOOL
This is a Summer School for Masters’ students or higher, researchers and professionals interested in computer vision and artificial intelligence.
July 4, 9h00–18h00
· dev · EIT Digital Open Innovation Event
10 of the Large Corporates from Telecommunications, Infrastructures, Payments, Health and Consumer Sectors will be presenting challenges or problems that they currently have in their business through Reverse Pitch. The goal of this event is to co-create via team brainstorming what are possible solutions for these issues.
July 4, 9h00–18h45
· dev · TECH@PORTUGAL
A full day of sharing the best of what Portugal has created in transforming knowledge into innovation, together with talks, demo spaces, among others activities.
July 5, 14h00–19h00
· misc · Open Day — Porto Design Factory
During this year’s Open Day students from the Post-Graduation ME310, Product Development Project, SQUAD and CBI A3 will present the projects developed during the whole school year in Porto Design Factory, developed closely together with Generali, Triwool, SONAE MC, NOKIA, SUSI & James, CIM Tâmega e Sousa, CERN, Aalto Industries and Wärtsilä.
July 6, 10h30–14h00
· misc · G2PT80–80º Geek Girls Portugal
Join the last Geek Girls event before their vacation period with talks about Agile and UX. This event is free but requires registration and places are limited.
July 6–7, 10h00–17h00
· dev · SheCodes Porto — 12h Coding Workshop for Women
Women currently hold 25% of coding jobs and earn 30% less money than men. SheCodes is here to help bridge the gender gap in the tech programming industry by providing a solid introduction to product development, product design and product management.
July 8, 18h30–21h00
· dev · DSPT#60
Data Science Portugal (DSPT) is an informal community of data science enthusiasts created with the purpose of sharing knowledge and experience in the fields of data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data and all related fields.
July 8–11, 9h00–17h00
· dev · TCeurope Summer School 2019
A 4-day intensive training, where the main focus will cover a general approach and the fundamentals of Technical Communication.
July 10, 19h00–21h00
· misc · Porto Digital Nomads and Expats Meetup
This time we decided to bring together all the Expats and Digital Nomads in the city for some talks on being a digital nomad, expat or a local in the city of Porto!
July 11, 19h00–21h00
· dev · Porto Codes
Porto Codes is a meetup for local and international programming enthusiasts. The talks are recorded and published with the presenters’ consent as one of our goals is to provide programming resources to the community.
July 11, 18h30–20h30
· misc · Sunset FI
An easy going get-together to talk about innovation in Portugal, share ideas, experiences and network between business people.
July 17, 18h30–20h30
· misc · 10x Product Innovation: Motivation & Case Studies w/ Feedzai
Discussion about product innovation, motivation and some case studies related to the topic. After the speaker’s presentation there will be a Q&A session where everyone is invited to share experiences and ask questions.
July 21, 15h00–20h00
· design · Design Thinking Introduction
Design Thinking is a full-featured methodology and tools that aim to empower group work and stimulate creative thinking.
July 22, 19h00–21h00
· dev · coding portugal chapter #2: Porto
coding portugal is a developer focused meetup series that wants to connect, educate and entertain coders of all trades and skill levels.
July 22, 19h00–21h00
· misc · Porto Freelancers Meetup — Optimizing Visual Content on the Web
On this edition, we’ll have Doug Sillars introducing us to “Optimizing Visual Content for the Web”. The main goal is to examine strategies to send the perfect image to every device, ensuring a fast, beautiful rendering of your content — with real-world examples that will improve the usability of your site or app.
July 23, 18h30–20h30
· misc · A byte of: Streaming
Byte sized meetups, to open your appetite. In this byte, we’ll talk about web, more specifically Video Streaming.
July 24, 18h45–20h45
· dev · Fullstack Porto 6th edition — Tiago Caxias and Doug Sillars
Get together to talk about technology in general, architecture, scalability, agile, programming languages and best practices and have fun while drinking beer.
July 25, 19h00–21h00
· dev · Porto Codes: Extra Edition
Porto Codes is a meetup for local and international programming enthusiasts, this time welcoming Doug Sillars who will talk about “Virtual ARt Gallery: building with Augmented Reality”.
July 31, 18h30–21h00
· dev · Slack Kickoff Meeting
Apps are a fundamental part of bringing workflows into Slack, improving the way teams work together. But the Slack Platform isn’t just a set of APIs to connect workflows and teams — it’s a global community with the resources, support, and tools you need to be successful. This is a great event to meet other Slack enthusiasts, developers and entrepreneurs in the local and global Slack community while enjoying some free food and drinks.
Monthly must read
❤ We hand picked more articles and tools just for you!
MICHAEL WILLIAMS
5 key lessons from “Psychology in Design” to help you advance UX · design
“Great UX designers are often great readers of human mind. They understand how users perceive a design and classify it into good or bad.”
MILOS PROTIC
8 Useful JavaScript Tricks · js
Learn some new tricks and ways to solve old problems.
MARVEL LABS
Getting Started with Design Systems · design
Marvel Labs gathered the information you need to start your design system, piece by piece, and how you can go about implementing it in your organisation.
JAVASCRIPT TEACHER
The Complete Guide to ES10 Features · js
Be ahead of the curve when browsers start to support ES10 with this non-alien guide for anyone interested.
BONNIE KATE WOLF
A complete guide to iconography · design
There aren’t many people who love to design icons, and even fewer who are great at it. Bonnie wrote this guide to help you become one of those people.
AUSTIN TINDLE
You’re Going Through Software Engineer Puberty · dev
Not a Junior anymore but still not at senior-level? You might have hit Software Engineering puberty!
MARIA GRILO
We need to calm our technology down · design
“If you’re a product owner that is trying to have a long run in the market, then you should think about how people will feel about your product. Sooner or later your users will be aware of its nature and if that comes attached to negative emotions, then things won’t look too good for you.”
SEATTLEDATAGUY
Chernobyl: The True Cost Of Technical Debt · misc
A comparison of technical debt in the Chernobyl disaster and software development.
ETHAN MARCOTTE
Drop caps & design systems · design
“Let’s get this out of the way up front: this is the most you’re probably ever going to read about drop caps.”
MIKOŁAJ DOBRUCKI
Unleash The Power Of Path Animations With SVGator · design
Creating complex SVG animations can be a challenging and tedious task — but not anymore.
ISKANDER SAMATOV
Node.js: Module wiring and dependencies explained · js
“The system you setup for wiring your components together can make or break the project. While there’s no need for over-engineering from the get go, it certainly pays off to know how to properly wire your modules.”
RALUCA BUDIU
Marking Required Fields in Forms · design
A common question in many of our UX Conference classes is: should you mark the required fields in a form? If most fields in the form are required, should we still mark them?
That’s all for July but we update our calendar every week so stay tuned!
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Cheers,
The OPO.network team
