HNLondon - #HNLondon, December 2015
Wednesday 2 December 2015, 19:30 - 20:30
Cowper Street, London, Reino Unido
Our last event of 2015 will be on Weds, 2nd Dec. We have two talks lined up so far, with two being announced next week. Also, I wanted to try a small experiment; since places for HNLondon get snapped up in a few hours, I would like to release 200 places now and another 200 when the full event details get announced. As an end of year treat, the brilliant Sanderson Jones will be joining us to compere the event Speakers:Jamie Knight (BBC) - What's in a voice? - very personal technologyIf a watch is personal technology then assistive speech software is _very_ personal technology. In this presentation Jamie explores what it means to have no voice. Exploring social and cultural attitudes to speech and how this effects development of speech technology. Will Critchlow (Distilled) - The future of search: 5 ways search is fundamentally changingSearch is undergoing dramatic changes taking it away from a focus on keywords and websites, towards conversational search and app indexes. Will is going to discuss the ways Distilled believes search is fundamentally changing including compound queries, implicit search signals, user signals as a ranking factor, the move from keywords to intents, and the drive towards data driven search. As always the event is accompanied by tons of free beer and pizza. Our beer has now been upgraded to 100% craft beer courtesy of our friends at Craft Rebellion. Videos of past talks are online at vimeo.com/hnlondon . If you are into the whole Twitter thing, the hashtag for the event is #HNLondon. There is a free event on Tues. 24th Nov. where speakers from Shazam, AOL, WorldRemit & Balderton Capital will be sharing advice on how they go about hiring for their respective companies. It's run by HN London co-organiser Stevie Buckley so you know it'll be a good one. Details here: http://talentstuff.com Some friends of ours are running a one day conference for junior devs, featuring speakers from Stripe, Heroku, Google, GitHub, Ustwo and more. They have kindly provided us with a 50% discount. Check out http://beyondconf.co/ for more info and tickets ( the discount code is HNLondon). They also have a small number of free 'mentor' tickets for senior devs who would be available to help attendees with technical and career related questions throughout the day. SuperAwesomeFuelled by tablets, smartphones the number of kids online have exploded in the last five years. All of these developments have created the need for a new kids internet infrastructure, which is what SuperAwesome specialise in. Our platforms provide the kid-safe technology which powers much of the digital kids ecosystem, enabling content creators, brands and protecting kids. We’re one of the fastest growing startups in Europe, with hundreds of clients including Disney, Warner Bros, Nintendo, LEGO etc. We’re always looking for good developers (Front-end / Back-end / FullStack) and DevOps. We’re mostly a JS shop (Node, Angular) and are having fun with Docker :) https://superawesome.workable.com/ Hired is an online marketplace where top tech companies will compete to hire you. Explore multiple opportunities side by side from the top companies in the UK by making a profile at any time. Learn more and sign up at https://hired.com BraintreeAt the forefront of the digital payments revolution, PayPal helps millions to send money without sharing financial information and with the flexibility to pay using their PayPal account balances, PayPal Credit, bank accounts, and credit cards. Working alongside PayPal is Braintree, acquired by PayPal in 2013. Braintree’s global platform powers payments for thousands of online and mobile commerce innovators. Merchants in more than 45 countries can accept payments in over 130 currencies. Braintree's v.zero SDK powers PayPal, including One Touch, Apple Pay, Bitcoin across any device. To learn more, visit Braintree at www.braintreepayments.com Osper provides a prepaid debit card for kids 8-18 that helps them learn about money management. And we not only help young people buy Lego and save for bicycles - we are building an awesome technology team that eliminates legacy code, keeps the bug rate tiny, and stays small and joyful. We are doing this by adopting and adapting techniques like pair programming, test-driven development, continuous deployment, and microservices. Read more about our plan to be awesome on our blog http://tech.osper.io. We want to meet and work with geeks of all stripes - from sysadmins to server-side devs, testers to mobile coders, data crunchers to security analysts. If that's interesting, get in touch with Nico at [masked]
Publicado por: Miquel Camps