HNLondon - #HNLondon, January 2018
Wednesday 10 January 2018, 19:15 - 20:15
1 Fore Street, London, Reino Unido
Please RSVP on our Eventbrite event page https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hnlondon-january-2018-tickets-41756845850 Hope you all had an amazing festive break. We are back for another amazing evening with awesome talks. We decided to run a dry event this month to see how the event would work without beer. We had feedback that having a boozy event might put some people off from attending and we wanted to address that. We will still have plenty of pizza though and folks are welcome to join us at the pub after the event. Our lineup for next week is as follows 18:15 - Soft drinks, pizza and networking18:45 - Sponsor introductions18:50 - Peter Kohler - Lift Off! How machine learning and drones can help fight the The Plastic TideThe Plastic Tide are developing and applying an approach to autonomously detect, identify, measure, monitor and map the levels of plastics washing up on our coastlines. The technique involves an assembly of volunteer piloted drone-mounted video sensors scanning beaches and machine learning algorithms trained by citizen scientists via the Zooniverse platform to the detect plastics and litter.19:10 - Raphaël Mazet and Jakub Wojciechowski, co-founders of Alice - Using blockchain to track charity impactAlice is a decentralised social funding and impact management platform built on Ethereum, It incentivises social organisations to run their projects transparently, so that funders can identify and scale those that are truly effective. Alice's CEO and CTO, Raphaël and Jakub, will share their experience (and the challenges) of getting Alice's first application, a hyper transparent donation platform that only pays charities if they achieve their goals, into production. They’ll also present the work they’re doing with large financial institutions and NGOs, and the future of the Alice network.19:30 - break19:40 - Kat Bowles - On ‘joining the (engineering) club’ as a womanHear findings from Kat’s recent academic research on how female software engineers identify with their careers and experience ‘fitting in’, in a male-dominated industry. Also hear some tips on improving diversity and inclusion, part research driven, part experience driven (from working in the industry for the past six years).20:00 - Julien Callede, co-founder of made.com who will talk his about experience of building and scaling the business. The hashtag for the event is #HNLondon and you can find videos of past talks at https://vimeo.com/hnlondon . We now have a Slack group to chat about all things tech, jobs, start-ups etc. Please email [masked] for an invite. We also have a fast-growing contractor mailing list. If you are a contract developer and want to receive jobs direct from hiring companies, sign up at http://eepurl.com/byq7Af or if you want hire some of London's finest developers, you can post jobs from https://www.hnlondon.com/#contracts . HNLondon is proudly supported by Constructor Labs runs a 12 week bootcamp teaching Fullstack Web Development with JavaScript. The next class starts on 22nd January with one place still available, so if you are interested be quick Nexmo is a global cloud communications platform, providing APIs and SDKs for SMS, voice, phone verification, messaging and advanced multi-channel conversations. We have officially supported open source libraries for Node.JS, Ruby, Python, PHP, Java and C# .NET enabling you to build scalable communications features such as two-factor authentication, notifications, two-way and group messaging, one to one or multi person calls, all with the technologies that you are already using. WeWork is the platform for creators. We provide the space, community and services you need to create your life’s work. To learn more send an email to [masked] or call[masked] 4926. We have sponsorship slots available. Please see https://www.hnlondon.com/#sponsor for details.
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