HNLondon - #HNLondon, May 2015
Thursday 21 May 2015, 19:30 - 20:30
Cowper Street, London, Reino Unido
Out next meetup will be on Thursday, 21st May and we will have talks from - Paul Joyce - founder of Geckoboard- Vincent Dignan on growth hacking- Steve Lydford of software craftsmanship- Gordon Guthrie on highly available databases 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. Want to hack for a greener future? Greenpeace's Arctic team is looking for mentors (and participants) for a two-day hackathon approaching this weekend 16th, 17th May, in Islington. We’re looking for a diverse group of talented, creative, intelligent and passionate people to create innovative ways to protect this amazing place using technology. Interested in mentoring? Contact Holly Dove. Interested in participating? Check out our page. HNLondon is generously supported by Entrepreneur First funds people who want to work on hard problems & build deep technology companies. Our intensive six-month programme is designed to give you the best possible support in the first 100 days of your startup’s life. We’re not an accelerator – we select purely on the basis of technical talent, so you can apply before you have a team or an idea. We've created 40 startups now worth hundreds of millions of dollars. They're funded by some of the most prestigious investors including Y Combinator, Index Ventures, and Octopus Ventures. If you think you meet the bar, apply before June 1st for our next programme starting mid-September 2015 at joinef.com/apply 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 Lyst is a leading fashion marketplace - we partner with the world’s top fashion brands and stores to provide people with a personalised way to discover and shop for fashion online. From launch in 2010, Lyst is growing quickly and already generates tens of millions of dollars in sales for the hundreds of brands, retailers and publishers it partners with around the world. Behind the scenes we're python & machine learning fanatics and you can read more about that at http://developers.lyst.com. We're actively looking for talented people across the business. Contact Steve directly if you are interested in finding out more: [masked] 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