Workshops

June 10, 10:30 am – 11:30 am

The new way of building distributed systems using agile methodologies brings new challenges to how we are operating these systems. This workshop will tackle topics like DevOps, SRE, Error Budgets and we will discuss different models of leveraging Cloud Infrastructure.

June 10, 11:30 am – 12:30 am

A practical approach to the different legal mechanisms and tricks used by those investing in a startup. An insight into the risks and issues that should be addressed when concluding an investment contract and the legal tips that could make the difference between profit and loss.

June 10, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Journey Mapping, is a powerful took for visualization, participatory feedback, alignment and empowerment. This presentation will cover the fundamentals of how to create a journey map, and will also step through a project example to illustrate its use for: documenting a persona’s journey, aligning people on that journey, and communicating insights from research.

June 10, 2:40 pm – 3:40 pm

A practical guide to building digital products people love in the buyer-driven economy. The economy has shifted. It was seller-driven, when companies could be successful with limited customer research and brute-force marketing. Now it’s buyer-driven, where anyone can find products and services to fit their needs in just a few clicks. It’s time companies embraced customer research, and rapid-prototyping, and built meaningful value propositions based on real customer needs and wants.We’ll look at the 5 Phases of product design and lay out a playbook for success in the new age.

Key Takeaways

1/ Product design is not a linear process, rather it involves tight collaboration and fluid switching between diverse skill sets.

2/ Customer research is an art, and applying some simple methodologies can help create a clear vision of customer needs.

3/ Successful businesses make research and prototyping an integral part of their culture, using research and data to drive critical product and business decisions.

June 10, 3:50 pm – 4:50 pm

What does it take to run and maintain a fitness system used by tens of millions of people every day ? The Fitbit engineers will talk about the next system that we use to open up the Fitbit platform and scale it out to thousands of developers. We want to take our features to market faster, cheaper and safer while moving an entire services ecosystem to the cloud.

June 10, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Growing a business is hard, but not impossible. It takes vision, the right team and the right skills. We will immerse you in the knowledge of scaling fast internationally by presenting you the tools and insights to help you conquer the global markets. Stats, trends and case studies and well as hands-on experience of over 10 years of handling digital internationally, all will ensure a time well spent and an actionable check-list once you leave the workshop, ready to scale-up.

June 11, 10:30 am – 11:30 am

The workshop is divided into three parts. The first part is a short overview of NLP methods, so everyone who is not familiar with NLP can understand why NLP is commonly used in NLP. In the second part, we focus on use cases and how to NLP is used in the financial industry. This includes intent recognition, time series NLP analysis,  sentiment analysis, term relationship and text generation. Each part is followed by examples in Python showing used NLP/NLU and machine learning methods. Finally, we explain the current trends of NLP usage for finance companies.

June 11, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm

Whether you are a team of 1 or 15 you need help making quick, smart decisions to validate your idea or product efficiently. This talk will demystify how to conduct research without being a qualified researcher and how to use lean methods to get the most insight for your time. This talk will cover tools, techniques and case studies from the speaker’s experiences at Google.

June 11, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

In a world where data is the new fancy thing, learn how you can create Pipelines for processing data using serverless technologies from Google Cloud Platform. This workshop will help you understand how to use serverless technologies like Cloud Functions, Cloud Run and BigQuery in order to store and analyse data.

June 11, 2:40 pm – 3:40 pm

Due to recent hardware advancements, Augmented Reality has begun helping us see the world in a whole new way. From interactive learning to virtually remodeling your house or gaming, ARCore allows us to create immersive augmented reality applications with minimal development time. Google’s platform provides an easy way of building novel and collaborative AR experiences without learning complex frameworks such as OpenGL.

Starting off with an entirely new concept is sometimes tough. This workshop will help you set up your first AR project by going through the ARCore integration with the Android framework.

We will then see how simple rendering of virtual objects and interacting with them can be, and how the standard Android Animator API can be used to bring AR objects to life.

At last, we will go through some more advanced concepts you may stumble upon, such as detecting when objects collide or interacting with lights.

Bring your laptop and your own Android testing device!

Software requirements: Android Studio and a git client installed before the workshop starts.

For AR you need to either have a device from the list of supported devices , or you will need to have an emulator setup.

Alex is a Senior Android Engineer in Cognizant Softvision, Bucharest Studio. Although his main focus is on mobile application development, his interests also include game programming, networking and operating system internals. Alex is a continuous learner and he makes a good habit of keeping up to date with the latest trends in technology and engineering. Alex is also a big fan of Augmented Reality and has been a part of developing multiple such applications.

June 11, 3:50 pm – 4:50 pm

The most spectacular advancements in Deep Learning nowadays lie on the image processing domain. In the last few years we’ve seen demos of self driving cars, filters for transforming your photos to van Gogh styled paintings, Face ID locks, Google Goggle like apps that can annotate the world around you and many many other applications.
All these example use as building blocks the convolution, a small but really important unit for large Deep Learning systems. Convolutional neural networks have become a de-facto standard in every ML toolbox. Their usage is not limited to image processing but to language understanding and signals processing as well.
This talk aims to offer an in-depth view of what convolutional networks are, how they work, why they are useful and where they are used.