Workshops:March 10-11, 2016
Track: Disrupting Finance
Location:
- Westminster, 4th flr.
Day of week:
- Wednesday
The world of finance is on the brink of a technology fuelled explosion. Whether it’s blockchain pushing key data into public view, managing money with artificial intelligence or the insurance industry harnessing the Internet of Things, change is on the way and it’s powered by some of the hottest technology out there. Come to this track to hear how new entrants are planning to disrupt the industry and what the established firms are planning to do about it.
by Ken Kappler
Founder and CEO @Ethcore, building the universal trust machine
We reap massive benefits from working together. But since the early days of our societies, trust boundaries between individuals, businesses, institutions and governments prevent us from collaborating and dealing freely with each other. In order for such economic actors to engage in economic activity with each other, they must cross these trust boundaries – invisible boundaries stemming from the risk that interests of actors that do not otherwise know each other are not aligned which are...
by Stevie Graham
Founder @Tellerapi
What do you do when you want a fully transactional banking API but PSD 2 is years away and you doubt that banks will ever make a good faith effort to ship a usable API anyway? You attack the bank's own mobile app and reverse engineer its API, that's what.
by Jon Sedar
Data Scientist & Director @Applied_AI
by Michael Crawford
Data Analytics/Actuarial @Applied_AI
The insurance industry is well-known for taking a conservative approach to integrating new technologies. This is a sensible way of mitigating unknown operational risks, but ironic since the very heart of insurance is statistics and data analysis. Large scale data processing and machine learning is now surging into every aspect of modern business and the insurance industry has a place leading the charge.
In our talk we will describe 3 real-world projects that we have undertaken to...
by Benjamin Wootton
DevOps Do-er, Thinker, Leader
Commentators everywhere are predicting the death of incumbent financial institutions in the face of competition from new, lean, agile entrants to their markets. But the “old” institutions are waking up to the threat and realising that they too can move quickly when they see a threat to their businesses. One of the weapons many see as key in this fight is the use of DevOps to power agile change.
DevOps is about breaking down the siloed, process driven approach to software delivery in...
by Kriti Sharma
Director, Product Management for Mobile @Sage
This presentation includes solutions to some of the toughest big data challenges in financial services using scalable, open-source technology. The speaker will share case studies and examples in the areas of:
...by Richard Kasperowski
Author of The Core Protocols: A Guide to Greatness
Open Space
Tracks
Covering innovative topics
Monday, 7 March
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Back to Java
What to expect in Java 9 and Spring 5
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Stream Processing @ Scale
Big data, fast-moving data. Practical implementation lessons on Real-time Data
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DevOps & CI/CD
Lessons/stories on optimizing the deployment pipeline
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Head-to-Tail Functional Languages
Free-range Monads, Tackling immutability, tales from production, and more...
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Architecting for Failure
Your system will fail. Take control before it takes you with it
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21st Century Culture from Geeks on the Ground
New ways to organise technology companies and workplace culture
Tuesday, 8 March
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Architectures You've Always Wondered about
In-depth technical case studies from giants like: Microsoft, Netflix, Google, Twitter, and more...
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Close to the Metal
Get efficiency back into your code, concepts like: cache efficient algorithm and lock free data structures
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Containers (in production)
Real-world lessons on scalability and reliability in production container deployments
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Modern CS in the real world
Real-world Industry adoption of modern CS ideas
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Security, Incident Response & Fraud Detection
Master-level classes on building security into your system and responding to incidents when things go wrong.
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Optimizing You
Keeping life in balance is always a challenge. Learning lifehacks
Wednesday, 9 March
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Disrupting Finance
Technology advances in finance (blockchain, P2P, Machine Learning, API's)
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Modern Native Languages
Modern native languages: Safe efficiency with Go, Rust, Swift
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Full Stack Javascript
Level up Javascript with topics like Angular, React/ReactNative, Node, Mongo/Couch/Other, Falcor, GraphQL, etc
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Data Science & Machine Learning Methods
A developer's data science and machine learning toolkit
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Microservices for Mega-Architectures
Practical lessons on Microservices success.
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Modern Agile Development
Revisiting Agile today and tackling challenges we are seeing in the wild
