October IT Event Digest (Part One)

We continue to review events for IT professionals who organize communities from different cities of Russia. October begins with the return of blockchain and hackathons, strengthening the position of web development and gradually increasing activity of the regions.



Game Design Lecture Evening



When: October 2

Where: Moscow, st. Trifonovskaya, 57, p. 1

Terms of participation: free, registration required



Mitap, designed for maximum practical benefit for the listener. Here you can find out what tasks a game designer should solve, how to work with narrative and use game mechanics, how to edit and test on-the-fly, what is balance and what is analytics made of. Beginners in the gaming industry will be able to strengthen the base and understand where the work on the project begins, and existing game designers and developers can learn from other people's mistakes and adopt some solutions.



Blockchain Conference Moscow



When: October 3

Where: Moscow, Volgogradskri prospect, 42, building 3

Terms of participation: from 10 000 rubles.



Smile-Expo's initiative is a solid blockchain conference for developers, entrepreneurs and investors. This year, the range of key topics includes: legislative regulation, the introduction of blockchain technologies in business, IEO, gambling and betting; The program is divided into appropriate blocks. Among the participants are representatives of 24 countries and more than 700 companies, including world-famous cryptanalyst experts.



AI Stories



When: October 4

Where: Moscow, Bolshoi Savvinsky Lane, 8, p. 1

Terms of participation: 20 000 rub.



The conference is devoted to the practical application of AI-solutions in various fields. The speakers are technical leaders from large teams who are familiar with both the capabilities of artificial intelligence technologies and the difficulties of their implementation. For convenience, the program is divided into large thematic blocks: fresh trends, computer vision, IoT, text analysis, each of which highlights in detail the corresponding set of solutions and their practical value for various types of tasks, from diagnostics to searching for missing people. A separate track is allocated for negative experience - parsing errors and unsuccessful cases.



Linux Piter 2019



When: October 5th

Where: St. Petersburg, st. Starting, 6, hotel Crown Plaza St. Petersburg Airport

Terms of participation: 24 000 rub.



Linux in mixed format - there will be lecture reports and workshops. The organizers highlight the following main topics: data storage, servers, mobile development, performance and observability, virtualization and the cloud. A full list of issues addressed during the conference is presented on the official page.



3D Print Expo 2019



When: October 4-5

Where: Moscow, Sokolniki, 5th Ray Prosek, 5A, p. 4

Terms of participation: from 500 rubles.



Exhibition of the latest advances in 3D printing and scanning. The largest experts in three-dimensional technologies in Russia will present their developments. In addition to acquaintance with the exhibit devices, guests will have the opportunity to listen to the stories of their creation and observation regarding market trends in the lecture hall. Also on the site will host workshops on working with different types of devices (3D-pens, personal printers, CNC machines) from manufacturers. The brightness of the exhibition will add a cosplay contest with 3D costumes, shows and quest for the exhibition.



DevOps Battle 2.0



When: October 5th

Where: St. Petersburg, Levashovsky Prospect, 11/7, p. 4

Terms of participation: free, registration required



A small intellectual workout for engineers is a team solution to speed problems. Joining in groups of six people, the participants will usefully spend the evening discussing practical tasks in programming on various topics and with different levels of difficulty. The fastest will receive prizes (also intellectual), all the rest will receive pizza, new acquaintances and pleasant impressions.



Career forum "Find IT"



When: October 5th

Where: Moscow, VDNH, st. Prospect Mira, 119, Pavilion No. 57

Terms of participation: free, registration required



Another opportunity for employers and job seekers to look at each other and find the perfect option for themselves. Representatives of more than 50 companies from Russia and abroad will gather at the venue, many of them successful and well-known in the market. The organizers offer several communication formats designed for the parties to get to know each other better and make contact easier: at the booth sessions, company employees will talk about the projects and culture of their teams, at q & a sessions the applicants will be able to communicate with them on technical and career topics in free environment. In addition, zones will be organized where you can get feedback on your interviewing skills, play IT games and just relax.



Golang Conf 2019



When: October 7th

Where: the address is being specified

Terms of participation: 24 000 rub.



The conference is strictly about developing at Golang. Here we will discuss different things: how to switch to Go, what non-standard ways of using it exist, what tools and practices are better to choose, how to increase productivity and so on. The reports are divided into four tracks and cover topics such as the development of games and microservices, frontend implementation, competitiveness and balancing of services, machine learning, operating systems and much more. Questions with the most practical bias will be dealt with at meetings and workshops, and a series of blitz reports will also be held in the middle of the day.



Master class “Creating a serverless web application with Amazon technologies”



When: October 7th

Where: Moscow, 1st Volokolamsk passage, 10, p. 3

Terms of participation: 10 000 rub.



Workshop by Eric Johnson, an AWS serverless application expert with rich experience in development and consulting. Participants will create a one-page web application with a serverless backend that uses services that do not require server resource management, and in the process, figure out how to host static web resources, manage users and authentication, and create interfaces for accessing data. A list of technologies necessary for the work is provided on the event website.



Digital hearts



When: October 10th

Where: Bersenevskaya embankment, 6, p. 3, platform Digital October

Terms of participation: free, registration required



Active members of the community, world-famous hardware and software manufacturers (Oracle, GemaIto, Sovintegra) will perform on the site to share their expertise and raise money for charity. Students will be able to learn first-hand about IT-innovations, receive recommendations on integration and development from expert practitioners and discuss topics of interest with them during the time allotted for free communication.



Copterhack'19



When: October 11-13

Where: Moscow, Volgogradsky Prospekt, 42, Technopolis

Terms of participation: free, registration required



The annual COEX quadcopter programming hackathon this year will bring together not only domestic but also foreign drone enthusiasts and confirm its title as the largest hackathon of relevant subjects in the world. As always, the doors are open to anyone interested in aerodynamics, electrical engineering, and programming, from high school students to experienced programmers. For 30 hours the teams will have to assemble their own unmanned aircraft system - the components and the designer will be provided by the organizers. The prize fund is 200,000 rubles.



Droid party



When: October 11th

Where: Nizhny Novgorod, st. Pochainskaya, 17, lit. TO

Terms of participation: free, registration required



Yandex again invites everyone to its Nizhny Novgorod office to chat with people who had a hand in creating the Yandex.Auto on-board computer. Two developers will talk about the problems associated with the two sides of the project - system administration and Android development.



Intergalactic code: mitap for iOS and Android developers



When: October 12th

Where: Novosibirsk, st. Cavalry, 1

Terms of participation: free, registration required



Mobile development with a space bias. Novosibirsk developers are going to talk about everything that can come in handy when creating products and conquering space: standardization of components, application of ARKit, dynamic modules, new features of ConstraintLayout 2.0 and, of course, C ++. During breaks, guests will be able to tighten their physical fitness through table football, tennis, darts, billiards and beer.



GDG DevFest Voronezh



When: October 12th

Where: Voronezh, Revolution Avenue, 38

Terms of participation: 600 rubles.



The Voronezh conference will be of interest to developers, designers, machine learning specialists, product managers and technology lovers in general. This year, three tracks will be presented at the site: Development, Design and Challenges of the Present. Speakers from Russian, European and American teams will talk about their experience in overcoming a variety of work situations - from switching to Flutter and implementing multi-threading, to smoothing out conflicts and running a project with a great technical debt.



Strike 2019



When: October 12th

Where: Innopolis

Terms of participation: 4000 rubles.



IT-event of international scale: in two days, participants will be able to listen to 150 reports from Russian and foreign experts. Due to the vastness of the program, performances will be divided into nine streams and four groups (Development, Digital, Career and Education, Trends), each of which, in turn, is divided into thematic subsections. You can read all the reports and draw up a personal visit plan on the event website.



Web development meetup



When: October 12th

Where: Sochi, st. Kuban, 15

Terms of participation: free, registration required



In October, web developers from Sochi will meet for the first time to discuss pressing topics. At the moment, the organizers are collecting applications and topics from those who wish to speak, announcements of speeches will appear soon.



Frontend conf



When: October 13-14

Where: Bersenevskaya embankment, 6, p. 3, platform Digital October

Terms of participation: 36 000 rub.



A traditional conference on creating web applications in all its details - from design and development to automation and code quality monitoring. Among the speakers are large experts from Russia and the CIS countries (Microsoft, Amazon, Yandex, Skyeng). The speeches will cover both broad topics related to tools and technologies in general (CSS, RUST, Dart, React Native, Docker, serverless), as well as narrow issues and focus cases (how to build an npm package, how to create a fast loading feeling, how ray tracing and more).



BootCamp Moscow



When: October 14-15

Where: Bersenevskaya embankment, 6, p. 3, Deworkacy “Red October”

Terms of participation: 1600 rub.



An intensive pumping course for everyone involved in the Hyperledger blockchain projects - developers, testers, designers and other team members. Participants will be able to join one of two streams, depending on which format they consider more useful for themselves - the first will be given for expert reports (topics: cryptographic GOST, various aspects of working with Iroha and Fabric, cases), the second - for the exchange of experience in small groups (topics: endorser state synchronization, storing state hash in blocks, reducing block sizes, transaction conflict within a block). The teams will have the opportunity to communicate with each other in order to start cooperation and find new people for the necessary roles.