Core Image: Great When It Works

Featuring Sam Davies

The apps installed on that top-quality, hi-def camera you carry everywhere in your pocket let you apply amazing filters to your photos with ease. But it’s not difficult to recreate these filters yourself, or to build your own custom filters to amaze your social followers.

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Genetic Programming for RL on Minecraft

Featuring Matt Lee

This talk with focus on Tangled Program Graphs playing Minecraft. TPGs are a form of genetic programming that has had recent success in visual RL tasks such as ALE, Dota2 and VizDoom. TPGs offer an number of advantages over deep learning techniques:

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You know Selenium? So you think you know Appium?

Featuring Sai Krishna

Sai Krisha gives us a introduction to Appium : If you know Selenium, you already know Appium!

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One Build to Rule Them All - Software development made easy with snap

Featuring Igor Ljubuncic

In recent years, distribution-agnostic packaging formats have become more popular, finding audience side by side with the classic repositories. Users can often see immediate advantages to using their software plug-n-play style, but developers and system administrators may be more hesitant. The...

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Designing Sustainable Ops Cultures

Featuring Ryn Daniels

Every organization needs to consider how to make its operations culture sustainable. One aspect of making a workplace culture sustainable for the humans in it is burnout. This talk will look at ways to design an engineering culture in a way that can prevent burnout on operations teams. It will...

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Overview of the Livepatch rebootless kernel update technology

Featuring Igor Ljubuncic

Reboots are so yesterday. Or rather tomorrow. The Livepatch technology allows Ubuntu users to enjoy security updates without disrupting their work. This session goes into the ins and outs, ups and downs of the Livepatch service, the low-level implementation, and the usage.

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Designing trust and transparency using AI

Featuring Sean Greaves

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How To Avoid Abrupt Climate Change

Featuring Stephen Halso

In this talk I will be discussing Abrupt Climate Change and how to avoid the worst of it by enabling people to face up to, cope with and act on it now.

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The Last Frontier and Beyond

Featuring Valentin Kasas

Have you ever written some boilerplate code for handling your application’s communication with the outside world? You know, that JSON (de)serializer that once was nicely generated at compile-time but broke when you had to evolve your business model?

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Driverless AI – An AI that creates AI

Featuring Marios Michailidis

Many of the things that data scientists do can be automated. In fact automation is critical to achieve higher accuracy because while the machine is "running", the data scientists can focus on more critical aspects of the predictive modelling process to extract the most value from the...

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Telling Human Stories With Data

Featuring Alan Rutter

Robust data analysis underpins every business decision, public sector project and non-profit initiative. But data in its raw form often fails to convince crucial lay audiences – either due to its complexity or due to suspicion and mistrust. And you can’t help get guide the world in the right...

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Administrating SQL Server with PowerShell dbatools

Featuring Rob Sewell

Exploring PowerShell? Want to learn how to save time accomplishing every day tasks with PowerShell, and straight from the command line? With plenty of demos, Rob will show how to use the (community developed) module dba tools to take the complexity out of testing your restores. You will also...

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London #PowerBI user group with Will Thompson

Featuring Will Thompson

We're very excited to announce that Will Thompson from the Microsoft Power BI product group in Seattle will be joining us for our August meetup. An insight into the Power BI team's product planning process.

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Productivity with Micro Frontends and Cloud-native Backends

Featuring Adam Bien

In this keynote, Adam is going to build and deploy a cloud native MicroProfile / Quarkus “Micro Backend” and connect it with a Web Components / based, self contained Micro Frontend / PWA without any external dependencies.

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How to Thrive in a Male Dominated World

Featuring Sonya Barlow

Sonya Barlow, founder of Like Minded Females and TEDx speaker will be with us for a provocative session to challenge LondonTechLadies to take a new perspective and succeed in a male dominated world. She'll be sharing her own story of acting with confidence and saying yes to opportunities,...

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Domain Driven Design in Practice with Helin Ece Akgul

Featuring Helin Ece Akgul

In this meetup, Helin will reflect her experience in applying DDD principles to TransferWise.

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Abrupt Climate Change - How Soon And How Fast?

Featuring Peter Wadhams

This will be a webinar led by Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics and Head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group at the University of Cambridge, will be talking about whether we are facing an abrupt change in the climate system related to the loss of polar ice. He will be giving us some...

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What Makes us Passionate

Featuring Marco Alabruzzo

A non-technical talk about individual and team motivation. From debunking of the carrot-and-stick paradigm to the more modern approach of positive psychology.

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Reuse your government's code

Featuring Tijmen Brommet

Developers on GOV.UK have been coding in the open for the last 8 years. In this talk we'll talk you through 10 things that you could use, copy or learn from GOV.UK 's public GitHub repos.

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Spree Commerce: How to run an eCommerce platform?

Featuring Adam Paca

Spree Commerce is an open-source eCommerce framework build by developers for developers. For the past 5 years, I have been working alongside the core team of the Spree project. I will be talking about real-life challenges one faces when building eCommerce solutions and how Spree can help overcome...

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