Mix at Six - Daniel Finkelstein

Featuring Daniel Finkelstein

Discussion with Daniel Finkelstein, renowned political commentator and adviser.

There's More to Performance than Meets the Eye

Featuring Léonie Watson

Introduction to Markov Chains in F#

Featuring Mariusz Wojcik

A Markov Chain is a stochastic model describing a sequence of possible events, in which the probability of each event depends only on the state attained in the previous event. There are many examples of Markov processes including Google's PageRank algorithm, thermodynamic models and automated...

Lessons learned building .NET client libraries for Google Cloud Platform

Featuring Jon Skeet

For the past three years or so, Jon has been part of a team building .NET libraries for Google Cloud Platform, allowing their customers to use the amazing APIs built by their colleagues in a simple fashion.

Overly sensitive: the journey towards quantum sensors

Featuring Dr. Ying Lia Li

In this meetup, Lia will describe how to create the largest quantum object in the universe and how it can be used for quantum sensing.

Bootstrapping a hardware product

Featuring Ross Atkin

Product designer Ross Atkin will talk about process of designing, kickstarting and setting up production in China for Smartibot, an app-connected, A.I. enabled cardboard robot kit, and delivering 1,600 of them to backers around the world

Internet of Streams: A Wireless Sensor Network in Rust

Featuring Florian Gilcher

Natural Language Processing with TensorFlow

Featuring Barbara Fusinska

Natural Language Processing offers a variety of techniques to get insight from and generate text data. Going beyond simple representations and taking advantage of Deep Learning and RNNs, the models can use document context to perform more accurately. With the help of libraries like TensorFlow,...

Putting the S into IOT with Andy Clark

Featuring Andy Clark

From Zero to DevOps Superhero: The Container Edition

Featuring Jessica Deen

Microservices can be hard; understanding container best practices can be hard as those practices are still being discovered. This session aids in minimizing the learning curve with container orchestration, specifically Kubernetes, by bringing DevOps best practices into the mix.

Everything you wanted to know about caching

Featuring Anthony Dang

Caching can be your best-friend or your worst best-friend. A poor cache implementation can mean the difference between experiencing blazing fast performance or unexplained random slowness, or both! It can even result in random stale (out of date) content which you can't explain. In this talk...

London Django Lightening Talk

Featuring Adam Johnson

Decomposing a Django Monolith: Two Different Approaches

Featuring Lim Hoang

We have all heard, or even lived, this story before -- we had a greenfield project with an exciting business opportunity, so we chose Django with all of its batteries included to move fast and go to market quickly. Fortunately, things went very well, the business was booming and the company...

Decision-Making for Grown-Ups

Featuring Elizabeth Keogh

First in a series looking at shaders (and the shader language GLSL) the underlying mechanism to control the GPU giving the programmer complete flexibility in rendering an image and allowing creation of many different effects, ranging from simple perspective projection through to image processing...

First-time speakers, enthusiasts and open source project maintainers take to the stage to tell us what they're working on! Get in touch if you want to join them - we're always looking out for new speakers.

Android Home-screen Widgets with Flutter

Featuring Simon Lightfoot

Learn what Android App-Widgets are and how you can create one for your Flutter App. Indepth talk on Android App-Widgets and the way they work in Android and how you can take advantage of them with Flutter.

Full Stack Testing of Flutter Apps

Featuring Shashikant Jagtap

Flutter has a richer set of testing features than any other cross-platform mobile app development framework. Flutter provides a solid testing framework which allows developers to write tests at unit, Widget and UI level. Widget testing is one cool feature that Flutter provides to run UI tests as...

An art hackathon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackathon) means coming together in a shared space, and being collectively inspired, to create algorithmic art at the meetup itself.

Data, Governance and Freedom

Featuring Nick Barth

Any enterprise seeking to create value from data has two conflicting and divergent objectives. On the one hand cohorts of users and developers need to access data from multiple sources, to create analytics, dashboards, reports and apps. On the other hand a responsible enterprise must secure,...