Just like last year, we headed off to London for the QCon software conference again in 2020. QCon targets software architects, team leaders and senior developers. In addition to the technology and talks, an undeniable attraction is the venue in the Westminster area, located just across the street from Westminster Abbey. The conference lasts three days and has one great …
Theme: Conference reviews
Microsoft Ignite The Tour Prague: An Azure World
This was the first year that Prague made the list of cities to host Microsoft Ignite The Tour. So, we couldn’t miss the opportunity to hear the latest news that Microsoft has for us. From the number and variety of attendees at the Prague Congress Centre, it was possible to conclude that the tour has a great international reputation. The overarching …
Passenger Terminal Expo 2019 in London
Passenger Terminal Expo is rightfully called the biggest and most important conference in the airport industry. Where else could you listen to the visions and opinions of significant innovators in the field, or pose direct questions to leading IT engineers of the world’s biggest airports? The three days long event has a 20+ year record of annual meet-ups. People from all …
Big-Data.AI Summit 2019 in Berlin
A conference review. Last week, Berlin became the focal point of all things Big Data & AI. The summit brought together a rather diverse bunch of 8000+ visitors: from students, AI enthusiasts, small start-ups, and journalists all the way to research scientists, big data companies and business stakeholders from various industries (banking, telco, automotive to name a few). The main themes of …
Review: DataWorks Summit 2019 in Barcelona
Last week, our Head of Data Science, Petr Paščenko, and Data Scientist Sergii Stamenov attended the DataWorks Summit #DWS19 held in Barcelona. Here are some of their brief impressions: As the event was hosted by Cloudera, the upcoming merge with Hortonworks was a hot topic. For a data scientist, it is positive to hear that the plan is to keep Hadoop available …
Profinit in Scotland
We attended the NG Financial Services Summit at Fairmont St. Andrews, May 14–16. The summit brought together senior financial services decision-makers from companies such as American Express, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Skandinavska Enskilda Banken, Generali and others with service providers and/or vendors. Our two envoys, Mirek Zoubek and Richard Boura, were kept busy on a marathon of one-to-one meetings, discussing the …