June Online Events Digest
Off-site conferences are still waiting in the wings, but otherwise the social forecast for the IT community at the beginning of the summer looks good: webinars for beginners, various meetings for lovers of machine learning, conferences on languages, development and testing, and a lot of information security.
Incredible reality. IB response
When: 2 June
The terms of participation: free, registration required
An open discussion on the topic of new threats and problems of information security in the current conditions of a global remote location – from the inaccessibility of KII objects to the theft of biometric data and vendor wars. The audience, together with experts from InfoWatch, InfoTeX and the Inforus Consortium, will discuss new risks that experts must consider when building protection, as well as talk about the future prospects of the industry.
When: 2 June
The terms of participation: free, registration required
The webinar is dedicated to the general topic of storing objects in Java and is designed for developers with some experience and a common understanding of object-oriented programming. During the lesson, the speaker will tell you how Java objects are stored in RAM during the execution of the application and how much space is allocated for them, how the storage types Stack, Heap, Static Context differ and what are the principles of Garbage Collector.
Online discussion “What is missing in modern DLP systems?”
When: June 3rd
The terms of participation: free, registration required
An online meeting with a representative of the SearchInform company will be held in the “on request” format – the program will consist of answers to listeners’ questions. An information security specialist will analyze each of the wishes for DLP systems and tell you what you should and should not expect in the future, and what you can use in some form now.
Iterative Development Workshop for Beginners
When: June 3rd
The terms of participation: free, registration required
A short introductory course from Wrike TechClub for beginners who have not yet encountered iteratively incremental development and want to get an idea of the process and tools. In particular, they will have the opportunity to find out what requirements MVP must satisfy, what needs to be prioritized, how the backlog is formed, and what software to use to organize the project.
Tutorial: New CatBoost Features
When: June 4th
The terms of participation: free, registration required
Tutorial on gradient boosting from its creators – developers from Yandex. It will cover both general issues related to technology and the model training pipeline, as well as recently introduced features. Among the issues addressed: training on very large amounts of data, built-in functionality for selecting parameters, available types of trees, analysis of results. The meeting will end with a competition, following which the participants will receive prizes.
When: June 8
The terms of participation: free, registration required
International Summit on Machine Learning and Computer Vision. For three evenings, the audience will be represented by powerful teams working with artificial intelligence (Facebook, Google, Intel, Samsung, Yandex) with cases from different technological areas. Each block will be completed by expert sessions and panel discussions.
When: June 8-10
The terms of participation: from 5900 rub.
The conference for technlides is especially valuable in that it seeks to avoid leaving for general management problems and focus on those engineering processes that make up the specifics of the profession. In particular, the air will discuss the topics of working with legacy code and legacy systems, preventing bugs, choosing and implementing engineering practices, creating platform teams. In addition to reports, participants will be offered other types of activity: consultations on refactoring architecture and infrastructure from experts, participation in the creation of the DDD radar, code retreat on the creation of MVP without accumulating technical debt.
When: June 8-10
The terms of participation: free / 1475 rub.
An international conference for experts on the Internet of things will gather this year its participants in the online space. The first two days program consists of six tracks on key topics (Data Networks and Protocols, Ecosystem in IoT, Technical Reports / Development Tools, Standards in IoT, Architecture and Cloud Solutions and IoT in Business); within each of them, up to five IoT experts from Russia and Europe will speak to the audience. The third day will be given to workshops dedicated to specific practical problems.
When: June 10th
The terms of participation: free, registration required
Digital Security is opening its internal information security mitaps to the general public. Four speakers will open the evening, sharing their insights with listeners on issues such as Intel’s root of trust vulnerabilities, online shopping protection mechanisms, source code fuzzing, and cloud server security issues. This will be followed by the entertaining part – CTF for those who want to practice solving tasks (reverse engineering, web security, forensics) and playing Kahoot.
When: June 15-18
The terms of participation: from 13 000 rub.
The largest and most hardcore testing conference intends to maintain its level in a remote format. The organizing committee reports that the program will not be subject to change: at the moment, about thirty reports and workshops are expected from experienced testers from different countries. The range of topics covered also remains impressive: automation, tools and environments, testing of mobile applications and distributed systems, load testing, benchmarking, static code analysis and, of course, cases for all of the above.
When: June 16-17
The terms of participation: free, registration required
A series of webinars on creating familiar games with their own hands will continue in June. The next title on the list is the good old naval battle, a console game in Java. For two training sessions, participants will work out a set of skills useful for a novice developer: crushing a project into tasks, working with arrays, using data types and Java classes, working with the console and data objects, thinking through the logic of the game and creating gameplay. As always, training certificates have been prepared for the most active.
When: June 15-18
The terms of participation: from 13 000 rub.
The annual conference for .NET developers will also be scheduled, albeit in an unusual format. Key topics for discussion this year will include performance optimization, platform internals, architecture and design patterns, nontrivial tasks, and best practices. Among the speakers are representatives of large Russian and foreign companies (Google, Microsoft, Jetbrains, EPAM, Groupon and others). The full program is presented on the event website.
When: June 22-25
The terms of participation: from 13 000 rub.
A large summer event is also awaiting mobile developers, where you can chat with colleagues and learn something new from major experts. This time, the audience will be presented reports on the work of iOS and Android platforms, programming on Swift, Kotlin and Java, practices for improving the quality of code (including architectural patterns, legacy and technical duty, refactoring), performance and security, infrastructure, as well as trends and new products in development.
When: June 22-26
The terms of participation: from 13 000 rub.
The next in the chain of traditional IT conferences from JUG.ru, as always, will gather JavaScript specialists and a frontend. This year they will focus on the latest changes in the ecosystem, new frameworks and patterns, freshly released tools, as well as all the eternal problems – from architecture to graphics, from download speed to CSS. You can familiarize yourself with the detailed agenda for each of the four days on the conference page.
When: June 29 – July 2
The terms of participation: from 13 000 rub.
In conclusion, the St. Petersburg initiative group organizes a large-scale conference on Java development. Topics such as performance, concurrency, testing, distributed systems, and high workloads from world-class experts, including James Gosling, Kay Horstmann, and Josh Long, will cover the speeches. In addition to standard lectures, the program will include Q&A sessions with the most authoritative representatives of the community.
