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Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. AI is helping us do that in exciting new ways, solving problems for our users, our customers, and the world. AI is making it easier for people to do things every day, whether it’s searching for photos of loved ones, breaking down language barriers in Google Translate, typing emails on the go, or getting things done with the Google Assistant. It also provides new ways of looking at existing problems, from rethinking healthcare to advancing scientific discovery.

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Wouldn’t it be awesome to see how interactive applications are created? How do IT experts are one step ahead of everyone else?

Digital Transformation in Banking has been one of the most important aspects BCR has focused on over the last years. With the help of our digital experts, we have created the most user friendly mobile banking app – George. George is a financial digital companion helping people to manage their money. We believe that combining design, technology and intelligence into a comprehensive eco-system of services will have a positive impact on people’s life.

Come meet George and see what it has to offer from an IT perspective.

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Wouldn’t it be awesome to see how interactive applications are created? How do IT experts are one step ahead of everyone else?

Digital Transformation in Banking has been one of the most important aspects BCR has focused on over the last years. With the help of our digital experts, we have created the most user friendly mobile banking app – George. George is a financial digital companion helping people to manage their money. We believe that combining design, technology and intelligence into a comprehensive eco-system of services will have a positive impact on people’s life.

Come meet George and see what it has to offer from an IT perspective.

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In fewer than 50 years we have seen massive changes in the classroom.
From chalkboards to videotapes, the introduction of computers to interactive whiteboards, and now the implementation of AR and AI.
But how much learning value can new technologies actually offer students beyond the “WOW factor”?

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Learn how factories are getting smarter and smarter… deep dive on what is an IoT platform.

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Learn how factories are getting smarter and smarter… deep dive on what is an IoT platform.

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My talk is about digital transformation. Digital transformation is a word that means many different things to many different people. At first glance it appears to be just a move from the analog to the digital world. But it is much more than that. It is an integral part of human evolution. A species has never been able to predict how it evolved. We could never predict our move from stone and sticks to microchips. Evolution only makes sense looking backwards. Therefore, as we step into the next big stage of human evolution, let us see what is potentially in store for us and how we can influence our evolution.

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Despite Augmented Reality being in the phase of Disilliousment according to Gartner, AR is becoming more and more popular among artists, developers, and business. This talk will introduce and explore the future ShapeDetection Browser API, including coding a live Snapchat-like Filter Service!

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Neural networks are one of the most dominant forms of AI algorithms being used today. They seem to be the right solution to a myriad of problems and are often considered to provide objective answers to a variety of complex questions, but why? A neural network can be tuned to cope with a wide range of situations, which is great, but is it always correct to do so? We will present a range of manipulations to a predefined neural network to show their effects on the results it can produce. Examples are the use of different training sets and variations in configuration, but also changing the neural network during runs, which could affect it in certain and uncertain ways. We will explain why this is not necessarily a fault of the network or even a bad thing in general, but that it does require some careful thinking when working with neural networks. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, but how about the opposite? All over the world, people working on neural networks are taking different approaches but are expecting the same results. Is that not insanity?

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The Java language and versioning has taken a new path. Every 6 months a new version is released, bringing new features and improvements to the language and the JVM. You might discuss that these changes started with the release of Java 8 in March 2014. After three years of Java 7 it brought a whole new (functional) paradigm to the Java programming language and marked grand point in the history of the Java language.
Since Java 8 is almost at the end of its lifecycle, and will be replaced by Java 11 as a Long Term Supported version, now is the time to learn which new and important features it brought us.

In this workshop we will go into the functional paradigm of Java 8, handle Lambdas, Optionals, the Streaming API and the major rehaul of the date-time API. Did you miss the transition to Java 8 or still don’t have the feeling you grasped its new features? Now is you last chance to learn them in an in-dept workshop!

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Neural networks are one of the most dominant forms of AI algorithms being used today. They seem to be the right solution to a myriad of problems and are often considered to provide objective answers to a variety of complex questions, but why? A neural network can be tuned to cope with a wide range of situations, which is great, but is it always correct to do so? We will present a range of manipulations to a predefined neural network to show their effects on the results it can produce. Examples are the use of different training sets and variations in configuration, but also changing the neural network during runs, which could affect it in certain and uncertain ways. We will explain why this is not necessarily a fault of the network or even a bad thing in general, but that it does require some careful thinking when working with neural networks. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, but how about the opposite? All over the world, people working on neural networks are taking different approaches but are expecting the same results. Is that not insanity?

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The Java language and versioning has taken a new path. Every 6 months a new version is released, bringing new features and improvements to the language and the JVM. You might discuss that these changes started with the release of Java 8 in March 2014. After three years of Java 7 it brought a whole new (functional) paradigm to the Java programming language and marked grand point in the history of the Java language.
Since Java 8 is almost at the end of its lifecycle, and will be replaced by Java 11 as a Long Term Supported version, now is the time to learn which new and important features it brought us.

In this workshop we will go into the functional paradigm of Java 8, handle Lambdas, Optionals, the Streaming API and the major rehaul of the date-time API. Did you miss the transition to Java 8 or still don’t have the feeling you grasped its new features? Now is you last chance to learn them in an in-dept workshop!

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In the past decade Artificial Intelligence has overcome decades old boundaries and new breakthroughs are made every day. A lot of industries, from fin-tech to pharma-tech, eCommerce and defense, have seen the benefits of Artificial Intelligence. A lot of products are using it and this makes our lives easier, safer and efficient.

In this talk you will learn what is AI, why it won’t take over the world anytime soon, what are its latest trends, what are its biggest problems, why it can’t be tested using traditional methods and how it can be used to improve the testing process.

The session will also include a short demo on how to build an AI model and how to integrate it with test automation.

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There are very few things today that are being produced at a more alarming rate than bad software. On the other hand, time is more expensive than ever! Ergo, automated testing is becoming more and more critical for the success of ANY business/start-up.
We’re going to take a WebdriverIO for a spin & develop a stable web automation framework… FROM SCRATCH. We’ll do so by leveraging WDIO’s flexibility, extensibility & robustness. !Note: There’s going to be a lot of live-coding, so BYOL (bring-your-own-laptop) if you want to join in on the fun!”

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Based on the international study of Hofstede, each nation has cultural-related particularities. Until we start working, the influence of different cultures is not very present in our lives. The most frequent current scenario is that either people work in an international company, have international colleagues or work with international stakeholders. When these different cultures come into contact, to understand their particularities is to enable performance.

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o To better understand how Testing fits into Agile, let’s look at what Agile is at it’s core. What are the reasons Agile was created in the first place, what it does different compared to other development methodologies and what its main benefits are. Testing plays a crucial role in the whole Agile development process. Having an effective software testing approach allows teams to move fast and with confidence.

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In a world where the technology advances with lightning speed it is important to chose the right path for a career in security. This might be quite overwhelming for newcomers and many struggle to find the right information resources to begin their journey. We’ll talk about a couple of ways one can recourse for a successful jump-start.

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Coding it’s fun and very rewarding. Computer software already changed the world and is influencing almost every aspect of our lives. That is why building secure software it’s a must and this talk highlights some of the basic practices for secure coding.

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It seems like keeping up to date with Java nowadays is an enormous task. Gone is the era of big, delayed Java releases that span years. We’re now getting a new major release every 6 months. What’s up with that? Join this session to get an overview of what’s happening in Java since Java 8. Sander will share his perspective on the future of Java and offer practical advice to get there.

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Blockchain technology is hot! But how does it actually work? To understand a new technology, it always helps to try to build something with it yourself. So that’s what we’re gonna do in this session: building a blockchain from scratch, using plain old java and a little Spring Boot, and getting it working in 40 minutes! During this introductory session, all concepts associated with blockchain technology are explained, such as: transactions, blocks, mining, proof-of-work, and reaching consensus about the state of the blockchain in the blockchain network.

After this session, you will have a better understanding of how blockchains actually work so you can start applying this knowledge to your own projects. There will also be a link to a workshop so you can try it out yourself!

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The main topic of my presentation is keeping things simple while coding and avoiding the danger that ‘circles’ around all developers – trying to write the code which does everything.

From the point of view of the activity, we’re going to briefly discuss the morale around anti-patterns and attempt a short live coding session.

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There are a lot of reactive frameworks in the field, some with functional languages for the JVM. But Java8 and beyond will give you both. But how you could combine this and use this without adding the next big framework to your project? We will have a Core Java journey to explore a lot of nice possibilities based on the core JDK.

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It is obvious now that we live times in which software requests change faster and faster. We find ourselves in the situation in which we have to deliver today what was not planned yesterday yet. So how can we still ensure quality software with this struggle on our shoulders? We have to change the way we think about development and realise that the change doesn’t come only from the way we work, but also from the architecture of the system and the tools we use. A bottom up approach that can drive us to the future.

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There are two main approaches to design readable, immersive and interesting characters. Linking to culture archetypes, breaking them and working smart on each stage of character development. What criteria help artists and designers to deliver factions, heroes, and interesting crowd. This talk gathers conclusions after creating main NPSs, enemies and players for series of Call of Juarez, Dead Island, also pre-production of Hellraid, and many other games I had chance to work on.

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Hard way to break personal preferences just to reach best quality goals. Thing about how communication, respect and open mind is crutial while building personal, team, and studio culture. Based on war stories, failures and successes- this talk is manual how to cooperate, fluently delivering content and not killing artist and managers while rough production.

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It’s so cool to create indie games, right? But you will have to fight with lots of demons in order to succeed

Find out what it takes to make a game from the idea to release.

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In this talk we’ll discuss how an experimental approach to product development will lead to the many small failures that are essential to achieving great outcomes. We’ll share stories from our experience in startups and enterprises, the mistakes we made along the way and how we came to the realisation we needed to approach building products differently.

We aim for you to leave knowing how to practically apply an experimental approach to your product development, how to create a culture of experimentation and to recognise the dangers of launching without learning first.

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In this talk we’ll discuss how an experimental approach to product development will lead to the many small failures that are essential to achieving great outcomes. We’ll share stories from our experience in startups and enterprises, the mistakes we made along the way and how we came to the realisation we needed to approach building products differently.

We aim for you to leave knowing how to practically apply an experimental approach to your product development, how to create a culture of experimentation and to recognise the dangers of launching without learning first.

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A lot of people asked me over the past year how I managed to break into DevRel, mainly how I got to be a Developer Advocate. So I sat down and talked with newly minted Developer Advocates I met during the last year, and a pattern emerged. I’m going to share the stories and the common points we all shared on our way to become Developer Advocates!

Turns out we were all successful at at least some of these things:
– writing technical content
– talking at events
– building developer communities

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There are way too many good choices to be made in the IT world. Lots of programming languages, frameworks, deployment strategies, hosting companies, cloud providers, etc. Analyzing every option means that sometimes you become incapable of making a decision because it might not be the right one. Or you might keep postponing a decision until the project has no real way of being on time.

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Have you ever had the feeling that your senior colleague gains his undeserved wage 3 times bigger than yours even if he won’t write code 3 times faster? If you want to understand why and how to accelerate the learning process in order to become a senior software developer I invite you to join my presentation to debate this hot subject.

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A company hires somebody as a junior developer. It is quite common, but not at all easy. The first goal for the junior to become someone who can help with the heavy lifting. It a hard job from the junior, and seniors of the team as well. Through the years we’ve learned a lot how to do this job while we helped more than 500 people to become software developers. In this presentation I show a few best practices how and what to learn as a junior and how to help them in this process as a senior by focusing on soft and hard skills as well.

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The more things change, the more they stay the same.
At Coolblue, Pat has grown from a Developer, to a Team Lead, through to a Development Manager. Let him take you on his fun-filled journey, highlighting all the mistakes he has made, so that you too don’t have to struggle as much as he did.

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Interested in finding out the newest ways to deliver the best user-experience in banking and the technical challenges behind it all? Well, you’ve come to the right presentation!

In the era of digitalization, the user-experience aspect is a top priority since it makes or breaks a software product – this is our philosophy when it comes to designing our applications.

The technical challenges that front end development imposes are met with interesting solutions created by our IT experts, who are going to share with you some of their secrets: the tools used (Jira, Maven, GitLab, Confluence, Jenkins, etc.), the test cases that our apps need to pass and some examples of our final builds.