CSM interviews, Fundamentals of cryptoeconomics open house, Decentralized AI lecture+workshop and more
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Unicode Consortium announces beta version of 2018 emoji
The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization that coordinates the development of the Unicode standard. Unicode last night announced the beta version of next year’s emoji release.
Here’s what you should know
- we may now have the ability to flip the direction of emojis,
- the frowning poo emoji might not exist anymore
- teddy bear emoji is among the list of proposed emojis.
Read more about Emoji 11.0 here: http://blog.unicode.org/2017/12/unicode-emoji-110-beta.html
tl;dr
- Cloud Server Management Miniconf interview videos
- Open house on Friday on the fundamentals of cryptoeconomics
- Lecture and workshop on Decentralized AI by Gene Kogan
- ReactFoo Pune CfP
- 50p 2018 and ticket structures
- Call for Proposals
What’s happening at our end?
Cloud Server Management miniconf updates
At the Cloud Server Management miniconf, we interviewed some of our speakers and asked them some questions you wanted answers to. Curious about how to get into DevOps? Interested in listening to the journey of some of our speakers? Eager to know the benefits of speaking at community events?
Check out the interviews and talk videos here: https://hasgeek.tv/rootconf/cloud-server-management-chennai
Missed the Chennai edition? Want to meet more such people in the industry? We’re coming to Mumbai on Friday with the Cloud Server Management miniconf Mumbai edition.
Check out the schedule here: https://rootconf.talkfunnel.com/cloud-server-management-miniconf-mumbai-2017/schedule
Get your tickets now to attend: https://rootconf.in/2017-cloud-server-management-miniconf-mumbai/#tickets
We’ve moved the Delhi edition of the Cloud Server Management Miniconf to 20th January, 2018. Working on something exciting that you want to share with the community? Interested in taking a workshop in Delhi?
Propose a talk/workshop here: https://rootconf.talkfunnel.com/cloud-server-management-miniconf-new-delhi-2017/
Open House this Friday at HasGeek house on the fundamentals of Cryptoeconomics
Learn how to design and implement issuing protocols for tokens in an ICO. Pranay Prateek, the co-founder of TapDiscover will be presenting this theoretical talk dealing with questions of how a protocol should be designed, so the participants behave as they are expected by the protocol. The talk will help you think about protocol design and what issues to keep in mind when designing incentives for a cryptocurrency.
RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/158661721409758/
If you cannot attend, you can watch the livestream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjeZ5q0mvLw
Don’t forget to get your ticket here: https://boxoffice.hasgeek.com/hasgeek/hasgeek-open-house
It’s Artificial Intelligence (AI), all of next week:
HasGeek’s weather reports predict that Bangalore will witness a storm next week. The who’s who from the world of AI and Deep Learning are in Bangalore, and here’s your chance to meet them.
You know what machine learning and deep learning is, but have you heard of Federated Learning?
This technique goes further by enabling mobile phones to collaboratively crowd-train machine learning models while keeping all the training data on device. We are constantly providing data to tech companies in exchange for access to their services. What if we as customers could monetize this using smart contracts and Federated Learning on blockchain?
Gene Kogan is coming to Bangalore and will deliver a lecture which will give you a primer on this and more, followed by a hands-on workshop.
Lecture: 12 Dec 2017, 6 PM — 9 PM https://anthillinside.in/2017-dec-bangalore-lecture/
Workshop: 17 Dec 2017, 10 AM — 4:30 PM https://anthillinside.in/2017-decentralized-ai-applications/
Amazon AI Conclave
AWS is organizing a high-profile conclave on AI and DL for those who want to learn in-depth about Alexa and AWS’s investment and technologies in the AI and DL ecosystem. Dr. Anima Anandkumar, Rajeev Rastogi and Charles Elkan, among others, will speak at the AI Conclave.
Date: 15 December
Venue: ITC Gardenia, Bangalore.
Register here: http://hsgk.in/AI-Conclave
ReactFoo Pune CfP closing soon
We’re closing our call for proposals this week for ReactFoo Pune that’s happening in January 2018. If you have used React and have insights to share, submit quick! This edition is all about learning from experiences of adopting React, and success and failure stories. We also have hands-on workshops planned, so keep an eye out for those on our website.
Have a topic you want to hear about or want a workshop on? Tweet to us! We are at @ReactFoo.
Proposals: https://reactfoo.talkfunnel.com/2018-pune/
Tickets: https://reactfoo.in/2018-pune/
50p 2018
We’ve opened tickets for 50p, our payments conference on 8–9 February. There are several options you can choose from:
Corporate ticket
What’s included?
- Access to the conference sessions, workshops,
- High-tea for developers on 8 February,
- 50p conference t-shirt with your company’s URL or Twitter handle on the back of the t-shirt, and
- Listing for the company’s representatives on the website.
Who’s it for?
This ticket is only applicable if 5 or more participants from the same company are attending. If you are attending for learning + branding for your company + networking with other attendees.
Conference + workshop ticket
What’s included?
- Access to conference sessions + workshops on UPI, security and blockchain.
Who’s it for?
This ticket is appropriate if you are attending for learning + hands-on training on security, blockchain and building apps with UPI integration.
Conference sessions only ticket
What’s included?
- Access to the talk sessions at 50p
Who’s it for?
This ticket is appropriate if you attending for learning and exposure, but are not looking for workshops.
Product manager ticket
What’s included?
- Invite to a roundtable session for Product Managers in payments and outside to discuss on traction, customer engagement and understanding customer needs specific to India
- Access to all talk sessions at 50p
- Invite to a networking high tea with other PMs.
Who’s it for?
Available only if the attendee is a Product Manager with 2+ years of experience (in any vertical, not necessarily payments). This ticket is appropriate if the attendee(s) meets the PM criteria.
Ticket prices go up every Friday, so get them now at the early bird price!
Call for proposals
Rootconf 2018
Dates: 11–12 May
Topics: Advanced-level talks on architecture, security, application of ML to DevOps and monitoring and alerts.
CFP link: https://rootconf.talkfunnel.com/2018/
50p 2018
Dates: 8–9 Feb
Topics: Lessons from building payment products in India, banking, tech stack of payment companies, applications of blockchain and cryptocurrencies, security of payment services and interoperability of payments systems.
CFP link: https://50p.talkfunnel.com/2018/
Upcoming events
Introduction to Recommendation Systems on 16 Dec, Bangalore:
More details hereDecentralized AI applications workshop on 17 Dec, Bangalore:
More details here
That’s it from our end. Have a great week!
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