Archive for the ‘Events’ category.
Turing100 Lecture: Life and work of Rivest, Shamir, Adelman (RSA) – 11 May
As part of the Turing100 Lecture Series this time, there is a talk on the life and work of 2002 Turing Award recipients Ronald Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adelman, the inventors of the RSA algorithm, and public key cryptography. Dr. Pandurang Kamat, Principal Architect at Persistent Systems will talk about his work. After this, [...]
Event Report: What markets to do a startup in India – by @dkhare (Lightspeed Ventures)
(This is essentially a live-blog of Dev Khare’s talk on the Fund Raising Environment in India at the Pune Open Coffee Club. This is essentially a list of bullet points and notes jotted down during the talk, so please excuse the lack of organization and coherence (the fault is mine, not Dev’s). The article is [...]
Global Windows Azure Bootcamp – 27th April
On April 27th, 2013, you’ll have the ability to join a free Windows Azure Bootcamp at Persistent on SB Road. This is a one day deep dive class that will get you up to speed on developing for Windows Azure. The class includes trainers with deep real world experience with Windows Azure: Agenda Session 01: [...]
Building world-class technology companies – Helion VC – 24 April
Helion VC, TiE Pune, POCC, and YourStory.in have organized a panel discussion on “Building world-class technology companies” on 24th April, from 5pm-8pm at Le Meridien Pune. A panel discussion on Scaling Technology Companies will have these panelists: Sanjeev Aggarwal, Co-Founder Helion and Daksh Nitin Kulkarni, COO, Persistent Sanjay Katkar, Co-founder & CTO, Quick Heal Rajeev [...]
Fund-raising Environment in India: by Dev Khare, Lightspeed Ventures – 24 April
The Pune Open Coffee Club has organized a talk by Dev Khare of Lightspeed Venture Partners on Wednesday, 24th April where he will talk about the areas of interest for venture investors and the current fund-raising environment in India at the seed, early-stage and growth stages. He will also discuss key challenges that he sees [...]
Ruby Conf is coming to Pune – Call for Speakers is now Open
Ruby Conf, a big, 2-day technical conference of everybody interested in the Ruby programming language is coming to Pune on 22/23 June, 2013. The call for speakers is now open. If you have done any work in Ruby, or there is simply some technique, or library that you have used and find interesting, this is [...]
Turing100 Lecture: Life and work of Judea Pearl – 9 Mar
As part of the Turing100 Lecture Series this time, there is a talk on the life and work of 2011 Turing Award recipient Judea Pearl, followed by a “Turing 100″ quiz that teams of professionals and students can participate in. Judea Pearl was given the Turing award for the development of a calculus for probabilistic [...]
Turing100 Lecture: Life and work of John Backus (Fortran|BNF) – 2 Feb
The Turing100 Lecture Series come back with the 6th session. This time, there are two Technical talks, centered around the life and works of 1977 Turing Award recipient, Dr. John Backup. In addition to several other contributions, Dr Backus is well-known for his pioneering work on Fortran as well as the inventor of the Backus-Naur [...]
Call for Speakers: GNUnify 2013 – 3-day open-source technologies conference
The call for speakers for GNUnify 2013, one of India’s biggest open source conferences, which runs for 3 days in February (15, 16, 17 Feb) in SICSR, Pune, is now open. If you have done any work with any open source technology, whether it is in the area of System Admin, Networking, Security, Web Technologies, [...]
Event Report: VLSI Design Conference Pune 2013
(This is an event report of the VLSI Design Conference that was held in Pune in Jan 2013, by Shakthi Kannan. It originally appeared on his blog, and is reproduced here with permission for the benefit of PuneTech readers.) The 26th International Conference on VLSI Design 2013 and the 12th International Conference on Embedded Systems [...]