Tech Events this Week: DB2, SEO/SEM, Flight.js, RxJava, BigData, Social Entrepreneurship

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TiE Pune Social Entrepreneur Talk: Abhishek Sen of Biosense

  • Date: Fri, 25 Jul 6:30pm – 8:30pm
  • Location: Sumant Moolgaokar Auditorium, Ground Floor, Wing A, ICC Trade Center, SB Road

The story of how Dr. Abhishek Sen and his team are disrupting a market long dominated by the biggies. This session is being facilitated by none other than Ganapthy “Guns” of Villgro Innovations.

Abhishek is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Biosense Technologies.Biosense is a medical device company based out of Mumbai focused on delivering affordable, accurate and connected medical devices. Biosense’s portfolio consists of three products – ToucHb : a non-invasive anemia screening tool, uChek : a smartphone based mobile laboratory and Suchek : an affordable and accurate glucometer.Abhishek has a background in biomedical engineering from IIT Bombay and a MBBS in internal medicine from T.N.Hospital. He is a fellow at the University of Washinton and focuses on research and entrepreneurship on med tech targeted at the developing world. He is an Echoing Green Fellow, 2010.

About TiE Pune

Pune chapter of TiE – A non-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals, established to foster entrepreneurship and nurture entrepreneurs.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anyone to attend. Register here: https://tiepune25july.eventbrite.com/

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Pune DB2 Meetup: Inaugural Meet

  • Date: Sat, 26 Jul 10:00am – 1:00pm
  • Location: IBM, Panchsheel Tech Park One, Yerwada

The Pune DB2 Users Group is accepting presentations for our DB2 user group meeting in July 2014.

Please send your presentation title and abstract to punedb2ug@gmail.com for consideration

Please send abstracts that explore into details of implementation, migrating to a new release, or maximizing performance from any member of the DB2 product family. All presentations must be strongly technical in nature, cannot contain marketing content, and must support and strengthen the information services community by providing the highest quality education and services designed to promote the effective utilization of DB2 and it’s family of products.

Suggested Topics:

The Conference Planning Committee strives to achieve a balanced conference program of solutions relevant to today’s IT environment and usage of DB2 on one or more platforms (e.g., Windows, Linux, UNIX, z/OS).

  • Creative methods for:
    • Managing database resource
    • Using ancillary DB2 tools and utilities
      -System management experience with:
    • Performance or availability
    • Migration to a new release of DB2
  • Database administration experiences with:
    • Data warehousing and Business intelligence applications
    • New releases and features of DB2
    • Federation and Replication
  • Data Architecture experiences with:
    • New releases and features of DB2
    • Data warehousing and Business intelligence
  • Emerging Technology:
    • Big Data
    • Cloud Computing

As always we love DB2 Performance topics! this could range from DBA performance tuning from an system or application perspective (or) Application SQL performance tuning, coding techniques etc. (We encourage application developers to share your experience in this forum)

All presentation abstracts must be received by July 6th, 2014 to be considered.

Speaker Biography: In 500 characters or less, recap your professional and outside experiences as they pertain to your presentation(s).

About Pune DB2 Users Group

Pune DB2 User Group tries to bring all IBM DB2 Admins under one roof. It is a channel to host the technical discussions, or feedback or improvisations about DB2. Of course, networking is an optional asset of this group.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/Pune-DB2-User-Group/events/192567532/

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Pune SEO and Social Media Marketing Meetup: First meetup

  • Date: Sat, 26 Jul 10:00am – 12:30pm
  • Location: Cafe Coffee Day, FC Road

This is the first meeting planned by Pune SEO and Social Meedia Marketing Meetup Group. If you have interest in Digital Marketing, you are welcome to join us.

Agenda:

  • Welcome and introduce new members to the group.
  • Tell us about you and your business, website or interest in Digital Marketing
  • Any networking goal your trying to achieve out of this meeting?
  • Discussion – Overview of top SEO/ SMM techniques to drive targeted traffic
  • Networking

About Pune SEO and SEM Meetup Group

This meetup is for all digital marketing enthusiasts in and around Pune city, who wish to make new connections, learn and share knowledge – while having fun. Let’s share our knowledge about better ways to get targeted traffic from search engines and social media platforms such as YouTube, Linkedin, Twitter and Facebook

If you have an interest in Digital Marketing including SEO, Social Media Marketing, Digital Marketing, Content Marketing, Email Marketing, Affiliate Marketing and/or making money on Internet, feel free to join us for our next meetup! Veterans and Newbies – all are welcome !!

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/Pune-SEO-and-Social-Media-Meetup-Training/events/190963402/

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PuneJS Meetup: Taking off with Flight.js

  • Date: Sat, 26 Jul 11:00am – 2:00pm
  • Location: Mediaocean, Suite 304, Bldg A, GO-Square IT Park Wakad Rd, Wakad

Flight is (yet another) JavaScript web framework developed by the smart guys at Twitter and used on their own production code. It’s component-based and event-driven. It’s very lightweight and integrates seamlessly with your existing code — jQuery is a hard dependency, but you’re probably already using it in your project anyway.

This meetup is an extension of the organizer’s upcoming July 19 talk at the Deccan RubyConf – happening in Pune. In this talk he will write a ToDo app to get a feel of the framework and maybe exchange notes on how the other popular frameworks do similar things differently.

About PuneJS Meetup Group

This meetup was started to get the Javascript buzz going in Pune. Let’s meet up and join hacking!

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/PuneJS/events/191927602/

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TechNext Event: RxJava

  • Date: Sat, 26 Jul 4:00pm – 6:00pm
  • Location: Synerzip Softech Recreational Area, 3rd Floor, Revolution Mall, next to City Pride, Kothrud

Learn about RxJava – Reactive Extensions for the JVM – a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences for the Java VM that has been released by NetFlix.

Agenda:

  1. Introduction to Functional Reactive Programming
  2. Reactive Programming with RxJava
  3. Considerations & Use Cases
  4. Demo
  5. Q & A

About the Speaker:

Mohana Rao Pusarla is a solutions architect with more than 7+ years of experience in Java related technologies. He has developed multiple enterprise products from scratch and has scaled applications for larger user base. He has worked with Global Logic and GE Health Care and he is currently working with Synerzip. He enjoys playing badminton when he is not coding or learning some new technology.

About Tech Next

Tech Next is a group which meets twice in a month in Pune, once for expert speakers and once for unconference at Synerzip’s recreation area. This group discuss topics pertaining to IT world from Developer centric technologies, QA centric practices and technology and Agile practitioners experiences.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/TechNext/events/188011362/

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(Nominal Fees) IIT-Bombay Alumni Association Pune: Networking Event

  • Date: Sat, 26 Jul 6:00pm – 10:00pm
  • Location: GS Lab Terrace, 9th Floor, Amar Arma Genesis, Above Food Bazaar, Baner Road

Are you looking for a change of job, or do you want career guidance. Are you toying with a brilliant idea for a start-up and looking for an investor or mentor. Are you keen on photography, trekking, music etc & would like to find others who are likewise interested.

Then IITBAA Pune has just the right function planned for you. Network with other IITans. Do you know that there are about 1,500 members in the IITB alumni fraternity in Pune alone. We do not have figures for alumni from other IIT’s. Could be about 200 from each. Be it helping with your career, business or leisure, alumni can help each other much more than anyone else because of the common roots we share.

The function is planned for 26th July at 6.00pm at GS Lab terrace. We expect a lot of participation from younger alumni. The format will ensure that participants have good benefits from the event. The function is open for alumni from all IIT’s. Every alumnus can also bring one other person who is interested in networking but not an IIT alumnus. The damages are Rs 200 per head including a light dinner. Beer will be available for purchase at the venue. A referral discount of Rs 50 per person will be given to those alumni (post 2005) that manage to have other IIT alumni (also post 2005) register & attend. This discount will be paid at the time of the function.

A list of alumni who have registered and their interests shall be published 1 week before the event so please register early.

About the IIT-Bombay Alumni Association, Pune

The Pune Chapter of the IITBAA started in 2002, when IITBAA came into existence as a Section 25 Company. Today it comprises of 1500+ alumni who are residents of the Pune Metropolitan area. Thanks to some very active alumni, a thriving Pune with a booming economy, and proximity to Mumbai, the Pune Chapter started with a lot of activity and has remained very active.

The primary mission of the Chapter is to promote networking among alumni and also between alumni and the Institute. We organize several events throughout the year, the flagship event being Innovations Pune, which showcases novel ideas in practice. Over the years, Innovations has evolved into a powerful brand built on integrity and excellence.

Fees and Registration

This event costs Rs. 200 (includes dinner), and is open only for alumni of any IIT. Please register here: http://iitbaapune.in/2014/06/23/iitb-alumni-networking-event-on-26-july-2014/

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Big Data Meetup: Big Data Analytics; Splunk

  • Date: Sun, 27 Jul 10:30am – 1:30pm
  • Location: ThoughtWorks, Binarius, Deepak Nitrate Road, Shastrinagar, Yerwada

We will be having two Sessions

  • “Big Data Beyond Analytics” by Vivek Kant (10:30 am to 11:30 am)
  • “Splunk” by Jayant Mukherjee (11:30 am to 1:30 pm)

Big Data Beyond Analytics – Vivek Kant

Big Data” is currently on a hype curve, and all the focus is on that game changing analytical capability that it bring. However Big Data technologies have implications far beyond “Analytics” and will change the way how applications of the future will be build and integrated. This article describes those set of technologies, the concepts behind those technologies and how they will transform the way we build applications.

More About Vivek: Vivek Kant is the technical lead for Pitney Bowes’s Big Data program. For over 15 years Vivek has worked with world’s largest Banks, Financial Institutions and Telecommunication Companies in building massively scalable enterprise applications. For last two years Vivek is working for Pitney Bowes on Internet scale Applications like Digital Mailboxes, Big Data Analytics and Internet of Things.

Splunk as a BIG Data Platform for Business/Operational Intelligence – Jayant Mukherjee

More About the Topic

  • Splunk Introduction.
  • Splunk Architecture – Deployment, License, etc.
  • Uses of Splunk.
  • Live Demo of how we can use splunk for various operational & business intelligence.
  • Splunk Alternatives.

More About Jayant: Principal Engineer at Autodesk, working in cloud services team responsible for maintaining RESTful API services.

About Big Data Meetup Group

This meetup will help you gain knowledge about everything revolving around Big Data Technologies. We aim to become the “Homebrew Computer Club” of Pune, instigating big ideas in Big Data and providing platform for the individuals/startups/giants in and around Pune to showcase their knowledge.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/Big-Data-Meetup-Pune-Chapter/events/195626962/

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