Category Archives: Events

Overview of Google App Engine – Pune GTUG Meet – May 16

Events, , , , , ,

Pune Google Technologies User Group GTUG logoWhat: Google Technology Users Group (Pune GTUG) presents a seminar on the Google App Engine
When: Saturday, 16th May. 4pm to 6pm
Where: Synerzip. Dnyanvatsal Commercial Complex, Survey No. 23, Plot No. 189, Near Mirch Masala Restaurant , Opp Vandevi Temple, Karve Nagar (Map).
Registration and Fees: The event is free for all, no registration required.

Details
Agenda for this meet:
1. Little talk about Cloud Computing
2. Getting Started with Google App Engine Python
3. Live Examples on Google App Engine
4. Question and Answer
5. Introduction to Google App Engine Java (if time permits)

Speaker: Pranav Prakash

For more information about PuneGTUG, see the PuneTech wiki profile of PuneGTUG. For other tech events happening in Pune, see the PuneTech calendar.

Related articles by Zemanta
Reblog this post [with Zemanta]

Breakfast with TiE: Ravi Nigam of Tasty Bite Eatables – 14 May

Events, , ,

TiE Pune LogoWhat: A talk by Ravi Nigam, MD of Tasty Bite Eatables Ltd., and an informal get-together with entrepreneurs from The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Pune
When: Thursday, 14th May, 8:30am to 9:30am
Where: PYC Hindu Gymkhana, Near Deccan Gymkhana, Bhandarkar Road, Pune
Registration and Fees: Anybody can attend. The event is free for TiE members, and Rs. 50 for non-members. To register, send mail to namita[dot]shibad[at]gmail[dot]com.

Details:

This month Kiran Deshpande, a Charter Member of the TiE Pune chapter, will host the “Breakfast with TiE” event. At this event, the members and attendee’s get an opportunity to meet each other.

Tasty Bite Edibles, Ltd.
Image via Wikipedia

This session will feature Ravi Nigam, Managing Director of Tasty Bite Eatables Ltd., a professional turned entrepreneur. From being a BIFR company thru the 1990’s, Tasty Bite became a well documented ‘turnaround’ case study, and has now gone on to become India’s largest selling consumer food brand in North America.

Ravi has had a long career in Food and Agri Business and prior to his entrepreneurial stint, has worked in Sales, Marketing and Exports functions in companies such as Britannia and Pepsi.

Ravi will for this round of Breakfast With TiE share his experiences and insights into the processed food business.

Ravi will talk in detail about evolution of Tasty Bite. This will be followed by an informal chat with all present.

The event is free for TiE members. Non-members will have to pay Rs. 50 per head to attend.

Please confirm your attendance by emailing Namita at namita.shibad@gmail.com

Breakfast with TiE will also feature actual breakfast. It’s a sit down fixed menu breakfast – Two items + tea/coffee

This will also be a chance for new entrepreneurs, and wannabe entrepreneurs to interact with successful entrepreneurs for guidance and mentorship.

For information about previous TiE events, see PuneTech’s TiE page.

Related articles by Zemanta
Reblog this post [with Zemanta]

MCCIA Seminar on Underwater Technology – 14th May

Events, ,

mccia-pune-logoWhat: MCCIA’s New Emerging Opportunities Committee presents a seminar on “Underwater Technology” by Ian Gallett of the Society for Underwater Technology
When: Thursday, 14th May, 4:30pm
Where: Sumant Moolgaonkar Auditorium, A Wing, MCCIA Trade Tower, ICC Complex, S.B. Road
Registration and Fees: This event is free for all to attend. Please register by contacting
Ms. Snigdha Goliwadekar on email: snigdhag@mcciapune.com, tel # 25709001 or
Mr. Rajiv Kolhe on email: rajivk@mcciapune.com, tel # 25709151

About The Society for Underwater Technology

Underwater Experiment
Image by abduzeedo via Flickr

The SUT was founded to promote the further understanding of the underwater environment and to encourage:

  • Cross-fertilisation and dissemination of ideas, experience and information between workers in academic research, applied research and technology, industry and government
  • Development of techniques and tools to explore, study and exploit the oceans
  • Proper economic and sociological usage of resources in and beneath the oceans
  • Further education of scientists and technologists to maintain high standards in marine science and technology.

Underwater Technology covers the following areas:

  • Diving technology and physiology
  • Submersible design and operation
  • Naval architecture
  • Underwater acoustics
  • Subsea systems
  • Geology
  • Geophysics
  • Marine resource exploitation
  • Oceanography
  • Environmental studies
  • Pollution
  • Marine biology

About the speaker – Ian Gallett

Mr. Ian Gallett is the Chief Executive of the Society for Underwater Technology, an
international society dedicated to the dissemination of knowledge and ideas in all aspects
of subsea technology, ocean science and offshore engineering. After gaining a degree in
Physics and conducting research into electromagnetic propagation, he joined the Royal
Navy in 1973 where he became a metocean specialist. His main concerns were in
operational oceanography and acoustics, particularly the effects of the ocean environment
on long range passive sonar detection. Before leaving the Navy in 1996 with the rank of
Commander, he was responsible for setting Royal Navy policy in the collection and use
of oceanographic data, and their application in acoustic modeling. He has been with the
Society for 12 years.

About MCCIA’s New Emerging Opportunities Committee

The New Emerging Opportunities Committee is a platform created by MCCIA with an
objective to create awareness about New Emerging Opportunities & its applications in
the Industries. It intends to organise Lectures / discussions / seminars on New Emerging
Opportunities.

Reblog this post [with Zemanta]

PMI Monthly Meet: “Overview of Banking & Financial Domain” & “Importance of Security in Global Delivery Projects”

Events, , ,

PMI Pune LogoWhat: Monthly meeting of PMI Pune, featuring two talks: one on the importance of security in global delivery projects, and another an introduction to Banking and Financial Domain
When: Saturday, 9 May, 10am to 12:30pm
Where: Pune Shramik Patrakar Sangh, Cummins Auditorium, 193 Navi Peth, Ganjwe Chowk, Near Alka Talkies, Garware bridge
Registration and Fees: This talk is free for all to attend. No registration required

Session 1: Importance of Security in Global Delivery Project by Nina Godbole

The session will bring out the key role of information security in global delivery project. Data privacy is another aspect which will get discussed. Both these areas will be covered from organizational, project management and technical perspective.

Session 1: About the Speaker Nina Godbole

Nina Godbole, a postgraduate from IIT, Mumbai with MS in computer science from California, has more than 12 years experience in the area of ERP, Quality audits, Information security and data privacy in various capacities. She is a member of professional bodies like SPIN, PMA, CSI, ISACA and has several certifications to her credit. She has authored book on “Information Security Management” for Wiley India and on Quality Assurance. She was also one of the contributing team member for Maharashtra Government’s unique agro-IT project on IT-Enablement. She also carries with her rich experience of working in various countries. She has published several papers & participated in presentations. She was appointed by University of western Sydney as co-supervisor to guide a Ph.D. candidate in the areas of Software Testing.

Session 2: Overview of Banking & Financial domain by Amrish Sharma and Abhijit Bhate

Amrish Sharma, PMP has over 18 years of experience in various sectors with extensive exposure in Business and technology. He has played significant roles in Program Management, Project management, Account management, Business analysis (process mapping and process re-engineering), designing of architecture for various Microsoft based solutions, requirement analysis and design, proposal management and estimations. In his current role of Senior Project Manager in Cognizant Technology Solutions, he is managing complex application development project for a Bank in Europe. In the past he managed Consumer lending portfolio as an independent delivery unit with 400+ people spread across California in USA and three locations in India. In IBM Global Services as Program Manager, he was responsible for overall account management for multiple accounts in Energy and Utility sector.

Abhijit Bhate, BE (E & TC) from University of Pune with a PGDBA from University of Massachusetts has more than 11 years of experience in BFS. He has worked with Global banks such as CitiGroup and with Morgan Stanley. At Citigroup he has worked on the online banking implementations and was instrumental in delivering the global framework for their FX options platform. At Morgan Stanley he has worked on their trading systems for listed and OTC products. He has also worked with Arthur Andersen in their BFS consulting practice advising some of the largest banks on their IT strategy. He has extensive experience in investment banking with a good exposure to retail banking. Currently he works with Cognizant Business Consulting – BFS as a Senior Manager providing consultancy to Cognizant BFS clients and specializes in Investment Banking and Brokerage.

Together they will be covering BFS overview, basic concepts, Service offerings, best practices and challenges faced.

Reblog this post [with Zemanta]

Joomla Training by JUG Pune – 9th May

Events, , , , , ,

joomla-logoWhat: Joomla Training for beginners by Joomla User Group Pune
When: Saturday, 9th May. 11am to 1pm
Where: Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research, Atur Centre, Model Colony. Map.
Registration and Fees: This event is free for all to attend. You need to register here. The registration currently appears to be full, but if you are enterprising enough, I’m sure you can get registered even now

Details:

If you don’t know about the Joomla User Group Pune (JUG Pune), you’ve not been paying attention. They recently organized the very successful Joomla! Day India.

Now, for those who were always interested in Joomla! but were afraid to ask, JUGPune has organized a short training course introducing beginners to Joomla! The training will cover:

  1. Introduction to a CMS
  2. Key advantages of Joomla
  3. Creating pages and menus in Joomla
  4. Introduction to modules, plugins and components

Unfortunately, the registration page indicates that the registrations are full currently. But don’t let a little thing like a housefull stop you. I’m sure that if you are really interested, and if you pain the organizers enough, they’ll increase the registrations to allow you to register. The place to whine is the JUGPune mailing list, or even on twitter.

And as usual, keep an eye on the PuneTech calendar, because you don’t want to miss all the interesting tech events that happen in pune every week.

PoCC meet: Session with Entrepreneur Coach Manish Gupta of Chrysalis

Events, , ,

Pune OpenCoffee Club - POCC LogoWhat: An “entrepreneur coaching” session with Manish Gupta of Chrysalis, on popular demand by Pune OpenCoffee Club members When: Friday, May 8th, 6:30pm Where: Chrysalis, Beena Apartments, Opposite State Bank Of India, Senapati Bapat Road Registration and Fees: This event is free for all to attend. Register here.

Details:

On the Pune OpenCoffee Club mailing list, Kapil Agrawal, mentioned that he found the ‘Entrepreneur Gurukul’ programme of Chrysalis very helpful in his last one year of being an entrepreneur. This quickly lead to suggestions from other members that a talk could be arranged by Chrysalis for the benefit of members of PoCC. As a result of that discussion, Manish Gupta and others from Chrysalis will play host to PoCC members this Friday, 6:30 pm at their offices on S.B. Road. This presentation is free for anybody to attend, but register here if you plan to go.

For any questions, get in touch with:
Kapil Agrawal, kapil.agl [at] gmail [dot] com

About Chrysalis

Chrysalis is an organisation with a purpose to enable individuals and organisations reach a higher level of thinking, thereby giving a meaning to their existence. Since the time of its inception in 1997, Chrysalis has played a pivotal role in the lives of thousands of individuals as well as corporate companies in creating a deeper meaning to life and achieving much higher results and professional profitability. We are committed to help entrepreneurs become aware of their real intent in doing a business and make them capable and confident to create, consolidate & sustain their enterprises. We begins with first bringing about a transformation in the attitude and thinking of the entrepreneur thereby enabling him/her to see the big picture and drive real organizational and business transformation. Chrysalis focuses heavily on practicality and on the development of a systematic action plan that not only meets short-term objectives but also drives long-term vision and business goals. Chrysalis aims to bring about an entrepreneurial transformation by first addressing the transformation of the entrepreneur and his approach to building business.

Seminar: Introduction to ZFS (Sun/Solaris filesystem) and its features – 7 May

Events, , , ,
Sun Microsystems
Image via Wikipedia

What: Introduction to ZFS and its features
When: 6pm 7th May 2009
Where: Auditorium, Building C, Pune IT Park, Bhau Patil Road, Aundh Road
Fees and Registration: This event is free for all. Please register here if you plan to attend this talk.

The engineers at Sun and members of the open source community have drawn from some of the best practices currently on the market, and contributed their own ideas and expertise to develop a new streamlined, cohesive approach to file system design.  ZFS has made such an impact that other UNIX vendors and open source enthusiasts have already intimated their plans to port it to their own operating systems. With ZFS, Sun addresses the important issues of integrity and security, scalability, and difficulty of administration that often plague other UNIX file systems.

KQInfotech presents a series of talks on the ZFS. We start with introducing the audience to ZFS and its compelling feature set and progressively dive deeper into its actual implementation and internal details over the series. The first talk in the series which will be held on 7th May 2009 will cover the various features of ZFS and will demo a large number of them. The subsequent ones will dive into the internal details of ZFS and its features.

This event is free for all to attend. Please register here if you plan to attend

Previous PuneTech articles about KQ InfoTech

Related articles by Zemanta
Reblog this post [with Zemanta]

“My Story” with S.B. Mujumdar, Founder of Symbiosis – 29th April

Events, , , , , ,

TiE Pune LogoWhat: TiE Pune and MCCIA Pune invite you to a session with S.B. Mujumdar, founder of Symbiosis
When: Wednesday, 29th April, 6pm
Where: ICC Towers, 5th Floor, Wing A, Senapati Bapat Road, Map
Registration and Fees: This event is free for all to attend. Register by sending an email to namita[dot]shibad[at]gmail[dot]com

About the speaker – S.B. Mujumdar

In 1971 he established the Symbiosis International Cultural & Educational Centre in Pune primarily to promote friendship, co-operation and understanding between foreign and Indian students and to cater to the needs and difficulties of foreign students studying in Pune, mostly Afro-Asian students.

Since then, under the aegis of ‘Symbiosis’ he has established 34 institutions imparting training in 200 different courses ranging from KG, Primary, Secondary education to Law, Human Resource Development, Foreign Trade, Management, Computer, Arts & Commerce, Mass Communication, Telecommunication, Information Technology etc.

Symbiosis today is the premiere educational institute of Pune and a brand equity in providing quality management education. Presently 30,000 students from 80 different countries and all states of India are studying in various institutions of Symbiosis. About 2 lacs students are enrolled in Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning.

You are invited to hear it from his own perspective.

The event is open to all with no fee applicable. However as seats are limited, it is preferred if you register your presence by sending an email to: namita[dot]shibad[at]gmail[dot]com

For other tech events in Pune, check out the PuneTech calendar.

Related articles by Zemanta
Reblog this post [with Zemanta]

You can still go for Joomla! Day (free) – India’s biggest Joomla conference – 25 April

External Visitors, Featured, , , , ,
Joomla logo
Joomla logo

Joomla! Day India, will be big. Toby Patterson, a member of the Joomla! Core team development workgroup member (Update: Sorry about misidentifying Toby – Live tweets from the event indicate that his keynote was great), will be giving the keynote speech. Members of the Joomla! bug squad will be there. And they are coming in from outside the country, so if you miss them this time, you are not going to get a chance to interact with them in the next run-of-the-mill barcamp that happens in Pune, or even Bombay/Bangalore. So what’s your excuse for not going? Earlier, due to the costs of having external visitors for this event, the price of entry was Rs. 1000. But thanks to the organizers finding appropriate sponsors, everything, including the prizes worth $1600, the T-shirts, the lunch/snacks and other goodies are FREE! (Update: The T-shirts, snacks and other goodies are NOT FREE. They had to be removed to make the event free. Sorry about the misinformation.)

Register here.

It is tomorrow, Saturday, 25th April, from 9am to 6pm at I2IT campus, Hinjewadi. These are the sessions planned:

Keynote By Toby Patterson
Session 1: Hello Joomla!  – Joomla in 45 mins
Case Study 1
Session 2: Still on Joomla 1.0? Migration from 1.0 to 1.5
Session 3: Joomla & Cloud Computing – Amazon S3
Session 4: Request to Response
Open Sessions
Case Study 2

For other tech events happening in Pune this weekend, check out the PuneTech calendar.

Related articles by Zemanta
Reblog this post [with Zemanta]

IEEE Seminar: Dr. Harrick Vin, Vice President and Chief Scientist, TRDDC – 25 April

Events, , , , , , ,

What: Seminar on two topics – “Trends, Opportunities and Challenges in IT Systems Management” and “Academia and Industry Collaboration” by Dr. Harrick Vin, Vice President (R&D) and Chief Scientist, Systems Research Lab, Tata Research Development and Design Center (TRDDC), TCS, Pune – organized by IEEE Pune.
When: Saturday, 25 April, 5pm
Where: Institute of Engineers, Opposite Modern Cafe, J.M. Road, Shivajinagar
Registration and Fees: This seminar is free for all to attend. No registration required

1st Abstract: Trends, Opportunities and Challenges in IT Systems Management

During the past two decades, many enterprises have transformed from “Businesses facilitated by IT” to the paradigm where “Business is IT”. Today, enterprises not only relay on IT systems to obtain and deliver insightful, timely, and accurate information for managing their operations, but also to provide competitive differentiation, to support business agility and growth, and to improve profitability. Unfortunately, the growing complexity of the IT systems operated by the enterprises is becoming a key obstacle in sustaining this vision. We believe that continuous evolution is a key contributor to this complexity. Unlike traditional engineering artifacts that don’t change much over time, IT systems evolve continuously to accommodate new software and hardware technologies, application functionality, user requirements, as well as changes in operating conditions (workload, faults, etc.). Thus, a grand challenge for computing is to conquer this complexity by developing methodology and tools to design simple yet efficient systems and to manage system evolution. In this talk, I will discuss this opportunity and challenge, and describe some of the approaches for realizing this vision.

2nd Abstract: Academia and Industry Collaboration

The nature and complexity of modern computer systems dictate that research and education activities in computing must blend theory and practice. Blind experimentation in the absence of theory is infeasible, and theory that is not grounded in practice is sterile. An effective academia and industry collaboration can enrich both the theory and the practice of computing science. In this discussion, I will raise several opportunities and challenges in fostering academia and industry collaboration.

About the speaker – Dr. Harrick Vin

Dr. Vin is Vice President (R&D) and Chief Scientist, Systems Research Lab at the Tata Research Development and Design Center (TRDDC), Pune, which is a division of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). He is also a member of the TCS Corporate Technology Board.

Before joining TCS, Dr. Vin was a Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. He was the founding Director of the Distributed Multimedia Computing Laboratory and the co-Director of the Laboratory of Advanced Systems Research (LASR) at UT Austin. His research interests are in the areas of networks, operating systems, distributed systems, and multimedia systems.

He has co-authored more than 100 papers in leading journals and conferences. Harrick has been a recipient of several awards including the Faculty Fellow in Computer Sciences, Dean’s Fellowship, National Science Foundation CAREER award, IBM Faculty Development Award, Fellow of the IBM Austin Center for Advanced Studies, AT&T Foundation Award, National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award, IBM Doctoral Fellowship, NCR Innovation Award, and San Diego Supercomputer Center Creative Computing Award.

For more details, click here.

There are a bunch of other tech events happening in Pune this weekend. Check out the PuneTech calendar for more information.

Reblog this post [with Zemanta]