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Event: Pune Data Conference, 31 March

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Pune Data Conference 2018 is a one-day conference on 31st March, at Westin Pune, from 8:30am to 6pm. It features 3 tracks of talks from topics in big-data, AI and ML, IoT, Cloud and Containerization.

For more details, check out the schedule of the talks, and the list of featured speakers. This is the second year of PDC. You can also check out the highlights of PDC 2017.

CROSS Open-Source Awards

PDC 2018 will also feature the CROSS Awards—Corporate Responsibility for Open Source Software, to recognize the open source contributions to the community and motivate others to become open source contributors.

The 3 categories, in which you can nominate yourself or your organization are:

1. Best Individual Contributor Award
2. Best Local Meetup Group Award
3. Best All Round Community Contributor Award

Please nominate yourself or your organization here.

Fees and Registration

This is a paid event. You can buy tickets here until 29th March.

Other Details

The event is on 31st March, at Westin Pune, from 8:30am to 6pm. For further details, see the event website, or email: contact@punedataconference.com

Event: Computational Science Symposium – 1-day conference on CS for Science from ThoughtWorks’

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This year, ThoughtWorks’ Engineering for Research arm is organizing the first Computational Science and Engineering Symposium. The forum will host scientists and researchers from across scientific disciplines, alongside engineers and technologists to discuss and design solutions for computation challenges. We see this as the beginning of a computational-science community building exercise in Indian context.

The Symposium will delve into the three important trends that are disrupting the field of computational science: Data Deluge, Artificial Intelligence, and Complex Modeling and Simulation.

Agenda

8.00 AM – 9.00 AM Registration and Breakfast
9.00 AM – 9.30 AM Welcome Note, E4R Vision and TWI Commitment Sameer Soman, Managing Director, ThoughtWorks India; Harshal Hayatnagarkar, Computer Scientist, ThoughtWorks India
9.30 AM – 9.45 AM Opening Keynote Dr.Raghunath Mashelkar, National Research Professor, Chairman, National Innovation Foundatin and President, Global Research Alliance
9.45 AM – 10.30 AM Computational Astronomy and Astrophysics: Challenges and Opportunities Dr. Yashwant Gupta, Centre Director – National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Pune
10.30 AM – 10.45 AM Tea Break
10.45 AM – 11.30 AM Data-driven scientific discovery (4th Paradigm of Science) Dr. Vidyadhar Mudkavi, Director – Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, 4th Paradigm Institute, Bengaluru
11.35 AM – 12.20 PM Large-volume and Long-term Data Management Dr. Aparna N, Group Head – Data Centre, National Remote Sensing Centre
12.20 PM – 1.15 PM Lunch Break
1.15 PM – 2.00 PM A small boy and a hammer: Case studies in Data-Intensive science Dr. Mihir Arjunwadkar, Director – Centre for Modeling and Simulation, University of Pune
2.05 PM – 2.50 PM Trends in Data Storage & Analytics Dr. Milind Bhandarkar, Founder CEO of Ampool Inc.
2.50 PM – 3.05 PM Tea Break
3.05 PM – 4.05 PM Breakout sessions 3 tracks: Data Engineering (Dr Neeraj Gupta & Milind Bhandarkar), Data Science + Artifical InteIligence (Dr. Abhijit Kulkarni & Devangana Khokhar), Modeling and Simulation (TBD)
4.05 PM – 4.35 PM Vote of Thanks Unmesh Joshi, Head of Technology, ThoughtWorks India
4.35 PM – 5.30 PM Open Forum Q & A and Networking

Event Details

The event is in Pune, on Saturday, 24th March, from 8am to 5:30pm, Thoughtworks office, Yerawada, Pune.

The event is free, but by invitation only. To request an invitation register here.

Event: TiECON Pune – Indian Startup Ecosystem Conference – 20/21 April

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TiECON Pune is one of the top startup conferences in the country, in its 6th year, will be held on 20/21st April, 2018. The venue is The Westin Pune. The early
bird registrations are now open. Click here to register. You can use the special code ‘TiE-PuneTech’ to get a discount.

The speakers for this year have not yet been finalized, but TiECON always does a good job of putting together a great line-up. Earlier TiECons have seen iconic speakers like N.R. Narayana Murthy, Rajiv
Bajaj, Ronnie Screwvala; this is in addition to lots of sessions on starting up, funding and growing your ventures, excellent networking opportunities. Also, you can periodically check this website to see updates on the speakers and sessions as and when they get confirmed.

As a part of TiECon Pune, this year there is a dedicated track for women entrepreneurs and soon-to-be entrepreneurs. This is an opportunity to network with inspiring women entrepreneurs driving home businesses as well companies across diverse industries such as education, technology, media, and entertainment. There will also be awards for women entrepreneurs.

Check the TiECON 2018 website will have updates and details. Click here to buy tickets (discount code: ‘TiE-PuneTech’)—registrations for past participants have started, and early bird registrations for first-time attendees will open soon.

 

ReactFoo Pune: React and React Native Developers Conference—19-20 Jan

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ReactFoo Pune is a two-day event for React and React Native Developers, focusing on the following topics:

  1. Success and failure stories of implementing React and React Native for your use-case.
  2. Lessons learned in shifting codebase from older frameworks to React.
  3. Comparative advantages of React and other JS frameworks.
  4. Comparative advantages of React Native in working on mobile applications.
  5. Security concerns.

This is an event by HasGeek, which is known for good quality events.

Who should attend?

  • Engineers looking to learn from case studies of other practitioners.
  • Decision-makers considering the pros and cons of switching to React.
  • Cross-platform mobile developers and React Native enthusiasts.

Why you should attend?

  • To learn from and network with peers from the industry.
  • To gain insights from case studies of practical implementation, and evaluate ReactJS and React Native for your work.
  • To program better with React and React Native.

Agenda

  • Single track of talks and Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions on 19 January.
  • Hands-on workshops on 20 January.

See the conference website for detailed schedule, and specifics of talks and speakers

Fees, Registration and Logistics

This is a paid conference. Please register and buy tickets here.

Location: 505, A-Wing, MCCIA Trade Tower, ICC Complex, 403, Senapati Bapat Road, Pune.

Event: TiECON Pune – Indian Startup Ecosystem Conference – 14/15 April

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TiECON, one of the top startup conferences in the country, will be held in Pune again this year for the 5th time, on 14/15th April, 2017.

This edition of TiECON will feature such speakers as Dr. Velumania, CEO of Thyrocare, Nana Patekar, actor and philanthropist, LC Singh, founder of Nihilent Technologies, and many others. In addition, since TiECON is one of the most important startup events in India, it always has a number of high profile startup founders, venture capitalists, and other people from the startup ecosystem.

This time, in addition to the regular keynote speeches, panel discussions, and in-depth workshops, TiECON 2017 also features dedicated tracks for Women Entrepreneurs, and Tech in Manufacturing.

The event costs Rs. 2899 for TiE Pune members (early bird registration, on or before 15 March), and 4199 for non-members, and 3299 for “members of supporting organizations” (including PuneTech readers). Thus, if you’re not a member, you can use the “Members of Supporting Organizations” ticket, with the code “TiE-PuneTech”. See the registration page for more details about the various ticket options available.

See the event website for more details about the event itself.

Event: TiE Global Summit (Delhi; Dec 16/17)

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Check out TiE Global Summit in Delhi December 16, 17 (Details below). Normally, we don’t publicize non-Pune events on PuneTech, but we’re making an exception in this case, partially because there is an interesting list of speakers and panelists (including Travis Kalanick co-founder of Uber), and partially because TiE Pune folks are part of the key organizing committee, and partially because PuneTech readers get a special discount (use promo code PT for discounted registration).

This promises to be a good learning and networking opportunity for startups. One of the shortcomings that Pune startup founders have been accused of is that as a group we’re too insular and dislike traveling out of Pune to look for networking or marketing or business opportunities. This is something founders from other cities do better than us, and hence they end up with more hype, in spite of the fact that we might be better than them.

TiE Global Summit

The TiE Global Summit is being organized on 16th & 17th December 2016 in New Delhi, India. In the coming year, TiE will complete 25 years of service to entrepreneurs and membership. Through the years, TiE has assisted thousands of startups, entrepreneurs and professionals, and kindled the fire of entrepreneurship in our youth. TiE Global Summit is the maiden global conference of the original entrepreneurial organisation that was seeded in the technology crucible of the world in 1992. Since then TiE has hosted scores of entrepreneurship conference via its 62 chapter across the globe. TiE’s flagship annual conference, TiEcon Silicon-Valley attracted 4,800+ attendees from 22+ countries.

Some of the keynote speakers of TiE Global Summit 2016 include Travis Kalanick-CoFounder-Uber, Sanjay Mehrotra (Founder of SanDisk), Uday Kotak, Celebrity Speaker Katrina Kaif, and more. TGS is host to practically all leading tech investors like Sequioia Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, NEA, Kalaari Capital et al. The agenda is designed to address and cover cutting edge tech and its applications sessions include: Artificial Intelligence & Virtual Reality, IoT, FinTech, E-Commerce and more.

With an expected delegate strength of about 3000, the delegate cut is projected to consists of almost 65 to 70% tech founders and CEOs.

For more information, kindly visit http://www.tieglobalsummit.org. Register with promo code PT to avail discount to conference.

Event: Expert Talks 2016 – Day-Long Software/Tech Conference (Paid)

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Expert Talks 2016, Pune, on 5th November, at Westin, Koregaon Park is a day-long software/tech conference featuring speakers from all over the world, talking about topics ranging from DevOps, Traits in Java (and Go), Agile Transformation, Bug-Fixing Best Practices, Algebra and Property based testing and more.

To get an idea of the type and quality of talks, you can check out the YouTube channel of Expert-Talks where they have uploaded videos of talks from last year’s conferences.

Details of the talks scheduled for this year are here and biographies of speakers are here.

The event will be from 8:30am to 6pm on Saturday, 5th November, at Westin, Pune. The cost is Rs. 1150 if you register before 31st Oct, and Rs. 1950 after that. Register here.

Event: TiECON Pune – Indian Startup Ecosystem Conference – 15 April

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TiECON, one of the top startup conferences in the country, will be held in Pune again this year for the 4th time, on 15th April.

The keynote address will be by Sanjiv Bajaj, MD of Bajaj Holdings & Investment, Bajaj Finserv, and Bajaj Allianz. In addition, there are a number of other speakers – startup founders, venture capitalists, and others from the startup ecosystem including Ambareesh Murty of Pepperfry, Hari Menon of BigBasket, Sanjay Katkar of QuickHeal, Sanjay Nath of Blume Ventures, Varsha Tagare of Qualcomm Ventures. See this page for a full list.

The event costs Rs. 2099 for TiE Pune members, and 3199 for non-members, and 2499 for “members of supporting organizations” (including PuneTech readers). Thus, if you’re not a member, you can use the “Members of Supporting Organizations” ticket, with the code “TiE-Pune Tech”.

See the event website for more details.

Call for Papers: Computer Society of India’s Advances in Cloud Computing Conference – ACC 2014

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The Pune Chapter of the Computer Society of India is organizing Advances in Cloud Computing (ACC 2014), an international conference targeting researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners to share their knowledge in the rapidly growing area of Cloud Computing.

This is the 3rd edition of ACC. The first two were held in Bangalore (2012 and 2013), and it is coming to Pune for the first time this year – on 11 and 12 October, 2014.

The theme of this years conference is Internet of Things (IoT). IoT envisions a self-configuring and adaptive complex system made out of networks of sensors and smart objects whose purpose is to interconnect “all” things, including every day and industrial objects in such a way so as to make them intelligent, programmable and more capable of interacting with human beings. IoT promises to be the most disruptive technological revolution since the advent of the Internet. Projections indicate that up to 100 billion objects will be connected to the Internet by 2020. IoT covers all types of sensors, communication protocols, computational tools, techniques, devices, processors, embedded systems, data warehousing, big data, cloud computing, server farms, grid computing etc.

Call for Papers

The call for papers for ACC 2014 is open, and the last date of submission is 10th August. Topics of interest include:

  • IoT architectures: things-centric, data-centric, service-centric architecture; cyber physical systems; SCADA platforms; smart grids, green technologies; enterprise cloud for IoT; future Internet for IoT.
  • IoT enabling technologies: Sensors and sensor network; radio frequency identification system; mobile technologies; smart phones; smart objects; low power and energy harvesting; resource-constrained devices; real-time systems; embedded software.
  • IoT services and applications: Smart automobiles, smart buildings, smart cities; platform as a service; M2M applications; Social networking; data management; mining platforms; middleware; open service platform.
  • IoT system integration, management, and standards: SOA based integration of IoT; M2M connectivity challenges and potentials; data management, Data Analytics; smart Data centers; open APIs for IoT; networking standards, e.g. IEEE 802.11ah; interoperable systems; ownership, regulation.
  • IoT Business model and Process changes: Supply chain management; collaborative business model; service-driven model; product as a service; resource sharing and optimization; e-commerce, C2C, C2B, B2B; user and process behavior analysis.
  • IoT security and privacy concerns: Identification, authentication, and authorizing objects; secure collaboration; context-aware security; web services security; cloud security; lightweight cryptographic primitives; infrastructure protection; trust management; legal challenges and Governance issues.
  • Big Data: Big Data Science, Data Computing, Data Mining, Data Analytics, Data Understanding, Data Applications, Data Privacy and Security.

For more details of the conference, the process, submission guidelines, see the ACC 2014 website

FOSSsumMIT: A 2-day, 5-track open source conference at MIT Pune

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FOSSsumMIT is a 2-day conference on Free/Open Source Software, organized by the Dept. of Computer Engineering, at MIT College, in association with PLUG (Pune Linux Users Group), happening on 1 & 2 August, 2014.

The conference has introductory talks and workshops for students on various topics, and is free for anyone to attend. Day 1 has 5 tracks – Python, Scientific Computing, Linux, Linux Overview, and Big Data. Day 2 has 4 tracks – Python, Scientific Computing, Linux, and Cloud Computing.

See Day 1 Schedule and Day 2 Schedule for details.

Register here: http://fosssummit.in/register – it’s free. And you get a certificate.