Programme 2022
Time
TRACK 1 (Ballsaal)
TRACK 2 (Kakadu Bar)
TRACK 3 (Roter Salon)
08:30
Admission and registration
09:30
Opening Speech: About finding new love - Jörg Rasinger, Parship
10:00
How to scale a unicorn-building engineering team
Gad Salner, Group Manager @ MelioThis is the story behind one of Melio’s engineering groups, and how we’re building a kickass, world-class team, which among other things, is changing the conversation around payments. In this talk, I'll take a deep dive into our new strategy step-by-step, from planning to execution: my structured game plan for empowering engineers to drive your team’s rapid growth in size, responsibility, and impact.
Software 2.0: How does data become an AI software artifact?
Johannes Hötter, Co-Founder & CEO @ Kern.AILets talk about Javascript
Andreas Roth, Dev Lead & Trainer @ esveoIn this talk we want to differentiate between hype and trend, and further inspect 3 topics, that emerged in the ecosystem and massively improved user and development experience: (Native) Compilers, that allow us to use other programming languages and optimize our code for better bundle size and runtime performance, Serverless infrastructure at the edge, that helps us focus on the product while improving loading times for our users, Ressurgence of Server Side Rendering but with a unified development experience between server and client. If you have not been active in web development during the last years, this talk is the perfect refresher to get up to speed.
10:45
Next, Nest, Nuxt?...Nust?
Marius Obert, Developer Evangelist @ TwilioUsing AI for the perfect pitch
Max Vorhauer, Product Manager @ MataonoTogether with my team we utilize multiple convolutional neural networks that capture the emotions of participants in meetings.
In my talk, I will present to you our setup of our emotion analysis and our most important findings. I will talk about our architecture for face detection and emotion analysis. While using CNNs is the way to go for analysing visuals, we encountered a few challenges during development, I want to mention. But I’ll also talk about use cases and give insights into the structure of winning pitches.
The twist: For this presentation I prepared an extensive pitch deck and tested it with colleagues. Only slides that performed as intended were selected for this talk.
Output, outcome, burn out - How can we be so slow while working so hard? A different perspective on Software Development processes.
Mirko Seifert, CEO and one of the founders @ DevBoost11:30
The Data Science Gap: don’t hire the horse before the cart
Irina Ioana Brudaru, Head of Analytics @ LovooWhat should a data leader’s priorities be, when in a new role or when they hire a new team? This is a struggle of many: which roles and skills should be covered first versus the current trends that skew towards AI/ML without a solid foundation beforehand. We will also touch on what makes successful data teams, which skills are and will always be in demand and what makes a data science model, a successful one in production.
Sniffing Machines
Adrian Kostrz, Innovation Manager AI & Robotics & Daniel Lorenz, Teamlead & Global Topic Lead Artificial Intelligence @ NTT DATA Business SolutionsSmell can be one of the main quality indicators of a product and it can bring additional information on the stages of its production, storage and distribution. But in most cases, its measurement still relies on human's noses. There is no scalable objective smell recognition available. We are working on an AI Nose which is using odor sensor data for collecting, understanding and distinguishing different smells and uses the results for supporting quality or logistics related processes. AI models are capable to recognize smell without human bias or involvement.
How to perfect the secrecy of your messages with the "Ring of Protection"
Stephan Radke, Lead Engineer RFID Applications @ LinxensThe basics of this idea was introduced at the "Datenspuren 2021" organized by the Chaos Computer Club Dresden. In the talk I will briefly cover basics of encryption and show about general hacking approaches. Shannon already found a way to secure messages even quantum computers will never solve. This approach has been used to successfully cipher information between telephones of presidents and governors. So, why not make it available to everyone?
12:15
Lunch & Networking
13:15
Meetup Expo (Blauer Salon)
14:00
From zero to migration hero: A tale of a data warehouse migration
Victoria Perez Mola, Solutions Architect @ dbt LabsClassification of bank transactions: An example from a Smart Billment perspective
Stefanie Lösch, Data specialist & Jan Gairing, Data scientist @ aifinyoJuice It Up! - tips and tricks to improve game feel
Tino Göhlert, Software Engineer @ WAKU RoboticsA good mechanic is only a fraction of what makes a fun game. We want to show how to spice up your game idea to better transport your vision and make your game stand out.
14:45
Warning: This is not another MLOps practics talk
Amit Bendor, Head of AI & Data Science @ ArtlistThere are many tools and “best practices” out there for MLOps today. How do you take this overwhelming amount of tools and transform them into a production-grade research infrastructure? In this session, I will share with you our journey at Artlist - starting from scratch to where we’re at today. We’ll go in-depth into 3 different implementations of our values into real tools that my team and I work with every day.
Protocol oriented programming in Kotlin
Mustafa Karademir, Senior Mobile Engineer (Android) @ LovooThe basic problem with programming in Kotlin today is that we like to use base classes to avoid boiler code. Swift, for example, often takes a different approach, but is it really the only protocol-oriented programming language? In this talk I would like to encourage developers to think beyond the general limitations of Kotlin and show it from a completely different perspective. Kotlin has much more power than you might think at first.
Spanner in the Online Boutique
Daniel Quinlan, Customer Engineer Specialist @ GoogleGoogle Cloud Platform's 'microservices-demo' project shows a real-world example of a working online storefront, the "Online Boutique". Cloud Spanner is Google’s Cloud-Native, horizontally scalable, relational database. Microservices and Spanner are a perfect fit for each other. So we’ve added Spanner as the database backing the microservices demo. Now, the entire application has real-world, unlimited horizontal scalability, in both the application and data layer. We’ll demonstrate the changes needed to the original microservices-demo code, discuss some tricky parts about the integration, and show the whole project deployed to Google Kubernetes Engine and Spanner.
15:30
Coffee Break & Networking
16:00
Why most software projects fail silently.
Hendrik Lösch, Management Consultant @ ZEISS Digital InnovationSoftware has several characteristics that distinguish it from other goods. These include, that it is not subject to any laws of nature, is easy to change, theoretically infinitely replicable and largely invisible. This culminates in a special kind of complexity that makes it difficult even for experienced software developers and architects to lead their projects to success. In this talk, we will therefore look deeper into the effects that the described characteristics have and how they affect any software system, be it the small mobile app or the enterprise cloud cluster.
JOB CLUB
16:00 - 17:30You're interested in what our exhibiting companies have to offer? Join the Job Club to meet your future employer. Meeting time is 15:30 in the entrance area.
Jenkins meet YAML
Christoph Poerschmann, Software Engineer @ elevait16:45
Reproducibility in Machine Learning: How far should we go to enable products?
Peter Steinbach, AI Consulting Team Lead @ Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-RossendorfWe all know Machine Learning can do great things - on paper. But are the published results transferable straight away into products? I share evidence from science if, how or why AI methods are tricky to transfer from benchmark wonderland to real life. I ask and try to answer: What are ways forward?
JOB CLUB
16:00 - 17:30You're interested in what our exhibiting companies have to offer? Join the Job Club to meet your future employer. Meeting time is 15:30 in the entrance area.