Berlin Buzzwords June 4-5th 2012 - meetup

First MongoDB Meetup Berlin

Isabel — Wed, 30 May 2012 10:13:35 +0000

1. MongoDB User Group Berlin Meeting

This is our first meetup. We like to discuss the goals and expectations of the user group and of course chat about MongoDB. Chris Harris will join us. In his talk he gives an overview of 2.1 aggregation and concurrency. Chris is an organizer of the London MongoDB User Group. He will share his user group experiences with us.

Location:

HYPOPORT AG

Address:

Kloster Str 71 10179 Berlin

Public transport station:

U Klosterstr.

Further information:

https://www.meetup.com/MUGBerlin/ - this is the first meetup, nicely co-located with Berlin Buzzwords. Intention is to run the meetup as a repeated event.

HBase Workshop and Hackathon

larsgeorge — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:42:18 +0000

About

This workshop is for existing and new users of HBase. Meet committers and enthusiast who share the same interest in HBase. We are planning on doing a few presentations (volunteers are welcome!) to lighten up the day.

When

The day after the conference: 6th of June 2012, 10am to 5pm

Where

Hypoport graciously is providing a room and projector for us to use. The address is:

Hypoport, Klosterstraße 71, 10179 Berlin, Deutschland

(or see https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Hypoport,+Klosterstra%C3%9Fe+71,+10179,+B...)

Registration

Please register at https://www.doodle.com/wpz3p8y3ndvxxp8w by simply entering your name, ticking the box next to it, and pressing "Save". Done!

Presentations

If you would like to share some slides with everyone, please send an email to lars@cloudera.com with details. Please keep the talk to about 20-30 mins tops, since we want to leave some time to work in groups on whatever you feel is interesting.

Logistics

We currently have planned to go for lunch together, everyone picking up their own bill, as we have no sponsor for lunch (yet... let me know if you are interested!).

1. Data Science Workshop with Ted Dunning, Fraunhofer IAIS and others

Klaas Bollhoefer — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:41:29 +0000

GREAT!

We will have the 1. Data Science Workshop the day after Berlin Buzzwords on JUNE 6!

Who is we?

First of all: YOU! Plus Data Science Berlin (https://www.datascienceberlin.org, Berlin chapter of Data Science Global, https://www.datascienceglobal.org), Scout24 and The unbelievable Machine Company (https://www.unbelievable-machine.com), who will host the 1. Data Science Day in Berlin

What is Data Science?

Data scientists combine entrepreneurship with patience, the willingness to build data products incrementally, the ability to explore, and the ability to iterate over a solution. They are inherently interdiscplinary. They can tackle all aspects of a problem, from initial data collection and data conditioning to drawing conclusions. They can think outside the box to come up with new ways to view the problem, or to work with very broadly defined problems: "here's a lot of data, what can you make from it?" (from O´Reilly radar: https://radar.oreilly.com/2010/06/what-is-data-science.html)

What is the goal of our workshop?

We want to bring different people with different perspectives on big data and data science together! It´s a lot about IT but not only! It´s about Technology, Algorithms & AI, Interfaces & Visualisation, Data (of course) and last but not lease about Business needs & projects! Right?

How is it organized?

We´ll have 4-5 short talks in the morning (15 minutes each) and lots of room & time for Q&As after each talk. In the afternoon there´ll be an ideation workshop where we´ll gather a handful of "IWIK"-questions ("I wish I knew...") and discuss them in small multidisciplinary groups with the experts!

Who will talk?

Ted Dunning (MapR, Mahout) on "The infrastructure of data"
Melanie Knapp (Fraunhofer IAIS) on "The meaning of data"
Stephan Thiel (Studio NAND, nand.io) on "The beauty of data"
Uwe Draisbach (Hasso-Plattner-Institute Potsdam) on "The importance of high-quality data"
Johannes Kleske (Third Wave) on "The ubiquity of data"
Klaas Bollhoefer (unbelievable Machine Company) on "Business needs & data"

Where will it happen?

@ Immobilienscout in Berlin, near Ostbahnhof (https://maps.google.de/maps/place?q=immobilienscout+24+berlin&hl=de&cid=1...). Thank you lots!!!

When will it happen?

June 6 from ~10am to 5pm, beer & snacks afterwards

How do I participate?

We are already SOLD OUT after 30 hours or so! :-) for us, :-( for you....Sorry. If you wanna be on our waiting list pls send an email to klaas.bollhoefer(at)unbelievable-machine.com Otherwise - there are other events planned. See you there.

A big big thanks to our sponsors!

Scout 24, MapR, O'Reilly and The unbelievable Machine Company

See you there! Klaas

Hackathons

Isabel — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:47:26 +0000

We want attendees to stay for the whole week and enable them to deep-dive into their favorite topic. There will be workshops/meetups/hackathons offered before and after the main conference. They are organised by volunteers and hosted by Berlin local companies. Berlin Buzzwords attendees are free to go to any of these after successful registration (free of cost, only to limit the number of attendees). If you want Berlin Buzzwords people to know of your co-located event, please list it below - preferably by creating your own wiki page with all event details and linking to it below (make sure you tag your event with "schedule" and "meetup" so others can find it more easily).

Parallel processing beyond Map/Reduce to be hosted by TU Berlin and organised by Sebastian Schelter.
The 1. Data Science Workshop with Ted Dunning, Fraunhofer IAIS and others
HBase Workshop and Hackathon for new and existing HBase users.
Product in a day - rapid turnaround with HackySackDrivenDevelopment (HSDD) @ crealytics Office Berlin Kreuzberg
Movie Hack Day 2012 @ Moviepilot HQ
CodeRetreat - facilitated by Martin Klose @ crealytics Office Berlin Kreuzberg

MongoDB Meetup - facilitated by Stefan Rudnitzki, Martin Peranic and Jörg Müller.

If you are not sure whether your workshop fits into the conference or need help finding a room for it please contact us at info@berlinbuzzwords.de