Workshops 2019

October2019

Kraków, Poland

Adversarial Robustness Toolbox – Defending AI against adversarial threats

A WORKSHOP BY

08.10.2019 / 16:00 - 19:30 / IBM Lab, Armii Krajowej 18

In this workshop, we will take a deep-dive into an emerging topic in the AI community: Robustness of AI models against so-called adversarial samples, which are inputs created by an adversary in order to corrupt the model outputs. We will...

REQUIREMENTS

Required skills: Python (intermediate), AI/Machine Learning (beginner) Software to prepare: - Python 3.5 later - Jupyter Notebooks - Installation of the v1.0.0 release of the Adversarial Robustness Toolbox (https://github.com/IBM/adversarial-robustness-toolbox)

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Cloud Builders’ Day

A WORKSHOP BY

Tomasz Stachlewski

Amazon Web Services

06.10.2019 / 09:00 - 15:00 / św. Filipa 23, Kraków | Sala 3

Cloud Builders' Day is a full-day workshop focusing on latest state-of-the-art technologies which are being used by companies around the world to quickly build new applications, run systems and analyze data. During this workshop, you will be using AWS –...

LEVEL

No prior AWS knowledge required.

REQUIREMENTS

Laptop with Chrome/Firefox browser required. No need for having a personal AWS account.

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Don’t bite the bullet – set goals that inspire your team

A WORKSHOP BY

Marcin Lelek

Trainer, Agile Coach, Manager at AirHelp

Marzena Zaziąbł

Agile Coaches' Team Lead and Trainer at AirHelp

06.10.2019 / 10:00 - 13:00 / św. Filipa 23, Kraków | Sala 4

The goal achievement is like a never-ending story, we do know that mainly management cares about meeting project goals. What about your team? Sounds familiar? During the workshop we will: - ask and answer the question how to set the...

LEVEL

Suitable for leadership, management, open for all

REQUIREMENTS

No special requirements

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GraphQL Introduction with TypeScript

A WORKSHOP BY

Adam Kuśmierz

Software Engineer at VirtusLab

Kazimierz Zagroba

Software Engineer at VirtusLab

08.10.2019 / 08:30 - 13:00 / św. Filipa 23, Kraków | Sala 1

Introduction to GraphQL (based on the example of Apollo Server) and comparison with REST. The workshop is designed as an introduction to the topic of GraphQL. It’s an elemental workshop for people who have never tried GraphQL before. It isn’t...

LEVEL

Introductory

REQUIREMENTS

No previous knowledge of GraphQL. Basic knowledge of TypeScript (https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/typescript-in-5-minutes.html) Setup requires GitHub account (we are going to use CodeSandbox or IDE of your choice with latest node LTS and yarn/npm)

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Handling uncertainty in software projects

A WORKSHOP BY

Krzysztof Daniel

Leading Edge Forum

06.10.2019 / 14:00 - 17:00 / św. Filipa 23, Kraków | Sala 2

Uncertainty is a nasty beast. It is present in every project from the very beginning, usually hidden somewhere, and it manifests itself near the project ending. Be it lack of requirements clarity, changed scope or technology limitations - all those...

REQUIREMENTS

Minimal exposure to software architecture and the "business" side of software development. A project to work on. Actually, bringing a team of 4 that will work on a project will work best.

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Introduction to Kotlin

A WORKSHOP BY

Paweł Marks

Kotlin tooling engineer at VirtusLab

06.10.2019 / 09:00 - 13:00 / św. Filipa 23, Kraków | Sala 1

Introductory level workshop for Kotlin programming language. Basic syntax for control structures and object oriented programming will be explained, as well as basic usages of generics and functional programming capabilities of Kotlin.

LEVEL

Introductory

REQUIREMENTS

Laptop with any version of IntelliJ IDEA environment. No previous knowledge of Kotlin needed.

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Kotlin: the deeper look

A WORKSHOP BY

Paweł Marks

Kotlin tooling engineer at VirtusLab

06.10.2019 / 13:30 - 17:30 / św. Filipa 23, Kraków | Sala 1

Follow up workshop to the introduction to koltin. This time concepts such as reified generics or reflection will be introduced. This workshop should also familiarize the attendees with coroutines and few other basic abstractions that are used in asynchronous programming...

REQUIREMENTS

Laptop with any version of IntelliJ IDEA environment. Basic knowledge of Kotlin

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Kubernetes… and being a DevOps is not a fairytale anymore

A WORKSHOP BY

Krzysztof Płachno

Scala BigData Consultant

06.10.2019 / 15:30 - 17:30 / św. Filipa 23, Kraków | Sala 3

DevOps is no longer the youngest, nor the sexiest topic on the stage. The time plentiful inspirational talks of breaking cultural changes, filling gaps, bringing distant worlds of Devs and Ops together along with millions of income are only a...

REQUIREMENTS

Familiarity with containerization (Docker)

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Next Generation Scala

A WORKSHOP BY

Jon Pretty

Propensive

08.10.2019 / 09:00 - 17:00 / Kraków Opera, Lubicz 48

This one-day workshop will cover changes to the Scala type system, including union and intersection types, opaque types and new types of types. We will see new language features of trait parameters, structural types, enumerations, export clauses, parameter untupling and...

REQUIREMENTS

Some knowledge of Scala 2

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Object Detection – training of YOLO3 model

A WORKSHOP BY

Piotr Skalski

Software Engineer at VirtusLab

06.10.2019 / 09:00 - 13:00 / św. Filipa 23, Kraków | Sala 2

Workshop will be focused on Object Detection. In this short time we will try to train a working YOLO model capable of detecting selected objects in photos. During this time we will prepare a dataset, which will be used for...

REQUIREMENTS

Basic knowledge of Python. Cloned repository (address to be provided at a later date).

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Programming Quantum Computers

A WORKSHOP BY

Tomasz Stopa

IBM

09.10.2019 / 16:00 - 20:00 / IBM Lab, Armii Krajowej 18

During the workshop you will learn the basics about quantum computing and IBM Q in particular. Then you will write and run several quantum algorithms using graphical composer available online. Finally we will use Qiskit SDK (open source python framework)...

REQUIREMENTS

The workshop is designed as an introduction into the topic of quantum computation and as such does not require any specific prior technology nor programming knowledge. However, basic knowledge of quantum physics and/or Python programming will help to fully benefit from the session. All participants are required to bring their own laptops. Python+Jupyter programming environment with QISKit installed would be an optimal prerequisite (although not mandatory as we will use online programming environment from IBM Q instead when needed).

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TypeScript for JavaScript Engineers

A WORKSHOP BY

Wojciech Karaś

Software Engineer at VirtusLab

08.10.2019 / 08:30 - 13:00 / św. Filipa 23, Kraków | Sala 2

From the dynamic and chaotic world to the static and structured one. How to leverage TypeScript to make our work as frontend developers more enjoyable and deliver bulletproof applications to the clients. Introduction to TypeScript syntax, type system and best...

REQUIREMENTS

Laptop with VSCode and Node installed. Intermediate level in JS, no previous knowledge of TS is assumed.

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Watson Assistant Workshop

A WORKSHOP BY

Rossella De Gaetano

IBM

06.10.2019 / 13:30 - 15:30 / św. Filipa 23, Kraków | Sala 1

The workshop focuses on the capability to build a conversational interface based on Watson Assistant on IBM Cloud During the workshop you will learn: - How to create an instance of Watson Assistant on IBM Cloud - How to create...

REQUIREMENTS

All participants are required to bring their own laptop and have created an account on IBM Cloud https://cloud.ibm.com

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