This week, we have plenty of technical talks, and a few tech socials to mix and mingle.
November 22, 2022
Vancouver Tech Morning Coffee at addy
As the weather cools down, we’re taking the weekly Vancouver Tech Morning Coffee indoors.
As usual, you’re invited to join us every Tuesday between 8:00am-10:00am to connect with the Vancouver tech community in an informal atmosphere. But now, every week we’re switching locations, thanks to a number of fantastic community hosts.
Check out a new office, discover a new career, find your next co-founder, or learn something new – do it all at one of our upcoming coffee meetups.
Please register, so our hosts can ensure the best experience for us all.
Tuesday, November 1: The Home Key
Tuesday, November 8: ECOMsquare
Tuesday, November 15: CBRE
Tuesday, November 22: addy
Tuesday, November 29: Microsoft
We’re taking December off, but if you’re interested in hosting January? Get in touch: william@vantechjournal.com
The Morning Coffee Tech Tour is organized by Vancouver Tech Journal and its partners.
Takes place at addy Technology Corp @ 2168 West 8th Avenue
SAFe DevOps - Optimizing Value Stream
RSVP here: https://www.meetup.com/NET-User-Group-of-BC/events/289762527
In this session, we will introduce SAFe DevOps and how to optimize Value Stream in your organization, including
Mapping Value Stream
Gaining alignment with Continuous Exploration
Building quality with Continuous Integration
Reducing time -to-market with Continuous Deployment
Delivering business value with Release on Demond
Achieving DevOps maturity
SPEAKER
Tony Shi is an accomplished technology leader with over 25 years of experience running IT departments and delivering great user experiences and high-quality products and services on time and within budget. With a long-term sustainable strategy, he is passionate about creating technical visions, roadmaps, management of team growth, process improvement, software design and development, and DevOps. With strong leadership and high productivity, he has led many teams to build large software systems and applications successfully with best industrial practices. He is Director of Software Development at UniUni.Tony has a Master's degree in Engineering, Certificate of Specialization of Leadership and Management from Harvard Business School, Certified SAFe DevOps Practitioner, Certified SAFe Agilist and Certified Scrum Master.
UX Research Method - Sopheclean Prototyping
This workshop is built around a method called role play, which uses voice and writing to make, test, and iterate an idea. Participants are first paired up and assigned roles. One person represents a user, and one person represents a product or service that will be interrogated by that user. As a jumping off point, we might say that the product or service is a voice user interface like Siri. Once the roles are assigned to the pairs, they have a conversation based on their roles; in this case, a conversation between Siri, and a person using Siri. This often happens for a timed interval of ten minutes. After the ten minutes is up, the second half of the workshop begins. In the same pairs, the same conversation happens except this time, we focus on variations of the product or service. The workshop concludes with a takeaway idea. Next time, try this process instead of in pairs, in a group of three, where the third person is a note taker who just listens to the interactive conversation between the pair and turns it into writing. In addition to voice user interfaces, this can easily be adapted to interrogate the relationship between users and mobile devices, or within more pioneering technologies like VR and AR.
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Speaker Bio
Thomas Girard (12/30/1980) is a delegate, author, assistant professor, and speaker. As a delegate he’s invited to speak in 2023 at the Sorbonne Université in Paris, France on “Advanced Typography Workshops in Quarantine”. As an author, he’s written 6 books including the internationally acclaimed “Emerging Scholar: Gratitude of an Award Recipient”. He has taught as an Assistant Professor at the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, and has a TEDx talk translated into 14+ languages.
Details and RSVP here: https://www.meetup.com/the-vancouver-ux-research-lab/events/289223821
November 23, 2022
Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) Workshop
It's been a while and we are very excited to see you all again, IN PERSON!
Many websites can fall short of delivering their full commercial and service potential. In this workshop we will share CRO fundamentals that can help organizations achieve optimal website conversions for increased revenue and engagement.
Topic: Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO)
When: November 23rd, 6-7pm
Where: Brainstation - 455 Granville Street (Ground Floor), Vancouver, BCAreas To Be Covered:
Goal setting
Measuring success
CRO best practices
Copy and CTA’s
The expert review
Refreshments will be served. Seating is limited, reserve your spot now!
We look forward to seeing you!
Graphically Speaking Team
https://graphicallyspeaking.ca/
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/conversion-rate-optimization-cro-tickets-465476602047
November 24, 2022
Cloud Scale Analytics & Data Mesh
Join us in person, at the new Microsoft Headquarters in downtown Vancouver for a practical introduction to Microsoft's Cloud Scale Analytics.
Learn how to construct and promote a Data Mesh implementation strategy in your organization that is scalable and removes roadblocks to deriving value from data.
Learn about empowering teams through data self-service and implementation Azure landing zones to help create an agile and secure modern data platform.
Location: 7th Floor - 155 Water StreetAgenda:
• 3:30 to 4:00 - Networking & Social
• 4:00 to 5:00 - Andrew Boudreau presents Data MeshSome of the topics we'll be speaking about in an interactive & (hopefully) fun session:
✅ What exactly is Microsoft's Cloud-scale analytics approach? (https://lnkd.in/gWaMhrgG)
✅ Adopting data mesh thinking (https://lnkd.in/gueZpse9)
✅ Getting started with our deployment templates (https://lnkd.in/gsijmXBV)
✅ Building blocks for your data landing zone architectures (https://lnkd.in/gpJ-menb)
✅ And more!
RSVP here: https://www.meetup.com/calgary-big-data-meetup-group/events/289504484
Writing REST services for the gRPC-Curious
Writing REST services for the gRPC-Curious
We'll dive into what we mean by REST, why it may not be the right tool for every job, talk a little about gRPC and introduce a tool for writing REST services with a gRPC backend, then move on to a live demo in Go using the capabilities of the tooling.
Presented by Johan Brandhorst
Johan has been doing Go and open source since 2016, has worked at companies ranging from single person startups to multi-national enterprises and given talks all around the world, but is now mostly working on his trail running goals for the Squamish 50.
Join us at Studio Collab (
https://www.studiocollab.ca)!
RSVP here: https://www.meetup.com/squamishtech/events/289377791
November 25th, 2022
Crissy's Club: Women in Tech + Game Social
RSVP here: https://www.meetup.com/extremely-shy-looking-for-friends/events/288109782/
👋 Grab a coffee and join Mandeep (web dev) and I (UX design) for a friendly chat about Women in Tech at Quantum Coffee
✨ Normally this venue is closed; it's exclusively available for us to have this chat on:
gaining creative confidence
avoiding burnout
fostering compassion in leaders so they empathize with stakeholders
time-permitting, we will do rapid-fire AMA (ask me anything) about design and dev work
where + when?
Friday, Nov 25 at 7 - 9 pm
455 Granville St. Vancouver, BC
Quantum Coffee located inside BrainStation YVR campus
https://goo.gl/maps/gjAKsWZ5fwytLKY59Note: there is no coffee there at this time so grab a drink from home, or get a tea or something from Starbucks or Trees nearby before you head inside ☕️
who's this for?
you're a student, teacher, designer, DEV, PM looking to network
you're an international student who wants to meet native English speakers to practice your English
you're new in town and want to meet locals who enjoy coffee chats
you want to learn more about UX Design, Web Dev, Data Science, Digital Marketing
you want to learn how to get started on Figma (Crissy's fave design tool for collaborating, wireframing, prototyping)
Appreciation
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More events coming up
November 29th, 2022 — Data Science Reading Group
November 30th, 2022 — Women's Maker Meet Up
November 30th, 2022 — Code Club
December 1st, 2022 — Starting and Building a Career in Data
December 1st, 2022 — WordCamp Vancouver 2023 -- Planning
December 17th, 2022 — Coffee + Casual Networking
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