Tag: Auckland

Postgres window functions in Rails, Thor gem & Android + Turbolinks – Auckland – 23 August 2018

What

Auckland Ruby meetup is a monthly group that explores the use of Ruby. We welcome anyone interested in the language!

We have 3 talks this meetup:

  • Rebecca Pinheiro from Nectar will talk about Postgres window functions in Rails
  • Ricky Hurtado from Trineo will show us how to use the Thor gem
  • James Scott Tayler will build a real world Android app using the Turbolinks Android wrapper with a Rails backend

When and Where

Thursday 23 August 2018
6:30pm to 9:30pm

MYOB Office
Level 5
12 Normanby Rd
Mt Eden
Auckland

How Much

Free

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Ruby Nights: The Auckland Ruby Group

Raising the Bar – Auckland – 28 August 2018

What

The University of Auckland is proud to once again host this unique event in which a range of academics give free public lectures in pubs and bars.

The event will feature 20 talks by leading University of Auckland academics at 10 inner-city Auckland bars.

List of lectures, lecturers and location can be found in this announcement:

Raising the Bar – 20 fascinating talks, 10 bars, one night

Here are a few examples:

I’m looking at you buddy! Yes, Big Brother is everywhere

Who Andrew Chen (Engineering)  Where Snickle  When 6.30pm

We are comfortable with police, traffic and public safety CCTV cameras, right? Now surveillance systems run for commercial interests collect data about our everyday lives: from tracking pedestrian traffic, biometric scanning at ATMs, and facial recognition software in supermarkets and sports events, and much more. Technological advancements in computer vision are pushing the boundaries of how machines understand videos and images.

This talk focuses on privacy implications of modern and advancing surveillance systems, our perceptions of privacy and ways to protect those being observed. That’s you. I’m looking at you. Now.

Lasers, Milk and Sperm

Who Cather Simpson (Science)  Where Mezze Bar  When 6.30pm

Cather’s endlessly-fascinating lasers at the Photon Lab were once thought to be rather useless, possibly indulgent pieces of academic kit.

A few years on those lasers (and clever researchers) have given rise to two award-winning companies: Engender Technologies (a sex-sorting business to accelerate genetic gain and cost efficiencies in large animal reproduction) and Orbis Diagnostics (providing revolutionary in-line milking measurement for the dairy industry, using microfluidics technology for protein, fat, somatic cell and progesterone).

Simple Questions With (Some) Simple Answers: Big Bangs and Black Holes

Who Richar Easther (Science)  Where Vodka Room  When 8pm

Primary school children and scientists often ponder the same questions about space. Was there more than one Big Bang? What happens when you fall into a black hole? Will the universe expand forever?

In this talk Richard outlines the ways that Einstein changed our ideas about space and time and how this leads to deep ideas about the expanding universe and black holes. Now tested with observations and experiments, Richard will share the answers we are finding to some of those questions – and which questions we’re still trying to crack.

Humanity and the machine: Is technology going to make our lives better?

Who Suranga Nanayakkara (Auckland Bioengineering Institute)  Where Birdcage  When 6.30pm

Does dealing with multiple smart devices leave you feeling discombobulated? Suranga says we either spend time figuring out smart technologies, otherwise the way we use them will disconnect us from the actual physical world around us.

So, how can we create devices which extend what we do and how we do it in a way that feels natural? The need for intuitive technology that adapts to us is increasingly apparent.

In this conversation Suranga will highlight human-machine interfaces which break down the barriers between humans and technology, creating seamless human-computer integration blurring where human input ends and technology begins.

Saving the planet – at 400 km/h!

Who Eva Hakansson (Engineering)  Where Birdcage  When 8pm

Eva Hakansson will take you on a high-speed adventure at the famous Bonneville Salt Flats. She readily admits that her 400+ km/h, red, sexy, bullet-shaped electric motorcycle “KillaJoule” is really just “eco-activism in disguise”.

Did we mention that she built it in her backyard shed, in her spare time? With the same dedication as a Greenpeace activist, she uses the unusual channel of high speed racing to open people’s eyes and minds for sustainable technology. Meet a modern version of famous kiwi racer Burt Munro.

Raising the Bar is a worldwide initiative aimed at making education a part of a city’s popular culture. We create one of a kind, knowledge-driven events in unusual locations. Our goal is to raise the bar on the content people consume in their everyday lives.

When and Where

Tuesday 28 August 2018
Lectures start at 6:30pm or 8pm

10 Auckland bars

  • Talulah, Britomart
  • Snickel Lane, 23 Customs St East, CBD
  • Everybody’s, 7 Fort Lane, CBD
  • Mezze Bar, 9 Durham St East, CBD
  • The Oakroom, 17 Drake St, CBD
  • The Birdcage Tavern, 133 Franklin Rd, Freemans Bay
  • La Zeppa, 33 Drake St, Freemans Bay
  • Sweat Shop Brew Kitchen, 7 Sale St, Freemans Bay
  • Little Easy, 198 Ponsonby Road, Ponsonby
  • Vodka Room, 5 Rose Rd, Grey Lynn

How Much

Free. Please book your ticket.
You buy your own food and drink at the bar.
Venues are R18.

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Raising the Bar

If you’re going to 2 talks in 2 different venues, please make sure they are close enough to easily walk from one to another.  If you’ve booked but can’t make it, please let them know so someone else can take your seat.

Visual Analytics Meetup: GapMaps, Making Data Meaningful – Auckland – 2 August 2018

What

This Visual Analytics Monthly Meetup is on the 1st Thursday of every month to discuss all things data, and using Visual Analytic tools like Tableau and others to help people understand data.

Its all about spatial, geolocation, seeing your data answer questions with a spatial reference! We’ll have our traditional introduction and a question for you – – then bring on our presentation for the night!

GapMaps – Making Data Meaningful – https://gapmaps.com

We make data meaningful. Using demographic, government and industry data, viewed through a simple to use mapping platform, we impart powerful, cost-effective insights to our clients. We enable them to create revealing market intelligence for fact-based decision-making.

I’m Alex Wardle – a banking professional most of my career, I was accountable for BNZs network investment, customer experience and change programmes for the branch and ATM network. Now I help people in roles like my old one to make sense of big data, to get the competitive edge and de-risk decisions regarding their investment. In NZ we work with great businesses from Briscoes to BP, McDonalds to Hirepool and Childcare to auto servicing.

When and Where

5pm – 7:30pm
Thursday 2 August 2018

Sweat Shop Brew Bar
7 Sale Street
Freeman’s Bay
Auckland

How Much

Free

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August 2018 Meetup
Visual Analytics Meetup Page

EVworld NZ: Electric Vehicle Public Expo – Auckland – 22 August 2018

What

EVworld NZ is the electric vehicle expo to experience all sorts of e-vehicles. Ride and drive cars, e-bikes, e-scooters and attend seminars to answer your questions. Free and held at ASB Showgrounds on Saturday 11 August.

Thousands of EV curious turned up to New Zealand’s first EV showcase in 2017. This is your opportunity to experience the future of transport.

There will be Ride/Drive experiences for the public in a carefully managed environment.
Ride/Drives in EV’s.
Free Public Seminars.
Free exhibition of EV’s, E-Bikes, E-Scooters and the Suppliers.
E-Bike experience track and much more including prizes and giveaways.

Sat 11th ‘public day’ follows industry trade days on 9th & 10th August. If you want to meet, experience or do business with prospective buyers and promoters of electric & hybrid cars-bikes-scooters; charging & infrastructure then see the website for the Industry Forums and Industry B2B Conference.

When and Where

ASB Showgrounds,
217 Greenlane West,
Epsom, Auckland

9am – 5pm
Saturday 11 Auguest 2018

How Much

Free

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Evworld Website
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NZIFF: Paul Callaghan: Dancing with Atoms – Auckland – 24, 27 and 28 July 2018

What

Paul Callaghan: Dancing with Atoms (2018)
Directed by Shirley Horrocks
Documentary

Shirley Horrocks, cine-biographer of many notable New Zealand artists, delivers an invaluable survey of the work and legacy of one of our most exceptional scientists and public figures.

Shirley Horrocks will present her film in person at its NZIFF screenings. There’ll be a Q+A at the following screenings.

Sir Paul Callaghan, physicist, science communicator, entrepreneur and 2011 New Zealander of the year, died in 2012, of cancer, when he was in his prime. As well as doing research into nuclear magnetic resonance, he was writing books, giving public lectures and sharing his vision of a prosperous and predator-free New Zealand – “a place,” he said, “where talent wants to live.”

Shirley Horrocks, who met Callaghan while making her 2012 film Venus: A Quest, focuses here on his life in science. Through big brother Jim, classmates, colleagues and Callaghan himself – in a series of interviews filmed in 2010 – we journey from Callaghan’s childhood in Whanganui, to his work at Massey University, then to Victoria University of Wellington and the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology. There are dramatisations of schoolboy high jinks and footage from Callaghan’s trips to Antarctica.

Callaghan’s life, and the film, takes a turn after his move to Wellington, where he applied himself beyond physics to art–science collaborations, economics and conservation. “Suddenly it became OK for scientists to work with artists,” says physicist Shaun Hendy about his former mentor. Poet Bill Manhire, cartoonist Dylan Horrocks, broadcaster Kim Hill and Weta Workshop’s Richard Taylor are among those who describe how Callaghan expanded the conversation between science and wider society and rallied people to his causes, many of which continue after his death.

Anyone who knew Paul, or was affected by his work, will want to see this tribute. — Rebecca Priestley

When and Where

6:15 PM, 24 July 2018 at ASB Waterfront Theatre.

11:45 AM, 27 July 2018 at Rialto Cinemas Newmarket.

1:45 PM, 28 July 2018 at Rialto Cinemas Newmarket.

Duration: 103 minutes

How Much

The Tuesday 24 July screening is a special fundraiser presentation with the proceeds going to the Cancer Society of NZ. Ticket details can be found on the Ticket Pricing page.

Link for purchasing tickets

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Paul Callaghan: Dancing with Atoms (2018) – NZIFF Auckland, NZ On Screen (with trailer),

NZ International Film Festival in Auckland on 19 July – 12 August 2018. Meet the filmmakers.

Auckland Game Development Meetup – Kiwijam Special 2018 – Auckland – 22 July 2018

What

You are cordially invited to view a selection of local game developers work in progress and Kiwijam games.

Kiwijam is a 48 hour game making event where participants work on either their own projects or start projects from scratch based on a nationwide theme announced at the event.

On the last night of the event all participants, plus any other guests wanting to show their work, set up their work to be ready to play at 6pm.

If you would like to come and see some current local talent and what they are capable of, please come along at 6pm, enjoy free nibbles and drinks, play some games, meet some devs and enjoy the vibe.

When and Where

AUT Room WG901-902-903
2 Governor Fitzroy Place AUT WG Building, Level 9 · Auckland

How Much

Free. RSVP by 1 PM on 22 July 2018.

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Auckland Game Development Meetup – Kiwijam Special 2018

SPONSORS
A big thanks to AUT PIGSTY and NZGDA .

Refactor – Auckland – 22 August 2018

What

Refactor has an amazing international line-up for August. We’re so excited to welcome Lara Hogan and Deepa Subramaniam all the way from New York, and they will be joined by HYPR’s Gillian Clark. We’re back at the amazing Warren & Mahoney studio in Wynyard Quarter.

Speaker Profiles

Lara Hogan

Lara Callender Hogan (@lara_hogan) is an engineering leader, coach, and consultant at Wherewithall. She is also the author of Designing for Performance (O’Reilly, 2014), Building a Device Lab (Five Simple Steps, 2015), and Demystifying Public Speaking (A Book Apart, 2016). Lara champions engineering management as a practice, having built and led engineering organizations as an Engineering Director at Etsy and VP of Engineering at Kickstarter. In her world tour to advocate performance to designers and developers alike, Lara has keynoted the Velocity Conference, presented at Google I/O, and given talks at companies like The New York Times to help shift them toward a culture of performance. While at Etsy, Lara co-created the initial physical device labs, and co-authored a tutorial and book for companies interested in building their own lab. Lara also believes it’s important to celebrate career achievements with donuts.

Deepa Subramaniam

Deepa Subramaniam (@iamdeepa) has spent 15+ years leading large product teams to collaboratively build innovative digital products with mass reach. She is the co-founder of Wherewithall, an advising company dedicated to helping tech startups and non-profits strategize, grow and execute with ease. Deepa is on the Board of Directors for DonorDrive which has helped worthy causes raise over $1 billion. Prior to Wherewithall, Deepa was Vice President of Product and Design at Kickstarter. Before Kickstarter, she was the Director of Product at Hillary for America where she helped lead product for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign focusing on online fundraising, hillaryclinton.com and bespoke policy and rapid response digital products. Before Hillary for America, Deepa led product at charity: water, a non-profit dedicated to bringing clean water to the developing world. She started her career at Adobe, first as a Computer Scientist and later as a principle product manager on Creative Cloud. She champions data-driven design iteration, achieving high-velocity team output in fast-paced environments, and building collaboration and joy into company culture.

Gillian Clark

Gillian Clark (@gillian_clark) is the CEO of HYPR Innovation. She has spent her entire career in IT after giving up on the idea of being a Flying Doctor in Australia after realising she couldn’t stand the sight of blood or vomit! She needed something that involved less bodily fluids, and IT sounded pretty safe. Little did she know the horrors of some projects felt like she really was metaphorically cleaning up messes! After completing a Computing Science degree (having the dubious honour of using a Hollerith Punch machine to write her Cobol code), her career path went through a traditional route of programmer to analyst to IT Manager then to CIO and then out to Consulting. Gillian has always been searching for a better way to do things. Those messes kept on turning up, and she wanted to find a way to make them smaller, more manageable, or even not happen. She began a journey of discovery of a Lean/Agile mindset, taking her to SAFe® (one of 50 SAFe® trainers in the world). This way of working was so inspiring that she formed HYPR so she could share her experience with others, and has now helped over 90 companies develop better software.

Please respect Refactor’s Code of Conduct.

All thanks to our awesome sponsors AUT, vend, & Pushpay.

When and Where

Wednesday, August 22, 2018
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM

Warren & Mahoney, 139 Pakenham Street West, Auckland. (Map)

How Much

$25

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Is React Magic? And how do I build an iOS app? JuniorDev – Auckland – 31 July 2018

What

Is React Magic? And how do I build an iOS app?

Join us at Movio, where we’ll hear Kirk from Xero, and Rohit from Trail Software!

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By day, Kirk is a frontend engineer at Xero building tiny bits of content that go into bigger bits of content for your local internet box. Also by day, he is a graduate team lead building up the next lot of code magicians. By night, he does other stuff probably.

All the hip cool companies seem to be using React now. But what even is it? Is it magic?? Why is there HTML in my JavaScript? Come learn how React and the tools around it work under the hood (it’s not magic).

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Rohit is a senior Software developer for Trail Software. At Trail, they deliver next generation software to Mortgage and Insurance advisers to help them accelerate sales and grow their advice business. Rohit specialises in building web applications with mostly backend technologies like C# but has recently started the journey on building Mobile IOS Applications with Swift and Objective C.

Rohit will be sharing his story of building his first IOS app, along with some tips and techniques about using XCODE and the Swift Programming language. He will also be talking about how to make your app compatible with different iphone models(including Iphone X) and Native Deployment Techniques without using any third party apps.

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Remember to respect our Code of Conduct during all JuniorDev interactions. This is a safe and inclusive space for everyone!

A massive thanks to our sponsors for this event:
Movio as a venue sponsor!
Propellerhead for catering!

When and Where

Tuesday, July 31, 2018
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Movio
Unit 4, Level 2, Site 3,
30 St Benedicts St, Eden Terrace,  Auckland.

How Much

Free. RSVP here.

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Women in Tech Meetup – Auckland – 31 July 2018

What

Lightning Talks

Women in Tech Auckland hosts regular events for our community, and our purpose is to create networks and amplify the voices of people from marginalised groups. We’re looking for speakers for our next event, on 31 July, which will be a series of short Lightning Talks.

This is a format where you get 5 minutes to speak, you provide 20 slides, which are set to advance automagically every 15 seconds. For people who want to practice their speaking skills, Lightning Talks give you the opportunity to present for the first time without having to create a formal presentation proposals, and its short so its a great intro to speaking in public. A good lightning talk is insightful, inspiring, thought-provoking, useful, humorous, controversial, or enlightening.

You do not have to be an experienced speaker! Your work and time are valuable even if you have never spoken before. We are happy to meet with you for coffee and brainstorm ideas, as well as attend a dry run of your talk and provide constructive feedback.

Let us know if you’d like to do a Lightning Talk using this form.

We value the participation of each member of our community and want all attendees to have an enjoyable and fulfilling experience. Please familiarise yourself with our Code of Conduct ahead of attending a Women in Tech meetup.

When and Where

ASB Cube North Wharf, 12 Jellicoe St, Auckland

How Much

Free. Please RSVP.

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Women in Tech Meetup Auckland – Lightning Talks

Many thanks to ASB (https://www.asb.co.nz/) for sponsoring and hosting this event.

IoT at Newmarket Innovation Precinct with Auckland University – Auckland – 17 July 2018

What

The IoT Auckland Meetup is invited to the Newmarket Innovation Precinct. Hear an introduction to the NIP and the IoT projects underway.

Jarmo Crivelli, Business Development Manager at Uniservices is presenting on using the Internet of Things in the Mining and Resource sector. These are examples of IoT innovation to achieve more automation and address challenges that are faced. Hear about the pros and cons of this approach.

We’re pleased to have the invitation from NIP and we are discussing future collaboration for the benefit of the IoT Auckland Meetup membership. How do you think we can accelerate IoT in NZ together?

John McDermott will have a update from the LoRa Alliance Annual Conference.

As always in the agenda, networking with group members to make new friends and discover what others are working on; local IoT news; update on recent IoT Auckland Meetup activities; and your chance to quick pitch a project or request for help.

A snack meal is included. That’s what your ticket pays for, thank you.

Parking will be available on site.

Please come along to learn, discover and network.

When and Where

Tuesday, July 17, 2018
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

University of Auckland, Newmarket
314-390 Khyber Pass Road, Auckland 1023

How Much

$12.50. Buy tickets here.

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