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Even in these difficult times the TNG employees gave everything and made the most of the current situation by using virtual formats for lectures and events. Two of our colleagues presented "Deepfakes 2.0 – How neural networks change the world" at various conferences, such as the Java Forum Stuttgart, as well as on the TV program WDR reporter. In summer the JungChemikerForum was pleased to host TNG for the lecture "Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry". At the beginning of autumn we topped it off and were not only part of the EnterJS but also of the Developer Week, one of the largest independent developer conferences in Europe, with the lecture "Automated Testing of an Angular Application".

TNG is now officially the first German Intel® oneAPI Technology Partner. We support Intel® in the area of Artificial Intelligence and help companies to implement and roll out projects utilizing oneAPI on various hardware. The advantage of oneAPI: Write your software once and deploy it not only on CPUs but also on GPUs, FPGAs, TPUs and other acceleration hardware.

TNG can also support your oneAPI project. We have many years of AI experience and have successfully implemented projects with this new technology. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us!

Sport and computer science don't really go together? On the contrary! The conference Spinfortec2020 brought those two disciplines together, and featured a talk given by one of our colleagues, Marc Schuh, who is on the one hand a competitive athlete, and on the other a computer scientist. He presented one of the TNG Innovation Hacking Team's exciting projects at this year's iteration of the conference, in which he explained how the technical analysis for professional athletes, supported by video, can be enhanced and automated with computer vision and artificial intelligence.

The talk was so well received by the participants that Marc won the audience award, and moreover by a significant margin. We are pleased and proud to celebrate his distinction and are grateful to our partner, the Olympiastützpunkt Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar for their support in this fascinating project.

Curious to learn more? Then take a look at our Big Techday talk on the Kanu KI Analyser. Our playlist also has links to lots of other interesting talks.

Now it's official: we are the first Slack Services Partner in the German speaking regions of Europe! We are excited to support customers in their integration challenges with tailored apps and slick integration solutions for the popular communication platform. We'll help you to embed Slack into your different systems and workflows - according to your needs. Agilely and sustainably.

Are you facing a complex challenge or are you looking for a specific solution? Get in touch! You can find details about our cooperation with Slack and contact information here.

Continuous, strategic development is so important to us at TNG that we organize a strategy retreat once a year in summer. We do so with all of our colleagues, because we are proud of all of them and want to integrate their knowledge and skills in the best way possible. Accordingly, on this day we distribute strategic information and exchange innovative ideas, as well as reflect collectively on TNG within the framework of open space or bar camp sessions.

In addition to the lively discussions and diverse opportunities for socializing, our summer retreat has so far been shaped by summer sun, summit lights, whirlpool fun, and alpine hotel rooms. Because of Corona, however, it was not possible to repeat it in this form. But did we let that stop us?

Of course not! Without missing a beat, we virtualized our summer retreat 2020 and conducted it remotely - with great success.

If you would like to learn more about the concept and technical implementation, you can find two detailed articles (in German) on our first remote summer retreat on LinkedIn. We are looking forward to your comments, ideas and the exchange of experiences. Follow us on LinkedIn and stay tuned!

A recent workshop with JHipster Core Developer David Steiman ensured that a number of our consultants can optimally support our clients and are up to date with the state of the art in JHipster, in keeping with TNG's ethos of continued professional development for all colleagues, even during the Corona crisis. JHipster is one of the Java world's most popular code generators, and sees much activity on GitHub as well as being used by many companies. The workshop covered topics such as fast realisation of proof-of-concepts and sketching of microservice landscapes. Particularly central was the question of how applications can be developed so as to avoid maintenance-heavy JHipster upgrades.

The workshop took place before Big Techday 2020, under whose auspices David Steiman, together with Frederik Hahne, presented a talk on the JHipster Development Platform. The talk is available on YouTube (in German).

Were you unable to attend the Virtual Big Techday on May 8th? Missed a talk? Or was there a talk so good you want to watch it again? Many talks are now online in our YouTube playlist. From A ("Autonomous Football Robots in the RoboCup Small Size League") to Z ( "Wie Zahlen Farben Schaffen - How Numbers Create Colours") you'll find it all there. Happy Watching!

How deceptively real are deepfakes? And do they also work in real time? In the WDR programme “reporter”, TNG Innovation Hacking shed light on how photo-realistic and high-quality deepfakes can be, with a demonstration of reporter Saadet Czapski appearing to present "Tagesschau“, the best-known German news programme. Deep Fakes are images or videos that have been altered or falsified by artificial intelligence techniques, and are mostly used in "face swapping", i.e., faces are exchanged in order to create the illusion of seeing another person in the picture or video. TNG's team explained how, after two days of training the artificial neural networks, the results look deceptively real. Deep Fakes can even be created in real time, using a technology that has been developed for research purposes only and that is presented in the report. The technology developed by TNG is not accessible to the public and has the purpose of creating media competence and an awareness of how well-advanced the technology in this area already is. The report was broadcasted on June 1st, 2020 and can be seen on YouTube.

We have set up the event location for our Big Techday conference, which will be taking place tomorrow (8th of May 2020). This year, instead of carrying chairs and moving tables – it took lots of code! Our virtual event location has (almost) everything normally found at a conference - although we sadly cannot provide food this year. There are zoom webinars representing each of our "lecture rooms", and it's possible to switch back and forth between them. The talks will also be streamed live on Youtube (Link). Various Slack channels are available to chat with our speakers and other attendees. There will even be tours through our exhibition!

Coming soon: TNG presents the annual Big Techday. The science and technology conference, with a focus on IT, will stream live online on Friday May 8th, 2020. We are excited to present talks on subjects such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, programming languages as well as on trends and topics far removed from the regular everyday of IT consulting, e.g. the interaction of science and philosophy. The Big Techday offers an opportunity to think outside the box and gain insights into many varied and highly interesting fields. This year our speakers include, Pawel Kmiec "The Story of Glomar Explorer in a Giant LEGO Version", Joseph Viehauser and Maximilian Bode "Creating a Data-Driven, Cloud-Native Ecosystem at the BMW Group", as well as many more. Further information including the complete timetable and abstracts of the talks can be found here. We are already looking forward to a uniquely interesting and entertaining Big Techday.