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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.

TNG colleagues were still out and about towards the end of the year, giving lectures at various conferences, for instance at the ContainerConf 2019 with the lecture "Tools for building container images". At the ObjektForum in Munich two colleagues supported the heroic mission to "Rescue the Mudolith". Colleagues were also pleased to speak in front of enthusiastic listeners at the WiMa Congress in Ulm and ML Conference in Berlin.

In November and December TNG also organized events and meetups, such as the two day Software Architecture and Design Bar Camp SwaCamp 2019 or the Scrum Speakers Munich Meetup.

In September and October our colleagues were out and about again presenting the topics "Deep Fakes" and Style Transfer in showcases and lectures: at the NerdNite and Media Days in Munich, the Autumn Campus in Nuremberg, the JavaZone Conference in Oslo, the KanDDDinsky in Berlin and the JFall in Ede.

Colleagues also gave lectures on diverse topics, such as "7 ways to run Apache Flink on AWS" or "Automated Testing of an Angular Application" at various conferences. TNG was preset at the AWS Community Day Germany, the WDC Conference and the Open Source Summit Europe.

TNG also took part in Meetups and User Groups in September and October: the Piazza Meetup, the Software Architecture Meetup Nuremberg and Meetup der Wardley Mapping Community. We again organized the  Haskell Hackathon MuniHac in September.

The Big Techday, our annual conference on science and IT, took place for the twelfth year on 7 June 2019, comprising more than 40 lectures in up to seven parallel tracks. The videos of many lectures can now be found on the program page.

We are proud of the successful twelfth edition of our Big Techday and are already looking forward to next year: Big Techday 13 takes place on 8 May 2020. Save the date!

Summer is internship time at TNG and we were happy to welcome 18 interns with ten different nationalities and from six different universities in June, July and August.

Many students joined us from the United Kingdom. This is partly due to our partnership with the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. In 2019 we were named Gold Standard Internship Host by the University of Oxford, due to the very good co-operation.

TNG gave a talk "Style Transfer AI - How Neural Nets generate Art" at the TDWI Conference and the DWX Developer Week. Also at the DWX Developer Week, TNG colleagues hosted a workshop on Kubernetes basics. TNG was represented at the Summer BOB 2019 in Berlin with a lecture, "Functional Design Patterns".

TNG also hosted a meeting of the Wardley Mapping Community Munich and organized the Design Thinking Munich Meetup as well as the PyData Meetup.

TNG was present at the Minds Mastering Machines in Mannheim with the keynote lecture "Style Transfer - How neural networks generate art" as well as a talk "AI-supported quality assurance in aircraft construction. At the TEQNation in Utrecht, colleagues gave a lecture entitled "Stereoscopic Real-time Style Transfer AI - Art is not what you see?"

At the Java User Group Stuttgart, a colleague gave a lecture "Test Driven Architecture". TNG also hosted the first meeting of the Wardley Mapping Community Munich and organized the Atlassian User Group Munich.

TNG was present at the JavaLand 2019 in Brühl with the talks "Test Driven Architecture" and "Stereoscopic Style Transfer AI - Art is not what you see?" The latter talk was also held at the Codemotion in Amsterdam. Colleagues also spoke on "Microservices with Akka Streams" at the microXchg in Berlin, "Applicative DSLs" at the BobKonf 2019 in Berlin, "How Machines learn to code - Machine Learning auf Basis von Source Code" at the AccSoCon in Montabaur and "Preventing Manipulation of Enterprise Databases using Public Blockchains" at the Praxisforum Blockchain 2019 in Munich. Internationally, TNG was present at the Open Source Leadership Summit 2019 near San Fransisco with the talk "FOSSology Project - Latest News and Future Plans" and the lecture "Test Driven Architecture" at the JEEConf in Kiev.

TNG also contributed lectures or organizational assistance to the following user groups: Angular Meetup, Anonyme Agilisten Munich Meetup, Atlassian User Group Munich, Deep Learning Meetup Munich, Design Thinking Munich, Kotlin User Group Munich, Munich Frontend Developers Meetup, Open Infra Meetup Munich, PHP User Group Munich and Software Architecture Munich.

TNG was present at the OOP Conference in Munich with multiple showcases like "Real-time gesture control in a browser game" and the VR game "ParrotAttacks Unreal" as well as the lecture "Stereoscopic Style Transfer AI - art isn't what you see?". The latter was also held at the Intel AIDC in Munich. Another colleague spoke on the topic "FOSSology - Two New Approaches for Licence Scanning" at the Linux Foundation's Open Compliance Summit in Yokohama. TNG attended the Software Quality Days in Vienna, giving a lecture "How machines learn to code - Machine learning on source code".

Colleagues also gave talks at various User Groups: "Artificial Intelligence in JavaScript using Tensorflow.js" at the Munich NodeJS User Group and the Hacking Machine Learning User Group, as well as "How we run Flink on Kubernetes at Telefónica NEXT" at the Apache Flink Meetup Munich.

In 2018 TNG was amongst the awardees of "Bavaria's Best 50" for the forth time (after 2010, 2012, 2015).