Big Techday 8, June 12th, 2015
Our Conference on Science and IT.
Time
I - Maximiliansaal
II - Room Odeon
III - Room Salvator
IV - Room Maffei
V - Preysingsaal
08:30
Admission, registration and pretzels - please arrive early
09:00
I - Maximiliansaal
Get this started
Jolla - the impossible story (in English) (Video)
Carsten Munk, Chief Research Engineer at Jolla
II - Room Odeon
Open source
OpenStreetMap, the spatial database: From road detection to 3D models (Video)
Thomas Skowron, open source developer at OpenStreetMap
III - Room Salvator
Research
Thin-Film transistors based on organic semiconductors for flexible AMOLED displays (in English) (Video)
Hagen Klauk, PhD, Director of the Max Planck Research Group Organic Electronics
IV - Room Maffei
Programming
Spotlets - the HTML mini-apps that make up the Spotify desktop client (in English) (Video)
Mattias Petter Johansson, JavaScript hacker at Spotify
V - Preysingsaal
Artificial intelligence
Do statistical models understand the world? (in English) (Video)
Dr. Ian Goodfellow, Google
09:55
Time to change rooms
10:05
I - Maximiliansaal
Machines that see
Image annotation using Deep Learning and Fisher vectors (in English) (Video)
II - Room Odeon
Open source
Double impact - Elasticsearch faster & cheaper than a commercial product index (Video)
Robert Pintarelli, Principal Consultant at TNG
III - Room Salvator
Research
Social content & model management using SocioCortex (in English) (Video)
Professor Dr. Florian Matthes, Chair for Software Engineering for Business Information Systems at the Technical University of Munich
IV - Room Maffei
Functional programming
Anonymous records in Haskell (in English) (Video)
Nikita Volkov, Software Engineer at Sannsyn AS
V - Preysingsaal
Big Data
Realtime, interactive Big Data with Couchbase 4.0 (in English) (Video)
Tom Green, Solutions Architect at Couchbase
11:00
Coffee break
Time
I - Maximiliansaal
II - Room Odeon
III - Room Salvator
IV - Room Maffei
V - Preysingsaal
VI - Room Pranner
11:30
I - Maximiliansaal
Research
Professor Dr. Immanuel Bloch, Director at the Max-Planck-Institute for quantum optics
II - Room Odeon
Open source
FOSSology - the X-ray radioscopic equipment for the analysis of open source packages
Dr. Michael Jäger, Siemens Corporate Technology, and Dr. Andreas Würl, TNG
III - Room Salvator
Research
Nymote: Git your own cloud here (in English) (Video)
Richard Mortier, PhD, Systems Research Group at the Cambridge University Computer Lab
IV - Room Maffei
Tools
Attack of the buzzwords: Deploying microservices with Docker (in English) (Video)
V - Preysingsaal
The prototype
Seeing like a Terminator - Augmented reality with the Oculus Rift (Video)
Team Red Pill, TNG
Chess: Tactical
How do modern chess engines work? (in Englisch) (Video)
12:30
12:20
12:20
12:25
12:35
12:25
Lunch - with staggered start times for shorter queues
13:45
I - Maximiliansaal
Robotics
Getting our brain to adopt a robotic body (in English)
Professor Dr. Gordon Cheng, Chair of the Institute for Cognitive Systems at the Technical University of Munich
II - Room Odeon
IT security
Email encryption with enigmail - challenges and remarkable issues in order to protect privacy (Video)
Nicolai Josuttis, open source developer
V - Preysingsaal
Management: Agile
Enterprise services planning: Scaling the benefits of Kanban (in English) (Video)
VI - Pranner
Chess: Strategic
Parallelism and selectivity in game tree search (in English) (Video)
Tord Romstad, stockfishchess.org
14:40
Time to change rooms
14:50
I - Maximiliansaal
Artificial intelligence
Professor Dr. Jürgen Schmidhuber, Co-director of the Swiss Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence IDSIA
IV - Room Maffei
Methodology
How to prove large software projects correct (in English) (Video)
Gabriel Gonzalez, developer at Twitter
V - Preysingsaal
Management: Strategic
Johannes Elsner, leader of the Munich office of McKinsey & Company
VI - Room Pranner
Actor-based programming
Pony - A new, race-free, safe & fast actor programming language (in English) (Video)
Sebastian Blessing and Sylvan Clebsch, CEO and CTO at causality.io
15:45
Coffee break
Time
I - Maximiliansaal
II - Room Odeon
III - Room Salvator
IV - Room Maffei
V - Preysingsaal
16:15
I - Maximiliansaal
Constructed worlds
The Witcher 3: Crafting a compelling narrative in a believable open world - between location and content (in English) (Video)
Miles Tost, Level Designer, and Nikolas Kolm, Quest Designer, for "The Witcher 3" of CDProjektRed
II - Room Odeon
IT security
Cloud security with LibVMI virtual machine inspection (in English) (Video)
Tamás Lengyel, Senior Security Researcher at Novetta, and Thomas Kittel, PhD student at the Chair for IT security, Technical University of Munich
III - Room Salvator
Tools
State of the art in recommendation systems (in English)
Kjetil Hustveit and Simen Gan Schweder, sannsyn.com
IV - Room Maffei
Methodology
Twelve speedy tricks for answering NP-complete problems (in English) (Video)
Dr. Antonius Weinzierl, knowledge-based systems group at the Technical University of Vienna
V - Preysingsaal
Innovation
Semantic fingerprinting: Democratising natural language processing (in English) (Video)
Francisco De Sousa Webber, Co-founder and inventor at cortical.io
17:15
End of the main programme, followed by a relaxed get-together with music and lightweight dinner
Time
I - Maximiliansaal
19:00
Evening talk
24:00
End of the event