Waterkant Festival 2019

Currently, the English Wikipedia contains about 5,8 million articles. For this huge amount of data, very efficient techniques are required to find the relevant answers for millions of users. The field of Question Answering has made tremendous progress in the last few years and algorithms are now capable of extracting precise spans of text that answer a specific question.

Presentation of Hacker School concept

Gründe warum man unbedingt ein Tech-Startup gründen sollte, auch wenn vieles dagegen spricht, insbesondere als Frau

The story starts with a hackathon and ends up with having a forecasting engine for revenue in production.
Some talk ingredients:
# Prophet: forecasting at scale (facebook research)
# Airflow: platform to programmatically author, schedule and monitor workflows
# Presto: distributed SQL query engine for big data

Discussing ethical questions might easily seem to be of philosophical or theoretical nature. In the case of Artificial Intelligence (AI), these are very practical questions relating to the trustworthiness of respective software.
The European Commission assigned a High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI HLEG), which recently proposed Ethics Guidelines for the application of AI and will also propose policy and investment recommendations within the next couple of month on how to make sure and foster that AI is used in accordance with these guidelines. After a short introduction on AI and the particular relevance of ethical questions for this type of software, the Ethics Proposal of the AI HLEG will be presented, and its possible practical consequences for companies applying AI software will be discussed.

Are your planning to develop and to market an app? You are definitely eager to start your project. But there are some legal aspects you should be aware of right from the beginning: Where do you want to offer your app? Have you checked the specific technical requirements and marketing conditions of the app store? Are you using any third party content in your app (e.g., Google Maps)? If so, are you entitled to do so? Is your app processing any personal data? And have you checked that the name of your app is not infringing any third party rights? These and many more legal aspects will be covered in the session. 

What are the requirements for good mentoring, how can they be fulfilled and why is mentoring important? We are going to answer these and other questions using our mentoring community „devconnect“ as an example. After our talk we would like to engage in a lively discussion with you about your personal experiences with mentoring and learn what insights you have gained from them.

I see the smart home world from a consumers perspective and I was always frustrated. Overpriced, poorly written apps not upgraded in a while, no open api, connecting to a "cloud" without knowing what data gets collected about me - this list can go on and on... I want to show you that there are alternatives out there and I believe everyone can start their own DIY journey to make their home smart - in a good way.