#HNLondon, October 2015

In case you were wondering what the full lineup is for this Thursday, here it is:

-- If you signed up but can no longer make it, please update RSVP so someone else can take your place--
18:30 - Beer and pizza
19:00 - Sponsor intros
19:10 - Motti Strom: Write everywhere, run once
We will share the best practices and lessons learned from our experience in building CopyCopy (https://www.copycopy.com), a cross-device cloud clipboard.
19:30 - Hawkeye King (https://twitter.com/hawkeye_king): Foundations and Frontiers of Telerobotic Surgery
This talk will discuss methods in robotic surgery from pure human control to combined human-computer control; including the use of computational virtual fixtures and mixed autonomy to assist the human operator.
19:50 - Break
20:10 - Mio Nilsson (https://twitter.com/iceydee): Stop pushing revolution, we should be focusing on evolution
How to keep pace with rapid new product developments without compromising on the stability and flexibility of your app.
20:30 - Janna Bastow (https://twitter.com/simplybastow): Product-Market Fit is an illusion
21:00 - Pub - www.thewindmillinthecity.com (http://www.thewindmillinthecity.com/)

We now have over 60 developers signed up to the contractor mailing list and are now speaking to companies about promoting their roles on it. If are looking for contractors and want to promote the job free of charge to awesome devs, please email contracts@hnlondon.com. If you want to receive contract gigs direct from hiring companies sign up at http://eepurl.com/byq7Af . Dedicated site coming soon.

As always the event is accompanied by tons of free beer and pizza. Our beer has now been upgraded to 100% craft beer courtesy of our friends at Craft Rebellion (http://craftrebellion.com/).

Videos of past talks are online at http://vimeo.com/hnlondon . If you are into the whole Twitter thing, the hashtag for the event is #HNLondon.

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