Web Summit | Lisbon tech community

Web Summit is moving to Lisbon this year. To kick things off our whole engineering team will be in Lisbon next week.

We'd like to introduce ourselves to the local tech community and would love to get to know some developers from Lisbon.

Meetup agenda for Jan 21st

• 19:00 - 20:00 Developers from Web Summit will present a few lightning talks on what we do in Web Summit and what technology we use.

• 20:00 - 21:00 Developers from local tech community present a few lightning talks on various technologies.

• 21:00 onwards will be get to know each other, talk about exciting technology in 2016.

Beer and Pizza will be provided :)

We're also having a casual coffee/beer session on Tuesday Jan 19th, everyone is welcome. We're kicking off at 19:00 in Henessy's Pub on Cais de Sodré (https://www.google.pt/maps/place/Hennessy).

If you'd like to present a 5-10 minute lightning talk please email tianyi@websummit.net or fionnan@websummit.net, or leave a comment below

Lightning Talks

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Talk 1: Building High performance APIs with Elixir and Phoenix -- Tianyi Wang (Software Engineer @ Web Summit)

Talk 2: Image analysis and data science: Application of particle image velocimetry to crowd management -- Dr. Aaron Megher (Senior Data Scientist @ Web Summit)

Talk 3: Neo4J (with a side of Clojure) - a look at Web Summit's use of Neo4J graph database and Clojure -- Dr. Steven Tobin (Senior Data Scientist @ Web Summit)

Talk 4: The conference as an API -- Kingsley Kelly (Senior Developer @ Web Summit)

Talk 5: Graph Analytics on Neo4j with Apache Spark --Fionnán Alt (Lead Data Scientist @ Web Summit)

Talk 6: A look how Cassandra can help your applications scale fast and easy -- Carlos Rolo (Cassandra MVP @ Pythian)

Talk 7: Ticketing and check-in processes in limited connectivity environments -- Emília Catarina Oliveira (Last2Ticket)

Talk 8: Golang for data: Using Golang to easily extract and process data faster -- Alexandre Jesus