Azure Meetup Berlin - March 2017

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Please see directions below how to get to the location of the Event (Computer Futures, Berlin)

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We have an international line-up of speakers for this evening with a diverse range of topics and we are looking forward to welcoming you from 18:30 in order for us to start at 19:00. Here is the agenda for the evening:

Agenda:

Talk 1: Ratzfatz SmartHome with Azure IoT (60 min)
Kick-start your very personal Home Automation project with less than 20€ budget. In this session we will describe the minimum set of hardware and software (including Azure Services) skills you need to kick-off your home automation experiments. A bit of micro-controller basics mixed with cheap hardware from China and you are ready to have your first “smart” device. You will be amazed how really cheap it is to get started!

Speaker: Anton Staykov (https://www.linkedin.com/in/astaykov/)Ex- 5 times Microsoft Azure MVP and current Cloud Solution Architect by Microsoft. Azure is his passion which he develops since the early days (2008-2009) when the Azure platform was called Windows Azure and had just about 4-5 Services. After spending more than decade on actually write a code, since 2012 Anton focuses on helping smaller and larger companies overcome the fear of the Cloud and successfully move to the Microsoft Azure platform. You can find him occasionally on StackOverflow ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/azure ) and Twitter ( https://twitter.com/astaykov ). His last project is the web site for short Azure technical videos – http://dayzure.com/ with the accompanying Twitter account ( https://twitter.com/dayzurecom ) and YouTube channel ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWOXcAqKDB9znWyoiB0LADw ).

Talk 2: Promoting an easy path to hybrid IT in mode2 IT (30 min)
The talk will be given by the CEO of NooBaa and they developed a hybrid cloud solution that can aggregate both on-premises, Azure and other Cloud Services. The talk will be about challenges of hybrid IT (as opposed to hybrid cloud) and the problem with cloud services on that front. They will also offer a demo. Feel free to give feedback and participate in a discussion.

Speaker: Yuval Dimnik (https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuvaldimnik/)Yuval Dimnik is an Israeli entrepreneur, a manager, a lame gamer and the worst surfer.Always eager to talk about NooBaa, what we do and our vision.
Gets off on product feedback.For his background check out his LinkedIn profile.LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuvaldimnik/ Twitter: @yuvaldim

Talk 3: Improve your machine learning model with Azure ML (30 min)
This would be a talk about Azure Machine Learning with topics about feature engineering and how to choose algorithms.

Speaker: Huai Wen Chang(Mia)As a data consultant, devote into both building analytics system or modeling the issues that customers had met. Customers come from E-commerce, Event Organizers, Travel Agency and Intelligent Hotel Service. I also deliver training courses for B2B, B2C clients, topics are relative to Azure Machine Learning, Power BI, also ETL and data visualization with R.

Mia is co-founder of Azure Community Taiwan and her LinkedIn is: https://www.linkedin.com/in/huaiwenchang/

Direction to Computer Futures:

By Public Transport:
Our office is located in the Philip Johnson Haus. We are directly accessible from both the metro stations Kochstraße (U6) or Stadtmitte (U2, U6) as they both connected to theFriedrichstraße.

By Car:
By car, we are directly on Friedrichstraße / corner Krausenstr. Or through theMauerstraße / Bethlehemkirchplatz. The closest public car parkIs located in the gallery Lafayettes / U6 (French street) about 15 min walk away;

There are parking lots around the office - but with a parking ticket.

The Entrance to the Building:
The building is called the "Philip-Johnson Haus" and it has 4 entrances and the Computer Future office is accessible through all 4 entrances. We are located at side A, 1st Floor.