JHB: Agile Architecture in .NET / Discovering threats using machine learning

Agenda
· Welcome (start 16h30)
· Lightning talk (start 16h35) - 10min
· Session 1 (start 16h50) - 20 min
· Session 2 (start 17h15) - 40min

Lightning Talk:

Title: Is front-end development having an identity crisis?

Does front-end development as a we know it still exist; or has the role evolved into something we no longer recognise? As with evolution in nature, the evolution of “front-end” has resulted in several distinct flavours — and in my opinion — an identity crisis.

Facilitator: Vernon Joyce

Developer, designer and entrepreneur with 12 years of web experience. Currently looking after public web and building a design system at Rand Merchant Bank.

Session 1

Title: Discovering insider threats using machine leaning

The talk will start by providing a definition of what an insider threat is and why it is difficult to prevent insider threats entirely. Other approaches to discover insider threats and their shortcomings. The legal and ethical dilemmas with predicting insider threats.

The second topic discussed will be anomaly detection. A definition will be provided and quick discussion will be provide around the difficulties of defining normal and abnormal by humans and machine learning algorithms.

Lastly, examples and investigations results from research will be resented to show how the two topics relate.

Facilitator: Daniel Joubert

I am a husband, father and inventor.

I love spending time with my wife and kids in the outdoors, walking in the veld and fishing.

At the office, I work as a software development manager, which means that I spent most of my time encouraging other people to be the best inventers they can be.

Session2

Title: Agile Architecture in .NET

"How did my beautiful greenfields project turn into a big ball of mud?"
In this talk we explain why so many software projects become unmanagable over time as entropy creeps in. Developers will learn how the rigidity of architectural implementations and past technical decisions are a major cause of this. We will then explain how introducing agile principles to architecture helps tackle this issue, and how tooling can be a powerful enabler of this.

Facilitator: Gareth Baars

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