Name: The Linuxing Santa arrives, with presents!
Start: 2019-12-18T18:00:00Z
End: 2019-12-18T20:45:00Z
Location: IBM Southbank

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This evening we’ll have technical talks, a quiz or two, many mince pies, plenty of goodies in the raffle and a good laugh.

We are delighted to be hosted by our friends at IBM!

IBM has been at the forefront of invention, computing and technology since the early 20th century and we are honoured to be at their South Bank centre, a noted London landmark.

Tonight's speakers are: Andy Stanford-Clark, David Spurway and Emanuil Tolev.

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18:00 Doors open and the nice IBM pizzas (big thanks to @elastic and our friends at https://www.meetup.com/IBM-Code-London/ for food (veggies, vegans, etc. catered for)).

18:15 Everyone seated.

18:25 Introduction and a Linuxing In London retrospective for 2019 with Brian Byrne.

18:45 MQTT @ 20 with Andy Stanford-Clark.

19:15 Q&A

19:20 Mince pies and the first quiz - general knowledge.

19:35 Baking with IBM Watson, IBM Power Systems, Node-RED, Python and James Bond? by David Spurway.

20:05 Q&A

20:10 Mince pies and the second quiz – tech knowledge.

20:20 "Now where did I leave my keys?" - improving your engineering life with the Elastic Stack by Emanuil Tolev.

20:45 Q&A

20:50 Community slot, free raffle and present giving.

20:55 Close, group photo and a big thank you to IBM.

[The agenda is subject to change and revision, precise timings may change.]
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Speakers' details and partial abstract:

1. Brian Byrne is a veteran IT Manager, who remembers Mainframes, FORTRAN, COBOL and ALGOL as if it were like yesterday.

When not planning community events on Linux, Raspberry Pi and IoT devices Brian speaks in paragraphs and drinks a lot of tea. One of his saving graces is, he doesn’t take himself or others too seriously.

He does a lot, a lot of Linux, a lot but not exclusively so. Linux was his ~15th+ operating system in the early 1990s. He managed a mass of OpenVMS systems for Banks, etc, even the odd PDP-11!

2. David Spurway has over 23 years of experience within IBM Systems. He started work with IBM in 1995.

David has worked in a variety of roles, including Support, Technical Sales, Implementation, Management and Systems Architecture. He now works as the IBM Power Systems CTO for the UK and Ireland.

He has been certified as an Advanced Technical Expert in AIX, and has also been Technically Certified for IBM Power Systems, IBM System z and IBM System x. Over the years, he has presented at a range of internal and external conferences, including those run by the IBM Academy of Technology.

3. Andy Stanford-Clark is IBM CTO - UK and Ireland

Distinguished Engineer, Master Inventor, IBM Q Ambassador,
Member IBM Academy of Technology, Fellow BCS
Visiting Professor at Newcastle, Southampton and UEA.

4. Emanuil Tolev is a Community Engineer with Elastic. He used to be a freelance web developer and ran a small open science web development consultancy with partners for several years. Interested in FOSS, mentorship, inclusion, small businesses, archery and always curious about how the world works in detail.

He codes in Python, Ruby and JS.

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