Lightning Talks (@Hudson River Trading)

Name: Lightning Talks (@Hudson River Trading)
Start: 2019-12-18T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2019-12-18T20:30:00-05:00
Location: Hudson River Trading

Hosted By

Melissa F. and 3 others

Details

Have you been looking for an opportunity to get started with giving tech talks? Here’s a chance! We are hosting lightning talks!

What’s a Lightning Talk?

A lightning talk...
• is a 5-minute talk on any topic of your choice, in this case, preferably related to tech/Python.
• could be about something you recently worked on/tried out and found really cool and want to share with everyone; it could be about something you want to learn about.
• might/might not have slide deck.
• can be delivered by ANYONE and EVERYONE! New to Python or not!

First-time speakers are welcome. We are excited and are willing to help you with preparing your lightning talk, if you’d like to have a buddy to prepare this talk with join the PyLadies #lightning-talks Slack Channel! Please sign up here: https://forms.gle/mKsQjQDJg6QMC4fP7

Here’s some example topics for a lightning talk:

What I learned in my first few weeks learning Python
Magic methods in Python
Debugging Python code
Cloud IoT: Raspberry PI + Python Internet of things or hardware with Python
How to write Python CLIs
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AGENDA
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6:30pm - 6:45pm: Networking
6:45pm - 8:15pm: Intro to Lightning Talks and 15 Lightning Talks (5 mins each)
8:15pm - 8:30 pm: Wrap up/ Networking
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ABOUT HUDSON RIVER TRADING
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HRT is an automated trading firm based in New York specializing in using the latest techniques in machine learning and high performance computing to trade financial products. To give you a sense of our scale, HRT's small and collaborative team is an active participant in most of the world's exchanges, where our activity can often account for more than 10% of trades executed, in a 24/7 operation that includes everything from Options to cryptocurrencies. We do this by programming our computers to think and trade both quickly and intelligently.