NE:Tech - February 2022 - With Haydn Peterwald & Chris Brown

It's 2022 and we're back after to bring you another year of fantastic talks. To kick us off this year, we're very excited to have Haydn Peterwald, EMEA Specialist Solutions Architect from AWS, joining us to talk about the Continental Automotive Edge platform being developed on AWS for the automotive sector.

We also have our very own Chris Brown speaking about the maths behind encryption, giving an insight into how the cryptography surrounding AES & RSA encryption actually works, and how we can exchange encryption keys via the Diffie-Hellman key exchange.

This month we're planning to run NE:Tech in person at 'The CTRL Pad' located in The Gate in Newcastle. However we will also be streaming the event online so you can also attend virtually if desired.

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CLICK HERE TO JOIN VIRTUALLY:
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A little about Haydn and his talk:

Haydn Peterwald - EMEA Specialist Solutions Architect @ AWS

• Building a platform for Software-Defined Vehicles *

Decoupling automotive software and hardware development while ensuring seamless deployment of software functions to test and production fleets is key as the industry moves from hundreds of discrete ECUs to high performance computing (HPC) vehicle architectures. Software-defined vehicles will see the worlds of embedded electrical/electronic systems merge with cloud-native computing over the next decade. Join me for an overview of the Continental Automotive Edge platform being developed on AWS to deliver this change.

A little bit about Haydn:
Haydn Peterswald is an Automotive Specialist Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services covering connected cars and mobility service providers, automotive DevOps, and the next generation of embedded vehicle computer systems. He has been living and working in Newcastle for ten years as a games programmer, a fullstack web dev and a technical lead (not all at once) before joining AWS in spring 2020.

Find Haydn on LinkedIn @ /haydn-peterswald-03901a6b

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Chris Brown - Senior Mobile Automation Test Engineer @ Bumble

• Cryptography: The maths behind encryption *

In this talk we will take a look into how symmetric and asymmetric encryption actually work behind the scenes. Specifically we will take a step by step walkthrough for AES and RSA encryption, before learning about how we can exchange keys using the Diffie-Hellman key exchange method.

About Chris:
What to write in a bio... hmmm... Well I'm Chris. Some (mainly taxi drivers for some reason) would call me a fake or posh Geordie given that I'm originally from Whitley Bay. I love to ask, 'What if?'. In fact, this is something that I've made a career out of and have been doing for a number of years now. I test software for a living but some of you may know me and being one of the organisers of NE:Tech.

In the past I've worked with Ruby, JavaScript and testing iOS with XCTest and Swift. I've also written blogs in the past which can be found here: https://blog.scottlogic.com/cbrown/.

Find Chris on LinkedIn @ /chrisbrown956

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Big thanks to our sponsor
Scott Logic

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