Cesium x Philadelphia JavaScript Developers Meetup: April 25th!

Cesium is thrilled to be hosting the latest Philadelphia JavaScript Developers Meetup, brought to you by iO Associates!

On Tuesday 25th April, 5:30pm at Cesium HQ, we will be joined by four amazing speakers. Presenting on the night will be Bill Goehrig, Principal Software Engineer at Bentley Systems, Caleb Shafer, Development Manager at Bentley Systems, Tarek Sherif, Engineering Team Lead, Data Visualization at Datadog, and Dax Hill, Senior Innovation Manager at Vanguard.

The session will be hosted by Cesium HQ, 400 Market Street, Suite 1100, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106, US, and begins at 5:30pm.

Following this:

• 1-hour Happy Hour (5:30pm - 6:30pm) with board games, ladder golf, cornhole & Cesium arcade access (Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, vintage NES, Ridge Racer, Pacman, and Marvel Pinball)

• Catered dinner spread by James Beard award-winning Jose Gaces Group with open beer garden featuring local craft & nonalcoholic beer (http://garcesgroup.com/)

• National award-winning guitarist Brian Bard performing an iconic video game soundtrack mini concert during happy hour and after the speaker sessions

About our speakers:

Over the past two decades, Dax has gained extensive experience in various fields, including startups, consulting, and investment banking. Throughout her career, Dax has been committed to making a positive impact in people's lives, whether it's by teaching financial literacy to marginalized communities, providing one-on-one career counselling, or enhancing students' academic performance. Currently, she is the COO of Vanguard Fintech Ventures and is a Senior Innovation Manager for Investment Management Fintech Strategies at Vanguard. In her role, she co-manages external partnerships in the academic, financial services, and startup space, while also overseeing day-to-day operations.

Dax holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and a master's degree in Management from Long Island University. She is currently pursuing an Executive MBA at the Wharton School, demonstrating her commitment to continued learning and professional growth.

Caleb Shafer is an active maintainer and the development manager of iTwin.js, Bentley System’s open source library for building infrastructure digital twin applications. As a member of the community, he is committed to fostering and growing the iTwin ecosystem.

Bill Goehrig is a principal software engineer working on building secure and scalable cloud infrastructure for real-world engineering data in the iTwin Platform, Bentley’s open cloud platform for infrastructure digital twins. He is also an active maintainer of iTwin.js.

Tarek Sherif is a Sr. Software Engineer at Datadog where he focuses on graphics programming and data visualization. As more and more large web applications move to the cloud, demand has skyrocketed for ways to maintain visibility into their health and security. Tarek Sherif will walk through the challenges Datadog faces in building a web interface that allows users to interact with the copious amounts of observability data they collect so they can effectively manage their cloud architectures.

About our hosts, Cesium:
Cesium began in 2011, when a team of developers at aerospace software company Analytical Graphics, Inc. set out to create an application to visualize objects in space. Led by computer graphics expert Patrick Cozzi, the project produced the world's most accurate, performant, and time-dynamic virtual globe. Dubbed "Cesium" after the element that makes atomic clocks famously accurate, it was released as open source in 2012.

At the same time, 3D data collection was proliferating around the world, driving a need for software that could unleash its potential. As industries began gathering 3D location data for an abundance of use cases, Cozzi and the team saw the opportunity to expand Cesium beyond aerospace.

Cesium spun out as an independent company in 2019 and today provides the foundational open platform for an interoperable geospatial ecosystem.

Offering a mix of open source and commercially available software, the Cesium platform is a complete suite of tools for building 3D geospatial applications of any kind.

Please join us on the 25th of April at Cesium HQ, 400 Market Street, Suite 1100, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106, US, for this highly anticipated session!

iO Associates, Cloud Technology recruitment specialists, have always been a very active member of multiple Meetup groups. We are really keen to help keep our community positive and engaged hearing from the best speakers on the topics of your choice so encourage you to share this with your team and the wider community.

We hope you can join us and please get in touch at e.keenan@ioassociates.com/Ed Keenan with any questions or suggestions on future virtual meetups.