March meetup

Johan Stokking - Tech Lead @ The Things Network - Building an open LoRa IoT network

With a € 1.200 gateway in our hands, we imagined covering our city Amsterdam with only ten gateways. Four weeks later, we crowd sourced the gateways and launched the first open LoRa covered city network in the world. The open source, open hardware initiative, The Things Network, spread like wildfire around the world. After a very successful Kickstarter campaign to enable producing affordable gateways, development kits and nodes, we started building the network with the community. LoRaWAN is at the core of this network, and in this talk I'll explain its role in our mission to build an open, decentralized and crowd sourced internet of things data network with global coverage.

Bio: I started programming as a kid, studied Industrial Engineering and Management with a specialty in information technology and did my graduate internship at Accenture Strategy Consulting. After developing products and services for professional sports federations, I switched to building a platform: Wienke and I founded The Things Network in the summer of 2015. As tech lead, I oversee the open source development of components and content.

Dimitri Chtchourov - BigData Innovation Architect @Cisco

Ingesting BigData into Microservices with Streamsets and Mesos.

Bio: Dmitri Chtchourov is a BigData Innovation Architect at Cisco CIS CTO Group. In previous roles Dmitri has run BI teams, wrote SQL for DB’s and C for Cisco Routers.

Friso van Vollenhoven & Vincent D. Warmerdam - Joy of Data

What if code could discover things, instead of only build things? Enter data. The Joy of Coding is most appreciated by those who understand that coding skills provide you the liberty of solving problems yourself. If there's not "an app for that", you can create it, because you can code. If a discovery is not cut out for us, but there's data about the problem, you can solve it. Again, because you can code. Not every coder realizes this. The "app" of data is called discovery.

During this talk we'll give examples of hacking real discoveries made through data. The examples are small, accessible, and include code. These include (but are not limited to):

• How to decide which Meetup to go to (and which one to avoid).

• How to buy a dress.

• How to determine the fair price for a house.

• How to invest in Lego on eBay.

• And last, but not least, how to pick winning strategy for the holy game of Pokémon.

Friso van Vollenhoven

Friso is CTO of GoDataDriven. He is active in the area that overlaps both systems and software engineering and applied, large scale, data processing. He is also organiser of The Amsterdam Applied Machine Learning meetup group and the Dutch Hadoop User Group and open source contributor.

Vincent D. Warmerdam

Vincent firmly believes that we can make the world a better place through data. He loves to talk at conferences and is very active in meetup communities. He is fluent in python, R and javascript but intends to never stop learning. He also loves to find excuses to visualise data with d3 in his spare time or make algorithms that come up with new Pokémon names.