First Event

Meetup Title: Software Development Lightning Talks in Nicosia

Venue
The event will take place at Strovolos Cultural Centre.
Directions can be found on the Google Maps link.

Speakers:

Vasilis Nicolaou

Vasilis has extensive experience with Scala functional programming, Akka, and distributed systems. Vasilis has a wealth of industry experience, having worked for companies such as Rentalcars and currently owning their own consultancy. Vasilis is also an active member in the open-source community, with a lot of interesting work in projects related to Scala, AWS, and Terraform and many contributions to other open-source projects.

Description

Event sourcing is a powerful design pattern that captures data changes as events and stores them in a central event store, providing a scalable and resilient architecture for event-driven systems. At our organization, we embrace event sourcing as a way to build systems that can adapt to changing business needs and provide a reliable source of truth for data.
To make it easier to implement event sourcing patterns on AWS, we created an open source project that provides Terraform modules for several AWS services, including DynamoDB, Kinesis, Lambda, SNS, SQS, and S3 events. Our modules are designed to be reusable, composable, and follow best practices for security, performance, and maintainability. By using our modules, developers can quickly set up event-driven microservices, real-time data processing pipelines, and event stores that integrate with other AWS services and meet their specific requirements.

Sophocles Sophocleous

Bio
Sophocles is a Data Insights Analyst with a passion for working with data and developing data products. With over 5 years of experience in the field, Sophocles has worked in both the Water and Higher Education sectors, where he has been responsible for analyzing large datasets and using data-driven insights to inform decision making. He has a strong track record of delivering high-quality analysis that has helped businesses make informed decisions and develop new products.

Description
Are you fascinated by the hidden insights that can be uncovered from geospatial data? Do you want to learn how to use cutting-edge tools to tackle the unique challenges of working with location-based data? Then join us for this exciting talk on using Julia Programming for geospatial data analysis and geocoder accuracy testing.

Geospatial data analysis can reveal important patterns and insights that are hidden in data with a location component, such as GPS coordinates or street addresses. However, analyzing this data requires specialized tools that can handle its unique challenges. In this talk, we will introduce the basics of geospatial data analysis and discuss how Julia Programming can be used to write scripts that perform this type of analysis.

Don't miss out on this opportunity to expand your data analysis toolkit and discover the insights that are waiting to be uncovered in geospatial data.

Constantinos Leonidou

Bio
Data Engineering Professional, with BEng in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Master of Engineering in Engineering Business Management at the University of Warwick. Constantinos has extensive experience using Python, Machine Learning algorithms and models, and SQL to prepare and clean data for digital transformation within organizations. Throughout his career Constantinos has developed algorithms using C, C++, and Assembly programming languages. In addition, his professional path can provide insights in data engineering, data cleansing using machine learning using AZURE Cognitive services, NLP and image recognition and understanding.

Description
Organizations all over the world are facing the challenge of digital transformation, where the correct usage, understanding, and prediction of financial data is crucial for success. To tackle this, cutting-edge Machine Learning algorithms can be applied to Invoice and Contract Understanding. But what is the secret sauce behind these algorithms? With the help of Natural Language Processing (NLP), a powerful tool that enables Data Engineers and Analysts to clean and maintain Master Data more effectively. By leveraging the power of NLP and Python, the process of invoice reading, and contract analysis can be automated to extract important information that is vital for organizational success. Not only does this save time, but it also leads to more accurate and reliable data analysis, improving the sustainability and competitiveness of modern companies. So, are you ready to unlock the power of Machine Learning and NLP to provide predictive analytics and take your organization to the next level?

Event Sponsors
S.S. Digital Insights Data Consulting Ltd
Vaslabs Ltd