Payment Selection💰& Observability 📊at Uber
Get more insights into core teams of Uber’s payment experience. The Amsterdam office hosts teams that build core services used worldwide during payments. In today’s digital and globalized world, offering multiple payment options is crucial for maximizing conversions and enhancing customer satisfaction. System reliability is paramount. Proactive monitoring and insightful observability are key to maintaining flawless operations.
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Our paths into big tech companiesHigh-level overview of what our teams are solving for?What are the key challenges we are facing?How do we track and monitor systems at a high scale?Note: after subscribing, showing up is mandatory! There are 135 spots only with first come first serve and GEWIS members get priority. You can earn 1 my future activity with this lecture.
Continue readingJoin the Navara-Harvest Hackathon! 🌳
Are you a student with a passion for technology and nature? Then this is your chance to make an impact! In collaboration with Natuurmonumenten, we are organizing a hackathon where you can shape the future of nature management.
🔎 The challenge: forest rangers of Natuurmonumenten monitor all kinds of animal species, but this is still often done with pen and paper. This can be done faster and smarter. You will work with your team to develop an app that allows forest rangers to enter data directly in the field: from spotting animal species to recording locations and numbers.
🐾 Your mission: Help Natuurmonumenten modernize their nature management. Develop an app that makes counting animal species, analyzing populations, and registering nuisance easier and more efficient. Together we will harmonize this registration, so that forest rangers and ecologists gain more insight into nature management in the Netherlands.
🌿 Why participate?
Work on a real case with a big impact.Get guidance from an enthusiastic ecologist, working in the Veluwe, who will support you during the hackathon.Combine your tech skills with your love for nature.Get a chance to win cool prizes and build something that can really be used by Natuurmonumenten.💡 What can you contribute? Whether you are a developer, a UX designer or a data analyst, your skills are indispensable! Together we will build a digital tool that takes the work of forest rangers to a higher level.
Make sure you are there and make a difference for nature!
Note: after subscribing, showing up is mandatory! There are spots for 50 teams of 3 people. So a maximum of 150 people can subscribe. Spots are given with first come first serve and GEWIS members and groups of 3 get priority. You can still subscribe with smaller teams. If you are looking for a team use team name "Looking for a team" and we will assign you to a team. You can earn 1 my future activity with this lecture.
Continue readingLecture from Bavo Janss
Bavo Janss is not only a thought leader within iO on e-commerce but also a genuine Olympic coach. Supported by iO he demonstrates that the intersection between business, technology and sports can lead to unparalleled achievements. So how can you combine a job as solution architect with a "side job" of being a Olympic coach just returned from Paris.
Note: after subscribing, showing up is mandatory! There are 135 spots only with first come first serve and GEWIS members get priority. You can earn 1 my future activity with this lecture.
Continue readingGet ready, as the next edition of the SNiC conference is just around the corner, taking place on the 27th of November. This year’s theme is SustainabilIT, where we’ll explore how the IT sector can lead and innovate in sustainability.
First, for those of you that aren’t all too familiar, a little more about the SNiC: The SNiC takes place yearly in November, in a different city every year. It attracts hundreds of students from all throughout the country. It’s a single-day event where lots of speakers come and give an interesting talk about state-of-the-art technology or practices in the aforementioned fields.
Not only is the day filled with exciting presentations about innovation, during the breaks and after the event you’re also able to have a chat with any of the participating companies of the conference. They can tell you a lot about career-related questions and projects that their companies are currently working on related to the themes of the conference.
With your SNiC ticket, you'll have full access to a day packed with insightful talks on the future of sustainable IT, and of course plenty of coffee, drinks, and snacks. Tickets are available starting September 30th. Visit our website for all the details: https://sustainabilit.snic.nl.
Stay tuned for exciting speaker announcements on our Instagram @snic_sustainabilit. We’re thrilled to share that Emiel Kwakkel will be our keynote speaker, offering practical insights into how we can make the IT industry greener.
For only €10,- you can join this congress. This is a reduction of the full ticket price, meant to make the SNiC more accessible to our members. If you subscribe but don't show up, you will have to pay the full ticket price of €25,-.
There are only 85 tickets available. If there are more subscriptions than tickets on Friday 11 October at 12:00, there will be a draw among everyone who is subscribed at that moment. After that, the tickets will be handed out on a first come, first serve basis. If then the amount of subscriptions has exceeded the ticket amount, people will be put on a waiting list. Your name and e-mail address will be shared with Stichting Nationaal Informatica Congres. They will process this data in accordance with their privacy policy.
Students will receive 2 MyFuture points for participation in this activity. Please bring your campus card.
Continue readingWhat does it take to visualize the single atoms of the silicon? How to visualize the structure of a protein on the scale which exposes its DNA structure?
Why the electron microscopy embraces and embeds the digitalization in a rapid pace?
These are just a few questions that we will try to answer during the GEWIS lunch meeting.
Our presenters will introduce the audience to the digital electron microscopy, explaining basics of the transmission electron microscopy (TEM) imaging.
Then the role of the software, and in general computer science in microscopy will be shown and explained.
Finally, the trends and new research areas in the microscopy will be briefly discussed.
Despite the limited time there will be a room for questions and discussion about presented content.
Note: after subscribing, showing up is mandatory! There are 135 spots only with first come first serve and GEWIS members get priority. You can earn 1 my future activity with this lecture.
Continue readingAre you ready for a realistic and immersive experience in the world of logistical problems? This case represents the kind of challenges we, as consultants at Pipple, deal with on a daily basis. You are approached by a colleague to join in on a logistical issue with a client, where the exact problem is not immediately clear. You receive a series of emails from a fictional client named LogiSolutions, filled with complaints about deliveries and service.
Your challenge? Identify the core problems and develop a presentation on the 'picking process.' Through role-playing with key players, such as the warehouse manager and the head of IT, you’ll uncover subtle clues. Something seems to be wrong with the 'picking rounds,' but what exactly? Dive deeper into the data to identify inconsistencies and issues. This case offers a unique opportunity to apply your analytical skills to realistic scenarios and provides insight into the complexity of the daily work of a data consultant.
Note: after subscribing, showing up is mandatory! There are 20 spots only with first come first serve and GEWIS members get priority. You can earn 2 my future activities with this lecture.
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