We are proud to be supporting DataPhilly with their latest Data Talk in collaboration with DataRobot. This month’s event focusses on ‘Applied Generative AI and How to Build a LLM’.

RSVP list closes on Tuesday 24th at 6pm ET. So please click here to register for the event.

Join us at our Philadelphia Offices, for a fantastic opportunity to hear from three leading Data experts, as well as network with the other members of the iO Associates, DataRobot teams and DataPhilly community.

Event Schedule:

1. Meeting opens at 5:50pm ET
2. Introductions (Starts at 6pm ET)
3. Generative AI for Organizations (30 minutes)
4. Building an LLM (30 minutes)
5. Q&A (10 minutes)
6. Networking event (30 minutes)

Event Speakers:

David Frigeri – Joins us from Slalom where he leads their East Coast practice as the Managing Director of Data & AI. David is known for his exceptional track record in driving high-growth data and analytics initiatives over the span of 25 years.

Quncai Zou – Hails from DataRobot where she works in their Data Science practice of 400+ Data Scientists; specializing in a customer-facing role focused on the Insurance & Financial industries. Quncai has nearly 20 years of experience in the insurance industry with background as an actuarial data scientist at both Munich Re and NJM.

Steve Martin – From DataRobot, will also be joining the speakers above for the Q&A portion of the session. Steven has worked in pre-IPO SaaS startups for the last decade from Snowflake to MongoDB to, most recently, DataRobot. Prior to that, Steven had served in the Intelligence Community utilizing tools like Palantir for network analysis and pattern-of-life forecasting.

iO Associates, tech and digital recruitment specialists, have always been an active member of multiple Meetup groups. We’re passionate about keeping our community positive and engaged by facilitating Meetups with the best speakers on a variety of topics. We encourage you to share this exciting talk with your team and the wider community. 

Exploring the Future: PHP 8.3 Is Tomorrow

Damien Seguy guide us through a comprehensive review of PHP 8.3’s new features and improvements. Discover how PHP is continuously evolving to meet the challenges of modern web development, making it even more powerful and efficient than ever before.

In this session, we explore key highlights of PHP 8.3, from typed constants to random extensions (sic), increments improvements to dynamic static value, and much more. Damien provides valuable insights into how these advancements benefit developers, and how you can prepare your code for these new features.

Whether you’re a seasoned PHP developer or just curious about the latest trends in PHP development, check out this iO Meetup. Be part of the PHP community as we embrace the constant modernization of PHP and elephant love.

Watch ‘Exploring the Future: PHP 8.3 is Tomorrow’ on-demand here:

iO Associates are delighted to be supporting the latest Meetup from .Net South West. This month’s event offers a tantalizing trio of terrific tech-talks, three totally transformative tutorials!

These three top-speakers will tell us all about …

Async method chaining in C# by Andrew Poole, lead software engineer at Clearbank

What if there was a way to declaratively describe a chain or flow of async methods, which can be used when handling API requests or when handling Messages from a service bus queue (or in fact anywhere!) We have found a way to achieve this and the logical conclusion is that related flows can be described in one place, in a single piece of orchestration, which is extremely clear and easy to navigate and debug.

Sustainable Demand Shifting by Paul Bevis, CTO of FSP working at the forefront of digital transformation and cybersecurity

Sustainability is about meeting the needs of the present – without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. As software engineers, we have a responsibility to ensure minimise the carbon footprint of the software we write and not treat resources like CPU and storage as an infinite commodity.

What’s Coming in C# 12 and Beyond by Stuart Lang, Microsoft MVP and Principal Engineer at Just Eat

.NET Conf usually heralds the announcement of the latest version of the language, but with previews already out, Stu will be taking us through what we can expect with C# 12, which will be released as part of .NET 8 in November

Hosts, Clearbank, will kindly be providing refreshments while alongside fellow sponsors, Jetbrains, iO Associates will be providing prizes for the evening.

iO Associates, tech and digital recruitment specialists, have always been an active member of multiple Meetup groups across the UK. We’re passionate about keeping our community positive and engaged by facilitating Meetups with the best speakers on a variety of topics. We encourage you to share this exciting talk with your team and the wider community. 

We’re always interested in hearing from our community, so if you have any suggestions for future Meetups, please do get in touch via meetups@ioassociates.co.uk 

In addition, if there’s anything we can help you with in regard to sourcing candidates or finding a new role, please do also get in touch. 

iO Associates are excited to bring you our latest .Net Edinburgh Meetup on Wednesday 27 September from 18:30 at Legado Technologies, CodeBase.

We are delighted to be welcoming Kevin Smith, Microsoft MVP, back up to Edinburgh! In this month’s talk, we’ll be exploring a more flexible way to store your data with MongoDB.

If you’ve been anywhere near software development, the norm is to store your data in a relational form, but what if there was a different way?

We will take a look at the history of MongoDB and why it continues to be a trending database year on year. We will then go into the advantages of having a flexible document model and how we can utilize MongoDB for our application storage.

iO Associates, tech and digital recruitment specialists, have always been an active member of multiple Meetup groups across the UK. We’re passionate about keeping our community positive and engaged by facilitating Meetups with the best speakers on a variety of topics. We encourage you to share this exciting talk with your team and the wider community. 

We’re always interested in hearing from our community, so if you have any suggestions for future Meetups, please do get in touch via meetups@ioassociates.co.uk 

In addition, if there’s anything we can help you with in regard to sourcing candidates or finding a new role, please do also get in touch. 

Did you know that Information and Communication Technology currently produces more emissions than the aviation industry? 

Simon Frankish explores what this means for Software Testing and how engineers can introduce sustainable practices into their Test Process, Test Environments, Housekeeping and Measurement. 

Simon Frankish has over 30 years’ experience in the software testing industry and is currently Experimentus’ Practice Lead for Process Improvement.  He is an experienced, accredited TMMi Lead Assessor who has worked worldwide to help organisations improve their testing processes. More recently, sustainability in software testing has become a strong interest and Simon is working to help organisations look at process improvement through a carbon lens. 

Watch ‘Sustainable Software Testing’ on-demand here: