Before and after the two days of conference, the Berlin Buzzwords attendees want to be more active. They can't wait to make things happen and work on high quality and deep technical content. Besides the annual barcamp on Sunday we offer attendees the possibility of visiting meetups, workshops and hackathons for an intense and focused insight into their favorite topics. They are organised by volunteers and hosted by Berlin Buzzwords as well as local companies. Berlin Buzzwords attendees are free to go to any of these after successful registration.
Cassandra 2.1 with Jonathan Ellis
Jonathan Ellis, co-Founder and CTO at DataStax and Cassandra Project Chair at Apache Software Foundation, will be speaking about Cassandra 2.1. This is a great opportunity to meet him and hear about his experience. We will also have some giveaways, food and drinks sponsored by DataStax so be there early!
Where?
Greifswalder Str 212, Berlin (5th floor)
When?
Tuesday, May 27, 2014 7:00 PM
Register here:
http://www.meetup.com/Berlin-Cassandra-Users/events/181677052
HitFox meets Berlin Buzzwords
HitFox is a startup incubator based in Berlin, with offices in San Francisco and Seoul. Since many people don’t associate us with building technological projects within the big data sphere, we are organizing an open house with drinks, food, and talks after the closing session of the Buzzwords conference. We want to show visitors of Berlin Buzzwords and other tech-savvy people a unique facet of data processing in a new startup venture, giving them networking opportunities under the roof of our HQ. Peter Grosskopf, Chief Development Officer at HitFox Group, is going to welcome everyone and show the way we approach Big Data at HitFox. Thorsten Bleich, Chief Technology Officer at HitFox’s mobile targeting venture, Datamonk, will follow with his talk on how Datamonk provides targeting solutions in mobile real-time advertising by collecting, transforming, and feeding data into the mobile ecosystem with their own cutting-edge technology.
Where?
Dataconomy HQ, Rosenstraße 17, 10178 Berlin
When?
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
7:30 pm: Doors open, drinks, food, networking
8:15 pm: Talk by Peter Grosskopf (Chief Development Officer at HitFox Group) - Welcome to HitFox
8:40 pm: Talk by Thorsten Bleich (Chief Technology Officer at Datamonk GmbH) - Datamonk unleashed: data collection, analysis and delivery for real time advertising
9:00 pm: Networking, drinks, open end
Register here:
http://hitfoxbuzz.eventbrite.de
12th Recommender Stammtisch
This May, the Recommender Stammtisch returns to ResearchGate. We’re looking forward to two exciting talks by Sebastian Schelter and Stefan Savev, followed by a happy hour.
Where?
When?
Thursday, May 22, 2014
7:00 pm: Doors open
7:15 pm: Welcoming
7:30 pm: Sebastian Schelter: Cooccurrence-based recommendations with Mahout, Scala & Spark
Register here:
http://recommenders.de/2014/04/12th-recommender-stammtisch
Data Talk Common Crawl meets MIA – Gathering and Crunching Open Web Data
As the largest and most diverse collection of information in human history, the Web grants us tremendous insight if we can only understand it better. For example, Web crawl data can be used to spot trends and identify patterns in politics, economics, health, popular culture and many other aspects of life. It provides an immensely rich corpus for scientific research, technological advancement, and innovative new businesses. It is crucial for our information-based society that the Web be openly accessible to anyone who desires to utilize it. In this Data Talk, we present two projects that set off to democratize the access to public Web data and provide the means of analysis to virtually anyone. Be our guest when Lisa Green and Jordan Mendelson present Common Crawl, a Web crawl made publicly accessible for further research and dissemination, and Peter Adolphs introduces MIA, a Cloud-based platform for analyzing Web-scale data sets with a toolbox of natural language processing algorithms.
Where?
When?
Monday, May 26, 2014 - 7 pm to 9.30 pm
Register here:
Cascading Meetup
Simplifying Application Development on Hadoop Hadoop is an integral part of the big data ecosystem and can process huge datasets in a reliable, scalable and distributed manner. But the MapReduce programming model is cumbersome, complex and messy to develop and maintain. Is there a way to harness the power of Hadoop in an easy to use, clean framework and extend it seamlessly for predictive modeling? This session is about simplifying application development on Hadoop by using Cascading, an open source Java application framework that provides higher level data processing abstractions. This talk focuses on our experience in building complex data flow applications, that are enterprise-grade, through test driven development. The talk will also be showcasing, through live demo and code, how an application developed with Cascading can be extended to integrate with predictive models built with analytics tools, like R, and scaled-out on a Hadoop cluster.
Where?
SoundCloud, Greifswalder Str. 212-213, Berlin
When?
Monday, May 26, 2014 7 pm to 9.30 pm
Register here:
http://www.meetup.com/cascading/events/180316692
Meetup Java Usergroup Berlin-Brandenburg (in German)
Am 28. Mai 2014 lädt die Java Usergroup Berlin-Brandenburg und zusammen mit der iJUG zum Vortrag Wissenstransfer 2.0: Liest du noch oder programmierst du schon? mit Dr. Marcel Bruch von Codetrails UG ein.
Where?
DOAG Dienstleistungen GmbH, Tempelhofer Weg 64, 6. OG, 12347 Berlin
When?
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - Doors open 6.30 pm - The talk starts at 7 pm
Register here:
http://www.jug-berlin-brandenburg.de/blog/2014/04/27/wissen-2-dot-0/
Big Data Beers Meetup
There will be two exciting speakers: - Ted Dunning (MapR) - Sebastian Schelter (Mahout) Spread the word! #bigdatabeers
Where?
hub:raum, Winterfeldtstr. 21, 10781 Berlin
When?
Thursday, May 29, 2014, 7 pm
Register here:
http://www.meetup.com/Big-Data-Beers/events/177466822/
(Graphs)-[:ARE]->(Everyhwere) Learn&Hack-Day
Join for a relaxed day of learning about the power of graphs, graph modeling and querying. Take a look into cool use-cases and applications, and explore how easy it is to get your own graph-model and -app going in just a few minutes. If you're lucky you can win printed copies of the brand-new German book "Neo4j 2.0 Eine Graphdatenbank für alle" or the English classic "Graph Databases".
Where?
c-base Raumstation, Rungestrasse 20 (2nd backyard)
When?
Wednesday, May 28, 2014, 9.30 am to 9 pm
Register here:
http://www.meetup.com/graphdb-berlin/events/173951512
Data Stream Mining Hackathon
At the last day of the Berlin Buzzwords 2014 conference @retresco and developers from @avantgardelabs and @streamdrill invite up to 20 people to Hack one day on the topic of Stream-Mining, focusing on implementing algorithms like Sketching, Reservoir Sampling and Priority Sampling for Sliding Windows. We will work with short text data to test the algorithms. There are some noteworthy code contributions to get you started. Python starter: * https://github.com/truemped/bbhack-2014 Scala Starter: * https://github.com/knutwalker/bbuzz14-stream-mining Clojure Starter: * https://github.com/sojoner/stromer We will start around 9:00am and try to finish around 9:00pm.
Where?
Retresco GmbH, Heinrich-Roller-Straße 16b, Berlin
When?
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 Start: 9 pm
Registration is closed!
Elasticsearch Hackfest
The monthly Elasticsearch Usergroup Berlin meet-up will be transformed into a day long Hackfest with a social gathering in the evening (including talks by members of the Elasticsearch team) on May 28. Members of the Elasticsearch Team will be present both at the Hackfest and the Social Gathering. Links: projects.elastic.berlin/ & hackfest.elastic.berlin/
Where?
ImmobilienScout24, Andreasstraße 10, Berlin
When?
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 Hackfest
10 am to 5.30 pm (topics to be announced) Social Gathering - aka User Group Meetup
6 pm to 10 pm
Register here:
http://www.meetup.com/Elasticsearch-UG-Berlin/events/143792002/
