Tech Nottingham

We can't return to the in-person Tech Nottingham & Women In Tech, Nottingham events that we all loved - the days of packing 120 people into a room twice a month are behind us.

But what should replace them?

Check out our latest post and share your thoughts:

The Future of Tech Nottingham Events - 2022 and beyond — Tech Nottingham - Your local tech community As the world changes, so too must Tech Nottingham. We explore the future of Tech Nottingham events.

Prepping laptops as a part of our Device Donate and Refurb project today - three will go to local pupils in time for the start of term, five will be used by a local charity

🎉 We are excited to share our new partnership with
Cronofy - they're sponsoring Tech Nottingham and our Women in Tech Workshop series!

💪 Thank you for supporting your local tech community Cronofy!

Read about it here: https://nott.tech/welcomecronofy

Tech Nottingham Are Helping Women Succeed in the Technology Industry With a focus on improving the city as a place to live and work in technology, Tech Nottingham has been hosting events to an ever-increasing audience since 2014. With a string of exciting online events coming up, we catch up with Director of Projects Anna Dodson to find out more...

Our October newsletter is hitting your inboxes!

Keeping you up to date with blogs from the community, along with activities and events coming up in the next month.

http://nott.tech/NewsOct20

New blog post from Tech Nottingham:
Community member Kulpreet Virdi leads change around massive game franchise 💪
https://nott.tech/ACSisterhood

Nottingham tech community member Kulpreet Virdi leads change around massive game franchise — Tech Nottingham - Your local tech community An active member of our tech community is leading an important new campaign to bring about much needed change around one of the world’s most popular game franchises.

There is a sickness in our world and we will not be blind to it. People are suffering, people are dying. Just as we do not tolerate hate in our community we will not accept it in the world we live.

Tech Nottingham is a community that stands for and enforces the principles of tolerance, equality, justice and peace.

We stand with those who are fighting for justice. We have made donations to The Bail Project as well as the Nottingham Counselling Service who run Nottingham's Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Counselling Hub.

We encourage you to do the same.
https://bailproject.org/
https://www.nottinghamcounsellingcentre.org.uk/black-asian-and-minority-ethnic-bame-counselling-hub

http://www.technottingham.com/events/tot-sept-2017

Join us for this Wednesday 27th September, from 0730 at Accelerate Places Nottingham! Get a free breakfast, hear some of Nottingham's brightest talk and share their ideas and projects and socialise with the other members of the local tech community, all before you start your day.

Tech on Toast is free and there are no tickets required.

We'll be serving a range of breakfast options in a relaxed environment and all are welcome, regardless of technical background.

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Get a free desk for the Day!

Our venue, Accelerate Places Nottingham, is offering free desk spaces to Tech on Toast guests! They are available from 9am to 5pm for the whole day following Tech on Toast.

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Getting Started With Machine Learning

Predicting The Future Without All The Maths

by Krishan Bhasin

Convolutional neural networks? Stochastic gradient descent? Multivariate linear regression?

Machine learning is a field filled with buzzwords that distract from how simple models can be very useful in many different fields, and even put people off from trying to learn the basics.

This talk will address those two points, explaining what machine learning is really about, what a simple model looks like, and how you can get started with using them.

About Krishan

Krishan graduated in 2014 with a Degree in Mechanical Engineering, and after a period of soul-searching & travelling, started work at Capital One in September 2015. On his graduate program, he has worked in Cloud Architecture, Software Engineering, and Data Science.

He is currently part of the Data Engineering team, building the tools around & including their Data Lake and Ingestion Pipeline within AWS.

Outside of work, Krishan likes to go backpacking, trying new beers or wines, attempting to learn Spanish, and occasionally hacking silly little projects together (like Percy the self-watering Parsley plant https://www.percytheparsley.com).

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Win Free Jetbrains Software At Tech On Toast!

This month at Tech On Toast we'll be giving away a 1 year subscription to a JetBrains product of your choice, including Resharper, IntelliJ and PHPStorm. Attend and tweet on the hashtag to be in with a chance of winning!

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Tech on Toast is sponsored by Rebel Recruiters

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