As usual, in the first days, we will announce the speakers for September. This month we will discuss how Data Scientists are working on targeting, how to grow from June to CEO, have a warm tube story evening with Rob Atkins, another game dev legend, and discuss IT emigration.
So, meet the speakers of September!
Path from June to CEO at Sberbank
Alexey joined Sberbank in 2014 as a Junior developer. Now he is the executive director of: Product Owner and Teamlead of the Sberbank Investor platform team and is responsible for Sberbank Investor and Sberbank Development Schools.
Lesha will tell you on the example of his path: how to grow and develop in a large company, what mistakes should be avoided and how to initiate changes. Let's talk about challenges and opportunities, about work-life balance, about how not to burn out and return if it does burn out.
September 7, at 20:00
How Data Science Sells You Ads
Nikita graduated from the Higher School of Economics, during the last year received an Erasmus scholarship and went to Finland for an exchange semester. Despite the fact that he got an offer for a job in Tokyo, Nikita decided to enroll in a master's program at Aalto University, but did not finish it and left to work as a data scientist at Unity Ads, where he improves conversion algorithms.
Nikita will talk about how the Finnish IT market works, what is interesting there and what tasks data scientists solve in Unity.
In addition, Nikita is ready to share his insights on how to properly advertise your game using Unity so that it will be installed more often.
September 14, at 20:00
An evening of warm tube stories with Rob Atkins, one of the creators of legendary games from Duke Nukem to Counter Strike
Rob has been in the game industry for over 23 years, working on projects such as Quake, Duke Nukem, Tomb Raider, Counter Strike. He has been involved in many aspects of game creation, from marketing to development. He worked side by side with John Romero, Tom Holland and Richard Levelord Gray. So we just couldn't help but ask him to tell his favorite stories about colleagues, work and making legendary games.
Rob is now CEO of his own company, Balanced Media Technology, which creates games and combines the computing power of gamers' gaming devices for use in medical research computing.
September 21, at 20:00
How I moved to London with Revolut
We could not ignore one of the most popular topics of speeches: IT emigration and relocation.
Dmitry is a product developer, he solves product problems at Revolut, while being a Senior Backend developer. A year and a half ago, he moved to the London office and is ready to share his story of how it happened, how the quarantine in the UK is going on, as well as some insights into how one of the most interesting fintech projects works.
September 28, at 20:00