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The Power of Big Data and Psychographics

In a presentation at the 2016 Concordia Summit, Mr. Alexander Nix discusses the power of big data in global elections. Cambridge Analytica’s revolutionary approach to audience targeting, data modeling, and psychographic profiling has made them a leader in behavioral microtargeting for election processes around the world.

The Future of Augmented Reality

A conceptual view of how augmented reality may be used in the future. Although the video depicts the user with a smartphone, in the future it is more likely that the user will be wearing some form of augmented reality eyewear. Once refined and adapted, augmented reality will play a key role in the way […]

J-Fall 2015 Speaker Rene Boere & Pascal Snippen – Pushing the limits of Continuous Delivery

Containers, cloud platformen, Service Discovery en Continuous Delivery zijn technologieën die zich momenteel razendsnel ontwikkelen. We passen allemaal al jaren Continuous Integration gecombineerd met unittesten toe in onze projecten. In deze sessie geeft Quintor haar visie hoe we Continuous Integration de komende jaren zien evolueren naar een Continuous Delivery omgeving op Web-scale formaat, gebruikmakend van […]

The Artificial Intelligence revolution

Over the 20th century, the development of automated machinery has propelled modern industry and manufacturing into new heights of productivity. However, the cost of this technological advancement has been the displacement of millions of blue collar jobs across the world. In contrast, white-collar labour has always been regarded as safe from the kind of automation […]

J-Spring 2018: Bert Ertman – Thinking about my doorbell

When the White Stripes wrote their song ‘My Doorbell’ back in 2005, they had no idea it was actually about this very presentation and MY doorbell. “Yeah, I’m thinking about my doorbell, when ya gonna ring it, when ya gonna ring it” And then what?! Well…then I want to ask it who is in front […]

Future Tech 2019: Alessandro Vozza – Deploying scalable Machine Learning models with Kubernetes

Where data scientists meet DevOps: how to deploy, manage, train and serve Machine Learning models at scale in the cloud with popular open source tools like Kubeflow, on the most popular container orchestration and microservices: Kubernetes. Applying widespread concepts like continuous delivery and infrastructure as code, we will show how simple and streamlined it can […]

J-Spring 2019: Katherine Stanley – An introduction to Apache Kafka – this is Event Streaming, not just Messaging

The amount of data the world produces is growing exponentially every year and many companies are realising the potential of harnessing this data. A lot of this is generated in the form of a never ending stream of events, with publishers creating the events and subscribers consuming them in many different ways. This is where […]

J-Fall 2018: Roel Hodzelmans & Wian Vos – Leveraging the power of Kubernetes with patterns – for fun and profit!

The way we design, develop and run applications on Cloud Native platforms like Kubernetes differs significantly from the traditional approach. When working with Kubernetes, there are fewer concerns for developers to think about, but at the same time, there are new patterns and practices for solving every-day challenges. In this talk, we will look at […]

Exclusive Q&A – James Gosling

The godfather of Java: James Gosling was invited to the Netherland by Blue4IT, AWS and the NLJUG at the Amazon Web Services office in Amsterdam. On 17 October 2018 multiple developers saw a chance to ask their questions of James Gosling. Which resulted in a very interesting view of the past, present and future of […]