International Tech night in Sofia
We are happy to inform you that Computer Academy IT STEP will be a host of the event ‘Tech night in Sofia’, which will take place on 16 February 2017 at 19:00.
The event is planned as a seminar with broad range of topics related to the opportunities and challenges of the rapidly developing digital world. Our speakers have different backgrounds, interest and expertise but share the passion for innovation and success. You can learn a little more about them and the themes they will elaborate on below. The admission is free and you can register in the form provided at the bottom of the page.
Asia Lindsay (World)
The first speaker is Asia Lindsay. Born in Hong Kong, schooled at Oxford and now living everywhere and nowhere as a digital nomad, Asia leads the Europe community for Toptal, a network of the top 3% of developers, designers and financial talent. Prior to Toptal she worked on growing the community at TED and Sandbox.
Her talk title is: How Freelancing and Remote Work is Changing the World
Alexis Zubiolo (France)
Next we will have Alexis Zubiolo, who will introduce us to Machine Learning: Challenges and Perspectives. Alexis Zubiolo currently is a Data science team lead at Adcash, where he works on large-scale machine learning problems in order to optimize advert targeting. Prior to arriving in Sofia, he obtained a Ph.D. in machine learning applied to biomedical imaging from the University of Nice, France. He loves solving real-world problems with Maths as well as making short experiments and prototypes in Python to understand better how things really work. In his free time, he enjoys reading, travelling, and learning new languages (including Bulgarian!).
Viktor Dakov (Bulgaria)
Our third presenter is Viktor Dakov. Viktor is 19 years old. His passion for programming started more than 5 years ago. Viktor graduated the academy of Telerik when he was 17 and since then he has been working in various IT companies. He has also been actively going to different IT competitions and won the National Olympiad of IT. Viktor has represented Bulgaria in foreign countries multiple times. The topic of his presentation is How to become senior software developer before U become 20.
The event will be moderated by Andrei Nikolov – CEO of IT STEP Bulgaria.
Use this link for registration: https://itstep.bg/news-bg/international-tech-night-in-sofia/
КОГА: 16.02.2017
МЯСТО: бул. Ал. Стамболийски 55
ВХОД: СВОБОДЕН