Posts tagged #talk

I was invited by my friends to speak at AI Просмажка — a panel discussion organized by the VUS (Великий Український Стартовер) community in Warsaw. The format was a "roast" of AI: four speakers with different backgrounds critically examining the hottest topics around artificial intelligence, followed by networking at the bar. The event sold out, which was a nice surprise for a niche topic in a…

I was invited by Charles Cormier to appear on the Founder Wisdom podcast, where we had a deep conversation about my journey as a technical founder, bootstrapping DataUnlocker, and my perspectives on the crypto industry. What We Discussed The conversation covered quite a few topics: DataUnlocker and the Analytics Problem. I explained how websites lose 20–50% of their user data because ad blockers…

It was a great pleasure to be invited to talk at the University of Surrey, UK. It was a 1.5-hour talk with Q\&A for graduating students in crypto. Unfortunately the presentation itself wasn't recorded properly and was lost permanently :/ But what wasn't lost is the Q\&A session at the end, which is linked down below :) The topic of my presentation was: What is it like to be a crypto company? I…

Meeting new people, this time in Muscat, Oman! It is a great pleasure to be welcomed by Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, the university which works with InterSystems technologies. I provided a one-week training for them, which included InterSystems technologies and a basic web course. As always, I spent a bit more time in Oman for traveling and doing creative things!

This year I've made a great solution for the very common blockchain problem. I am open-sourcing this solution and will be speaking about it at BlockchainUA - the biggest blockchain and crypto-related conference in Ukraine. I've been invited to speak on the tech stage, which was the main stage at the conference. See you there! Links My Presentation Open-Source Solution for Delegated Transactions.

This was the third time I came to Dubai as a teacher, to the InterSystems office to conduct training for Dubai healthcare organizations. I do share a lot of photos/videos from my trips, you can check them on my Instagram.

EthCapeTown is a global hackathon organized by ETHGlobal and dedicated to Ethereum blockchain. I came up with an interesting idea which our team could implement in terms of the global Ethereum hackathon. The service which we were aiming to build allows anyone to benefit, as well as DreamTeam, who is sponsoring our participation in the world's biggest blockchain hackathon. And we've made it!…

I was invited to Dev Challenge 13 to share our experience implementing blockchain solutions. Many thanks to everyone involved in this event! I appreciate everything: from the organization to the audience that listened and asked so many great questions. It has been almost a year since I joined DreamTeam, a young startup building the future of esports. I've developed an Ethereum-based decentralized…

It was a pleasure to be invited by InterSystems to conduct a series of courses on databases and web technologies. In Dubai, United Arab Emirates, InterSystems has quite a lot of customers who use their technology. That summer, they were about to add a couple of new hospitals and clinics to their list, and these people needed training. For me personally, this was an exciting opportunity to meet…

This year, as well as the previous year, I organized a hub for Google Hash Code 2018. We've got a competition with around 18 teams from our hub, including my own team! I and my friends prepared co-working space Belka for the event; this year we've got some great goodies from Google. Many thanks to Google, everybody who helped me with organization and all the people who came to participate. It was…

I learned a lot about blockchain and cryptocurrencies in the second half of the year and wanted to share my knowledge with others. I had a great opportunity to do this at Kyiv's Blockchain School, which was hosted at our Student's Space Belka. I organized a micro-lecture alongside other sessions to share blockchain technology basics with 100+ students! This helped them understand the core…

This was the first time InterSystems held a meetup in Ukraine. During this meetup I was presenting InterSystems iKnow technology and my own project, iKnow Entity Browser. InterSystems iKnow is an embeddable technology that enables developers to gain insight from unstructured data and use it to enrich their solutions. iKnow uses a "bottom up" approach to text exploration, discovering concepts and…

There is one exciting challenge from Google named Google Hash Code. In short, it is a worldwide online olympiad for programmers, where people form their teams and compete against others during the online qualification round, which lasts for near 4 hours and happens in exact same moment for all the teams. To have more fun, Google suggests organizing teams into hubs — places where they can meet and…

More students are waiting for their programming experience! This time, InterSystems corporation with myself as a teacher organized a course in Europe in Brno, Czechia. I was teaching a basic course of InterSystems Caché technology, web technologies and basic programming practice. Some of the students had no prior programming experience at all, and during the one-week course of intensive training…

Amity University in Noida, Delhi is the biggest private university of India. This winter was a busy one for me: I came there to spread knowledge of InterSystems technologies! During one week, I was teaching InterSystems Caché DBMS for the teachers and professors of AIIT faculty of the Amity University. This was my first trip to India, and it was exciting! Many thanks to professor assistant…

The government company MosVodoKanal, which provides water for all of Moscow, needed a web-development course based on InterSystems technologies. I was the teacher for the company's engineers and a manager. It was a three-day course during which I introduced not only InterSystems technologies, but all the trends in web development as well. The feedback was exceptionally positive and I enjoyed this…

It was an exciting trip to the Czech Republic, where I handled my first international course. I was teaching Czech students to use InterSystems technologies and, when we finished the basic course, we added a "bonus" web course and wrote two more web applications — an online bulletin board with the authorization key retrieval from the super server, and a WebSockets chat. It was fun and a…

This social empirical project was organized by The University of Manchester. The goal was to research the capability of Ukrainians to work in small groups composed of randomly selected people. Three other participants and I were placed in a dedicated room with a supervisor, where we discussed the major problems and potential solutions for Ukrainian universities.

With the help of my friend Dima, this event became a reality. At the National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute", my friend Timur and I organized an open technical meeting for anyone interested, introducing NodeJS technology. We spoke for about two hours to around 150 attendees about the future of JavaScript, NodeJS, and the power of these tools. The presentation of our…