Learn to Develop Voice-Enabled Experiences with Alexa

This hands-on workshop will take you through the skill-building process starting with an introduction to Amazon Alexa and the Alexa Skills Kit while illustrating why Voice is the next major disruption in computing. Build your first skill and then move onto learning voice design and how it differs from designing for the web or mobile.

Speaker/Instructor: Sohan Maheshwar, Alexa Evangelist, Amazon

About Speaker: Sohan is an Alexa Evangelist at Amazon. His role involves inspiring and helping developers build incredible voice experiences using Alexa. He was a part of the Alexa launch in India which has seen developers build over 15,000 skills in a short span of time. Sohan has earlier worked as a developer evangelist for Gupshup and InMobi and has spoken at conferences around the world.

Workshop Code: WS 08

Date: 11th October 2018

Time: 11:15 AM to 01:45 PM

Venue: Workshop Room 3

Fee: Rs. 2999/- (Limited seats available)

Hacking, Hardening and Securing: An overview for Developers

The phenomenal rise in technology, and especially, software-driven products (domains like networking, telecom, embedded-automotive, infotainment, and especially now IoT, ML, AI) literally begs for better security on end-products. Hackers currently have a field day! and are only getting better at it, while product developers lag behind. Not a good thing. This workshop is geared towards helping participants understand why and where software vulnerabilities exist, while programming and after; available OS Hardening techniques; what tools and methodologies help prevent and mitigate security issues

Speaker/Instructor: Kaiwan N Billimoria

About: Kaiwan taught himself BASIC programming on his Dad's office IBM PC-XT when he was in the 9th grade (back in 1983). The urge to learn, hack and master at the level of the “bare-metal” was born there! He is also founder of kaiwanTECH which provides world class training, workshops and consulting services in the Linux systems domain.

Workshop Code: WS 01

Date: 11th October 2018

Time: 03:30 PM to 06:30 PM

Venue: Workshop Room 2

Fee: Rs. 2999/- (Limited seats available)

Secure Programming - How to write secure code which avoids security vulnerabilities.

To write code which avoids any security vulnerabilities. In this age of technologies and innovations, there are constant new methods of hacking and breaking the systems. Hence it becomes extremely important for developers to be remain up-to-date with the possible security threats and ways/practices to be followed to overcome any application security issues. We provide the workshop on the latest top 10 web security threat and will do hands-on-coding session to avoid the security vulnerabilities.

Speaker/Instructor: Ravi Trivedi, Founder, PushEngage; Sampath Kumar S, Software Lead, at PushEngage; Ayushi Dubey, Software Developer, PushEngage; B Radha Krishna, Senior Software Engineer, PushEngage

Workshop Code: WS 02

Date: 12th October 2018

Time: 11:00 AM to 01:30 PM

Venue: Workshop Room 2

Fee: Rs. 2999/- (Limited seats available)

Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing‎ (VAPT) using open source tools

The workshop is for anyone with basic knowledge of computer networks & Linux. This can be an eyeopener for people having an inclination towards cyber security. You will get to know what is the need of VAPT, Network scanning using Nmap, Vulnerability scanning using Nmap/OpenVAS/Metasploit-framework.
The key takeaway for the attendees would be introduction to Practical Cyber security from attackers perspective.

Speaker/Instructor: Piyush T, Security Researcher at PurpleSynapz

About Speaker:Security Researcher at PurpleSynapz, 'With an avid interest in information and security since childhood, Piyush carries a major in IT engg. & about 4 years of professional experience in Infosec which includes testing security postures of banks & US customers till providing infosec training to students from remote parts of the country. His skills mainly revolve around the red teaming which in technical sense translate into vulnerability assessment & penetration testing.
During this journey, he has leveraged subjects like open source intelligence & publicly available exploits, python, bash, web application & network security, wifi vapt along with those we would be covering in the session being conducted.'

Workshop Code: WS 03

Date: 11th October 2018

Time: 11:00 AM to 01:30 PM

Venue: Workshop Room 1

Fee: Rs. 2999/- (Limited seats available)

Hands-on Ethereum: Developing Smart Contracts with Solidity

The success of Bitcoin and Ethereum has created much interest in Blockchain technology. This presentation & workshop provides a technical overview of Ethereum which is one of the most popular open source blockchain platforms for writing smart contracts. The workshop will Introduce you to Solidity, Hello-world, Basic constructs, Developing the first smart contract and a lot more.

Speaker/Instructor: Murughan Palaniachari, CodeOps Technologies, Ganesh Samarthyam, Founder, CodeOps Technologies

About Speaker: Murughan Palaniachari is a Developer, Speaker, Blogger, Trainer, DevOps Coach, and Blockchain Consultant. He has 10+ years of software development experience on multiple technology stacks including Microsoft .Net/C#, Javascript, NodeJS, Java, Python and Big Data. He has expertise in Blockchain, Distributed Ledger Technology, Distributed Database, Ethereum, Solidity, DApps, and Hyperledger. He enables teams to practice Automated Testing, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Learning, Infrastructure as Code, Monitoring, AWS and Azure Cloud with Jenkins, VSTS. He has extensive expertise in Agile frameworks such as Scrum, Lean and Kanban.

Workshop Code: WS 04

Date: 12th October 2018

Time: 11:00 AM to 01:30 PM

Venue: Workshop Room 1

Fee: Rs. 2999/- (Limited seats available)

Introduction to Convolution Neural Network(CNN) and Tensorflow

The workshop will introduce you to Convolution Neural Network(CNN) and Tensorflow. It will give a basic overview of what is CNN with the help of tensorflow. You will also learn how CNN works, installation of tensorflow and a use case of tensorflow api.

Speaker/Instructor: Shuvaday Chatterjee; Anusha Bhaskar; Priti Parate, Software Senior Engineer, Dell R&D

About Speaker: Shuvaday has an experience in of around 7 years, in fields of development of Web application and automation.Currently working as Software Senior Engineer in Dell R & D.He is a passionate coder. He seeks interest in learning new technologies and how to implement them to ease out daily tasks.

Anusha Bhaskar, serves as Senior Software Engineer in 'Systems Management Engineering’, 'The Enterprise Solutions Group' of Dell EMC R & D, India. Masters in Computer Science from Illinois, USA. and BE in Information Science from NIE Mysore. Experience of close to 6+ years in System Management, Drivers, Firmware, Biometric systems, Windows Linux Kernel components and Also interested in ML/AI software building. Owns 2 authorized US patents and few recognized patents with Dell. Prior to Dell she has worked with 'Hewlett Packard R & D Hub' and Intel India.

Priti Parate, software senior engineer @Dell EMC. She has completed masters from IISc and having 6+ years of working experience in Development. She is always passionate about emerging technologies and currently exploring hands on data analytics and ML. She is pursuing PG diploma course in Data analytics from IIITB.

Workshop Code: WS 05

Date: 11th October 2018

Time: 11:15 AM to 01:45 PM

Venue: Workshop Room 4

Fee: Rs. 2999/- (Limited seats available)

Effective DevOps pipeline for Blockchain

Blockchain is immutable and hence the smart contract deployed in a blockchain network is irreversible. A faulty deployment of a smart contract could erode the wealth of the stakeholders. In this session we will demonstrate how to build an effective DevOps pipeline for blockchain that can alleviate these risks.

Speaker/Instructor: Jeeva S. Chelladhurai, Founder, Comorin Consulting Services

About: Jeeva is the founder of Comorin Consulting Services and technical author over 20 years of experience in product development. He is currently consulting with Agile Clouds and Citizens Reserve to build out their blockchain infrastructure, decentralized applications, microservices and end-to-end automation. Jeeva is passionate on Lean-IT, Blockchain, MicroService Architecture (MSA) and DevSecOps. He is a prominent technical speaker and a host for multiple technical forums. Jeeva has authored many technical books on Docker and evangelizes DevSecOps cultural transformation across the organization. He has managed Research and Development teams, building cutting-edge products by leveraging the new-generation technological paradigms and concepts. He has led many software product teams across the globe. He has worked for various renowned organizations like IBM, Siemens, Cabletron System and Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from MS University, India and PG Diploma in Project Management from Boston University, USA.

Workshop Code: WS 06

Date: 12th October 2018

Time: 03:15 PM to 06:30 PM

Venue: Workshop Room 1

Fee: Rs. 2999/- (Limited seats available)

OSS License Compliance with OSS Tools

The main objective of the workshop is to spread awareness about the OSS compliance. It will introduce you to OSS license compliance and why license compliance is important. You will also learn about License compliance workflow with Fossology and sw360 and Other OSS tools for license compliance

Speaker/Instructor: Arun Azhakesan, Lead - Compliance; Supriya Ashish Chitale, Manager- Product Development, Siemens Technology and Services Private Limited

About the Speaker: Arun is currently working with Siemens Healthineers as Team Lead for OSS compliance and clearing support team in Bangalore. In his 12+ yrs in the software industry, Arun has spent more than 8 years in the areas of Open Source Software compliance topics. He is passionate about open source compliance tools and license related topics. When he is not dealing with compliance topics, you can see him shooting videos or clicking photos.

Supriya Chitale is head of the Open Source Software Compliance team at Siemens, Pune. She is an experienced software professional with diverse knowledge. She has 12 years experience in software development using different technologies. She has also spent 2 years in designing, developing, and delivering Instructor-led Training. During her free time, Supriya likes to read, travel with family, and learn about new cultures.

Workshop Code: WS 07

Date: 11th October 2018

Time: 03:15 PM to 06:30 PM

Venue: Workshop Room 4

Fee: Rs. 999/- (Limited seats available)

Hands on Hyperledger Fabric using IBM Cloud Container(Kubernetes) Service

Workshop will demonstrate the steps involved in setting up your business network on Hyperledger Fabric using Kubernetes APIs on IBM Cloud Container Service. Hosting the Hyperledger Fabric network on IBM Cloud provides you many benefits like multiple users can work on the same setup, the setup can be used for different blockchain applications, the setup can be reused and so on.

Note: Blockchain network setup on Kubernetes is good to use for demo scenarios but for production, it is recommended to use IBM Blockchain as a service hosted on IBM Cloud.

Speaker/Instructor: Mangesh Patankar and Raghavendra Deshpande Designation: Developer Advocates

About Speaker: Mangesh Patankar is working with IBM Digital Business Group as Developer Advocate – IBM Cloud. He has around 18 years of IT experience. Currently work directly with ISV’s, Partners, Startups Developer Community enabling them to adopt IBM Cloud technologies. He host Meetups, Workshops with Startup Communities. Connected to Student Developer Communities as well, who are the future developers. Representing IBM in various forums/events as speaker on Watson and IBM Cloud. Conducting IBM Cloud, Watson hands – on workshops for Enterprises/startups developers. Prior to IBM , has worked with organizations like Oracle, Patni, Syntel, Reliance Consultancy Services – right from Development, Designing, Architect to Pre-Sales role.

Raghavendra Deshpande is Developer Advocate in IBM Digital Business Group. He has 15 years of experience in development of enterprise level products and solutions with 11 years of service in IBM. Strong technical hands on background with contribution to design and programming using Java, J2ee, Node.js and web based technologies. Sufficient knowledge of developing applications using IBM Cloud. Currently work directly with ISV’s, Partners, Startups Developer Community. His core competency is in developing cognitive, blockchain, data science & cloud solutions to evangelize, enable enterprises to adopt IBM’s Cloud & Watson as part of their core business.

Workshop Code: WS 09

Date: 11th October 2018

Time: 11:15 AM to 01:45 PM

Venue: Workshop Room 2

Fee: Rs. 2999/- (Limited seats available)

Machine Learning On the Cloud

This workshop will take you through the journey of cleaning,visualizing data and finally deploying machine learning models in a quick hands-on session without much code and using some very exciting datasets. We discuss best practices, tools to find new and unexpected insights that deliver business changing results. It's a great place to get started with Data Science and IBM Watson Studio

Speaker/Instructor: Krishna Balaga, Data Science,Machine Learning and IoT, IBM

About Speaker: Krishna Chaitanya is a Developer Advocate at IBM. He is a part of Digital Business Group: determined to smoothen the journey for Developers and their startups with IBM’s visionary tech.

In the past, he worked mainly with the start-up community. He undertook the roles of an IOT consultant, Computer Vision expert, Cloud Advocate, IOT trainer, Design Automation rookie and quite a few freelance consultancy roles as well, developing a good amount of street cred while doing so. Currently he’s working on creating novel PoCs demonstrating the cognitive capabilities of IBM Watson and its ability to transform the way businesses operate forever

Workshop Code: WS 10

Date: 12th October 2018

Time: 11:15 AM to 01:30 PM

Venue: Workshop Room 2

Fee: Rs. 2999/- (Limited seats available)

Monolith to Micro-services: A hands on workshop for development of micro-services using open source frameworks

In this workshop we enable developers to transform their monolith applications to micro-services using open source micro-services frameworks. We will do comparative analysis of existing open source microservices framework like Istio, Linkerd, Dubbo and ServiceComb. We will be showcasing Microservice framework like Apache ServiceComb can be used for efficient service discovery, circuit breaking, fault tolerance, route management, logging & tracing, fault injection and Darklaunch deploying on Kubernetes/Docker.

Speaker/Instructor: Mohammad Asif Siddiqui, Rajadeepan D Ramesh, Savita, Thandayuthapani S, Mahesh Raju, Huawei

About Speaker: Mohammad Asif Siddiqui: Asif is a Technical Project Leader in Huawei Cloud Team and has been working on developing sdk’s for micro-services, he is a PMC and Committer for Apache ServiceComb. He has an expertise on micro-services architecture, PaaS solutions and Huawei Public Cloud.

Rajadeepan Ramesh: Rajadeepan works at Huawei Cloud Team having experience with containerization and orchestration technologies like docker, kubernetes etc and also contributing to huawei open source microservice framework.

Savita: Savita is a senior software engineer with 5yrs of experience working with Huawei Cloud Team and contributing to open source ServiceComb project. Have an experience on Golang, kubernetes, docker and micro-service architecture.

Thandayuthapani: He is a software engineer working with Huawei Cloud Team and contributing to open source ServiceComb project. Have an experience on Golang and micro-service architecture.

MaheshRaju: Mahesh works at Huawei having experience in Network Routing protocols and ONOS open source SDN controller. Currently contributing for Huawei open source micro-service framework.

Workshop Code: WS 11

Date: 11th October 2018

Time: 3:15 PM to 06:30 PM

Venue: Workshop Room 3

Fee: Rs. 2999/- (Limited seats available)