2017-18

This is an archive of the 2017/18 Applications of Computing in Industry: Lecture Series

We have joined with our Corporate Partners to bring you an exciting lecture series of technical presentations called 'Applications of Computing in Industry'.

The technical presentations are designed to complement your studies by showing how theory is applied in practice and by describing interesting technical challenges in industry and how our partner organisations are addressing them. Learning more about how computing is applied in industry will also support you with your career choices and the insights you gain will give you a competitive edge in applications/interviews.

When? Usually Tuesday from 12pm till 2pm for the first six weeks of the Autumn and Spring term. To launch the series there will be additional talks on Tuesday and Wednesday of week 1, in the Spring and Autumn terms. Occasionally there may be ad hoc presentations at other times. For more detailed information on times, please view the below table.

Where? Usually Lecture Theatre 308, Huxley Building - but see programme below for precise dates and details.

Who? Applications of Computing in Industry is open to all DoC students and students from relevant departments. Places are allocated on a first come first served basis.

Please note that some presentations may assume prior knowledge of a technology/area and as such may be more suitable for students on certain courses or at certain stages in their study - where this is the case it will be noted in the presentation details provided below.

For details of previous years talks, see: 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017.

Autumn term 2017-2018

Summary of the table's contents

Company	Date	Time	Title and speaker	Venue
	3 October 2017	1pm	Innovating Rapidly in a World Class Service   Manolis Platakis	HXLY LT308
	3 October 2017	1:45pm	Applications of Machine Learning in Finance   Kraig Appleton	HXLY LT308
	3 October 2017	3:15pm	eCommerce at THG   Tolu Oguntusin	HXLY LT308
	3 October 2017	4pm	Do Androids Dream of Electric Beats? Using Artificial Intelligence to Understand Music   Martin Gould	HXLY LT308
	4 October 2017	1pm	What's the big deal about big data?   Oli Bage	HXLY LT308
	4 October 2017	1:45pm	Dataflow Computing in the Public Cloud   Georgi Gaydadjiev	HXLY LT308
	4 October 2017	3:15pm	How Future Buildings Could Redefine IoT Architectures   Yanik Ngoko	HXLY LT308
	4 October 2017	4pm	3D Map Data: the Digital Scaffold for the 21st Century   Edward Miller	HXLY LT308
	10 October 2017	12pm	Building Real Time Infrastructure   Cristina Grigoruta	HXLY LT308
	10 October 2017	1:10pm	Humanizing data: How to achieve data-driven outcomes in the real world   Zach Romanow	HXLY LT308
	17 October 2017	12pm	How To Deploy a Scalable Serverless Chat App to the Internet - LIVE!   David "Doogal" Simpson	HXLY LT308
	17 October 2017	1:10pm	Baggage With a Kick of Blockchain   Edward Johnson and Jun Wei FU	HXLY LT308
	24 October 2017	12pm	Using multiple storage request queues for ultimate virtual machine performance   Felipe Franciosi	HXLY LT308
	24 October 2017	1:10pm	The King reigns and the data governs   Nima Hamedani-Raja	HXLY LT308
	31 October 2017	12pm	Disruptive Innovation at Ocado   Dr David Sharp	HXLY LT308
	31 October 2017	1:10pm	Honey, have you turned off the lights? How hackers shut down the power grid in Ukraine   Cristi Grigore	HXLY LT308
	7 November 2017	12pm	Cyber Security at J.P. Morgan   Kev Jones	HXLY LT308
	7 November 2017	1:10pm	A Stadium in your Pocket   Jeffrey Webb	HXLY LT308

 

Spring term 2017-2018

Company	Date	Time	Title and speaker	Venue
	9 January 2018	12pm	Constructing Massive, Multiplayer Game Worlds Ally Glennie	HXLY LT308
	9 January 2018	12:45pm	Annika Monari and Alan Vey	HXLY LT308
	9 January 2018	2:15pm	Evolution of Crime: From Street to Boardroom Edward Cowen	HXLY LT308
	9 January 2018	3pm	Genus, Numerics and Architectural Level Optimisation   Dr Theo Drane	HXLY LT308
	10 January 2018	1pm	Digital music: I wouldn't start from here   Simon Cole	HXLY LT308
	10 January 2018	1:45pm	The evolution of data storage @carwow Ken Fassone	HXLY LT308
	10 January 2018	3:15pm	Breaking Badware: Defending the UK against Malware Owen Davies	HXLY LT308
	10 January 2018	4pm	Designing for Black Friday – e-Commerce at scale with ASOS Andrew Potts and Mike Gore	HXLY LT308
	16 January 2018	12pm	Supporting Wimbledon in their Pursuit of Greatness   Bill Jinks	HXLY LT308
	16 January 2018	1:10pm	React Native Simone Campora	HXLY LT308
	23 January 2018	12pm	Taskerman: A Distributed Cluster Task Manager   Raghavendra Prabhu	HXLY LT308
	23 January 2018	1:10pm	Securing the IoT ecosystem  Ron Eldor	HXLY LT308
	30 January 2018	12pm	Ten Tips For Building a Tech Company   Ashley Unitt	HXLY LT308
	30 January 2018	1:10pm	Banking with Bots   Niccolo Lamanna	HXLY LT308
	6 February 2018	12pm	The Role of Technology in Today’s Financial Markets Ez-Eldeen Hassan & Alexi Esmail-Yakas	HXLY LT308
	6 February 2018	1:10pm	Solving industry-wide complexity with blockchain George Ornbo	HXLY LT308
	13 February 2018	12pm	The Answer is in the Data   Haider Al-Seaidy	HXLY LT308
	13 February 2018	1:10pm	What in the world is DevOps?   Denise Yu & Giuseppe Capizzi	HXLY LT3