Tech Talks

About Our Tech Talks

Our Tech Talks are for any students who have an interest in technology and would like to learn about up and coming technologies that aren’t typically taught in the classroom.

We bring in ePartners and club sponsors to come in and talk about a new technology, generally one they’re using at their company, for about one to one and a half hours.

You can bring yourself, a few friends, and some questions you may have for the speaker and enjoy food and refreshments during the talk.

Interested in giving a Tech Talk?

If you’re interested in giving a Tech Talk on campus, check out more information on our contact page.

Recent and Upcoming Tech Talks

Browse the each Tech Talk for more information on the event, and the presenter. Under each Tech Talk you can participate in a discussion among other students, and the Officers of ACM/AITP.

nCino Tech Talk - Being Agile is Human

Our next event is a Tech Talk by Josh Tobey and Kyle Gower-Winter, Development Managers at cloud banking leader nCino. Josh and Kyle will be talking about Scrum and Agile and its effectiveness in solving complex software problems. The talk will be held this coming Thursday, March 28 at 6pm in Engineering Building 2 room 1231 (CSC side).

Here’s the abstract for the talk:

Scrum and Agile are a natural way to solve complex problems. Josh Tobey and Kyle Gower-Winter, two Development Managers at cloud banking leader nCino, will talk about how Scrum and the Agile methodology can be applied to all types of complex problems in software development, and what it looks like in a world-class software development shop.

There will be free pizza and refreshments served! For graduate students this is event will also count towards the graduate seminar requirement.

We hope to see you there!

Kaleido - Enterprise Blockchain: Beyond Potential and into Production

Our next event is a Tech Talk by Nick Gaski from Kaleido. Nick will be giving a talk on what goes in to an enterprise-grade blockchain application and how you can build your own blockchain project. It will be held this coming Tuesday, March 19 at 6pm in Engineering Building 2 room 1231 (CSC side).

There will be free pizza and refreshments served! For graduate students this is event will also count towards the graduate seminar requirement.

We hope to see you there!

SAS Machine Learning Tech Talk

There’s lots of work in the field of machine learning on researching algorithms to create powerful predictive models. In some industries, however, adoption of these algorithms has been slow due to a variety of reasons including, model trust, lack of understanding, and governmental regulations. To help address the adoption issue, researchers have worked in the field of explaining model predictions.

On Tuesday, March 5, Senior Machine Learning Developer, Ralph Abbey, PhD from SAS came to talk about the steps of a research and development project on model-agnostic methods for explanations of predictive models.

ROI Revolution Software Metrics & Monitoring with Datadog Tech Talk

Correcting bugs can be painful. Some of the worst bugs are ones that only cause problems occasionally - resource leaks, network errors, and edge cases of all types. Logs can help to address these failures, but are difficult to comb through, and if you want any kind of aggregate statistic, you have to perform command-line acrobatics.

Datadog is a modern monitoring tool that helps track your application’s performance in real time, identify bottlenecks, and detect recurring problems at a glance.

Software Developers Troy Rosenberg and Danny Rivers from ROI Revolution came to demonstrate to our students how they use Datadog to collect real-time metrics to respond to problems immediately and correct some of the most troublesome bugs.

MetLife Robotics Process Automation & Innovation Tech Talk

On Thursday, October 11, Ambrish Patel, Senior Technical Lead, and John Bungert, Assistant VP of Met.IO from MetLife came on campus to give a talk about Robotics Process Automation at MetLife and the MetLife Digital Accelerator which works with high-potential startups to advance MetLife technology.

Kaleido Blockchain Tech Talk

Our next event is a Tech Talk by Nick Gaski from Kaleido all about blockchain! It will be held this coming Tuesday, September 11 at 6pm in Engineering Building 2 room 1231 (CSC side).

Kaleido, a proud ePartner of NC State and a ConsenSys business, is dedicated to the growth and adoption of enterprise blockchain and aims to transform how we collectively build new economic, social and political paradigms. Nick has deep enterprise, blockchain and protocol experience, and is helping to shape this emerging marketplace. In this 90 minute introductory session, you will learn the basics about:

• Distributed Databases vs Blockchain
• Public vs Private Chains
• “Mining” and Consensus
• Smart Contracts
• Ethereum Tools and Libraries
• Enterprise Applications of Blockchain

This kickoff is a pre-requisite to the Kaleido Hackathon, a week long innovation challenge using the Kaleido all-in-one blockchain platform to create your own bespoke blockchain solution.

There will be free pizza and refreshments served! For graduate students this is event will also count towards the graduate seminar requirement.

We hope to see you there!

Review Containerization and Docker

Eastman Tech Talk Review

On Thursday, we had Mark S. McDavid and a data science associate at Eastman come and give a talk on SQL, specifically Microsoft SQL Server. Eastman, like most companies, is quite reliant on data extraction and analysis for day to day operations, so SQL knowledge is pretty paramount!

Vanguard Tech Talk Review

On Tuesday, two representatives from the Vanguard Group came out to speak with us about the MEAN software bundle and Hadoop, two technologies that they use every day to build web apps and crunch numbers behind the scene.