Santa's Workshop: Ensuring a Flawless Christmas with Temporary Environments 🎅
Owen Lacey - 19/12/2024
This Tech Talk with Owen Lacey will cover how Santa’s team uses Terraform and Azure YAML pipelines to spin up temporary, dedicated environments for performance, security, and regression testing, isolating tests to ensure quality without impacting production or ramping up Azure costs.
AI Personas: Meet and Greet the Different Machine Learning Models 🤖
Audacia - 21/11/2024
At the AI Personas Meet and Greet, we’ll explore AI approaches through personification, helping you understand which character can best solve a problem.
Trick or Treat: Tips & Tricks to Avoid Development Team Horror Stories 🎃
Emily O'Connor - 31/10/2024
Join our latest Tech Talk to hear from Principal Test Engineer, Emily O'Connor, on how testers can avoid those horror story situations during a development project and implement best practices to never hear those scary sayings again.
Failover Environments: Ensuring Availability of Business-Critical Software 🟢
Rhys Smith - 04/10/2024
Join our latest Tech Talk hear from Senior Engineer, Rhys Smith, on system availability and failover environments, focusing on multi-region setups for business continuity and disaster recovery.
Navigating the Unpredictable: Understanding Machine Learning Models 🤖
Audacia - 24/09/2024
Understanding the nuances behind model predictions is crucial, especially when headlines about Air Canada’s Customer Service AI Chatbot hallucinating a refund policy stand as a burning reminder of the cost when AI goes wrong.
Using AI to Build (Probably) the Best Fantasy Football Team in the World ⚽🌍
Audacia - 19/09/2024
Built upon a previously delivered Tech Talk, Principal Software Engineer, Owen Lacey, will once again guide us through building a winning Fantasy Football team using AI and machine learning, leveraging Azure Machine Learning and Google OR Tools.
Tech Roundtable: Securing Technology Strategies
Audacia - 18/09/2024
In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, ensuring robust security measures across all aspects of IT infrastructure is paramount. This roundtable, hosted by Audacia, for CIOs and IT Directors, will discuss best practices, emerging threats, and strategic solutions for security across the technology landscape.
Building User-Centric Products: You Are Not Your Customer 🙃
Emily O'Connor - 17/09/2024
Understanding your customer goes beyond empathy; it involves recognising and challenging your own assumptions. In this talk, Principal Test Engineer at Audacia, Emily O’Connor, will delve into the often-overlooked aspect of building software: the subconscious biases and assumptions that delivery teams bring to the table.
Implementing Engineering Principles: Guiding High Quality Software Delivery
Audacia - 16/08/2024
In this online Tech Talk, Audacia’s Technical Director, Richard Brown, will walk through the engineering principles that govern how software and test engineers build large-scale, complex, enterprise software systems, ensuring that they are stable, extensible and maintainable.
Picking a Fantasy EURO 2024 team with Google OR Tools ⚽
Audacia - 19/06/2024
This talk will cover an introduction to Google OR Tools as well as a worked .NET example for picking (scientifically) the most optimal Fantasy EURO 2024 team.