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  • Paul Gilbride – Low Code with Power Apps

    Paul Gilbride – Low Code with Power Apps

    Presented by MIT Mullingar in cooperation with Evros

    Fresh from Tech X, with Paul Gilbride. Get the Low down on the Low-code movement with Power Apps, Leverage AI, IOT, Blockchain, create Modern Mobile Apps twice as fast as traditional custom development. Live app created in 30 mins.

    Power Apps and Mergon Video

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQr1X7Grfk8&feature=youtu.be

     

    Paul Gilbride

    Paul is the Business Solutions Practice Director at Evros Technology and a passionate evangelist for Power Apps.

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/paoloo365/

    Evros

    Established in 1990, Evros Technology Group offers unrivalled delivery in the design, supply, implementation and support of organisations’ IT infrastructure with over 400 employees operating out of offices in Dublin, Cork, Waterford and Auckland. Awarded ‘Managed Service Company of the Year 2018’ and ‘Cloud Partner of the Year 2018′, Evros provides a full end-to-end, flexible and innovative approach to servicing clients IT requirements under one provider.

    Website: www.evros.ie

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  • Famous Software Failures – Are we learning the lessons?

    Famous Software Failures – Are we learning the lessons?

    MIT Mullingar are delighted to announce that Dr. Joe Timoney of Maynooth University will be giving a presentation entitled “Famous Software Failures – Are we learning the lessons” on Tuesday 27th March in the Annebrook House Hotel at 7:30pm.

    Topic Overview

    Software manages so many things in our modern society from the phones in our pockets, to the computers on our workdesks, the systems in our car, the inventory management and checkouts in our supermarkets, our banking and billing….

    When it works seamlessly, or almost as we expect, we can often fail to appreciate how much trust we put in the skills of engineers to build quality software.

    However, the results can be catastrophic (or almost so!) when mistakes are made. This can happen for many reasons: as worryingly simple as human oversight to the introduction of measures to cut project costs.

    This talk will look at some famous examples of failures, the impact they had, and discuss why they happened.

    We’ll then mention about some of the ways software developers have improved their procedures to try to avoid them.

    The talk will be light hearted, humourous and a must for any coder.

    Dr Joe Timoney

    Dr. Joe Timoney, a native of Mullingar, studied Electronic Engineering, completing his PhD in 1998. He joined the Dept. of Computer Science at NUI Maynooth in the following year. He teaches on undergraduate programs in Computer Science and in Music Technology. His research interests are based in the area of audio signal processing, with a focus on musical sound synthesis and the digital modelling of analogue subtractive synthesis. He has supervised a number of PhD students in the fields of Audio analysis and Digital Audio watermarking. Additionally, he has worked on EI innovation vouchers and a Commercialisation project on Watermarking. In 2003 he spent a 3 month research visit at ATR laboratory in Kyoto, Japan, and in 2010 made a research visit to the College of Computing at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. He has developed a strong research collaboration with the Dept of Signal processing and Acoustics at Aalto university in Finland. He is a member of the Audio Engineering Society. Alongside his academic work, he also is a keen DIY electronics enthusiast and has built a number of synthesizers and drum machines. He participated in last year’s Mini-Maker Faire as part of the NUI Maynooth team.

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    Dr Joe Timoney: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/joseph-timoney

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  • The Robots are Coming!

    The Robots are Coming!

    MIT Mullingar are delighted to announce that Maebh Coleman will be giving a presentation entitled “The Robots are Coming!” on Tuesday 30th January in the Annebrook House Hotel at 7:30pm

    Topic Overview

    OK so it’s not Blade Runner 2049, but we are gearing up for a huge technology change with Robots and AI coming on stream fast in the real 2049.

    Are you positive or negative about the changes which robotics and AI will make over the coming years? You may not have had time or space to reflect on the growing influence of robots and AI, but take some time and space to talk with Maébh who has been working in Ireland’s leading robotics integrator for the last year.

    Discover where Ireland is in the robotics revolution, what changes are happening internationally and how all of this could impact you in the short term and the next generation in the long term. Key trends, influences and happenings are up for discussion.

    Maebh Coleman

    Maébh is a specialist in corporate strategy, business planning and innovation in the field of technology management. She has extensive experience in executive development, executive education and also carries out bespoke training around innovation, strategy and technology.

    She is on the team that founded Irelands only robotics research and training company, helped fledgling businesses to grow, consulted on funding, strategy and planning at international levels together with over 15 years international experience from around the world.

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  • Artificial intelligence – Understanding IBM Watson (before it understands you…)

    Artificial intelligence – Understanding IBM Watson (before it understands you…)

    MIT Mullingar are delighted to announce that Mr. Eddie Daly of IBM Talent Management Solutions will be giving a presentation entitled “Artificial intelligence – Understanding IBM Watson (before it understands you…..)” on Wednesday 12th April in the Annebrook House Hotel at 7:30pm.

    Topic Overview

    We are entering into a new era of computing Artificial Intelligence or Cognitive Computing. The cognitive computing era follows the eras of programmable and tabulating systems and represents a huge leap forward. This is a new era because there is a fundamental difference in how these systems are built and how they interact with humans. Traditional programmable systems are fed data, knowledge, and information, and they carry out and return results of processing that is pre-programmed by humans. In the programmable systems era, humans do most of the directing.

    The cognitive era on the other hand is about thinking itself – how we gather information, access it and make decisions. Cognitive-based systems learn and build knowledge, understanding natural language, and reason and interact more naturally with human beings than traditional programmable systems. While The term “reasoning” refers to how cognitive systems “reasoning” is a slippery term, we mostly mean that such systems demonstrate insights that are very human-like.

    In this talk we’ll explore the progression of Cognitive Computing, understanding how IBM’s Watson works, and the principles behind Cognitive Computing, taking a look at two of the areas that Watson is being applied in – Health and the Internet of Things.

    Eddie Daly

    Eddie Daly, IBM

    Eddie is a 17 year veteran of the It industry Joining IBM back in 1999, and working in areas from Test Engineering to Availability Management currently he is responsible for the full implementation life cycle from sales to service deployment of any of the IBM Talent Management Solutions across IBM’s client base.

    He enjoys all things IT and in his spare time builds websites apps and consults a little, he also likes to tinker with Raspberry PI’s and other gadgets.

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    This is a FREE event however to accommodate all attendees comfortably registration is required. Tea/Coffee served afterwards sponsored by Electronomous – The Car Tech Summit. Donations to help host future MIT events welcome.

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    This Months Sponsor: Electronomous

    Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), Connected and Electric Vehicles (EV) have a huge part to play on the Road to Autonomy. Cartell.ie are extremely excited to be launching Electronomous, the first Car Tech Summit here in Ireland at the INEC Killarney on April 27th.

    For more information on Electronomous – The Car Tech Summit and to view the full list of speakers visit www.electronomous.com

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  • Making and Listening to Digital Music – From the past to the future

    Making and Listening to Digital Music – From the past to the future

    MIT Mullingar are delighted to announce that Dr. Joe Timoney of Maynooth University will be giving a presentation entitled “Making and Listening to Digital Music – From the past to the future” on Tuesday 14th March in the Annebrook House Hotel at 7:30pm.

    Topic Overview

    Mullingar has produced its share of famous musicians over the years such as Foster and Alan,Joe Dolan,The Aftermath,The Blizzards, and Niall Horan. Digital technology has brought many changes to music making and the listening experience. This talk will look at the history as it evolved from the 1980s and will introduce some of the technologies that have been predicted to become popular in the near future. The technical difficulties behind some of these will be discussed.

    This free talk is open to the public and is suitable for, Musicians, DJ’s,Songwriters,Bands, Recording artists, Event Managers, Sound Engineers, Music Students,Music Teachers and all Music lovers in general.

    Dr Joe Timoney

    Dr. Joe Timoney, a native of Mullingar, studied Electronic Engineering, completing his PhD in 1998. He joined the Dept. of Computer Science at NUI Maynooth in the following year. He teaches on undergraduate programs in Computer Science and in Music Technology. His research interests are based in the area of audio signal processing, with a focus on musical sound synthesis and the digital modelling of analogue subtractive synthesis. He has supervised a number of PhD students in the fields of Audio analysis and Digital Audio watermarking. Additionally, he has worked on EI innovation vouchers and a Commercialisation project on Watermarking. In 2003 he spent a 3 month research visit at ATR laboratory in Kyoto, Japan, and in 2010 made a research visit to the College of Computing at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. He has developed a strong research collaboration with the Dept of Signal processing and Acoustics at Aalto university in Finland. He is a member of the Audio Engineering Society. Alongside his academic work, he also is a keen DIY electronics enthusiast and has built a number of synthesizers and drum machines. He participated in last year’s Mini-Maker Faire as part of the NUI Maynooth team.

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  • Is Open Source Farming the next Agricultural Revolution?

    Is Open Source Farming the next Agricultural Revolution?

    MIT Mullingar are delighted to announce that Peter Mooney of Maynooth University will be giving a presentation entitled “Is Open Source Farming the next Agricultural Revolution?” on Tuesday 24th January in the Annebrook House Hotel at 7:30pm.

    Topic Overview

    Today the smartphones in our pockets and tablets on our desks have computational and communication abilities that could not have been even imagined 15 or 20 years ago. The Internet is everywhere. Communications and connectivity among people and systems are found everywhere from our cars to our TVs. But what do these technological advances mean for farming and agriculture?

    The idea of open source software and hardware and open data are heralding new technical revolutions across society. Open source software and hardware allows people to share, improve, improvise and design new types of software and hardware for a myriad of tasks and problems. In this interactive talk we will explore how these open source ideas could be introduced into farming in the future. Indeed we speculate that by moving towards Open Source Farming we bring about the next Agricultural Revolution.

    • How can drones and robots be used on the farm?
    • How can open source machinery and systems be built and deployed on the farm?
    • How can you create your own maps and databases of your farm in order to report, track, analyse and predict performance?
    • Can farmers become involved in open online collaboration projects such as Citizen Science to help monitor, promote and protect the environment?

    This talk is open to the public and suitable for everyone that has an interest in Agri IT. No IT knowledge or skills are required.

    Peter Mooney

    Dr. Peter Mooney
    Dr. Peter Mooney

    Peter has over 15 years experience in the areas of: Geographic Information Science, Internet Technologies, Databases (including Spatial Databases) and Software Development. He works from the Computer Science Department in Maynooth University and has extensive experience of collaboration with national and international scientific networks, institutions and bodies. He is author of 35 international peer-reviewed multidisciplinary journal publications with over 1200 citations to his work. Peter has presented at over 70 international workshops/conferences and participated in over 90 such events including working as programme and scientific committee member and session chair.

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    Tea/Coffee served afterwards sponsored by Cookie Web.

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  • MIT Meetup – March

    MIT Meetup – March

    Discussion on a possible *future* MIT Careers Event
    (In the bar over a cup of coffee/pint)

    If anyone is interested in participating in a future IT careers event please let us know. MIT are looking for mentors, hiring managers etc to help newbies and those looking to advance their careers with some interview tips and CV reviews.

    Come along and let us know how you think this might work!

  • May MIT Meetup

    May MIT Meetup

    Our next meetup will be more social and we are looking forward to a good discussion on future events.

    Suggestions are:

    1. Mullingar IT/Web Conference
    2. MIT Public Ideas Pitching Event
    3. Have you an idea for an event? Drop us a line and let us know your ideas →

    Looking forward to catching up !

  • Mark O’Neill “The API Economy – why APIs, not apps, are the future

    Mark O’Neill “The API Economy – why APIs, not apps, are the future

    MIT Mullingar is proud to present an informal talk by Mark O’Neill entitled “The API Economy – why APIs, not apps, are the future”.

    API’s have been around for a long time, however, in recent years Web based API’s have grown hugely in popularity allowing disparate applications talk to each other seamlessly. Every major web player have their API’s e.g. Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter. When we talk of the Connected House, Connected Car, Internet of Things, Manufacturing 4.0 etc, API’s are the underlying technology that make it all these work.

    Mark advises on strategy for API management, as part of an overall digital platform. He advises on how API management relates to SOA, and SOA governance, including the importance of API security. He brings deep industry knowledge on API governance and architecture.

    This talk is suitable for Developers, Architects, Entrepreneurs and IT Business Decision makers.
    Event Information.

    This is a free event however to accommodate all attendees comfortably registration is required.
    We are using Eventbrite this time to handle attendees for a change!

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  • “The Midlands as a Gaming Technopolis” by Rob Acton

    “The Midlands as a Gaming Technopolis” by Rob Acton

    MIT are delighted to announce Rob Acton as a guest speaker who will be giving a presentation entitled “The Midlands as a Gaming Technopolis“. Rob is quite active on the Social and Monetised Gaming scene and will be announcing ten new jobs for the midlands in his companies at the event. Rob will be available afterwards to talk to those that are interested in his open positions.

    On the night Rob will be sponsoring pizza and wedges for attendees for what promises to be a highly interesting event. Non MIT members welcome, but please let us know if you are interested in attending by registering here.