Hello Gophers,

Our April meetup is here, and for the event we are having a new host - the Microsoft Accelerator, who will offer us drinks and pizzas!

NOTE: there is a limit of 50 people that will be enforced upon arrival, so make sure to update your RSVP and be there early!

If you'd like to give a talk - submit your proposals here.

If you'd like to suggest topics for the fishbowl session - submit your topic here.

If you have more ideas - talk to us at the Gophers slack in the #berlin channel and follow us on twitter!

Agenda

18:30-19:15 networking over drinks and pizza

19:15-19:30 Welcome words

19:30-20:00 Making AI Easy with Cognitive Services / Nicoleta Mihali

Cognitive Services is a set of ready-made machine learning APIs that allow you to breath intelligence into your application using only simple HTTP calls. In this talk, you will be introduced to the Microsoft Cognitive Services APIs and see how you can use them together with the Go programming language to transform your application. In addition, Go has rich support for concurrency, which enables you to perform a large number of API calls simultaneously (e.g.,face detection and identification, emotion recognition, OCR).This is about the power of machine learning at the end of an API call.

20:00-20:30 Announcements, HR lost and found and break

20:30-21:00 Semantic Addressing Extension for Go's net Package / Philipp Brüll

21:00-end Networking

About our speakers

Nicoleta Mihali (@nikk_mihali) is a Technical Evangelist with Microsoft Germany with a focus on natural user interaction technologies, like Cognitive Services, Bot Framework, Cortana and Kinect. She works with developers on designing and building intelligent applications. Prior to joining Microsoft, she studied Computer Science and Human-Machine Interaction, and worked in the automotive industry.

Philipp Brüll is a language agnostic developer at simia.tech

Cheers, 

The Organizers™