Welcome to PGTG’s September Meet Up!
We will be welcoming speakers Mark Vejvoda (Topic: Introduction to Serverless Computing) and Darren Wiens (Topic: Spatiotemporal Assets in your Chat) for our meetup this month. The goal for our meetup is for collaboration in the Information Technology field.
Registration for the event can be found here.
Map to the event at UNBC can be found here.
Date: September 18, 2019
Time: 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Location: UNBC Bentley Centre
The Goal: Collaboration in the Information Technology Field
AGENDA
5:30 – Networking – Drink/Food available
5:45 – Introduction and Announcements of other local Technology events
6:00 – Speaker 1 – Mark Vejvoda – Introduction to Serverless Computing by Mark Vejvoda
6:30 – Speaker 2 – Darren Wiens – Spatiotemporal Assets in your Chat by Darren Wiens
7:00 – Break out sessions and local discussion – Selection of Topics for next event
7:30 – Summary – Next Meeting, Adjourn and if you wish to hang around and network some more – go for it!
DETAILS
Topic 1: Introduction to Serverless Computing
The journey for Software and IT professionals has been a bumpy ride for the past few decades. Emerging technologies have pushed the envelope towards our modern-day cloud computing model. In this presentation, we will discuss an important evolution in cloud computing that opens the door for SMB’s but also lowers costs for Enterprise customers alike. Serverless computing is a cloud-computing execution model in which the cloud provider runs the server, and dynamically manages the allocation of machine resources.
Speaker: Mark Vejvoda, Suite Software Architect – Kronos Inc
Slides: Here
Topic 2: Spatiotemporal Assets in your Chat
Speaker: Darren Wiens, sparkgeo.com
This talk will present an overview of the SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) specification. We will discuss a use-case and example of an API to query STAC items by space and time, resulting in imagery and associated metadata. STAC provides a common language to describe a range of geospatial information, so it can more easily be indexed and discovered. A ‘spatiotemporal asset’ is any file that represents information about the earth captured in a certain space and time.