Developers from all walks of life are welcome to the Wellcome Genome Campus for a day of tech talks, networking and workshops with a slight scientific twist. Whether your work involves science or not, there will be plenty of opportunities to learn from and catch up with peers from various fields who approach tech problem-solving in creative ways.
This is a free event and registrants will be offered transportation free of charge from Cambridge city centre. As we have a limited number of places for our afternoon activities, waiting lists will be available for last-minute openings. Please register early to avoid disappointment.
Event programme:
9:00 Registration
9:30 Coffee & pastries
10:00 Keynote
Open Data and Open Standards – how can we make government / health care more accessible to coders and researchers?
Terence Eden, Senior Technology Advisor, NHSX
10:45 Coffee break
11:00 Keynote
Beyond the website - building digital platforms for science
Mark Boulton, Digital Communications Team Lead, EMBL
Ken Hawkins, Senior Web Architect, EMBL
Stuart Robson, Front-end Developer, EMBL
EMBL is currently undergoing a large-scale replatforming of its digital properties, publishing platform, and development of a new design system. In this talk, the Digital Communications team from EMBL will walk through how they are approaching this. From the development of new web services and overhauling EMBL’s enterprise data, to a new design inline with EMBL’s vision of its future. The team will outline the strategy and goals of the project before diving into detail of how they plan on delivering. Facilitating the new EMBL.org is a Visual Framework that will bridge usability and consistency from lighter-use content consumption to productivity-focused data interfaces. Enabling good visual design without breaking life science services.
11:45 Lightning talks:
a. Open Targets Cloud Deployment Adam Faulconbridge, Open Targets, EMBL-EBI
b. Challenges in integrating complex atomic information David Armstrong, PDBe, EMBL-EBI
c. Making a genome browser with WebGL, Rust and React Dan sheppard, Senior Developer, EMBL-EBI
d. Building a library of reusable data visualisation web components Xavier Watkins, Project Leader Web Development, EMBL-EBI
e. Expression Atlas: exploring the architecture of a data-driven web application Alfonso Muñoz-Pomer Fuentes, Senior Software Engineer, EMBL-EBI
12:00 Lunch is served / Marketplace opens
13:30 Keynote
First steps in Cloud computing / From roadmap to product: Engineering Medical Software
Monica Jianu, Senior Software Engineer, Cambridge Cancer Genomics
Dàmi Rebergen, Bioinformatician, Cambridge Cancer Genomics
When developing medical software, excellent product engineering is vital to ensure we build intuitive, responsive software that meets the users’ requirements. In this talk, Monica will introduce iterative software development approaches, and discuss how and why we choose the technologies we do.
Computing is changing, we are moving from single machines with huge amounts of calculating power to many machines in the cloud. This change requires a different approach to solving problems. Dami will talk about the basic approaches you can use to make your solution more suited for this changing environment, and why this matters.
14:15 Coffee and snacks
14:30 Afternoon activities:
a. Open Lab Tour (30 min)
b. Workshop: MEKA for multi-label classification (30 min)
c. Workshop: Intro to data visualisation design techniques (30 min)
15:00 Afternoon activities (continued):
a. Open Lab Tour (30 min)
b. Workshop: MEKA for multi-label classification (30 min)
c. Intro to data visualisation design techniques (30 min)
15:45 Marketplace closes
16:00 Buses leave for Cambridge. See you next year!