Altenar will bring the IT community together once more as we host the fifth edition of the Malta Tech Talks on November 19.
The networking event takes place at Altenar’s office in the Pendergardens Business centre, San Giljan, and continues to grow in popularity following its launch in 2023.
Three guest speakers will be presenting on their areas of expertise before guests have the chance to network and discuss the latest technology trends with fellow attendees.
Malta Tech Talks program
6pm Guest arrival and Welcome Reception
6.30–7pm
Speaker: Ioannis Loukeris, Senior Software Engineer at Altenar
Topic: Afternoon Tea With A Grumpy Old Man ep. 1: Better Tea Than OOP
7.10–7.40pm
Speaker: Dennes Torres, former Data Platform MVP, a Microsoft Trainer and the leader of the Malta Data Platform UG
Topic: AI RAG architecture in Azure: What is it and what it really is
7.50–8.20pm
Speaker: Aiseosa Uyi-Idahor, Senior Product Designer at Game7
Topic: UX in the Web3 Ecosystem
Ioannis Loukeris, a Senior Software Engineer at Altenar, will kick things off with the first of the evening’s presentations and has given us a taster of what to expect.
“The subject of my presentation is Object Oriented Programming, how it was conceived, its history, how it was interpreted by the creators of some languages and why we ended up using it wrongly (most of the time at least),” he said.
“There is a significant distinction with the original intent of OOP and modern OOP. This subject is extremely important as it helps us understand why several projects and teams fail after some time, reaching a point necessitating a rewrite to go forward. We will explore some modern OOP practices that are widely used, but are in reality anti-patterns, and the mind shift needed to produce sustainable code.
“All of the above are discussed in a tongue-in-cheek, light conversational way that will hopefully make some of the audience have a laugh too. I am taking up the guise of ‘the old man’ who is grumpy and likes nothing in the ‘modern era’ as a satirical tool, but also as a way of relaying a different way of thinking towards simplicity, speed and agility in software engineering rather than the modern ‘I need three abstractions and five meetings for every line of code I write’ that gets more and more prevalent today.”
Head to the Malta Tech Talks website to secure your free place, or attend online if you cannot make it to the event: https://maltatechtalks.com/
