It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! This week in the Oresund Region, you can make your own Christmas gifts and decorations using laser-cutting in Copenhagen, make cards at Helsingborg’s CreativeLab or stuff yourself with Christmas food at CSE’s annual Christmas party.
Copenhagen:
Tuesday December 16th
The new Azure Portal with Justin Beckwith (Microsoft)
18:00 @ Vester Farimagsgade 37A, 1606
Justin Beckwith from Redmond will talk about the new Azure Portal with examples of using the Azure Websites and Visual Studio Online services. He will cover new concepts such as Blades and Journeys, and show how you can setup a custom “home screen” to fit your needs utilizing these new concepts. Justin is a Program Manager at Microsoft where he, for the past year, has worked on the new Azure Portal
Wednesday December 17th
Immerse yourself and explore Virtual Reality
5:00 pm – 8:00 pm, @ tbd
This one is for the gear geeks.Sebbe Selvig, Co-founder and CTO of KnapNok Games will give a presentation and let you try one of their virtual reality demos. There will be a short introduction and several presentations starting with networking at 5 PM. Let them know if you know someone who would give a presentation or could set up a demo – or a sponsor…
Agile at Scale
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm, @ SensorSix, Hejrevej 30
Come hear Frank Olsen tell about his experience with ‘Agile at Scale’ and participate in the following open discussion.Until recently Frank was Enterprise Agile & Lean Coach at Cisco for a Technology Group of 7-8,000. Frank made his first agile mistakes/experiences in 2002-03 and has made mistakes and learned from them ever since. Bring your own experiences, questions, mistakes and challenges and share them. Note! This is a preliminary date – if it turns out that everyone is just too busy to join, then we will move to sometimes in 2015. So, pls sign up as soon as possible!
Friday December 19th
Silicon Drinkabout
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm, @ location tb
Kick it after a hard week’s work with like-minded spirits!
Christmas Laser Workshop
13:00-16:00, @ Vesterbrogade 26, 1620
Make or have made unique laser-cut Christmas presents and decorations with your own engraved details.
Saturday December 20th
CSE Christmas Dinner (deadline for sign-up Dec. 10th)
18:30 pm -4:00 am, @ Klosterstræde 23, 1157
Back on popular demand is the CSE Christmas dinner. This year’s Christmas celebration will be held at Francis Pony A pre-party will be held at a ‘yet to be revealed’ location. There will be food, beer and soda for two hours.
Malmö:
Monday December 15th
Malmö Toastmasters
18:00 – 20.00, @ Foo Café, Stora Varvsgatan 6a
This program will help you become a better speaker – making you feel more comfortable and competent in front of an audience.
Tuesday December 16th
AW Seminar: From pain to valuable investment – Test is an economic success (SWE)
5:30 pm – 8:00 pm, @ Foo Café, Stora Varvsgatan 6a
How can we measure the costs caused by low quality? And how can we justify the investment required to achieve the highest quality?Eric Järdeman, an experienced automation engineer, will discuss this using concrete examples and experiences.
Helsingborg:
Tuesday December 16th
Guerilla Office #guerillaoffice (ENG/SWE)
8:00 am – 5:00 pm, @ Mindpark, Bredgatan 11
Show up. Work. It’s that simple.
OpenLab – Come and create stuff!
5:00 pm – 8:00 pm, @ Creativelab, Mindpark, Bredgatan 11
No registration needed, just turn up and make something cool.
Do-it-yourself-christmascard (SWE/ENG)
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm, @ CreativeLab Bredgatan 11
The 16th is the final day to send Christmas cards in Sweden (so that they will arrive before christmas). Join Karsten in the CreativeLab and create your own Christmas cards! Colourful paper, scissors and all kind of things to attach, including using the 3Ddoodler for printing decoration on the cards, will be provided.
Lund:
Tuesday December 16th
Venture Cup Regional Finale
5:00 pm – 8:00 pm, @ Mejeriet, Stora Södergatan 64
It’s time to crown the winners of Venture Cup South, Autumn 2014 at the Regional Finals.
Have we missed anything? Let us know!
