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What’s attractive
in Rakuten Technology Conference
2016.(English Version)
Masaya Mori 森正弥
Program Chairman, Executive Officer
http://tech.rakuten.co.jp/
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On the opening of Rakuten Technology Conference 2016
This year happily marks the 10th anniversary of Rakuten Technology Conference which is planned by Rakuten engineers with your support.
The theme is “The next adventure of humankind” this time. In the past decade, we faced many challenges. Cloud Computing, Smart Device, Social Services, Bigdata, etc in a row. We have tried global distributed development, agile methods and DevOps.
Now, IoT is popular. AI is emerging. Those are enabling innovative services and transforming industries. AR/VR are also evolving. Thinking about changes in the coming years, we should be overwhelmed.
The disruptive trend like AI will shakeup the society. What next should people do then? Technology won’t give the answer what to do. We would like to think over the next challenges with you.
We prepared sessions for that. We will cover challenging topics on AI, super computer, world-class OSS, the drone delivery “Soraraku”, Infra architecture, the latest research and so forth. TED fellows of Rakutenwill also hit the stage. Plus, we plan to have an experience-based program named “AR/VR Robotics Park”.
Join us to see the future and hopefully you will feel the excitement for the next decade. We are looking forward to seeing you.
Masaya Mori
Executive Committee Chair
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10th Anniversary of
Rakuten Technology Conference!!
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Rakuten Technology Conference 2016
Venue: Rakuten Crimson House in Futako Tamagawa
Date: Oct. 22nd Saturday
Registration Fee: Free
Go Register! -> http://tech.rakuten.co.jp/
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Highlights
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The Next Adventure
of Humankind
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This Year’s Highlights
Attendees can see the inside of our HQ, Rakuten Crimson House!
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This Year’s Highlights
Attendees can see the inside of our HQ, Rakuten Crimson House!
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This Year’s Highlights
Deep learning
Mary Poppendieck
and more.
Front Runners and Legendary Presenters will take the Stage!
Hiroshi Mikitani,
CEO at Rakuten Group
Eric Berlow
TED FellowDrone Delivery
Jonathan Rasmusson
Motoaki Saito
Michael Ducy
Koichi Takeda
Virtual Reality
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Yoga Session
As well as last year, we will provide a special session about
yoga and meditation for engineers. Through meditation, relax
your body and soul, and enhance your creativity!!
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AR/VR Robotics ParkExperiential exhibition, gathering state-of-the-art technologies
in a field of AR/VR Robotics!
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Free lunch at Cafeteria
We’ve been offering free & delicious lunch
at our cafeteria since 2011.
Please enjoy!! (at Rakuten Crimson House!)
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Enjoy Conversation
A conference is a meeting place for people who "confer" about a topic.
We are putting a lot of work into providing an exciting atmosphere.
(Resting place is available.)
We hope you will enjoy discussions with speakers and other participants!!
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Halloween Event in Futako Tamagawa
At the same time, Halloween event will be held in Futako Tamagawa
Rise area!
You can attend Rakuten Technology Conference after enjoying that
Halloween event.
And we are planning a collaboration with Halloween event.
Please come join with your family!
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Rakuten Technology Conference 2016
Starts at 11:00 am on Saturday, Oct 22nd!!
Go Register! -> Coming Soon! Stay Tuned!
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What is
Rakuten Technology Conference?
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What is Rakuten Technology Conference?
It is a technology conference that Rakuten Engineers voluntarily plan &
operate by themselves. With your continuous support since 2007, we
mark the 10th anniversary for this conference.
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From Rakuten Tech Talk to Tech Conference
The workshop named “Rakuten Tech Talk” which we held
internally for twice or three times per month became a community
and its participants work as the core team as a driving force for
Tech Conference.
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We originally started the 1st Rakuten Technology Conference
with presenting the inside story of Rakuten’s
Development & Technology in 2007.
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Not only presenting Rakuten’s technology, but we’ve set aside sessions for
external speakers from OSS(Ruby, PHP, Linux, etc.) and engineer community.
Emerging technologies(NoSQL, IoT, Jenkins, Spark) have been picked as well.
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GlobalizationAs Rakuten became globalize, the Globalization has been a big topic
since 2011 in TechConf.
The topics are for instance, engineers performing globally,
or our effort for English as our official language, in each session.
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TopicsWithout limiting the topics to the specific areas,
We’ll cover a broad range of topics with external speakers,
to make sure that event is enjoyable for everyone.
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Lightning Talks
Lightning talks is are also well received
- a variety of presenters take turns delivering
an unique 4 minutes presentation.
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Rakuten Technology Award
Along with the sessions, since 2008 we’ve given
the award called “Rakuten Technology Award”
to the contributor to the internet and web tech.
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Beer Bash
Enjoy talking and drinking at the beer bash after the conference.
We’d be happy to see you having fun communicating with speakers and
other participants. (Of course, it’s free of charge!!)
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One more thing...
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Preparing Technology Conference and welcome you with OMOTENASHI,
We’re looking forward to seeing you!!
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Join us!!
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Thank you!!!