TwitterNYC: Meet the Flock

At @TwitterNYC we’ve got creative, inventive teams working with exciting technologies and we want to tell you all about it. So, we’re opening our doors and creating a unique experience just for you. You’ll meet the teams and learn about our challenges and the technologies we’re using to tackle them.

Plus, you won’t want to miss the chance to experience the best New York has to offer, all within our stunning office space. We’ll have stations providing a sampling of the best foods found in New York, plus surprise Twitter-themed drinks and desserts. And, you won’t leave without swag, of course.

We hope to see you there! In the meantime, tweet about the event using #MeetTwitterNYC.

Agenda:

6:30 PM // Doors open

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM // Food, drinks and music

7:45 PM // Doors close

7:30 PM - 8:30 PM // Tech talks from @clmt, @dbentley, @erikfroese and @nkoumchatzky

8:30 PM - 9:30 PM // Dessert, drinks and networking

Tech talks:

AI @Twitter by Clement Farabet, Twitter Cortex and Nicolas Koumchatzky, Twitter Cortex

Twitter is a unique source of real-time information, offering amazing opportunities for automatic content understanding. The format of this content is diverse (tweets, photos, videos, music, hyperlinks, follow graph, ...), the distribution of topics ever-changing, and the volume ever-growing; making it very challenging to automatically and continuously expose relevant content. Manually defining features to represent this data is showing its limits.

In this talk, we’ll provide an overview of how automated, content-driven representations—enabled by deep-learning algorithms—enables us to build adaptive systems which capture the richness of this content.

Follow Clement at @clmt and Nicolas at @nkoumchatzky

Scoot: Distributed Developer Tool Infrastructure by Dan Bentley, Engineering Effectiveness

We build Developer Tools. We ship features and speed-ups, but they still stay slow and hard to use. Why? Because we lack a good foundation. Scoot's our attempt to build the right foundation.

Follow him at @dbentley

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love React: What Could Happen if the Wrong Person Pushed the Wrong Button? by Erik Froese, Core Services

As backend engineers who work with strongly-typed systems, we consider JavaScript full of "wrong buttons". Someone builds a button, then someone else thinks it's not the right shade of dangerous, so they build an even more dangerous button.

I am speaking from experience. I was tasked with updating a JavaScript application written in a week and having it live in the Twitter codebase with my name on it.

In this talk, I'll show you the tools I used to be effective, and safe while working with JavaScript. And how it turned this elitist backend engineer into one that sometimes even longs for the easy, productive environment that is JavaScript, with most of the landmines dug up by highly trained moles.

Follow him at @erikfroese

FAQs

Are there ID requirements or an age limit to enter the event?

There is no age limit, but you do need a valid ID to enter the event.

What are my transport/parking options getting to the event?

We are located at 249 West 17th Street. The building has two entrances, please use the 249 entrance. You will be greeted by Twitter staff in the lobby before taking the elevators up to the 6th floor.

Our office is accessible by several MTA subway and train lines as noted below. We do not offer parking.

Via Subway:

• Take the 1 to 18th Street
• Take the 2,3 to 14th Street
• Take the L to 8th Ave
• Take the A,C,E to 14th Street

Find directions via Hopstop or the MTA website

Via Train:

• NJ Transit to Penn Station
• LIRR to Penn Station
• Metro North to Grand Central (Shuttle to Times Sq and then 1 to 18th Street)
• Path Train

Where can I contact the organizer with any questions?

If you have any questions about the event, please email jointheflock@twitter.com.

Note: No press will be admitted to this event; please e-mail press@twitter.com if you have any questions. Twitter reserves the right to refuse entry to this event. Twitter also reserves the right to remove individuals from Twitter's premises for disruptive or disorderly behavior, or for any other reason in Twitter's sole discretion.