Brenda Deverell & Tom Hosford Making Sense of Patient Data with MongoDB

Leveraging the Internet of Things for Clinical Health Research

Koneksa Health is a platform for continuous patient monitoring, bringing internet of things technologies into medical research. The software is used by partners at biotech, pharmaceutical, and academic hospitals/institutions.

In this talk Brenda and Tom will cover how Koneksa uses MongoDB enterprise to capture patient generated and reported data in their flagship application - Koneksa Compare. The talk covers different aspects of the data model, infrastructure and operation of the platform. They will elaborate on how Mongos flexible schema and seamless javascript integration made it a good choice for working with IoT devices.

Brenda Deverell is a full stack developer at Koneksa Health with a background and degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. She was previously in a financial sector technology role and college lecturer of introductory programming. She is passionate about technology education, currently involved as director of the Women Who Code New York City network. Contact Brenda atbrenda ( u+] koneksahealth.com.

Tom Hosford is the VP of Engineering at Koneksa Health, where he leads development of Koneksa Compare, Koneksas flagship product for patient monitoring. Previously he ran the analytics team at Crowdtap, a social media marketing platform used by many Fortune 500 brands. He is passionate about using technology to help people live better lives. Reach him by email at <a>tom {aT] koneksahealth.com</a>.

Alim S. Gafar Getting Started with Flask and MongoDB Atlas

In this hands-on session, participants will learn how to build a small to-do application in Python with the Flask framework. They will also learn how to configure and connect to an Atlas-hosted MongoDB database as the data store. Participants will receive free Atlas credits that can be used for the exercise, and are encouraged to enroll in and complete theshort, free certification courseon MongoDB Atlas.

Alim S. Gafar is the Developer Advocate at MongoDB. He is one of the co-organizers of the Meteor-NY meetup, as well as the co-organizer of the NYC MongoDB User Group. Find him on Twitter at @alimgafar.

Agenda:

6:00pm Meet fellow technologists over pizza & soft drinks
6:30pm Getting Started with Flask and MongoDB (Alim S. Gafar)
7:00pm Making Sense of Patient Data with MongoDB (Brenda Deverell & Tom Hosford)
8:00pm Extended Q&A with speakers
8:30pm Beer Authority

We'll head out afterwards to theBeer Authorityat 300 W 40th Street, New York, NY 10018 (between 8th and 9th Avenues).