The July Meetup is a kdb+ programmer's night, where Kx engineers will share coding tips & examples with our coding community. We will also learn about Kx Ventures, which is helping tech start-ups & young companies tackle their Big Data problems with kdb+.

Agenda:

6:30 - 7:00 pm
Networking

7:00 - 7:15 pm
NLP application in kdb+
Arturas Vaitaitis will speak about a news backtesting framework he is building using kdb+/q, Python & natural language processing to analyze financial news headlines.

7:15 - 7:30 pm
Kdb+ Tools
Kx senior engineer Nua nuderl will present a handful of helpful tools for programming in kdb+, some of which are newly published on code.kx.com.

7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
A closer look at embedPy & PyQ
Kx engineer Fionnuala Carr will describe the differences between embedPy & PyQ, demonstrate examples of each, & discuss how they are being used in the kdb+ community today.

7:45 pm - 8:00 pm
Kx Ventures & kdb+
Shay McArdle will speak about the strategy behind Kx Ventures & give some examples of how early stage companies are leveraging kdb+ to scale.

(Space is limited so sign up early!)