on what’s attractive in rakuten technology conference 2014, english version

Masaya Mori 森正弥,

Program Chairman

Executive Officer

http://tech.rakuten.co.jp/

On what’s attractive

in Rakuten Technology Conference 2014. 楽天テクノロジーカンファレンス2014 の見どころ 英語版

Highlights of this year

Front runners and legendary presenters will take the stage!

Technology Conference 2014

On Oct. 25th Saturday free of charge

at Rakuten Tower in Shinagawa Seaside （regional venue: Rakuten Sendai/Osaka/Fukuoka office, Singapore office）

Go Register! → http://tech.rakuten.co.jp/

What’s Rakuten Technology Conference?

It’s a technology conference that Rakuten Engineers voluntarily plan and

operate by themselves. This year marks the eighth anniversary which we

have been hosting with your continuing support since 2007.

We have a internal study session named “Rakuten Tech Talk” twice or three

times per month.

This internal community works as the core team to drive Tech Conference.

From Rakuten Tech Talk to Tech Conference

We began with presenting the inside story of Rakuten’s

development & technology in 2007, originally.

We’ve set aside sessions for external speakers, open source community

(Ruby, PHP, Linux, etc.) and agile community. Emerging technologies

have been picked up (ex. Hadoop, MongoDB, NoSQL, Jenkins, etc).

Globalization Globalization has been a big topic since 2011 in TechConf.

We’ve picked topics, for instance, global engineers performing all over the

world, or actual official language’s effort, in the keynote speech, each session

and panel discussion.

Plus,

we changed official

language to English in 2012.

Official Language

Topics

Topics are not limited to the specific areas.

Inviting external speakers,

we’ve covered a broad range of topics.

Lightning Talks We’ve provided a slot of lightning talks,

where a variety of presenters take turn

delivering presentation within 4 minutes.

It has gained popularity and good reviews.

RIT, our research institute shares

the newest researches, adding

also a scientific flavor. (RIT-Paris

will show up this year!)

Cloud FileSystem

R-HC

Global Product

Automation

Tech

Data Science

Machine Learning !

Search &

Recommend

Augmented

Reality

Programming

Language

R.I.T. （楽天技術研究所）

Rakuten Technology Award Not only sessions, we’ve given the award to the

contributor to internet and web tech, since 2008.

That’s named “Rakuten Technology Award.”

Cafeteria, Lunch

We’ve offered free & delicious lunch at

cafeteria since 2011.

Please enjoy!! (First 450 people served.)

Beer Bash

Enjoy talking and drinking at the beer bash after the conference.

We’d be very glad that you’ll have fun communicating with speakers and

other participants. (Of course, it’s free of charge!!)

Highlights

Highlights of this year

Front runners and legendary presenters will take the stage!

Misfit Wearables

Famous wearable

startup company will

show up!

Rakuten Speakers We will deliver presentations that provide a through

look behind the scenes at ICHIBA, Travel, the

OpenStack framework, the life of data scientists of

Rakuten & Kobo, Viber’s infra and newest research.

Yoga Session

This year, we will provide a special session about yoga and

meditation for engineers. Through meditation, relax your body

and soul, and enhance your creativity!!

Enjoy Conversation A conference is a meeting of people who "confer" about a topic.

We are putting a lot of work into offering an exciting atmosphere. We hope you

will enjoy discussions with speakers and other participants!!

Starts at 11:00 am on Saturday, Oct 25th!!

Go Register! → http://tech.rakuten.co.jp/

Rakuten Technology Conference 2014

One more thing…

Preparing to hold TechConf and welcome you with OMOTENASHI,

we’re looking forward to seeing you!!

Join us!!

Thank you!!!