Now that you already know what IT webinars are and how they can help you level up your professional appeal, you might want actually to get into one. Live tech webinars are one of the best ways to stay on top of the latest trends and tools because either they’re live — which means they’ll be as updated as they can — or because they’re recent.
In this article, we’ve compiled some of the best upcoming technology webinars for the first half of 2024. Some of them have already taken place, but are very recent and very valuable. These are the best tech webinars for developers who want to keep learning in 2024:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Programming Language
🔊 By: WeAreDevelopers LIVE
🕒 When: January 24, 2024
📚 What: This webinar delves into the expressive power of Rust compared to C++, focusing on a central feature—traits. It explores how traits enhance code quality, stimulate collaboration, and contribute to effective coding. Find similar webinars on WAD LIVE’s Rust Day!
👩💻 For: C++ developers, Rust enthusiasts, software developers and engineers, team managers.
TechByte: Deliver Software Faster, Better, and More Reliably with Generative AI
🔊 By: Cloud On-air with Google
🕒 When: February 7, 2024
📚 What: This webinar navigates through a practical software delivery process, showcasing Google Cloud's Generative AI in Duet AI. Attendees will find out how Gen AI can speed development cycles up, enhance code quality and optimise testing and deployment. Remember that Google is a key player in the development of Gen AI, even if they don’t make headlines like their rivals are, so this webinar could give away insights that not every AI company can hand out.
👩💻 For: Developers, operators, and anyone involved in the software delivery process, or interested in gen AI.
Launching Tech Ventures
🔊 By: Harvard Business School online
🕒 When: 5-week session that started January 24
📚 What: This webinar provides a comprehensive exploration of business model execution. Navigating the startup ecosystem for capital and mastering frameworks for high-quality, profitable ventures are some things the participants should learn here. HBS online webinars are not free, but you do get a certificate of completion from HBS online to boost your resume. And if you complete any three courses within the same subject area, you earn a Certificate of Specialisation.
👩💻 For: Startup founders and employees, investors.
CI/CD with GitHub Actions
🔊 By: WeAreDevelopers LIVE
🕒 When: February 7, 2024
📚 What: In this session, participants will learn to build and deploy applications through GitHub Actions. The learning includes diverse build triggers, various application types, and an in-depth understanding of workflow execution, action selection, and configuration handling. You can check out other similar webinars on WAD LIVE’s DevOps Day.
👩💻 For: Developers, DevOps professionals.
TechByte: What's next for application developers in an AI era
🔊 By: Cloud On-air with Google
🕒 When: February 7, 2024
📚 What: This webinar is also part of the TechByte series. It will delve into AI's current impact on helping develop personalised apps. The discussion covers enhancing performance, adapting user experiences, and automating tasks.
👩💻 For: Startup founders and full stack developers
A beginner’s guide to modern natural language processing
🔊 By: WeAreDevelopers LIVE
🕒 When: February 21, 2024, starting at 10:00 am (CET)
📚 What: This webinar introduces natural language processing enthusiasts to the fundamentals of ChatGPT, transformer models, text embeddings, and Large Language Models. Participants will learn the theory behind word embeddings, with a hands-on demonstration on building a Python clickbait headline classifier in Python with user-friendly packages like “gensim” and “transformers.” Even without prior machine learning experience, attendees will go home with enough knowledge to get on their first natural language processing projects. Discover other webinars on the same date in WAD’s Python Day!
👩💻 For: Data science enthusiasts, machine learning beginners, developers and students.
Women In Tech Day
🔊 By: WeAreDevelopers LIVE
🕒 When: March 8, 2024 (specific live talks not yet published)
📚 What: A day full of webinars dedicated to International Women’s Day. It's focused on encouraging more women to study tech. This WAD LIVE episode emphasises inclusion, diversity, and equity in the tech industry, encouraging all, regardless of background or gender, to join with a passion for software technology and knowledge sharing.
👩💻 For: Students, professionals and all tech enthusiasts.
Web 3 Day
🔊 By: WeAreDevelopers LIVE
🕒 When: April 3, 2024 (specific live talks not yet published)
📚 What: This webinar day dives into the latest trends in web development. From the internet's private origins to its evolving focus, it will delve into the near future, discussing decentralisation, privacy, security, machine learning, and more. Speakers will explore the exciting directions shaping the future of web development with us.
👩💻 For: Web developers, tech and machine learning enthusiasts, business owners and entrepreneurs
Machine Learning Day
🔊 By: WeAreDevelopers LIVE
🕒 When: May 22, 2024 (specific live talks not yet published)
📚 What: ML day focuses on insights and top practices in machine learning. Explore AI, deep learning, computer vision, and optimising productivity with cloud integration. Dive into the latest topics and become an ML pro!
👩💻 For: Data scientists, tech and AI enthusiasts.
Front End Performance Day
🔊 By: WeAreDevelopers LIVE
🕒 When: June 5, 2024 (specific live talks not yet published)
📚 What: This webinar day explores advanced techniques such as responsive design and interactive animations. It will touch on how to optimise code with performance profiling, lazy loading, and caching. Additionally, attendees will gain a more in-depth understanding of improving user experiences with accessibility features, for example.
👩💻 For: Web developers, front-end and full-stack developers, UI/UX designers
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