The 404 Tech Event Opens Its Doors this Weekend – Here’s What to Expect

It’s just a few more days until 404, Dublin’s new major tech event will be taking place. The event will bring together over 1,000 technology professionals, leading tech companies, award-winning game designers, technology experts and Ireland’s tech meet-up community.

404 is a tech event that aims to connect like-minded people, show off innovative technologies and ideas and provide many interesting speakers, installations, demos and live performances.

What’s Happenin’ at 404?

Music

Cello Fortress

Cello Fortress is a unique combination of a game and a live music performance. A cellist defends a fortress by improvising on his cello. Melodies control the guns, dissonant notes activate the flamethrowers. Players from the audience use game controllers to steer their tanks and attack the fortress. The cellist plays live music, while at the same time controlling the game to be a fun challenge for the players. Cello Fortress is an innovative experiment that blends concert and game.

Ruth John & { Live:JS }: Javasript DJ

Ruth John is an award-nominated digital artist, web consultant, speaker and writer, with 15 years of experience in the digital industry.

She’s a Google Developer Expert, is on the board of directors for Bath Digital Festival and in her career has worked for companies such as o2 (Telefonica) and BSkyB, and clients such as the BBC, NBC, Cancer Research UK, Heineken and Channel 4 among others.

Ruth also belongs to the { Live : JS } collective, which brings audio and visual code to life, in live performances across the globe.

Games

DEEP by Owen Harris

DEEP is a meditative and psychoactive VR game that is controlled by breathing. Players don the Oculus Rift and the custom DEEP controller to explore a beautiful and mysterious undersea world. Allow the game to sweep you into its relaxing embrace as it teaches you yogic breathing techniques that can relieve stress, anxiety and mild depression. Take a DEEP breath and soar beneath the waves to meet ancient gods and strange lifeforms.

Line Wobbler by Robin Baumgarten

Line Wobbler is a one-dimensional dungeon crawler game with a unique wobble controller made out of a door-stopper spring and a several meter long ultrabright LED strip display. The entire game runs on an Arduino, including sound, particle effects and 60+fps.

Artificial Intelligence

Katharine Jarmul: a Pythonista who uses artificial intelligence to generate poetry

Katharine Jarmul is a Python developer who enjoys data analysis and acquisition, web scraping, teaching Python and all things Unix. She has worked at small and large start ups before starting her consulting career overseas. Originally from Los Angeles, she learned Python while working at the Washington Post in 2008. As one of the founders of PyLadies, Katharine hopes to promote diversity in Python and other open source languages through education and training.

Security

Dr. Melanie Rieback

Dr. Melanie Rieback is the CEO/Co-founder of Radically Open Security, the world’s first non-profit computer security consultancy company. She is also a former Assistant Professor of Computer Science at VU who performed RFID security research (RFID Virus and RFID Guardian), that attracted worldwide press coverage, and won several awards (VU Mediakomeet, ISOC Award, NWO I/O award, IEEE Percom Best Paper, USENIX Lisa Best Paper).

Melanie worked as a Senior Engineering Manager on XenClient at Citrix, where she led their Vancouver office. She was also the head researcher in the CSIRT at ING Bank, where she spearheaded their Analysis Lab and the ING Core Threat Intelligence Project.

404 is a unique event where you can network with over 40 meetup organisers and 30 top tech companies, connect with your peers, find out what’s new in tech and explore opportunities and collaborations, all in the iconic surrounds of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham.

All the Speakers, tech performers and installations have been crowdsourced by and for the Irish tech community. Be part of the Ultimate Tech Meetup on Saturday 7th October from 10am-5pm. To find out more about the event or to buy tickets head on over to 404.ie.