Career Kick Start - Erika Tozer

Panel featuring Mike Zaharkin, Josh Monica, Jason Lamb

Check In

Come let us know that you're here and ready to hack! Also pick up your swag and t-shirt!

Team Formation Workshop - Arpan Shah and Donald Fung

Looking for a team? Join our team formation workshop and find teammates while brainstorming hack ideas.

Hackathon Kickoff

Join us in the CloudCover Conference Center as we welcome you all to Meet & Hack 2022! Hacking commences at 10PM. Good luck!

Test Automation - Thomas Haver

Teams that adopt automation often rush to automate everything they can – the automation firehose. Just because a scenario CAN be automated does not mean it SHOULD be automated. In this talk, we’ll learn how to automate both strategically and tactically to maximize the benefits of automation.

Lunch

Panera (vegetarian & vegan options available)

Code Organization & Style - Joshua Haber

This talk gives you a look into the world of linters and static analysis. I will go over why is important to check your code and the simplicity of incorporating some of these rules into your projects. We will also cover some common software design patterns and how to structure a large project.

Software Testing - Thomas Haver

Lessons learned from a career in research science can be applied to QA, with parallels to industry product quality models. Testing techniques and product delivery processes from research science will aid not just testers but the entire team in delivering quality software.

Mock Interviews

Schedule a mock interview with an M&T Bank employee!

Kafka and Event-Driven Architecture - Dan Cochran

Learn about data streaming, events, and where they fit in a modern architecture. We will review core topics in this space and demonstrate them leveraging Apache Kafka as the event streaming platform.

Cloud Computing - Mike Zaharkin

Learn more about what all the hype is around cloud computing, touching on several topics including service models (SaaS, PaaS & IaaS), virtualization, and cloud migration. A demo using AWS will be provided along with information on how you can get access to the cloud to learn more about what it has to offer.

Multistage Docker - George Colgrove IV

Learn more about how to make smaller, more secure, and efficient way of constructing images with Docker.  

DevOps - Matt D'Accursio

Come learn about DevOps and how an organization strives to make improvements to their engineering lifecycle with the use of automation. We will review what is required to drive the transformation and some examples of existing pipelines we are using at the bank.

Blockchain - Joe Caulfield

Come learn about one of the hottest topics in the software development industry today and discover why this revolutionary technology is poised to change the world.

Dinner

Chipotle (vegetarian & vegan options available)

Ransomware - Dave Falgiano

Ransomware and extortion attacks are becoming more common place and can be seriously disrupting to businesses.  We will discuss what they are, the motivations behind these attacks, and how threat actors look to achieve their objectives.  With this in mind, we can discuss using real-world examples focusing on each component of the NIST Cybersecurity framework. This proactive approach before you have an attack better positions you to Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond and Recover from such an incident. 

Technology Trivia - Arpan Shah and Donald Fung

Come join us for a fun event! Join in teams of 1-4 as we go through a few rounds of trivia about technology. Each member of the winning team will get an Amazon gift card!

Breakfast

Tim Hortons

How to Prep for the Coding Interview - Arati Thapar

Today’s talk is to help you all prepare for the coding interviews and hoping some of you all would make it here at M&T. Most of the interviewers look for you to write clean, simple, meaningful and understandable code during the coding interview. Along with this, the interviewers also care for the time and space complexity of the code they’ll make you write during your interview. In today’s session, you’ll see how to prepare for a coding interview with a guide of tips, some examples, websites that’ll help you practice and study different data structures that’ll be potentially be used in your coding question and an open dialogue!“

Containerization - Taranjeet Kaur

Container Technology and Orchestration has gained a lot of momentum with increased focus on building Microservices which enable quicker IT response to Market Demands. It also touches aspect of how it changes different aspects of software lifecycle and how do Project teams need to think and act differently with the advent of this technology.

Data Analytics - Tony Huynh

Are you interested in how data analytics, engineering and data science come into play within the business?  Marketing is leading the charge to bring data driven use cases to life @M&T.  Please join us in this tech talk to get a sense of the landscape of data in business and discuss a few case studies!

Hacking Ends

All submissions due through DevPost by 12PM. Submission include a 5-minute video presentation of your project along with any additional project files and information.

DevPortal at M&T Bank - Puneet Nahata

See how DevPortal at M&T bank enables product teams to ship high-quality code quickly.

Virtual

GOL 2730

Lunch

Wegmans (vegetarian & vegan options available)

Kahoot! - Mike Zaharkin

If you attended all the Tech talks and paid attention, this is your opportunity to win a prize playing Kahoot! Come to the Conference Center at 1PM. Questions will be taken from each of the Tech talks so be prepared! Top 3 scorers will recieve a $50 Amazon Gift Card.

From RIT Student to TDP - Joshua Haber

Current TDP and RIT alumni Joshua Haber talks about his experience at M&T Bank, and what he wishes he knew before joining the professional world. 

Winners Announced

All winners will recieve the appropriate prize listed in Prizes below.  In addition, winners will have the opportunity to have a 1:1 Virtual Coffee Chat with an M&T Technologist.