In this session, we are going to hear two stories of companies with very different backgrounds, history, age, and technologies. Unbabel, the creator of a AI-powered Language Operator, and SIBS, the creator of MBWay, will share their experience in the evolution of the culture, process, and the tools in their transformation journey.

Important notices

- Talk #1 - in English
- Talk #2 - in Portuguese
- Start time is 18H30 Portuguese time (GMT+1)
- You need to register for this event to see the Zoom link (under "Online event").

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Agenda

18h30 - 19h00 : TALK #1
19h00 - 19h15 : Q&A
19h15 - 19h45 : TALK #2 (in Portuguese)
19h45 - 20h00 : Q&A

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TALK #1: Unbabel Journey to Empowered Team Model

In this session, I will talk about the journey and lessons learned at Unbabel when changing the organization from functional teams to empowered x-functional teams, while at the same time scaling the company from 70 to 175 people. I will also detail the challenges of launching and running a research group, and discuss our efforts to combine research within the empowered teams.

Speaker: João Graça

João Graça is a co-founder and chief technology officer of Unbabel, a company that removes language barriers by blending artificial intelligence with real time, human translations.
Previously, he worked with INESC-ID developing research in natural language processing (NLP) and went on to do his PostDoc in NLP at the University of Pennsylvania. João developed a new statistical learning method that allowed for the insertion of declarative knowledge during learning, unlocking previously impossible-to-tackle problems. He is also one of the co-founders of the Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School (LxMLS).

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TALK #2: CI/CD transformation from legacy mainframe to distributed systems (SIBS)
(Note: talk will be in Portuguese)

How CI/CD best practices were applied last 5 years and how our teams approached automation challenges by redefining delivery processes and using innovative tools that allowed us to accelerate those processes.

Speakers: Nuno M. Rodrigues, Nuno Boa-Alma

Nuno Rodrigues - Team Leader Release Team at SIBS
Nuno Boa-Alma - Software Engineer at Noesis

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