Developers Summit – Jan Jongboom gives
Jan Jongboom (Arm): “Developers have become decisive in our world”
28-01-2019 • 12:00

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Like no other group of professionals, programmers determine where the world is heading. Jan Jongboom, developer and evangelist at Arm, spends a large part of his time in the developer community. From these conversations he gets the inspiration for new projects, including in the field of tiny Machine Learning applications.

Jan Jongboom Jan Jongboom (30) speaks about machine learning on the square centimeter during the Developers Summit , on February 14 in Utrecht. Who thinks of machine learning often thinks of data centers full of roaring servers, but what if we turn machine learning models directly on our smart devices? It is then no longer necessary to send raw data streams over the internet, with lower latency, less energy use and less privacy concerns as a result. In his presentation, Jongboom talks about new developments concerning the ‘downscaling’ of models.

Black-ops-engineering
At this moment Jongboom is working as a developer and evangelist for chip designer Arm. Here he runs the team that maintains relationships with developers for the Mbed IoT Device Platform, he works on bringing lpwan technology further and looks at the future of embedded development, including simulation models and edge applications.

Talking with developers, Jongboom thinks one of the nicest parts of his profession, he says. “Because that means we see where the market is going, so we can set up projects for which there is currently not enough traction, but which could become important in the future.” You can see us as Arm’s black ops engineering team. . ” Especially the work on microcontrollers currently has the attention of the team, for which a simulator has been developed. This considerably reduces the feedback loop in this work. “Developing for small devices is slow, you have to flash them every time, so you get out of the flow and what is not practical.” By simulating, we know with some certainty how software will behave on embedded devices. ”

Developers evangelize tech
On his own website ( www.janjongboom.com ) is a quote from Stephen O ‘Grady, from the book The New Kingmakers. ” In today’s world all companies are software companies, and developers are often the ones finding, architecting and even buying technology “. Jongboom strongly believes in this quote. “Until about ten years ago, a lot of software in licensing models by programmers was pushed through the throat, but look at Slack or GitHub, which did not grow up due to sales to CEOs, and developers have started to integrate it into their own workflow. It’s fantastic and only after that management will buy it, so it’s developers who evangelize tech, and their opinion has become decisive. ”

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Moving in the tech community: Jongboom is only too happy to do it. “And the nice thing is that Tweakers has played a role in the process that I have followed.In 2010 I started with Tweakblogs and I continued to do so until 2014. In that period I noticed that people liked to read my articles. and responding to it, and I really enjoyed interacting with developers, the nice thing about this community is that developers are not sensitive to traditional marketing messages, they poke through the crap, but if you build interesting prototypes or projects, they like to spruce up with you, and those discussions form the basis for everything I work on. ”

Traffic lights San Jose generate more data than Twitter
What does Jongboom want to give to the listeners of his presentation during the Developers Summit? “I think Iot and machine learning fit together a lot, Iot is going to generate a lot of data, for example, an American city like San Jose that has all its traffic lights equipped with sensors, which sensors alone generate more data than the whole Twitter. it’s not even about a very big city, so we have to preprocess data, because we can not send all raw data to the cloud Machine learning has to decide when it’s relevant to send data, which also makes a lot of difference in the energy use of embedded devices. ” Developers who do not do it every day often consider machine learning applications as black boxes. “But they are not. You can outline what happens in a model. There is no magic; I show how it works and how we can optimize such a model. ”

Information event
Date : Thursday, February 14, 2019
Location : DeFabrique, Utrecht
Times: 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Partners: ABN Amro, Rabobank, Police, Nedap, Adyen, IBM, ANWB, Inergy, Elect, Centric
Early birds: sold out
Regular tickets: 275 euros
3-for-2 tickets: 183.33 euros per ticket (550 euros for 3 tickets)
Student ticket: 75 euros
More information: tweakers.net/developerssummit