On Wednesday 22 May, NN visited and sponsored the TEQnation conference. During the day, more than 500 visitors gathered at the historic 'de Fabrique' in Utrecht to experience the software development conference.
The event was a great success, with a group of enthusiastic NN colleagues representing the company at the NN booth. Colleagues Romera Hillebrandt and Nikki Doorhof, both Data Scientist Customer & Digital (C&D), represented NN on stage talking about ChatGPT. During the day, the team had the opportunity to network with developers and other tech enthusiasts and learn from the many tech talks.
Tech talk Nikki and Romera about ChatGPT
The Tech talks at the event covered a wide range of topics, from artificial intelligence and machine learning to cybersecurity and blockchain. Nikki and Romera, gave a tech talk about ChatGPT and the successful implementation of Automated Call Logging at NN.
Nikki says: ‘it was really exciting to inspire other engineers with what we've achieved by integrating ChatGPT into our Automated Call Logging project. They were especially impressed by the fact that we have been doing this for a year already, while others are still in the trial phase. I'm really proud that we as NN are one of the early adopters of this technology.’
Eddy Vos, Engineering Manager at Group IT, says: ‘NN surprised the TEQnation visitors with the fact that we use ChatGPT in production. After a great talk on stage about this by Nikki and Romera, we had great interaction at our booth about the topic!’
NN Wordle game built by NN’s developers
One of the other highlights of the day was the NN Wordle game, that was built by Group IT developers Alpar Gal, Bob Verheij, Babita Verma, Eddy Vos, Miquel Monreal and Roel Siffels. Participants had to guess tech-words in 90 seconds; the five fastest players won a prize at the end of the day. The game was a great way to connect with visitors at the NN booth. There was a lot of excitement playing it, which was proved by the big line of people waiting to participate. Bob Verheij, Full Stack Developer Group IT, says: ‘it was a lot of fun to see the participants struggle, lost for tech-words, trying to solve the Wordle game. During the day, people were piling up to attempt to win.’
Overall, TEQnation was a great event, and the NN team had a fantastic time. The ice-cream cart at the booth was a big hit as well. It was a great day for developers, engineers, and tech enthusiasts to come together, share ideas, and learn from each other. The team is already looking forward to next conference.
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