Conference Talks

The Royal Institution

Arrival of the Fittest

Andreas Wagner explores how fundamental laws, alongside chance, enable evolutionary innovations such as animal flight and plants’ ability to harvest sunlight.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

The Royal Institution

The Science of Laughter

Laughter is less tied to jokes than to social interaction; Sophie Scott explores its sounds, role in other animals, and processing in the brain.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

The Royal Institution

Drugs, Science and Society - Past, Present and Future

A look at how ideas about drugs have shifted from Romantic era experiments to modern political debates over classification, risk, and policy.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

The Royal Institution

Food, the Brain and Us - Exploring Our Historical, Cultural and Sensory Perceptions of Food

A historian, neuroscientist, artist and chef explore how smell, surroundings, meal context and visual cues shape flavor, taste preferences and acquired tastes.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 9 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

The Royal Institution

Our Dynamic Sun

Explores how the Sun’s activity changes over its 11-year cycle and how spacecraft observations reveal solar flares and their effects on Earth.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 6 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

The Royal Institution

The Long Earth - Multiverse Physics

Philosopher David Wallace explains the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics and the radical claims it makes about reality.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Ruby Central

Hardware - Software Co-design - The Coming Golden Age

Bryan Cantrill traces how open FPGAs, hardware description languages, and firmware could reshape hardware/software co-design.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Ruby Central

Hotwire Demystified

A look at how Hotwire’s building blocks combine to streamline web development with little to no JavaScript.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Is OpenStack Still Needed in 2022?

A talk on why OpenStack remains relevant for open-source cloud infrastructure, hybrid deployments, digital sovereignty, and edge computing.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Debugging Embedded Devices Using GDB

Debug embedded Raspberry Pi devices with GDB through cross-toolchain setup, remote debugging, breakpoints, variables, watchpoints, and stack traces.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Firewalls with NFtables

Learn how nftables organizes tables, chains, and rules for packet filtering and more efficient firewall configuration.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Graphical User Interface Using Flutter in Embedded Systems

Explore Flutter’s architecture and Wayland integration for building graphical user interfaces on embedded Linux systems.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Rootless Containers from Scratch

Builds a rootless container from scratch using Linux namespaces, user-ID mapping, chroot, and proc.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Debian or Yocto Project - Which is the Best for Your Embedded Linux Project

Compare Debian and Yocto Project for embedded Linux, from rapid prototyping to long-term platform maintainability and control.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Introduction to Linux Memory Management

Explore how Linux manages virtual, physical, and swap memory, from paging and page tables to inspecting usage and controlling memory limits.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk