We’re excited to announce that on 17th September Netguru is organizing Disruption Forum Sustainability. If you care about sustainability as much as we do, then this free-to-attend event is something you can’t miss.

The insurance industry has embraced Artificial Intelligence solutions. Both traditional players and insurtech disruptors leverage their strategies on big data analysis and machine learning models for customer service automation, claim processing, underwriting, or fraud prediction.

The pandemic outbreak has put the healthcare sector to a real test and pushed its innovation and operational capabilities to the limit. The whole world counts on healthcare businesses to come up with solutions that will ease the serious health consequences caused by COVID-19. While some companies focus on developing diagnostic measures to help the pandemic spread, others focus on vaccine development. 

How many startups or companies established in any African country can you name? I can help you: too few! And it’s not caused by the fact that there are not many entrepreneurs in Africa, actually – on the contrary!

The COVID-19 economic storm hit all industries, and fintech was no exception. Yet the impact on financial companies differed by the segment of the market they operated in and the solutions they offered.

The data-driven approach is an inseparable part of every successful business. Companies operating in the fintech industry are no different. What's more, a few organizations from this sector have mastered the art of continuously validating and improving all business-related ideas. All their decisions are based on a solid analytical approach instead of trusting guesswork.

A bot is a computer program that automates a task. Chatbots are, therefore, programs that automate conversation, both voice and text. In essence, a chatbot can simulate an intelligent conversation with a human. They generally make use of machine learning to gather conversational rhythm, beat and flow, and thus mimic human conversation.

Technology is advancing at a breakneck speed, competition is as fierce as ever, and customers are demanding better experiences to secure their loyalty. Companies know that they need to become more agile and stay in tune with their markets to get ahead, but how are successful organizations doing this? For many, the answer is a Product Design Sprint.

The buzz surrounding GPT-3, the most powerful language model ever built, has been pretty spectacular. Some experts warn us of the dangers AI technology can introduce, such as more lifelike generated content slipping into the already chaotic online news and social media spaces. But what is GPT-3? Is it really dangerous and does it deserve the hype that’s generated around it? Let’s find out.

Brainly offers something the traditional system just doesn’t have room for. The platform allows everyone to participate in the learning process equally. Along with similar technological solutions for out-of-school online learning, it opens up new opportunities and gives everyone a chance to improve their life. This is what the future of education should be.

Two of the most pressing issues in the world today are climate change and social inequality. Rising Sun Center for Opportunity, a California-based non-profit, aims to fight both at the same time. They hire and train young people to make households around Northern California more energy-efficient and provide adults from underprivileged backgrounds with free job training and placement in well-paying jobs in the construction industry. I spoke with Wells Brown, Director of Youth Programs at Rising Sun, about how they manage to achieve measurable environmental and social impact at the same time.

The use of chatbots has exploded in recent years. Companies are taking advantage of these AI-powered virtual agents to automate routine processes and give consumers round the clock attention in areas like customer service, payments, and marketing. And now, chatbots are set to make a mark on the healthcare industry.  According to analysis by Crunchbase, more than $800 million has been invested across at least 14 known startups developing a health chatbot offering.

Fintech response to COVID-19 When COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in March, it created mass uncertainty for both individuals and the market. Unemployment was on the rise and the stock market was declining. Fintechs, however, were able to leverage their existing skills and assets to assist businesses who struggled with financial liquidity during the crisis.

It has been two years since we started our data science team. At the beginning, we have built a strong group focused mostly on machine learning. In the meantime, the team has naturally evolved to its present form of two subgroups: data engineering and machine learning. Both focused on the two ends of successful AI adoption, working hand to hand.

In today’s world people still argue about what or who DevOps is. Some may say it is a person who writes CI/CD or manages cloud infrastructure, others claim that it is a culture and knowledge-sharing attitude. If you are reading this post, you most probably have your own opinion on that matter. There probably isn’t a single “right” answer to the question. Whichever way you understand “DevOps”, you need to use some specific tools, and in this article I’ll share some insights on how we handle our processes at Netguru. I could have just listed all common DevOps tools, but there are plenty of articles about that on the Internet, so let me focus on Netguru's way of using 5 selected tools. As a tasty starter let me tell you that some of those were developed internally! 

Sometimes, our dreams of a perfect job don’t come true, yet what we end up doing is a much better fit than what we thought we wanted to do. Damian’s story is a little like that: he intended to study art, didn’t, and now he’s very happy as a Senior Ruby on Rails developer. He has been one for about 10 years now, and for the last four he has been working exclusively remotely. We’ve spoken to Damian about his career, plans for future professional development and his everyday reality working at Netguru.

Many things in the digital world are born out of necessity. We need to find a way to do something in a smoother, more efficient manner in order to create something of higher value.

No one was prepared for what the COVID-19 pandemic has brought upon the world. Social isolation has pushed some companies out of business, forcing others to reorganize the way they work in order to stay afloat.

Darajat is a unique project that combines strong commercial potential with social impact that can improve the lives of millions of families in the region.  We talked with Abdulla Hayat, co-founder and CEO at Al Darajat, a Kuwait-based company with bold plans to disrupt the education system in Egypt, Kuwait, and more.

For several years now, React Native has been a hot topic in the mobile development world. No wonder – it took the tech world by storm by offering a way to develop mobile apps for both iOS and Android simultaneously.