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Talks and speakers (29)

• Architecting for Observability Steven Read
• Passkeys in ASP.NET Core 10 Andrew Clymer
• Sketchnoting 101: Think, learn, and remember through visual notes Adrian Banks
• Software engineering is dead. Long live Software engineering! Surviving and thriving in the new era Andrew Poole
• 2026: The Year of the Software Factory Rich Woollcott
• Building AI Systems You Can Actually Trust Chaithali Shashikanth Kundapur
• Crafting Intelligent Agents with Context Engineering Carly Richmond
• The Way of the Tech Lead Dan Abel
• Be the Glue: How small contributions build strong communities Lorraine Pearce
• From question to insight: Using Claude to access data and make smarter decisions. Elizabeth Hanson
• Grounding AI in Engineering Principles: TDD with Claude Code Laura Gates
• Microsoft Agent Framework: Reliable Agentic Orchestration in .Net Samson Nwizugbe
• Developers, Assemble! Community is Your Team’s Superpower Joe Glombek
• Modern C# (2026 version) Kathleen Dollard
• Open Source Software in the Age of AI Lotte Pitcher
• Playing With AI Locally Paul Michaels
• Security in the Model Context Protocol Nacho Escrig
• AI Is Here: PRs Are Dead, Long Live PRs Rachel Breeze
• From Developer to Architect, The Career Path Nobody Explained John Kilmister
• Principle Misunderstandings Kevlin Henney
• We're all doomed! Ross Scott
• Do We Really Need a New Playbook for AI? Stuart Caborn
• Productivity hacks for clutterbrained devs Sara Gowen
• Protocols, .NET & AI: A developer's guide to the bits worth betting on Marc Denman
• Unf*ck your mind: How to finally build something great again Marin Niehues
• Beyond open banking: making dumb data smart. Richard Saville
• Design Patterns for Software Diagramming Jacqui Read
• When Should You Use an Agent? Architectural Trade-offs in Agentic Systems Matheus Guimaraes
• Why don't people seem to be able to diagnose problems these days? Richard Fennell

Talks and speakers (25)

• Advanced Debugging Steve Temple
• Fixing Broken Messaging: Pitfalls, Failures, and Solutions Kevin Smith
• How to have conversations which improve your teams, your life, and maybe even the world Aaron Green
• Surviving Complexity Through Software Design Jacqui Read
• Building with Integrity: Embracing Ethical Web Development James Gaisford
• Modern Software Architecture Review Best Practices Steven Read
• Practical Guide to Unlocking Accessibility of Websites Nurhak Kaya
• What I learnt by attending a Hackathon and mentoring instead of writing code George Bell
• AzDO YAML Pipelines; bits and bobs Scott James
• Enhance Your Security Posture with the Power of Threat Modelling Danielle Dias
• Hidden voices/lost ideas Anita Squires
• Unleashing the Power of AI with Semantic Kernel: A Beginner-to-Intermediate Hands-On Guide Roger Barreto
• Why am I being such a git about best practices? Joe Glombek
• A Developers Guide to Getting the Most out of Containers John Kilmister
• How to Destroy a DevOps Engineer Carly Richmond
• How to fall in love with automated tests! Andrew Poole
• Rethinking Website Carbon Calculators: Alternative Ways to Measure Digital Emissions Rachel Breeze
• How To Be A Rockstar Developer Dylan Beattie
• Mutation Testing - Kill them mutants Stu Lang
• Rapid Prototypes & Throwaway Code Vijay Patel
• Understanding The Business Problem Sean Farmar
• Adventures in Spacetime Kevlin Henney
• Could a Co-Pilot be an Aircraft Co-Pilot Clifford Agius
• Let's ship this thing! Gary Ewan Park
• Successfully Navigating Open Source Waters Lotte Pitcher

Talks and speakers (24)

• #FAIL Kevlin Henney
• Beyond Coding: Skills for a Successful Programming Career John Kilmister
• Domain-Driven Design: Bridging the Gap Between Business and Technology Samuel Nebeolisa
• Let's start using MongoDB in our next .NET project! Kevin Smith
• Confident Communication for Developers (And Why It Matters). Aaron Green
• Elevating OAuth Security Charles Rea
• OpenAI vs Azure OpenAI Anna-Maria Wykes
• Unleash Your Inner Trader: Create & Back-Test Strategies with Python & JavaScript Youngho Andrew Chaa
• .NET, Azure & Umbraco: The Second Twelve Months Richard Jackson
• An above average tech ecosystem Jennifer D. Daniel
• How to Run Code Clubs for Neurodiverse Children Anna-Maria Wykes
• It's not us, it's them! What the software industry can learn from group psychology Lizzie Darville
• Celibrate you're misteaks Joe Glombek
• Demystifying .NET Debug Symbols Stuart Lang
• Happy Developers (Don't Do Drugs) Matt Hunt
• Shifting Left with Burp Suite: A Lightning Approach to Endpoint Testing Danielle Dias
• A Software Developer's Guide to Designing Better Software Apps: Key Strategies and Best Practices Nurhak Kaya
• Debugging: More than breakpoints and log analysis Rachel Breeze
• Fluent Method Chaining in C# Andrew Poole
• Functional Programming with C# Molly Painter
• Documentation, Testing, and the Future of Software Development Matt Lacey
• REST, gRPC, GraphQL or Asynchronous Messaging Poornima Nayar
• Unlocking Strong Authentication: A future beyond passwords Dee Bolt
• Why DevOps and Microservices are a great fit? Sean Farmar

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Talks and speakers (20)

• Cleaning your “Big Ball of Mud” with CQS Matt Hunt
• Migrating a cloud native bank away from shared credentials – lessons learnt in technical migrations Huw Jeffries
• Being Staff Plus Ian Cooper
• Maths + Code = Art Murthy Upadhyayula
• SOLID Principles in 5 Nightmares Molly Painter
• User testing in production: how to run a public beta Eli Holderness
• Teabags, Muddy Knees and Imposter syndrome: Atypical careers in tech Adam Jones
• A Day In The Life of A Data Scientist Gary Short
• High Performance JSON Serialization with Code Generation on C# 11 and .NET 7.0 Ian Griffiths
• Developer Ethics - why is it important ? Sneha Ramesh
• .NET, Azure & Umbraco: The First Twelve Months Richard Jackson
• gRPC in .NET: Basics and More Poornima Nayar
• Using DDD To Decompose Your Monolith Sean Farmar
• Designing and building an event sourcing system using .NET, CosmosDb and Elastic James World and Gareth James
• Unlocking Diversity: Empowering Men as Allies in Advancing Women in Tech Jennifer D. Daniel
• Decentralized Identity. Your identity, your control Dee Bolt
• There's No Such Thing As Plain Text Dylan Beattie
• Everything You Need to Know About Configuration in .NET Kevin Smith
• Blazor state management Ross Scott
• Automating Monthly .NET Patching with GitHub Actions and dotnet-outdated Martin Costello

Talks and speakers (18)

• The Source Code Generation Game Steve Collins
• The New Elasticsearch .NET Client: Getting Started and Behind the Scenes Steve Gordon
• Mastering MLOps in Azure Anna Wykes
• Automated Azure Dashboards Generation Joshan Mahmud
• .NET Minimal APIs Kevin Smith
• Docker is a gateway Drug - .NET Everywhere Carl Sargunar
• Scaling your .NET app with Azure Callum Whyte
• Workshop: how to run user experience testing Amy Lobe
• Azure Cognitive Services – AI for everyone! Phil Simpson
• At Least Once Ian Cooper
• DDD, The Value Of ValueOf Callum Linington
• Data Scientists, Making Sh!t up Since 1974 Gary Short
• Why premature optimisation is the root of all evil Craig Jones
• Force Multipliers in Software Security Sebastian Coles
• Building next generation web apps with Blazor Chris Sainty
• DevOps and Microservices Better Together Sean Farmar
• Augmented Reality for iOS using Xamarin, ARKit, C# and .NET Lee Englestone
• Mental Health: It's Time to Talk (the post pandemic revision) Ryan Yates

Talks and speakers (25)

• Managing the Conversation Flow within a Bot Rabeb Othmani
• A Monolith of Microservices Ian Johnson
• Securing the web with AI Callum Whyte
• Nailing down distributed workflows with microservices Ben Arroyo
• Saving the World with IoT Tomasz Bartoszewski
• Simplify your code and focus on your features with ASP.NET Core and MediatR Jon Hilton
• Am I doing deployments right? Advanced deployment patterns in practice Matteo Emili
• Turbocharged: Writing High-Performance C# and .NET Code Steve Gordon
• Falling down holes for beginners: Getting started in open source Alex McAuliffe
• Oops! I did it again... (The increasing complexity of responsibility) Ceri Newton
• Build an ASP.NET Core Web App with F#? You must be having a Giraffe! Stuart Lang
• Treating Your Infrastructure As Code: Terraform 101 Ashley Poole
• Docker and the Microsoft Stack Michal Poreba
• You're the Tech Lead - *you* fix it! Joel Hammond-Turner
• GraphQL and Dapper : The quick route to flexible and efficient mobile APIs John Stovin
• Improving System Resiliency via Chaos Engineering Joseph Woodward
• Better the 'dev tool' you know Viv Richards
• Solving microservices challenges on the Kubernetes platform Shahid Iqbal
• C# Async Deep Dive Frans Lytzen
• When is the shift coming? Women in Technology, Panel Session Panel
• F#ll stack development Chester Burbidge
• Kubernetes, Raspberry Pis, and more! Dan Clarke
• Zero to Mobile Hero - Intro to Xamarin, Cognitive Services and Azure DevOps Luce Carter
• DiagnosticSourcery 101 Mark Rendle
• No More DTOs, Services, and Managers in your code. Let Objects have meaningful behaviours Andrew Chaa

Talks and speakers (25)

• From monolithic monster to majestic microservice app Callum Whyte
• Unity 101 for C# Developers Andy Clarke
• Outside-In TDD Ian Russell
• Spot the difference: automating visual regression testing Viv Richards
• SOA lessons learnt (OR Microservices done better) Sean Farmar
• Patterns and Practices for Building a Better Web API Architecture Joseph Woodward
• Docker for .NET Developers Steve Gordon
• Developer Productivity! Dan Clarke
• Headless UI testing with Chrome and Puppeteer Richard 'Rippo' Wilde
• Legacy systems in your head, and why they matter Lizzie Darville
• Kubernetes for .NET developers Shahid Iqbal
• Bitcoin, C#, and Lambda Andrew Chaa
• Git Deep Dive James World
• Using AI to Beat the Bookies Gary Short
• Azure In Action - CosmosDB, Functions and ServiceBus in Perfect Harmony Joel Hammond-Turner
• Serverless design patterns Yan Cui
• Teaching an old dog new tricks Ismail Mayat
• What's that smell? Anthony Dang
• Analysing flight data in real time using Cosmos DB, Azure Functions and Power BI James Broome
• Breaking The Common Myths Around Artificial Intelligence Galiya Warrier
• Give it a REST - Tips for designing and consuming public APIs Liam Westley
• APIs on the Scale of Decades Gary Fleming
• Machine Learning for Developers Ed Yau
• Lessons learned - ingesting, securing and processing 200 million messages a day Jess Panni
• Microservices - What I've learned after a year building systems Nathan Gloyn

Talks and speakers (22)

• What is .NET Standard? Adam Ralph
• Docker For Beginners Ashley Poole
• XSS: Don't die of ignorance Robin Minto
• 12-Factor Apps in .NET Ian Cooper
• .NET Core in the real world Joe Stead
• Microservices with Azure Service Fabric Kevin Smith
• Separation of concerns in DevOps Chester Burbidge
• Developer UI Testing made easy before you commit to source! Richard Wilde
• Growing configurable software with Expression<T> Ed Courtenay
• Going serverless with Azure Functions, the rebel service Christos Matskas
• Learning to love HATEOAS Dave Lewis
• JavaScript Services: Building Single Page Applications with ASP.NET Core Sandeep Singh
• You keep using the word agile, I do not think it means what you think it means Nathan Gloyn
• Beyond the basics of chatbots Benjamin Paul
• ASP.NET Core Razor Deep Dive Joseph Woodward
• Fun with the Twitter Stream API - ELK Stack, RabbitMQ, Serilog and High Performance SQL Dave Mateer
• Service Discovery with Consul.io for the .NET developer Joel Hammond-Turner
• Designing a UI for Microservices Mauro Servienti
• Modernizing Legacy .NET Apps with Docker Elton Stoneman
• Layers, Abstractions & Spaghetti Code: Revisiting the Onion Architecture Naeem Sarfraz
• Getting the first PR into .NET, and Other Tales From An Open Source Contributor Adam Ralph
• Functional Programming in C# Ian Russell

Talks and speakers (22)

• Docker Strangelove, or, How I Defenestrated ASP.NET Mark Rendle
• Everything you need to know about .NET memory Ben Emmett
• Why Service Oriented Architecture? Sean Farmar
• Taming the Bug Mountain Ceri Shaw
• .NETCore Blimey! Matt Ellis
• Introduction to CQRS and Event Sourcing Ian Russell
• No Backend Nathan Gloyn
• Burnout Richard Dalton
• Agile about Agile Russell Forster
• 30,000,000+ songs! Explore your favourite music with Spotify's JSON Web API, MVC5, Dapper and OAuth2 Dave Mateer
• Logging and Monitoring - How to keep DevOps happy Joel Hammond-Turner
• What is the point of … Microsoft? Liam Westley
• Analysing GitHub commits with R and Azure Barbara Fusinska
• Native mobile cross-platform with Xamarin.Forms and C# Peter Major
• Omnisharp: .NET sans Microsoft Mathew McLoughlin
• Designing distributed, scalable and reliable systems using NServiceBus Mauro Servienti
• How to get the grip on Git, my experience Matteo Emili
• Building applications with Akka.Net Anthony Brown
• Monoliths to Microservices. A Journey Sam Elamin
• ES6 - Using future JavaScript today Phil Bottomley
• An introduction to MVC including the benefits and the design pattern David Ringsell
• Walk Through of a Recent European Space Agency Project in Predictive Analytics and Machine Vision Gary Short

Talks and speakers (20)

• Architecting large Single Page Applications with Knockout.js Steve Sanderson
• Continuous Integration, in an hour, on a shoestring Phil Collins
• Introduction to development with ASP.Net MVC 5 David Ringsell
• It doesn't work that way in enterprise Pete Smith
• Federated Identity - enabling single sign-on across all your apps and systems Stephen Askew
• Complexity => Simplicity Ashic Mahtab
• 7 Top Tips - A full stack ASP.NET MVC5 EF6 Testable application Dave Mateer
• Redis cluster - everything you need to know Marc Gravell
• Real-time geospatial visualisation with SignalR and OpenLayers Martin Thornalley
• Introduction to S.O.L.I.D Colin Angus Mackay
• F# Eye for the C# Guy Phil Trelford
• Super charging your JavaScript development experience Chris Canal
• Hadoop and Big Data for Microsoft Developers Gary Short
• Software Craftsmanship: Raising the bar, elitist or just snake oil? Ian Russell
• An Introduction to Nancy Mathew McLoughlin
• Designing for mobile (AKA Designing for Everything) George Adamson
• 10 things I learnt about web application security being pen tested by banks James Crowley
• Top 5 mistakes Enterprise developers make when going mobile Stephen Ball
• A gentle introduction to AngularJS Mauro Servienti
• Writing better CSS with LESS Andy Gibson

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• Web Caching 101 Sebastien Lambla
• Thoughts and Experiments on Umbraco Benjamin Howarth

Talks and speakers (25)

• Minimalist Software Development Mark Rendle
• SpecFlow - functional testing made easy Paul Stack
• Kanban? what is it and how can it help? Nathan Gloyn
• Coding for PowerShell Jimmy Skowronski
• Getting Started With C# Rick Spence
• Steps to reduce the friction in ASP.NET MVC Rob Ashton
• jQuery Templates: Now it's a doddle to simplify your ajax and render data client-side George Adamson
• NuGet - sweet but not edible Chris Alcock
• Computer, earl grey tea, hot John Price
• Getting Started With The .NET Framework Richard Parker
• The Missing Link - Pushing Through The Pain Of TDD Richard Dalton
• Advanced Asp.Net Mvc 3 Chris Canal
• Silverlight Beyond the Browser Richard Costall
• Intro to Windows Workflow Foundation 4 John McLoughlin
• Getting Started With ASP.NET MVC Steve Sanderson
• Why Web Performance Matters Richard Campbell
• Parallel... Parallelise... Pallar... Doing stuff at the same time in .NET 4.0 Colin Mackay
• Delivering High Quality Live and On-Demand Video to Multiple Devices Andrew Westgarth
• Developing Windows Phone 7 Applications Using Silverlight Kris Athi
• Getting Started With Visual Studio Steve Hallam
• Building seriously scalable websites with ASP.NET with and without Windows Chris Hay
• Rewriting software is the single worst mistake you can make - apparently Phil Collins
• This Android's Life Ross Scott
• Every Byte Counts - saving bandwidth with protobuf Marc Gravell
• Getting Started With Windows Presentation Foundation David Ringsell

Talks and speakers (14)

• Silverlight 3 Richard Costall
• Embracing a new world – dynamic languages and .Net Ben Hall
• A PC in the living Room – Enter Vista Media Center John Price
• Introduction to Windows Azure Chris Hay
• Get Going With jQuery George Adamson
• Introduction to Video Game Development with XNA Kris Athi
• Real-world MVC architecture Steve Sanderson
• Everything you Wanted to Know About Refactoring but Were Afraid to Ask Gary Short
• What is Scrum? Richard Fennell
• What’s New In C# 4? Guy Smith-Ferrier
• ASP.NET Front End Performance Chris Hay
• Express Yourself Marc Gravell
• Creating extendable applications using MEF Ben Hall
• Real World Interoperability With WCF Jimmy Skowronski

Talks and speakers (9)

• Everything you Wanted to Know About Refactoring but Were Afraid to Ask Gary Short
• Creating extendable applications using MEF Ben Hall
• Introduction to Windows Azure Chris Hay
• Real-world MVC architecture Steve Sanderson
• What is Scrum? Richard Fennell
• Oslo and the future Microsoft Modelling platform Robert Hogg
• A Quantum of Computing Dave McMahon
• Silverlight Top 10 Nuggets Richard Costall
• What's New In C# 4 ? Guy Smith-Ferrier