DDD South West

Saturday, 16 May 2026

Track 1 - The Junction Track 2 - Brunel's Boardroom Track 3 - Brunel's Breakout room Track 4 - Clock Tower

08:30

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08:30 → 15 min

Registration

08:45

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08:45 → 15 min

Welcome

09:00

Track 1 - The Junction
09:00 → 60 min

Software engineering is dead. Long live Software engineering! Surviving and thriving in the new era

Track 2 - Brunel's Boardroom
09:00 → 60 min

Sketchnoting 101: Think, learn, and remember through visual notes

Track 3 - Brunel's Breakout room
09:00 → 60 min

Passkeys in ASP.NET Core 10

Track 4 - Clock Tower
09:00 → 60 min

The Secrets of Observability

10:00

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10:00 → 15 min

Morning Break

10:15

Track 1 - The Junction
10:15 → 30 min

Crafting Intelligent Agents with Context Engineering

Track 2 - Brunel's Boardroom
10:15 → 30 min

The Way of the Tech Lead

Track 3 - Brunel's Breakout room
10:15 → 30 min

Building AI Systems You Can Actually Trust

Track 4 - Clock Tower
10:15 → 30 min

2026: The Year of the Software Factory

10:45

Track 1 - The Junction
10:45 → 30 min

From question to insight: Using Claude to access data and make smarter decisions.

Track 2 - Brunel's Boardroom
10:45 → 15 min

Be the Glue: How small contributions build strong communities

Track 3 - Brunel's Breakout room
10:45 → 30 min

Grounding AI in Engineering Principles: TDD with Claude Code

Track 4 - Clock Tower
10:45 → 30 min

Microsoft Agent Framework: Reliable Agentic Orchestration in .Net

11:00

Track 2 - Brunel's Boardroom
11:00 → 15 min

Developers, Assemble! Community is Your Team’s Superpower

11:15

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11:15 → 15 min

Elevenses

11:30

Track 1 - The Junction
11:30 → 60 min

Modern C# (2026 version)

Track 2 - Brunel's Boardroom
11:30 → 60 min

Open Source Software in the Age of AI

Track 3 - Brunel's Breakout room
11:30 → 60 min

Security in the Model Context Protocol

Track 4 - Clock Tower
11:30 → 60 min

Playing With AI Locally

12:30

Track 1 - The Junction
12:30 → 60 min

The famous DDD South West Lunch!

Track 2 - Brunel's Boardroom
12:30 → 60 min

🧑‍💻🎧🎙️Unhandled Exception Podcast Recording 🎙️🎧🧑‍💻

Track 3 - Brunel's Breakout room
12:30 → 60 min

Lunch

Track 4 - Clock Tower
12:30 → 60 min

Lunch

13:30

Track 1 - The Junction
13:30 → 60 min

Principle Misunderstandings

Track 2 - Brunel's Boardroom
13:30 → 60 min

AI Is Here: PRs Are Dead, Long Live PRs

Track 3 - Brunel's Breakout room
13:30 → 60 min

We're all doomed!

Track 4 - Clock Tower
13:30 → 60 min

From Developer to Architect, The Career Path Nobody Explained

14:30

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14:30 → 15 min

Tea Break

14:45

Track 1 - The Junction
14:45 → 30 min

Unf*ck your mind: How to finally build something great again

Track 2 - Brunel's Boardroom
14:45 → 30 min

Do We Really Need a New Playbook for AI?

Track 3 - Brunel's Breakout room
14:45 → 30 min

Productivity hacks for clutterbrained devs

Track 4 - Clock Tower
14:45 → 30 min

Protocols, .NET & AI: A developer's guide to the bits worth betting on

15:15

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15:15 → 15 min

Tea Break

15:30

Track 1 - The Junction
15:30 → 60 min

Why don't people seem to be able to diagnose problems these days?

Track 2 - Brunel's Boardroom
15:30 → 60 min

Design Patterns for Software Diagramming

Track 3 - Brunel's Breakout room
15:30 → 60 min

When Should You Use an Agent? Architectural Trade-offs in Agentic Systems

Track 4 - Clock Tower
15:30 → 60 min

Beyond open banking: making dumb data smart.

16:30

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16:30 → 30 min

Closing and Prizes

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