Speaker history - adelaide-dotnet/meeting-logistics GitHub Wiki
Past and planned speakers.
Unless otherwise mentioned, meetings are 2nd Wednesday of the month, start at 5.30pm Adelaide time. From 2025 we've shifted to meeting every 2 months.
From 2026 UniSA merged with Uni of Adelaide to become 'Adelaide University'
| Date | Topic | Speaker | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9-Dec-2026 | Adelaide Uni City West JS1-13 | ||
| 14-Oct-2026 | Adelaide Uni City West JS1-13 | ||
| 12-Aug-2026 | Adelaide Uni City West JS1-13 | ||
| 10-Jun-2026 | Adelaide Uni City West JS1-13 | ||
| 8-Apr-2026 | Effortless Distributed Systems with Aspire | Jason Taylor | Adelaide Uni City West JS1-13 |
| 11-Feb-2026 | Our favourite parts of .NET 10 | Mark ForemanRyan RowstonDavid Gardiner | Minor Works Building Community Centre |
| 12-Nov-2025 | GitHub Copilot and Vibe coding | Sam Fernando | UniSA City West JS1-13 |
| 10-Sep-2025 | Data things | Rob Farley and Ryan Rowston | UniSA City West JS1-13 |
| 9-Jul-2025 | .NET + AI + Semantic Kernel | David White | UniSA City West JS1-13 |
| 14-May-2025 | .NET Aspire | Mitch Denny | UniSA City West JS1-13 |
| 12-Mar-2025 | .NET Development in 2025 + InstallFest! | David Gardiner | UniSA City West JS1-13 |
| 13-Nov-2024 | SpecFlow | Stephen and Richard | UniSA City West JS1-13 |
| 9-Oct-2024 | Lightning SecTalks | Rob Bos, Josh Young, Luke Smith Speaker UTC | UniSA City West HH4-08 |
| 11-Sep-2024 | 10 tips and tricks for GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps | David Gardiner | UniSA City West JS1-13 |
| 14-Aug-2024 | The different ways you can join your code together | Calvin Fong | UniSA City West JS1-13 |
| 10-Jul-2024 | Extending Microsoft Copilot with .NET | Daniel Brown | UniSA City West JS1-13 |
| 12-Jun-2024 | Harnessing the Power of OpenTelemetry: Adding Observability to Any Microservices Environment | Glenn Versweyveld Speaker UTC | UniSA City West JS1-13 |
| 8-May-2024 | Building apps for Microsoft Teams | Ben Smit and Matt (Teamgage) | UniSA City West JS1-13 |
| 10-Apr-2024 | Boosting Developer Experience | Sam Fernando | UniSA City West JS3-13A |
| 13-Mar-2024 | Connectivity for IoT devices anywhere in the world | Bryn Lewis | UniSA City West JS1-13 |
| 14-Feb-2024 | .NET 8 Lightning talks | Ryan Rowston,John Merchant, and David Gardiner | UniSA City West JS1-13 |
| 13-Dec-2023 | Down the Oregon Trail with Functional C# | Simon J. Painter | UniSA City West JS1-13 |
| 8-Nov-2023 | No meeting due to DDD Adelaide | ||
| 11-Oct-2023 | Source Generators: Spending hours to automate what takes minutes to write | Scott Cabot | UniSA City West JS1-13 |
| 13-Sep-2023 | Revolutionizing Online Retail with Blazor | James Chapman-Smith and Donald Urquhart | UniSA City West JS1-13 |
| 9-Aug-2023 | Managing granular authorisation in .NET | Ryan Rowston | UniSA City West JS1-13 |
| 12-Jul-2023 | ChatGPT Client with Blazor, GraphQL, .NET and Azure OpenAI Service | John Merchant | UniSA City West JS1-13 |
| 14-Jun-2023 | .NET and AWS | Derek Bingham | UniSA City West JS1-13 |
| 10-May-2023 | Moving Beyond RESTful: Why gRPC should be your next choice for .NET API services | Andy Li | UniSA City West JS1-13 |
| 12-Apr-2023 | How does Hot Reload even work | David Wengier | UniSA City West JS3-13A |
| 8-Mar-2023 | Are we really doing XAML the right way? | Matt Lacey | UniSA City West JS1-13 |
| 8-Feb-2023 | How do I get rid of my ifs | Calvin Hong | UniSA City West JS1-13 |
| 14-Dec-2022 | Rescheduled to Feb 2023 | ||
| 9-Nov-2022 | Insights into Developing with Blazor | Stephen Nield | UniSA City West JS1-13 |
| 14-Sep-2022 | Uno Platform | Nick Randolph | UniSA City West JS1-13 and Online |
| 10-Aug-2022 | DAPR | Jasim Schluter and Paramesh Gunasekaran | (Online) |
| 13-Jul-2022 | Build After-party | UniSA City West JS1-13 | |
| 8-Jun-2022 | Database Internals | Rob Farley | UniSA City West JS3-13A |
| 11-May-2022 | .NET Snapshot testing with Verify | Simon Cropp | (Online) |
| 13-Apr-2022 | .NET on AKS the easy way | John Azariah | (Online) |
| 9-Mar-2022 | Visual Studio 2022 | Kendra Havens | Online (lunch) |
| 9-Feb-2022 | Scalability Architectures in Commercial Software | Ryan Rowston, Esayas Huluka and Luca Gnezda | Online |
| 8-Dec-2021 | Golang for .NET Developers | Sahan Serasinghe | UniSA City West JS1-13 |
| 10-Nov-2021 | .NET 6 Launch | David Gardiner | UniSA City West JS1-13 |
| 13-Oct-2021 | MassTransit | Taylor Goodall | UniSA City West JS1-13 |
| 8-Sep-2021 | Blazor and Xamarin Forms | Paul Usher | UniSA City West JS1-13 |
| 11-Aug-2021 | .NET Framework Containers | Simon Waight | UniSA City West JS1-13 |
| 14-Jul-2021 | Funky Azure Functions with .NET 5 and 6 | David Gardiner | UniSA City West JS1-13 |
| 9-Jun-2021 | (Cancelled due to ill health) | UniSA City West JS1-13 | |
| 12-May-2021 | .NET PerfCryptography 101 | James TurnerRobert Boedigheimer | UniSA City West JS1-13 |
| 14-Apr-2021 | Blazor | Darren Neimke and Sahan Serasinghe | UniSA City West JS3-13A |
| 10-Mar-2021 | Azure Managed Services Identity, Logic Apps and Functions | Bill Chesnut | UniSA City West JS1-13 |
| 10-Feb-2021 | FIDO Authentication | Jack Ni | UniSA City West JS3-13A |
| 9-Dec-2020 | Databases in the Microservices World | Rob Richardson | Online (Lunch) |
| 11-Nov-2020 | Lightning talks | Tim Covark, Matt Astachnowicz, Ben Laan | Online (Evening) |
| 14-Oct-2020 | C# Source Generators - Write code that writes code | David Wengier | Online (Lunch) |
| 9-Sep-2020 | Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Builds | David Gardiner Speaker UTC | Online (Lunch) |
| 12-Aug-2020 | Make the Web Faster! | Robert Boedigheimer Speaker UTC | Online (Lunch) |
| 8-Jul-2020 | Ethics In A World of Ever-Growing AI | Bronwen Zande Speaker UTC | Online (Lunch) |
| 10-Jun-2020 | Vue to a skill | Shawn Wildermuth Speaker UTC | Online (Lunch) |
| 13-May-2020 | Using the Compiler API in Real-World Scenarios | Jason Bock Speaker UTC | Online |
| 8-Apr-2020 | Learn Authentication The Hard Way | Andrew Best Speaker UTC | Online |
| 11-Mar-2020 | Serverless .NET Core with AWS SAM | Taylor Goodall Speaker UTC | GK2-12 (free from 6pm) |
| 12-Feb-2020 | Using Stripe to sell products online | Darren Neimke Speaker UTC | BH3-11 |
| Jan 2020 | Christmas break | ||
| Dec 2019 | Christmas break | ||
| 13‑Nov‑2019 | Git tips.NET Core 3 Publishing | Brad BowDavid Gardiner | BH3‑11 |
| 9‑Oct‑2019 | Pragmatic Performance: When to care about perf, and what to do about it | David Wengier | BH3‑12(free after 5.30pm) |
| 11‑Sep‑2019 | Azure Logic App custom connectors | Sam Fernando | BH3‑12(free after 5.30pm) |
| 14‑Aug‑2019 | Chinafy your apps + Lessons you can steal from China | Adam Cogan | BH3‑12(free after 5.30pm) |
| 10‑Jul‑2019 | Connect your Desktop Apps with the Microsoft GraphBuilding a .NET documentation DevOps pipeline | Ming Man ChanMattias Karlsson | BH3‑11 |
| 12‑Jun‑2019 | Unity with Cognitive Services | Scott Cabot | BH3‑11 |
| 8-May 2019 | VS2019 Launch | David Gardiner and Andrew Best | HH4-08 |
| Apr 2019 | Azure DevOps CI + Docker Blazor | Jack Ni Ben Laan | BH3-12 |
| Mar 2019 | DevSecOps Uno | Jakob Pennington David Oliver | BH3-12 |
| Feb 2019 | ASP.NET Core + TS + Razor | Dan Harris | BH3-11 |
| Dec 2018 | VSTS | Anthony Borton | BH3-11 |
| Nov 2018 | Migrating from AngularJS and ASP.NET MVC3 to Angular6 | Kayes Islam | BH3-11 |
| Oct 2018 | C# 8 | Jon Skeet | BH3-11 |
| Sep 2018 | Feature flagging | Sam Fernando | BH3-11 |
| Aug 2018 | VS Productivity for .NET | David Kean | BH3-11 |
| Jul 2018 | Octopus Deploy | Andrew Katsivas | GK2.12 |
| Jun 2018 | Docker (part 2) | Jack Ni | GK2.12 |
| May 2018 | F#Blockchain for Mobile | Stephen HoskingMichael | LB2.17 |
| Apr 2018 | OWASP Top 10 AND Using Firebase to build software that scales | Jim & Darren | BH3-11 |
| Mar 2018 | ASP.NET Core / Docker / EF Core | Jack Ni | H6-12 |
| 14-Feb 2018 | Off-grid Peak PoE SystemsMigrating to Git and VSTS | Peter Griffith, David Gardiner | |
| Jan 2018 | Azure Functions | Sam Fernando | |
| Dec 2017 | .NET on FPGAsCake Build Automation | Zoltán LehóczkyDavid Gardiner | |
| Nov 2017 | ReactiveUI | Geoffrey Huntley | |
| Oct 2017 | Introduction to Microsoft Bot Framework | Sam Fernando | |
| Sep 2017 | 2nd Annual 'Hang out, talk and code' | ||
| Aug 2017 | Azure API Management | Bill Chesnut | |
| Jul 2017 | Azure Cognitive ServicesLightning Talks | Paul UsherVarious | |
| Jun 2017 | Xamarin | Sean Rodda | |
| May 2017 | Architecture | David Rogers | |
| Apr 2017 | IoT 2017 Launch | Jack Ni Paul Usher | |
| Mar 2017 | Load testing Hololens | Ben Laan Bronwen Zande | |
| Feb 2017 | C# 7 | Jon Skeet | |
| 11-Jan-2017 | OzCode | Dror Helper | Marcellina |
| 14-Dec-2016 | VS 2017 and Connect() Event Highlights | David Gardiner | Marcellina |
| 9-Nov-2016 | Hang out and talk code | n/a | Marcellina |
| 12-Oct-2016 | Can you hack it? Unbreakable Data Security (+ Hackathon) | Stav Morris | Marcellina |
| 14-Sep-2016 | Desktop Development -> File New What Now??? | Paul Usher | Marcellina |
| 10-Aug=2016 | IoT, Node + CloudParallel Programming Design Patterns and Considerations | Jack NiGeorge Georgiou | Marcellina |
| 13-Jul-2016 | The latest on .NET and ASP.NET | Scott Hanselmann | Microsoft Adelaide |
| 8-Jun-2016 | TypeScript : more than just another JS transpilerVS Team Services | Basarat Ali SyedDavid Gardiner | Marcellina |
| 9-May-2016 | Build and release applications using VSTS/TFS 2015 Update 2 | Anthony Borton | Marcellina |
| 13-Apr-2016 | Building a Robot ArmyEncryption with .NET and SQL 2016 | Dr Tom TilleyDuncan Greaves | Marcellina |
| 9-Mar-2016 | Octopus Deploy | David Rogers | Marcellina |
| 10-Feb-2016 | Virtual reality in .NET | Matthew Wilson | Marcellina |
| Jan 2016 | IntelliTest and other unit testing tools | David Gardiner | |
| 14-Oct-2015 | Microsoft Azure Explained | Paul Usher | Marcellina |
| 12-Aug-2015 | Microsoft Azure | Scott Hanselman | Microsoft Adelaide |
| 8-Jul-2015 | WCF OData Services | Jeremy Huppatz | Marcellina |
| 10-Jun-2015 | 10 unusual tips & tricks for .NET | David Gardiner | Marcellina |
| 13-May-2015 | Introduction to Git version control | David Rogers | Marcellina |
| 9-Apr-2015 | ASP.NET 5 and ASP.NET MVC 6 | Jon Galloway | Microsoft Adelaide |
| 11-Mar-2015 | ORM SQL performance troubleshooting | Rob Farley | Majoran |
| Feb 2015 | WinForms or WPF? - 10 years on | Paul Usher | |
| Jan 2015 | ASP.NET 5 projects, SideWaffle and more | Sayed Hashimi | |
| Dec 2014 | Claims Authentication with MembershipReboot | David Rogers | |
| Jul 2014 | PowerShell for Developers | David Gardiner | |
| Jun 2014 | Kinect | Charlie Mun | |
| May 2014 | Code sharing between Win8, WP8 and Azure | Nick Hodge | |
| Apr 2014 | WebEx | Cisco | |
| Mar 2014 | Application Insights | Anthony Borton | |
| Feb 2014 | Greenfield and Brownfield apps | Jeremy Huppatz | |
| Jan 2014 | Windows Phone 8 (part 2) | Charlie Mun | |
| Dec 2013 | Windows Phone 8 (part 1) | Charlie Mun | |
| Nov 2013 | Lean Software Development | Ben Mackie | |
| Oct 2013 | No meeting | ||
| Sep 2013 | RavenDB and NoSQL | Paul Stovell | |
| Aug 2013 | Fewer Cursors Since SQL Server 2012 Came Along | Rob Farley | |
| Jul 2013 | Intro to NFC | Charlie Mun | |
| Jun 2013 | Building a Windows Phone game with XAML and C# | Andrew Coates | |
| May 2013 | Will my Windows 7 and earlier code run on Windows 8 | Nick Hodge | |
| Apr 2013 | No meeting | ||
| Mar 2013 | HTML5, CSS3 and friends | Alex Mackey | |
| Feb 2013 | F# 3.0 Features for DB and Web Service Interfaces Windows Q&A | Stephen Hosking Pete Calvert | |
| Jan 2013 | No meeting | ||
| Dec 2012 | No meeting | ||
| Nov 2012 | A Modern Architecture Review (part 2) | Adam Cogan | |
| Oct 2012 | A Modern Architecture Review – using the new Code Review tools | Adam Cogan | |
| Sep 2012 | IT project challenges | Sonya Weiser | |
| Aug 2012 | No meeting | ||
| Jul 2012 | No meeting | ||
| Jun 2012 | Real World Lightswitch Programming the Mobile Web with ASP.NET MVC 4 | Jeremy Huppatz Stephen Hosking | |
| 9th May 2012 | SQL ServerOffice 365 for User Groups | Chris ClarksonPeter Griffith | IT Innovation Studio, UniSA City West |
| 10th Apr 2012 | Pragmatic Software Test MethodScripted is not Scripture | Michael SnookAndrew Dempster | Sebel Playford |
| 14th Mar 2012 | IronPython for Silverlight / Windows Phone project | Andy Lee | ACS Kent Town |
| 8th Feb 2012 | Web Page Optimisation | Karl Thomas | ACS Kent Town |
| 11th Jan 2012 | Start building on Windows 8 – 8 traits of great Metro style apps (prerecorded)SFIA Skills Framework for the Infomation Age | Jensen HarrisDavid Lindley | ACS, Kent Town |
| 14th Dec 2011 | Pub dinner | Royal Hotel, Kent town | |
| Nov 2011 | No meeting | ||
| 12th Oct 2011 | OData Protocol and WCF Data ServicesWhat’s new in Visual Studio ALM vNext & //Build Conference Recap | Morris BahramiAnthony Borton | Level 2, Westpac House |
| 14th Sep 2011 | Agile testingGooglish Things you should know | Sharon PickenPeter Cornish | Level 2, Westpac House |
| 10th Aug 2011 | JQuery and ASP.NET Biztalk and the cloud | Simon Holman Bill Chesnut | |
| 16th Jul 2011 | DDD Adelaide | HH3-08, UniSA City West | |
| 8th Jun 2011 | Developing for the Windows Azure Platform | Simon Holman | Level 2, Westpac House |
| 11t-May-2011 | An introduction to web site accessibility | David Sutton | Level 2, Westpac House |
| Apr 2011 | Datanet – Real time connected apps using WM 6.1 with Next-GNexus eCare – Finding Smarter ways to deliver Care Services | Stephen JenkinsFrank Whittaker | Level 2, Westpac House |
| 9-Mar-2011 | An introduction to Visual Studio 2010 F# Dynamic Keyword in C# 4 | Steve HoskingMorris Bahrami | Level 2, Westpac House |
| 9-Jan-2008 | Sharepoint resources in Adelaide | Daniel Brown | Level 2, Westpac House |
| 12-Dec-2007 | Dependency Injection Pattern | James Chapman-Smith | Level 2, Westpac House |
| 10-Oct 2007 | Building Web Parts using Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services (CTP 1.1) | Paul Turner | Level 2, Westpac House |