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