Open Tech Calendar

Being human in the digital workplace by Northern Value Creators

Over the last 6 weeks we have shared thought provoking, topic focussed conversations with hundreds of people from across the world.

Throughout the first season of Leaders in Conversation our guests have demonstrated big hearted leadership and discussed their perspectives on creating an inclusive and positive workplace culture where everyone can thrive.

This evening welcome back our season 1 guests to debate the key themes from this series: how to thrive in the online space; the future of work; and the most important qualities needed for leadership.

This is your opportunity to ask questions to this unique gathering of leaders and access their collective wisdom.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/being-human-in-the-digital-workplace-tickets-113015961784

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/being-human-in-the-digital-workplace-tickets-113015961784

Wed 15th Jul 2020 5:00pm (Europe/London)

Wed 15th Jul 2020 6:00pm (Europe/London)

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This event will be a single talk about Guaranteeing Application and Azure Security with DevSecOps presented by John Staveley.

❗❗ 🌐 This is an online event, we'll be hosting the event on Zoom, the link for the meeting is below, however, we'll only announce the password just before the event.
🔗 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83644327179
🔑 TBA

📅 Agenda
- 👋 Welcome
- 🗑️ Housekeeping
- 👨‍🏫 Guaranteeing Application and Azure Security with DevSecOps
- 🍻 Virtual Bar

👉 Guaranteeing Application and Azure Security with DevSecOps

In this talk, John will show how Azure DevOps can be used to automate the deployment and security checks of a website in the Azure cloud. In this talk, we will go through how a variety of tools are used to gain security insights into your code and deployed environment. We will explore how this relates to the pull security left philosophy from DevSecOps. After the talk, you will have gained a good insight into all the tools you can use to improve the security of your deployed codebase.

👨‍🏫 About the speaker

John Staveley is a developer focusing on web development with 20 years of experience, mostly in the .Net stack. He is an organizer at Leeds Sharp, Leeds Data Science and Leeds IoT meetups and a regular speaker on a variety of subjects such as security, messaging, and typescript across the north of England. Twitter: @JohnStaveley

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SBG Virtual Careers Spotlight - DevOps

Join members of the SBG Operations Team as they discuss how they work with development squads to provide tooling, automation and resilient platforms designed to support traffic peaks and ongoing stability.

Format

30 minutes conversation between the team and Talent Delivery Partner followed by a 10-15 minutes Q&A.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sky-betting-gaming-virtual-careers-spotlight-devops-tickets-109832853020?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sky-betting-gaming-virtual-careers-spotlight-devops-tickets-109832853020?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch

Wed 22nd Jul 2020 1:00pm (Europe/London)

Wed 22nd Jul 2020 2:00pm (Europe/London)

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July Meetup

Sheffield Collective is back for July (still meeting virtually, on Zoom)

Sheffield Collective is a growing community for freelancers, sole traders and the self-employed in Sheffield and the surrounding area.

It's a friendly and welcoming meet-up - if you're new, you'll be made to feel very welcome. We'll all meet each other, find out what we all do, how the last month has been - and help each other with any challenges.

We'll again have a talk from one of our members, and two break-out room opportunities.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sheffield-collective-4-july-2020-tickets-111935658568

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sheffield-collective-4-july-2020-tickets-111935658568

Thu 30th Jul 2020 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 30th Jul 2020 7:30pm (Europe/London)

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Sheffield Digital Virtual Pub Quiz

It'll be another variety box quiz with things like pictionary, a scavenger hunt, an observation round and the perilous wipeout round!

You can find the zoom link and password in our slack group in the general channel on Thursday evening.

https://sheffield.digital/slack/

Thu 9th Jul 2020 8:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 9th Jul 2020 9:30pm (Europe/London)

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This event will be split into 2 parts, Lex Lofthouse presenting Knowing Your Worth: Don’t Set Yourself On Fire To Keep Others Warm and second part we are hosting a round of lightning talks! We will be having 3 speakers doing a 10-15 minute lightning talks, if you would like to get involved please message me on meetup or twitter.

❗❗ 🌐 This is an online event, we'll be hosting the event on Zoom, the link for the meeting is below, however, we'll only announce the password just before the event.
🔗 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86554403756
🔑 TBA

A lightning talk is a very short presentation lasting only a few minutes, given at a conference or a similar forum. Several lightning talks will usually be delivered by different speakers in a single session, sometimes called a data blitz.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_talk)

Agenda:
👉 Knowing Your Worth: Don’t Set Yourself On Fire To Keep Others Warm
⚡ DevContainers in VS Code (@jonnyowenpowell)
⚡ Metrics & Monitoring in Prometheus & Grafana from .NET Core (@jamesw0rld)
⚡ Top 10 Pipeline Mistakes (@giulio_vian)

1️⃣ Knowing Your Worth: Don’t Set Yourself On Fire To Keep Others Warm with Lex Lofthouse

Am I doing enough? Am I even doing it right? How can I do it better? What the hell is Impostor Syndrome and why do I have it? What’s a Work/Life Balance? Huh, now I’m having a breakdown...

After putting her career first for the best part of a decade and then having a minor breakdown, Lex Lofthouse was compelled to make herself a number one priority.

In her talk Lex will discuss Impostor Syndrome and how she learned to fail correctly. We’ll discuss negative feedback and how to deal with it, toxic environments, burnout and ‘crunch’. Plus we’ll finally figure out that work/life balance thing once and for all.

👩‍🏫About the speaker
Alexandra ‘Lex’ Lofthouse is currently a Senior Designer at JH – a Magento ecommerce agency in Nottingham. Her love for digital design started at an early age, when her Dad taught her how to use Photoshop in her early teens. She went on to study Graphic Design at Robert Gordon’s University in her home city of Aberdeen. After moving down to Nottingham for an internship, she’s never left!

2️⃣ DevContainers in VS Code with Jonny Powell
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👩‍🏫About the speaker
Jonny Powell
https://twitter.com/jonnyowenpowell

3️⃣ Metrics & Monitoring in Prometheus & Grafana from .NET Core with James World
In this talk I will give an overview of the incredibly popular Prometheus & Grafana tools and show how we can use them to create & maintain realtime dashboards and alerting for .NET Core apps.

The ultimate goal is to enable us to spot and address problems as (or even before!) they happen, rather than relying on our users to report them.

👩‍🏫About the speaker
Solution Architect. 25 years of professional experience. 40 years if you include the amateur experience too.

4️⃣ Top 10 pipeline mistakes with Giulio Vian
People often learn most by observing what not to do, rather than what to do. Avoid driving into most potholes and accelerate your DevOps journey.

👩‍🏫About the speaker
Mr. Giulio Vian is a multi-disciplinary software engineer with strong experience on production environments and extensive experience of enterprise contexts. Currently works at **Unum** helping teams in succeeding on their Digital Transformation initiatives.
Speaker at international conferences, he was awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional on Azure DevOps category in the last five years.

After the last 2 sessions we thought it was time to jump back in with something more technical! This month, our very own Peter Mill has volunteered to talk about service virtualisation covering the why and the how as well walking us through his tool of choice; WireMock. This will be an interactive session so anyone wishing to follow along at home will need to download and install the following before the session:

1. WireMock (http://wiremock.org). This needs to be running in standalone mode It relies on Java so you will need to install either the Java 7 JRE or Java 8 JRE. Instructions on how to do this can be found here: http://wiremock.org/docs

2. Postman (https://www.postman.com/) so you can make API requests. If you are not familiar with Postman, any other client that can make HTTP requests will work (Curl, wget, SoapUI etc).

UPDATE: There will also be an opportunity to put any questions to WireMock's creator, Tom Akehurst.

If you hit any problems before the session, feel free to reach out and we'll help you get setup :).

Fun starts on Wednesday July 8th at 7pm.

I'll add the Zoom meeting link closer to the date.

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Big thanks to our sponsors - Tech Parks who would ordinarily be letting us use their wonderful meeting space. And Ministry of Testing for just existing and being awesome!

www.shefftechparks.com | www.ministryoftesting.com

As always, if you'd like to sponsor, host or speak at a future event then please do get in touch! And don't forget to keep an eye on the Meetup page or on www.twitter.com/steelbugs for details of upcoming events.

If you're a new member or concerned about arriving alone, drop the organisers a message and we'll keep our eyes peeled for you. :)

www.ministryoftesting.com/code-of-conduct

This event will be split into 2 parts, Lex Lofthouse presenting Knowing Your Worth: Don’t Set Yourself On Fire To Keep Others Warm and second part we are hosting a round of lightning talks! We will be having 3 speakers doing a 10-15 minute lightning talks, if you would like to get involved please message me on meetup or twitter.

❗❗ 🌐 This is an online event, we'll be hosting the event on Zoom, the link for the meeting is below, however, we'll only announce the password just before the event.
🔗 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86554403756
🔑 TBA

A lightning talk is a very short presentation lasting only a few minutes, given at a conference or a similar forum. Several lightning talks will usually be delivered by different speakers in a single session, sometimes called a data blitz.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_talk)

Agenda:
👉 Knowing Your Worth: Don’t Set Yourself On Fire To Keep Others Warm
⚡ DevContainers in VS Code (@jonnyowenpowell)
⚡ Metrics & Monitoring in Prometheus & Grafana from .NET Core (@jamesw0rld)
⚡ Top 10 Pipeline Mistakes (@giulio_vian)

👩‍🏫 Knowing Your Worth: Don’t Set Yourself On Fire To Keep Others Warm with Lex Lofthouse

Am I doing enough? Am I even doing it right? How can I do it better? What the hell is Impostor Syndrome and why do I have it? What’s a Work/Life Balance? Huh, now I’m having a breakdown...

After putting her career first for the best part of a decade and then having a minor breakdown, Lex Lofthouse was compelled to make herself a number one priority.

In her talk Lex will discuss Impostor Syndrome and how she learned to fail correctly. We’ll discuss negative feedback and how to deal with it, toxic environments, burnout and ‘crunch’. Plus we’ll finally figure out that work/life balance thing once and for all.

👩‍🏫About the speaker
Alexandra ‘Lex’ Lofthouse is currently a Senior Designer at JH – a Magento ecommerce agency in Nottingham. Her love for digital design started at an early age, when her Dad taught her how to use Photoshop in her early teens. She went on to study Graphic Design at Robert Gordon’s University in her home city of Aberdeen. After moving down to Nottingham for an internship, she’s never left!

This event will be split into 2 parts, Lex Lofthouse presenting Knowing Your Worth: Don’t Set Yourself On Fire To Keep Others Warm and second part we are hosting a round of lightning talks! We will be having 3 speakers doing a 10-15 minute lightning talks, if you would like to get involved please message me on meetup or twitter.

❗❗ 🌐 This is an online event, we'll be hosting the event on Zoom, the link for the meeting is below, however, we'll only announce the password just before the event.
🔗 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86554403756
🔑 TBA

A lightning talk is a very short presentation lasting only a few minutes, given at a conference or a similar forum. Several lightning talks will usually be delivered by different speakers in a single session, sometimes called a data blitz.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_talk)

Agenda:
👉 Knowing Your Worth: Don’t Set Yourself On Fire To Keep Others Warm
👉 DevContainers in VS Code (@jonnyowenpowell)
👉 TBA
👉 TBA

👉 Knowing Your Worth: Don’t Set Yourself On Fire To Keep Others Warm with Lex Lofthouse

Am I doing enough? Am I even doing it right? How can I do it better? What the hell is Impostor Syndrome and why do I have it? What’s a Work/Life Balance? Huh, now I’m having a breakdown...

After putting her career first for the best part of a decade and then having a minor breakdown, Lex Lofthouse was compelled to make herself a number one priority.

In her talk Lex will discuss Impostor Syndrome and how she learned to fail correctly. We’ll discuss negative feedback and how to deal with it, toxic environments, burnout and ‘crunch’. Plus we’ll finally figure out that work/life balance thing once and for all.

👩‍🏫About the speaker
Alexandra ‘Lex’ Lofthouse is currently a Senior Designer at JH – a Magento ecommerce agency in Nottingham. Her love for digital design started at an early age, when her Dad taught her how to use Photoshop in her early teens. She went on to study Graphic Design at Robert Gordon’s University in her home city of Aberdeen. After moving down to Nottingham for an internship, she’s never left!

AI in marketing masterclass

Our free online masterclass features industry experts, Jaywing's Head of AI, Martin Benson and Head of Product Development, Martin Smith, and will cover all things AI in marketing. Offering practical advice to future-proof your marketing and optimise your existing channels.

In the session we'll cover:

1. The basics of AI

2. Real-world AI use cases

3. How to use AI to optimise customer experience & conversion

4. Introducing our AI-driven predictive modelling suite Archetype

5. How you can make AI work for you

The panel:

Martin Smith, Head of Product

Martin Benson, Head of AI

Tom Rigden, Commercial Director

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/artificial-intelligence-fact-fiction-tickets-108526599982

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/artificial-intelligence-fact-fiction-tickets-108526599982

Tue 7th Jul 2020 11:00am (Europe/London)

Tue 7th Jul 2020 12:00pm (Europe/London)

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Sheffield Devops (Virtual)

The next Sheffield Devops event takes place online, please leave your questions for our speakers as comments on the stream, and we will showcase them at the end.

Our virtual event is generously hosted by our sponsors Affecto Recruitment.

We’re striving for Sheffield Devops to be an inclusive event that is open to all. We operate a Code of Conduct. Please drop us a message on Twitter @sheffieldDevops if you have any queries or would just like a chat ahead of the event.

Schedule
18:00: Live stream starts

18:15 - 19:00: Andy Burgin with Beyond Dashboards - Visualising Complex Systems

19:00 - 19:15: Break

19:15 - 20:00: Matt Jarvis with Introducing KUDO - Kubernetes Operators the Easy Way

About the Speakers

Andy Burgin
Andy is Lead Platform Engineer at Sky Betting and Gaming. He considers himself a Kubernetes and Hadoop fettler, spending a far too much of his spare time making Raspberry Pis do things they shouldn’t. He was a small part of the organising team for DevOpsDays London 2019 and has been running the Devops meetup in Leeds for 6 years hosting over 40 events. He’s attended and spoke at a bunch of DevOps conferences and in his own words is ‘an all round DevOps nuisance’.

Beyond Dashboards - Visualising Complex Systems

There are many ways to collect and visualise metrics from Kubernetes clusters. Many of us collect metrics and visualise them on dashboards. The plethora of graphs and charts enable us to quickly spot anomalies with workload or cluster performance. However do we really understand the workloads that run on our clusters? this can be a challenge particularly in a multi-tenant environment.

This session will demonstrate ways to “see” the workloads running on clusters, helping to better understand workloads through visualisation, anomaly identification and exploratory analysis. Using tools such as graph databases and visualisation tools, you’ll learn how they can help you explore and understand cluster workload topology usage. Sharing examples of how these tools have identified issues and how they can help engage with tenants to share best practices and ultimately improve cluster performance.

Matt Jarvis
Matt Jarvis is Senior Director of Community and Evangelism at D2iQ. Matt has spent more than 15 years building products and services around open source software, on everything from embedded devices to large scale distributed systems. Most recently he has been focused on the open cloud infrastructure space, and in emerging patterns for cloud native applications. Matt is a regular speaker at conferences and meetups across the world, including MesosCon, Open Infrastructure Summit and All Things Open.

Introducing KUDO - Kubernetes Operators the Easy Way

Kubernetes Operators are the next phase of the journey towards automating complex applications in containers. The Kudo project introduces an easy way to build Kubernetes operators using declarative YAML. Many Operators that exist today handle initial deployment, but they don’t provide automation for tasks like binary upgrades, configuration updates, and failure recovery. Implementing a production-grade controller for a complex workload typically requires thousands of lines of code and many months of development. As a result, the quality of operators that are available today varies. The Kudo project provides a universal operator to enable automated creation of operators for Kubernetes, in most cases just using YAML. In this talk, I’ll introduce the Kudo project, and demo the creation of a Kubernetes operator using Kudo.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-july-2020-virtual-tickets-111796255610

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-july-2020-virtual-tickets-111796255610

Thu 9th Jul 2020 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 9th Jul 2020 8:00pm (Europe/London)

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https://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk/code-of-conduct/

Yorkshire Cyber Security Cluster July Webinar

We are excited to announce that our next YCSC Webinar will take place on 15th July!
We would love for you to get involved in discussion regarding Covid-19 and Business Resilience against a second round of attack, Deep Dive into the ISO27 Suite, Cybersecurity Education Standpoint.

We look forward to hearing your thoughts and experiences through the use of our interactive Slido features, or simply by turning your microphone on!

Encourage the discussion by securing your free ticket now via the link below.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/yorkshire-cyber-security-cluster-july-webinar-tickets-90971567407

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/yorkshire-cyber-security-cluster-july-webinar-tickets-90971567407

Wed 15th Jul 2020 1:30pm (Europe/London)

Wed 15th Jul 2020 3:00pm (Europe/London)

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An introduction to WireMock

After the last 2 sessions we thought it was time to jump back in with something more technical! This month, our very own Peter Mill has volunteered to talk about service virtualisation covering the why and the how as well walking us through his tool of choice; WireMock. This will be an interactive session so anyone wishing to follow along at home will need to download and install the following before the session:

1. WireMock (http://wiremock.org). This needs to be running in standalone mode It relies on Java so you will need to install either the Java 7 JRE or Java 8 JRE. Instructions on how to do this can be found here: http://wiremock.org/docs

2. PostMan (https://www.postman.com/) so you can make API requests. If you are not familiar with Postman, any other client that can make HTTP requests will work (Curl, wget, SoapUI etc).

If you hit any problems before the session, feel free to reach out and we'll help you get setup :).

Fun starts on Wednesday July 8th at 7pm.

I'll add the Zoom meeting link closer to the date.

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Big thanks to our sponsors - Tech Parks who would ordinarily be letting us use their wonderful meeting space. And Ministry of Testing for just existing and being awesome!

www.shefftechparks.com | www.ministryoftesting.com

As always, if you'd like to sponsor, host or speak at a future event then please do get in touch! And don't forget to keep an eye on the Meetup page or on www.twitter.com/steelbugs for details of upcoming events.

If you're a new member or concerned about arriving alone, drop the organisers a message and we'll keep our eyes peeled for you. :)

www.ministryoftesting.com/code-of-conduct

[Photo by Kristin Wilson on Unsplash]

https://www.meetup.com/Ministry-of-Testing-Sheffield/events/271462541/

https://www.meetup.com/Ministry-of-Testing-Sheffield/events/271462541/

Wed 8th Jul 2020 7:00pm (Europe/London)

Wed 8th Jul 2020 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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Datatrainer presents a Barclays AI Frenzy event

Datatrainer will be conducting a short webinar in conjunction with Barclays considering how the current crisis is affecting the adoption of innovation and how one specific AI use case is perfectly suited to helping many organisations better manage some of the issues presented by Covid-19.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crisis-ai-part-1-tickets-107693728842?utm_medium=email&_hsmi=90300445&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9jXFZI_OENUjCevMPit1wbsc1Upg_lme1Fh-cTdBRFJh6AgYXFVBjd5mae9iSgvGip4ctvOCILUWDEojlfG0FqRDVKjg&utm_content=90300445&utm_source=hs_email

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crisis-ai-part-1-tickets-107693728842?utm_medium=email&_hsmi=90300445&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9jXFZI_OENUjCevMPit1wbsc1Upg_lme1Fh-cTdBRFJh6AgYXFVBjd5mae9iSgvGip4ctvOCILUWDEojlfG0FqRDVKjg&utm_content=90300445&utm_source=hs_email

Tue 30th Jun 2020 11:30am (Europe/London)

Tue 30th Jun 2020 12:00pm (Europe/London)

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SERAS Environment Making Challenge

Try your hand at making and IoT for environmental solutions - in this series of online workshops from The University of Sheffield. One hour a day, with a range of excellent speakers.

Participants will get the chance to learn all about creative problem solving and get an introduction to the ideas behind the Internet of Things. The events are free and open to all, whether you’re a complete beginner, tech savvy or tech shy. There’s lots to learn and prizes to win.

We’ll introduce you to affordable digital technologies that can help you solve problems. Learn how to use micro:bits and arduinos to solve problems in your environment - or just use what’s at hand around you to make a difference.

To win a prize, use what you’ve learnt to show how you’d use the Internet of Things as an innovative solution to an environmental problem.

There’ll be 20 free Making kits to win for the best entries and everyone gets a fabulous digital badge from the Institute of Coding.

There’ll also be plenty of advice and links to further resources to help you along your way in solving problems around you.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/seras-environment-making-challenge-tickets-110120340904

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/seras-environment-making-challenge-tickets-110120340904

Fri 26th Jun 2020 2:00pm (Europe/London)

Fri 3rd Jul 2020 3:00pm (Europe/London)

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GoSheffield - July (online)

Please note that this event is fully online, and the details are available once you RSVP. We will use Google Meet, which should work on any modern web browser without requiring a Google account.

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Welcome to GoSheffield! This is where the Go community in Sheffield meets once a month to talk about cool hacks and interesting technology.

The meetup call will run from 18:30 until 19:30, featuring:

* CLI-based automation with Go - Stuart Murray
* Advanced Go testing tips - Daniel Martí

Please get in touch with the organisers if you'd like to give a talk. All topics and levels of experience are welcome!

Since this meetup is entirely online, no food or drinks can be provided. Our online meetups will also be sponsor-free, given that there will be no expenses.

To participate in the discussion, join from a quiet room where you can speak clearly and be understood properly. You can also join the call a bit early to test your audio setup with others.

Please note that all attendees and sponsors are required to follow the Go code of conduct (https://golang.org/conduct).

https://www.meetup.com/GoSheffield/events/271453771/

https://www.meetup.com/GoSheffield/events/271453771/

Thu 2nd Jul 2020 6:30pm (Europe/London)

Thu 2nd Jul 2020 7:30pm (Europe/London)

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Networking for Tech Startups at Last Friday Club - Kollider

Networking for Tech Startups at Last Friday Club

We are excited to present our first virtual Last Friday Club with a focus on the power of networking for startups.

This will be a great opportunity to network with digital & tech entrepreneurs, startups and organisations in Sheffield.

If you're a startup yourself, this is a great opportunity to be able to share with others what your working on, as well as being an opportunity for potential referrals.

For established businesses, finding out what is happening in the startup community is a great way to keep your finger on the pulse when it comes to emerging trends. You might even come across something that can help your business adopt new technology.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/networking-for-tech-startups-at-last-friday-club-tickets-110278353524?aff=ebdssbeac

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/networking-for-tech-startups-at-last-friday-club-tickets-110278353524?aff=ebdssbeac

Fri 26th Jun 2020 3:00pm (Europe/London)

Fri 26th Jun 2020 4:00pm (Europe/London)

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Inviqa CXcon: free online accessibility conference

CXcon remote conference on digital accessibility - Inviqa

Join heads of digital, UX practitioners, and thought leaders for a free, one-day, remote conference on digital accessibility:

- Hear from leading brands embarking on their accessibility journeys
- Learn why you need to build a business case for accessibility
- Discover digital accessibility methods and best practice
- Start embedding inclusive design into your digital product design

Enjoy from the comfort of your home! Book your free place to receive your Zoom joining details.

https://inviqa.com/cxcon-the-accessibility-edition

https://inviqa.zoom.us/webinar/register/5815911775191/WN_bBhWXupzQPGXKPD8LP8mKA

Tue 30th Jun 2020 9:00am (Europe/London)

Tue 30th Jun 2020 4:10pm (Europe/London)

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[🌏 Online] Guaranteeing Application and Azure Security with DevSecOps

This event will be a single talk about Guaranteeing Application and Azure Security with DevSecOps presented by John Staveley.

❗❗ 🌐 This is an online event, we'll be hosting the event on Zoom, the link for the meeting is below, however, we'll only announce the password just before the event.
🔗 TBA
🔑 TBA

📅 Agenda
- 👋 Welcome
- 🗑️ Housekeeping
- 👨‍🏫 Guaranteeing Application and Azure Security with DevSecOps
- 🍻 Virtual Bar

👉 Guaranteeing Application and Azure Security with DevSecOps

In this talk, John will show how Azure DevOps can be used to automate the deployment and security checks of a website in the Azure cloud. In this talk, we will go through how a variety of tools are used to gain security insights into your code and deployed environment. We will explore how this relates to the pull security left philosophy from DevSecOps. After the talk, you will have gained a good insight into all the tools you can use to improve the security of your deployed codebase.

👨‍🏫 About the speaker

John Staveley is a developer focusing on web development with 20 years of experience, mostly in the .Net stack. He is an organizer at Leeds Sharp, Leeds Data Science and Leeds IoT meetups and a regular speaker on a variety of subjects such as security, messaging, and typescript across the north of England. Twitter: @JohnStaveley

https://www.meetup.com/dotnetsheff/events/271373598/

https://www.meetup.com/dotnetsheff/events/271373598/

Tue 14th Jul 2020 6:30pm (Europe/London)

Tue 14th Jul 2020 8:30pm (Europe/London)

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Sky Betting & Gaming Virtual Careers Spotlight - Business Intelligence

Welcome to our Virtual Careers Spotlight series where each week we'll be speaking to our teams live from their living rooms via YouTube!

This week we will be talking to Anna Towers, Andrew Rushgrove and James Waterhouse from our Business Intelligence team. They will be discussing how they’ve approached bringing a group of disparate analytical teams together to form one BI team and how they’re hoping their 3 year strategy will take the team on a journey from good to great

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sky-betting-gaming-virtual-careers-spotlight-business-intelligence-tickets-109827906224?aff=ebdssbeac

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sky-betting-gaming-virtual-careers-spotlight-business-intelligence-tickets-109827906224?aff=ebdssbeac

Wed 24th Jun 2020 1:00pm (Europe/London)

Wed 24th Jun 2020 3:00pm (Europe/London)

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Children's Media Conference 2020 Online

CMC 2020 has been re-invented as a week-long online conference of children’s and youth content, with webinars spaced at convenient intervals so that lock-down life can still go on if it needs to.

CMC 2020 Online opens on Monday 6 July with the Opening Keynote to set the agenda for CMC 2020 – Still Here Right Now.

Delegate Pass Prices
- CMC 2020 Online Early Bird: £80+VAT (register by Friday 26 June).
- CMC 2020 Online Self-funded Delegates, Small Indies, Under 30s and Students: £50+VAT. A - limited number are available, on a first-come, first-served basis.

https://www.thechildrensmediaconference.com/events/cmc-2020/

https://www.thechildrensmediaconference.com/events/cmc-2020/

Mon 6th Jul 2020 9:00am (Europe/London)

Fri 10th Jul 2020 5:00pm (Europe/London)

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Sheffield Digital Virtual Pub Quiz

Join us for this week's virtual pub quiz on Thursday at 8pm! It's going to be folklore and mythology-themed this time around, and you'll be able to join on Zoom. Find the link and password in our Slack group: https://sheffield.digital/slack/

https://sheffield.digital/slack/

Thu 18th Jun 2020 8:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 18th Jun 2020 9:30pm (Europe/London)

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[🌏 Online] Augmented Reality using Xamarin, ARKit, C# and .NET

This event will be a single talk about Augmented Reality using Xamarin, ARKit, C#, and .NET presented by Lee Englestone.

❗❗ 🌐 This is an online event, we'll be hosting the event on Zoom, the link for the meeting is below, however, we'll only announce the password just before the event.
🔗 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/97310782492
🔑 TBA

📅 Agenda
- 👋 Welcome
- 🗑️ Housekeeping
- 👨‍🏫 Augmented Reality using Xamarin, ARKit, C#, and .NET
- 🍻 Virtual Bar

👉 Augmented Reality using Xamarin, ARKit, C#, and .NET

In this session we will look at how easy (yet overlooked) it is for .NET developers to create Augmented Reality mobile applications for iOS devices using Xamarin, ARKit and C#

We will briefly discuss the increasingly popular topic that is Augmented Reality and its applications, review some basic concepts then look at a generous helping of example AR videos and code.

👨‍🏫 About the speaker

Lee Englestone is the Software Development Manager at http://Leasing.com

He is constantly working on side projects, building things and sharing knowledge having created http://VisualStudioTips.co.uk, http://HackathonTips.com and http://XamarinArkit.com.

Outside of work, he loves playing xbox though is far too busy to play these days!

Blog: https://ManchesterDeveloper.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LeeEnglestone

https://www.meetup.com/dotnetsheff/events/271309223/

https://www.meetup.com/dotnetsheff/events/271309223/

Wed 24th Jun 2020 6:30pm (Europe/London)

Wed 24th Jun 2020 8:30pm (Europe/London)

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Tech Tea

Our informal get-together for chats and a beverage of your choice.

https://shfwit.org/

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tech-tea-online-tickets-109653917820

Tue 23rd Jun 2020 5:30pm (Europe/London)

Tue 23rd Jun 2020 7:00pm (Europe/London)

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https://sheffield.digital/events/meetup-code-of-conduct/

Sheffield Digital Virtual Pub Quiz

This week's quiz is going to be full of cryptic/brain teaser rounds then a bit of socialising time afterwards.

Zoom link and password will be available on the night in the Sheffield Digital Slack Group: https://sheffield.digital/slack/

https://sheffield.digital/slack/

https://sheffield.digital/slack/

Thu 11th Jun 2020 8:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 11th Jun 2020 9:30pm (Europe/London)

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Yorkshire Cyber Security Cluster monthly webinar

Join the YCSC members and steering committee for an open discussion around the following topics:

- The positive factors to come out of covid-19
- Do schools have the right technology and resources to motivate learning at this time?
- Security awareness market - the good, the bad, the ugly!
- Graduate market for Cyber and how to prepare for your next role

This is a network for sharing knowledge and best practice amongst Yorkshires cybersecurity professionals so please come armed with your views, experiences and questions.

This will be hosted on Google Meets using Slido for audience participation.

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The Yorkshire Cyber Security Cluster is a profesional network of Cyber Security practitioners. Created as part of the UK Cyber Security Forum to help cyber securiy experts and organisations across the region to collaborate and build a stronger standard of cyber security as part of a knowledge exchange collective.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ycsc-webinar-1706-tickets-106951546956

Wed 17th Jun 2020 1:30pm (Europe/London)

Wed 17th Jun 2020 3:00pm (Europe/London)

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SBG Virtual Careers Spotlight - Gaming Digital Media & Acquisition Team

Welcome to our Virtual Careers Spotlight series where each week we'll be speaking to our teams live from their living rooms via YouTube!

This week we are talking to Neil, Jonny, George and Freddie from our Gaming Digital Media & Acquisition Team. They will be discussing how they work together to navigate the Digital Media landscape in 2020, ensuring that our strategy stays future proof.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sbg-virtual-careers-spotlight-gaming-digital-media-acquisition-team-tickets-106772641846

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sbg-virtual-careers-spotlight-gaming-digital-media-acquisition-team-tickets-106772641846

Wed 10th Jun 2020 1:00pm (Europe/London)

Wed 10th Jun 2020 2:00pm (Europe/London)

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This event will be a single talk about Rock n Roll with Code presented by Laura Silvanavičiūtė.

This is special bonus event in collaboration with Notts IoT and dotnet York!

❗❗ 🌐 This is an online event, we'll be hosting the event on Zoom, the link for the meeting is below, however, we'll only announce the password just before the event.
🔗 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82781470653
🔑 TBA

📅 Agenda
- 👋 Welcome
- 🗑️ Housekeeping
- 🎸 Rock n Roll with Code 🎶 with Laura Silvanavičiūtė
- 🍻 Virtual Bar

👉 Rock n Roll with Code

We are very used to generating visual results with code but are still often surprised to hear that we can create music in the same way.

Oh, you didn’t know that? You are not alone. Even though the idea of music programming is definitely older than all of us this concept is still pretty unfamiliar among many developers. Not for long! Let's shed some light on Sonic Pi and JavaScript capabilities of live music coding as well as music integration into our web applications with Web Audio API.

👩‍🏫About the speaker
Laura Silvanavičiūtė is a 24 years old software engineer obsessed with front-end development. Simultaneously she teaches Web Development for teenagers at CodeAcademyKids school. 2 years ago she was on the Dark side - developing on Mainframe supercomputers with COBOL language, but due to limitations and slow evolvement of used technologies, she decided to shift them pretty drastically.

In general, she think we should not need to stick to any specific technology in this rapidly progressing IT World but rather try and use various different ones. Every new experience increases our creativity, knowledge, curiosity and expands mindset. Her latest discovery which she found to be super fun & still beneficial is Music Programming and she wants to share this one!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-silvanaviciute/

🍻 The Virtual Bar
Due to the current environmental situation after the online event, we'll be heading off to the "virtual bar". Feel free to come along, and have a chat, this will be a different Zoom meeting to the main event and the link will be given out on the night to stop "zoombombing".

Virtual Pub Quiz - everyone welcome!

This week it's going to be a more interactive quiz! Including a wipeout/knockout round (where everybody holds their answers up to the camera), a catchphrase round, pictionary-style round, and a couple more.

Get the link and password in the Sheffield Digital slack community at 7:30pm on the night!

https://sheffield.digital/slack/

https://sheffield.digital/slack/

Thu 4th Jun 2020 8:15pm (Europe/London)

Thu 4th Jun 2020 9:30pm (Europe/London)

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[🌏 Online] 10 Years of Monitoring & Learnings from migrating legacy to modern

This event will be broken down into 2 talks, "10 years of monitoring: lessons, horror stories, and working at Raygun " and "What did I learn trying to migrate teams from legacy to modern?" being presented by Innocent Bindura and Matteo Emili.

❗❗ 🌐 This is an online event, we'll be hosting the event on Zoom, the link for the meeting is below, however, we'll only announce the password just before the event.
🔗 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88293664701
🔑 TBA

📅 Agenda
- 👋 Welcome
- 🗑️ Housekeeping
- 👨‍🏫 10 years of monitoring
- 👨‍🏫 Migrate teams from legacy to modern?
- 🍻 Virtual Bar

👉 10 years of monitoring: lessons, horror stories, and working at Raygun

In this talk, Innocent Bindura, Snr Developer at Raygun, takes us through the highs, lows, and best-practices of software monitoring, learned over his 10-year career.

Using examples, Innocent will explain the importance of monitoring
in order to deliver a fast and reliable experience for your users, show you where to find the root cause when things go wrong, and how to use data to prioritize performance optimizations that will have the biggest impact on customers.

Innocent will take a quick look at the pros and cons of other popular monitoring tools and share with you how the team at Raygun use Raygun, supported by some technical examples of recent performance wins.

There will be plenty of time for Q+A so please bring along
any performance challenges you are currently facing, so Innocent can help you get to the bottom of it.

👨‍🏫 About the speaker
Innocent Bindura (Snr Developer at Raygun)

I am a well-seasoned software developer with over 10 years of software development using the Microsoft stack of technologies. I am a fervent follower of new technologies and from time to time I get my hands dirty to find out what works best.

My professional experience spans several industries ranging from online marketing, retail, financial to entertainment. Having been able to adapt to these industries demonstrates my ability to learn fast and produce results.

In recent years, I delivered a customer loyalty application, a bespoke billing system for third party back-office transaction clearing, and have integrated several e-commerce solutions with payment gateways(PayPal, PayU, Payfast)

👉 What did I learn trying to migrate teams from legacy to modern?
I spent an incredible amount of time doing migrations and transformations (on both process and technologies), as a consultant for most of my career but also inside a product company, bringing ALM, Agile and then DevOps to people varying from who was willing to change and who just wanted to retain their 20 years old habits.
The amount of lessons I learned is massive, not just about technology itself – that changes at the speed of light – but about how to deal with change in an organization.
This is not going to be a technical session – far from it – but instead it will be a short collection of some of the most striking experiences I had since I first heard about Software Engineering.

👨‍🏫 About the speaker
Matteo Emili is a Microsoft MVP since 2010.

He is passionate about technology, but it is not his only interest – what really makes him tick is how technology acts as a tool to solve a complex business problem, ultimately bringing benefits to the company.

A regular speaker at conferences and meetups, he enjoys sharing back with the worldwide technical communities – especially about ALM, Agile, and DevOps.

He currently works at Avanade UK as a Manager for Software Engineering.

https://twitter.com/MattVSTS

Wed 17th Jun 2020 7:30pm (Europe/London)

Wed 17th Jun 2020 9:30pm (Europe/London)

This event will be a single talk about Rock n Roll with Code presented by Laura Silvanavičiūtė.

❗❗ 🌐 This is an online event, we'll be hosting the event on Zoom, the link for the meeting is below, however, we'll only announce the password just before the event.
🔗 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82781470653
🔑 TBA

📅 Agenda
- 👋 Welcome
- 🗑️ Housekeeping
- 🎸 Rock n Roll with Code 🎶 with Laura Silvanavičiūtė
- 🍻 Virtual Bar

👉 Rock n Roll with Code

We are very used to generating visual results with code but are still often surprised to hear that we can create music in the same way.

Oh, you didn’t know that? You are not alone. Even though the idea of music programming is definitely older than all of us this concept is still pretty unfamiliar among many developers. Not for long! Let's shed some light on Sonic Pi and JavaScript capabilities of live music coding as well as music integration into our web applications with Web Audio API.

👩‍🏫About the speaker
Laura Silvanavičiūtė is a 24 years old software engineer obsessed with front-end development. Simultaneously she teaches Web Development for teenagers at CodeAcademyKids school. 2 years ago she was on the Dark side - developing on Mainframe supercomputers with COBOL language, but due to limitations and slow evolvement of used technologies, she decided to shift them pretty drastically.

In general, she think we should not need to stick to any specific technology in this rapidly progressing IT World but rather try and use various different ones. Every new experience increases our creativity, knowledge, curiosity and expands mindset. Her latest discovery which she found to be super fun & still beneficial is Music Programming and she wants to share this one!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-silvanaviciute/

🍻 The Virtual Bar
Due to the current environmental situation after the online event, we'll be heading off to the "virtual bar". Feel free to come along, and have a chat, this will be a different Zoom meeting to the main event and the link will be given out on the night to stop "zoombombing".

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This event will be a single talk about How to code music presented by Laura Silvanavičiūtė.

❗❗ 🌐 This is an online event, we'll be hosting the event on Zoom, the link for the meeting is below, however, we'll only announce the password just before the event.
🔗 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82781470653
🔑 TBA

📅 Agenda
- 👋 Welcome
- 🗑️ Housekeeping
- 🎸 Rock n Roll with Code 🎶 with Laura Silvanavičiūtė
- 🍻 Virtual Bar

👉 Rock n Roll with Code 🎶 with Laura Silvanavičiūtė

We are very used to generating visual results with code but are still often surprised to hear that we can create music in the same way.

Oh, you didn’t know that? You are not alone. Even though the idea of music programming is definitely older than all of us this concept is still pretty unfamiliar among many developers. Not for long! Let's shed some light on Sonic Pi and JavaScript capabilities of live music coding as well as music integration into our web applications with Web Audio API.

👩‍🏫About the speaker
Laura Silvanavičiūtė is a 24 years old software engineer obsessed with front-end development. Simultaneously she teaches Web Development for teenagers at CodeAcademyKids school. 2 years ago she was on the Dark side - developing on Mainframe supercomputers with COBOL language, but due to limitations and slow evolvement of used technologies, she decided to shift them pretty drastically.

In general, she think we should not need to stick to any specific technology in this rapidly progressing IT World but rather try and use various different ones. Every new experience increases our creativity, knowledge, curiosity and expands mindset. Her latest discovery which she found to be super fun & still beneficial is Music Programming and she wants to share this one!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-silvanaviciute/

🍻 The Virtual Bar
Due to the current environmental situation after the online event, we'll be heading off to the "virtual bar". Feel free to come along, and have a chat, this will be a different Zoom meeting to the main event and the link will be given out on the night to stop "zoombombing".

Sheffield Collective 03: June 2020

Sheffield Collective is a growing community for freelancers, sole traders and the self-employed in Sheffield and the surrounding area.

June's meet-up will be our third and after the success of breakout rooms in May, we'll have a couple of breakout points this time.

Other details to be confirmed closer to the time.

For this month's ice breaker, we'd love to hear your story of meeting a celebrity.

This meet-up will take place on Zoom, and the meeting link, ID and password will be distributed by email a couple of days before with a reminder an hour before. Make sure you've signed up if you want to come along so you get those details.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sheffield-collective-03-june-2020-tickets-107527070362

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sheffield-collective-03-june-2020-tickets-107527070362

Thu 25th Jun 2020 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 25th Jun 2020 7:30pm (Europe/London)

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[🌏 Online] Rock n Roll with Code 🎸 with Laura Silvanavičiūtė

This event will be a single talk about How to code music presented by Laura Silvanavičiūtė.

❗❗ 🌐 This is an online event, we'll be hosting the event on Zoom, the link for the meeting is below, however, we'll only announce the password just before the event.
🔗 TBA
🔑 TBA

📅 Agenda
- 👋 Welcome
- 🗑️ Housekeeping
- 🎸 Rock n Roll with Code 🎶 with Laura Silvanavičiūtė
- 🍻 Virtual Bar

👉 Rock n Roll with Code 🎶 with Laura Silvanavičiūtė

We are very used to generating visual results with code but are still often surprised to hear that we can create music in the same way.

Oh, you didn’t know that? You are not alone. Even though the idea of music programming is definitely older than all of us this concept is still pretty unfamiliar among many developers. Not for long! Let's shed some light on Sonic Pi and JavaScript capabilities of live music coding as well as music integration into our web applications with Web Audio API.

👩‍🏫About the speaker
Laura Silvanavičiūtė is a 24 years old software engineer obsessed with front-end development. Simultaneously she teaches Web Development for teenagers at CodeAcademyKids school. 2 years ago she was on the Dark side - developing on Mainframe supercomputers with COBOL language, but due to limitations and slow evolvement of used technologies, she decided to shift them pretty drastically.

In general, she think we should not need to stick to any specific technology in this rapidly progressing IT World but rather try and use various different ones. Every new experience increases our creativity, knowledge, curiosity and expands mindset. Her latest discovery which she found to be super fun & still beneficial is Music Programming and she wants to share this one!

https://www.loftio.co.uk
https://twitter.com/Loftio
https://dribbble.com/loftio

🍻 The Virtual Bar
Due to the current environmental situation after the online event, we'll be heading off to the "virtual bar". Feel free to come along, and have a chat, this will be a different Zoom meeting to the main event and the link will be given out on the night to stop "zoombombing".

How to train your tester.....remotely

Continuing the remote working theme, we thought we’d spice it up even further and cover another remote working challenge; training and welcoming new team members!

I’ll be doing a talk on the approach we’re taking to welcome our new placement students this summer. Selfishly, I want to also use this as an opportunity to use your collective genius to help us whilst using it as an opportunity for you to to share any experiences you’ve had.

Come along and share your top tips and experiences!

Wednesday June 3rd. Fun & games start at 7pm.

I'll add the Zoom meeting link closer to the date.

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Big thanks to our sponsors - Tech Parks who would ordinarily be letting us use their wonderful meeting space. And Ministry of Testing for just existing and being awesome!

www.shefftechparks.com | www.ministryoftesting.com

As always, if you'd like to sponsor, host or speak at a future event then please do get in touch! And don't forget to keep an eye on the Meetup page or on www.twitter.com/steelbugs for details of upcoming events.

If you're a new member or concerned about arriving alone, drop the organisers a message and we'll keep our eyes peeled for you. :)

www.ministryoftesting.com/code-of-conduct

[Photo by Kristin Wilson on Unsplash]

https://www.meetup.com/Ministry-of-Testing-Sheffield/events/270910469/

https://www.meetup.com/Ministry-of-Testing-Sheffield/events/270910469/

Wed 3rd Jun 2020 7:00pm (Europe/London)

Wed 3rd Jun 2020 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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This event will be broken down into 2 talks, Pulumi and ASP.NET Core API Version being presented by Mikhail Shilkov and Shawn Wildermuth.

❗❗ 🌐 This is an online event, we'll be hosting the event on Zoom, the link for the meeting is below, however, we'll only announce the password just before the event.
🔗 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/98441721755
🔑 TBA

📅 Agenda
- 👋 Welcome
- 🗑️ Housekeeping
- 👨‍🏫 Cloud Management Superpowers with Pulumi with Mikhail Shilkov
- 🚻 5" Break
- 👨‍🏫 Versioning APIs in ASP.NET Core with Shawn Wildermuth
- 🍻 Virtual Bar

👉 Cloud Management Superpowers with Pulumi
Feeling daunted by clicking around in AWS console and Azure portal or automating your deployments with YAML and JSON?

In this talk, Mikhail will introduce Pulumi, an open-source tool that leverages programming languages like C# and F# to manage infrastructure, yet in a declarative manner! Using developer tools that you know and love, you can now apply unit testing, reusable architecture, deployment policies, and continuous delivery while provisioning resources in the cloud.

Obtain the cloud superpowers!

👨‍🏫 About the speaker
Mikhail Shilkov is a software engineer at Pulumi, a Microsoft Azure MVP, a Russian expat living in the Netherlands. He is passionate about the serverless mindset, leveraging the full variety of managed cloud services and handling cloud infrastructure as code. You can find his blog at https://mikhail.io

https://www.linkedin.com/in/MikhailShilkov
https://www.twitter.com/MikhailShilkov
https://mikhail.io/

👉 Versioning APIs in ASP.NET Core
Building an API with ASP.NET MVC in .NET Core is only half the job. If you’re API is going to live more than one release cycle, you’re going to need to version it. In this talk by Shawn Wildermuth, he’ll show you how easy it is now to version APIs using functionality built into ASP.NET Core.

👨‍🏫 About the speaker
Shawn Wildermuth has been tinkering with computers and software since he got a Vic-20 back in the early ‘80s. As a Microsoft MVP since 2003, he’s also involved with Microsoft as an ASP.NET Insider and ClientDev Insider. You may have taken one of his more than twenty courses on Pluralsight. He’s authored eight books and innumerable articles on software development. You can also see him at one of the local and international conferences he’s spoken at including TechEd, Oredev, SDC, NDC, VSLive, DevIntersection, MIX, Devteach, DevConnections and Dev Reach. He is one of the Wilder Minds. You can reach him at his blog at wildermuth.com. He’s also making his first, feature-length, documentary about software developers today called “Hello World: The Film”. You can see more about it at helloworldfilm.com.
- https://twitter.com/shawnwildermuth
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnwildermuth/
- https://youtube.com/c/swildermuth

🍻 The Virtual Bar
Due to the current environmental situation after the online event, we'll be heading off to the "virtual bar". Feel free to come along, and have a chat, this will be a different Zoom meeting to the main event and the link will be given out on the night to stop "zoombombing".

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Privacy & Contact Tracing Apps | COVID-19 (coronavirus)

Contact Tracing Apps are seen as part of the UK's route out of lockdown. Our panel will explore the pros and cons of these apps.

About this Event

Contract tracing, along with Contact Tracing Apps have been identified as a key component of the potential route out of the current UK lockdown.

Whilst the government has moved forward developing its own NHS App, some parties have advocated for a more decentralised solution upon which third parties could build applications (such as the system being developed jointly by Apple and Google, or the European open-source DP3T project).

Our online panel will explore the pros and cons of the current solutions being mooted, consider the privacy concerns relating to such applications, and what the implications could be for society in both the short and medium term. There will be the opportunity for questions from the audience too.

Chair: Louise Glover - School of Law, University of Sheffield

Our panellists include:

Dr Heather Anson - Anson Evaluate & DigitalLawUK
Dr Greig Paul - Research Engineer, University of Strathclyde
Dr Orla Lynskey - Associate Professor of Law, LSE Law
Dr Mark Potkewitz - Legal Innovation Centre, Ulster University
Dr Chris Culnane, Independent Security and Privacy Consultant, Visiting Lecturer University of Surrey

https://bit.ly/s1-c19-1

https://bit.ly/s1-c19-1

Tue 2nd Jun 2020 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Tue 2nd Jun 2020 8:00pm (Europe/London)

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