Speaker history

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 Foreman Ryan Rowston David 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 Perf Cryptography 101	James Turner Robert 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 Bow David 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 Graph Building a .NET documentation DevOps pipeline	Ming Man Chan Mattias 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 Hosking Michael	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 Systems Migrating to Git and VSTS	Peter Griffith, David Gardiner
Jan 2018	Azure Functions	Sam Fernando
Dec 2017	.NET on FPGAs Cake Build Automation	Zoltán Lehóczky David 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 Services Lightning Talks	Paul Usher Various
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 + Cloud Parallel Programming Design Patterns and Considerations	Jack Ni George 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 transpiler VS Team Services	Basarat Ali Syed David Gardiner	Marcellina
9-May-2016	Build and release applications using VSTS/TFS 2015 Update 2	Anthony Borton	Marcellina
13-Apr-2016	Building a Robot Army Encryption with .NET and SQL 2016	Dr Tom Tilley Duncan 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 Server Office 365 for User Groups	Chris Clarkson Peter Griffith	IT Innovation Studio, UniSA City West
10th Apr 2012	Pragmatic Software Test Method Scripted is not Scripture	Michael Snook Andrew 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 Harris David 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 Services What’s new in Visual Studio ALM vNext & //Build Conference Recap	Morris Bahrami Anthony Borton	Level 2, Westpac House
14th Sep 2011	Agile testing Googlish Things you should know	Sharon Picken Peter 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-G Nexus eCare – Finding Smarter ways to deliver Care Services	Stephen Jenkins Frank Whittaker	Level 2, Westpac House
9-Mar-2011	An introduction to Visual Studio 2010 F# Dynamic Keyword in C# 4	Steve Hosking Morris 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