Name: From Copilot to the Garden of Eden, with Adam Cogan
Start: 2026-10-14T17:30:00+10:30
End: 2026-10-14T19:30:00+10:30
Location: JS1 - 13, Jeffrey Smart Building, 217/243 Hindley St, Adelaide SA 5000

Move beyond the underwhelming 2023 "Copilot hype" to the 2026 tools that actually deliver value for developers. Adam Cogan cuts through the noise, exploring how AI is fundamentally reshaping the enterprise stack, from Copilot and Cowork to agentic workflows and CLI-based coding.

Agents such as OpenClaw, and Hermes are changing the way developers automate their day-to-day work.

Learn how roles are shifting, which AI assistants are winning, and what an AI-integrated "Garden of Eden" looks like. Leave with a practical roadmap to build, analyze, and automate with confidence.

**Post-Meetup drinks**
Join us at the West Oak Hotel afterwards to keep the conversations flowing.

**Agenda**
5:30pm - Arrival, Networking, and Food
5:55pm - Introductions + News
6:00pm - Event
7:30pm - Post-event catch up at West Oak Hotel (across the road)

**Car Parking**
The easiest car parking is only a 2 minute walk to the venue - [Wilson City West Car Park](https://www.wilsonparking.com.au/parking-locations/south-australia/adelaide-cbd/city-west-car-park). All evening is $8 drive-up after 4pm. There are normally plenty of spaces available.

*Note: Seats strictly limited for this in-person only event.*

Mark Foreman

Ryan Rowston

John Merchant

Prateek Arora

Simon Cook

Adelaide .NET User Group

.NET Foundation

Encode Talent

OReilly

Taptu

Technology

Cloud Computing

Mobile Development

Open Source

.NET

Software Development

JavaScript

Web Development

ASP.NET

Microsoft Azure

XAML

Typescript

Computer Programming

Web Technology

Adam Cogan is the Chief Architect at SSW, a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner specializing in custom enterprise .NET and Azure solutions mostly using Angular and React.
Adam Cogan blogs at [adamcogan.com](https://adamcogan.com/) and interviews for [tv.ssw.com](https://tv.ssw.com/) frequently. He is the Chief Architect at SSW, a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner specializing in custom enterprise .NET and Azure solutions mostly using Angular and React. His solutions also involve Office365, SharePoint, Dynamics 365, and Power BI.

**Clients** \- At SSW\, Adam has been developing custom solutions for businesses across a range of industries such as Government\, engineering\, banking\, insurance\, and manufacturing since 1990 for clients such as Microsoft\, CBA\, and Aurecon\.

**Scrum** \- Adam is a Certified Scrum Trainer with scrum\.org\, trains developers in Australia\, the US\, UK and Europe\, and contributes to scrum\.org thinking\. He consults with development teams on improving their scrum process through mentoring and being an SSW Solution Architect and Scrum Master\. He has written many rules around Scrum best practices\.

**China** \- Adam has also run multiple consulting firms in China for the last 12 years\. Adam has seen the whole Chinese software ecosystem develop and understand the differences that the Chinese market requires in order to be successful\. Adam helps western companies modernize their software\, so they are not only servicing the USA and European markets\, but also grabbing a slice of the Chinese market of 1\.4 billion consumers\.

**Speaking** \- In addition to being a Microsoft MVP in Azure DevOps\, Adam is one of only 3 Microsoft Regional Directors in Australia\. In this role\, he regularly presents in conferences such as TechEd $USA\, Australia\, New Zealand\, Europe and Malaysia$\. A couple of times a year\, he visits Microsoft headquarters in Seattle to learn the latest on Microsoft strategic directions and to undertake training in development technologies\. His favourite Microsoft teams that he loves to work with are Nat Friedman’s GitHub and Azure DevOps team\, James Phillips’ Power BI team\, and Jeff Teper’s SharePoint team\.

**Software Architecture** \- Adam enjoys working with teams\, improving their usage of Scrum and DevOps\, reviewing the architecture of large \.NET and Azure projects\, while also taking an active interest in the overall User Experience $UX$\. He is also the founder and a mentor of SSW’s FireBootCamp\, an intensive 9\-week \.NET training course where developers are retrained learning developer and architecture best practices\.

Adam Cogan