Special Event with Richard Campbell: .NET's History + also AI Perils and Promise

We are excited to have Richard Campbell: International Speaker, Advisor, Creator, Storyteller and host of .NET Rocks and RunsAs Radio, with us on the 31st of May at CPTMSDUG for a very special in-person only event! Come meet Richard in-person!

Richard, fresh from flying into South Africa from Canada, keynoting DevConf Johannesburg and DevConf Cape Town. He will be spending the day talking about both the History of .NET and also a very hot topic at the moment, The Perils and Promise of AI in a double header day of amazing content from an incredible speaker!

Thank you to the event sponsor and partner BBD for the venue and snacks! The event will be taking place at the BBD Cape Town Offices.

Agenda

9:00 - 9:30 Registration

9:30 - 11:30 History of .NET

NET continues to evolve - but how did it get here? Join Richard Campbell on a tour of the history of .NET, Visual Studio and the related tools that have been helping developers produce millions of applications. So many forces shape how development tools are created, and Richard ties together the story of the hardware, software, market and political forces that have brought .NET to be an open-source, cross-platform development platform.

The winding path of .NET has been influenced by many things along the way, and the future looks bright!

11:30 - 12:30 Light Lunch / Networking Break

12:30 - 13:30 The Perils and Promise of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence has been looming on the digital horizon for years, but recent rapid advancements have put AI in the world spotlight. What happens next?

Richard Campbell discusses the history of AI and how it has evolved, as well as the opportunities and concerns that everyone should have as this technology enters our lives. The promise of artificial intelligence is a world that allows humankind to further tap their own potential with lives of greater convenience, safety and opportunity. But that same technology can be used to limit, obfuscate and control. How do we as a society manage this rapidly evolving power to make a better world?

About Richard

Richard Campbell wrote his first line of code in 1977. His career has spanned the computing industry both on the hardware and software sides, development, and operations. He was a co-founder of Strangeloop Networks, acquired by Radware in 2013, and was on the board of directors of Telerik, which was acquired by Progress Software in 2014. Today, he is a consultant and advisor to a number of successful technology firms and is the founder and chairman of Humanitarian Toolbox (www.htbox.org), a public charity that builds open-source software for disaster relief. Richard also hosts three podcasts: .NET Rocks! (www.dotnetrocks.com) for .NET developers, RunAs Radio (www.runasradio.com) for IT Professionals, and Windows Weekly (https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly).

A Huge Thank You to BBD for partnering with us on this event and also DevConf for making this possible!