Name: DDD by Night November - Hybrid event
Start: 2025-11-12T18:00:00+11:00
End: 2025-11-12T21:00:00+11:00
Location: Stile

It's DDD but \***lightning**\*.

The evening will be a hybrid event hosted by the DDD Melbourne crew and consist of short & sharp presentations of fifteen minutes in length on a dev related subject.

We have a max capacity of 60 people at Stile, please free up RSVP slots on the event if you can no longer make it!

**ONLINE ATTENDANCE**
You can join us online, we'll aim to get the call started somewhere around 6pm before we have our introductions and first speaker.

[https://meet.google.com/ugc-bywz-tuy](https://meet.google.com/ugc-bywz-tuy "https://meet.google.com/ugc-bywz-tuy")

You can ask questions of our speakers via Slido. We'll try to ask your questions as they come through on Slido, but we may not get to all of them.

**MASTER OF CEREMONIES/HOST**
We'll have two MCs:
\- Bron Thulke of [YouLi](https://go.youli.io/), Microsoft MVP and President of DDD Melbourne!
\- Akanksha Malik of [Paths Uncovered](https://www.pathsuncovered.com/)

**TALKS**
**When Time Series Meet Transformers: The Next Frontier in Business Forecasting**
Aiden Heke

Explore the surprising potential of LLMs for multivariate time series forecasting and why businesses are starting to care. We'll unpack what makes this frontier exciting (and a little weird), how these models “think” about time and patterns, and where the hype meets real-world possibility.

**EDAs, Where did it all go wrong?**
Gaurav Thadani

This is my tribute to Ian Cooper who has some outstanding and eye opening talks. \`Where did all go wrong\` series. He has this on TDD and Microservices.
Here I am talking about the origin of Event Driven Architectures in a nutshell; the benefits it certainly brings, but the challenges/drawbacks and investment it needs. I will introduce you to a pattern of an EDA, which helps reduce any overheads that typically comes about.

**Evolution of AI Agents**
Rakesh Lakshminarayana

This talk explores the journey from early language models to today’s intelligent AI agents. We will touch on key techniques like RAG, and tools use that expanded their capabilities. Learn how agents are redefining what is possible with AI and why they matter now more than ever.

**This is what you didn't know about Cancellation Tokens**
Mario López

Cancellation tokens are objects in .NET that help us to stop the processing of long-running tasks. But why would you need to use them if you are not allowing your users to cancel anything?In this talk I will focus on what a Cancellation Token is, why they are useful and why and how you should use them specifically in [ASP.NET](http://asp.net/).

**Ruby Native Extensions in Rust**
Nick Spain

Nick recently re-wrote a Ruby dependency originally built on a native extension written in C, with Rust. This had benefits on execution speeds and maintainability, but came with some gotchas. We'll cover the gotchas, and where this work will go next!

**SCHEDULE**
**5.45pm** Open doors, food served

**6.15pm** Intro and three talks

**7.30pm** Break for networking and drinks

**8.00pm** Two more talks

**8.45pm** Close

**CODE OF CONDUCT**
All DDD events are subject to the DDD Code of Conduct available at https://www.dddmelbourne.com/code-of-conduct/

**VENUE, DRINK AND FOOD SPONSOR**
[Stile: Australia’s #1 science curriculum](https://stileeducation.com/au/)

**FUTURE EVENTS**
Are you interested in speaking at a future DDD by Night? That's awesome, we'd love to have you! We take speakers of all experience levels and offer training too. [Fill out this form](https://forms.office.com/r/12c0CvLwQk) and we'll be in touch.

**FEEDBACK**
Feedback, whether it's good or constructive, helps us grow and improve these events and so we'd love for you to fill out the form here --> https://forms.office.com/r/MB8WGKv9Bi

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