.Net Cambridge - May 2023

This will be our second in-person event of the year.

The event will be held at The Bradfield Centre, on Cambridge Science Park (a really great place to meet). There is car parking in the visitor spaces at the centre.
The meeting starts at 6pm and two talks means that we'll have to start the introductions at 6:05pm.
We'll finish up with some pizza and drinks.

We have two speakers lined up, and expect the schedule:
6:05pm-6:10pm Introduction to the user group (John)
6:10pm-6:50pm First talk (David)
6:50pm-6:55pm Quick break
6:55pm-7:40pm Second talk (Oliver)
7:40pm–7:45pm Wrap up
7:45pm Food organized by Gearset (Thanks!)

Speaker: Oliver Gilmour
Oliver is a Freelance Developer who's previously worked at the Welding Institute for five years and Eastpoint Software as a Consultant for five years. He's currently working as CTO for a startup, Foodiano.

Title: Cross-platform client side Object Detection using .NET MAUI
The talk will cover my journey creating client side object detection capabilities using an exported ONNX model from Azure Custom Vision using .NET MAUI.

Speaker: David Rant
David is currently a Software Engineer at Gearset. He's worked in a variety of companies, wearing various hats including software and devops engineering roles, more people-focused roles as a team lead, and has worked in a bunch of different domains including psychometrics, unified communications, autonomous vehicle simulation, semantic web, and now Salesforce. He's particularly interested in distributed systems and cloud native technologies, loves an opportunity to get involved with coaching and mentoring, and is working towards a degree in embedded electronics part-time around work. He lives in Norfolk with his wife Catherine, and energetic spaniel Olive.

Title: Building 12 factor apps in .NET