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This event will be a two talks, Encryption in a Post Quantum World with Mark Thompson, and .NET + Alpine Ajax with Andrew Gunn

⚠️ This will be an in-person event, the venue is TBA.

Agenda:

• 🍕 Pizza/Drinks (18:15 - 18:30)
• 🗣 Introduction (18:30)
• 👉 Encryption in a Post Quantum World
• 👉 npm uninstall everything: Alpine AJAX and .NET
• 🍻 Social @ Pub (after the talk)

👉 Encryption in a Post Quantum World
Quantum computing is here, it is time to protect our code. Todays standards have served the world for decades. Not any more. It’s time to discuss Post Quantum Encryption and how we as developers can use it, without panic, hype, or heavy maths.

This talk is a friendly, practical introduction to quantum-proof encryption, aimed at C# and .NET developers. We’ll focus on how encryption is used in real applications, not the maths behind it, and everything is explained in terms of practical use.

We’ll start by looking at why encryption needs to evolve, including how Shor’s Algorithm fundamentally breaks widely used asymmetric encryption standards like RSA and ECC, rendering them unsafe in a quantum world. We’ll then revisit symmetric and asymmetric encryption, clarifying what remains safe and what needs to change.

From there, we’ll get hands-on and build simple, real C# examples to encrypt data, sign it, and verify it code you can take away and use straight away.

This is a relaxed, code-first session designed to make modern encryption feel approachable, useful, and achievable. You don’t need to be a mathematician or a Crypto expert. There will be no slides of equations.

👉 npm uninstall everything: Alpine AJAX and .NET
We've spent years building SPAs that serialize data to JSON, ship it to a framework, and reconstruct the same HTML the server could have just sent in the first place. It's time to ask: what if we stopped doing that?

Alpine AJAX lets you make requests from the browser, receive plain HTML from your server, and swap it straight into the page. No virtual DOM. No state management library. No existential crisis in node_modules. It doesn't care what your backend is, it just wants HTML. That makes it a perfect fit for Razor Pages, which already do exactly that, with a few Alpine.js attributes sprinkled on top to handle the interactivity.

I'll walk through how it works, then take a standard Razor Pages app and convert it to use Alpine AJAX, so you can see how little it takes to get that SPA feel without actually building one.

This event will be a special Lightning Talks Night, featuring 5–6 short talks from members of the local developer community sharing tools, ideas, projects, lessons learned, and technologies they’ve been exploring.

⚠️ This will be an in-person event, the venue is TBA.

Agenda:

• 🍕 Pizza/Drinks (18:15 - 18:30)
• 🗣 Introduction (18:30)
• ⚡ Lightning Talk #1
• ⚡ Lightning Talk #2
• ⚡ Lightning Talk #3
• ⚡ Lightning Talk #4
• ⚡ Lightning Talk #5
• 🍻 Social @ Pub (after the talks)

👉 What are Lightning Talks?
Lightning talks are short, fast-paced community talks lasting around 10–15 minutes each. They’re a fantastic way to share knowledge, ideas, experiences, demos, tools, side projects, lessons learned, or even just something interesting you’ve discovered recently.
This evening is all about giving members of the community an opportunity to:

• Share knowledge and help others learn
• Try public speaking in a relaxed and supportive environment
• Show off something cool they’ve been working on
• Spark conversations and ideas with fellow developers
• Get involved in the local tech community

You do not need to be an experienced speaker to take part — some of the best talks come from people simply sharing something practical or interesting they’ve recently worked on.
Possible topics could include:

• A library or framework you’ve been enjoying
• AI tooling or developer productivity tips
• Cloud, architecture, or DevOps ideas
• Lessons learned from a recent project
• Fun side projects
• Quick technical deep dives
• Things that went wrong and what you learned from them

Whether you want to give your first ever talk or share something you’re passionate about, this will be a fun, relaxed, and community-focused evening.
Interested in speaking? Message one of the organisers with your talk idea!

This event will be a single talk on Stuff a developer needs to know about Azure networking with Rik Hepworth
⚠️ This will be an in-person event, the venue is TBA.

Agenda:

• 🍕 Pizza/Drinks (18:15 - 18:30)
• 🗣 Introduction (18:30)
• 👉 Stuff a developer needs to know about Azure networking
• 🍻 Social @ Pub (after the talk)

👉 It's a trap! Stuff a developer needs to know about Azure networking
Cloud was supposed to save us, but those dastardly networks followed us there! So many projects in the cloud now demand that we keep our traffic within the corporate network. But what does that mean for our applications, and how much do we need to understand as developers? Can’t we just leave it to the networking team?

Let’s run through the fundamentals: stuff like DNS and address spaces, that are easy to mess up if you’re not paying attention. Let’s examine what’s meant by ‘hub and spoke’ or ‘split horizon DNS’. This isn’t a session for network professionals who already build and operate corporate systems at scale; this is a session for the developers who need to make sure their applications are going to work, who may not have spent years configuring switches and managing infrastructure, and who just need to know enough to get the job done and avoid the potholes on the journey.