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{dev.talk}

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25 Mar 2026, 29 Apr 2026, 20 May 2026, 24 Jun 2026, 22 Jul 2026, 23 Sep 2026, 21 Oct 2026, 25 Nov 2026

location

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

website

devdottalk.uk/

{dev.talk} (pronounced "dev dot talk") is a community-driven monthly meetup bringing together software engineers and tech professionals in the Bournemouth and Dorset area.

Free to attend and run by community volunteers, we create an inclusive space where developers of all experience levels can learn, share knowledge, and connect.

Each meetup features sessions from community members (mostly of a technical nature), with time for networking and discussions between talks. Whether you're a seasoned developer or just starting out, you'll find a welcoming environment to explore new ideas and "geek out" with fellow tech enthusiasts.

To extend our reach beyond the in-person events, all sessions (with speaker permission) are recorded and shared on our YouTube Channel, creating an accessible resource for the wider developer community.

Our mission is simple: build a thriving, supportive tech community in Dorset where everyone can grow professionally while making meaningful connections.

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Call for Speakers
Call opens at 12:00 AM

25 Nov 2025

Call closes at 11:59 PM

24 Nov 2026

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This is an in-person event in Bournemouth, Dorset, UK - NO expenses are covered.

The only requirement is that the session is software engineering related or adjacent.

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74 submissions
Submitted sessions
Ankur Kalohia
  • Transitional-State Architectures for Hybrid Mainframe-Cloud Modernization with AI-Derived Code Intel
  • Leveraging Generative AI for Extracting Business Requirements from Legacy COBOL and PL/I Code
Tobi Ogunmoyero
  • Stop Zombie Projects: a simple stop rule that saves engineering time
Dan Patrascu-Baba
  • Architecting a Startup from Day One: Technical Decisions That Compound
  • Designing Architectures That AI Can Work With
  • Making AI-Assisted Engineering Work in Practice
José Enrique Calderón Sanz
  • Evolutionary Architecture: the art of making decisions
Matheus Guimaraes
  • When Should You Use an Agent? Architectural Trade-offs in Agentic Systems
  • AI-Assisted Development Without Losing Control
  • Microservices Common Failure Modes (And How Teams Actually Hit Them)
Liam Westley
  • Anatomy of an Incident (featuring CrowdStrike)
Ali Alp
  • How TLS Can Get You Hacked — When Encryption Becomes Trust
Shantanu Gupta
  • Everyday Security Mistakes in Real Software Applications
Nanda Nainadurai
  • AI Learns to Race: A Hands-On Intro to Deep Reinforcement Learning
Paul Ardeleanu
  • Your Next Developer Might Be a Robot: DevRel in the AI Era
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Michael Kreimer
  • Building AI-Ready Teams: Strategies for Engineering Leadership
Matteo Antony Mistretta
  • Designing the Game: Why the Future of Web Architecture is an Act of Invention
  • The "No-Magic" Framework: Building UIs with Zero Signals and Pure JS
  • Reinventing Redux from scratch
Mateusz Konicki
  • Cybersecurity assesment as a part of CI/CD
Neha Kalbande
  • Agent Architectures 101: From Theory to AI Copilots in Healthcare
Masoud Bahrami
  • The Hidden Language of Software
  • Language-Driven Design
  • Exploratory Domain Discovery
Darlington Chigozie Okeke
  • Engineering Behavioural Detection Systems: How Software Detects Malicious Code at Runtime
Jake Page
  • Honey, the Audience Broke My App: Reproduce & Fix Live in Kubernetes with mirrord
  • Bottlenecks All the Way Down: AI Solved Code Gen, Testing Is The Next Step for Kubernetes Developers
  • Optimized to Fail: Weird Flexes Holding Developers Back in Cloud Environments
Sergio Sisternes
  • GitHub Copilot Agents: From Zero to Hero
Ariella Mendel
  • Coroutines vs. Threads: The True Cost of a Context Switch
Ron Klein
  • The Best API Call Is No Call at All: Supercharging Performance with Materialization
Vinay Gurram
  • Building Scalable Omni-Channel Order Systems for Modern U.S. Retail
  • Modernizing Architectures: From Monoliths to Event-Driven Microservices
Shubhangi Goyal
  • Data Modelling for AI-Driven BI
  • Applications with Azure AI Foundry
Chinedu Otutu
  • The Developer’s Guide to Saying No
  • The Human Pull Request: Merging Empathy into Code Reviews
Kingsley Udoma
  • DevOps Demystified,From Code to Cloud.
PJ Hagerty
  • Why Git Still Matters
Moses Odutusin
  • Anatomy of a Request: Beyond Backend Processing
Anil Kumar
  • Architecting Cross-Platform Android Apps in Low-Code: Design, Validation, and Refactoring at Scale
Babatunde Esanju
  • Crafting Developer Tools that Last: Lessons from PayBridge, CronCraft, and TableauSDK
Devora Roth Goldshmidt
  • Micro Service - Mega Cost: Architectural Styles and Their Hidden Price Tags
Fauzi Sholichin
  • Challenge of Building Multimodal LLM Apps with Kotlin Multiplatform
Florian Mair
  • Serverless: The past, present and future
Dustin Thostenson
  • Techniques to Tackle Tech-debt Today
Abid Jamil
  • Your App, Your Way: Personalization with Firebase
Lorenzo Satta Chiris
  • AI Agents: Hype or Revolution?
Karthik Nallani Chakravartula
  • GitHub Copilot & Development Excellence: Accelerating Delivery While Elevating Code Standards
  • Beyond Plugins: Exploring Service Endpoints, Webhooks, and Data Providers in Dynamics 365
Zeev Wexler
  • Key AI Trends Shaping Business Innovation: Unlocking the Next Wave of Competitive Advantage
Swetha Garaga
  • Automation with Empathy: Designing Secure, Human-Centric Warehouse Systems
Andrew Poole
  • Level Up Your DevEx: Unit Test Complex E2E Flows + Integration Testing with Aspire & OTEL
Srushti Raybhoge
  • Build smart with Firebase and Gemini
Guillaume Faas
  • Throw exceptions... out of your codebase
Chinaza Chukwunweike
  • Breaking Up the Frontend Monolith: A Practical Guide to Micro-Frontends
Marcus Finley
  • Beyond Chatbots: Unlocking the Future of AI & Business with Personalized, Autonomous Agents
Idris Aweda Zubair
  • Event-Driven Architectures for the Everyday Developer
  • Postmark, Render, and Netlify: The Underrated Stack for Indie Projects
  • PostgreSQL for Web Developers: Beyond CRUD
David Alecrim
  • Vibe Coding: Fad or Future
Alex Oliveira
  • Unit Test Calisthenics
Florian Lenz
  • Unleash .NET Aspire: Build Cloud‑Native .NET Apps Without Infrastructure Overhead
Cosmin Marian Paduraru
  • TEA 🍵 Tips, Errors and Attitudes
  • From Collecting Bottle Caps 🥤to Building Vision 👀
Ritesh Modi
  • Hallucination by Design: How Embedding Models Misunderstand Language
Stuart Caborn
  • The Hidden Evolution of Services
Fawaz Ghali
  • Turning Hidden Information into Actionable Insights
  • Integrating Serverless LLMs with Data Platforms for Natural Language Analytics
  • From Code to Creativity: Turning Data Into Interactive Stories
  • Automating Batch and Streaming Data Ingestion with Snowpipe
Richard Brough
  • The Current Landscape of Open Source AI
  • Aligning DeepSeek R1
Abhilekh Verma
  • Harnessing Microsoft Copilot: Revolutionizing Workflows with Generative AI