Throughout my professional career as a computer programmer, I have often presented demos, findings and data analytics to a variety of audiences. Both internally to other staff, and to customers in meetings and special events.

Recently, I have begun public speaking, delivering technical talks and insights to interested parties.

I am co-organiser of both Dot Net North in Manchester and Macc Tech in Macclesfield.

I have personally spoken at both of these meetups / user groups, and at other events too, such as Xamarin Dev Days.

Please get in touch if you are interested in learning more, have an interest in one of my past talks, or would like to ask me to speak at your event.

If you prefer, please engage with me on LinkedIn or Twitter.

My experience is vast, covering C#, web development, mobile apps, and cloud.

I also attend a lot of events.. find out where below.

Forthcoming talks / demos / presentations:

- no talks currently scheduled -

Past events I have personally presented talks and demos, or appeared at:

12th November 2024, Eagle Labs, Liverpool
Dot NET Liverpool: Xamarin - Moving On - further information

11th September 2024, BJSS, Birmingham
Birmingham .Net & MAUI User Group: Xamarin - Moving On - further information

29th August 2024, Online
.NET South West: Xamarin - Moving On - further information

5th August 2024, JLR, Manchester
NSManchester: Xamarin - Moving On - further information

16th July 2024, BrightHR, Manchester
Microsoft Season of AI: AI with .NET, OpenAI, Semantic Kernel - further information

3rd July 2024, Nexer Digital, Macclesfield
Macc Tech: Talking Pride with AI - further information

23rd January 2024, Auto Trader, Manchester
.NET Conf Local: Uno Platform 5.0 - further information

31st October 2023, The People's History Museum, Manchester
Manchester Tech Festival: .NET, IoT and Hedgehogs! - further information

15th August 2023, St. Bartholomews House, Bristol
.NET South West: .NET, IoT and Hedgehogs! - further information

1st August 2023, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield
dotnetsheff: .NET, IoT and Hedgehogs! - further information

11th July 2023, Manchester Technology Centre, Manchester
MS Build After Party: Windows Dev Home + Subsystem for Android - further information

29th June 2023, Platform, Leeds
Leeds Sharp: .NET, IoT and Hedgehogs! - further information

28th February 2023, Eagle Labs, Liverpool
Dot NET Liverpool: .NET, IoT and Hedgehogs! - further information

2nd February 2023, Nexer Digital, Macclesfield
Macc Tech: .NET, IoT and Hedgehogs! - further information

31st January 2023, Auto Trader, Manchester
Dot Net North: .NET, IoT and Hedgehogs! - further information

22nd November 2022, On The Beach, Manchester
Dot Net Conf Recap: Windows + Cross Platform Apps - further information

8th November 2022, Online
MiniHack 23: Guest Judge - further information

1st December 2020, Online
.Net Conf local event: .Net 5 Open API + Swagger - further information

10th March 2020, Auto Trader, Manchester
Dot Net North: An Introduction to Uno Platform - further information

16th January 2020, ExCeL, London
Microsoft Ignite The Tour: .Net Community Park Bench Session - further information

22nd October 2019 - Auto Trader, Manchester
.Net Conf local event: C# 8: Nullable Reference Types - further information

3rd July 2018 - Auto Trader, Manchester
Dot Net North: Free SSL with Let's Encrypt - further information

20th October 2017 - UKFast Campus, Manchester
Xamarin Developer Day: Xamarin and Azure Mobile Apps - further information

22nd May 2017 - The Park Tavern, Macclesfield
Macc Tech: Free SSL with Let's Encrypt - further information

6th February 2017 - MadLab, Manchester
NSManchester: The Windows Bridge for iOS - further information

24th January 2017 - Rise, Manchester
Dot Net North: The Windows Bridge for iOS - further information

4th November 2016 - Rise, Manchester
Xamarin Developer Day: Xamarin and Azure Mobile Apps - further information

24th October 2016 - The Park Tavern, Macclesfield
Macc Tech: Mobile Apps - Strategy and Monetization - further information

25th November 2014 - Spaceport X, Manchester
WPUG NW: Future Decoded, VSConnect, Tech Rewards - further information

Events I am attending: (as organiser / attendee)

14th January 2025, Manchester Technology Centre, Manchester
Dot Net North: .NET Conf Local - further information

Past events I have been co-organiser / co-host of:

19th November 2024, BrightHR, Manchester
Dot Net North: Season of AI - Copilots

15th October 2024, Betfred, Manchester
Dot Net North: MongoDB using EF and .NET

2nd October 2024, Blue Beck, Macclesfield
Macc Tech: AI, Open Source and Excel

17th September 2024, Bonded Warehouse, Manchester
Dot Net North: Avalonia UI

20th August 2024, Northcoders, Manchester
Dot Net North: Lightning Talks

16th July 2024, BrightHR, Manchester
Microsoft Build After Party: Season of AI

3rd July 2024, Nexer Digital, Macclesfield
Macc Tech: Pride, Inclusion and Tech

11th June 2024, DiSH, Manchester
Dot Net North: Hacking C#

21st May 2024, Manchester Technology Centre, Manchester
Dot Net North: REST, gRPC, GraphQL or Asynchronous Messaging

17th April 2024, Blue Beck, Macclesfield
Macc Tech: Developers and Testers, and Games to Apps

9th April 2024, DiSH, Manchester
Dot Net North: Build Production Ready Serverless Systems with .NET

19th March 2024, BrightHR, Manchester
Dot Net North: Introduction to StereoKit + CodeQL Quick Tour

28th February 2024, Nexer Digital, Macclesfield
Macc Tech: Horizon, Sustainability, and Bins!

20th February 2024, Bonded Warehouse, Manchester
Dot Net North: Azure App Insights

23rd January 2024, Auto Trader, Manchester
.NET Conf Local

21st November 2023, DiSH, Manchester
Dot Net North: Lightning Talks

10th October 2023, Bonded Warehouse, Manchester
Dot Net North: Getting started with C# and IoT on Raspberry Pi

4th October 2023, Nexer Digital, Macclesfield
Macc Tech: Tree of Light + Fix The Six!

12th September 2023, Auto Trader, Manchester
Dot Net North: Escaping the developer rut

22nd August 2023, Bonded Warehouse, Manchester
Dot Net North: Open Source + GitHub Actions

3rd August 2023, Nexer Digital, Macclesfield
Still Proud: A celebration of LGBTQ+ community & creativity in Macclesfield
(representing Macc Tech)

11th July 2023, Manchester Technology Centre, Manchester
Microsoft Build After Party

23rd May 2023, Bonded Warehouse, Manchester
Dot Net North: MongoDB and .NET

18th April 2023, Manchester Technology Centre, Manchester
Dot Net North: .NET Minimal APIs

13th April 2023, Nexer Digital, Macclesfield
Macc Tech: Automation, Charts, Arts!

2nd February 2023, Nexer Digital, Macclesfield
Macc Tech: The Return of Macc Tech!

31st January 2023, Auto Trader, Manchester
Dot Net North: .NET, IoT and Hedgehogs! + Visual Studio Extensions

22nd November 2022, On The Beach, Manchester
Microsoft Ignite After Party / Dot Net Conf Recap

4th October 2022, Online, via Twitch
Dot Net North: Deploying Cloud infrastructure

20th September 2022, Auto Trader, Manchester
Dot Net North: Musical instruments with Python and Pure Data

7th June 2022, Online, via Twitch
Dot Net North: Uno Platform 4.0

12th April 2022, Online, via Twitch
Dot Net North: AI in a 2D Self Learning / Driving Car Simulation

1st March 2022, Online, via Twitch
Dot Net North: .NET MAUI

7th December 2021, Online, via Twitch
Dot Net North: Null & Void - Everything about Nothing in .NET

21st September 2021, Online, via Twitch
Dot Net North: A sneaky peek at C# 10

29th June 2021, Online, via Twitch
Dot Net North: Azure Service Bus

18th May 2021, Online, via Twitch
Dot Net North: Using Channels in C# to Enhance Concurrent Code

27th April 2021, Online, via Twitch
Dot Net North: GraphQL in .NET Core

13th April 2021, Online, via Twitch
Dot Net North: ASP.NET on Docker - An Introduction

30th March 2021, Online, via Twitch
Dot Net North: .NET Porting Assistant and App2Container

16th February 2021, Online, via Twitch
Dot Net North: Introduction to Open Source Uno Platform

26th January 2021, Online, via Twitch
Dot Net North: Get Git in One Hour

1st December 2020, Online, via Twitch
Dot Net North: DotNetNorth does .Net Conf

24th November 2020, Online, via Twitch
Dot Net North: A look at FAST - A new adaptive interface system

20th October 2020, Online, via Twitch
Dot Net North: What’s new & next for Xamarin developers

22nd September 2020, Online, via Twitch
Dot Net North: Accessibility – A .NET developer's perspective

8th September 2020, Online, via Twitch
Dot Net North: DevSecOps for .Net and Azure

11th August 2020, Online, via Twitch
Dot Net North: Come meet the new .NET Standard MVVM

4th August 2020, Online, via Twitch
Dot Net North: Future of Windows Desktop Dev with WinUI 3

21st July 2020, Online, via Twitch
Dot Net North: Exploring the Microsoft Graph Toolkit

14th July 2020, Online, via Twitch
Dot Net North: Building for Windows on Arm devices

16th June 2020, Online, via Twitch
Dot Net North: .NET dev for Windows AND Linux using WSL2

2nd June 2020, Online, via Twitch
Dot Net North: .NET Debug Solutions - Dev to Production - Ozcode

28th April 2020, Online, via Twitch
Dot Net North: Real-time serverless apps in Blazor using AWS

10th March 2020, Auto Trader, Manchester
Dot Net North: Lightning Talks

18th February 2020, Code Nation, Manchester
Dot Net North: An introduction to App Center

16th January 2020, ExCeL, London
Microsoft Ignite The Tour: UK .Net Community Popup

14th January 2020, Eagle Labs, Manchester
Dot Net North: Docker in the Desert: A Testing Mirage

19th November 2019 - Code Nation, Manchester
Dot Net North: WPF and Windows Forms on .Net Core 3

22nd October 2019 - Auto Trader, Manchester
.Net Conf local event

24th September 2019 - On The Beach, Manchester
Dot Net North: 19 Things you might not know about Visual Studio 2019

27th August 2019 - Dept Agency, Manchester
Dot Net North: Air Quality, Azure Functions and Spider Eggs

23rd July 2019 - Barclays Eagle Labs, Manchester
Dot Net North: The beauty in building .NET libraries

20th June 2019 - King's House Conference Centre, Manchester
Microsoft Insider Dev Tour

18th June 2019 - On The Beach, Manchester
Dot Net North: Messaging - RabbitMQ, Azure (Service Bus), Docker and Azure Functions

21st May 2019 - Auto Trader, Manchester
Dot Net North: Microsoft Build 2019 Recap

16th April 2019 - Barclays Eagle Labs, Manchester
Dot Net North: Visual Studio 2019 Launch Evening

5th March 2019 - Dept Agency, Manchester
Dot Net North: Lightning Talks

13th February 2019 - Sigma, Macclesfield
Macc Tech: Inclusive design for accessible products and services

12th February 2019 - Auto Trader, Manchester
Dot Net North: Serverless .Net Core Apps on AWS

15th January 2019 - Dept Agency, Manchester
Dot Net North: App Internationalisation, and PWA

13th November 2018 - Auto Trader, Manchester
Dot Net North: PostSharp

16th October 2018 - Barclays Eagle Labs, Manchester
Dot Net North: .NET and Kubernetes

9th October 2018 - Auto Trader, Manchester
.Net Conference Local Event

11th September 2018 - Auto Trader, Manchester
Dot Net North: DDD

14th August 2018 - Auto Trader, Manchester
Dot Net North: Intro to Xamarin, and Intro to Orleans

3rd July 2018 - Auto Trader, Manchester
Dot Net North: Free SSL, and Logging in .NET Core

20th June 2018 - etc.venues, Manchester
Microsoft Insider Dev Tour

12th June 2018 - Auto Trader, Manchester
Dot Net North: First Look At Blazor

8th May 2018 - Auto Trader, Manchester
Dot Net North: The Robots Are Coming

10th April 2018 - Auto Trader, Manchester
Dot Net North: Xamarin, IoT and Machine Learning

13th March 2018 - Auto Trader, Manchester
Dot Net North: Metaprogramming in C#

26th February 2018 - The Park Tavern, Macclesfield
Macc Tech: The Value Of Side Projects

13th February 2018 - Auto Trader, Manchester
Dot Net North: App Methodologies

16th January 2018 - Microsoft, NEO, Manchester
Dot Net North: Windows Mixed Reality Platform

15th January 2018 - The Park Tavern, Macclesfield
Macc Tech: Introduction to eSports, SHIFT Programme

20th November 2017 - The Park Tavern, Macclesfield
Macc Tech: New Top Level Domains Revisited

14th November 2017 - Auto Trader, Manchester
Dot Net North: Entity Framework Core 2.0

20th October 2017 - UKFast Campus, Manchester
Xamarin Developer Day

10th October 2017 - Auto Trader, Manchester
Dot Net North: APIs and Happy Code

10th October 2017 - Auto Trader, Manchester
Windows Developer Day

18th September 2017 - The Park Tavern, Macclesfield
Macc Tech: Blockchain, and Blocked

12th September 2017 - Auto Trader, Manchester
Dot Net North: ASP.Net Core 2

8th August 2017 - Spaceport X, Manchester
Dot Net North: Rider IDE

25th July 2017 - Rise, Manchester
Dot Net North: Real World .NET Core

24th July 2017 - The Park Tavern, Macclesfield
Macc Tech: The Lean Startup Explained

19th June 2017 - The Park Tavern, Macclesfield
Macc Tech: Our Future and Robotics, Macc Digital Scene

13th June 2017 - Auto Trader, Manchester
Dot Net North: UWP Apps for Xbox One

22nd May 2017 - The Park Tavern, Macclesfield
Macc Tech: Tech Tendering, Free SSL with Let's Encrypt

11th May 2017 - MadLab, Manchester
Dot Net North: \\build\2017 Launch Event and Keynote Streaming

9th May 2017 - Rise, Manchester
Dot Net North: Windows Desktop Bridge

24th April 2017 - The Park Tavern, Macclesfield
Macc Tech: What's Macc Missing, Hacking the IoT

11th April 2017 - Rise, Manchester
Dot Net North: Thinking Functionally with .NET

27th March 2017 - The Park Tavern, Macclesfield
Macc Tech: Yammer, Do Testers Think Differently?

7th March 2017 - Rise, Manchester
Dot Net North: Azure Functions and DocumentDB

7th March 2017 - Rise, Manchester
Visual Studio 2017 Launch Event and Keynote Streaming

27th February 2017 - The Park Tavern, Macclesfield
Macc Tech: Stress Awareness, ZFS

30th January 2017 - The Park Tavern, Macclesfield
Macc Tech: Dream Jobs, All About Hackathons

24th January 2017 - Rise, Manchester
Dot Net North: Windows Bridge for iOS

13th December 2016 - Rise, Manchester
Dot Net North: HoloLens and Mixed Reality

21st November 2016 - The Park Tavern, Macclesfield
Macc Tech: Tech Sales, Learning with Raspberry Pi

8th November 2016 - Rise, Manchester
Dot Net North: Microsoft Bot Framework

4th November 2016 - Rise, Manchester
Xamarin Developer Day

11th October 2016 - Spaceport X, Manchester
Dot Net North: Apps in Docker on Windows Server

27th September 2016 - Rise, Manchester
Dot Net North: Domain Driven Design

23rd August 2016 - Spaceport X, Manchester
Dot Net North: Cognitive Services

26th July 2016 - Spaceport X, Manchester
Dot Net North: ReactJS.net

21st June 2016 - Spaceport X, Manchester
Dot Net North: ASP.Net MVC Security

31st May 2016 - Spaceport X, Manchester
Dot Net North: What's New in Xamarin

19th April 2016 - Spaceport X, Manchester
Dot Net North: Secure Development

22nd March 2016 - Spaceport X, Manchester
Dot Net North: .Net Core

23rd February 2016 - Spaceport X, Manchester
Dot Net North: Service Fabric

24th October 2016 - The Park Tavern, Macclesfield
Macc Tech: New Top Level Domains, Mobile App Strategy

8th December 2015 - Spaceport X, Manchester
Dot Net North: NServiceBus

November 17th 2015 - Spaceport X, Manchester
Dot Net North: The New Open-Source Microsoft

October 20th 2015 - Spaceport X, Manchester
Dot Net North: Windows 10 and UWP Apps