Name: NDC Manchester 2021
Start: 2021-03-23
End: 2021-03-25
Location: NDC Manchester

NDC Manchester 2021

Online Workshop (Webex)

Inspiring Software Developers since 2008

Microsoft

Duende Software

Co-op Digital

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25 March - 09:00-18:15 UTC

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Mark Rendle

Modern distributed systems with gRPC in ASP.NET Core 5

Ian Cooper

Practical Messaging

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Dominick Baier

Identity & Access Control

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Dylan Beattie is an independent consultant who has been building data-driven web applications since the 1990s. He’s managed teams, taught workshops, and worked on everything from tiny standalone websites to complex distributed systems. He’s a Microsoft MVP, and he regularly speaks at conferences and user groups all over the world.

Dylan is the creator of the Rockstar programming language, and the founder, vocalist and lead guitarist with The Linebreakers, the world's greatest nerd comedy classic rock disco alt punk covers band.

Polyglot Coding Architect in London, founder of #ldnug, speaker, tabletop gamer, geek. Tattooed, pierced, and bearded. The 'guv' on @BrighterCommand

Steve Sanderson works on the ASP.NET team at Microsoft, making the platform better for client-side application developers.

Speaker, author, and software developer. Stacy has been developing solutions since the mid-1990s in various companies and industries ranging from facilitating contract jobbing to allowing consumers to close a mortgage without the help of a financial adviser – with lots in between.

She has a passion for sharing knowledge: using storytelling for sharing her experiences to help teams grow in the ways that they develop software and work together and performing live coding demonstrations to inspire others to try new technologies.

Stacy has just published her first book, aimed at helping developers get started building dynamic applications using C#, Azure Functions, and Azure Static Web Apps.

For her effort in the community, Stacy has been awarded the Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies since 2020.

Rendle is the founder of RendleLabs, which provides consulting services and workshops to .NET development teams across all industries. Their particular obsessions are API design and development, performance, Observability and code-base modernisation, as well as eliminating unnecessary complexity wherever possible. They also use skills acquired during a few years as a professional stand-up comic to deliver entertaining and informative talks at conferences around the world, and recently learned to play bass so they could join tech parody band The LineBreakers.

Climbing the technology mountain and halfway up the side. Experience in .Net, mobile applications and more recently voice interface development. Dabbles in iOT & AR/VR. Focusing on coding for humans and choosing the right tool for the job.

Heather is a passionate coder and entrepreneur. She has experience working with Fortune 500 companies building enterprise level mobile and .Net applications. She spends her spare time at tech conferences supporting the growth of new developers of all genders, ages and backgrounds. When not coding, Heather spends her time as a competitive equestrian and learning the art of mounted archery.

Dominick spent most of his professional career implementing security systems for his customers and reading protocol specifications. This resulted in a number of popular open-source projects like IdentityServer and IdentityModel. Since 2020 he runs Duende Software Inc together with his longtime friend and colleague Brock Allen. Duende provides a sustainable home for the IdentityServer project and is the one-stop-shop for all things OpenID Connect and OAuth for .NET-based companies.

Anders Abel is an senior .NET developer in Stockholm. He has been programming since he was 9 and still thinks it’s tremendously fun. He works with Duende Software on IdentityServer and designing identity and security solutions.

Gemma Cameron is Engineering Practice Lead at 

 where she is building a diverse team of technology specialists helping Co-op build digital products for their businesses in Food, Funeralcare, Legal Services and more. Frequent speaker at tech events on bringing user stories to life, test driven design, behaviour driven development and network automation. Interested in building communities, testing, conversations, users and domain.

Gemma’s strengths outside of her day to day job as a programmer are around community building. She has organised many tech events over the years. Founding Manchester Girl Geek Dinners, Barcamp Blackpool and HackManchester. Running barcamps and girl geek events in Nottingham, coding dojo’s in Manchester and Preston. In 2015 Gemma became the Queen Bee of the Manchester Tech scene by organising tech events north west; a community of tech event organisers in the North West. Director of 

, running coding competitions for youths and adults. Director of 

Martin is a Developer Advocate at Honeycomb, o11y enthusiast, and a delivery-focused Developer from the UK. With over 20 years experience in development in the .NET ecosystem, he’s worked with many companies on scaling up engineering teams and products. The past few years have been spent working on solving complex problems with some of the UK’s big names, including e-commerce retailers and credit lenders.

Janani Subbiah is a product architect at Detroit Labs with experience building backend services and Android apps. What started out as long hours of playing Dangerous Dave on the computer paved the way for her software engineering career. While not at work or hacking on the next thing on her ever-growing list of things to learn, she can be found reading (its mostly one of the Harry Potter books for the nth time), planning her next vacation or trying her hand at gardening.

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