Tech Events by Dot Net North

with Simon Painter (Speaker, Dot Net North)

Dot Net North's August meetup takes on a common misconception: that machine learning has to be done in Python. Simon Painter walks through solving Kaggle's classic Titanic survival challenge end-to-end using Visual Studio, C# and ML.NET — showing that you can produce high-quality ML results without leaving the .NET stack. A practical, code-along evening for .NET developers curious about applied machine learning, held at the Department Bonded Warehouse in Castlefield.

Dot Net North's July meetup tackles a question every engineering team is now living with: what happens to the pull request when AI enters the development process. In a talk titled 'AI Is Here: PRs Are Dead, Long Live PRs', the group explores how AI-assisted coding and review are reshaping the humble PR — where human judgement still matters, what to automate, and how team workflows adapt. Free to attend with catering provided, at Betfred's Manchester office. A solid evening for .NET and general software engineers, tech leads and anyone thinking about AI in the delivery pipeline.

Dot Net North hosts Martin Thwaites, Developer Advocate at Honeycomb, for a deep dive on OpenTelemetry Weaver. Martin brings 20+ years of .NET experience and specialises in observability at scale. The session covers treating telemetry as a proper engineering artifact — semantic convention registries, type-safe code generation, CI policy checks, and Live Check verification against running applications. Sponsored by Microsoft, JetBrains and Uno Platform. Free, with refreshments.

Dot Net North's monthly meetup tackles the intersection of open source and AI — when should developers rely on libraries versus generating code with AI, and what this means for OSS maintainers. Speaker: Lotte Pitcher, Head of Developer Relations at Umbraco and 3x Microsoft MVP. 61 RSVPs. Catering by Morson Edge.