Tech Events by umBristol

with Saskia Jury (Speaker, ) · Rich McCloskey (Speaker, )

umBristol's monthly evening of talks for people who build and run sites on Umbraco CMS, hosted by agency true at the Generator Building. Saskia Jury talks through a five-year digital transformation that stalled and then recovered: stakeholder turnover, shifting priorities and keeping momentum over years. Rich McCloskey covers how enterprise clients choose Umbraco, using Hunter Douglas as the case study, including Umbraco Cloud and Commerce a year after launch. Doors 18:00, food 18:15, talks from 18:45, wrapping up around 21:00. Free; ignore any Meetup Pro upsell when you register. Why go: a friendly, long-running developer community with real client case studies rather than product pitches. Best for Umbraco developers, digital agency leads and anyone weighing a CMS migration.

with Carl Sargunar (Speaker, umBristol)

Two technical talks for people who build on Umbraco CMS. Carl Sargunar on observability, using telemetry to catch problems before release and to give AI coding agents enough signal to test and diagnose their own work. Busra Sengul compares three approaches to search in Umbraco, putting Examine, Algolia and a custom Azure AI Search integration side by side with live demos. Hosted by the team at Manifesto at Runway East Bristol Bridge on Victoria Street, with Gibe Digital and Rock Solid Knowledge sponsoring. Doors at six, food and drink from 6:15, welcome and news at 6:30, talks from 6:45, finishing at nine. Organised by Nurhak K. and Cat T. Free, and food and drink are provided. Why go: Narrow by design, since this is a CMS-specific room, but the observability talk travels well beyond Umbraco, and it is a reliable way to meet the agencies doing .NET and content platform work in Bristol.

with Carl Sargunar (Speaker, Independent)

Bristol's Umbraco community meet. This month Carl Sargunar brings his 'DDoS My Desk' talk — building a live load-balanced mini-cluster on stage and stress-testing it in real time. Hosted at Gibe Digital in Paintworks, with food and drink. A specific developer niche but a reliable, well-run room with named speakers.