Software Engineering Events in Bristol

For our final meetup of the year we will be doing lightning talks (ideally around 10 minutes)

If you have anything to share drop us a message and we'll add you to the schedule? Ideas for talks include:

- Maybe you have an interesting story about Wednesday?
- An interesting AI product you're using.
- Or anything related to PHP and the wider ecosystem.

They'll be pizzas and post talk drinks too. See you there!

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Lamp Bristol and Temple Studios are kindly helping us host this evening. Thanks to them!
Your first time coming to PHPSW? Welcome!
Here's how the evening tends to run:

• Feel free to turn up from 6:30pm.
• We'll have a selection of food available from about 6:30pm, all free of charge thanks to our sponsors. It's a great chance to speak to people (we're a friendly bunch!) and do a bit of networking. Just speak to an organiser if you'd like an introduction to people, or just dive in and say "hello!".
• At 7pm, we'll do a quick welcome talk and some community announcements
• At ~7:05pm we'll start the talks
• We finish at 8:30. We always stay for a drink afterwards to discuss the talks and anything else that takes your fancy. 🐘

Welcome to the next instalment of the Bristol User Group, with two 45-minute speaker slots talking about everything AI, Dynamics 365 & Power Platform. We will be providing food and refreshments and for those that wish, we will carry on for a social afterwards.

New venue: Changing Social, St Bartholomew's House, Lewins Mead, Bristol BS1 2NH (around the corner from Bristol Beacon and Hippodrome)

Dylan Hayes: From Chatbots to Agents: The Modern Copilot Studio
Copilot Studio has changed significantly over the last few years. What started as a way to build conversational bots has evolved into a broader platform for creating agents that can use enterprise knowledge, structured data, tools, workflows, reusable skills, MCP servers and even computer use.

In this session, we’ll look at what modern Copilot Studio can do, where it fits into the wider Microsoft AI ecosystem, and how to decide which capabilities make sense for a given problem.

We'll have fun practical demonstrations of using knowledge and structured data through different integration points including tools, skills, MCP and computer use.

We'll look at the cost implications of Copilot Studio, and consider how it compares to other AI tools and deterministic methods in terms of cost, capabilities and governance.

David Reid (Hitachi UK) & Sumit Kumar (Accenture):
Building Autonomous AI Agents That Transform Customer Service in D365

SouthWest@d365ppug.com

THIS IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT IN BRISTOL
"A show and tell session about how to use dynamic arrays in the real world. See how Lynne uses dynamic arrays in her day to day modelling and reporting.

Lynne will cover a variety of dynamic array functions such as SEQUENCE, V/HSTACK, BYROW/BYCOL and LET, but will also show how powerful it can be to switch to using an array approach with the most simple of legacy functions. Even the humble '+' becomes supercharged when you break that copy and paste habit!

About the Speaker:
Lynne Titley, Award-winning accountancy & finance process improvement & efficiency specialist | Modern Excel, Power BI, SharePoint & Power Automate solutions"

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynnecartwright/

Machine Learning (ML) conference in Bristol, United Kingdom