Software Engineering Events in Sheffield

This event will be a single talk on Power up your Entity Framework testing with Testcontainers with Sara Gowen

⚠️ This will be an in-person event, the venue is Sheffield Hallam Uni, Owen Building, Floor 9, Room 942.

• 🗺️ Hallam University Map: https://www.shu.ac.uk/visit-us/how-to-find-us/city-campus-map
• 📌 Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/kMU7RCsj3hdhWzXp9
• 🚗 Parking: The APCOA car park on Eyre Street is a five-minute walk from City Campus. You can park there for just £5. Just scan your blue chip at Owen Building Level 5, Charles Street, or Cantor to claim the discount.

Agenda:

• 🍕 Pizza/Drinks (18:15 - 18:30)
• 🗣 Introduction (18:30)
• 👉 Encryption in a Post Quantum World
• 🍻 Social @ Pub (after the talk)

👉 Power up your Entity Framework testing with Testcontainers
We'll explore how to use xUnit with Testcontainers to make fast "unit-ish" tests to check that the nooks and crannies of your EF model actually hold up against a real database.

Sheffield's quarterly AI meetup is back! Tuesday 14th July, Hideaway, 18:00.

First up: Jeff Watkins, travelling down to talk about how we're building our lives around AI systems and what a healthy human-machine relationship might actually look like. Jeff runs the Compromising Positions podcast and has been thinking about this stuff for longer than most.

Then Tyler Langan (Spotify) will be talking about how Spotify uses AI to detect and prevent fake streams.

Doors open at 18:00, first talk at 18:30. Free to attend, just grab a ticket so we know how many to sort.

Sheffield AI is a quarterly community meetup for people building with, thinking about, or just curious about AI. All welcome. Recorded and posted to YouTube afterwards.
See you there.

Code of conduct: sheffield.ai/code-of-conduct

! RESCHEDULED DATE TO THUR 16TH JULY !

Join us for a relaxed monthly creative coding meetup

This is a meetup for people interested in creative coding and adjacent things: generative art, live coding, robotics/hardware, simulations, AI, 3D, interactive tools, weird experiments, and more.

You do not need to present anything to come along. You can just watch, chat, meet people, and see what others are up to. Beginners, hobbyists, professionals, and curious newcomers are all welcome.

If you do want to share something, bring it along: polished projects, rough experiments, works in progress, even half-formed ideas. We have access to a TV if you want to share your laptop screen (via HDMI or USB-C). We will be in the upstairs room of the Fat Cat and have the room to ourselves. Feel free to reach out with any questions.

Rough format:

• arrive, chat, and settle in
• 3-5 show-and-tell demos/informal presentations
• hang around and chat afterwards

Presentations will be limited to a max of 20 minutes if there is a lot of demand to present. Shorter presentations are more than welcome.

Past sessions have included demos of:

• a live-coded jungle set in TidalCycles
• breathing life into an ancient plotter
• generating 3D terrain of the UK from open data
• exploring the maths of infectious diseases through a card game
• turning photographs into a 3D Gaussian splat scene
• projection-mapping experiments
• deterministic game character generation
• cellular automata experiments!
• an introduction to VJing with TouchDesigner
• ... and more!

Latecomers are welcome; it’s fine to drop in or leave early.

Looking forward to seeing you!