Tech Events in Cardiff

🕕 Agenda

6:00 – Arrive 🛬 | Drinks 🍺 | Pizza 🍕 | Product chat 💬
6:15 – Welcome & intro from our host - Roku
6:20 – A word from our sponsor - Place Recruitment
6:25 – Part 1
7:00 – Break 🍺🍕
7:20 – Part 2
7:55 – Wrap-up & prize draw 🏅
8:00 – Close & continue the conversation 🛫

Please note: attendance is expected to be at capacity, so please only take a space if you can attend. If your plans change, update your RSVP as soon as possible so someone else can join.

Join us for an evening focused on AI and vibe coding — exploring how people are using modern AI tools to build faster, experiment more easily, and turn ideas into something tangible.

This session is all about the practical side of AI-assisted building and engineering. We’ll look at the tools people are using, the techniques that are helping, and the lessons learned when moving from prompt to prototype, workflow, or product.

Expect discussion around:

• Tools, techniques and tips for getting the most from vibe coding and AI-assisted engineering
• Approaches and ways of working that help you build more effectively with AI
• Demos of things people have built, are building, or are experimenting with
• Honest insight into what is working well, where things fall down, and where human judgement still matters most

Whether you’re already experimenting with vibe coding or just curious about how others are approaching it, this will be a chance to learn from real examples and practical experiences rather than just theory.

It should be a great evening for anyone interested in product, engineering, AI tooling, rapid prototyping, and modern ways of building.

🎤 Speaker 1 - Joseph Seddon

👤 About Joe (1)
Engineering Manager, Wikipedia Apps

🎤 Speaker 2 - Joe Tannorella

👤 About Joe (2)
Founder, VP Product & AI Specialist

🎁 Attendance Bingo

We’ll have fantastic prizes up for grabs just for attending — keep an eye out during the evening!

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Additional Information

• Photography and/or recording will take place during the event
• Images may be used on social channels during and after the event
• Attendance implies agreement with our Code of Conduct

We've teamed-up again with the good folk at Navatech to host our next Latte Lounge, a casual AI drop-in session, on Friday 22 May, between 11:00 and 14:00 at Da Coffi, Cardiff.

What is it?
A chance to chat with other AI enthusiasts, business owners, and workers about anything to do with AI generally, or your challenges specifically.

What isn't it?
There will be no formal talks or presentations, just great conversations in small groups, whenever you've got a spare half-hour.

How do I take part?
RSVP here, so we have a rough idea of numbers, then drop-in whenever suits you between 11:00 and 14:00 on Friday 22 May.

Where is it?
In the excellent Da coffee shop (formerly Milk+Sugar), One Central Square in Cardiff City centre - right next to Cardiff Central Railway Station. We'll have a space reserved by the windows for our conversations, so just turn up, buy your favourite drink and head on over to us.

Lightning Talks evening!

Join us for a community driven, relaxed evening, of lightning talks and demos.

Schedule
18:00 - Doors Open, Pizza and Networking
18:20 - Welcome
18:30 - Talks begin:

• "Make It Make Sense: Building Usable CMS Experiences"
  by Ashley Farmer
  (.NET Developer @ Spindogs)
  This lightning talk explores how to design CMS experiences that are genuinely usable for the people working in them every day. Ashley will look at the difference between usability and accessibility, why both matter, and where teams can make practical improvements that have an immediate impact on editor confidence and efficiency.
• "Developers, Assemble! Community is Your Team’s Superpower"
  by Joe Glombek
  (Umbraco MVP, Senior .NET Developer @ Bump Digital)
  What happens when your team spends work time eating pizza and hanging out with other techies? Surprisingly, they don’t just come back with stickers. They come back with ideas, solutions to problems, and a renewed enthusiasm for the work in front of them.
  The .NET community is strong, with meetups across the globe hosting experts who love sharing their knowledge. For businesses, these events are an incredibly cost‑effective way to keep teams engaged and learning. While conferences or formal training can swallow days of time and thousands in cash, a local meetup costs little more than a couple of hours and a bus fare — yet often delivers insights that save development time, reduce risk, keep technical debt in check and help teams adopt new technologies sooner while avoiding outdated approaches and reinventing the wheel.
  In this lightning talk, Joe shares what he’s learned as an organiser of the Bristol Umbraco Meetup — one of the longest‑running and best‑attended groups in the community.
  If you want a stronger tech team and bulletproof projects, helping them engage with the community might just be the highest-value superpower you can give them.
• "Across The Cloudiverse"
  by Richard Jackson
  (Umbraco MVP, Platform Engineer @ Rocket Science Group)
  Compare, contrast and critique the approaches and philosophies of different cloud service providers (CSPs) - such as Azure, AWS, GCP and Hetzner - and how Umbraco solutions be architected in each.
  Having recently moved from an "Azure-only" mindset to a more diverse appreciation of different CSP offerings, Richard F. Jackson is looking to share what possible benefits could be found from considering other options. There's also some core philosophical differences between the CSPs and their resource management strategies that have been illuminating to discover, and he would love to share them with you!

20:00 - Doors Close

What is a Lightning Talk?
A short talk/demo (3-20 minutes), no pressure as it doesn't need to be a long polished presentation; just a quick, inspiring way for developers to share something cool!

Venue
The meetup will be hosted at Spindogs, 3, Sovereign Quay, Havannah St, Cardiff CF10 5SF, which is about a 10-15-minute walk from Cardiff Bay Train Station.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/uJEAM4U4wqoTMV6W9

Parking options

• Havannah Street Pay and Display Car Park ~ less than 1-minute walk.
• Q-Park Cardiff Bay ~ 15-minute walk.
• The Red Dragon Centre Cardiff ~ 15-minute walk.

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If you’d like to contribute to this or a future meetup, please get in touch, we’d love to have you join us.
https://sessionize.com/umbracymru/
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If you need any specific accessibility needs or accommodations, please get in touch with one of the hosts or message the UmbraCymru Twitter, Mastodon, or BlueSky accounts.