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| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Above the Cloud: Building Data Centers in Space | NDC Copenhagen 2026 | 2026-06-01 |
Calculations show a single NVL72 rack: 135 kW, 1.3 metric tons, 72 Blackwells needs roughly 450 m² of triple‑junction solar and ammonia radiators ~2×70 kW to… | ||
| Keynote: After the AI Hype – What’s Real, and What’s Next | NDC Copenhagen 2026 | 2026-06-01 |
A clear timeline of what actually changed: neural nets win ImageNet in 2012 (from ~30–40% to 75% right away, 100% within two years), LLMs scale from GPT-2… | ||
| The Next Steps to Becoming a Space-Faring Civilization | NDC Sydney 2026 | 2026-04-22 |
DART proves kinetic deflection works: DART changed orbit by >30 minutes after a 500 kg impactor at 6.6 km/s sprayed ~1,000 tonnes of debris. Falcon 9 now flies… | ||
| Beyond the AI Hype: What's Real, What's Next | NDC London 2026 | 2026-01-26 |
Generative models actually scale into products: a token-based GPT lineage goes from GPT‑3 at 175 billion parameters to multi‑modal GPT‑4 and an optimized… | ||
| The Undersea Cable Network | NDC London 2026 | 2026-01-26 |
About 1,700 operational undersea cables carry most global internet traffic and modern fiber builds like the 6,600 km Dant cable hold ~250 Tb using 12 fibers… | ||
| Building Trust in Teams | Build Stuff 2025 | 2025-12-03 |
History includes building an appliance company that sells in 2013 and advising startups, but the practical claim is this: trust grows from specific routines… | ||
| The History of NET | Build Stuff 2025 | 2025-12-03 |
Chronicle of how .NET actually forms: Microsoft stitches together a common runtime pushed by Brian Harry, a new C-like language from Anders Hejlsberg later… | ||
| The Undersea Infrastructure | Build Stuff 2025 | 2025-12-03 |
Undersea cables carry 97% of internet traffic, with ~1,700 active cables and 100–200 faults per year; modern systems use repeaters about every 100 km, ships… | ||
| Beyond the AI Hype: What's Real, What's Next | Build Stuff 2025 | 2025-12-03 |
Traces AI from neural nets to large language models, citing ImageNet 84%→100% as the turning point, GPU-driven Azure scale, and GPT3 375 billion parameters… | ||
| Beyond the AI Hype: What's Real, What's Next | NDC Copenhagen 2025 | 2025-09-08 |
A clear timeline traces practical AI from deep nets to products: an academic paper leads to models trained at scale, a 175 billion parameter GPT‑3 built on… | ||
| The Undersea Cable Network | NDC Copenhagen 2025 | 2025-09-08 |
About 2 million kilometers of undersea cable already exists, with roughly 15–30 new cables laid each year; most intercontinental traffic (97–98%) rides these… | ||
| The Future of Energy | NDC Melbourne 2025 | 2025-04-29 |
Covers where electricity comes from, what actually scales and what fails: global demand sits at 16 terawatts, coal remains dense but costly and Victoria still… | ||
| On Becoming a Space-Faring Civilization | NDC Melbourne 2025 | 2025-04-29 |
Why become space‑faring: planetary defense works — DART changed an asteroid’s orbit by over 30 minutes — and resource access is deadline‑driven with key… | ||
| On Becoming a Space-Faring Civilization | NDC London 2025 | 2025-01-27 |
DART deliberately changes an asteroid moonlet’s orbit by about 30 minutes instead of the planned 1 minute, proving kinetic deflection and prompting ESA’s Hera… | ||
| The Next Decade of Software Development | Build Stuff 2024 | 2024-11-13 |
Forecasts that matter: cloud becomes default, Moore’s Law slows and chip design shifts to many-core and domain-specific silicon — Apple’s M3/M4 packs 25… | ||
| Understanding Nuclear Power | Build Stuff 2024 | 2024-11-13 |
Covers how uranium enrichment via K‑25 gas diffusion produced roughly 1 kg/day of U‑235 and needed ~64 kg for Little Boy, how Hanford bred plutonium at ~250… | ||
| Understanding Nuclear Power | NDC Porto 2024 | 2024-10-14 |
Covers actual reactor designs and failure modes: pressurized water reactor makes up ~70% of plants with water as moderator and a primary/secondary loop; fuel… | ||
| On Becoming a Space-Faring Civilization | CPH DevFest 2024 | 2024-08-26 |
States that asteroid-deflection tests (DART) changed a moonlet’s orbit by half an hour instead of 70 seconds, showing rubble‑pile behavior and huge ejecta… | ||
| Understanding Nuclear Power | CPH DevFest 2024 | 2024-08-26 |
Covers reactor types (PWR, BWR, RBMK, molten salt, pebble bed), how fuel is handled, and hard numbers: 50,000 centrifuges produced ~1 kg 235U/day in WWII… | ||
| Space Flight in 2024 | NDC Oslo 2024 | 2024-06-10 |
Commercial reuse drives scale: SpaceX lowers costs with Falcon 9 300+ landings and crew seats around $55M for NASA or ~$100M privately, while Starlink has… | ||
| The Future of Energy | NDC Oslo 2024 | 2024-06-10 |
Norway runs 88% hydroelectric power with about 156 TWh/year installed capacity, supplemented by ~11% wind and small biomass; hydro gives long lifespans and… | ||
| On Becoming a Space-Faring Civilization | NDC Oslo 2024 | 2024-06-10 |
DART proves kinetic deflection works by changing the Didymos moonlet orbit by 33 minutes after a 550 kilogram impactor hits a ~160 meter body and kicks off a… | ||
| On Becoming a Space-Faring Civilization | NDC Sydney 2024 | 2024-02-12 |
Recent advances show concrete steps: the DART impactor (≈500 kg at ~7 km/s) changed the moonlet's orbit by 33 minutes, proving kinetic deflection works and… | ||
| From Mono to MAUI: the History of Xamarin | NDC Sydney 2024 | 2024-02-12 |
Starts with Miguel de Icaza implementing C# on Linux in 2001 and turns into shipping MonoTouch (iOS) and Mono for Android compilers by 2011, charging about… | ||
| From Mono to MAUI: the History of Xamarin | NDC London 2024 | 2024-01-29 |
A clear lineage from Mono (2001) to MonoTouch/Mono for Android to Xamarin.Forms is traced with concrete milestones: a $2.5M seed round in 2011, Xamarin formed… | ||
| On Becoming a Space-Faring Civilization | NDC London 2024 | 2024-01-29 |
Planetary defense proves workable: DART shifted the Didymos moonlet by about half an hour and shows rubble‑pile asteroids respond to kinetic impact. Rocket… | ||
| Closing Keynote: Next Decade of Software Development | DevReach 2023 | 2023-10-25 |
Argues that Moore's Law is slowing as chipmaking reaches atomic scales, citing 5 nanometer EUV machines and limited ASML tooling, contrasts consumer and… | ||
| .NET Rocks Live | NDC Porto 2023 | 2023-10-16 |
Claims that observability must use one wide structured event per request and that tracing should be span-based, not metric-only; recommends OpenTelemetry and… | ||
| The Future of Energy | NDC Porto 2023 | 2023-10-16 |
Portugal runs ~25% hydro, wind and utility solar at solar/wind ~$20–25/MWh drive down costs, and an 880 MW pumped storage system soaks up excess wind for… | ||
| Software Development in Challenging Times | NDC Porto 2023 | 2023-10-16 |
Covers how the pandemic and supply‑chain shocks ripple into hiring and costs, cites big layoffs — Microsoft 10,000, Google 12,000, Amazon ~30,000, Meta 15,000… | ||
| Space Flight in 2023 | Copenhagen Developers Festival 2023 | 2023-08-28 |
Overview of 2023 spaceflight progress with concrete wins and failures: Falcon 9 lands first stages 150+ times and carries more tons to LEO than the rest of the… | ||
| Building Trust in Teams | SQLBits 2023 | 2023-03-14 |
Argues that trust grows from repeatable practices not slogans: influence is the one skill individuals can control, and scheduling one-on-one lunches and… | ||
| The Next Decade of Software Development | NDC London 2023 | 2023-01-23 |
Predicts Moore's Law hits a hard limit within the next decade because transistors approach atomic scale, cites Moore's Law ends within a decade and compares… | ||
| The Future of Energy | NDC London 2023 | 2023-01-23 |
Current UK electricity use hits about 15 terawatts peak and grid choices hinge on costs and reliability: coal supplies <2% now, last plants closing 2024… | ||
| The Next Decade of Software Development | NDC Sydney 2022 | 2022-10-12 |
Cloud becomes a utility, compute keeps exploding until Moore's Law ends and architectures shift to ARM/M1-style efficiency; consumer devices range from 4… | ||
| The Future of Energy | NDC Oslo 2022 | 2022-09-26 |
Electricity isn't optional - the modern world runs on it. And the demand for electricity increases every day. But our methods for extracting energy and… | ||
| .NET Rocks Live: Making OpenSource Work for Everyone | NDC Oslo 2022 | 2022-09-26 |
Argument that open source is structurally unsustainable: concrete examples include diagnosing a stalled site in the Azure portal and fixing it by moving an app… | ||
| .NET and Microsoft’s Pivot to the Cloud | NDC Oslo 2022 | 2022-09-26 |
Today, Microsoft is all-in on the cloud. But how did it happen? Join Richard Campbell as he takes you through the history of .NET and the moment when Microsoft… | ||
| Keynote - The Next Decade of Software Development | NDC Melbourne 2022 | 2022-06-20 |
Survey of practical trends and numbers: cloud and smartphones remain dominant (smartphone form set by 2007), Moore's Law is ending illustrated by a Cray XMP at… | ||
| Space in the 2020's | NDC Melbourne 2022 | 2022-06-20 |
A rapid shift from billionaire suborbital rides to scalable orbital access is underway: SpaceshipTwo seats advertised at $250k and Axiom selling ISS trips at… | ||
| .NET Rocks Live – Modernizing .NET Applications | NDC Porto 2022 | 2022-04-25 |
Live recording examines concrete modernization steps: Visual Recode converts WCF services to gRPC (binary protobuf over HTTP/2), claiming big speed gains and… | ||
| Looking Back - The Last Twenty Years of Software Development | NDC Porto 2022 | 2022-04-25 |
A concise retrospective that names milestones and results: AWS prototypes appear in 2002 then relaunch as S3/EC2 in 2006; browsers peak (Firefox ~33% around… | ||
| Space Flight in the 2020s | NDC Porto 2022 | 2022-04-25 |
Falcon 9 drives today’s space tourism and cargo market at roughly $2,600/kg, while Atlas V remains near $25,000/kg; Crew Dragon charters run about $100M per… | ||
| Building Your Data Analytics Team - live RunAs Radio episode | SQLBits 2022 | 2022-03-08 |
Panelists map concrete roles — data modeler, data engineer, analyst and architect — to specific tasks: modeling, ingestion (Power Query/SSIS/Data Factory)… | ||
| The Perils and Promise of Artificial Intelligence | NDC Oslo 2021 | 2021-11-29 |
History of AI moves from Deep Blue (1997, ~11 gigaflops) and expert systems to neural nets that beat image challenges after Imagenet: 14 million labeled images… | ||
| Space in the 2020's | NDC Oslo 2021 | 2021-11-29 |
Survey of current space efforts lists suborbital rides (Virgin Galactic, New Shepard) as short free‑fall experiences costing $300k tickets while orbital… | ||
| The Next Decade of Software Development | NDC Oslo 2021 | 2021-11-29 |
Predicts Moore's Law ends within the decade and shows why—transistor density hits atomic limits—while noting Apple M1 as a system-on-chip example that wins by… | ||
| When Open Source Came to Microsoft | NDC London 2021 | 2021-01-25 |
Timeline of concrete moves: Microsoft publishes C# and CLI specs in 2000, Miguel de Icaza launches Mono (2001), CodePlex and MIX surface in 2006, jQuery ships… | ||
| Building Trust in Teams | NDC London 2020 | 2020-01-27 |
Trust directly improves software quality by making people safe to fail and collaborate; concrete tactics include weekly in-office code‑review lunches, shared… | ||
| Building Trust in Teams | NDC Sydney 2019 | 2019-10-14 |
Argues that trust grows from specific rituals and tactics: share a meal weekly to surface values, run one-hour lunches that prioritize conversation over… | ||
| The Moon: Gateway to the Solar System | NDC Sydney 2019 | 2019-10-14 |
Summarizes recent lunar evidence and concrete plans: an impact test (LCROSS) detects hydroxyl, ammonia and a dust plume with roughly 20% water in places, LRO… | ||
| The Moon: Gateway to the Solar System | NDC Oslo 2019 | 2019-06-17 |
Moon science goes from maps to hardware: the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter images Apollo descent stages and pinpoints candidate sites; the LCROSS impact… | ||
| The Moon: Gateway to the Solar System | NDC Porto 2019 | 2019-02-26 |
Apollo brought back a 4.3 billion year old rock that supports the giant impact origin of the Moon and humans last walked there in 1972; robotic missions now… | ||
| How We Got Here - The History of Web Development | NDC London 2019 | 2019-01-30 |
Traces the web from Tim Berners-Lee’s first web server on a NeXT at CERN to Mosaic/Netscape’s rapid adoption (5 million users out of ~20 million online) and… | ||
| The Development Platform Landscape in 2018 | Update Conference Prague 2018 | 2018-11-22 |
Tour of platform shifts with concrete claims: personal computing peaks in 2011 then stabilizes around 260M units while smartphones hit 1.5 billion smartphones… | ||
| How We Got Here - The History of Web Development | NDC Sydney 2018 | 2018-09-17 |
Timeline of web tech from 1989 to today with concrete pivots and tools: the first web server runs on a NeXT box (1989), Mosaic and Netscape commercialize… | ||
| Virtual Attendee Party | .NET Conf 2018 | 2018-09-12 |
A live social party that runs on Twitter, Mixer and Twitch where hosts run timed trivia, randomly pick winners and hand out hardware like an Xbox One X… | ||
| The Hello World Show | NDC Oslo 2018 | 2018-06-11 |
Live on stage a panel collapses hype into nuts and bolts: AI is an engineering problem that spends 80–90% of time cleaning data, produces deployable artifacts… | ||
| The History of .NET | NDC Oslo 2018 | 2018-06-11 |
A tight timeline showing how a language runtime, a new language and web tooling coalesce into .NET: the common language runtime + C# + ASP.NET debut at PDC… | ||
| The History of .NET | NDC London 2018 | 2018-01-15 |
Chronology and concrete pivots: .NET emerges from separate efforts to build a common language runtime (shipping Feb 2002), a new language C#, and a web runtime… | ||
| The History of .NET | NDC Sydney 2017 | 2017-08-14 |
A concise timeline of decisions and outcomes: Microsoft moves from languages company to platform builder, ships CLR and C# (2002) and ASP.NET, bets on… | ||
| Real-time surveillance of potential epidemics | NDC Oslo 2017 | 2017-06-14 |
Project claims that community volunteers can detect outbreaks earlier and pilots show it works but the tech needs maturing. Pilots: an ORP response trains ≈800… | ||
| .NET Rocks Panel Discussion: Going Serverless | NDC Oslo 2017 | 2017-06-14 |
Panelists compare AWS Lambda, Azure Functions and Firebase with concrete tradeoffs: 3 second cold start and ~30 minute idle decay on Azure functions, a real… | ||
| Saving the World One App at a Time | NDC London 2017 | 2017-01-16 |
Humanitarian Toolbox builds open source disaster apps and shows concrete results: crisis check-in is in virtual field trials coordinating hundreds of… | ||
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