Karel Zikmund - Events

Events I organized or co-roganized.

Upcoming events

Tech Talks for Universities in March/April 2023 - live-stream

Past events

2022

2022/11/10 - Tech Talks for Universities - live-streamed from Matfyz in Prafue, CZ (in English)
- Organized by Pavel Jezek, Karel Zikmund, Radek Zikmund
- Talks for university sttudents - live-streamed from MFF UK
- Recording: TBD
  - Bronwen Zande - Reflections on projects at boiling point
  - Konrad Kokosa - Why crazy ideas pay off
  - Poornima Nayar - Open Source - How it can help your career
  - Kevin Gosse - When fate conspires against you
- Attendance: 40 + 80 online

2020

2020/2/4 - Discussion with MFF UK students - Prague, CZ (in Czech)
- Participants: Hana Lapkova (Oracle), Tomas Herceg (Riganti), Tomas Karban (RSJ), Karel Zikmund (Microsoft)
- Interviews with participants: Martin Duchacek, Tomas Herceg & Karel Zikmund, Hana Lapkova
- Organizers: Karolina Houzvickova Solcova (MFF UK), Karel Zikmund
2020/1/28 - .NET Tour UK
- Organizers: Steve Gordon, Karel Zikmund and UK MeetUps
- Tweeting #DotNetTourUK

2019

2019/12/4 - Scott Hanselman visit - Prague, CZ
- Organized by Lucie Vasickova, Karel Zikmund, Xamarin Developers Group Czech, WUG Praha, Miroslav Holec
- Recording and live-steeaming: Full event
- Attendance: 120
2019/11/14 - .NET Talks at Matfyz in Preague, CZ - auditorium S5, Malostranske square 25, Prague - talks for university students (in English)
- Organized by Karolina Houzvickova-Solcova, Pavel Jezek, Karel Zikmund
- Talks for university students of MFF UK and other Prague universities
- Recording: Event live-stream and Recording - due to hiccups, mostly sound only with slides on Twitter:
- Attendance: 55 + 40 online

.NET Tour - Down Under Edition - Australia / New Zealand 2019

2019/10/29 - .NET Tour Down Under - Auckland, NZ
- Organizers: Marcus Bristol, Alix Klingenberg, Karel Zikmund
- live-tweeting
- Attendance: 45
2019/10/25 - .NET Tour Down Under - Wellington, NZ
- Organizers: Bevan Arps, Karel Zikmund
- live-tweeting
- Attendance: 30
2019/10/23 - .NET Tour Down Under - Brisbane, AU - Afternoon session and Evening session
- Organizers: Brisbane .NET User Group, Karel Zikmund
- live-tweeting, Ryan’s talk fork
- Attendance: 70 in each session
2019/10/21 - .NET Tour Down Under - Melbourne, AU
- Recoding - TBD (coming up later)
- Organizers: Mahesh Krishnan, Jimmy P., JT, Karel Zikmund
- live-tweeting + mentions by @davidwengier, @EmadAshi + after party with JetBrains folks
- Attendance: 70
2019/10/19 - .NET Down Under Community day - Sydney, AU (full-day event, Microsoft Reactor)
- Live-stream and recording
- Organizers: Simon Waight, Mouna Neelakanta, Will Ray, Alec Tucker, Nelly Sattari, Karel Zikmund
- live-tweeting + random pics of attendees, Olia’s video, panel discussion
  - Mentions by @SomyAyazi, @davidwengier, @sudinorouzinia, @mouna1619, @data_messe
  - Mini-videos of talks by Ryan, David W., Drew, Don
- Attendance: 70
2019/10/15 - NDC Sydney Special Event Meet Microsoft Engineers - Sydney, AU
- Organizers: Azadeh Khojandi, Nelly Sattari, Karel Zikmund
- Attendance: 70-80
- live-tweeting + mentions by @SomyAyazi, @coding_mama

.NET Summer event series in Europe 2019

2019/9/23 - .NET Conf kick off - Prague, CZ (in Czech) - Avast venue
- Talk about .NET, .NET Core and .NET Foundation - intro/kick off for .NET Conf keynote viewing
- Organizer: Tomas Jecha
- live-tweeting
- Attendance: 70
2019/9/23 - .NET Community Afternoon - Prague, CZ - meet the .NET team members - Microsoft Prague venue
- Recordings: DotnetCZ youtube channel
  - Tomas Rylek - Deployment options and optimizations in .NET Core (23 min)
  - Jan Vorlicek - Unloadability in .NET Core 3.0 (20 min)
  - Vit Karas - .NET Core 3 and AppDomains (23 min)
- Original live-stream on Twitch with video
- Organizers: Tomas Herceg, Vojtech Madr, David Maly, Martin Simecek, Lucie Vasickova, Karel Zikmund
- live-tweeting, Vitek’s talk and Tomas H.’s talk
- Attendance: 10 + 45 online views (as of 9/25)
2019/9/18 - .NET MeetUp with Maoni Stephens - Prague, CZ - talk about GC and Panel Discussion - Microsoft Prague venue
- Recording: Event live-stream and recording (2h)
- Organizers: Vojtech Madr, David Maly, Martin Simecek, Lucie Vasickova, Karel Zikmund
- live-tweeting + mention by @maoni0
- Attendance: 60 + 1,600 online views (as of 11/3)
2019/7/23 - .NET Summer event - Linz, AT - meet the .NET team members
- Recording: Event live-stream and recording (3.5h)
- Organizers: Gergely Kalapos, Christoph Neumüller, Karel Zikmund
- live-tweeting
- Attendance: 70 + 340 online views (as of 9/23)
2019/7/9 - .NET Core Summer event - Brno, CZ - 3 talks (2 in Czech, 1 in English)
- Organizers: Martin Dybal (WUG Brno), Radka Janekova (Red Hat), Karel Zikmund
- Mentions by @David_Kaya and @oslicek
- Attendance: 80
2019/7/4 - .NET Summer event - Vienna, AT - meet the .NET team members
- Organizers: Andreas Willich, Raoul Holzer, Karel Zikmund
- Live-tweeting: kick off, Karel’s talk, Alexander’s talk, Viktor’s talk, Bernard’s talk
  - Mentions by @dasmulli, @brungarc and @DanielTheCoder
- Attendance: 63
2019/6/26 - .NET Core Summer event - Prague, CZ - similar to 2017 Prague event, meet the .NET team members (in Czech)
- Organizers: Tomas Herceg, Lucie Vasickova, Martin Simecek, Karel Zikmund
- Live-tweeting: prep, kick off, Marek’s talk, Karel’s talk, Radka’s talk, Tomas W.’s talk, Tomas R.’s talk, Jan’s talk Vitek’s talk, Panel discussion
  - Mentions by @deeedx, @daveaglick, @matthewwarren
- Attendance: 110
2019/6/24 - Discussion with MFF UK students - Prague, CZ - 16:00-19:00 at Mala Strana, S8, Prague, CZ (in Czech)
- Participants: Hana Lapkova (Oracle), Tomas Herceg (Riganti), Martin Duchacek (RSJ), Karel Zikmund (Microsoft)
- Interviews with participants: Martin Duchacek, Tomas Herceg & Karel Zikmund, Hana Lapkova
- Organizers: Karolina Houzvickova Solcova (MFF UK), Karel Zikmund
2019/6/22 - .NET Summer event - Veenendaal, NL
- Full day 2-tracks community conference, with focus on .NET Performance.
- See all recordings
- Accepting donations to cover speakers’ fees, etc.
- Organizers: Edwin van Wijk, Jonathan Mezach, Karel Zikmund
- Live-tweeting: Keynote by Adam, Adam’s talk, Jonathan’s talk, Karel’s talk, Steve’s HTTP talk, Marc’s talk, Shay’s talk, Ben’s talk, Edwin’s talk, Steve’s Performance talk, Performance discussion panel
  - Mentions by @Mpdreamz, @hakant, @vijeshsalian, Speakers’ dinner #1 and Speakers’ dinner #2
- Attendance: 190

2017

.NET MeetUps series in Europe 2017

2017/8/1 - .NET MeetUp - Brno, CZ
- Organizers: WUG Brno, Karel Zikmund
- Live-tweeting: Radka’s talk, Marek’s talk, Vitek’s talk, Jan’s talk
- Attendance: 50
2017/7/19 - .NET MeetUp - Prague, CZ
- Organizers: WUG Praha, Karel Zikmund
- Live-tweeting: Karel’s .NET Standard talk Karel’s Managing CoreFX repo talk, Marek’s talk, Vitek’s talk, Jan K.’s talk, Adam’s talk, Jan V.’s talk, Ela’s talk, after party
  - Mentions by @deeedx
- Attendance: 140
2017/7/11 - .NET MeetUp - Amsterdam, NL
- Organizers: Edwin van Wijk, Jonathan Mezach, Karel Zikmund
- Live-tweeting: getting ready, food, Jonathan’s talk #1, Jonathan’s talk #2, Karel’s talk, wrapping up
  - Mentions by @amolenk, @TimSeaw
- Attendance: 30-40