{"id":6365,"date":"2016-04-29T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6365"},"modified":"2016-04-28T14:16:15","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T13:16:15","slug":"speaking-milton-keynes-geek-night-mkgn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/04\/speaking-milton-keynes-geek-night-mkgn.htm","title":{"rendered":"Speaking at Milton Keynes Geek Night (#MKGN)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"MK Geek Night\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/mkgn.png?resize=153%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"153\" height=\"240\" \/>For the last few years, I&#8217;ve been heading into Milton Keynes once a quarter (and on a couple of other occasions too) to attend the <a href=\"https:\/\/mkgeeknight.co.uk\/\">Milton Keynes Geek Night,<\/a> organised by Richard Wiggins (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/richardwiggins\">@richardwiggins<\/a>) and David Hughes (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidhughes\">@davidhughes<\/a>). Last time I had the crazy idea that I might speak at a future event. Furthermore, Richard took me up on the offer. Gulp.<\/p>\n<p>So, unaccustomed as I am to public speaking, <a href=\"https:\/\/mkgeeknight.co.uk\/speakers-2016-june#Mark\">I&#8217;ll be doing a little 5 minute talk\u00a0on 9 June 2016<\/a>\u00a0to represent some of the geeks of Milton Keynes who are neither designers nor developers. I haven&#8217;t written the presentation yet, but the synopsis is below:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Would you move all of your IT services to the cloud? <\/strong><\/em><em>Many organisations are moving all, or part of, their IT infrastructure and applications to the cloud. In this talk, I&#8217;ll share some of my experiences from helping to first migrate and then transform, enterprise IT services, using a mixture of infrastructure-, platform- and software-as-a-service technologies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tickets for MK Geek Night 17 have sold out but you can <a href=\"https:\/\/ti.to\/mkgn\/mkgn-17?waiting_list_id=c-ir7hwnrtc\">get on the waiting list<\/a> (and <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/mkgn\">talks are recorded and posted on Soundcloud<\/a>). Please be nice to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last few years, I&#8217;ve been heading into Milton Keynes once a quarter (and on a couple of other occasions too) to attend the Milton Keynes Geek Night, organised by Richard Wiggins (@richardwiggins) and David Hughes (@davidhughes). Last time I had the crazy idea that I might speak at a future event. 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