Public Speaking · Brad Dean

Are you looking for a speaker for your user group in the Atlanta area? I’m available to speak on mobile development, web development, or how to adjust the valves on a 1960s Volkswagen Type 1 air cooled engine.

Future Speaking Events

Nothing scheduled right now

Past Speaking Events And Publications

Exploring Mixed Reality

Atlanta Intelligent Devices User Group
Improving, 11675 Rainwater Drive, Alpharetta, GA
December 8, 2022 - 7:00pm
We’ll explore a high level overview of AR / VR / MR and discuss what it can be used for today, what practical applications it might have for tomorrow, and if this meta verse thing is all just hype. We’ll dive into more depth showing how to create a Unity application with Spatial Anchors on the Meta Quest Pro.

Curious about Flutter?

Microsoft Atlanta .Net User Group
Microsoft, 1125 Sanctuary Pkwy, Alpharetta, GA
June 29, 2020 - 7:00pm
Google’s Flutter has reached a stable ‘version 1’ release and can be used for iOS, Android, even web or desktop apps. But what is this odd framework and why would you choose it over React Native or Xamarin? We’ll explore what Flutter offers and how it differs from other mobile frameworks. We’ll dig into a bit of code and see how easy it is to get started with a mobile app and even animations.

This event was help virtually as Microsoft’s offices were closed due to Corona. It was recorded and is available on the Atlanta DotNet YouTube channel here:

Xamarin - Beyond the Basics

GGMUG
Gwinnett Technical College
5150 Sugarloaf Pkwy, Lawrenceville, GA
November 14, 2019 - 6:30pm
In this talk I’ll cover some topics that come up when building and deploying mobile applications in Xamarin - CICD pipelines, multiple test environments, dealing with multiple languages and accessibility compliance.

AWS Lambda

GGMUG
Gwinnett Technical College
5150 Sugarloaf Pkwy, Lawrenceville, GA
January 10, 2019 - 7pm
Kevin Gandy will present on .NET Standard and I will present on AWS Lambda. For Lambda I’ll cover how to quickly create a function and then we’ll go into a more in-depth serverless example.

Side Projects for Fun and Profit

GGMUG
Gwinnett Technical College
5150 Sugarloaf Pkwy, Lawrenceville, GA
November 8, 2018 - 7pm
We’ll explore how to choose software projects that you work on outside of work hours. Topics will include deciding on frameworks, contributing to open source, projects that can make money, and balancing work, projects, and life. This will be a high level talk with plenty of discussion.

React Native User Authentication with Amazon AWS Cognito

ATL Code Camp
Kennesaw State University, Marietta Campus
1100 S Marietta Pkwy , Marietta,GA 30060
September 15, 2018
We’ll start with a blank slate and create a new React Native app and a new Amazon AWS account. I’ll show the complete end to end of React Native user authentication so you can follow along if you are new to React Native or just want to know how to add authentication to your existing app.

React Native User Authentication with Amazon AWS Cognito

GGMUG
Gwinnett Technical College
5150 Sugarloaf Pkwy, Lawrenceville, GA
September 13, 2018 - 7pm
We’ll start with a blank slate and create a new React Native app and a new Amazon AWS account. I’ll show the complete end to end of React Native user authentication so you can follow along if you are new to React Native or just want to know how to add authentication to your existing app.

Northbrook Middle School STEM Day

May 10, 2018 - 10am & 11am

Xamarin vs Phone Gap White Paper [Publication]

Published November 18, 2015
http://magenic.com/xamvphg
Myself, Kevin Ford, and Ken Ross built an application twice (source code available at GitHub.com/Magenic/WhitepaperPerformance) once in Xamarin and once in PhoneGap. The white paper discusses the pros and cons of each platform as well as the performance metrics we saw from each when hitting the same Azure back end.

Into to Cordova and Ionic

Magenic (internal event)
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 12:30 PM

Hybrid Mobile App Workshop

Microsoft, 1125 Sanctuary Pkwy, Alpharetta, GA
Monday, March 3, 2015 7:00 PM
http://www.meetup.com/Atlanta-Net-User-Group/

Android and iOS Development With Microsoft Multi-Device Hybrid Apps

September 11, 2014 - 6:30 PM
Gwinnett Technical College, Building 100, Room 707
http://www.meetup.com/Gwinnett-Microsoft-Users-Group/events/204286682/