PyData Global 2026

Join us for a MongoDB User Group in Manila 🚀 Come connect with fellow developers, tech enthusiasts, and the curious-minded for an evening exploring the best practices and real-world use cases powering modern apps with MongoDB. Whether you're building your first project or scaling to millions of users, you'll walk away with practical insights, fresh ideas, and a great group of people to swap notes with. Grab a drink, meet the local MongoDB community, and see what's possible when you build with the right database. See you there! Agenda 18.00: Arrival & Networking 18.30: Welcome & Community Updates 18:45: 5 Lessons on Building with Claude for Enterprise by Karen Pabilando, Software Engineer of Amihan 19.00: Build Anything: Hack your Life with MongoDB and Claude 🛠️ 19.30: Pizza, Drinks & Networking 20.30: Event Close Session Details 1) Build Anything: Hack your Life with MongoDB and Claude 🛠️ Seaver Choy, Director of Engineering, First Mate Tecnologies What if you could build bespoke software for your own life as fast as you can describe it? In this session, we’ll explore how pairing Claude's reasoning with MongoDB's flexible document model creates the ultimate "life hacker's stack" for rapid prototyping. We will move past generic "hello world" tutorials and look at how to rapidly ship custom micro-apps to solve highly specific, everyday needs. Whether it's spinning up an interactive live web bracket canvas to track match results for a weekend mixed doubles tennis tournament, or building an entirely new startup idea, you'll see how unstructured data and AI make it possible to build anything you need from day one. Bio: Seaver Choy is a software engineer with a decade of experience and a Director of Engineering at First mate Technologies. When he isn't managing tech projects or leading the MUG Manila community, he's likely out on the tennis court, scuba diving, or tweaking his Claude Code CLI workflows. What you'll walk away with: Zero to One Setup: How to use the Claude

From Modern .NET to AI-Native & Cloud-Native Engineering .NET is evolving rapidly—from a powerful application development platform into a foundation for building cloud-native, distributed, and AI-powered applications. Join us for .NET Conf 2026, a hands-on technical community event exploring the latest trends, tools, patterns, and engineering practices shaping the future of .NET development. This event is designed for developers, software engineers, architects, technical leads, and technology enthusiasts who want to go beyond the basics and understand how modern .NET is being used to build intelligent, scalable, production-ready systems. ## 🎯 What You'll Learn During the event, we'll explore the journey from traditional .NET development to modern AI-powered engineering: What's new and evolving in the modern .NET ecosystem Modern C# development practices and productivity techniques Building cloud-native applications with .NET .NET Aspire and distributed application development Integrating AI into .NET applications Building AI-powered applications and intelligent features AI agents and agentic application architecture GitHub Copilot for modern .NET development AI-assisted coding, testing, debugging and refactoring Designing scalable and resilient .NET architectures Observability and production readiness Enterprise development patterns and best practices ## 🧠 Featured Technical Theme ### From .NET Developer to AI-Powered Engineer AI is changing how software is designed, developed, tested, deployed and maintained. We'll look beyond simple code generation and explore how developers can use AI throughout the engineering lifecycle: Requirements → Architecture → Development → Testing → Review → Deployment → Operations The goal is not simply to write code faster, but to become a more effective engineer by combining human engineering judgment with AI capabilities. ## 👨‍💻 Who Should Attend? This event is ideal for: .NET / C# Developers Software Engineers

Hey Founder & Business Owner! HitPay is hosting a hands-on AI Coding Workshop Series designed specifically for SME owners and operators across Manila, Philippines. Our Build with AI: Coding Workshops for SMEs are here to help you make the most of AI in your business. Each session is designed specifically for our merchant partners, with practical, hands-on guidance on using AI to improve workflows, boost productivity, and build solutions that support your business growth. Whether you're joining for the first time or returning to learn something new, we'd love to have you with us at this month's workshop. AI isn’t just for big tech. It’s for your business, right now. Running a 1-person team or a 50-person operation, this workshop will show you how to use AI to build real tools — not just write emails. What You’ll Learn How to use LLMs as a coding co-pilot How to build functional software without a developer background How to identify and automate one bottleneck in your business How to use HitPay’s ready-made scaffolding to move faster Requirements Laptop Please note that this workshop is for beginners and not for those with intermediate experiences already as we'll discuss operational foundations first. Watch some videos of the past events here: https://www.tiktok.com/@hitpayapp/video/7634017845915012373 Official Venue Partner Common Ground McKinley

We started with AI autocomplete. Then came chat. Now AI coding agents can understand a repository, plan changes, modify multiple files, run tests and iterate. What happens when the developer moves from writing code to supervising agents that write code? xplore the evolution from: Autocomplete → Chat → Agent Mode → Coding Agents → Autonomous Development Possible sessions: GitHub Copilot Agent Mode Coding agents in VS Code Copilot CLI AI-powered code review Agent-driven testing Repository-level reasoning Human-in-the-loop development Microsoft's 2026 developer direction is heavily emphasizing coding agents and agent-native development. “Stop Writing Every Line of Code. Start Engineering the Agent.”