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SUMMARY:Pre-conference dinner - Nov 26
DESCRIPTION:It’s at the Phoenix!\nWe’ve booked a bunch of tables for (as the Phoenix themselves write) Good Pub Food & Seasonal Specials the evening before our Autumn conference. \nAs a bonus\, if you can find the dinner\, you’ll be sorted for the conference the day after :-).  But they don’t offer overnight accommodation. \nWe do hope you can come – it’ll be another of our traditional informal openings to a conference. \nAs before\, we’re taking a £10 deposit per person – we’ll let you have this back on the evening before you settle up your bill. \nMenus can be found on their website: Phoenix Menu \n Phoenix Menus
URL:https://ukaug.co.uk/event/pre-conference-dinner-nov-26/
LOCATION:The Phoenix\, Cavendish Square\, 37 Cavendish Square\, London\, W1G 0PP
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SUMMARY:Autumn 2026 conference
DESCRIPTION:We’re back at the Phoenix!\nThe feedback for the Phoenix\, where we had our autumn 2025 conference\, was very positive (the best we’ve had for any venue in recent times) – and so we’re going back there again!\nAs you’ll remember if you were able to join us last year\, we get a large private space\, great food\, our own private bar\, and a location that’s just a 1 minute walk from Oxford Circus – so a simple no-change tube ride from Waterloo\, Kings Cross\, Euston\, Paddington\, Charing Cross\, Liverpool Street Marylebone\, Victoria and St Pancras! \nThe agenda\nThe day will begin with tea and coffee being served from 08:45\, with the conference introduction and welcome kicking things off at 09:20\nTime\nPresenter\nDetails\n09:30 – 10:20\nColin Riddington\nSprinkle a little UI Magic on your Apps\nColin will demonstrate several ways of enhancing the appearance of your applications including: \n\nSupercharge Your Continuous Forms – Hide\, restore\, freeze\, move & resize columns. Add multiselect filter. Paint Me Transparent.\nMove and resize borderless forms – No need for a title bar\nPersonalise your popup forms – Use an API to style the corner type\, border and title bar colours together with an optional translucent title bar in Windows 11.\nCreate theme-aware Access forms – Use code to detect the Office theme & automatically update the appearance of forms and their controls accordingly. Example themes provided. Fully customisable.\nUse the Expression Service to create new style Fluent UI message boxes – The MsgBoxT function can replace the VBA MsgBox with 3 message styles and features including optional timeout\, support for themes\, Unicode and Ease of Access settings\nDock Your Forms to the Access Window – This works with both standard and popup forms and when forms are zoomed\n\nEach solution can be easily integrated into your own apps with very little code\n10:20 – 10:40\nTea / Coffee / Refreshments\n10:40 – 11:30\nMike Wolfe\nVersion Control for Access Developers\nDeveloping software without version control is like walking a high wire with no net.\nIn this session\, I will explain the many reasons WHY you should use version control and take you through exactly HOW to get started.\nDepending on time and audience experience\, we will cover the following topics: \n\nInstalling the free MS Access VCS Addin to convert Access apps to individual text files\nInstalling the free GitHub Desktop app\nCommitting an existing Access app to version control\nBuilding an Access app from source text files\nPushing your changes to a free online GitHub repository\nPulling changes down from GitHub\nSetting up GitHub workflows to protect your repository from accidental harm\nEASY MODE: using AI to manage Git (this is how I typically work)\nPull requests and code reviews in GitHub\nUsing squash merge with pull requests to keep a clean main with detailed commit history\n\n11:40 – 12:30\nKarl Donaubauer\nAccess Community Update + SDVBA Add-In\nA two-part session. First\, Karl brings us up to speed: the latest statistics on Access usage and the economic situation of Access developers from his 2026 events\, as well as relevant\, recent bugs\, features\, and changes at Microsoft and in the Access community.\nIn the second part\, he introduces a brand-new tool for modernizing the VBA editor. The best thing about the SDVBA add-in is\, of course\, the fact that it comes from Austria. But it also offers a host of innovative features\, such as extensive hover information\, automatic late binding intellisense\, clever code writing accelerators\, and more things we could only dream of in the VBE. You’ll be surprised!\n12:30 – 13:20\nLunch\n13:20 – 14:10\nAlessandro Grimaldi\nMS Access: More than you think!\nTired of the usual combo boxes\, text boxes and labels? Access can do more! With some ingenuity and proper VBA you can bring some life to your Access forms creating graphical\, coloured\, interactive interfaces to enhance your applications and make your users’ life easier and funnier: drag and drop objects around\, connect them with lines\, and more.\nIn this presentation I will show you some of the many interfaces I created in the last 20 years. I already showed them in several meetings in the past\, but this time (for the first time!) I will let you take a look “behind the scenes”: how these interfaces can be built\, the challenges I had to face\, the tools I used.\n14:10 – 14:25\nTea / Coffee\n14:25 – 15:15\nTim Finch\n3D Rendering in VBA. Helped by new “mate”\, Claude\nIn this session Tim will talk you through a 2026 project to render a retail client’s configurable and customisable outdoor buildings\, in 3d on screen and on paper\, as part of their existing customer POS order taking MS Access & SQL Server system.\nHistorically the company used to draw the plan view outline of a customer’s order in pencil on quote paperwork. Subsequently this was replaced by a set of JPG templates they manually edit at POS in MS Paint\, to represent the customisation choices customers make.\nThe latest project\, a work in progress\, is to allow customised design decisions to automatically render 3d ‘illustrative’ examples of the building the customer is ordering in real time – taking into account the colour\, size\, window and door positions and roofing type chosen – so the customer can walk away with a printout of them\, with alongside quote paperwork.\n15:15 – 15:50\nSteve Girling\nCase Study of an Access Application for Blackmore UK based on Access FE & SQL Server BE\nIn Access\, there are typically multiple ways to achieve the same result. Steve will demonstrate key aspects of a real-world application—the Blackmores business management system. He will showcase his preferred method for manipulating pass-through queries to return filtered data via stored procedures into a slick dashboard system.\n16:00 – 16:50\nThe Microsoft Access Team \nSpeakers and Sessions\n \nColin Riddington\nColin Riddington has been an Access developer for over 25 years with many years working in education. Access MVP since 2022. President of the Access Europe user group. Member of the Access Forever team. Active on many forums with the username: Isladogs. Colin’s Isladogs on Access website includes many Access articles\, example apps\, sample code and security challenges\, together with commercial applications for businesses\, schools and developers. He also has his own YouTube channel.\n \nMike Wolfe\nBased in the USA\, Mike Wolfe is one of the leading Access experts in the world\, including the following: \n\nHe is one of the World Top 20 contributors for the Microsoft Access tag on Stack Overflow\nHe runs https://nolongerset.com – the internet’s top source for all things Access and VBA\nMike is one of only 20 Access MVPs worldwide: https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/5004608?fullName=Mike%20Wolfe\nAnd for his day job Mike is President (and Developer!) at Grandjean & Braverman\, Inc.\, a custom software development company in Pennsylvania\, specialising in Microsoft Access with SQL Server development https://grandjean.net/\n\n \nKarl Donaubauer\nKarl has been a database developer and IT consultant in Vienna\, Austria\, for many years\, and has been an Access MVP since 1998. He runs the websites www.donkarl.com and AccessForever.org\, organizes conferences\, makes videos\, and does a bunch of other quirky things\, most of them related to Access.\n \nAlessandro Grimaldi\nAlessandro Grimali has been a programmer since 1983\, developing in VBA since 1998\, Alessandro has been experimenting on graphical interfaces with Access since 2006. In his career he has been working around the world (Italy\, Afghanistan\, North Korea\, Ethiopia\, Austria\, Germany\, Belgium) as a consultant for several entities and institutions (e.g. United Nations\, CTBTO\, European Central Bank\, BNP Paribas) creating dozens of Office applications\, from simple automation tools to corporate-level\, multiuser\, Oracle-based systems.\nSince 2014 he lives in Frankfurt. In 2025 he was appointed MS Access MVP.\n \nTim Finch\nTim started in MS Access in 1995 when a local motorcycle bike leather suits manufacturer wanted to computerise their complex paper-based highly customised suit ordering process. They still use the hybrid MS Access/VB/Excel based system for capturing sales in 2026.\nHe studied Computer Science at City University as a mature student in the late 90s\, and has worked as an IT Consultant in varying roles\, with database design for multiple clients as a prominent part to the portfolio\, ever since.\nTim is married to Barbara\, has 2 older teenage daughters\, and lives in Somerset UK. When he is not working\, you’ll often find him playing ‘keytar bass’ in his local church band.\n \nSteve Girling\nSteve is based in North Wiltshire by the M4 corridor and has been developing Access applications since the mid-nineties. He has moved from pure Access FE & BE solutions to concentrating heavily on SQL Server backends from the mid-2000’s both in house and with SQL Azure.\nSteve specialises in slick\, non-access looking user interfaces and takes a keen interest in SQL Server query and index tuning.\nSteve is the Head of IT & Governance for Blackmore UK who are one of the country’s leading data destruction and secure IT disposal companies. More information on Blackmore can be found at his company’s website – www.blackmoreuk.com. \nSponsors\nWe’re indebted to our very generous sponsors\, without whom these conferences would not be possible.\nFor this conference\, our sponsors are:\n\nJ Street Technology is a database application development shop offering requirements assessment\, web and Access application development and support\, Business Intelligence dashboards\, and system integration services to customers across North America.\n \nJulian Baker – The Access Man\nJulian Baker has been working with Microsoft Access since 1995 and running The Access Man since 2003. Over that time\, both Access and the wider technology landscape have changed enormously\, but Access remains a remarkably productive and flexible way of building real-world business applications.\nMuch of Julian’s work today involves established\, business-critical Access systems — understanding them\, solving problems and helping them evolve. Increasingly\, that means combining Access with SQL Server\, Azure\, APIs\, cloud services\, and mobile and web applications\, using each technology where it makes most sense.\nJulian believes there is still plenty of life and opportunity in Microsoft Access. The challenge is not simply preserving what we have built\, but exploring how Access can continue to adapt and remain relevant as the technologies around it change. He is delighted to sponsor the UK Access User Group Conference and support a community that shares knowledge\, exchanges ideas and continues to explore where we take Access next.
URL:https://ukaug.co.uk/event/autumn-2026-conference/
LOCATION:The Phoenix\, Cavendish Square\, 37 Cavendish Square\, London\, W1G 0PP
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SUMMARY:The 2027 two-day residential "international" conference
DESCRIPTION:UK Access User Group · May 2027 \nOur biggest ever\, 2-day\, in-person residential conference\nTwo full days of sessions at the Leonardo Hotel in Watford\, with the conference\, dinner and your room for the night in between included in the ticket. \n\nWhen\n25 & 26 May 2027\nWhere\nLeonardo Hotel\, Watford\nIncludes\nDinner\, bed & breakfast and refreshments\n\nBook your ticket \n\n \n\nAbout the event \nEverything in one ticket\nWe have never run a two-day conference before. We’re bringing together a fantastic collection of speakers\, and giving us time to enjoy their presentations and time to chat afterwards: two days of sessions\, the conference dinner\, and a room at the venue for the night in between. \n\n\nTwo days of sessions\nA full programme across both days\, from brilliant speakers on a real breadth of topics. \n\n\nDinner\nThe conference dinner on the evening between the two days\, giving delegates and speakers time to relax and chat. \n\n\nBed & breakfast\nYour room at the Leonardo Hotel for the middle night\, and breakfast before day two. \n\n\nThe bits in between\nCoffee\, lunch and the conversations that are half the reason to turn up in person. \n\n\n\n \n\nProgramme \nWhat’s on when\nSession times are provisional and more sessions are still to be confirmed. We’ll release more information as time goes by. \n \nDay one · 25 May\nTimes to be confirmed · ends with a post-dinner session! \n\n10:00\n\n\nRegistration & coffee with pastries\n\n\n\n10:30\n\n\nWelcome15 min\nIntroduction and welcome \nThe plan for the two days\, and where to find the coffee. \n\n\n\n10:45\n\n\nYou can get the job\, but can you do the job? (2027 edition)\nArmen Stein · J Street Technology \nSo you’ve advertised for more work. And now it’s about to come in. A client has asked you to quote for a big project. How do you know how long it will take? What does the quoting process even look like? How do you make sure you’re not going to go bankrupt whilst still giving the customer what they need at a price they’ll pay? \n\n\n\n11:35\n\n\nBreak · Tea · coffee\n\n\n\n11:50\n\n\nCustomer-facing AI in your database\nAndrew Richards · The IT Service \nDetails coming soon. \n\n\n\n12:45\n\n\nLunch\n\n\n\n13:35\n\n\nManaging IP rules for Azure SQL Server from within your Access Application\nRochelle Long · J Street Technology \nIn this live\, hands-on session\, we’ll design and develop an Azure solution that supercharges your Access application—with AI as your pair programmer. We’ll tackle a real-world challenge: automating secure IP management for Azure SQL. You’ll learn how to make remote\, secure data access to Azure SQL databases possible—without VPNs\, manually adding IPs or remote desktops. \nWe will also discuss Azure Entra Authentication for SQL and strategies for authenticating users in SQL using MFA. By the end\, you’ll see how your Access skills\, combined with AI\, Azure Logic Apps and Entra Authentication can unlock powerful\, secure scalable solutions in the cloud. \n\n\n\n14:35\n\n\nUsing the Edge control to implement a date-picker: from the ground up\nMarcus Dieterle \nIn this session\, Marcus will be presenting his web-based Date Picker controls for Microsoft Access. The controls are displayed using the Access Edge Browser (acEdgeBrowser)\, allowing modern web-based controls to be integrated into an Access application. \nHe’ll demonstrate the controls live and explain how they work behind the scenes. He’ll also show how to integrate them into an existing Access project\, so that you can see not only what they look like\, but also how they can actually be implemented and used in their own applications. \n\n\n\n15:25\n\n\nTea and coffee · with cake\n\n\n\n15:40\n\n\nLuke Chung · FMS Inc\nDetails coming soon. \n\n\n\n16:40\n\n\nWhat’s happening in Redmond?\nThe Access Team · Microsoft \nWe’re delighted to welcome back the Microsoft Access team to share their plans for the product and to answer your questions. \n\n\n\n17:30\n\n\nRound-table discussion45 min\nA panel discussion featuring a selection of names from the conference – plus a special guest moderator. \n\n\n\n18:15\n\n\nDown-time and conversation\, in the bar or as you wish\n\n\n\n19:30\n\n\nConference dinner\n\n\n\n21:15\n\n\nOne last thought for the evening….40 min\nArmen Stein · J Street Technology \nIn a short session as you sup your warm milk / brandy\, Armen will talk about sleep. Apparently it’s a passion of his. It’s his area of real expertise. If you know Armen\, you know it’ll be entertaining. And we thought it would be a good way to end the evening before we head back to our rooms (or the hotel bar). \n\n\n \nDay two · 26 May\nTimes to be confirmed · breakfast at the hotel \n\n08:00\n\n\nBreakfast & check out\n\n\n\n09:00\n\n\nHow did I end up here??!\nLuke Chung · FMS Inc \nYou may know Luke from his work as President of FMS. For his products such as Total Access Analyser\, amongst many others. \nOthers may know him from his career as a viral influencer and how it ended up with an appearance in front of Congress. In a short session\, Luke spills the beans on this rather amusing tale… \n\n\n\n09:20\n\n\nInheriting someone else’s database\, with AI as your guide\nJuan Soto · Access Experts \nTaking over someone else’s code and database can be very challenging\, understanding their data architecture\, purpose and code can take quite a long time. In addition\, you need to be careful with adding new features that may impact existing functionality. \nIn this session Juan will show how you can leverage AI to analyze\, understand\, audit and help plan new features on systems you did not create\, saving you countless hours and ensuring you’re not causing more harm than good. \n\n\n\n10:10\n\n\nBreak\n\n\n\n10:30\n\n\nMigrating a (large) database with AI\nJonathan Stein · J Street Technology \nIn a “partner piece” to Juan’s presentation\, Jonathan will share how he tackled the challenge of inheriting someone else’s database\, and using AI to help. \nImagine being given the database schema as a PDF. A PDF that ran to over 1800 pages. And that the data runs to over 80GB of raw content including JPGs\, PDFs and more. \nAnd the customer tells you that they’ve already spoken to 4 different suppliers\, all of whom have said it’s impossible… \nJonathan will tell you how he was able to do it. And just how long it took. \n\n\n\n11:30\n\n\nThinking Like a SQL Server Developer\nAnders Ebro \nMoving from Access to SQL Server is about more than moving your tables and queries to a different platform. It means thinking differently about where your data logic belongs\, how it should be structured\, and what work should happen in the database rather than in the Access client. \nIn this session\, we’ll explore some of the tools that SQL Server gives you for building that logic into the database itself. We’ll look at stored procedures\, views\, triggers and computed columns\, and how they can change the way you design an Access application. If time permits\, we’ll also venture into hierarchical data and some of the more powerful techniques SQL Server offers. The goal isn’t to turn you into a SQL Server DBA—but to help you help you think like a good SQL Server developer. \n\n\n\n12:30\n\n\nLunch\n\n\n\n13:30\n\n\nData visualisation with Power BI\nYnte Jan Kuindersma \nLove Access but want modern dashboards\, interactive reporting\, and insights you can easily share with others? That’s where Power BI comes in. \nWhile Access is excellent for building business applications and managing data\, Power BI adds powerful analytics\, rich visualizations\, mobile access\, and cloud-based reporting. Together\, they can turn your Access data into professional dashboards that help users make better decisions. \nUnfortunately\, getting Access data into the Power BI Service is not always straightforward. Connecting Power BI Desktop to an Access database is easy\, but publishing and refreshing that data in the cloud can be challenging. \nIn this session\, Ynte Jan will show how to build reports based on an Azure SQL server and will try to show the report within the Edge control in a Access form.\nWhether you’re maintaining a long-standing Access application or building something new\, you’ll leave with practical techniques to bring your Access data into the modern BI world. \n\n\n\n14:30\n\n\nSessionTo be announced\nSomething else good · Coming here… \nDetails coming soon. \n\n\n\n15:20\n\n\nTea and coffee · with cake\n\n\n\n15:35\n\n\nSessionTo be announced\nOne more good thing · Coming here… \nDetails coming soon. \n\n\n\n16:25\n\n\nWrap up and final thoughts\nSteve Girling\, Peter Bryant and Andrew Richards \n\n\n\n16:40\n\n\nClose\n\n\n\n \n\nSpeakers \nWho you will hear from\nMore speakers still to be announced. \n\n\n\nArmen Stein\nMicrosoft MVP · Founder & President\, J Street Technology\, Seattle \nArmen Stein is the founder and president of J Street Technology\, a team of about 15 developers\, designers and support staff located near Seattle. J Street has designed and built hundreds of custom Access desktop and ASP.NET web applications since 1994\, and also supports dozens of Access and web applications built by others. \nArmen is a Microsoft MVP since 2006\, and has spoken at many user groups and conferences around the world\, including Vienna DevKon\, Office DevCon in Australia\, the PAUG Conference (now Access Cascade Conference)\, Access Day events\, the UK Access User Group in London\, and the NADD conference in Amsterdam. He also regularly guest lectures on requirements discovery and database design at a local college. His other interests include travel\, photography\, Kauai\, backgammon\, trailer camping\, movies\, supporting people with disabilities in Nepal\, and driving his 1969 Ford Bronco in the sun. \n\n\n\nLuke Chung\nMicrosoft MVP · Founder & President\, FMS Inc \nFMS President Luke Chung\, founded FMS (fmsinc.com) in 1986 to provide custom database solutions. He directs the company’s product development and consulting services efforts as the database industry evolved. FMS is the world’s leading developer of commercial Microsoft Access products with tens of thousands of customers in 100+ countries. Luke is the primary author and designer of many FMS commercial products including Total Access Analyzer\, Total Access Detective\, Total Access Emailer\, Total Access Statistics\, among others. He also leads the Advanced Systems Group (fmsasg.com) with its Sentinel Visualizer product for the intelligence and law enforcement communities. \nA recognized database expert\, Luke is a popular speaker at conferences in the US\, Europe and Australia\, and published many articles. \nHe is a past president of the Washington\, DC chapter of the Entrepreneurs Organization and served on the Fairfax County Information Technology Policy Advisory Committee for 9 years. \n\n\n\nJuan Soto\nMicrosoft MVP · Founder\, Access Experts & AccessUserGroups.org \nFor more than 30 years\, businesses have trusted Juan Soto to protect\, modernize\, and grow the Microsoft Access databases their operations depend on. Today that trust extends beyond his clients – Microsoft has recognized Juan as an MVP every year for over a decade\, and invited him to help shape how small and medium businesses use Microsoft’s technology. \nHe founded Access Experts in 1994 on a simple belief: that a Microsoft Access database\, built and maintained correctly\, can carry a business much further than most people expect. Over 32 years working with Microsoft Access\, he and his team have designed\, modernized\, or rescued the databases running day-to-day operations for businesses across the US and Canada — from small shops to organizations managing millions of records. \nJuan is also the founder of AccessUserGroups.org\, with chapters on 5 continents\, bringing together people online each month or watching the replay on YouTube\, focused on a wide range of topics related to Access. \n\n\n\nAndrew Richards\nMicrosoft MVP · The IT Service · UKAUG co-chair \nAndrew has been running The IT Service since 2009\, and building databases since 2000. His time is split between building databases using Access and SQL\, and training people on anything to do with data\, including Access\, Excel\, SQL\, “AI without the hype”\, CyberSecurity and GDPR. \nHe’s consulted with a wide range of clients from museums (such as the British Museum) to universities (including Imperial College London and Oxford University) and from BBQ supply firms to forensic laboratories. \nHe lives with his partner Angela in East Sussex and provides care and support to sheep\, chickens\, guinea fowl and cats. \n\n\n\nAnders Ebro\nAnders has over 15 years of experience as a system designer\, software developer and consultant\, always focusing on really understanding the user and business requirements\, their work flow and thus optimizing their experience and ROI. \nHaving designed data models and systems for such diverse applications as Requirement Management\, Bus planning\, Budgeting\, Expense Re-allocation he has a great understanding of both domain driven design and the human element in application. \nAnders is easy-going\, honest to a fault\, and empathic\, and likes to build strong relationships with both clients and co-workers. He loves to teach and mentor new employees\, with a focus on best practice\, and it’s key to Anders that he never wants to stop learning or growing himself. \n\n\n\nRochelle Long\nJ Street Technology \nRochelle has several decades of experience developing Access Applications as a consultant and employee in a variety of industries. Over the last 10 years she has also expanded into PowerBI and Power Apps. \nRochelle recently spent nearly 4 years at Microsoft as a technical PM in Azure\, and later a data analyst and engineer in data center intelligence. She quietly built several Access databases at Microsoft – tools that enabled her to do things that others said couldn’t be done. Shhhh. \n\n\n\nJonathan Stein\nJ Street Technology\, Seattle \nJonathan is a software engineer for J Street Technology\, primarily focusing in full-stack web development and AI assisted development. In 2018 he completed a 6 month Seattle programming bootcamp for web development. From there\, he found his way to a tech startup in Seattle that helps users fight traffic tickets\, where he became a lead developer. After a few years he moved to J Street\, and has taken on a number of internal and external projects with an emphasis on using AI to streamline workflows and migrate code bases. \nJonathan has a passion for finding the best tools for the job and improving processes that slow teams down. He is relatively new to SQL\, and very new to Access\, but is always excited to take on complicated challenges and to learn about new technologies. \n\n\n\nMarcus Dieterle\nDieterle Programmierung \nMarcus has been working with Microsoft Access and VBA for around 15 years. Over the years\, he has developed and delivered a number of Access solutions for customers\, covering a wide range of requirements and challenges. \nThese days\, he’s focusing more on creating reusable tools\, controls and solutions for other Access developers. He also enjoys sharing what he learns with the community by writing technical articles and presenting his ideas and solutions at conferences and community events \n\n\n\nYnte Jan Kuindersma\nFreelance trainer and programmer \nDeveloper\, trainer\, consultant\, speaker\, and lifelong problem solver: Ynte Jan Kuindersma has been working with data and software since the 1980s. His philosophy is simple: technology should serve the solution\, not the other way around. That’s why his toolbox ranges from Access and SQL Server to Power BI\, Power Platform\, Visual Studio\, and beyond. \nKnown for his practical demos\, real-world examples\, and approachable presentation style\, Ynte Jan has inspired audiences throughout the Netherlands\, Germany\, and Austria. He is also a regular and popular speaker at major Access community events\, including Karl Donaubauer’s AEK. \n\n\n\n \n\nSponsors \nWith thanks to our sponsors\nSponsoring the conference gets you a number of benefits – including discounts on tickets. Find out more and purchase your sponsorship package at https://ukaug.co.uk/shop \nGold sponsors \n\n\n \nJ Street Technology \n\n \nFMS Inc \n\nYour logo \nThis could be you \nGet in touch about Gold sponsorship. \n\n\nSilver sponsors \n\nYour logo \nThis could be you \nGet in touch about Silver sponsorship. \n\n\n\n \n\nThe venue \nLeonardo Hotel London Watford\nSessions\, dinner and your room are all in the same building\, so there is nothing to organise beyond getting yourself there. \nLeonardo Hotel London Watford\n31–35 Clarendon Road\nWatford\n\n\n\nBy train\nWatford Junction is the nearest train station – approximately 800m from the hotel. \n\n\nBy tube\nWatford Underground station (Metropolitan Line) is the nearest tube station – approximately a 20 minute walk from the hotel. \n\n\nParking\nDiscounted parking is available to guests at the nearby Sutton car park that’s open 24/7. After parking your vehicle at Sutton\, please enter your vehicle registration on the Citi Park tablet at Reception\, this will discount your stay to £4 per 24 hours. \n\n\nExtra nights\nIf you would like to arrive the night before or stay on\, please contact the hotel direct\, on 01923 422800. \n\n\nAccess needs\nIf you have any accessibility or dietary requirements\, let us know and we will sort it out. \n\n\n\n \n\n\nEarly bird \nBook early\, pay less\nEarly bird pricing is open until 24th November 2026. Enter your code in the booking form below and the discount is applied at checkout. \n\nFull UKAUG membersMM27-EARLY£70 off your ticket\nNon-membersMNM-27-EARLY£50 off your ticket\n\nNot a member yet? Membership gets you the larger discount.
URL:https://ukaug.co.uk/event/the-2027-two-day-residential-international-conference/
LOCATION:Leonardo Hotel\, Watford\, 31-35 Clarendon Road\, Watford\, London\, WD17 1JA\, United Kingdom
ORGANIZER;CN="Andrew Richards":MAILTO:andrew@theitservice.co.uk
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