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Agile:MK January 2013 Meeting

Howard van Rooijen By Howard van Rooijen Co-Founder

Technologists who work in London are very spoilt for choice when it comes to user groups - there are generally more on in any month that any single person can attend. Unfortunately if you live or work outside of London - depending on the area - it can be a bit desolate.

Endjin are proud to sponsor Agile:MK a new user group for Agile Practitioners based in / around the Milton Keynes area.

The January meeting is on the Tuesday the 15th from 6pm – 8pm at Jurys Inn Hotel, Midsummer Boulevard, Milton Keynes, MK9 2HP

To be part of Agile:MK signup via the LinkedIn Group.

If you cannot attend the meetings - do not fear - you can still keep up to date with all the goings on via the Agile:MK Journal, Issue 1 is available to download by clicking on the image below:

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Howard van Rooijen

Co-Founder

Howard van Rooijen

Howard spent 10 years as a technology consultant helping some of the UK's best known organisations work smarter, before founding endjin in 2010. He's a Microsoft ScaleUp Mentor, and a Microsoft Azure MVP, and helps small teams achieve big things using data, AI and Microsoft Azure.