The .NET developer community is vastly expanding, so there’s more opportunity than ever to network with local user groups and learn about new and exciting releases, tooling, and updates to Xamarin and related technologies. ‘Tis the season to enhance your knowledge of native mobile development!

Below are just a few of the Xamarin events happening around the world this December; find one here, or search through even more on the Xamarin Events page to find an event near you!

December 2:

• Pune, India | Pune DevCon 2017: 5 Tracks covering 20+ sessions on technologies like Xamarin, Visual Studio, Azure, IoT, Blockchain, and more!
• Lathan, NY. USA | Xamarin Dev Days Latham: Learn Xamarin from start to File->New app in this full day of sessions and a lab with Xamarin experts hosted by Tech Valley User Group.

December 5:

• Seattle, WA. USA | Seattle Mobile .NET Developers Group: Hacking your coffee maker-building a connected appliance with Netduino & Xamarin.

December 6:

• Copenhagen, Denmark | Sii Conference: Sii and Microsoft team up to show how new technology makes it easier to design and develop cross-platform mobile applications with Xamarin.

December 12:

• Sydney, Austraila | Sydney Mobile .Net (Xamarin) Developers : Last Meetup of 2017!
• Vienna, VA. USA | Capital Area .NET User Group: Mobile DevOps with Visual Studio App Center with Microsoft MVP, Ed Snider.

December 13:

• Webinar | Xamarin: Get the Most out of Android 8 Oreo with Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin.

December 14:

• Webinar | Xamarin: Get the Most out of iOS 11 with Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin.

December 16:

• Verona, Italy | Xamarin on the Rocks: Join local user group CloudGen Verona and several industry experts for a full day of Xamarin training and labs.

December 19:

• New York, USA | NYC Mobile .Net Developers: Monitoring Your Mobile Apps in the Wild with Microsoft MVP, Greg Shackles.

New Xamarin user groups and events are constantly being announced, so we can’t fit all of the awesome opportunities in one place. For the full list of mobile .NET developer events, browse through our Xamarin Events page, and sarch for Xamarin events happening around the world or pick one close to home by filtering by location. New events and user groups are being added often, so be sure to check throughout the month for updates.

Can’t find a user group near you?

Start one of your own! These helpful resources offer tips on how to organize a local Xamarin User Group:

• How to get started
• Introduction to Xamarin slide deck
• Advanced Speaker decks and presentations with demos
• Promote your upcoming events on the Xamarin Events Forum!

Feel free to send us an email or tweet @XamarinEvents to let us know about Xamairn related events in your area, and we’ll help you promote them. You can also post your event details in our Events Forum to be included in the following month’s event blog post!

Don’t forget to browse the Xamarin events page for even more Xamarin meetups, conferences, hackathons, and other tech gatherings happening near you this month.