Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

In this workshop, you'll learn how you can define a DevOps practice in your organization from end-to-end, regardless of the tools you use. more

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

Learn about the current state of DevOps on the Microsoft stack more

John Alexander Microsoft Regional Director, MCSD, CSD, BSBA, CTO, AJI Software

In this session, you'll look at some great tools like Vagrant, Chocolatey, and Chef to automate creating and configuring VMs and dev tool installs. more

Benjamin Day, Consultant & Trainer, Benjamin Day Consulting, Inc.

In this session, you'll learn how to address four of the main pieces of running a Scrum project using TFS2015: Stakeholder Interaction, Planning & Execution, Testing, and streamlining the Definition of Done (DoD). more

Richard Hundhausen, Consultant & Trainer, Accentient

By the end of the session, you will be able to identify waste and see new value in a leaner approach-all tactics you can use on your current or next project. more

Richard Hundhausen, Consultant & Trainer, Accentient

In this session, you'll see why as you study the lifecycle of a requirement from its acceptance criteria through to its passing acceptance tests, using many of the testing tools and features found in Visual Studio 2015 and Microsoft Test Manager 2015. more

Adam Tuliper, Principal Software Engineer, DX, Microsoft

Learn what ASP.NET Core 1.0 (previously ASP.NET 5) brings to the table with the exciting changes going on in ASP.NET. more

Rachel Appel, Senior Developer Evangelist, Microsoft

Learn how to construct an API to a SQL backend. more

Rachel Appel, Senior Developer Evangelist, Microsoft

If it's something important that you need to know to get your day to day work done in ASP.NET, you'll learn about it in this session! more

Adam Tuliper, Principal Software Engineer, DX, Microsoft

This presentation explores the most common attacks on Web applications, how they work to exploit your app, and most importantly, how to protect against them. more

Benjamin Day, Consultant & Trainer, Benjamin Day Consulting, Inc.

This session will start by discussing what role-based security is all about and what its limits are in a typical ASP.NET or WebAPI application. more

Benjamin Day, Consultant & Trainer, Benjamin Day Consulting, Inc.

In this session, you'll learn why you should care about Feature Flags, what they let you do, how it'll help your Scrum teams, and also show you how to actually implement them in your applications. more

Ben Dewey MVP, Mobile Practice Lead, Windows Division, Tallan, Inc

Learn what HTTP2 has to offer your site and the performance improvements it brings out of the box. more

Miguel Castro MRD, President, Melvicorp LLC

In this session, you'll hear a full comparison of the strengths and weaknesses of WCF and WebAPI, and how to make them work side-by-side in your SO-applications. more

Robert Green, Technical Evangelist, Developer Experience and Evangelism (DX), Microsoft

In this session, you'll see why and how to modernize existing .NET client line of business applications and move them into the cloud. more

Nick Landry, Senior Technical Evangelist , Microsoft

In this session you'll explore the "Maker" or "Things" side of IoT with hardware boards like Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Netduino, Intel Edison and others, and the various sensors and shields you can use to measure temperatures, capture user input via buttons, display data on micro displays and more fun electronic stuff. more

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

In this session, you'll walk through setting up your first Virtual Machine in Azure. more

Vishwas Lele, Chief Technology Officer , AIS

Come learn about what many consider to be the most important recent announcement from the Azure Team-Azure Service Fabric and support for containers. more

Vishwas Lele, Chief Technology Officer , AIS

In this session, you'll look at different constituent parts of Azure App Service. more

Andrew Brust, Senior Director, Market Strategy and Intelligence, Datameer

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

You'll learn a ton of new SQL Server features in this information-packed day! more

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

SQL Server 2016 adds many powerful features you'll learn about in this demo-packed session. more

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

In this session, you'll learn about the various difficulties that developers face, and demonstrates how SSDT can be used to remedy those pain points. more

Andrew Brust, Senior Director, Market Strategy and Intelligence, Datameer

Come to this session to learn what Hadoop is, how it works, what to do to get it running on the Azure cloud and how to integrate it with SQL Server, Power BI and Excel. more

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

This session presents an overview of Azure DocumentDB, a new massively-scalable and fully managed NoSQL database platform that is designed specifically for modern web and mobile applications. more

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

In this session, you'll learn the fundamentals of predictive analytics, data science algorithms, and how to use Azure Machine Learning to identify associations and relationships in your data, and predict future outcomes. more

Ted Neward, Director, Developer Relations, Smartsheet.com

This session will examine the NoSQL ecosystem, look at the major players, how they compare and contrast, and what sort of architectural implications they have for software systems in general. more

Andrew Brust, Senior Director, Market Strategy and Intelligence, Datameer

Power BI gives you a lot to take in, so come to this session to sink your teeth into what Power BI has to offer. more

Deborah Kurata, Microsoft MVP and Google Developer Expert

This beginner-level session introduces the .NET developer to Angular 2, the next generation of the very popular JavaScript framework for building client-side Web applications. more

Miguel Castro MRD, President, Melvicorp LLC

You'll learn how to design an ASP.NET MVC site so that it includes pockets of SPA that use Angular, taking advantage of binding, routing, and even back-button support-all while remaining on the client. more

Christopher Harrison, Senior Content Developer, Microsoft

We'll show you how to get started with Knockout in 75 minutes. more

Deborah Kurata, Microsoft MVP and Google Developer Expert

This session shows you how to build forms in Angular 2 using the HTML templates similar to how we build forms in Angular 1. more

Ted Neward, Director, Developer Relations, Smartsheet.com

In this session, you'll look at the proposed changes to ECMAScript/JavaScript, and have a look at what "JavaScript++" will look like ... once it finally rolls out to the browsers. more

Allen Conway, Lead Consultant , Magenic

In this session, you will see how working with TypeScript let you leverage familiar skills and have a similar experience as when working with managed languages to make writing JavaScript much easier. more

Allen Conway, Lead Consultant , Magenic

In this session, you'll learn about the importance of unit testing along with using Chutzpah and Jasmine within the comfortable confines of Visual Studio .NET to create and test our JavaScript code. more

Tarek Madkour, Group Program Manager, Visual Studio Platform Team, Microsoft

Get a sneak peek into the new innovations of the upcoming Visual Studio “15", .NET and Visual Studio Team Services releases. more

Scott Hanselman, Principal Community Architect for Web Platform and Tools, Microsoft

Join Scott Hanselman as he explores the relationship between the Cloud and the Browser more

Billy Hollis, XAML Slinger

In this session, Billy Hollis offers his usual mix of humor, ranting, new ideas, and examples to explain why you ought to be a composer. more

Kevin Ford, Mobile Practice Lead, Magenic

Brent Edwards, Principal Lead Consultant, Magenic

Look at how a mobile backend is created using Azure more

Kevin Ford, Mobile Practice Lead, Magenic

Explore how to create an app using Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova in VS 2015 and Intel's App Framework to make hybrid mobile applications with a native looking UI. more

James Montemagno, Principal Program Manager – Xamarin, Microsoft

This session will cover the Xamarin platform and how to create native iOS, Android, and Windows apps in C#. more

Kevin Ford, Mobile Practice Lead, Magenic

You'll look at the CardView, RecyclerView, styles and even Marshmallow concepts like the text selection, and look at examples in Xamarin and Java. more

James Montemagno, Principal Program Manager – Xamarin, Microsoft

Learn how to leverage your existing .NET and C# skills to create iOS and Android mobile apps in Visual Studio with Xamarin more

Parashuram N, Program Manager, Microsoft

In this talk, we will look at building a smooth and native-like end to end application using ReactNative. more

Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

Learn how to use Visual Studio to build apps that share all business layer code, and support WinRT, iOS, and Android interfaces. more

Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

Understand where open source does and doesn't differ from traditional proprietary tools, libraries, and frameworks. more

Michael Stiefel, President, Reliable Software, Inc.

The focus of this talk will be to correct this misunderstanding of what software or technology architecture is. more

Jeremy Clark, Developer Educator, JeremyBytes.com

You'll learn to think in small pieces and take a look at some techniques to keep your code manageable and understandable. more

Michael Stiefel, President, Reliable Software, Inc.

Come learn how to architect and build resilient applications more

John Alexander Microsoft Regional Director, MCSD, CSD, BSBA, CTO, AJI Software

This interactive and entertaining session will focus on design concepts and terminology to help you tackle this new and exciting frontier. more

Billy Hollis, XAML Slinger

Look at a range of applications and real-world products that exemplify good and bad design more

Robert Green, Technical Evangelist, Developer Experience and Evangelism (DX), Microsoft

Review Visual Studio 2015's variety of improvements more

Miguel Castro MRD, President, Melvicorp LLC

It's important to learn the concepts behind DI so you can write software that can be properly tested. So let's bring you totally up to speed then. more

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

A crash course in working with and building apps on Linux and OS X. more

Jason Bock MVP (C#), Practice Lead, Magenic

Learn to set things straight on a number of topics so you know exactly what's going with your code. more

Jason Bock MVP (C#), Practice Lead, Magenic

In this session, you'll get a gentle introduction into this library and how its API works. more

Jeremy Clark, Developer Educator, JeremyBytes.com

Learn what Dependency Injection is and why you want to use it. more

Jeremy Clark, Developer Educator, JeremyBytes.com

Show your boss how testing makes you faster and lets you move forward confidently and quickly. more

Jason Bock MVP (C#), Practice Lead, Magenic

Learn about what exceptions are, how they are used, and principles that you should follow to get the most (or least) out of them more

Ben Dewey MVP, Mobile Practice Lead, Windows Division, Tallan, Inc

Deep dive into asynchronous development using .NET more

Nick Landry, Senior Technical Evangelist , Microsoft

This session is your introduction to building AR & MR applications and games using C# and Visual Studio more

Billy Hollis, XAML Slinger

You'll learn the most important conceptual differences to writing these apps by writing a simple data-oriented app from scratch. more

Billy Hollis, XAML Slinger

The most important design guidelines are covered more

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

In this workshop, you'll learn how you can define a DevOps practice in your organization from end-to-end, regardless of the tools you use. more

Andrew Brust, Senior Director, Market Strategy and Intelligence, Datameer

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

You'll learn a ton of new SQL Server features in this information-packed day! more

Kevin Ford, Mobile Practice Lead, Magenic

Brent Edwards, Principal Lead Consultant, Magenic

Look at how a mobile backend is created using Azure more