Brian A. Randell, Staff Developer Advocate, GitHub

In this workshop, Brian will show you how to put a UI on artificial intelligence by teaching you how to build multi-channel bots using the Microsoft Bot Framework and Cognitive Services. more

Brian A. Randell, Staff Developer Advocate, GitHub

In this session, you'll learn where the SQL Server database fits in to DevOps, and how you can use tools to extend your infrastructure to make the database a first-class citizen, just like your source code. more

Brian A. Randell, Staff Developer Advocate, GitHub

PowerShell is the lingua franca of DevOps on Windows, Azure, and now MacOS and Linux if you choose. more

Alex Mullans, Program Manager, Visual Studio Team Services, Microsoft

This session will show you how to set up a new web site hosted in an Azure App Service, get it checked into and deployed with VSTS, and set up a backlog to track the team's work. more

Alex Mullans, Program Manager, Visual Studio Team Services, Microsoft

This session will cover common ways to apply Semantic Versioning to your NuGet and npm packages. more

Damian Brady, Cloud DevOps Advocate, Microsoft

This talk looks at the realities of implementing DevOps in an organization that is resistant to change. more

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

Azure MVP Eric D. Boyd will show you how Microsoft is enabling serverless compute in Azure with Azure Functions. more

Chris Klug, Developer , Active Solution

This session will provide an introduction to Docker, what it is and what it does, and then a walkthrough of how to get started. more

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

Azure MVP Eric D. Boyd will help you learn how to secure your Azure data center by reducing the exposure for attacks, locking down internal and external communications, protecting your data, and monitoring the activities within your Azure environment. more

Willy Ci, Front-end Developer, Hitachi Vantara

Veronika Kolesnikova Microsoft MVP (AI) , Sr. Software Engineer, Liberty Mutual

During this session, you'll learn about artificial intelligence and how it works in digital assistant applications. more

Laurent Bugnion, Cloud Developer Advocate, Microsoft

This session will give you an introduction to Azure Functions and get you started with this exciting aspect of modern computing. more

Veronika Kolesnikova Microsoft MVP (AI) , Sr. Software Engineer, Liberty Mutual

This session will give you basic knowledge about artificial intelligence, machine learning and their applications, go over all six groups of Cognitive Services and see individual APIs available in Azure. more

Philip Japikse Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider, MCSD, PSM II, PSD and PST, Developer, Coach, Author, Teacher

This session will give you a quick walkthrough of how to get your app deployed and running in Azure App Service, whether you build it with the Angular CLI, SystemJS, or using the JavaScript Services templates from Microsoft. more

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

This full-day workshop will get you up to speed on powerful features for developers in SQL Server. more

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

This session describes the various difficulties developers face, and demonstrates how SSDT can be used to remedy those pain points. more

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

This session presents an overview of Azure Cosmos DB, a globally distributed, massively scalable, low (single-digit millisecond) latency, fully managed NoSQL database service that is designed specifically for modern web and mobile applications. more

Scott Klein, Senior Content Manager, Microsoft

Come learn about SQL Server 2017 and gain insight into why “it’s just faster”. more

Pinal Dave , SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert, SQLAuthority.com

This session is for all developers who want their server to perform at blazing fast speed, but want to invest very little time to make it happen. more

Pinal Dave , SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert, SQLAuthority.com

The goal of this session is to expose small details that can be dangerous to the production environment and SQL Server as a whole, as well as talk about worst practices and how to avoid them. more

Scott Klein, Senior Content Manager, Microsoft

This demo-filled session will show you the wide variety of these built-in diagnostics and performance tools, and you will learn why SQL Server diagnostics are the best in the industry, built-in, and spans all platforms across SQL Server, Azure, and Linux. more

James McCaffrey , Research Software Engineer, Microsoft Research, Microsoft

In this brisk session, Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research (and one of the developers of Azure ML) will explain what Azure ML can (and can't) do, and present a complete end-to-end logistic regression "Hello World" example. more

James McCaffrey , Research Software Engineer, Microsoft Research, Microsoft

In this informal in-depth presentation, Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research will explain exactly what CNTK is, and describe the types of problems CNTK can and can't solve. more

James Montemagno, Principal Lead Program Manager, Developer Community, Microsoft

In this mobile first, cloud first world, it's essential to have a high-performing, powerful framework available on every platform you're targeting. more

Kasey Uhlenhuth, Program Manager, .NET Managed Languages , Microsoft

In this keynote, we’ll explore how various .NET tools empower developers to innovate and be successful in the advancing world of technology. more

Rockford Lhotka, VP of Strategy, Xebia

James McCaffrey , Research Software Engineer, Microsoft Research, Microsoft

Damian Brady, Cloud DevOps Advocate, Microsoft

Claire Novotny, Executive Director of the .NET Foundation, and PM on the .NET Team, Microsoft

Pinal Dave , SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert, SQLAuthority.com

Veronika Kolesnikova Microsoft MVP (AI) , Sr. Software Engineer, Liberty Mutual

A discussion of security issues and how all of us as software developers and architects can help minimize risk. more

Roy Cornelissen, Cloud Solution Architect, Xebia

Marcel de Vries, Global MD & CTO, Xebia

In this full day hands-on lab, you'll walk through the process of building one app for many platforms. more

Kevin Ford, Mobile Practice Lead, Magenic

The need to create a mobile app is becoming much more common and more of us are finding ourselves in a position of needing to write such an app using Xamarin and not knowing where to start. more

Nick Landry, Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

This session will cover real-world considerations in Xamarin.Forms projects such as UI design considerations when sharing a user experience across iOS, Android and Windows, including navigation paradigms, styling, and supporting older versions. more

Laurent Bugnion, Cloud Developer Advocate, Microsoft

In today's world, you develop applications for a number of devices, screen sizes, form factors and capabilities. more

Nick Landry, Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

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Nick Landry, Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

This session is your introduction to building 3D applications and games for Windows Mixed Reality using C#, Visual Studio and Unity. more

Billy Hollis, Developer. Designer. Speaker. Author.

XAML is the default technology for native applications, including desktop and mobile. more

Claire Novotny, Executive Director of the .NET Foundation, and PM on the .NET Team, Microsoft

Discover how to run test your mobile apps and class libraries with xUnit for Devices. more

Rockford Lhotka, VP of Strategy, Xebia

The widely-used open source CSLA .NET framework helps you create a reusable, scalable, and cross-platform portable business layer that lets your application run on multiple types of client devices while sharing business logic between the clients and your app server. more

Billy Hollis, Developer. Designer. Speaker. Author.

You've probably learned just enough XAML to get by. You know how to create typical business application screens, but you don't have the time to learn enough to really drive XAML to its potential. This session is your shortcut. more

Nick Landry, Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

Adam Tuliper, Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft

This workshop is your introduction to building 3D Mixed Reality applications and games for Microsoft HoloLens and Immersive headsets using C#, Visual Studio and Unity. more

Billy Hollis, Developer. Designer. Speaker. Author.

This full-day session will teach you two dozen fundamental principles of design, based on science of the visual system and human psychology. more

Marcel de Vries, Global MD & CTO, Xebia

In this session, you'll look at what feature toggles are, how to use them to separate releases and deployments, and how to implement this in your software using existing frameworks. more

Roy Cornelissen, Cloud Solution Architect, Xebia

Mobility has taken flight in recent years and is becoming prevalent in the enterprise. more

Miguel Castro MRD, President, Melvicorp LLC

This session will not be about code, but more about architecture and design. You'll learn what microservices are, what a microservice architecture is, and you'll discuss the characteristics at the service level and with everything that surrounds them in the architecture. more

Jeremy Clark, Developer Educator, JeremyBytes.com

You'll look at specific examples of how unit tests save time in the development process by letting us code more confidently, catch bugs earlier, and minimize manual testing. more

Miguel Castro MRD, President, Melvicorp LLC

You'll learn how to make your code testable and maintainable with the help of a DI container. more

Jeremy Clark, Developer Educator, JeremyBytes.com

There's a lot of confusion about async/await, Task/TPL, and asynchronous and parallel programming in general. more

Kasey Uhlenhuth, Program Manager, .NET Managed Languages , Microsoft

Visual Studio is a productivity game changer for C#. more

Kevin Ford, Mobile Practice Lead, Magenic

This session will look at what VSMC is and how you can use it to simplify building mobile applications. more

Ted Neward, Principal, Neward and Associates

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Jason Bock MVP (C#), Staff Software Engineer, Rocket Mortgage

This session will cut to the chase and show exactly what is .NET Standard. more

Adam Tuliper, Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft

.NET Core is truly a new technology that is fast, efficient, cross platform, and open source. more

Laurent Bugnion, Cloud Developer Advocate, Microsoft

This session will help you understand why .NET Standard can benefit you, and you'll learn about experiences converting frameworks to .NET Standard. more

Claire Novotny, Executive Director of the .NET Foundation, and PM on the .NET Team, Microsoft

Dive into code signing and learn why you want to be attaching signatures to your code and how to quickly and securely incorporate code signing into your CI/CD pipeline. more

Jason Bock MVP (C#), Staff Software Engineer, Rocket Mortgage

This session will show you how you can use static analysis tools (like Code Analysis/FxCop) to find all kinds of implementation issues before they show up in a release. more

Claire Novotny, Executive Director of the .NET Foundation, and PM on the .NET Team, Microsoft

This is an introduction to creating single and multi-targeted .NET Standard class libraries using the new "SDK-style" project system. more

Jason Bock MVP (C#), Staff Software Engineer, Rocket Mortgage

Rockford Lhotka, VP of Strategy, Xebia

You'll learn how to apply technologies such as Azure Functions, Azure Service Fabric, Signal-R, RESTful services, and so on. more

Ted Neward, Principal, Neward and Associates

In this Hands-On Lab, you'll start from zero, with a little TypeScript, then start working with Angular 2: its core constructs and how it works with components, modules, and of course the ubiquitous model/view/controller approach. more

Deborah Kurata Microsoft MVP and Google Developer Expert (GDE), Consultant, Speaker, Author

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

Deborah Kurata Microsoft MVP and Google Developer Expert (GDE), Consultant, Speaker, Author

This session details key techniques for passing and sharing data and subscribing to notifications so that components can work together effectively. more

Ben Hoelting, Development Manager, Ent Credit Union

This session will dive into TypeScript and discuss some of the language features it provides on top of normal JavaScript. more

Robert Boedigheimer, Principal Systems Developer, Schwan's Home Delivery

Fiddler is a great free web diagnostic tool that nearly everyone uses, but they typically use it only for very basic things. more

Jason Bock MVP (C#), Staff Software Engineer, Rocket Mortgage

This session will demystify WebAssembly, demonstrate exactly what it is, and provide insight into how this will affect JavaScript and web development in the future. more

Ted Neward, Principal, Neward and Associates

This session will cover the tools and APIs that a developer can use to build a Chrome extension--and when they can be useful, and when they just annoy people. more

Brock Allen, Application Security Architect

Come and learn how ASP.NET Core and IdentityServer can be used to design for a modern security architecture. more

Brock Allen, Application Security Architect

Come and learn how ASP.NET Core and IdentityServer can be used to design for a modern security architecture. more

Ben Hoelting, Development Manager, Ent Credit Union

This session will introduce Razor pages and demonstrate how to use them with the MVVM pattern. more

Chris Klug, Developer , Active Solution

This session will present a heap of different types of authN and authZ. more

Robert Boedigheimer, Principal Systems Developer, Schwan's Home Delivery

This session will review the major features of HTTP/2 and how to best utilize the new protocol. more

Robert Boedigheimer, Principal Systems Developer, Schwan's Home Delivery

Learn about the misconceptions around HTTPS, and that it isn't as hard to implement as you think. more

Philip Japikse Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider, MCSD, PSM II, PSD and PST, Developer, Coach, Author, Teacher

This session will show you what you need to know to move to ASP.NET Core for Web applications and RESTful services. more

Adam Tuliper, Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft

This session will look at some of the various security options available to allow various means of authentication/authorization. more

Philip Japikse Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider, MCSD, PSM II, PSD and PST, Developer, Coach, Author, Teacher

This session will show you the core features of EF Core 2 and how it can save you valuable time that is much better spent on providing business value and compelling features into your applications. more

Philip Japikse Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider, MCSD, PSM II, PSD and PST, Developer, Coach, Author, Teacher

In this session, you'll learn about IdentityServer capabilities, how to set up IdentityServer to support a single ASP.NET Web Site or Web API, or to set it up as a central authentication server enabling Single Sign On (SSO) from all your client apps. more

Brock Allen, Application Security Architect

Come and learn how ASP.NET Core and IdentityServer can be used to design for a modern security architecture. more

Roy Cornelissen, Cloud Solution Architect, Xebia

Marcel de Vries, Global MD & CTO, Xebia

In this full day hands-on lab, you'll walk through the process of building one app for many platforms. more

Ted Neward, Principal, Neward and Associates

In this Hands-On Lab, you'll start from zero, with a little TypeScript, then start working with Angular 2: its core constructs and how it works with components, modules, and of course the ubiquitous model/view/controller approach. more

Brock Allen, Application Security Architect

Come and learn how ASP.NET Core and IdentityServer can be used to design for a modern security architecture. more

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

This full-day workshop will get you up to speed on powerful features for developers in SQL Server. more

Brian A. Randell, Staff Developer Advocate, GitHub

In this workshop, Brian will show you how to put a UI on artificial intelligence by teaching you how to build multi-channel bots using the Microsoft Bot Framework and Cognitive Services. more

Nick Landry, Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

Adam Tuliper, Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft

This workshop is your introduction to building 3D Mixed Reality applications and games for Microsoft HoloLens and Immersive headsets using C#, Visual Studio and Unity. more

Jason Bock MVP (C#), Staff Software Engineer, Rocket Mortgage

Rockford Lhotka, VP of Strategy, Xebia

You'll learn how to apply technologies such as Azure Functions, Azure Service Fabric, Signal-R, RESTful services, and so on. more

Billy Hollis, Developer. Designer. Speaker. Author.

This full-day session will teach you two dozen fundamental principles of design, based on science of the visual system and human psychology. more