Visual Studio Live! Redmond Speakers

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The Speakers
The technical gurus joining us in Redmond…

Track Key:
 AI, Data, and Machine Learning Microsoft Sessions
 Foundational Sessions Workshops
 Cloud, Containers, and Microservices Hands-On Labs
 Delivery and Deployment Developing New Experiences
 DevOps in the Spotlight Full Stack Web Development
 General Sessions .NET Core and More

Laurie Barth
Staff Software Engineer
Gatsby

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

Andrew Brust
Founder and CEO
Blue Badge Insights

Laurent Bugnion
Cloud Developer Advocate
Microsoft

Michael Crump
Senior Developer Advocate
Vonage

Benjamin Day
Author, Trainer, Developer

Mickey Gousset
DevOps Architect
GitHub

Billy Hollis
Developer. Designer. Speaker. Author.

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

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

Vishwas Lele
CTO
Applied Information Sciences

Debbie Levitt
MBA
CXO
Delta CX

Rockford Lhotka
VP of Strategy
Xebia

Jeremy Likness
Senior PM for .NET Data
Microsoft

Leonard Lobel
MVP
CTO
Sleek Technologies, Inc.

James McCaffrey
Research Software Engineer, Microsoft Research
Microsoft

Ted Neward
Principal
Neward and Associates

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

Layla Porter
MVP
Developer Advocate,
VMware

Brian Randell
Staff Developer Advocate
GitHub

Walt Ritscher
Senior Staff Instructor
LinkedIn Learning / Lynda

Paul Sheriff
Author / Instructor

Manpreet Singh
Technology Specialist
Cognizant

Michael Washington
Programmer

Jim Wooley
Senior Delivery Principal
Slalom Consulting

Sjoukje Zaal
Managing Consultant, Microsoft Cloud Architect, Microsoft Azure MVP