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Ted Neward, Principal, Neward & Associates, LLC.
In this session, we’ll 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
Python is a general-purpose programming language and platform that provides a rich ecosystem of powerful features and libraries. more
Jen Stirrup, Principal, Data Relish Ltd
This practical session offers organizations, small and large, with a helping hand in practical advice and demos using Microsoft Azure with Open Source technologies. more
Laurent Bugnion, Senior Cloud Developer Advocate, Microsoft
In this session, Laurent Bugnion will show you how you can use cognitive services to enhance your applications with advanced capabilities, how you can refine the trained models with your own data and how you can integrate Cognitive Services with other Azure services to automate tasks. more
Vishwas Lele, CTO, Applied Information Sciences
In this session, we will look at basics of deep learning and neural networks as an important tool in the proverbial developer tool belt. more
Euan Garden, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft
Learn about your options for technology and design patterns for solving these problems. more
In this session, we will look at Microsoft Power BI, and open source technologies such as R and Python in Azure for AI and data visualization, along with best practices for visualizing data for artificial intelligence. more
In this session, we will look at data science models and provide clear guidelines on how to select the best model(s) for your purposes. more
James McCaffrey , Research Software Engineer, Microsoft Research, Microsoft
You will leave this presentation with all the information you need to create a working deep neural prediction system. more
Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.
With the release of SQL Server 2016, the database engine has been greatly enhanced for security, with three new features that you’ll learn about in this demo-packed session. more
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
This full-day workshop will get you up to speed on powerful features for developers in SQL Server. more
In this presentation, Laurent Bugnion will show you how he got started and how you too can take advantage of the services that the Microsoft Cloud has to offer. more
This session will look at key tenets of microservices. more
Tanya Janca, Senior Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
This talk is a whirlwind intro to securing cloud computing in Azure. more
Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX
In addition to the fundamentals of developing and deploying serverless code in Azure Functions, you will learn about the tooling and DevOps capabilities that exist for working with Functions. more
Marcel de Vries, CTO, Xpirit
After attending this session, you will have a full understanding on what container technology is, what Docker brings to the table, and how it can revolutionize the way you do software development in the future! more
Join this session to learn how to get deeper insights into the health and usage of your solutions using Application Insights, Azure Log Analytics and Power BI to ultimately provide great user experiences. more
Oren Novotny, Chief Architect, DevOps & Modern Software, Insight
Learn the how to secure your applications and API’s with Azure AD Business to Consumer (B2C). more
Peter Porgorski, Program Manager, Azure Service Fabric, Microsoft
Learn how to build and deploy resilient containers and microservices at scale with .NET on Azure Service Fabric more
Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic
In this session you'll learn about the benefits and costs of this architecture, the prerequisites your organization needs to have in place, and how you can implement enterprise systems using microservices and .NET. more
René van Osnabrugge, DevOps Consultant, Xpirit
In this one-day Workshop we will guide you through the concepts behind Micro Services, Containers and Containerized delivery to help you build and manage MSA based systems. more
Heather Downing, Coder. Entrepreneur. Passionate for the impossible
Explore the habits of well known developers outside of their coding chops. more
Philip Japikse Microsoft MVP, MCSD, CSM, and CSP, Developer, Coach, Author, Teacher
In this talk we look at a series of failed projects, examining the root causes, and the lessons learned from those failures. more
Billy Hollis, XAML Slinger
Many developers are quite surprised at how much they can learn and discover when they know how to observe and listen to users. more
In this session, we’ll discuss the most important ways Billy has found to cope with the complex world of development, and perhaps help others avoid some of the mistakes he’s made over time. He will also keep time open at the end for you to pose your own challenges and get some ideas for meeting them. more
Brandon Minnick, Mobile App Developer, Developer Advocate Team, Microsoft
This hands-on workshop will take you from 0 to a fully working, cloud connected, AI powered mobile app. more
Sam Basu, Developer Advocate, Telerik
Let’s dive into Xamarin.Forms and unearth the magic behind the cross-platform development democratization for .NET developers. more
Adam Tuliper, Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft
Join this session to learn all about the .NET Standard and leave understanding the portability of .NET code. more
Let’s explore tools and services that enable developers to build smarter Bots – aka, the next generation of apps. more
Mark Miller, Chief Architect, IDE Tools Division, Developer Express
Explore the how and why of great UI. If you believe you’re not an artist, that UI is subjective, or that Great UI takes too much effort, then this session is for you. more
Get a big boost on your UI skills. more
Tony Champion , President, Champion DS
In this session we will explore how Project Rome's remote system APIs can help you drive user engagement with your apps. more
This session will take a look at how to successfully build UWP apps that target multiple devices and get you ready to start deploying UWP apps across devices. more
Walk through code examples for Alexa and Google Assistant integration, discovering the pros and cons of each in detail. more
Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies
This all-day workshop is broken into five parts where you'll start with nothing and end with an ASP.NET Core app with a SQL Server database running in Azure using both Azure App Service with SQL Database as well as an Azure AKS deployment with Kubernetes. more
Tiago Pascoal, Visual Studio ALM Ranger, Microsoft
This is the story of how the Azure DevOps team transformed from shipping an on-premise server product every couple of years, to shipping a cloud service multiple times a day. more
The OWASP DevSlop team is back with "Patty," a new module of the project consisting of a DevSecOps pipeline made with VSTS (and many security plug-ins). more
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
In this session, you'll get a crash course in taking an ASP.NET Core app with a SQL Server database and get it running up in a container on Azure managed with Kubernetes, all driven from a CI/CD pipeline in Azure DevOps. more
Come learn how Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure Dev Spaces make it easy to build cloud-based test environments and run your code in them. more
In this session, you will learn what security issues to look for when developing and deploying software, and potential changes you should consider to your development process to handle them. more
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
You need insights into the performance, usage, infrastructure utilization and new releases that are deployed and their impact. more
Rugged DevOps is all about securing your assets and your pipeline and really embed Security in to your DevOps process. more
Brock Allen, Application Security Architect, Solliance
This 2-day hands-on workshop will bring you up to speed on the main components in ASP.NET Core for securing your web applications and web APIs. more
Jason Bock MVP (C#), Practice Lead, Magenic
In this workshop Rocky and Jason will show you how to build C# and .NET code that runs on Windows, Linux, Docker, macOS, iOS, Android and in the browser. more
Paul Sheriff, Author / Instructor
Learn more about HTML5 with a host of new structural and semantic elements. more
CSS 3 adds many new features that used to be only possible with JavaScript. more
Ben Hoelting, Development Manager, Ent Credit Union
Determining what framework is the best for your enterprise, team or project can be challenging. This session will help you decide what framework fits your needs. more
Learn how you can create and do inheritance in JavaScript? more
This session will show you the modern approach for browser-based JavaScript applications to authenticate users, and perform secure web api invocations. more
This session is a survey of the components provided by the platform to provide security including hosting, data protection, authentication, authorization, and identity. more
This session is an end-to-end walkthrough of how this works and how you can benefit. more
Brady Gaster, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft
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Jessica Deen, Azure Avenger, Microsoft
Beth Massi, Product Marketing Manager, .NET Platform, Microsoft
Learn about the present and the future of the .NET Platform. more
Interested in ASP.NET Core 2.x and Entity Framework Core 2.x, but not sure where to start? Start here with a full day Hands-On Lab. more
Allison Buchholtz-Au, Program Manager, Microsoft
In this demo-heavy session, we’ll be walking through some of our classic tips and tricks from Visual Studio, as well as exploring what’s new and coming in Visual Studio 2019. more
Attend this session to get a good understanding of the entire new feature set and when to use them. more
In this session, we’ll cover what a .NET developer needs to know to improve the performance of their applications. more
Come if you want to unravel the mysteries of concurrent and asynchronous programming! more
Jim Wooley, Solution Architect, Slalom Consulting
In this session, we will focus on how these changes will impact you as a C# or VB developer in your day-to-day development. more
Learn how .NET Core 3 brings WPF and Windows Forms into the future with a modern runtime. more
We'll explore some real-life strategies that have solved performance issues in production applications that I have encountered at a variety of customers more