Tracks -- Visual Studio Live!: Training Conferences and Events for Enterprise Microsoft .NET and Azure Developers

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Cloud, Containers, and Microservices

T14 Building Cloud-native Microservices with Dapr Tuesday March 5 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Marcel de Vries, CO-Founder & CTO, Xpirit

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W05 The Fin-tastic Way to Boost Your Cloud ROI: An Introduction to FinOps on Azure Wednesday March 6 9:30am - 10:45am

René van Osnabrugge, DevOps Strategy Consultant, Xpirit

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H14 Use OpenAPI to Document and Generate Your Services and Clients Thursday March 7 1:15pm - 2:30pm

Jon Flanders, Software Engineer, Disney

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H18 WebAssembly in the Cloud Thursday March 7 2:45pm - 4:00pm

Jon Flanders, Software Engineer, Disney

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Cutting Edge AI

HOL02 2-Day Hands-On Lab: Elevate Your Career with Python and AI - A Hands-On Lab Workshop Sunday March 3 9:00am - 6:00pm

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

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M03 Workshop: Copilot Engineering Everywhere Monday March 4 9:00am - 6:00pm

Brian Randell, Product Marketing Director, GitHub
Mickey Gousset, DevOps Architect, GitHub

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HOL02 2-Day Hands-On Lab: Elevate Your Career with Python and AI - A Hands-On Lab Workshop Monday March 4 9:00am - 6:00pm

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

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T02 AI Bingo: What are Today's Buzzwords? Tuesday March 5 8:00 am - 9:15 am

Brian Randell, Product Marketing Director, GitHub

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T06 Cyber Duck Development ChatGPT Can Level Up Your Career Tuesday March 5 9:30 am - 10:45 am

Angela Dugan, Strategic Business Consultant & Agility Coach

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Keynote: Your Future is Bright with Visual Studio and AI Tuesday March 5 11:00am - 12:00pm

Mads Kristensen , Principal Product Manager , Microsoft

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T10 Introduction to Neural Networks Using C# Tuesday March 5 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm

James McCaffrey , Research Software Engineer, Microsoft Research, Microsoft

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W02 ChatGPT, Azure OpenAI and Cognitive Services: Better Together Wednesday March 6 8:00 am - 9:15 am

Prashant G Bhoyar, Cloud Solution Architect , AIS

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W06 Create Intelligent Bots with OpenAI, ChatGPT, Power Platform, and Azure Wednesday March 6 9:30 am - 10:45 am

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

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W11 Fast Focus: Crafting Prompts 101: A Comprehensive Introduction for Newcomers in Artificial Intelligence Wednesday March 6 1:30 pm - 1:50 pm

Prashant G Bhoyar, Cloud Solution Architect , AIS

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W13 Fast Focus: Do More with GitHub Copilot Wednesday March 6 2:00 pm - 2:20 pm

Brian Randell, Product Marketing Director, GitHub

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H02 Navigating the Enterprise Landscape with Azure OpenAI and ChatGPT: Lessons from the Trenches Thursday March 7 8:00 am - 9:15 am

Prashant G Bhoyar, Cloud Solution Architect , AIS

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H06 Predicting the Future (of Equipment) Using ML.NET Thursday March 7 9:30 am - 10:45 am

Ron Dagdag, R&D Manager, 7-Eleven

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H10 Crafting an AI Mixologist Using Semantic Kernel Thursday March 7 11:00 am - 12:15 pm

Ron Dagdag, R&D Manager, 7-Eleven

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Data & Analytics

T11 Microsoft Fabric: Defragmenting the Analytics Stack Tuesday March 5 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Andrew Brust, Founder and CEO, Blue Badge Insights

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T15 Step-by-Step Guide: Building ETL Workflows in Microsoft Fabric Tuesday March 5 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Sally Dabbah, Data Engineer, Azure Cloud Analytics Services, Microsoft

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W03 Schema Management and Evolution to Create Flexible and High-performance Applications Wednesday March 6 8:00am - 9:15am

Davide Mauri, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft

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W07 How to Build Secure and Scalable Applications with Microsoft SQL Wednesday March 6 9:30am - 10:45am

Bob Ward, Principal Architect, Microsoft Azure Data, Microsoft

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W10 Fast Focus: Data Lakehouses, Data Warehouses and Datamarts: When to use Which in Microsoft Fabric Wednesday March 6 1:30pm - 1:50pm

Andrew Brust, Founder and CEO, Blue Badge Insights

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W17 Developing Microsoft SQL Applications with AI Wednesday March 6 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Bob Ward, Principal Architect, Microsoft Azure Data, Microsoft

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W20 My Application is Fully Concurrent and Async. What About the Database? Wednesday March 6 4:00pm - 5:15pm

Davide Mauri, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft

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H05 What's New for Developers in SQL Server 2022 Thursday March 7 9:30am - 10:45am

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

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H17 Creating REST and GraphQL Database Endpoints with Data API Builder Thursday March 7 2:45pm - 4:00pm

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

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F01 Workshop: Developer Dive into SQL Server 2022 Friday March 8 8:00am - 5:00pm

Andrew Brust, Founder and CEO, Blue Badge Insights
Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

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Developing New Experiences

T09 Deep Dive in MAUI Tuesday March 5 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Sam Basu, Developer Advocate, Progress

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T13 Managing an Effective Xamarin.Forms to .NET MAUI Transition Tuesday March 5 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Mitchel Sellers, CEO, IowaComputerGurus, Inc.

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W12 Fast Focus: Blazor MAUI Hybrid Apps Wednesday March 6 2:00pm - 2:20pm

Rockford Lhotka, VP of Strategy, Xebia

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H01 Building AI Powered .NET Mobile Applications Thursday March 7 8:00am - 9:15am

Tony Champion , President, Champion DS

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H09 Injecting Innovation into Applications Through Design Thursday March 7 11:00am - 12:15pm

Billy Hollis, Developer. Designer. Speaker. Author.

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H13 "Wouldn't it be Cool" and Other Bad Design Approaches Thursday March 7 1:15pm - 2:30pm

Billy Hollis, Developer. Designer. Speaker. Author.

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Fast Focus

W10 Fast Focus: Data Lakehouses, Data Warehouses and Datamarts: When to use Which in Microsoft Fabric Wednesday March 6 1:30pm - 1:50pm

Andrew Brust, Founder and CEO, Blue Badge Insights

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W12 Fast Focus: Blazor MAUI Hybrid Apps Wednesday March 6 2:00pm - 2:20pm

Rockford Lhotka, VP of Strategy, Xebia

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W13 Fast Focus: Do More with GitHub Copilot Wednesday March 6 2:00 pm - 2:20 pm

Brian Randell, Product Marketing Director, GitHub

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Full Stack Web Development

HOL01 Hands-on Lab: Build an ASP.NET Core Razor Pages App with EF Core in a Day Sunday March 3 9:00am - 6:00pm

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

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M01 Workshop: Blazor Top to Bottom Monday March 4 9:00 am - 6:00 pm

Jason Bock MVP (C#), Staff Software Engineer, Rocket Mortgage
Allen Conway, App Modernization Consultant, Xpirit USA
Rockford Lhotka, VP of Strategy, Xebia

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T01 Getting Up and Running with Modern Angular Tuesday March 5 8:00 am - 9:15 am

Allen Conway, App Modernization Consultant, Xpirit USA

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T05 TypeScript Moving Beyond the Basics Tuesday March 5 9:30 am - 10:45 am

Allen Conway, App Modernization Consultant, Xpirit USA

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W01 Building RESTful Services with ASP.NET Core Wednesday March 6 8:00 am - 9:15 am

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

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W09 Fast Focus on API Versioning and Documentation Wednesday March 6 1:30 pm - 1:50 pm

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

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W15 Versioning and Documenting ASP.NET Core Services Wednesday March 6 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm

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

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W16 Deep Dive: Microsoft Blazor Zero to Success Wednesday March 6 2:30 pm - 5:15 pm

Rockford Lhotka, VP of Strategy, Xebia

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H07 Blazor Stability Testing Tools for Bullet Proof Applications Thursday March 7 9:30 am - 10:45 am

Ed Charbeneau, Developer Advocate, Progress

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General Sessions

Keynote: Developing Modern Data Applications Using the Power of AI with Azure Databases Wednesday March 6 11:00am - 12:00pm

Bob Ward, Principal Architect, Microsoft Azure Data, Microsoft

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Hands-On Labs

HOL01 Hands-on Lab: Build an ASP.NET Core Razor Pages App with EF Core in a Day Sunday March 3 9:00am - 6:00pm

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

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HOL03 Hands-on Lab: Code to Cloud with GitHub Sunday March 3 9:00am - 6:00pm

Marcel de Vries, CO-Founder & CTO, Xpirit
René van Osnabrugge, DevOps Strategy Consultant, Xpirit

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HOL02 2-Day Hands-On Lab: Elevate Your Career with Python and AI - A Hands-On Lab Workshop Sunday March 3 9:00am - 6:00pm

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

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M03 Workshop: Copilot Engineering Everywhere Monday March 4 9:00am - 6:00pm

Brian Randell, Product Marketing Director, GitHub
Mickey Gousset, DevOps Architect, GitHub

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HOL02 2-Day Hands-On Lab: Elevate Your Career with Python and AI - A Hands-On Lab Workshop Monday March 4 9:00am - 6:00pm

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

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H01 Building AI Powered .NET Mobile Applications Thursday March 7 8:00am - 9:15am

Tony Champion , President, Champion DS

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Human Factors in Engineering

M02 Workshop: Mastering Human Factors Monday March 4 9:00 am - 6:00 pm

Benjamin Day, Author, Trainer, Developer
Angela Dugan, Strategic Business Consultant & Agility Coach

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T04 What's the Problem?!? How to Resolve Conflict Tuesday March 5 8:00 am - 9:15 am

Robert Bogue, President, Thor Projects LLC

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T16 Burnout in Software Development Tuesday March 5 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm

Robert Bogue, President, Thor Projects LLC

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W14 Fast Focus: Rethinking Team Metrics in 20 Minutes Wednesday March 6 2:00 pm - 2:20 pm

Angela Dugan, Strategic Business Consultant & Agility Coach

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W18 Scrum Trek Warp Speed Flow Metrics Wednesday March 6 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm

Benjamin Day, Author, Trainer, Developer

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W21 Culture Club: Building a Strong Engineering Culture from the Ground Up Wednesday March 6 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm

René van Osnabrugge, DevOps Strategy Consultant, Xpirit

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H08 Navigating the Project Storm: A Guide to Overcoming 10 Development Project Pitfalls Thursday March 7 9:30 am - 10:45 am

Mickey Gousset, DevOps Architect, GitHub

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H12 Gut Leadership: Accelerate Your Performance by Uncovering Your Leadership “Genius” Thursday March 7 11:00 am - 12:15 pm

Jennifer Watson, CEO, Watson World Wide

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H20 Master the Chemistry of Resilience to Achieve Ambitious Results Thursday March 7 2:45 pm - 4:00 pm

Jennifer Watson, CEO, Watson World Wide

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Modern Software Engineering

HOL03 Hands-on Lab: Code to Cloud with GitHub Sunday March 3 9:00am - 6:00pm

Marcel de Vries, CO-Founder & CTO, Xpirit
René van Osnabrugge, DevOps Strategy Consultant, Xpirit

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T12 Developer Security: Safeguarding Your Code and Projects Tuesday March 5 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Mickey Gousset, DevOps Architect, GitHub

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W04 Using Feature Flags to Simplify DevOps, Branching & Merging, and Continuous Deployment Wednesday March 6 8:00am - 9:15am

Benjamin Day, Author, Trainer, Developer

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W08 GitHub Actions in Action Wednesday March 6 9:30am - 10:45am

Marcel de Vries, CO-Founder & CTO, Xpirit

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H04 The Power of DevOps in the Real World Thursday March 7 8:00am - 9:15am

Randy Pagels, DevOps Architect, Xebia | Xpirit

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H16 Mastering Application Testing: Scaling and Continuous UI Testing with Playwright Thursday March 7 1:15pm - 2:30pm

Randy Pagels, DevOps Architect, Xebia | Xpirit

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The Core of .NET

T03 Writing Modern C# Tuesday March 5 8:00 am - 9:15 am

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

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T07 What's New in Modern .NET Library APIs Tuesday March 5 9:30 am - 10:45 am

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

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W19 High Performance Advanced Query Concepts Wednesday March 6 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm

Mitchel Sellers, CEO, IowaComputerGurus, Inc.

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H03 Build Your First 'Copilot' with .NET and the Semantic Kernel Thursday March 7 8:00 am - 9:15 am

Brian Randell, Product Marketing Director, GitHub

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H11 Building Secure and Scalable APIs in .NET 8 Thursday March 7 11:00 am - 12:15 pm

Tony Champion , President, Champion DS

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H15 Integrating Third-party Services with .NET 8's Identity Framework Thursday March 7 1:15 pm - 2:30 pm

Kiah Tolliver, Senior Developer Advocate, Auth0

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H19 Session Intentionally Left Null? Thursday March 7 2:45 pm - 4:00 pm

Ed Charbeneau, Developer Advocate, Progress

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F02 Workshop Securing Microservices .NET 8 Identity Techniques Friday March 8 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Kiah Tolliver, Senior Developer Advocate, Auth0

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Workshops

M01 Workshop: Blazor Top to Bottom Monday March 4 9:00 am - 6:00 pm

Jason Bock MVP (C#), Staff Software Engineer, Rocket Mortgage
Allen Conway, App Modernization Consultant, Xpirit USA
Rockford Lhotka, VP of Strategy, Xebia

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M02 Workshop: Mastering Human Factors Monday March 4 9:00 am - 6:00 pm

Benjamin Day, Author, Trainer, Developer
Angela Dugan, Strategic Business Consultant & Agility Coach

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F01 Workshop: Developer Dive into SQL Server 2022 Friday March 8 8:00am - 5:00pm

Andrew Brust, Founder and CEO, Blue Badge Insights
Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

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F02 Workshop Securing Microservices .NET 8 Identity Techniques Friday March 8 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Kiah Tolliver, Senior Developer Advocate, Auth0

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