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

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AI, Agents, & Agentic Apps

HOL01 Hands-On Lab: Agentic SDLC - Building an AI Software Factory with GitHub Copilot, Claude, and Codex Monday March 22 9:00am - 6:00pm

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

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HOL04 Hands-On Lab: Building Intelligent .NET Applications with AI, MCP, GitHub Copilot SDK, and Agents Monday March 22 9:00am - 6:00pm

Jon Galloway, Principal Program Manager, Developer Division Community Team, Microsoft

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T02 Developer’s Guide to Fabric Pipelines & Data Engineering Workflows Tuesday March 23 8:00am - 9:15am

April Rains, Senior Consultant , responsiveX
Derek Wade, Senior Consultant, responsiveX

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T03 Human Skills in an AI World: How Technologists Stay Essential Tuesday March 23 8:00am - 9:15am

Angela Dugan, Vice President, Product Delivery, Red Foundry

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T04 Microsoft Foundry in Action: A Practical Tour of AI Agents, Knowledge, and Governance Intermediate Tuesday March 23 8:00am - 9:15am

Lino Tadros, Founder & Principal Architect, The Training Boss

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T09 Building MCP Servers and A2A Agents with C# and .NET Tuesday March 23 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

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T13 From Local LLMs to Autonomous Agents: Building AI-Native Apps with Microsoft Agent Framework Tuesday March 23 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Marcel de Vries, Global MD & CTO, Xebia

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T14 Getting the Most out of Copilot Agents in Visual Studio Tuesday March 23 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Andy Sterland, Principal PM Manager, Microsoft

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W01 Deep Dive: Blazor Zero to Hero Wednesday March 24 8:00am - 10:45am

Allen Conway Microsoft MVP, Principal Consultant, Xebia

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W07 The Irresponsible AI Initiative Wednesday March 24 9:30am - 10:45am

Mickey Gousset, Staff DevOps Architect, GitHub
Ken Muse, Staff DevOps Architect, GitHub

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W08 Fast Focus: To Be Announced Wednesday March 24 1:30pm - 1:50pm

W09 Fast Focus: Use AI to Manage Your Cloud Dev Environment Wednesday March 24 1:30pm - 1:50pm

Rockford Lhotka, VP of Strategy, Xebia

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W11 Fast Focus: Stop Chatting, Start Shipping: Copilot CLI Tips That Deliver Wednesday March 24 1:30pm - 1:50pm

Mickey Gousset, Staff DevOps Architect, GitHub

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W12 Memory for Your Agents: Building Chat History and Semantic Caching with Azure Cosmos DB Wednesday March 24 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Lino Tadros, Founder & Principal Architect, The Training Boss

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W13 Local-First AI Development: Sovereignty, Silicon, and the Private Dev Loop Wednesday March 24 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Brian A. Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

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W15 The Silent Question: What If Technology Disrupts My Role? Wednesday March 24 2:30pm - 3:45pm

René van Osnabrugge, Consulting Director, Xebia

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W16 Building Your Own Agent Harness Wednesday March 24 4:00pm - 5:15pm

Rockford Lhotka, VP of Strategy, Xebia

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W18 SQL ❤️ AI Agents Wednesday March 24 4:00pm - 5:15pm

Jerry Nixon , SQL Server Product Manager, Microsoft

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H01 Mastering MCP in C#: Advanced Patterns, Sampling, and "Brain Borrowing" Thursday March 25 8:00am - 9:15am

Alon Fliess, Founder, ZioNet

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H04 Lessons from Offshoring You Need for AI Thursday March 25 8:00am - 9:15am

Robert Bogue, President, Thor Projects LLC

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H05 Be A Better AI Developer with Eval Engineering Thursday March 25 9:30am - 10:45am

Jim Bennett, Principal Developer Experience Engineer

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H09 Building Intelligent .NET Applications: From AI Features to Agentic System Thursday March 25 11:00am - 12:15pm

Jon Galloway, Principal Program Manager, Developer Division Community Team, Microsoft

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H13 To Be Announced Thursday March 25 1:15pm - 2:30pm

H14 The Great Escape - AI vs Your Sandbox Thursday March 25 1:15pm - 2:30pm

Mickey Gousset, Staff DevOps Architect, GitHub
Ken Muse, Staff DevOps Architect, GitHub

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H16 How AI is Making Burnout Worse and What to Do About It Thursday March 25 1:15pm - 2:30pm

Robert Bogue, President, Thor Projects LLC

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H17 Building Self-improving AI Agents Thursday March 25 2:45pm - 4:00pm

Jim Bennett, Principal Developer Experience Engineer

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H18 Are You Sure Your Access Tokens Are Really Secure? Thursday March 25 2:45pm - 4:00pm

Wesley Cabus, Customer Success Engineer, Duende Software

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H20 Using AI (Claude, ChatGPT, etc.) for the Rest of Your Job Thursday March 25 2:45pm - 4:00pm

Rockford Lhotka, VP of Strategy, Xebia
Brian A. Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

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F01 Workshop: Building AI Apps With .NET, GitHub, Copilot, and Claude Friday March 26 8:00am - 5:00pm

Allen Conway Microsoft MVP, Principal Consultant, Xebia
Rockford Lhotka, VP of Strategy, Xebia

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F02 Workshop: Threat Model to Production - Securing AI Apps and Agents on Azure Friday March 26 8:00am - 5:00pm

Mickey Gousset, Staff DevOps Architect, GitHub
Ken Muse, Staff DevOps Architect, GitHub
Brian A. Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

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Application Development (ASP.NET, MAUI, and More)

HOL02 Hands-On Lab: Build an ASP.NET Core Blazor Web Assembly SPA with Copilot in a Day Hands-on Lab Monday March 22 9:00am - 6:00pm

Philip Japikse Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider, MCSD, PSM II, PSD and PST, CTO/Chief Architect, Author, Speaker, Pintas & Mullins

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T12 The Core of ASP.NET Core Web Applications and RESTful Services Tuesday March 23 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Philip Japikse Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider, MCSD, PSM II, PSD and PST, CTO/Chief Architect, Author, Speaker, Pintas & Mullins

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W01 Deep Dive: Blazor Zero to Hero Wednesday March 24 8:00am - 10:45am

Allen Conway Microsoft MVP, Principal Consultant, Xebia

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H08 ASP.NET Core Web Application User Interfaces Thursday March 25 9:30am - 10:45am

Philip Japikse Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider, MCSD, PSM II, PSD and PST, CTO/Chief Architect, Author, Speaker, Pintas & Mullins

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H12 Closing the Loop: Instrumenting your .NET Applications with OpenTelemetry Thursday March 25 11:00am - 12:15pm

Alex Thissen, Architect, Lead Developer, and Mentor

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F01 Workshop: Building AI Apps With .NET, GitHub, Copilot, and Claude Friday March 26 8:00am - 5:00pm

Allen Conway Microsoft MVP, Principal Consultant, Xebia
Rockford Lhotka, VP of Strategy, Xebia

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Career, Leadership, & Human Factors

T03 Human Skills in an AI World: How Technologists Stay Essential Tuesday March 23 8:00am - 9:15am

Angela Dugan, Vice President, Product Delivery, Red Foundry

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W04 You’re Not Paid to Write Code Wednesday March 24 8:00am - 9:15am

Tony Champion , President, Champion DS

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W15 The Silent Question: What If Technology Disrupts My Role? Wednesday March 24 2:30pm - 3:45pm

René van Osnabrugge, Consulting Director, Xebia

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W19 This Is Fine: Project Management & Turnaround Essentials Wednesday March 24 4:00pm - 5:15pm

Benjamin Day, Author, Trainer, Developer

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H04 Lessons from Offshoring You Need for AI Thursday March 25 8:00am - 9:15am

Robert Bogue, President, Thor Projects LLC

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H16 How AI is Making Burnout Worse and What to Do About It Thursday March 25 1:15pm - 2:30pm

Robert Bogue, President, Thor Projects LLC

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H20 Using AI (Claude, ChatGPT, etc.) for the Rest of Your Job Thursday March 25 2:45pm - 4:00pm

Rockford Lhotka, VP of Strategy, Xebia
Brian A. Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

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Cloud, Architecture, & Security

T07 Building Event Driven Solutions on Azure Tuesday March 23 9:30am - 10:45am

Tony Champion , President, Champion DS

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T15 ASP.NET Core Authentication Explained Tuesday March 23 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Wesley Cabus, Customer Success Engineer, Duende Software

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W09 Fast Focus: Use AI to Manage Your Cloud Dev Environment Wednesday March 24 1:30pm - 1:50pm

Rockford Lhotka, VP of Strategy, Xebia

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H06 Leave Space to Be Wrong: Why I Hate Stored Procedures, etc. Thursday March 25 9:30am - 10:45am

Benjamin Day, Author, Trainer, Developer

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H10 Beyond the Security Dashboard: Turning AppSec Findings into Secure Code Thursday March 25 11:00am - 12:15pm

Mickey Gousset, Staff DevOps Architect, GitHub
Ken Muse, Staff DevOps Architect, GitHub

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H14 The Great Escape - AI vs Your Sandbox Thursday March 25 1:15pm - 2:30pm

Mickey Gousset, Staff DevOps Architect, GitHub
Ken Muse, Staff DevOps Architect, GitHub

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H18 Are You Sure Your Access Tokens Are Really Secure? Thursday March 25 2:45pm - 4:00pm

Wesley Cabus, Customer Success Engineer, Duende Software

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F03 Hands-On Workshop: Building Production-Ready Modern APIs with .NET Friday March 26 8:00am - 5:00pm

Tony Champion , President, Champion DS

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Data Platforms & Analytics

T02 Developer’s Guide to Fabric Pipelines & Data Engineering Workflows Tuesday March 23 8:00am - 9:15am

April Rains, Senior Consultant , responsiveX
Derek Wade, Senior Consultant, responsiveX

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T06 To Be Announced Tuesday March 23 9:30am - 10:45am

W10 Fast Focus: State of the SQL Server Data Tools (aka ‘Data Dude’) Nation Wednesday March 24 1:30pm - 1:50pm

Brian A. Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

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W14 The Age of Agentic Applications: Using Your Data with Azure Databases and Microsoft Fabric Wednesday March 24 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Bob Ward, Principal Architect, Microsoft Azure Data, Microsoft

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W18 SQL ❤️ AI Agents Wednesday March 24 4:00pm - 5:15pm

Jerry Nixon , SQL Server Product Manager, Microsoft

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H03 Analytics as a Feature: Building Power BI into Your Apps Thursday March 25 8:00am - 9:15am

April Rains, Senior Consultant , responsiveX
Derek Wade, Senior Consultant, responsiveX

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H07 To Be Announced Thursday March 25 9:30am - 10:45am

H11 Reimagining PostgreSQL for the era of AI: Inside Azure HorizonDB Thursday March 25 11:00am - 12:15pm

Bob Ward, Principal Architect, Microsoft Azure Data, Microsoft

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H19 SQL ❤️ Multimodel Schemas Thursday March 25 2:45pm - 4:00pm

Jerry Nixon , SQL Server Product Manager, Microsoft

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Developer Experience and DevOps (with Visual Studio and More)

HOL01 Hands-On Lab: Agentic SDLC - Building an AI Software Factory with GitHub Copilot, Claude, and Codex Monday March 22 9:00am - 6:00pm

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

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T01 What's New in Visual Studio Tuesday March 23 8:00am - 9:15am

Andy Sterland, Principal PM Manager, Microsoft

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T05 What Do You Choose? GitHub Copilot, Claude, Codex, or ... Tuesday March 23 9:30am - 10:45am

Brian A. Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

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T10 DevContainers Deep Dive: Beyond the Basics Tuesday March 23 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Alex Thissen, Architect, Lead Developer, and Mentor

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T14 Getting the Most out of Copilot Agents in Visual Studio Tuesday March 23 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Andy Sterland, Principal PM Manager, Microsoft

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W03 Visual Studio Tips & Tricks Wednesday March 24 8:00am - 9:15am

Mads Kristensen , Principal Product Manager, Visual Studio, Microsoft

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W06 Maintainable and Scalable End-to-End Test Automation with Playwright and Playwright Workspaces Wednesday March 24 9:30am - 10:45am

Marcel de Vries, Global MD & CTO, Xebia

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W11 Fast Focus: Stop Chatting, Start Shipping: Copilot CLI Tips That Deliver Wednesday March 24 1:30pm - 1:50pm

Mickey Gousset, Staff DevOps Architect, GitHub

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W13 Local-First AI Development: Sovereignty, Silicon, and the Private Dev Loop Wednesday March 24 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Brian A. Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

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H15 The AI-Powered Software Development Lifecycle Thursday March 25 1:15pm - 2:30pm

René van Osnabrugge, Consulting Director, Xebia

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F02 Workshop: Threat Model to Production - Securing AI Apps and Agents on Azure Friday March 26 8:00am - 5:00pm

Mickey Gousset, Staff DevOps Architect, GitHub
Ken Muse, Staff DevOps Architect, GitHub
Brian A. Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

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Fast Focus

W08 Fast Focus: To Be Announced Wednesday March 24 1:30pm - 1:50pm

W09 Fast Focus: Use AI to Manage Your Cloud Dev Environment Wednesday March 24 1:30pm - 1:50pm

Rockford Lhotka, VP of Strategy, Xebia

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W10 Fast Focus: State of the SQL Server Data Tools (aka ‘Data Dude’) Nation Wednesday March 24 1:30pm - 1:50pm

Brian A. Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

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W11 Fast Focus: Stop Chatting, Start Shipping: Copilot CLI Tips That Deliver Wednesday March 24 1:30pm - 1:50pm

Mickey Gousset, Staff DevOps Architect, GitHub

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Hands-on Labs

HOL01 Hands-On Lab: Agentic SDLC - Building an AI Software Factory with GitHub Copilot, Claude, and Codex Monday March 22 9:00am - 6:00pm

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

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HOL02 Hands-On Lab: Build an ASP.NET Core Blazor Web Assembly SPA with Copilot in a Day Hands-on Lab Monday March 22 9:00am - 6:00pm

Philip Japikse Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider, MCSD, PSM II, PSD and PST, CTO/Chief Architect, Author, Speaker, Pintas & Mullins

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HOL03 Hands-On Lab: Asynchronous and Parallel Programming in C# Monday March 22 9:00am - 6:00pm

Jeremy Clark, Developer Educator, JeremyBytes.com

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HOL04 Hands-On Lab: Building Intelligent .NET Applications with AI, MCP, GitHub Copilot SDK, and Agents Monday March 22 9:00am - 6:00pm

Jon Galloway, Principal Program Manager, Developer Division Community Team, Microsoft

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Keynote & General Session

Keynote: Visual Studio is 30! Where We've Been and Where We're Going Tuesday March 23 11:15am - 12:15pm

Mads Kristensen , Principal Product Manager, Visual Studio, Microsoft

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Professional Developers Discuss on What’s Actually Working with AI-native Development in 2027 Wednesday March 24 11:15am - 12:15pm

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX
Benjamin Day, Author, Trainer, Developer
Rockford Lhotka, VP of Strategy, Xebia
Bob Ward, Principal Architect, Microsoft Azure Data, Microsoft

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Programming Languages & Fundamentals (including .NET and C#)

HOL03 Hands-On Lab: Asynchronous and Parallel Programming in C# Monday March 22 9:00am - 6:00pm

Jeremy Clark, Developer Educator, JeremyBytes.com

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T11 Busy Developer's Guide to .NET 11 and C# Tuesday March 23 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Ted Neward, Principal, Neward and Associates

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W02 Developing Agentic Systems in .NET: From Concept to Code Wednesday March 24 8:00am - 9:15am

Alon Fliess, Founder, ZioNet

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W05 LINQ - It's Not Just for Databases Wednesday March 24 9:30am - 10:45am

Jeremy Clark, Developer Educator, JeremyBytes.com

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W17 Busy .NET Developer's Guide to Python Wednesday March 24 4:00pm - 5:15pm

Ted Neward, Principal, Neward and Associates

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H02 Unit Testing with C# Thursday March 25 8:00am - 9:15am

Jeremy Clark, Developer Educator, JeremyBytes.com

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Workshops

F01 Workshop: Building AI Apps With .NET, GitHub, Copilot, and Claude Friday March 26 8:00am - 5:00pm

Allen Conway Microsoft MVP, Principal Consultant, Xebia
Rockford Lhotka, VP of Strategy, Xebia

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F02 Workshop: Threat Model to Production - Securing AI Apps and Agents on Azure Friday March 26 8:00am - 5:00pm

Mickey Gousset, Staff DevOps Architect, GitHub
Ken Muse, Staff DevOps Architect, GitHub
Brian A. Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

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F03 Hands-On Workshop: Building Production-Ready Modern APIs with .NET Friday March 26 8:00am - 5:00pm

Tony Champion , President, Champion DS

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