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    Microsoft Sessions

    There are many perks to attending training at Microsoft Headquarters and one of the biggest is getting to hear from Microsoft insiders who are "in the trenches" working with developers just like you on a daily basis. These sessions are a chance to hear the newest and latest techniques from those truly in the know, and provide the most-up-to-date analysis and detail on any development announcements made at Build.

  • M01 Hands-On Lab: Get Started with .NET Aspire & ASP.NET Core for Distributed Application Building Monday August 4 8:30am - 12:30pm
    • Jeffrey T. Fritz, Program Manager, Microsoft

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  • M03 Hands-On Lab: Building Real-world AI Applications with .NET & Microsoft.Extensions.AI Monday August 4 8:30am - 12:30pm
    • Matthew Soucoup, Principal Cloud Advocate, Microsoft

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

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  • M03 Continued: Hands-on Lab: Building Real-world AI Applications with .NET & Microsoft.Extensions.AI Monday August 4 2:00pm - 5:30pm
    • Jon Galloway, Principal Program Manager, Developer Division Community Team, Microsoft

      Matthew Soucoup, Principal Cloud Advocate, Microsoft

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  • T01 Getting the Most out of the Latest in Visual Studio Tuesday August 5 8:00am - 9:15am
    • Jessie Houghton, VS Program Manager, Microsoft

      Harshada Hole, Sr. Product Manager, Microsoft

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  • T02 Building Confident Application Systems with .NET Aspire: From Dev to Deployment Tuesday August 5 8:00am - 9:15am
    • Jeffrey T. Fritz, Program Manager, Microsoft

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  • T05 Building AI Apps: Integrate Semantic Kernal, Azure OpenAI, and Azure Cosmos DB with ASP.NET Aspire
    Tuesday August 5 8:00am - 9:15am
    • Justine Cocchi, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft

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  • T06 Build Next-Gen AI Apps with .NET and Azure Tuesday August 5 9:30am - 10:45am
    • Jon Galloway, Principal Program Manager, Developer Division Community Team, Microsoft

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  • T07 Harness the Power of Azure with Visual Studio Tuesday August 5 9:30am - 10:45am
    • Brady Gaster, Product Manager , Microsoft

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  • T10 Developing Modern WinForms Applications
    Tuesday August 5 9:30am - 10:45am
    • Merrie McGaw, WinForms Developer, Microsoft

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  • Tuesday Keynote: The Future of Visual Studio Tuesday August 5 11:15am - 12:15pm
    • Mads Kristensen , Principal Product Manager, Visual Studio, Microsoft

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  • T11 Getting the Most Out of .NET Development with Visual Studio
    Tuesday August 5 1:30pm - 2:45pm
    • Allie Barry, Product Manager, Microsoft

      Wendy Breiding, Senior Manager, Product Manager, Microsoft

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  • T12 Next-gen SQL Projects with Microsoft.Build.Sql
    Tuesday August 5 1:30pm - 2:45pm
    • Drew Skwiers-Koballa , Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

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  • T15 From Novice to Expert: A Comprehensive Guide to Regression and Classification Model Training Tuesday August 5 1:30pm - 2:45pm
    • Jean Joseph, Data & AI Engineer

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  • T16 Building Mobile and Desktop Apps with VS and .NET MAUI Tuesday August 5 3:00pm - 4:15pm
    • David Ortinau, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft

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  • T17 The Next Generation of Developer Productivity with GitHub Copilot & Visual Studio Tuesday August 5 3:00pm - 4:15pm
    • Etienne Baudoux , Software Engineer, Microsoft

      Simona Liao, Product Manager, Microsoft

      Rhea Patel, Product Manager, Microsoft

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  • T20 AI Meets Data: Unlocking Insights with a Database-First Approach
    Tuesday August 5 3:00pm - 4:15pm
    • Davide Mauri, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft

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  • W01 Everything You Need to Know About the Latest in C# Wednesday August 6 8:00am - 9:15am
    • Mads Torgersen, C# Lead Designer, .NET Team, Microsoft

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  • W02 Elevating Developer Experience with AI-Powered Microsoft Dev Box Wednesday August 6 8:00am - 9:15am
    • Vedha Ranganathan , Senior Product Manager, Microsoft

      Kenan Sun, Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

      Yao Wang, Software Engineer, Microsoft

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  • W03 How the Azure DevOps Teams Use Azure DevOps
    Wednesday August 6 8:00am - 9:15am
    • Dan Hellum, Program Manager, Microsoft

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  • W05 SQL Server 2025: The Enterprise AI-Ready Database
    Wednesday August 6 8:00am - 9:15am
    • Bob Ward, Principal Architect, Microsoft Azure Data, Microsoft

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  • W06 Ensuring Scalability and Security for Serverless Functions on Azure
    Wednesday August 6 9:30am - 10:45am
    • Thiago Almeida, PM for Serverless, Microsoft

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  • W07 What's New & Next in Testing & Code Coverage in Visual Studio Wednesday August 6 9:30am - 10:45am
    • Cathy Sullivan , Product Leader , Microsoft

      Matthew Soucoup, Principal Cloud Advocate, Microsoft

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  • Wednesday Keynote: Developing AI Applications with SQL AI: Ground to Cloud to Fabric
    Wednesday August 6 11:15am - 12:15PM
    • Bob Ward, Principal Architect, Microsoft Azure Data, Microsoft

      Muazma Zahid , Principal PM Manager, Microsoft

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  • W11 Unlock AI Agent Workflows with Azure API Management and MCP Wednesday August 6 1:30pm - 2:45pm
    • Julia Kasper, Program Manager, Microsoft

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  • W12 Measure Twice, Optimize Once: Real-World .NET Profiling with Visual Studio
    Wednesday August 6 1:30pm - 2:45pm
    • Nik Karpinsky , Principal Software Engineering Lead, Microsoft

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  • W14 Unlocking the Power of VS Code for Building Solutions in Fabric
    Wednesday August 6 1:30pm - 2:45pm
    • Chris Anderson, PM lead for the Fabric team, Microsoft

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  • W15 Serverless Functions and AI - Your Next Wave of Innovation
    Wednesday August 6 1:30pm - 2:45pm
    • Eamon O'Reilly , Lead PM on Azure Functions, Microsoft

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  • W16 SQL ❤️ JSON: The Best of Both Worlds
    Wednesday August 6 3:15pm - 4:30pm
    • Davide Mauri, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft

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  • W17 Fuel Your Fixes: Visual Studio Debugging, Powered by Copilot Wednesday August 6 3:15pm - 4:30pm
    • Harshada Hole, Sr. Product Manager, Microsoft

      Cagri (Charlie) Aslan, Principal Software Engineering Manager , Microsoft

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  • W20 Orchestrating Agentic Workflows using Azure Logic Apps and Azure AI Foundry Wednesday August 6 3:15pm - 4:30pm
    • Divya Swarnkar, Product Manager, Microsoft

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  • H01 Not your Father's SQL Server: Developer Innovations in Data Storage Thursday August 7 8:00am - 9:15am
    • Jerry Nixon , SQL Server Product Manager, Microsoft

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  • H02 The Forgotten Features of Visual Studio You NEED In Your Life! Thursday August 7 8:00am - 9:15am
    • Marco Peyrot Carrion, Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

      Andrew Wang, Senior Software Engineer , Microsoft

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  • H06 Unlocking AI Interoperability: A Deep Dive into the Model Context Protocol Thursday August 7 9:30am - 10:45am
    • Den Delimarsky , Principal Product Engineer, Microsoft

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  • H07 How Visual Studio is AWESOME for WinForms, WPF, .NET MAUI and All Your Favorite Frameworks
    Thursday August 7 9:30am - 10:45am
    • Merrie McGaw, WinForms Developer, Microsoft

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  • H11 Fast Focus: Run Untrusted Code Safely with Azure Container Apps Dynamic Sessions
    Thursday August 7 11:00am - 11:20am
    • Simon Jakesch, Product Manager, Microsoft

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  • H12 Fast Focus: Sneak Peek at How Visual Studio's Code Editor Works Under the Hood Thursday August 7 11:00am - 11:20am
    • Etienne Baudoux , Software Engineer, Microsoft

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  • H16 Fast Focus: Don't wait until 30,000ft to Find a Therapist Thursday August 7 11:30am - 11:50am
    • Drew Skwiers-Koballa , Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

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  • H17 Fast Focus - Introduction to Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers Thursday August 7 11:30am - 11:50am
    • Den Delimarsky , Principal Product Engineer, Microsoft

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  • H20 Fast Focus: Chatting with Your Data in AI, Using .NET Thursday August 7 11:30am - 11:50am
    • Jon Galloway, Principal Program Manager, Developer Division Community Team, Microsoft

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  • H21 The Future of Web Development with ASP.NET Core & Blazor in .NET 10 Thursday August 7 1:30pm - 2:45pm
    • Daniel Roth, Principal Product Manager, ASP.NET, Microsoft

      Mike Kistler, Product Manager , Microsoft

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  • H22 Modernizing and Upgrading your .NET Apps with Visual Studio Thursday August 7 1:30pm - 2:45pm
    • Jon Galloway, Principal Program Manager, Developer Division Community Team, Microsoft

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  • H26 Scaling Azure Container Apps: Maximize Performance and Minimize Costs
    Thursday August 7 3:00pm - 4:15pm
    • Simon Jakesch, Product Manager, Microsoft

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  • H27 Panel: Ask the Visual Studio Team Anything Thursday August 7 3:00pm - 4:15pm
    • Visual Studio Team, Microsoft

      Mads Kristensen , Principal Product Manager, Visual Studio, Microsoft

      Anson Horton, Partner Architect for Visual Studio, Microsoft

      Andy Sterland, Principal PM Manager, Microsoft

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  • H28 Get Started Building Windows Apps with WinUI and the Windows App SDK
    Thursday August 7 3:00pm - 4:15pm
    • Alvin Ashcraft, Senior Content Developer, Microsoft

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  • F01 Workshop: Developer Dive into SQL Server 2025 Friday August 8 8:00am - 5:00pm
    • Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

      Davide Mauri, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft

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  • F02 Workshop: Modernize Your Monolith: From .NET Framework to Microservices in Azure Friday August 8 8:00am - 5:00pm
    • Matthew Soucoup, Principal Cloud Advocate, Microsoft

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  • F05 Hands-On Workshop: Empowering Data Engineers and Analysts with Agentic AI: From Theory to Practice Friday August 8 8:00am - 5:00pm
    • Jean Joseph, Data & AI Engineer

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