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dev up 2023 Session Catalog

Explore the expert-led sessions that were presented at dev up 2023.

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10 Ways to Write Clean TypeScript Code

Monday, Aug 28 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Grand Ballroom C

As a superset of JavaScript, TypeScript continues to deliver better tooling at scale that the JavaScript developer had hoped for years. However, if wr...

Avindra Fernando Software Consultant, Conference Speaker, Tech Blogger

3-Minute Improv Games to Improve Your Teams

Monday, Aug 28 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Room D1

This unique workshop will have you out of your seat and on your feet actively practicing the techniques Improv Teams use to build Collaboration, Creat...

Wayde Stallmann Agile Coach

7 Habits of Highly Successful Developers

Monday, Aug 28 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Room 101

Software and website developers are in extremely high demand and rates continue to climb, but many developers have not yet realized their potential. B...

Gaines Kergosien Technology leader, inspirational speaker, and lifelong learner.

A guided journey into AI

Monday, Aug 28 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Grand Ballroom B

Do you feel like an explorer in uncharted territory with all the different terminology around the area of Artificial Intelligence? Don’t despair! In ...

Chris Roberts Principal Engineer, Microsoft Developer Division

A new approach to upskilling your workforce

Monday, Aug 28 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Room 102

"In order to scale initiatives. we need to transform the way the organization learns" There is always a high need for new skills. What is your str...

Alex Basa Edward Jones, Dojo Coach

A Vibrant Visit With The Valuable and Versatile Visitor Design Pattern

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Room 101

Design patterns are popular with software designers, and the famous "Gang of Four" book on Design Patterns is an industry classic. Some of the classic...

Kelly Morrison Solutions Architect at Daugherty Business Solutions / PhD in Computer Engineering

Agile Project Management 101: Optimize Your Team's Performance with Azure DevOps

Monday, Aug 28 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Junior Ballroom B

Learn how to optimize your team's Agile project management process with Azure DevOps. In this talk, I'll walk you through the basics of setting up and...

Tyler Patton Senior Product Owner at ArchitectNow

Agile: You Keep Using That Word...

Monday, Aug 28 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Grand Ballroom C

Much like the DOTCOM boom when everyone declared themselves a programmer, once David Norton (Gartner Research) declared agile mainstream on August 26,...

Phil Japikse CTO/Chief Architect, Author, Speaker

An Agile Approach to Documentation and Onboarding Your Team

Monday, Aug 28 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Room 101

So, how's the documentation coming along on your project? How long does it take to on-board someone on your team whether technical or non-technical? ...

John Baluka Independent Software Developer

Angular One-Day Boot Camp

Wednesday, Aug 30 at 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Junior Ballroom A

Of the leading front-end frameworks, Angular gives the most complete solution inside-the-box for all developers, and especially for enterprise develop...

Lance Finney Angular Boot Camp

Cory Rylan Google Developer Expert, Software Developer, Author, Speaker

Animating Vue.js with GSAP

Monday, Aug 28 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Room 103

Animations are an easy way to add depth and dimension to an application. There are a lot of animation platforms out there, but in my opinion, GSAP is ...

J.D. Hillen Software Engineer II @ Garmin

Application Code of Conduct - Full Stack Policy as Code

Monday, Aug 28 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Room 101

The increasing complexity of applications and the need for fine-grained authorization mechanisms have made it necessary to build a comprehensive polic...

Gabriel L. Manor Director of DevRel @ Permit.io

AppSec 101: Live Demos of Real-World Application Security Attacks

Monday, Aug 28 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Junior Ballroom A

In this session, join Jason Gillam for a thrilling journey into the attacker's mindset as he demonstrates real-world application security attacks. Thr...

Jason Gillam Secure Ideas

Architecting ASP.NET Core for Geo-Distributed Deployment

Monday, Aug 28 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Grand Ballroom C

With the combination of ASP.NET Core and Azure PaaS tooling, it is possible to quickly, easily, and cost-effectively create a geo-distributed applicat...

Mitchel Sellers Flying Code Ninja!

Architectural Awareness: Engineering Super-skill

Monday, Aug 28 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Grand Ballroom A

Awareness is the knowledge or perception of a situation or fact, which based on myriad of factors is an elusive attribute. Likely the most significant...

Ken Sipe Code Mentor, Technical Kung Fu Artist

ARM, Bicep, knees and toes! Infrastructure as code for beginners.

Monday, Aug 28 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Room D1

Infrastructure as code allows you to deploy consistent and stable environments in an automated fashion eliminating the need for manual configuration. ...

Samuel Gomez Tech Lead at Geneca

Automate your cloud application testing with Playwright

Monday, Aug 28 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Junior Ballroom C

Your company has CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous deployment), you’ve created a culture of regular cloud deployments, but your tests aren’t au...

Randy Pagels DevOps Architect at Xebia | Xpirit - Helping people to build the most innovative solutions with technology.

Automated information extraction with Azure Form Recognizer

Monday, Aug 28 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Room 102

In today's digital age, data extraction is an essential part of many businesses' processes. However, manually extracting data from forms and documents...

Samuel Gomez Tech Lead at Geneca

Azure AD for devs - a primer

Monday, Aug 28 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room 103

Come learn about Azure AD - Microsoft's cloud-scale identity platform. It can be tricky to figure out how auth works, but once you know it's a powerfu...

Ken Schlobohm Senior Engineer, Microsoft Developer Division

Azure On The Cheap - Your First Azure Applications

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Grand Ballroom A

Getting started with the cloud and be daunting. There are many ways to accidentally spend a lot of money with either wrong settings or simply forgetti...

Sean Whitesell Sr. Cloud Architect & President of Tulsa .NET User Group

Back-end Developer’s Guide to UI/UX Design: You have users too!

Monday, Aug 28 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Room D2

Have you ever considered the fact that as a developer, you are a user interface/user experience designer? It’s true. Whether intentional or not, we cr...

Burk Hufnagel Write and test your code as if whoever maintains it is a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

Benchmarking like a Scientist: Communicating Code's Performance.

Monday, Aug 28 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room 101

As software developers, it's not enough to simply write efficient code - we need to be able to communicate its performance effectively too. That's whe...

Craigory Coppola Senior Engineer at Nrwl

Better Parallel Code with C# Channels

Monday, Aug 28 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Junior Ballroom C

Producer/consumer problems show up in a lot of programming scenarios, including data processing and machine learning. Channels give us a thread-safe w...

Jeremy Clark Developer Betterer

Blazor Hybrid and Web in One Solution

Monday, Aug 28 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Junior Ballroom A

Blazor Hybrid is an exciting new development pattern from Microsoft that allows developers to create desktop and mobile applications using the Blazor ...

Ed Charbeneau Ed is a Microsoft MVP and an international speaker, writer, online influencer, a Developer Advocate for Progress.

Blazor on Desktop: PWA, Electron or .NET MAUI

Monday, Aug 28 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Room D1

The desire to see web technologies power experiences on mobile/desktop is nothing new – the tools & techniques developers have at their disposal have ...

Sam Basu Developer Advocate

Blending Product Thinking with Architecture

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Junior Ballroom C

Too much design up front and you are bumping into the design all of the time (and losing time). Not enough design and your system can crumble in reali...

Joel Tosi Just a dude trying to help out

Build an ASP.NET Core Razor Pages App with EF Core in a day Hand-on Lab

Wednesday, Aug 30 at 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Junior Ballroom C

Interested in ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core, but unsure where to start? Start here with an all-day Hands on Lab where you will build a comple...

Phil Japikse CTO/Chief Architect, Author, Speaker

Build your first Blazor app

Wednesday, Aug 30 at 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM Room 103

The arrival of WebAssembly begins a new era for .NET web developers, allowing client-side applications written in C# to run directly in the browser. B...

Ed Charbeneau Ed is a Microsoft MVP and an international speaker, writer, online influencer, a Developer Advocate for Progress.

Building MVVM Apps with .NET MAUI & Prism

Monday, Aug 28 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Room D2

.NET MAUI is here, and is a major evolution to Xamarin.Forms. Ok, it sounds like a fancy of way saying an update that broke your app. Whether you are ...

Dan Siegel Xamarin Consultant - Microsoft MVP - Prism Maintainer

Building Resilient Cloud Applications: Exploring Modern Cloud Design Patterns

Wednesday, Aug 30 at 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM Junior Ballroom B

Discover the power of modern cloud design patterns in this immersive 4-hour workshop. Participants will dive into event-driven design, data-centric ar...

Alex Will Chief Technology Officer - ArchitectNow

Kevin Grossnicklaus President, ArchitectNow

But It was Logged! Practical Logging & Monitoring with .NET Core

Monday, Aug 28 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Junior Ballroom B

.NET Core makes writing log entries a breeze within your applications, however, that is where the out-of-the-box simplicity ends. So you have decorat...

Mitchel Sellers Flying Code Ninja!

C# Past, Present, and Beyond

Monday, Aug 28 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Junior Ballroom D

With the modern open source C# Compiler we've seen so many new language features it's hard to keep up. In this session we'll survey as many of the new...

Jim Wooley The Linq Kinq

ChatGPT, OpenAI, and Power Platform | How to leverage Chat GPT to enable AI your Power Apps

Monday, Aug 28 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Grand Ballroom B

Learn how to leverage OpenAI services such as ChatGPT within your Power Apps and Power Automate flows

Sheila Shahpari CTO, Paritta Group

Chopping the monolith

Monday, Aug 28 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Grand Ballroom C

Micro services are ubiquitous. However, most companies that implement micro services do not reap their full benefits - at best. At worst, it’s an epic...

Nicolas Fränkel Developer Advocate for Apache APISIX

Code Hoarders: Tackling Tech Debt

Monday, Aug 28 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room D1

It has happened to a lot of us. We join a new team, pull the code, and find a heaping steaming pile of complicated spaghetti code. When we look at the...

Lara Newsom Software Engineering Technical Leader - Cisco

Codespaces: Life is too short for local environments!

Monday, Aug 28 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Grand Ballroom B

Use the tools you love, start developing faster and accelerate onboarding for teammates - come learn how to get started with a cloud-based development...

Chris Roberts Principal Engineer, Microsoft Developer Division

Consistency and Agreements in Microservices

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Grand Ballroom B

In a monolith, achieving consistency is easy - just use a transaction! In a distributed world, where we mix legacy and greenfield, getting systems to ...

Jimmy Bogard Independent Consultant

Creative Problem Solving

Monday, Aug 28 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Junior Ballroom A

You're a developer. Solving problems is a big part of what you do. But how can you learn to think more clearly and more creatively about the problems ...

Eric Potter Director of Technical Education

Customizing ASP.Net Identity and adding Third-Party sign-in providers

Monday, Aug 28 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Junior Ballroom A

You have identity baked into your ASP.Net MVC, but you want to change some of the default user properties and you're not sure where to start, especial...

Brian Gorman Microsoft Azure MVP, Speaker, Author, Trainer, and .Net Developer

Data Patterns for Successful Applications

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Junior Ballroom A

It has been said that data is the new currency. The more your company relies on data the more you need to understand data patterns for handling how da...

Sean Whitesell Sr. Cloud Architect & President of Tulsa .NET User Group

Data Storytelling - The Key to Business Buy-In

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Junior Ballroom A

Technologists and developers love tinkering and problem solving and finding the perfect technical solution to anything thrown their way. So why do bea...

Becky Gandillon Data strategist, storyteller, and mom

Database Strategies for Better Mobile and Edge Apps - why REST won't cut it anymore

Monday, Aug 28 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Junior Ballroom B

It’s the modern developer’s dilemma: Your mobile app needs to deliver real time responsiveness, maintain 24x7 uptime, and be secure…and do so wherever...

Mark Gamble Product & Solutions Marketing Director

Democratizing & Accelerating AI Through Azure Machine Learning and the Power Platform

Monday, Aug 28 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Junior Ballroom C

Learn the current state of affairs as it relates to Artificial Intelligence in the Microsoft space. We'll cover things like Azure Machine Learning, A...

Sheila Shahpari CTO, Paritta Group

Demystifying data privacy and your responsibilities

Monday, Aug 28 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room 102

We've been collecting as much data as we can about anyone or anything in hopes of better understanding our users, their habits, how they use our appli...

Ryan Overton Developer Advocate at Ketch

Demystifying Web API Security in Azure

Monday, Aug 28 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Grand Ballroom A

Building APIs can be easy, but securing them is hard. We have external and internal applications, APIs, users, and more. Each might use a different au...

Jimmy Bogard Independent Consultant

Deploying your JS App Anywhere with .NET MAUI

Monday, Aug 28 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Room 105

As a JS girl in a .NET World, I have recently started learning the power of MAUI. MAUI is a .NET framework used for creating native mobile and desktop...

Alyssa Nicoll Sr. Developer Advocate at Progress | Angular Google Developer Expert

Digitally Transforming a Call Center with Azure Cosmos DB and SignalR

Monday, Aug 28 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Junior Ballroom D

Call Center agents have some of the hardest gigs, especially in a healthcare setting where they need to be licensed and credentialed, dealing with pot...

Zach Gardner Chief Architect at Keyhole Software

Discover the Power of Git for Your Infrastructure

Monday, Aug 28 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Room 103

Git, a tool initially designed for version control, has evolved into an invaluable asset for infrastructure management. This talk will showcase how Gi...

Gabriel L. Manor Director of DevRel @ Permit.io

Disrupting Culture: Building a Strong Culture for Success in an Age of Generational Shifts

Monday, Aug 28 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Room 103

In this session, we will explore how to build a healthy and productive culture from scratch. We will also discuss how to change an unhealthy or unprod...

Eric Pratum COO

Do You Even IaC, Brah? Use Bicep for Huge Gains in Azure!

Monday, Aug 28 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room D2

Show up with confidence to your next deployment war room by defining your infrastructure as code. You've already put in the reps testing every aspect ...

Ryan McGee Independent Consultant at Talos Software Solutions

Don't put your messages in a bottle; Implement messaging patterns

Monday, Aug 28 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Room 103

When building enterprise solutions, messages are the heart of our communication. They convey commands and data between various systems and ensure that...

Eldert Grootenboer Senior Program Manager @Microsoft | #Azure Service Bus | Former #Azure MVP | Community Enthousiast

Don't skip the hard parts - migrating old .net apps

Monday, Aug 28 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Room 102

Migration is hard, going at it alone is harder. My team at Microsoft has spent years working with customers - we heard one message loud and clear: ple...

Chris Roberts Principal Engineer, Microsoft Developer Division

Ken Schlobohm Senior Engineer, Microsoft Developer Division

Don't Wait for Permission: A Young Professional's Guide to Taking Ownership of Your Career

Monday, Aug 28 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Room 103

A guide for young professionals to fight for autonomy in their workspace. You will gain tools and techniques for assessing your current job environmen...

Tyler Patton Senior Product Owner at ArchitectNow

Dynamics CRM Customization: A Technical Overview & Career Opportunities

Monday, Aug 28 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Room D2

Want to enrich your career opportunities? Want to transition from a generic developer into a specialized Microsoft Dynamics 365 professional? Wheth...

Nien Sui Software consultant, Career Advisor

Empower Your Software Development Team: Top 10 Essential Tools for Success

Monday, Aug 28 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Grand Ballroom A

We will explore the top 10 essential tools that every software development team should be used to maximize productivity, efficiency, and collaboratio...

Alex Will Chief Technology Officer - ArchitectNow

Entity Framework performance monitoring and tuning

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Junior Ballroom A

Object Relational Mapping technologies, including the Entity Framework can drastically simplify the programming model against databases, but when done...

Jim Wooley The Linq Kinq

Evolving your APIs, a step-by-step approach

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Room D1

When you publish your first HTTP API, you’re more focused on short-term issues than planning for the future. However, chances are you’ll be successful...

Nicolas Fränkel Developer Advocate for Apache APISIX

Exciting new features in SQL Server for developers

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Room D1

We get more and more features with every new version of SQL Server. Microsoft developed these new features to keep SQL Server modern, competitive, and...

Hasan Savran Ms Data Platform MVP, Owner of SavranWeb Consulting, Business Intelligence Manager at Progressive Insurance

Exploring Serverless Options for .NET in Azure, AWS, and Beyond

Monday, Aug 28 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Room D2

When it comes to serverless hosting options for .NET, there are a bevy of choices available for deploying your application, from AWS to Azure to Googl...

Spencer Schneidenbach Consultant, Microsoft MVP

Feeling the Flow: Orchestration and Choreography in Message-Based Applications

Monday, Aug 28 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Grand Ballroom B

In this session, I will guide you through the practical aspects of building message-based services in .NET. We'll explore orchestration using sagas, c...

Chris Patterson Principal Architect, Author of MassTransit

File New: Build a Event-Driven Architected Microservice from Scratch

Monday, Aug 28 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Room D1

Event-driven microservice architectures provide a versatile approach to designing and integrating complex software systems with independent, encapsula...

Chad Green Microsoft MVP; Director of IT Architecture at Glennis Solutions

From Curiosity to Career: Becoming an Ethical Hacker

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Room 103

Are you fascinated by hacking and cybersecurity? Do you dream of becoming an ethical hacker but don't know where to start? In this session, Jason Gill...

Jason Gillam Secure Ideas

Full Stack Type Safety Across Languages

Monday, Aug 28 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Room 101

Explore how type safety can transcend language barriers, and how you can combine your front-end and back-end code into a killer monorepo with Nx, .NET...

Craigory Coppola Senior Engineer at Nrwl

Generative APIs: When, Where, and How to Leverage the Combination of Generative AI and APIs

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Grand Ballroom B

API usage is on the rise and sees no signs of slowing down. At the same time, Generative AI technologies such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Gi...

Ram Bansal Senior Developer Advocate

Getting on the Message Bus

Monday, Aug 28 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Room D1

This session covers the basics of a message bus. What is it? What is its purpose? What benefits are there? The first stop is how a message bus work...

Dave Wickersheim One Techie helping other Techies

Getting Started with Accessibility in React

Monday, Aug 28 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Junior Ballroom D

Many of us have heard the accessibility basics: use semantic HTML, include alt text, test with a screen reader, etc. However, when we're dealing with ...

Kathryn Grayson Nanz UI Designer & Front-end Developer

Getting Started with Power Apps and Power Automate

Wednesday, Aug 30 at 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Junior Ballroom D

The Power Platform provides a low-code platform for quickly building and deploying solutions in your Microsoft environment. Specifically, with Power A...

Becky Bertram Owner of Savvy Technical Solutions in St. Louis

Git: A Peek Under the Hood

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Grand Ballroom C

Over the last few years Git has become the Version Control System (VCS) of choice for the software industry. According to the 2021 Developer Survey fr...

Matthew Heironimus Senior Software Architect for RGA

GIT: From beginner to Fearless

Wednesday, Aug 30 at 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Room 102

This training is an introduction to GIT for source control. We'll take a look at getting started with GIT on our own machines, as well as working with...

Brian Gorman Microsoft Azure MVP, Speaker, Author, Trainer, and .Net Developer

Going Schema-less: How to migrate a relational database to a NoSQL database

Monday, Aug 28 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Grand Ballroom C

There can be a lot of great benefits of developing with a NoSQL database over a relational database. In this presentation, you will learn about those ...

Chad Green Microsoft MVP; Director of IT Architecture at Glennis Solutions

Going Solo

Monday, Aug 28 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Grand Ballroom C

I went solo as an independent software developer over 10 years ago, and I never looked back. Unlike many that have gone solo, I did not want to have ...

John Baluka Independent Software Developer

Hacking Your Vacation: Using Data for Fun

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Junior Ballroom D

Data can be powerful, meaningful, AND fun. Making data-driven decisions can level up your family vacation from awful to awesome. In this session, atte...

Becky Gandillon Data strategist, storyteller, and mom

Has your digital transformation stalled?

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Room D2

Has your ability to deliver products gotten slower as a result of an agile or digital transformation? Are you constantly restarting your transformati...

Alex Basa Edward Jones, Dojo Coach

HELP TO EQUITABLY CLOSE THE CS EDUCATION GAP

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room 101

Computer Science is taught in roughly half the schools in the U.S. Technology Education and Literacy in Schools (TEALS) is a Microsoft Philanthropies ...

Jeffery Phipps TEALS Regional Manager, St. Louis

How Mature Is Your Secrets Management Strategy?

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Junior Ballroom C

One nagging question keeping security folks up at night is "How do I know how secure my secrets really are?" Wouldn't it be great if there was an easy...

Dwayne McDaniel Developer Advocate at GitGuardian and huge fan of open source

How to Mock objects and influence unit tests

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room D2

In this session we will take a look at how AutoFixture can simplify the arranging and asserting portions of your .NET unit tests. We'll explore how it...

Duane Newman Microsoft MVP

How To Start Loving Command-Line Tools

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Room 102

Take a moment to think about the preferred software you use to do your job. What comes to mind? Python? Nodejs? C#? Some flavor of SQL? One of the Cs?...

Ryan Price Senior Delivery Principal @ Slalom

I Don't Need No Stinking Controllers - Composing Minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core

Monday, Aug 28 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Junior Ballroom C

Minimal APIs are one of the most talked about features in ASP.NET Core - they make starting and running your .NET API super simple. But how do they fi...

Spencer Schneidenbach Consultant, Microsoft MVP

I'll Get Back to You: Task, Await, and Asynchronous Methods in C#

Monday, Aug 28 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Room 101

There's a lot of confusion about async/await, Task/TPL, and asynchronous and parallel programming in general. So let's start with the basics and look ...

Jeremy Clark Developer Betterer

Improving code quality with Static Analyzers

Monday, Aug 28 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Room D2

How do you keep code consistent across a team or make sure your independent code follows accepted standards, use a Static Analyzer tool. See how to us...

Jim Wooley The Linq Kinq

Introducing the Privacy Stack

Monday, Aug 28 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Room 102

Laws have been, and are being, enacted to reign in the rampant misuse of consumers data by a few, albeit large, organizations looking to profit on thi...

Ryan Overton Developer Advocate at Ketch

Introduction to Software Defined Radio (SDR)

Monday, Aug 28 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Room 105

In recent years, cheap hardware devices and prolific software packages have allowed hobbyists and tinkerers to learn and play with radio using a lapto...

Darren Hale Master Coder

JSON Data Modeling in Document Databases

Monday, Aug 28 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Grand Ballroom B

If you’re thinking about using a document database, it can be intimidating to start. A flexible data model gives you a lot of choices, but which way i...

Matthew Groves Microsoft MVP, DevRel, coder

Leadership Journey: From Individual Contributor to Leader

Monday, Aug 28 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Junior Ballroom C

You’ve spent years working on your technical skills and can write code with the best of them. Then, one day, a leadership position opens up on your te...

Michael Eaton Leader and Developer

Learn F#, at an easy tempo

Wednesday, Aug 30 at 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM Room 103

Have you ever wanted to learn about a functional programming language without getting stuck in all of the jargon? Would you like to learn one that use...

Eric Potter Director of Technical Education

Learning F# - A Practical Approach

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Room D2

During the pandemic, I used my extra time to learn F#, the functional programming language available in the .NET ecosystem. Learning new programming p...

Darren Hale Master Coder

Lessons from E2E Testing Web Applications - Cypress Best Practices

Monday, Aug 28 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Junior Ballroom D

Lots of companies are investing in end to end testing to release high quality software and remain competitive in today’s market. Now with Cypress, end...

Avindra Fernando Software Consultant, Conference Speaker, Tech Blogger

Let's abstract management & control of the integration APIs with Azure API Management

Monday, Aug 28 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Junior Ballroom B

As businesses expose their capabilities through API, the delivery team wants to manage variations in integration requests from Clients and control how...

Jaikrishnan Pandurangan Solutions Architect

Let's Change How Your IT Team Adapts to Change

Monday, Aug 28 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Room 102

As dealing with change becomes a regular software development activity, leading change becomes a skill to develop and master. Adapting a team in toda...

Glenn Anderson The Performance Catalyst Speaker

Let's Skip the Buzz Words: Truly Understanding GenAI

Monday, Aug 28 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Junior Ballroom B

This session aims to provide attendees with a comprehensive introduction to GenAI, covering its core concepts, applications, ethical considerations, a...

Veronica Hylák GenAI | Product | Human Interface Design

Let's talk interviewing: How to stand out and get that offer!

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Room 102

Interviewing is hard. Being across the table from one or more interviewers or standing in front of a whiteboard with a marker that barely works in clo...

Michael Eaton Leader and Developer

Level Up Your SharePoint Lists

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Room 101

Many organizations rely on SharePoint lists for presenting and organizing data, but did you know you can extend the functionality of these lists? In t...

Becky Bertram Owner of Savvy Technical Solutions in St. Louis

Lies, Damn Lies, and Code Coverage

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room D1

Code coverage gives us confidence that our unit tests are effective and thoroughly test our code, but is this confidence justified? Is it possible to ...

Matthew Heironimus Senior Software Architect for RGA

Mad Scientists, Saboteurs, and Con Artists: Seven Agile Habits of Highly Effective Supervillains

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Room 102

What distinguishes a supervillain from any old criminal with a bad haircut and a penchant for capes? How did they get so far in their nefarious career...

Ben Friedberg Sr. Software Architect, Ascendle

Manage Kubernetes anywhere with Azure Arc-enabled K8's

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Junior Ballroom B

If you need to manage K8's in Azure, on-prem, or other clouds, don't miss this session. We will discuss what Azure Arc is and then jump into a demo of...

Chad Lich Principal Cloud Solution Architect - Cross Solution & Industry Innovation

Mastering messaging; a comprehensive guide to the Azure messaging services

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Junior Ballroom C

As our architectures are becoming increasingly distributed, messaging has become an integral part of building scalable and reliable solutions. However...

Eldert Grootenboer Senior Program Manager @Microsoft | #Azure Service Bus | Former #Azure MVP | Community Enthousiast

Maximizing Value in Azure: A Strategic Guide for Architects and Administrators

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Grand Ballroom A

In this session, we will explore cost optimization strategies for offerings in Azure. As an Azure engineer, ensuring that your organization's cloud re...

Alex Will Chief Technology Officer - ArchitectNow

Memory First: An Introduction to Redis

Monday, Aug 28 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Junior Ballroom D

Odds are, you’ve heard of Redis. Maybe you’re a total noob and want to learn all about it. Maybe you’ve used it to cache an API call or some JSON stri...

Guy Royse Developer Advocate at Redis

Message Queue Technology Approach to Dynamically Scaling C# Apps

Monday, Aug 28 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room 105

This session will discuss and demonstrate using Message Queues to create fault-tolerant, dynamic scaling (both horizontal and vertical) C# application...

Edwin Koenig Solutions Architect for TKC Holdings

Middleware Showdown: Exploring Diverse Messaging Solutions

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Grand Ballroom C

Get ready for an insightful session where we delve into messaging solutions and compare popular options such as RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus, Amazon SQ...

Chris Patterson Principal Architect, Author of MassTransit

Modules, Loops and More: How to Scale with Terraform

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Junior Ballroom B

Terraform has become vital to your team's workflow for managing your infrastructure. However, as your infrastructure has grown your code has become mo...

Scott McAllister Developer Advocate at ngrok

MSBuild to the Rescue

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Room 103

As a .NET Developer you've probably heard about MSBuild, maybe you've even been to Microsoft's MSBuild conference where the one thing they don't talk ...

Dan Siegel Xamarin Consultant - Microsoft MVP - Prism Maintainer

Navigating Azure DevOps: Best Practices for Successful Software Delivery

Wednesday, Aug 30 at 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM Junior Ballroom B

Azure DevOps offers a wide range of customization options for managing software development, but these can be challenging to navigate. This session wi...

Gaines Kergosien Technology leader, inspirational speaker, and lifelong learner.

New Product Concept & Design Workshop

Monday, Aug 28 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Junior Ballroom B

There's never been a better time to create amazing technology solutions. In this hands on workshop, you will learn the fundamental skills and techniqu...

Clint Edmonson Director of Software Engineering

Orchestrate and build serverless solutions with Azure Logic Apps

Monday, Aug 28 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Junior Ballroom A

This presentation will cover how developers can and should be using Azure Logic Apps as a viable solution when building out serverless processes. Wit...

Brian Gorman Microsoft Azure MVP, Speaker, Author, Trainer, and .Net Developer

Packaging your world with NuGet

Monday, Aug 28 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Junior Ballroom D

Whether you are creating an open source library or building enterprise app core components, you need to get that functionality into other projects. Bu...

Duane Newman Microsoft MVP

Power App Power Hour: From Requirements to Release in an Hour (with time for questions)

Monday, Aug 28 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Grand Ballroom A

In this fast paced and informative sessions Kevin will demonstrate the power (and speed) available in the Microsoft Power Platform and, more specifica...

Kevin Grossnicklaus President, ArchitectNow

Practical introduction to OpenTelemetry tracing

Monday, Aug 28 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Junior Ballroom C

Tracking a request’s flow across different components in distributed systems is essential. With the rise of microservices, their importance has risen ...

Nicolas Fränkel Developer Advocate for Apache APISIX

Product Discovery Workshop - OKRs, Personas, Storymapping, Oh My

Wednesday, Aug 30 at 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Room 101

In this hands on workshop, teams (4-5) will use Product Chartering, Personas, Storymapping, and User Journeys along with Experience Tests to explore a...

Joel Tosi Just a dude trying to help out

Rapid Skill Acquisition For 10X Software Developers

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Room D1

In a world where new programming languages are emerging, new frameworks seemingly appear daily, and libraries are constantly updated, it's vital for a...

Kelly Morrison Solutions Architect at Daugherty Business Solutions / PhD in Computer Engineering

React: The Most Common Mistakes in 2023

Monday, Aug 28 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Grand Ballroom A

React is unopinionated. This makes it flexible. But it also means it's intimidating to get started, and difficult to scale. You constantly wonder if y...

Cory House Author / Consultant

Reactive Patterns For Angular

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Room D1

Have you ever found yourself making yet another component property just to hold state between user interactions? Do you wonder how you can even begin ...

Lara Newsom Software Engineering Technical Leader - Cisco

Reduce System Fragility with Terraform

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Junior Ballroom D

As infrastructure stacks grow increasingly more complex and involve an ever-growing number of services and systems there are a lot of opportunities fo...

Scott McAllister Developer Advocate at ngrok

Remote Work and Best Practices

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Grand Ballroom C

Panel discussion covering all things Remote Work. How best to keep your sanity, how to engage and stay relevant with peers, how to stay motivated and ...

Chad Lich Principal Cloud Solution Architect - Cross Solution & Industry Innovation

Resume-Driven Development Is Awful

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Room D2

Employers demand expertise in the Shiny New Thing™. We make a mad dash to learn juuust enough about Shiny New Thing™ so we can find a way to less-than...

Ryan Price Senior Delivery Principal @ Slalom

Saving Your Ass(ets) - Azure Resiliency Planning

Monday, Aug 28 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Junior Ballroom A

Every cloud architecture should include resiliency planning. But what should that planning include? Every cloud application implementation varies and ...

Sean Whitesell Sr. Cloud Architect & President of Tulsa .NET User Group

Session intentionally left null?

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Room D2

In this session we’ll discuss relatively new Nullable types in C# 8.0 and above. Nullable types are both useful and nuisance as the well-intended feat...

Ed Charbeneau Ed is a Microsoft MVP and an international speaker, writer, online influencer, a Developer Advocate for Progress.

Simple Ways to Make Webhook Security Better

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Junior Ballroom D

Webhooks are a simple and powerful way for services to notify each other that something interesting has happened. So much so that it became the most p...

Scott McAllister Developer Advocate at ngrok

So My Credentials Have Been Leaked...Now What?

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Grand Ballroom B

While we can hope our passwords, API Keys, and certificates are secure and private, hope is not a strategy. Sometimes our credentials become publishe...

Dwayne McDaniel Developer Advocate at GitGuardian and huge fan of open source

So you want to be an Architect

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Grand Ballroom B

This session is a quick look at all aspects of being a corporate software architect. Whither you are a developer looking to move into the role of arch...

Ken Sipe Code Mentor, Technical Kung Fu Artist

SOLID Design Patterns for Mere Mortals

Monday, Aug 28 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Grand Ballroom B

Software design patterns have been around long before the MVC Framework gained momentum. In this session we will start with a review of Robert C. Mart...

Phil Japikse CTO/Chief Architect, Author, Speaker

SQL Server Indexing Strategies

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Room 101

Optimal indexes reduce costs, improve performance, and mitigate blocking and deadlocks. This session will review SQL Server index architecture and exp...

Dan Guzman DBA, developer, architect

SQL Server vs Azure Cosmos DB

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Grand Ballroom B

Do you need to move your legacy application to the cloud? or maybe you need to select a database for a new cloud project. This session will help you b...

Hasan Savran Ms Data Platform MVP, Owner of SavranWeb Consulting, Business Intelligence Manager at Progressive Insurance

Standing up Enterprise Architecture

The organization has grown and one line of business has become 2 and then 10. Each line of business is driving technology choices based on their own n...

Ken Sipe Code Mentor, Technical Kung Fu Artist

State of Mobile Development

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Grand Ballroom C

It’s 2024. Thankfully, developers have a lot of choice in how to build for mobile form factors. Mobile strategy can often be an afterthought – in real...

Sam Basu Developer Advocate

Stop Committing Your Secrets - GIt Hooks To The Rescue!

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Junior Ballroom B

No one wants their keys and secrets on GitHub, but one bad push can mean you are suddenly exposed. In the best-case scenario, you discover the issue a...

Dwayne McDaniel Developer Advocate at GitGuardian and huge fan of open source

Sweatpants and Shirt collars. Elevating communication over appearance in a virtual workplace

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Room 101

Does it feel like something is... missing... with your remote team's communication? Do you find yourself talking TO a sea of inactive webcam windows ...

Ben Friedberg Sr. Software Architect, Ascendle

T-Shaped Teams: How to Speed Throughput by Avoiding Over-Specialization

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Junior Ballroom A

Traditional software development relied heavily on separate teams of specialists. The back end team. The front end team. The architecture team. The QA...

Dave Todaro CEO at Ascendle

Tales from the Azure Migration Trenches

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Grand Ballroom A

Creating new systems and applications in the cloud can be a breeze. Most of us, however, live in the realities of an on-premise brownfield world. But ...

Jimmy Bogard Independent Consultant

The 7 Pillar Developer: Lifestyle Systems for the Exceptional Developer

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Grand Ballroom A

To dramatically expand our potential as developers, we must reconsider our behaviors away from the keyboard, as humans. In this story-oriented session...

Cory House Author / Consultant

The AI Revolution Begins Here!

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Grand Ballroom C

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has come a long way. And one of its latest creations is ChatGPT, an AI text generator trained by OpenAI. Are you ready to...

Randy Pagels DevOps Architect at Xebia | Xpirit - Helping people to build the most innovative solutions with technology.

The Angular Renaissance

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Junior Ballroom D

Angular hasn't gone through a time of innovation such as this since the creation of 2.0. There are so many cool features here today and upcoming on th...

Alyssa Nicoll Sr. Developer Advocate at Progress | Angular Google Developer Expert

The API Call is Coming from Inside the House!

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Junior Ballroom C

Securing applications with the Microsoft identity platform It's the middle of the night when there is a bump in the logs. Something is trying to ge...

Ryan McGee Independent Consultant at Talos Software Solutions

The Art of Technical Decision Making

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Junior Ballroom D

Developers are bombarded with technical decisions every day. What language should I learn? What framework should I use? What software will make my lif...

J.D. Hillen Software Engineer II @ Garmin

The Art of Thin Slicing: Build 100% of Something Instead of 100% of Nothing

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Junior Ballroom C

Scrum promises that teams will produce a "potentially-shippable product increment" at the end of each sprint. This means rapidly designing, coding, te...

Dave Todaro CEO at Ascendle

The Immutable Laws of Software and Life: Code Accordingly

Monday, Aug 28 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Grand Ballroom A

The first Law of Ecology: you can never merely do one thing. Actions have side-effects. In this session, we'll explore how changes in software design ...

Cory House Author / Consultant

The Next Frontier in Open Source Java Compilers: Just-In-Time Compilation as a Service

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Room 101

For Java developers, the Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler is key to improved performance. However, in a container world, the performance gains are often ne...

Rich Hagarty IBM Dev Advocate

The Power of DevOps in the Real World

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Grand Ballroom B

It is now 2023 and good DevOps practices are no longer just nice to have. It is absolutely necessary to continuously deliver value to our end users. Y...

Randy Pagels DevOps Architect at Xebia | Xpirit - Helping people to build the most innovative solutions with technology.

The sum is GREATER than the parts: How to increase team productivity

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Room D2

With shortage of skilled coders and IT professionals, managers can work smarter to maximize their team's productivity and quality. In this session...

Nien Sui Software consultant, Career Advisor

To InstantOn and Beyond: Java at Lightspeed!

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room 102

Imagine a Java application that can start up in milliseconds, without compromising on throughput, memory, development-production parity or Java langua...

Rich Hagarty IBM Dev Advocate

TypeScript - Beyond the Basics

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Grand Ballroom A

TypeScript enables web developers to improve the clarity and reliability of their code. It also enables more powerful tools for writing code. This led...

Eric Potter Director of Technical Education

Understanding Probabilistic Data Structures with 112,092 UFO Sightings

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Junior Ballroom A

There are three reactions to the title of this talk: - What the heck’s a probabilistic data structure? - UFO Sightings… wha? - 112,092 is an oddl...

Guy Royse Developer Advocate at Redis

Unleashing the Power of Big Data: Navigating the Data-Driven World with Azure Tools

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Junior Ballroom B

In this informative talk, we will dive into the concept of "Big Data" and its significance in today's data-driven world. From small amounts of unstruc...

Jeffrey St. Germain ArchitectNow

Usability Testing Without a UX Specialist

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Room D1

Ask nearly anyone about the process of developing software, and somewhere in the answer they’ll (hopefully) mention the users. User research, user tes...

Kathryn Grayson Nanz UI Designer & Front-end Developer

Using Fluent Migrations to Put Your Schema in Git

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Junior Ballroom C

I just made a change to the database schema, but now the team needs it for my feature to work. How can I keep track of my database changes and communi...

Matthew Groves Microsoft MVP, DevRel, coder

Versioning ASP.NET Core APIs

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Junior Ballroom A

Building an API with ASP.NET MVC in .NET Core is only half the job. If you're API is going to live more than one release cycle, you're going to need t...

Phil Japikse CTO/Chief Architect, Author, Speaker

Virtually Unstoppable: Our Experience Transitioning to Running a Fully Virtual Technology Company

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Grand Ballroom A

During this session hear Kevin discuss how his technology company, ArchitectNow, grew from working in a single office in St. Louis to over 30 full ti...

Kevin Grossnicklaus President, ArchitectNow

Want to succeed with Test-Driven Development? Stop writing tests.

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Junior Ballroom B

Test-Driven Development (TDD) has been around for over twenty years and, despite the claims of its followers, many developers just don't do it. But wa...

Burk Hufnagel Write and test your code as if whoever maintains it is a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

Web3 for Web2 developers

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Room 102

This presentation aims to familiarize Web2 developers with the new opportunities that Web3 provides. It will provide an overview of the key concepts o...

Erik Muir Senior Software Engineer at Ledger Works

What Is YOUR AI Strategy?

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Junior Ballroom D

ChatGPT, and the underlying tech that supports it, represents the biggest wave of opportunity since Marc Andreesen kick-started the digital revolution...

Eric Lynn Architect at DeltaPoint Solutions

What's New In JDK 20? A Quick Tour Of The New Features

Tuesday, Aug 29 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Room 102

JDK 20 will be released in 2023. This session will examine some of the new features that are being introduced, and will discuss how to use them and wh...

Kelly Morrison Solutions Architect at Daugherty Business Solutions / PhD in Computer Engineering

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