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dev up 2024 Session Catalog

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.NET Apps Everywhere, at 5x the speed

Thursday, Aug 15 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Room 105

Developing cross-platform applications is complex. Some frameworks allow us to share the business logic and some go further and allow us to share the ...

Steve Bilogan Senior Engineer @ Uno Platform

.NET MAUI: Unleashing Cross-Platform Development

Thursday, Aug 15 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Junior Ballroom B

Join us on an enlightening journey into the world of cross-platform app development with .NET MAUI. Discover the seamless integration of .NET MAUI wit...

Brent Stewart Co-Founder of Alien Arc Technologies

10 Opinions For Creating More Maintainable .NET Apps

Thursday, Aug 15 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Grand Ballroom B

As an application adds more and more features, if you're not careful, it can quickly spiral into becoming the application no one on the team enjoys wo...

Scott Sauber Director of Engineering at Lean TECHniques Inc

A Contrarian View of Software Architecture

Thursday, Aug 15 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Junior Ballroom D

I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time the past half decade across multiple companies working with very large, long running enterprise systems. Espec...

Jeremy Miller Owner and CEO of JasperFx Software

A Great Big Usable Tomorrow: Disney's Approach to User Experience

Thursday, Aug 15 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Grand Ballroom C

Walt Disney. Dreamer. Animation Pioneer. Filmmaker. UX Designer. What can Disney parks can teach us about creating better experiences for users? W...

Ricky Tucker UX/UI Designer - Louisiana Office of Technology Services

A tale of two servers; SSR in React & Angular

Thursday, Aug 15 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Room D1

Come explore server side rendering inside the two most popular web frameworks React + Next.js and Angular! Kathryn and Alyssa will walk you through th...

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

Advanced React Native

Friday, Aug 16 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Grand Ballroom C

Have you already tried React Native? Ready to see what some real world applications look like and hear about the challenges and how to overcome them? ...

Jesse Phelps Principal Engineer

Agile Metrics That Matter

Friday, Aug 16 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room 105

When it comes to development methods, lean and agile have clearly taken the lead. In the spirit of Kaizen, this session will take a look at the measur...

Clint Edmonson Director of Software Engineering

Agile Project Management with Azure Devops

Thursday, Aug 15 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Room 103

This talk will be a case study of how my team operates a multitude of software projects using Azure Devops. I will show you how to get your team and p...

Tyler Patton Senior Product Owner at ArchitectNow

AI-Enabled Apps: Practical Uses of AI in Applications

Thursday, Aug 15 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Grand Ballroom A

Are you exploring how to incorporate artificial intelligence in new business applications or interested in creating more value from existing ones? May...

Jennifer Reif Neo4j Developer Relations Engineer

An In-Depth Look At Minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core

Friday, Aug 16 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM 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

Angular does that?

Thursday, Aug 15 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Grand Ballroom A

Angular already does so much and with each new release, the feature list grows. Understandably, it can be more than a little overwhelming to keep up. ...

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

AppSec 102: Down the Rabbit Hole

Friday, Aug 16 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Grand Ballroom A

Last year's AppSec 101 received a lot of great feedback so Jason decided to bring a repeat performance for DevUp 2024, with a new set of live applicat...

Jason Gillam Secure Ideas

Architecting .NET Microservices in a Docker Ecosystem

Friday, Aug 16 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Grand Ballroom B

She will explain the microservices-based applications development and manage them using containers. She will discuss the different architectural desig...

Rebai Hamida Microsoft MVP and MCT, Docker Captain, Cloud Solutions Architect, Speaker, Author

Architecting for Clarity: Clean Code with Clean Architecture

Friday, Aug 16 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Grand Ballroom C

In the ever-evolving landscape of software development, maintaining clarity and sustainability in our codebases is paramount. Enter Clean Architecture...

Cameron Young software developer

Automating Compliance for Cloud Image Building

Thursday, Aug 15 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Room 103

There are too many possibilities for base images in cloud environments and not enough time to validate which ones fulfill all of my requirements. Wors...

Kendall Moore CPO at Sicura

Azure Governance - Taming the Beast

Friday, Aug 16 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Grand Ballroom A

Azure is a massive platform with a LOT of options and capabilities. Those options can get very expensive, very quickly. In this session, we'll take ...

Scott Corio Microsoft MVP, Enterprise Cloud Architect

Azure Networking Essentials

Friday, Aug 16 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Room D2

One of the most essential and important pieces of applications in Azure is network communication. From a single virtual network to interconnected mult...

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

Azure Primer - Welcome to the Cloud

Friday, Aug 16 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Junior Ballroom A

Are you new to Azure and need help understanding it? In this session, we will provide you with a beginner’s perspective on Azure and look at its most ...

Scott Corio Microsoft MVP, Enterprise Cloud Architect

Chad Lich Director Azure Infrastructure Specialist (Sales Guy)

Behind the Streams: An In-Depth Look at Machine Learning-Powered Analysis of FPS Gameplay

Friday, Aug 16 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Junior Ballroom C

Streaming is one of best forms of entertainment for gamers, casual and hardcore alike – and one of Spencer’s favorite games to watch is Escape From Ta...

Spencer Schneidenbach Consultant, Microsoft MVP

Bicep power hour: Deploy an application in 60 minutes or less.

Friday, Aug 16 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room 102

Infrastructure as Code allows organizations to provision resources in an automated, consistent and repeatable manner. Bicep is a domain-specific langu...

Samuel Gomez Microsoft MVP and Tech Lead at Geneca

Blending Product Thinking with Architecture

Thursday, Aug 15 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Junior Ballroom B

Systems grow and change over time. You can have intentional design, or accidental design. In this session we will walk through approaches that lev...

Joel Tosi Co-author of 'Coaching for Learning' and 'Creating your Dojo' - helping teams learn to learn, make work easier, and deliver better products.

Breaking Bad Code: A Web App PenTest Workshop

Wednesday, Aug 14 at 8:30 AM - 4:35 PM Junior Ballroom C

Unlock the secrets of web application penetration testing in this invigorating, hands-on workshop. Tailored for beginners to intermediate tech enthusi...

Jason Gillam Secure Ideas

Kevin Johnson Secure Ideas

Bridging the Gap: From Proof of Concept to Enterprise Reality in Azure

Thursday, Aug 15 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Junior Ballroom B

This talk offers a strategic exploration into evolving Azure-based proofs of concept into more developed, though not fully enterprise-scale, solutions...

Alex Will Chief Technology Officer - ArchitectNow | Microsoft MVP

Build an ASP.NET Core Blazor Web Assembly SPA in a Day Hands-on Lab

Wednesday, Aug 14 at 8:30 AM - 4:35 PM Junior Ballroom B

In this hands-on lab, we will build an ASP.NET Core Blazor WebAssembly single-page application from the ground up.

Phil Japikse CTO/Chief Architect, Author, Speaker

Build Beautiful, Fluent APIs With The Builder Design Pattern

Friday, Aug 16 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Junior Ballroom D

Have you ever seen code that looks like this? employee = Employee.firstName("Kelly").lastName("Morrison").title("Solutions Architect").department("...

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

Building a Highly Available Web Application Utilizing AWS and Docker

Friday, Aug 16 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Room 103

Looking to get started with Amazon Web Services (AWS), but just not sure where to begin? This session will give you the blueprint for building a high...

Jimmie Stanhouse Lead Software Architect at Appsparc, LLC

Building Advanced React server/client applications using Next.js

Thursday, Aug 15 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Room 105

Supercharge your next React project by switching from Create React App and Express to the Next.js React framework. In this talk we’ll explore some of ...

Matt Henroid Daugherty Business Solutions, Senior Principal Consultant

Building and Scaling an AI/ML Capability: Perception vs. Reality

Thursday, Aug 15 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Grand Ballroom A

Building and Scaling an AI/ML Capability: Perception vs. Reality

Christopher Lehmuth Solution Partner, AI Data Strategy & Intelligence at Turnberry Solutions

Building RESTful Services with ASP.NET Core

Thursday, Aug 15 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Room D2

In this session, we cover the power of building RESTful services with ASP.NET Core. From building and configuring the web host, dependency injection a...

Phil Japikse CTO/Chief Architect, Author, Speaker

Building Serverless Solutions with Azure and .NET

Wednesday, Aug 14 at 8:30 AM - 4:35 PM Junior Ballroom D

Join for an immersive full-day workshop where you’ll dive deep into the world of serverless computing using Azure and .NET. This workshop is designed ...

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

Building the Shield: Configuring and Deploying Azure WAF for Web App Defense

Friday, Aug 16 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Room 105

In today's ever-changing tech landscape, where digital threats abound and web applications remain prime targets, safeguarding your online assets is no...

Yung Chou Witness a clear cloudy day every day

Building Web APIs with ASP.NET 8 (Workshop)

Wednesday, Aug 14 at 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM Room 103

Web APIs drive the most popular and powerful Web and mobile apps—making the developer who can build a robust web API a developer that's in demand. Get...

Chris Woody Woodruff Architect at Real Times Technologies

Building your first Power Query connect for Microsoft Fabric

Thursday, Aug 15 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Junior Ballroom D

In this session, we’ll dive into the world of developing custom connectors for Microsoft Fabric. Exploring how you can create your own connectors usin...

Alex Powers Sr Program Manager

Built It, Deliver It, Your Professional Brand

Thursday, Aug 15 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Room D2

Branding can feel fake, phony, and even disingenuous. The reality is everyone has a brand whether they realize it or not. To use that brand to our ben...

Richard Miller Wimmer Software Engineer/Web Developer

Bundles, Migrations, Magic; Managing CI/CD with Entity Framework Core

Thursday, Aug 15 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Room 101

Entity Framework continues to grow in the available features and functionality available to developers, with these increases it can be harder than eve...

Mitchel Sellers Flying Code Ninja!

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

Thursday, Aug 15 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room D3

.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!

By the Power of Grayskull, I Have the Power(-apps)!

Thursday, Aug 15 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Room D2

Overseeing operations at Castle Grayskull presents its unique challenges. While Prince Andrew valiantly battles against dark magic and terrifying crea...

Ryan McGee Talos Software Solutions

C# Past, Present, and Future

Thursday, Aug 15 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Grand Ballroom B

C# is now over 20 years old but continues to grow and change. In this presentation, we will: * Start at the very beginning and explore the roots of...

Ken Versaw Software Engineering Manager - Nelnet Business Solutions

Caching in ASP.NET 8 Web API

Thursday, Aug 15 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room D1

Caching stores frequently used data or information in local memory for a specific period. When a client requests the same information, instead of retr...

Chris Woody Woodruff Architect at Real Times Technologies

Coding Paradise: The Future of App Creation with .NET MAUI

Thursday, Aug 15 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Room D2

Dive into cross-platform app development with .NET MAUI, Microsoft's Multi-platform App UI framework. Learn how MAUI allows you to craft native mobile...

Duane Newman Microsoft MVP

Connect the Tables: How to Graph Relational Databases

Thursday, Aug 15 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room 102

You might have heard about graphs, but what if you already have a relational database? How do you incorporate something new? This session will show yo...

Jennifer Reif Neo4j Developer Relations Engineer

CQRS with Event Sourcing using the “Critter Stack”

Wednesday, Aug 14 at 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM Room 105

Do you have a system where you think would be a good fit for a CQRS architecture that also uses Event Sourcing for at least part of its persistence st...

Jeremy Miller Owner and CEO of JasperFx Software

Creating Apps with .NET MAUI Blazor

Wednesday, Aug 14 at 1:00 PM - 4:35 PM Room 103

.NET MAUI Blazor introduces a new whole new paradigm of application development, allowing the usage of Web Development Tooling to create Mobile & desk...

Mitchel Sellers Flying Code Ninja!

Data Factory in a Day with Microsoft Fabric

Wednesday, Aug 14 at 8:30 AM - 4:35 PM Junior Ballroom A

Join us for an interactive session where we dive into Dataflow Gen2 and Data Pipelines within Microsoft Fabric to unlock the full potential of data in...

Alex Powers Sr Program Manager

Sean Mirabile Microsoft Senior Program Manager Fabric CAT Data Integration

Data Factory in an Hour with Microsoft Fabric

Friday, Aug 16 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Grand Ballroom A

In this session, we’ll showcase how Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric brings together the best of Power Query and Azure Data Factory into a modern data...

Alex Powers Sr Program Manager

Don’t Build a Distributed Monolith: How to Avoid Doing Microservices Completely Wrong

Thursday, Aug 15 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Grand Ballroom B

As a consultant, I get to see many systems built by many different developers. Recently, I’ve seen an uptick in the number of systems built with a mic...

Jonathan "J." Tower Partner & Principal Consultant, Trailhead Technology Partners

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

Thursday, Aug 15 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Room D1

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 Product Manager @Microsoft | #Azure Service Bus | Former #Azure MVP | Community Enthousiast

Effective Automated Testing - Lessons from 10 Years

Thursday, Aug 15 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Grand Ballroom C

Writing automated tests is hard. Why? Changing data, inconsistent behaviors, unreliable environments, tightly coupled code, and more. In this session,...

Cory House Author / Consultant

Empowering Digital Transformation with Azure IoT Operations

Thursday, Aug 15 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Room 105

In this session, we delve into the world of Azure IoT Operations, enabled by Azure Arc. Discover how this suite of services transforms physical operat...

Chad Lich Director Azure Infrastructure Specialist (Sales Guy)

Empowering the Unsung Heroes of Technical Teams

Thursday, Aug 15 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Junior Ballroom D

The responsibilities of a "software engineer" often extend beyond coding, into the realm of essential (and undervalued) tasks referred to as "glue wor...

Becky Gandillon Data strategist, storyteller, and mom

Entity Framework performance monitoring and tuning

Thursday, Aug 15 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Junior Ballroom C

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

Jim Wooley The Linq Kinq

Event Storming Unleashed: Building Bridges for Effective Communication

Wednesday, Aug 14 at 1:00 PM - 4:35 PM Room 105

A lot of problems that we have in software development comes down to communication issues - gathering requirements, understanding processes, reporting...

Sarah Dutkiewicz Wife, mom, techie - 100% me, unapologetically

Exciting new features in SQL Server for developers

Thursday, Aug 15 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Room 101

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, Sr. Business Intelligence Manager at Progressive Insurance

Exploring the Future of Coding Bots: Introducing Microsoft Copilot Studio

Thursday, Aug 15 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room 105

Join me for an enlightening session as we delve into the revolutionary world of Microsoft Copilot Studio. In this session, we will explore the cutting...

Find Project Success with Learning and Collaboration

Thursday, Aug 15 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Room D1

Siloed teams should be a thing of the past, but even in companies that claim to be doing DevOps or agile, some still have a hard separation between pr...

Michael Eaton Principal Consultant at Improving

From Code to Canvas: Mastering Microsoft Power Platform for C# Developers

Wednesday, Aug 14 at 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM Room 101

Join us for a four-hour workshop titled "Empowering C# Developers: A Comprehensive Workshop on Microsoft Power Platform," designed specifically for so...

Kevin Grossnicklaus President, ArchitectNow

From Legacy Monolith towards Microservices via Event Storming

Friday, Aug 16 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Room D2

It can be overwhelming to take a legacy monolith and split it into modules or microservices, especially if the code seems messy. However, conversation...

Sarah Dutkiewicz Wife, mom, techie - 100% me, unapologetically

From Naysayer to Believer: My Conversion to Blazor Enthusiast

Thursday, Aug 15 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Grand Ballroom C

Join Kevin, a seasoned developer with roots tracing back to the 1980s and a rich history with Microsoft technologies since the late 1990s, as he share...

Kevin Grossnicklaus President, ArchitectNow

From Zero to Code: Local Dev with Containers

Thursday, Aug 15 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Room D3

Are you tired of spending countless hours setting up and maintaining local development environments? In this talk we'll explore how Docker containers ...

Dave Wickersheim One Techie helping other Techies

Full Scope Unveiled: Navigating the Pentest Lifecycle

Thursday, Aug 15 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Room 101

Join Jason for a comprehensive journey through the entire process of web application penetration testing, from initial planning to final reporting. Ja...

Jason Gillam Secure Ideas

Functional Programming: Zero to One

Thursday, Aug 15 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Room 102

You've read about Functional Programming everywhere, maybe your boss thinks it's the next big thing, and it sounds kinda cool, but whenever you start ...

David Kaiser Software Engineer, learner of languages

Future Proof with ASP.NET Core API Versioning

Friday, Aug 16 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Grand Ballroom B

In the ever-evolving landscape of application development, maintaining API flexibility is crucial for the success and longevity of your systems. In th...

Jay Harris Problem Solver at Arana Software

Get Func-y: Understanding Delegates in C#

Thursday, Aug 15 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Junior Ballroom B

Delegates are the gateway to functional programming. So lets understand delegates and how we can change the way we program by using functions as param...

Jeremy Clark Developer Betterer

Getting started with Microsoft Fabric for Dataverse Analytics and Reporting

Thursday, Aug 15 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Grand Ballroom B

In this introductory session, we'll explore how to get started with the new Microsoft Fabric "shortcuts" to Dataverse. These shortcuts provide a zero...

Scott Sewell Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Fabric & Power BI

Git – A Deep Dive Under the Surface

Wednesday, Aug 14 at 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM Room 102

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

GitHub Actions for architecture deployment and CI/CD

Thursday, Aug 15 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Room 103

As your team has moved to modernize your applications, you are now looking to create robust deployments utilizing GitHub Actions. You know that you w...

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

GitHub Copilot - Legit or sus?

Thursday, Aug 15 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Junior Ballroom C

GenAI has been all the rage these past few years, and for good reason. GitHub Copilot has been billed as the next great savior of our humble craft, bu...

Zach Gardner Chief Architect at Keyhole Software

Going Native: An intro for newcomers to mobile development

Friday, Aug 16 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Junior Ballroom C

I started my career as a web developer, but after a recent job change I found myself managing a mobile development team and I needed to get up to spee...

Ashley Stove Software Engineering Manager at Sweetwater

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

Friday, Aug 16 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Room D3

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 ...

Greenfield, minefield? Finding unforeseen requirements in new projects

Thursday, Aug 15 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Room 101

A greenfield project is supposed to be a developer’s dream, theoretically one that has no existing infrastructure or legacy systems to contend with. I...

Kaitlyn Concilio Principal Engineer

Guardians of Code: Mastering Application Security through Effective Threat Modeling

Friday, Aug 16 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Junior Ballroom B

Delve into the realm of application security as we unveil the art of crafting robust threat models. Learn to identify and address security threats and...

Anshul Gupta Sr SDE, Curbside SOS

How To Not Strangle Your Coworkers: Resolving Conflict with Collaboration

Friday, Aug 16 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Room 101

Conflict at work is as inevitable as the tides - like the old joke says, if you put five software engineers in a room, you’ll have seven opinions. Whe...

Arthur Doler Senior Software Developer and Community and Culture Steward at Aviture

How to Ruin a User Interface: Surprisingly Easy Ways to Screw Over Your Users

Thursday, Aug 15 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Room 102

Sure, when your boss signed the expense form for you to attend this conference, they thought you’d be bringing back new ideas about BETTER ways to do ...

Kathryn Grayson Nanz UI Designer & Front-end Developer

How to Win Friends and Influence...Better Developer Estimates

Friday, Aug 16 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Room D1

Let's face it, creating estimates for tasks is not an exact science. Whether it is points, hours, level of effort, or whatever else the next fad is, i...

Brian McKeiver Microsoft Azure MVP; Co-Owner at BizStream

Improving code quality with Static Analyzers

Thursday, Aug 15 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Room D3

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

Intro to React Native

Friday, Aug 16 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Grand Ballroom B

React Native is a cross platform mobile development framework. If you're familiar with React, React Native will feel familiar to you. In this session,...

Jesse Phelps Principal Engineer

Introducing Temporal: The Secret to Developing Resilient Applications

Thursday, Aug 15 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Room 101

Cloud computing and microservices changed how we approach software development, but the inherent challenges of distributed systems forces developers t...

Tom Wheeler Principal Curriculum Developer and Developer Advocate @ Temporal Technologies

Introduction to AWS Cloud Development Kit

Friday, Aug 16 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Room D1

In a continuously evolving landscape of cloud computing and DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has emerged as a critical as well as a challenge to d...

Jitendrudu Lacaraju GIS Professional, Sr. Software Engineer

Introduction to GitHub Actions: Understanding Key Terms and Building Your First GitHub Action

Friday, Aug 16 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Grand Ballroom A

We all know we should be doing more automation of our software development lifecycle, but getting started can be challenging. Even if you have experie...

Paul Gilzow Developer Relations Engineer

Is Everyone AI-ing Without Me? A .NET Developers Guide to Development with AI

Thursday, Aug 15 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Grand Ballroom C

AI is causing the tech landscape to evolve faster than ever, so it's important for developers to understand how to know when they should use tradition...

Jonathan "J." Tower Partner & Principal Consultant, Trailhead Technology Partners

It's me, Hi, I'm the Problem: Dark Patterns, Blaming the User, and Avoiding It

Friday, Aug 16 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Junior Ballroom A

Thousands of Swifties agree, purchasing tickets is a frustrating experience... and that doesn't include the add-on fees. In this talk, we'll explo...

Ricky Tucker UX/UI Designer - Louisiana Office of Technology Services

Knowledge Transfer Better, Rewrite Less

Thursday, Aug 15 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room 101

If you're ever responsible for delivering project-based work, or if you just are dealing with the typical attrition rate of IT talent, you inevitably ...

Justin DeBo Senior Cloud DevOps and Security Consultant at Slalom

Kotlin for Cloud Development

Thursday, Aug 15 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Room 103

Kotlin and the cloud are a perfect fit. Cloud providers such as Amazon have created clients that make use of Kotlin's coroutine and DSL features. ...

Joshua Angolano Sr. Software Consultant, Lean Techniques

Leadership Journey: From Individual Contributor to Leader

Thursday, Aug 15 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Junior Ballroom A

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 Principal Consultant at Improving

Learn Enough UX to be Dangerous

Thursday, Aug 15 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Junior Ballroom B

Sure, you can build a technically impressive application, one that’s beautiful, performant, and cutting-edge…but do your users actually enjoy using it...

Kathryn Grayson Nanz UI Designer & Front-end Developer

Learning Leadership: Practical strategies for developing leadership skills

Friday, Aug 16 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Room 103

Leadership skills aren't some mysterious "it" factor that some people have and some people don't. They are attainable by anyone who is willing to step...

Ashley Stove Software Engineering Manager at Sweetwater

Leveling Up: The Revolutionary Fusion of Gamification and Generative AI

Thursday, Aug 15 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Junior Ballroom A

We'll delve into the groundbreaking amalgamation of gamification and generative AI, a synergy poised to redefine user engagement and revolutionize dig...

Michael Hyzy Senior Principal Consultant, Strategy and Product Development, Daugherty Business Solutions

Shanti Greene AI and Innovation Practice Lead, Daugherty Business Solutions

Lies, Damn Lies, and Code Coverage

Thursday, Aug 15 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Room D2

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

LINQ - It's Not Just for Databases

Friday, Aug 16 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Room 102

LINQ (Language Integrated Query) in C# is mostly associated with Entity Framework and database access. But it can be used for much more. LINQ lets us ...

Jeremy Clark Developer Betterer

LLM Use Cases in Enterprise Software Development

Thursday, Aug 15 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Grand Ballroom B

If your Twitter/X feed hasn't been flooded since Jan 2023 with ChatGPT and LLM "experts", you aren't living. But how many people truly use it in enter...

Zach Gardner Chief Architect at Keyhole Software

Machine learning belongs in a museum!

Thursday, Aug 15 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Room 105

Ever walked around a museum and wondered how they keep those nice chilly temperatures around the building? No? Me neither! That is until I had to figu...

Samuel Gomez Microsoft MVP and Tech Lead at Geneca

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

Thursday, Aug 15 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Junior Ballroom D

Why is a supervillain different 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

Mastering Application Testing: Scaling and Continuous UI Testing with Playwright

Thursday, Aug 15 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Junior Ballroom C

In the world of cloud-based software development, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) has become the norm, but what about automated t...

Randy Pagels DevOps Architect and Trainer at Xebia USA | Microsoft Services

Mastering messaging; a comprehensive guide to the Azure messaging services

Thursday, Aug 15 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Room D1

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

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

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

Friday, Aug 16 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Junior Ballroom C

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 | Microsoft MVP

Metrics that Matter - Moving from Easy to Impactful

Thursday, Aug 15 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Junior Ballroom A

This session is a walk through of a popular blog post we did on metrics. In general, we are leading transformations where the standard questions aroun...

Joel Tosi Co-author of 'Coaching for Learning' and 'Creating your Dojo' - helping teams learn to learn, make work easier, and deliver better products.

Microservices At Your Own Pace with .NET Aspire and Azure Container Apps

Friday, Aug 16 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Grand Ballroom C

With the recently announced .NET 8's Aspire stack, it is easier than ever for .NET developers to develop apps with distributed architectures that work...

Jiachen Jiang Product Manager, Azure Container Apps

Microsoft Graph API Deep Dive

Thursday, Aug 15 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Room 102

Automating activities using your organization’s data in Office 365 has never been easier by taking advantage of the Microsoft Graph API. In this talk,...

Matt Henroid Daugherty Business Solutions, Senior Principal Consultant

Modern SQL Server Features That Make Life Better

Friday, Aug 16 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Room 102

Modern, supported versions of SQL Server have many great new features that can improve high availability and disaster recovery, save your developers t...

Lee Markum Lead Database Administrator, SQL Server

Modernization Without the Pain: An Intro to Azure Container Apps

Friday, Aug 16 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Room D3

Kubernetes and distributed applications (microservices) have transformed the landscape of software modernization, especially cloud deployment, scaling...

Jiachen Jiang Product Manager, Azure Container Apps

Myths of CI/CD without boiling the ocean using AI

Friday, Aug 16 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room D3

Its 2024 !! Writing good quality code is simply not enough and relying on Devops for setting up your CI/CD is not enough either. All developers should...

Anshul Gupta Sr SDE, Curbside SOS

New Product Concept & Design Workshop

Friday, Aug 16 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Room D1

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

One Band - One Song: Building High Performance Teams

Thursday, Aug 15 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Junior Ballroom A

Like the progression of a band moving from 5th grade to university, teams go through a series of growth steps. In this talk, I discuss the different p...

Phil Japikse CTO/Chief Architect, Author, Speaker

Optimizing .NET 8 Applications with Docker and Azure: A Comprehensive Guide

Friday, Aug 16 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Junior Ballroom A

This session will explore the synergies between .NET 8, Docker containers, and Azure, providing attendees with a comprehensive building guide, to depl...

Rebai Hamida Microsoft MVP and MCT, Docker Captain, Cloud Solutions Architect, Speaker, Author

Packaging your world with NuGet

Thursday, Aug 15 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Room 105

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

Part 1: AI Game Master Assistant: Interaction

Friday, Aug 16 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Junior Ballroom B

This session focuses on the interactive elements that bring the AI Dungeon Master assistant to life. Participants will be introduced to integrating Az...

Jeff Fattic Microsoft AI & Apps Lead

Jeffrey St. Germain ArchitectNow: Technical Team Lead

Part 2: AI Game Master Assistant Infrastructure

Friday, Aug 16 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Junior Ballroom B

This session delves into the foundational aspects of deploying an AI Dungeon Master assistant, focusing on the setup of necessary infrastructure using...

Jeff Fattic Microsoft AI & Apps Lead

Jeffrey St. Germain ArchitectNow: Technical Team Lead

Performance PowerShell

Friday, Aug 16 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room D1

Automation can be great because we can fire and forget. But what about how long it takes to complete the task we've assigned it to do? Just because ...

Scott Corio Microsoft MVP, Enterprise Cloud Architect

Planning Application Modernization in Azure

Friday, Aug 16 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Grand Ballroom A

Walk through what it takes to Assess, Pilot, & Validate legacy applications and the tactical planning to Modernize them. Articulate the risks associat...

Chuck Martin Eastwall, VP of Business Development and Partnerships

Power BI - Performing Data Quality Checks Using Python & SQL

Friday, Aug 16 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Room 101

Picture this, you have a report in Power BI that someone passes off to you for data quality checks. Simple enough until they clarify they need every ...

Kristyna Ferris Solution Architect at P3 Adaptive

Power BI - Time to Git CI/CD

Friday, Aug 16 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room D2

As report developers, requirements for reports are constantly evolving which leads the reports themselves to change. However, inevitably, there will b...

Kristyna Ferris Solution Architect at P3 Adaptive

Preventing the Exhaust Ports: How not to build a death star with your SDLC

Friday, Aug 16 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Room D2

Millions of stormtroopers and galactic empire citizens were lost because engineers didn't understand their design flaws. While this is a great movie r...

Kevin Johnson Secure Ideas

Protecting Your Secrets using Azure Key Vault, Azure App Configuration, GitHub, and C# MVC

Thursday, Aug 15 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Room 102

Your team has been working well for a long time, but developers keep checking in the connection strings to Azure Services (like SQL Databases and Stor...

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

React: The Most Common Mistakes in 2024

Thursday, Aug 15 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Junior Ballroom D

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

Real-Time Defense: Live Demonstrations with Azure WAF for Web App Protection

Friday, Aug 16 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Junior Ballroom D

In today's ever-changing tech landscape, where digital threats abound and web applications remain prime targets, safeguarding your online assets is no...

Yung Chou Witness a clear cloudy day every day

Reaping the Benefits of Ritual and Routine

Friday, Aug 16 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Junior Ballroom D

Software is as close as humans are ever going to come to actual magic. You type arcane incantations using cryptic symbols, crafting messages incompreh...

Arthur Doler Senior Software Developer and Community and Culture Steward at Aviture

Reevaluating Software Design Patterns: Uncovering Patterns That Can Be More Burden Than Benefit

Friday, Aug 16 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Room D1

Design patterns are potent tools in software development that solve recurring problems. These patterns have become essential in creating maintainable,...

Reframing Requirements : A Strategic Approach to Requirement Definition

Thursday, Aug 15 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Room 102

This talk will focus on redefining the way we talk about requirements today. Whether you are an up-stream decision maker, or a down-stream delivery ex...

Jake Truemper Shift, Owner & Cognitive Design Lead

Regex: Demystifying the Hieroglyphics

Thursday, Aug 15 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Room 103

You're working with some data and find yourself needing to find a specific piece of information, but your searches keep matching things that aren't wh...

Paul Gilzow Developer Relations Engineer

Retrieval-Augmented Generation: From Architecture to Real-World Implementation

Friday, Aug 16 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Grand Ballroom C

The rise of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has revolutionized how we approach complex problems in natural language understanding and generation....

Harcharan Kabbay World Wide Technology, Sr. Machine Learning Engineer

Running Applications using Azure Functions with .NET

Thursday, Aug 15 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Room D3

The concept of serverless technology has continued to grow exponentially over the past few years, but sometimes getting started can feel daunting. In ...

Matthew Jones Senior Software Developer at 1898 & Co

Rust-ifying Your C# Codebase: A Tale of Adventure and Transformation

Thursday, Aug 15 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Grand Ballroom A

As the software development landscape evolves, so too must the tools and languages at the disposal of developers. For professionals proficient in C# a...

Chris Woody Woodruff Architect at Real Times Technologies

Safely Evolving Legacy Code

Thursday, Aug 15 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Junior Ballroom C

A new ticket comes in. It's for "that app." You know the one. The one nobody wants to touch, because the code is a mess and yet the application is bus...

Scott Sauber Director of Engineering at Lean TECHniques Inc

Securing Your Credentials for Azure App Development

Thursday, Aug 15 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Junior Ballroom A

Working with credentials for Azure resources, you want to avoid storing your credentials in repositories when possible. In this session, we will talk ...

Sarah Dutkiewicz Wife, mom, techie - 100% me, unapologetically

Semantic Kernel (w/ Azure Open AI) Made Dead Simple

Thursday, Aug 15 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Grand Ballroom A

Microsoft's Semantic Kernel SDK is a tool for software developers to use to create applications which understand and interpret human language more eff...

Brian McKeiver Microsoft Azure MVP; Co-Owner at BizStream

Signals - Angular's new reactive primitive

Thursday, Aug 15 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Junior Ballroom A

Angular has used observables and promises for reactivity for years, and they added a new reactive primitive approach in 2023: signals If Angular al...

Lance Finney Angular, reactivity, and life

Lara Newsom Software Engineering Technical Leader - Cisco

Slice and Dice and Add a Little Spice - Delectable Reports with PowerBI

Friday, Aug 16 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Room D3

Have you ever wondered how to transform bland CSV exports into visual feasts that could make Chef Ramsay shed tears of joy? Welcome to our unique cook...

Ryan McGee Talos Software Solutions

Soar to New Heights Devs! Master Coding with GitHub Copilot and Chat.

Friday, Aug 16 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Grand Ballroom B

Welcome aboard our journey into the future of coding with GitHub Copilot, where we channel the Wright Brothers' spirit of innovation. Today, we soar b...

Randy Pagels DevOps Architect and Trainer at Xebia USA | Microsoft Services

SQL Server vs Azure Cosmos DB

Friday, Aug 16 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Junior Ballroom D

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, Sr. Business Intelligence Manager at Progressive Insurance

Storage Strategies in Microsoft Azure

Friday, Aug 16 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room 103

Microsoft Azure provides many options for data storage. Trying to make sense of all the options can be overwhelming. In this session, we will explore ...

Eric Boyd Founder & CEO, responsiveX, Azure MVP, Microsoft RD

Talking Tech with Non-Techies

Thursday, Aug 15 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room D2

As a developer or engineer effectively communicating technical ideas can be hard, but also important to the work you do. Not to mention the career gro...

Richard Miller Wimmer Software Engineer/Web Developer

That’s not “real” Scrum: Measuring and managing productivity for development teams

Friday, Aug 16 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Junior Ballroom A

The first rule of Scrum is that everyone else is doing Scrum wrong. The first rule of Agile is that you’re actually just doing Waterfall with sprints....

Kaitlyn Concilio Principal Engineer

The AR Takeover: Is the Web Browser Era Ending?

Thursday, Aug 15 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Room D3

In our fast-changing world, Augmented Reality (AR) is becoming the next big thing. It's like stepping into a new kind of world where things can be mor...

Avindra Fernando Software Consultant, Architect, Conference Speaker

The Bleeding Edge of Angular

Thursday, Aug 15 at 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Grand Ballroom B

With new and bigger releases every six months, it can be a real challenge to keep up with what's new in Angular. In this talk, we will cover several o...

Lara Newsom Software Engineering Technical Leader - Cisco

The Developer and the Data Scientist: How Gen AI Brings Them Together

Friday, Aug 16 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Junior Ballroom A

Join us for an enlightening talk featuring a unique duo – a seasoned software developer and a savvy data scientist – as they explore different approac...

Eric Lynn Architect at DeltaPoint Solutions

Emily Lynn Data Scientist and Engineer at Slalom Consulting

The Freedom Shift: A Developer's Path to Independent Consultant

Friday, Aug 16 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Room 105

Are you a software developer contemplating a transition to independence? This session is for you! Dive into the shift from a traditional developer rol...

Jay Harris Problem Solver at Arana Software

The Future of React Applications: Journey Towards Next.js

Thursday, Aug 15 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Grand Ballroom C

Companies who build web applications are constantly looking for ways to deliver value to their customers. In today’s market it is very important for t...

Avindra Fernando Software Consultant, Architect, Conference Speaker

Transforming Customer Service: Azure OpenAI Meets Communication Services

Friday, Aug 16 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Room D2

In this talk we will explore the seamless integration of Azure OpenAI and Azure Communication Services to build an AI-driven call-center application. ...

Kevin Grossnicklaus President, ArchitectNow

Two Boxes and a Line: Bridging the technical communication gap

Thursday, Aug 15 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Junior Ballroom D

Should you need a computer science degree to understand how 'technical' solutions work? Does your team wait to discuss the gory details until the Prod...

Ben Friedberg Sr. Software Architect, Ascendle

TypeScript Katas

Wednesday, Aug 14 at 1:00 PM - 4:35 PM Room 102

In martial arts, katas are practice exercises to improve skills in more challenging situations. In this hands-on workshop, you will enhance your knowl...

Eric Potter Director of Technical Education

Unit Testing for Learning

Friday, Aug 16 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Junior Ballroom D

The concept of unit testing has been around for a long time, yet many software developers don't fully understand the benefit of unit testing. This se...

Darren Hale Master Coder

Unleashing Azure: Strategies for Successful Cloud Migration

Thursday, Aug 15 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Junior Ballroom C

Embarking on a cloud migration journey can be both exciting and daunting for companies. In this enlightening conference talk, we will dive into the es...

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

Unleashing Extreme Scalability with Azure Functions

Thursday, Aug 15 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Room D1

Join us for an illuminating conference session on the cutting edge of cloud computing, where we'll delve into the intricacies of building event-driven...

Unlock Dynamics 365 CRM, F&O and Dataverse Value with Microsoft Fabric: Deliver Impactful Reporting

Wednesday, Aug 14 at 1:00 PM - 4:35 PM Room 101

In this workshop, we’ll guide you through the incredible value of Microsoft Fabric for organizations leveraging Dataverse for business applications in...

Scott Sewell Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Fabric & Power BI

Unlock Your Leadership Potential: Master the GROW Model

Thursday, Aug 15 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Junior Ballroom B

Are you a leader aiming to amplify your team's achievements and ascend to awe-inspiring altitudes of success? While we all wish for our workforces to ...

Eric Pratum COO

Unveiling the Power of Microsoft Search: Navigate the Digital Maze

Friday, Aug 16 at 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Junior Ballroom C

In today's digital age, information overload has become a prevalent challenge for individuals and organizations alike. Microsoft Search emerges as a b...

Using API Gateways for flexibility and governance of your APIs

Friday, Aug 16 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Room D3

One of the challenges of microservices architectures is that clients need to connect to many services, with multiple endpoints, each possibly having d...

Eric Boyd Founder & CEO, responsiveX, Azure MVP, Microsoft RD

Using CoPilots to Generate Unit Tests Faster and Easier

Thursday, Aug 15 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Room D3

Demonstrate utilizing Co-Pilot Technologies to facilitate faster creation and maintenance of Unit Tests in C# Projects / Solutions.

Edwin Koenig Solutions Architect for TKC Holdings

Versioning and Documenting ASP.NET Core Services

Thursday, Aug 15 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Junior Ballroom C

Building an API with ASP.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 to version it...

Phil Japikse CTO/Chief Architect, Author, Speaker

Web Development Elevated: Mastering Blazor Basics

Thursday, Aug 15 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Grand Ballroom A

Join us on a journey into the dynamic realm of web development with Blazor, a framework seamlessly blending C# with the world of web applications. In ...

Brent Stewart Co-Founder of Alien Arc Technologies

What Are My Programmers Talking About? A Cheatsheet For Confused Managers

Friday, Aug 16 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room 101

Are you a manager who is constantly confused by the never-ending parade of new buzzwords your developers discuss? Have you ever wished someone would j...

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

Where is that? How do I do that?... Backstage

Thursday, Aug 15 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room 103

Do you find yourself asking the following questions? Where is the documentation? What fields are required to call your API? What solutions have oth...

Joshua Angolano Sr. Software Consultant, Lean Techniques

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