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Cloud, Containers, and Microservices

T07 Harness the Power of Azure with Visual Studio Tuesday August 5 9:30am - 10:45am

Brady Gaster, Product Manager , Microsoft

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W02 Exploring Cloud-Based Developer Environments with Microsoft Dev Box Wednesday August 6 8:00am - 9:15am

Taysser Gherfal, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

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W06 Ensuring Scalability and Security for Serverless Functions on Azure Wednesday August 6 9:30am - 10:45am

Thiago Almeida, PM for Serverless, Microsoft

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W11 Seamless API Management for Cloud-Native Applications with Kubernetes-Managed Gateway Wednesday August 6 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Azure Team, Microsoft

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H13 Fast Focus - DIY - Make A Kubernetes Cluster with Inexpensive Devices Thursday August 7 11:00am - 11:20am

Rockford Lhotka, VP of Strategy, Xebia

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H26 Scaling Azure Container Apps: Maximize Performance and Minimize Costs Thursday August 7 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Anthony Chu, Product Manager – Azure Container Apps, Microsoft

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H28 Get Started Building Windows Apps with WinUI and the Windows App SDK Thursday August 7 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Alvin Ashcraft, Senior Content Developer, Microsoft

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Cutting-Edge AI

M03 Hands-On Lab: Building Real-world AI Applications with .NET & Microsoft.M03 Extensions.AI Monday August 4 8:30am - 12:30pm

Matthew Soucoup, Principal Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
Jon Galloway, Principal Program Manager, Developer Division Community Team, Microsoft

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M04 2-Day Hands-On Lab: Elevate Your Career with Python and AI - Day 1: Getting Started with Python Monday August 4 8:30am - 12:30pm

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

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M03 Continued: Hands-on Lab: Building Real-world AI Applications with .NET Monday August 4 2:00pm - 5:30pm

Jon Galloway, Principal Program Manager, Developer Division Community Team, Microsoft
Matthew Soucoup, Principal Cloud Advocate, Microsoft

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M04 Continued: 2-Day Hands-On Lab: Elevate Your Career with Python and AI - Day 1: Getting Started with Python Monday August 4 2:00pm - 5:30pm

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

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

Justine Cocchi, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft

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T10 Build Next-Gen AI Apps with .NET and Azure Tuesday August 5 9:30am - 10:45am

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

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T15 From Novice to Expert: A Comprehensive Guide to Regression and Classification Model Training Tuesday August 5 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Jean Joseph, Technical Trainer/Data Engineer, Microsoft

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T20 AI Meets Data: Unlocking Insights with a Database-First Approach Tuesday August 5 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Davide Mauri, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft

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W05 SQL Server 2025: The Enterprise AI-Ready Database Wednesday August 6 8:00am - 9:15am

Bob Ward, Principal Architect, Microsoft Azure Data, Microsoft

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W08 Code Rot at Machine Speed: Preventing AI-Induced Technical Debt Wednesday August 6 9:30am - 10:45am

Adam Tornhill , Founder and CTO, CodeScene

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W10 GitHub Copilot Agent Mode & MCP: Autonomous Development in Action Wednesday August 6 9:30am - 10:45am

Brian A. Randell, Staff Developer Advocate, GitHub

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W15 Serverless Functions and AI - Your Next Wave of Innovation Wednesday August 6 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Thiago Almeida, PM for Serverless, Microsoft

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W20 Orchestrating Agentic Workflows using Azure Logic Apps and Azure AI Foundry Wednesday August 6 3:15pm - 4:30pm

Azure Team, Microsoft

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H05 Create Intelligent Bots with Copilot Studio and Azure Thursday August 7 8:00am - 9:15am

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

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H10 Predicting the Future using Azure Machine Learning Thursday August 7 9:30am - 10:45am

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

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H15 Fast Focus: GitHub Models in 20 Minutes Thursday August 7 11:00am - 11:20am

Brian A. Randell, Staff Developer Advocate, GitHub

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H17 Fast Focus: Model Context Protocol - Everything You Need to Know Thursday August 7 11:30am - 11:50am

Den Delimarsky , Principal Product Engineer, Microsoft

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H20 Fast Focus: Chatting with Your Data in AI, Using .NET Thursday August 7 11:30am - 11:50am

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

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H25 Data Science in Microsoft Fabric Thursday August 7 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Andrew Brust, Founder and CEO, Blue Badge Insights

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H30 Empowering AI Applications with Vector Search in SQL Server and Azure Cosmos DB Thursday August 7 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

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

Jean Joseph, Technical Trainer/Data Engineer, Microsoft

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M04 2-Day Hands-On Lab: Elevate Your Career with Python and AI - Day 2: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Using Python Friday August 8 8:00am - 5:00pm

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

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Data & Analytics

T11 Next-gen SQL Projects with Microsoft.Build.Sql Tuesday August 5 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Drew Skwiers-Koballa , Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

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W16 SQL ❤️ JSON: The Best of Both Worlds Wednesday August 6 3:15pm - 4:30pm

Davide Mauri, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft

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W19 Using Blazor to Manage Data in SQL Server and Microsoft Fabric Wednesday August 6 3:15pm - 4:30pm

Michael Washington, Programmer

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H01 Not your Father's SQL Server: Developer Innovations in Data Storage Thursday August 7 8:00am - 9:15am

Jerry Nixon , SQL Server Product Manager, Microsoft

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H04 Change Event Streaming in SQL Server 2025: Real-Time Data Has Finally Arrived Thursday August 7 8:00am - 9:15am

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

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H06 EF Core & .NET Data Thursday August 7 9:30am - 10:45am

.NET Team, Microsoft

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H09 Microsoft Fabric: Defragmenting the Analytics Stack Thursday August 7 9:30am - 10:45am

Andrew Brust, Founder and CEO, Blue Badge Insights

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F01 Workshop: Developer Dive into SQL Server 2025 Friday August 8 8:00am - 5:00pm

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.
Davide Mauri, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft

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Developing New Experiences

T06 Developing Modern WinForms Applications Tuesday August 5 9:30am - 10:45am

Merrie McGaw, WinForms Developer, Microsoft

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T16 Building Mobile and Desktop Apps with VS and .NET MAUI Tuesday August 5 3:00pm - 4:15pm

David Ortinau, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft

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T18 Creating Business Applications Using Blazor Tuesday August 5 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Michael Washington, Programmer

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H03 Improving Legacy Applications with UX Design Thursday August 7 8:00am - 9:15am

Billy Hollis, Developer. Designer. Speaker. Author.

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H08 Design Thinking for Software Development Teams - Getting Started Thursday August 7 9:30am - 10:45am

Billy Hollis, Developer. Designer. Speaker. Author.

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Fast Focus

H11 Fast Focus: Run Untrusted Code Safely with Azure Container Apps Dynamic Sessions Thursday August 7 11:00am - 11:20am

Anthony Chu, Product Manager – Azure Container Apps, Microsoft

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H12 Fast Focus: Sneak Peek at How Visual Studio's Code Editor Works Under the Hood Thursday August 7 11:00am - 11:20am

Etienne Baudoux , Software Engineer, Microsoft

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H13 Fast Focus - DIY - Make A Kubernetes Cluster with Inexpensive Devices Thursday August 7 11:00am - 11:20am

Rockford Lhotka, VP of Strategy, Xebia

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H14 Fast Focus: Reactively Retrieve Data with Angular's Resource API Thursday August 7 11:00am - 11:20am

Deborah Kurata Microsoft MVP and Google Developer Expert (GDE), Consultant, Speaker, Author

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H15 Fast Focus: GitHub Models in 20 Minutes Thursday August 7 11:00am - 11:20am

Brian A. Randell, Staff Developer Advocate, GitHub

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H16 Fast Focus: Don't wait until 30,000ft to Find a Therapist Thursday August 7 11:30am - 11:50am

Drew Skwiers-Koballa , Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

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H17 Fast Focus: Model Context Protocol - Everything You Need to Know Thursday August 7 11:30am - 11:50am

Den Delimarsky , Principal Product Engineer, Microsoft

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H18 Fast Focus: Caching Options in .NET Thursday August 7 11:30am - 11:50am

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

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H19 Fast Focus: JavaScript Framework/Library Showdown Thursday August 7 11:30am - 11:50am

Allen Conway Microsoft MVP, Azure App Modernization Consultant, Xebia

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H20 Fast Focus: Chatting with Your Data in AI, Using .NET Thursday August 7 11:30am - 11:50am

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

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Full Stack Web Development

M01 Hands-On Lab: Get Started with .NET Aspire & ASP.NET Core for Distributed Application Building Monday August 4 8:30am - 12:30pm

.NET Team, Microsoft

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M01 Continued: Hands-On Lab: Get Started with .NET Aspire & ASP.NET Core for Distributed Application Building Monday August 4 2:00pm - 5:30pm

.NET Team, Microsoft

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T01 .NET Aspire Deep Dive with the .NET Aspire Team Tuesday August 5 8:00am - 9:15am

.NET Team, Microsoft

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T03 Building Websites with ASP.NET Core 9 Razor Pages Tuesday August 5 8:00am - 9:15am

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

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T08 Building RESTful Services with ASP.NET Core 9 Tuesday August 5 9:30am - 10:45am

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

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T13 Building a Progressive Web App (PWA) Using Angular Tuesday August 5 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Allen Conway Microsoft MVP, Azure App Modernization Consultant, Xebia

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W04 Angular Signals Demystified! Wednesday August 6 8:00am - 9:15am

Deborah Kurata Microsoft MVP and Google Developer Expert (GDE), Consultant, Speaker, Author

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W09 Blazor Authentication and Authorization Wednesday August 6 9:30am - 10:45am

Rockford Lhotka, VP of Strategy, Xebia

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H14 Fast Focus: Reactively Retrieve Data with Angular's Resource API Thursday August 7 11:00am - 11:20am

Deborah Kurata Microsoft MVP and Google Developer Expert (GDE), Consultant, Speaker, Author

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H19 Fast Focus: JavaScript Framework/Library Showdown Thursday August 7 11:30am - 11:50am

Allen Conway Microsoft MVP, Azure App Modernization Consultant, Xebia

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H21 The Future of Web Development with ASP.NET Core & Blazor in .NET 10 Thursday August 7 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Daniel Roth, Principal Product Manager, ASP.NET, Microsoft
Mike Kistler, Product Manager , Microsoft

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F04 Workshop: Building Blazor Applications Friday August 8 8:00am - 5:00pm

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

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Hands-On Labs

M01 Hands-On Lab: Get Started with .NET Aspire & ASP.NET Core for Distributed Application Building Monday August 4 8:30am - 12:30pm

.NET Team, Microsoft

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M02 Hands-On Lab: Getting the Most out of GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2022 Monday August 4 8:30am - 12:30pm

Brian A. Randell, Staff Developer Advocate, GitHub
Visual Studio Team, Microsoft

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M03 Hands-On Lab: Building Real-world AI Applications with .NET & Microsoft.M03 Extensions.AI Monday August 4 8:30am - 12:30pm

Matthew Soucoup, Principal Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
Jon Galloway, Principal Program Manager, Developer Division Community Team, Microsoft

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M04 2-Day Hands-On Lab: Elevate Your Career with Python and AI - Day 1: Getting Started with Python Monday August 4 8:30am - 12:30pm

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

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

Jean Joseph, Technical Trainer/Data Engineer, Microsoft

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M04 2-Day Hands-On Lab: Elevate Your Career with Python and AI - Day 2: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Using Python Friday August 8 8:00am - 5:00pm

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

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Human Factors in Engineering

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

Robert Bogue, President, Thor Projects LLC

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T09 Fear and (Self) Loathing in IT – A Healthy Discussion on Imposter Syndrome Tuesday August 5 9:30am - 10:45am

Angela Dugan, Cloud Solution Architecture Manager, Microsoft

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T14 Burnout in Software Development Tuesday August 5 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Robert Bogue, President, Thor Projects LLC

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T19 Navigating your Career as a Software Engineer Tuesday August 5 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Allen Conway Microsoft MVP, Azure App Modernization Consultant, Xebia

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H16 Fast Focus: Don't wait until 30,000ft to Find a Therapist Thursday August 7 11:30am - 11:50am

Drew Skwiers-Koballa , Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

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Keynotes

Tuesday Keynote: The Future of Visual Studio Tuesday August 5 11:15am - 12:15pm

Wednesday Keynote: Developing AI Applications with SQL AI: Ground to Cloud to Fabric Wednesday August 6 11:15am - 12:15PM

Anna Hoffman, Data & Applied Scientist, SQL Server/Azure SQL, Microsoft
Bob Ward, Principal Architect, Microsoft Azure Data, Microsoft
Muazma Zahid , Principal PM Manager, Microsoft

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Microsoft Sessions

M01 Hands-On Lab: Get Started with .NET Aspire & ASP.NET Core for Distributed Application Building Monday August 4 8:30am - 12:30pm

.NET Team, Microsoft

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M03 Hands-On Lab: Building Real-world AI Applications with .NET & Microsoft.M03 Extensions.AI Monday August 4 8:30am - 12:30pm

Matthew Soucoup, Principal Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
Jon Galloway, Principal Program Manager, Developer Division Community Team, Microsoft

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M03 Continued: Hands-on Lab: Building Real-world AI Applications with .NET Monday August 4 2:00pm - 5:30pm

Jon Galloway, Principal Program Manager, Developer Division Community Team, Microsoft
Matthew Soucoup, Principal Cloud Advocate, Microsoft

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T01 .NET Aspire Deep Dive with the .NET Aspire Team Tuesday August 5 8:00am - 9:15am

.NET Team, Microsoft

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T02 Getting the Most out of the Latest in Visual Studio Tuesday August 5 8:00am - 9:15am

Mads Kristensen , Principal Product Manager, Visual Studio, Microsoft

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

Justine Cocchi, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft

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T06 Developing Modern WinForms Applications Tuesday August 5 9:30am - 10:45am

Merrie McGaw, WinForms Developer, Microsoft

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T07 Harness the Power of Azure with Visual Studio Tuesday August 5 9:30am - 10:45am

Brady Gaster, Product Manager , Microsoft

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T09 Fear and (Self) Loathing in IT – A Healthy Discussion on Imposter Syndrome Tuesday August 5 9:30am - 10:45am

Angela Dugan, Cloud Solution Architecture Manager, Microsoft

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T10 Build Next-Gen AI Apps with .NET and Azure Tuesday August 5 9:30am - 10:45am

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

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T11 Next-gen SQL Projects with Microsoft.Build.Sql Tuesday August 5 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Drew Skwiers-Koballa , Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

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T12 Getting the Most Out of .NET Development with Visual Studio Tuesday August 5 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Leslie Richardson, Sr. Product Manager, Microsoft
Allie Barry, Product Manager, Microsoft

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T15 From Novice to Expert: A Comprehensive Guide to Regression and Classification Model Training Tuesday August 5 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Jean Joseph, Technical Trainer/Data Engineer, Microsoft

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T16 Building Mobile and Desktop Apps with VS and .NET MAUI Tuesday August 5 3:00pm - 4:15pm

David Ortinau, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft

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T17 The Next Generation of Developer Productivity with GitHub Copilot & Visual Studio Tuesday August 5 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Etienne Baudoux , Software Engineer, Microsoft
Simona Liao, Product Manager, Microsoft
Rhea Patel, Product Manager, Microsoft

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T20 AI Meets Data: Unlocking Insights with a Database-First Approach Tuesday August 5 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Davide Mauri, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft

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W01 Everything You Need to Know About the Latest in C# Wednesday August 6 8:00am - 9:15am

Mads Torgersen, C# Lead Designer, .NET Team, Microsoft

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W02 Exploring Cloud-Based Developer Environments with Microsoft Dev Box Wednesday August 6 8:00am - 9:15am

Taysser Gherfal, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

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W03 How the Azure DevOps Teams Use Azure DevOps Wednesday August 6 8:00am - 9:15am

Dan Hellum, Program Manager, Microsoft

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W05 SQL Server 2025: The Enterprise AI-Ready Database Wednesday August 6 8:00am - 9:15am

Bob Ward, Principal Architect, Microsoft Azure Data, Microsoft

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W06 Ensuring Scalability and Security for Serverless Functions on Azure Wednesday August 6 9:30am - 10:45am

Thiago Almeida, PM for Serverless, Microsoft

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W07 What's New & Next in Testing & Code Coverage in Visual Studio Wednesday August 6 9:30am - 10:45am

Wendy Breiding, Senior Manager, Product Manager, Microsoft

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W11 Seamless API Management for Cloud-Native Applications with Kubernetes-Managed Gateway Wednesday August 6 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Azure Team, Microsoft

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W12 Squeeze Every Ounce of Performance in Server Apps with Visual Studio's Profiler Wednesday August 6 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Nik Karpinsky , Principal Software Engineering Lead, Microsoft

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W14 Unlocking the Power of VS Code for Building Solutions in Fabric Wednesday August 6 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Sunitha Muthukrishna, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft

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W15 Serverless Functions and AI - Your Next Wave of Innovation Wednesday August 6 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Thiago Almeida, PM for Serverless, Microsoft

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W16 SQL ❤️ JSON: The Best of Both Worlds Wednesday August 6 3:15pm - 4:30pm

Davide Mauri, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft

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W17 Fuel Your Fixes: Visual Studio Debugging, Powered by Copilot Wednesday August 6 3:15pm - 4:30pm

Harshada Hole, Sr. Product Manager, Microsoft
Cagri (Charlie) Aslan, Principal Software Engineering Manager , Microsoft

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W20 Orchestrating Agentic Workflows using Azure Logic Apps and Azure AI Foundry Wednesday August 6 3:15pm - 4:30pm

Azure Team, Microsoft

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H01 Not your Father's SQL Server: Developer Innovations in Data Storage Thursday August 7 8:00am - 9:15am

Jerry Nixon , SQL Server Product Manager, Microsoft

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H02 The Forgotten Features of Visual Studio You NEED In Your Life! Thursday August 7 8:00am - 9:15am

Mads Kristensen , Principal Product Manager, Visual Studio, Microsoft

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H06 EF Core & .NET Data Thursday August 7 9:30am - 10:45am

.NET Team, Microsoft

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

Merrie McGaw, WinForms Developer, Microsoft

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H11 Fast Focus: Run Untrusted Code Safely with Azure Container Apps Dynamic Sessions Thursday August 7 11:00am - 11:20am

Anthony Chu, Product Manager – Azure Container Apps, Microsoft

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H12 Fast Focus: Sneak Peek at How Visual Studio's Code Editor Works Under the Hood Thursday August 7 11:00am - 11:20am

Etienne Baudoux , Software Engineer, Microsoft

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H16 Fast Focus: Don't wait until 30,000ft to Find a Therapist Thursday August 7 11:30am - 11:50am

Drew Skwiers-Koballa , Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

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H17 Fast Focus: Model Context Protocol - Everything You Need to Know Thursday August 7 11:30am - 11:50am

Den Delimarsky , Principal Product Engineer, Microsoft

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H20 Fast Focus: Chatting with Your Data in AI, Using .NET Thursday August 7 11:30am - 11:50am

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

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H21 The Future of Web Development with ASP.NET Core & Blazor in .NET 10 Thursday August 7 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Daniel Roth, Principal Product Manager, ASP.NET, Microsoft
Mike Kistler, Product Manager , Microsoft

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H22 Modernizing and Upgrading your .NET Apps with Visual Studio Thursday August 7 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Visual Studio Team, Microsoft

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H26 Scaling Azure Container Apps: Maximize Performance and Minimize Costs Thursday August 7 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Anthony Chu, Product Manager – Azure Container Apps, Microsoft

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

Visual Studio Team, Microsoft
Mads Kristensen , Principal Product Manager, Visual Studio, Microsoft
Anson Horton, Partner Architect for Visual Studio, Microsoft

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H28 Get Started Building Windows Apps with WinUI and the Windows App SDK Thursday August 7 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Alvin Ashcraft, Senior Content Developer, Microsoft

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F01 Workshop: Developer Dive into SQL Server 2025 Friday August 8 8:00am - 5:00pm

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.
Davide Mauri, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft

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F02 Workshop: Modernize Your Monolith: From .NET Framework to Microservices in Azure Friday August 8 8:00am - 5:00pm

Matthew Soucoup, Principal Cloud Advocate, Microsoft

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

Jean Joseph, Technical Trainer/Data Engineer, Microsoft

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Modern Software Engineering

W03 How the Azure DevOps Teams Use Azure DevOps Wednesday August 6 8:00am - 9:15am

Dan Hellum, Program Manager, Microsoft

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W18 The Role of an Architect Wednesday August 6 3:15pm - 4:30pm

Ted Neward, Principal, Neward and Associates

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H11 Fast Focus: Run Untrusted Code Safely with Azure Container Apps Dynamic Sessions Thursday August 7 11:00am - 11:20am

Anthony Chu, Product Manager – Azure Container Apps, Microsoft

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H23 Busy .NET Developer's Guide to Python Thursday August 7 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Ted Neward, Principal, Neward and Associates

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F03 Workshop: Engineering AI into Your Apps with GitHub Friday August 8 8:00am - 5:00pm

Brian A. Randell, Staff Developer Advocate, GitHub
Visual Studio Team, Microsoft

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The Core of .NET

M02 Hands-On Lab: Getting the Most out of GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2022 Monday August 4 8:30am - 12:30pm

Brian A. Randell, Staff Developer Advocate, GitHub
Visual Studio Team, Microsoft

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M02 Continued: Hands-On Lab: GitHub Copilot Monday August 4 2:00pm - 5:30pm

Brian A. Randell, Staff Developer Advocate, GitHub

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T02 Getting the Most out of the Latest in Visual Studio Tuesday August 5 8:00am - 9:15am

Mads Kristensen , Principal Product Manager, Visual Studio, Microsoft

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T12 Getting the Most Out of .NET Development with Visual Studio Tuesday August 5 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Leslie Richardson, Sr. Product Manager, Microsoft
Allie Barry, Product Manager, Microsoft

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T17 The Next Generation of Developer Productivity with GitHub Copilot & Visual Studio Tuesday August 5 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Etienne Baudoux , Software Engineer, Microsoft
Simona Liao, Product Manager, Microsoft
Rhea Patel, Product Manager, Microsoft

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W01 Everything You Need to Know About the Latest in C# Wednesday August 6 8:00am - 9:15am

Mads Torgersen, C# Lead Designer, .NET Team, Microsoft

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W07 What's New & Next in Testing & Code Coverage in Visual Studio Wednesday August 6 9:30am - 10:45am

Wendy Breiding, Senior Manager, Product Manager, Microsoft

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W12 Squeeze Every Ounce of Performance in Server Apps with Visual Studio's Profiler Wednesday August 6 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Nik Karpinsky , Principal Software Engineering Lead, Microsoft

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W14 Unlocking the Power of VS Code for Building Solutions in Fabric Wednesday August 6 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Sunitha Muthukrishna, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft

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W17 Fuel Your Fixes: Visual Studio Debugging, Powered by Copilot Wednesday August 6 3:15pm - 4:30pm

Harshada Hole, Sr. Product Manager, Microsoft
Cagri (Charlie) Aslan, Principal Software Engineering Manager , Microsoft

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H02 The Forgotten Features of Visual Studio You NEED In Your Life! Thursday August 7 8:00am - 9:15am

Mads Kristensen , Principal Product Manager, Visual Studio, Microsoft

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

Merrie McGaw, WinForms Developer, Microsoft

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H12 Fast Focus: Sneak Peek at How Visual Studio's Code Editor Works Under the Hood Thursday August 7 11:00am - 11:20am

Etienne Baudoux , Software Engineer, Microsoft

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H18 Fast Focus: Caching Options in .NET Thursday August 7 11:30am - 11:50am

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

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H22 Modernizing and Upgrading your .NET Apps with Visual Studio Thursday August 7 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Visual Studio Team, Microsoft

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H24 Improving Performance in .NET Applications Thursday August 7 1:30pm - 2:45pm

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

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

Visual Studio Team, Microsoft
Mads Kristensen , Principal Product Manager, Visual Studio, Microsoft
Anson Horton, Partner Architect for Visual Studio, Microsoft

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H29 What's New in Modern .NET Library APIs Thursday August 7 3:00pm - 4:15pm

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

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F02 Workshop: Modernize Your Monolith: From .NET Framework to Microservices in Azure Friday August 8 8:00am - 5:00pm

Matthew Soucoup, Principal Cloud Advocate, Microsoft

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Workshops

F01 Workshop: Developer Dive into SQL Server 2025 Friday August 8 8:00am - 5:00pm

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.
Davide Mauri, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft

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F02 Workshop: Modernize Your Monolith: From .NET Framework to Microservices in Azure Friday August 8 8:00am - 5:00pm

Matthew Soucoup, Principal Cloud Advocate, Microsoft

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F03 Workshop: Engineering AI into Your Apps with GitHub Friday August 8 8:00am - 5:00pm

Brian A. Randell, Staff Developer Advocate, GitHub
Visual Studio Team, Microsoft

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F04 Workshop: Building Blazor Applications Friday August 8 8:00am - 5:00pm

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

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

Jean Joseph, Technical Trainer/Data Engineer, Microsoft

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M04 2-Day Hands-On Lab: Elevate Your Career with Python and AI - Day 2: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Using Python Friday August 8 8:00am - 5:00pm

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

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