November 17-22, 2019
Royal Pacific Resort at Universal Orlando
Presentation materials are added/updated as they are received from the speakers.
Henk Boelman, Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
This hands-on workshop gives a quick start in the world of AI by combining Windows IoT, a Raspberry Pi with some sensors and the power of Microsoft Cognitive Services. more
Roy Cornelissen, Lead Consultant , Xpirit
In this session we’ll look at how you can use features like computer vision, speech recognition and other AI features of cognitive services in your Xamarin Mobile apps. more
Nick Landry, Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft
This session is your fast-paced introduction to the landscape of VR, AR & MR (together known as XR) from the perspective of software developers. more
Andreas Erben, CTO for Applied AI and Metaverse, daenet
In this session, attendees will see how to combine and use some capabilities of Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services in useful, and possibly unexpected ways. more
This session is designed to assist teams who are exploring their first MR projects by drawing from lessons learned in the field when working on customer projects for HoloLens & MR. more
This session is a deep dive into this 3D app that lets users interact with a 3D avatar using natural language thanks to multiple technologies, including Cognitive Services Speech recognition & synthesis, Microsoft Bot Framework, LUIS, Unity, Windows Mixed Reality, and more. more
Bri Achtman, Program Manager, .NET Team, Microsoft
This session is a great way to get a jump start with Machine Learning using ML.NET! more
Scott Klein, Senior Content Manager, Microsoft
Real-time analytics for real-time data insights is every architect’s dream, and this demo-heavy session will show how to gain deep real-time data insights through an end-to-end analytics pipeline. more
Jen Underwood, Founder, Impact Analytix, LLC
In this session, we introduce and explore a wide variety of machine learning visualizations. more
Raj Krishnan, Cloud Solution Architect, Microsoft
Learn how to leverage the enhanced capabilities of Power BI to use cognitive services by invoking functions to call text analytics and other cognitive services; Run R and Python scripts within Power BI to visualize data using marketplace visuals and R scripts. more
Jen Stirrup, Principal, Data Relish Ltd
In this one-day workshop, the objective is to move from Business Intelligence to Business Analytics with the Microsoft Data Platform technologies such as SQL Server, Azure SQL Server, R, Python, and Power BI. more
Aleksandar Nikolic, PowerShell Magazine
Join us to learn about configuration steps needed to manage Azure VM from an on-premises WAC gateway and a WAC gateway deployed in Azure. more
Dave Kawula, Principal Consultant, TriCon Elite Consulting
Dave will show off Azure Labs which will enable you to build labs for Development and Learning purposes more
Brian Randell, Staff Developer Advocate, GitHub
In 20 minutes, Brian will answer these questions and show you some quick examples with code in C# to get you started. more
Learn how to create your bot from scratch using Visual Studio 2019 and the current release of the Microsoft Bot Framework. more
Heather Downing, Coder. Entrepreneur. Passionate for the impossible
This code-centric talk demonstrates the approach you need to centralize your app logic and handle multiple voice interface ecosystems at once. more
In this session we zoom into the building blocks that make this AI solution work. more
Andrew Brust, Founder and CEO, Blue Badge Insights
Come to this session for a combination quick intro to Power BI (including its technology underpinnings, the costs around it and, of course, how to use it) and primer on several newer features more
Thomas LeBlanc, Data Warehouse Architect/MVP, Data on the Geaux
SQL Server 2019 has many new features for everybody, but for analytics, this session gets more specific. more
This session will help anyone interested in using Power BI for small to large companies. more
Kevin Feasel, Predictive Analytics Manager, ChannelAdvisor
In this talk, we will take an introductory look at Apache Spark. more
In this talk, we will walk through the mechanics of PolyBase, showing how we can write T-SQL queries to access data from heterogeneous sources. more
Ginger Grant, Principal Data Geek, Desert Isle Group
If you are interested in learning how to manage all possible security features of Power BI and where to do it, this session will provide those answers. more
Learn how to use Windows internals and third-party tools to uncover where performance problems are occurring more
In this session, we will explore different test and deployment methodologies for Business Intelligence, and ways in which we can improve our processes and do things better. more
Bradley Ball, Sr. Azure Engineer for the Azure FastTrack CXP PG , Microsoft
Josh Luedeman, Principal Engineering Manager, Microsoft
Gareth Swanepoel, Sr Program Manager, Microsoft
Review the massive new changes in the user experience for Azure Synapse Analytics, formerly SQL Data Warehouse, and Azure Arc the hybrid Azure SQL & PostgresSQL MI that can deploy to any cloud and on premise. more
In this session, we will look at the importance of preparing and cleaning data, and different approaches for measuring data quality, from the business intelligence perspective. more
In this presentation, we'll cover the basics of Power BI Report Server, including how to deploy to Azure and get started before you leave the session more
Émile Cabot Microsoft MVP , Principal Consultant , TriCon Elite Consulting
Packed with tips and tricks, this session is geared towards ConfigMgr admins of all levels. more
Panu Saukko, Consultant / Trainer, ProTrainIT
This session covers real-word examples and notes from the fields when we dive deep into the nuts and bolts of these scenarios through the tools of troubleshooting. more
This session looks at the capabilities of the Modern Workplace, how to drive adoption in your organization, and how to enable these solutions without compromising data security. more
Petri Paavola, Yodamiitti Oy
We will cover the most important technologies supporting Windows Autopilot so we can deploy and configure good Windows 10 workstations with software and settings we need without thinking image or driver management. more
Join this session to learn a lot of battle-tested tips to make managing SCCM much easier. more
In this heavily demo based session Petri will demonstrate how PowerShell can help you with your daily tasks. more
Sami Laiho, Chief Research Officer, Adminize
Sami Laiho, one of the world's leading operating system experts, shows you tips and tricks about the Windows OS that you didn't even know existed! more
Come to this demo-packed session and you'll see in 75 minutes, how easily you can start managing your Windows 10 devices with Intune. more
This workshop shows how to build and configure Intune managed Windows 10 Workstation environment. more
Marcel de Vries, CO-Founder & CTO, Xpirit
René van Osnabrugge, DevOps Strategy Consultant, Xpirit
In this one-day workshop we will guide you through the concepts behind Micro Services, Containers and Containerized delivery to help you build and manage MSA based systems. more
Mete Atamel, Developer Advocate, Google
In this talk, we’ll see how we can use Knative primitives to build a serverless app that utilizes the Machine Learning magic of the cloud. more
Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX
Learn what serverless compute is all about and how you get started with serverless in Azure. more
Rockford Lhotka, VP of Strategy, Xebia
Kubernetes (k8s) is rapidly becoming the de facto runtime for cloud-native software. more
Benjamin Day, Author, Trainer, Developer
In this session, we'll do a demo of how to use these VS2019 container tools. more
Chris Kinsman, Chief Architect, PushSpring
This session will look at an open source cron replacement built in node leveraging the Kubernetes API to schedule jobs across a cluster. It will use the Kubernetes API to schedule jobs, gather logs, and watch key Kubernetes APIs to respond to state changes in the cluster. more
We’ll dive into the platform and programming model advantages including stateful services and actors for low-latency data processing and more. more
Ted Neward, Principal, Neward and Associates
In this session, we're going to take a survey of a variety of different cloud providers, many with wildly varying different approaches to "what developers need", and give you a series of ideas to explore the next time the boss says, "We need to move into the cloud!" more
In this session you'll learn about the benefits and costs of this architecture, the prerequisites your organization needs to have in place, and how you can implement enterprise systems using microservices and messaging. Demos and code are in .NET Core running on Linux containers in Kubernetes. more
In this session, Ben will should you the basics of Azure “Easy Auth” – how it works, why it’s helpful, and how to set it up. more
Alex Thissen, Architect, Lead Developer, and Mentor
learn how to design and architect your .NET solutions and get a flying start to create, build and run Docker-based containerized applications. more
AM Grobelny, Sr. Technical Evangelist, AWS
Come learn how to develop serverless applications using tools built specifically for .NET developers on AWS. more
Vishwas Lele, CTO, Applied Information Sciences
If your customer/organization is looking to migrate your existing Windows workloads to the cloud, while minimizing code changes and taking advantage of innovative cloud-native technologies, this is a session you want to attend. more
Nick Pinheiro, Cloud & Software Architect, Microsoft
In this session we will discuss the steps you will need to take to convert your app into a SaaS-based service. more
In this session you will learn to fully enable and configure Azure Active Directory’s Business to Business (B2B) identity offering. more
Jack O'Connell, Cloud Infrastructure Solution Director, Applied Information Sciences
This session brings together an infrastructure engineer and app developer on the stage to discuss their journey to the cloud, containers, and DevOps. more
Learn how to use Azure DevOps Build and Deployment pipelines to deliver your application to production many times a day while not interrupting your users. more
In this session, Marcel will share an approach that we build based on our mistakes and learnings that will help you move to the cloud at speed. more
In this presentation, Roy will share the journey of his team that lead them from hope to desperation to glory in turning an on-premise Client-Server application into a full-blown cloud native service, with some ancient pieces still in there. It surely can be done! more
In this hands-on lab you will learn how to install and interact with Docker and Kubernetes (using minikube). more
Anthony Nocentino, Principal Field Solution Architect, Pure Storage
At the end of the workshop, you will know how to set up a Kubernetes cluster, manage a cluster, deploy applications and databases, and how to keep everything up and running. more
This session will dig into the lingo and concepts around Kubernetes and show you how to deploy a simple solution in Kubernetes on AWS. more
This session will dig into Elastic Container Service and Elastic Kubernetes Service on AWS. more
Steve Lasker, Program Manager for Container Registries, Microsoft
We'll examine leveraging your build and deployment pipelines to automatically patch, test and deploy updates, during and long after you've moved onto another project. OS & Framework Patching can be an extension of what you're already doing today. more
Steve Roberts, Developer Advocate, Amazon Web Services
In this session, we'll explore some scripts you can add to your environments today, such as augmenting support conversations with ML, adding an automated text-to-speech feature for an RSS feed, sending notifications based on internal systems, and implementing a document approval process workflow. more
In this session, we will introduce containers and the container orchestrator Kubernetes. more
Get a lap around a number of Azure capabilities including network security groups, Key Vault, VM disk encryption, SQL Database security, Azure Security Center, Next-Generation Firewalls, Web Application Firewalls, and more. more
Jen Tong, Security Advocate, Google
In this talk, Jen will guide you through common runtime security concerns, and discuss how they change as you move to containers and Kubernetes. more
In this deep-dive workshop on "all things Kubernetes," we'll start with a discussion on design principles around microservices. Next, we'll review Kubernetes concepts in detail. Finally, we'll dive deep into AKS itself and how it integrates with other Azure services. more
Seth Juarez, Cloud Developer Advocate, Microsoft
Cassie Breviu, Cloud Developer Advocate, Microsoft
This workshop is designed to get attendees up to speed on the rudiments of modern machine learning at cloud scale. more
In this workshop, we’ll explore the relevant Big Data and ML/AI technologies, and the services and platforms in which they surface. more
In this fast-paced-skeptical-funny talk, Henk will take you along on a journey of the biggest accomplishment in the world of AI and look back on how we got where we are today. more
In this Fast Focus presentation, we’ll cover the basics of AutoML (and the algorithm/hyperparameter concepts underlying it), then summarize the vendors and offerings in the broader AutoML market. more
This session will cover the concepts, service mechanics, and code necessary for you to do analytics and machine learning on Azure Databricks, and integrate it with other Microsoft cloud services and on-premises technologies. more
The demos in this session will walk through what is required to create a deep learning solution in Databricks using Jupyter Notebooks, Python and Tensorflow to create a deep understanding of a dataset to create a solution. more
In this demo intensive session, we will walk through how machine learning algorithms work using Python. Participants will be introduced to fundamental machine learning terms, concepts, techniques and tools. more
At the end of this session you will have a good grasp of the technological building blocks of Azure machine learning services just waiting to be used in your own projects. more
At the end of this session you will have a good grasp of the technological building blocks of Azure machine learning services and know how to bring a machine learning project safely into production. more
We will the Microsoft Team Data Science Process as our model for project implementation, learning what each step of the process entails. more
In this session we will explore the data flow transformation feature and other data orchestration enhancements that continue to make ADF a very powerful data integration tool. more
In this session, we will explore methods for success with AI, using Microsoft technologies to show the concepts. more
Jim Wooley, Senior Delivery Principal, Slalom Consulting
We'll discuss the pros and cons of working without stored procs and cover strategies for monitoring and tuning your entity queries. more
Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.
This session presents an overview of Azure Cosmos DB, a globally distributed, massively scalable, low (single-digit millisecond) latency, fully managed NoSQL database service that is designed specifically for modern web and mobile applications. more
In this intensive demo-packed session, you'll learn how to write applications for Cosmos DB, and see how to work with the various Cosmos DB APIs. more
In this quick tour, Brian will take you from nothing to something and show you some wonderful things you can do to live a heterogeneous developer lifestyle at the command-line. more
In this session, I will talk about what a DevOps MindSet more
Billy Hollis, Developer. Designer. Speaker. Author.
In this session, I'll discuss the most important ways I've found to cope with the complex world of development, and perhaps help others avoid some of the mistakes I've made over time. more
Doyle M. Turner, Digital Tool Maker, Security Advocate, Microsoft
In this session, we will discuss smart segregation of authentication and authorization. more
Eric Shupps, Founder & President , BinaryWave
In this deep-dive session, developers will learn how to create secure, cloud-ready applications using OAuth, ADAL, and Azure AD to communication with the Microsoft Graph, SharePoint and other cloud-connected services. more
Cathy Dew, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft
Learn more about how to use Graph, what’s new with SPFx and APIs, how to best avoid throttling on your customizations, and more in this session. more
Rob Windsor, Senior Consultant and Trainer
This session shows you how you can use free tools and resources to build an application that uses the Microsoft Graph. more
In this demo-heavy session, you'll see how you can add Microsoft Flow to the set of tools in your developer tool belt. more
As you'll see in the session, developing for the SharePoint Framework is nothing like "traditional" SharePoint development. more
Bill Ayers, Consultant Developer & Solution Architect
Microsoft Teams is a workspace built on Office 365 - think of it as an app. Groups, calendars, chat, messaging, plans and tasks, video conferencing - all these elements of Microsoft 365 brought together in a single app surface that allows teams to work together without having to switch context between different applications. more
In this session you will learn how to overcome these challenges by using popular Microsoft tools such as Visual Studio and Team Foundation Services to deliver well-managed projects that plug easily into existing enterprise development patterns. more
In this session we’ll take a look at using promises (both jQuery and ES6) to make these calls. more
Noorez Khamis, VP Technology, Creospark
This session will guide you through preparing your computer for developing Microsoft Teams apps, learn the steps to package and test your application, build a basic Microsoft Teams bot, and a Microsoft Teams tab. more
In this one-day workshop, Bill will show you six different ways you can extend Microsoft 365 without it becoming a major development project. more
You will start with a basic app which has all the common flaws we see today in many mobile apps, and you will learn how to improve the app in such a way that your user will be ecstatic. more
Understand the structure of a game project in Unity and the diverse types of assets (e.g. models, materials, sounds, etc. more
This session introduces Kinect for Azure and provides a quick overview what developers can accomplish with this latest iteration of the popular depth camera. more
Jason Bock MVP (C#), Staff Software Engineer, Rocket Mortgage
In this session, you'll see how you can use Blazor to run C# natively in the browser. more
Learn about Mixed Reality and what is unique about MR applications more
In this session, we'll take a pass through Dart, see how Flutter works, and discuss where this fits in the world next to Xamarin, JavaScript-based toolkits like Cordova, and native Swift/iOS or Kotlin/Android. more
Claire Novotny, Executive Director of the .NET Foundation, and PM on the .NET Team, Microsoft
Learn how .NET Core 3 brings WPF and Windows Forms into the future with a modern runtime. more
Jeremy Sinclair, Web Engineering Specialist III, Orrick
In this session, you will learn how to use Windows Runtime APIs with WPF. more
Matthew Soucoup, Principal Cloud Developer Advocate for .NET, Microsoft
In this session, learn how to tame the release management of mobile applications with Azure DevOps Pipelines more
Learn how to use the open source CSLA .NET framework to create reusable business logic. more
This session will look at all of these options, evaluate pros and cons, and compare against existing alternatives such as Xamarin. Come and get a head start on the trends fueling the next generation of app development. more
If you've ever wanted to experience what it's like to do hands-on design of an app, this is your chance. more
Philip Japikse Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider, MCSD, PSM II, PSD and PST, Developer, Coach, Author, Teacher
It this two-day, hands-on workshop, Brian and Phil will break the workshop into five parts where we'll start with nothing and end with an ASP.NET Core/EF Core app and a SQL Server Database running in Azure and Docker with a full continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline managed by Azure DevOps. more
Mickey Gousset, DevOps Architect, GitHub
Join in to discover what Microsoft has learned so far and the next areas it will focus on. more
We are going to peek under the covers of the ARM templates to show you what is going on inside the template and why you should be implementing it today. more
Come join us on a whirl-wind tour of our top ten Git tips! more
In this session I will talk about the concepts of Site Reliability Engineering and use Microsoft Azure to implement some of the concepts and practices. more
In this session, we'll drill into the details of the project management impedance mismatch and talk about strategies to improve communication and delivery when you need to make Agile work inside a Waterfall-centric organization. more
In this session, Mickey will cover the what of feature flags—also known as feature toggles. more
This session will show you how to use Azure to deploy MSIX based applications in an efficient and secure way. more
Debbie Levitt MBA, CXO, Delta CX
Learn how the UX process fits into software development including Agile and Lean; augments DevOps goals; increases customer satisfaction; and saves time, money, and sanity before developers write a line of code more
Sometimes the best way to learn what to do is through looking at what not to do. more
Heidi Araya, Enterprise Transformation Consultant
In this session, Heidi will discuss the different kinds of distributed teams and common challenges they face. more
Esteban Garcia , CEO - US, Xebia | Xpirit
Come listen to Esteban and Heidi talk about how to unstick your DevOps and Agile processes by focusing on the end to end delivery process, culture, and outcomes. more
Allen Conway, Azure App Modernization Consultant, Xebia
In this session we'll discuss some of the mainstream frameworks like Cordova/PhoneGap, Kendo UI, and Onsen UI to see how they can be leveraged to build hybrid web applications. more
In this fast focus session, we'll explore the additions to EF Core and how they can impact your application decisions. more
William Durkin, Data Architect, DData Masterminds
In this session we will learn to embrace the power of automation to allow us to sit back and focus on the real work of designing better, faster systems instead of fighting for short time slots when we can do actual work. more
Karen Lopez, Data Evangelist, Space Enthusiast, & NASA Datanaut
This session discusses the types of data anomalies that organizations can run into when they use external data, the wrong datasets for the right reasons and the right datasets for the wrong reasons. more
John O'Neill, Sr., Chief Technologist, AWS Solutions
Attend this session and learn PowerShell one-liners and scripts for everything from starting/pausing/stopping VMs to checking host and VM health! more
Matt Wade, Digital Workforce Expert and Consultant
This session will demonstrate 5 quick wins that you can use to make Microsoft Teams stickier in your organization and help your users gain the most value from Teams collaboration, messaging, and meetings. more
Hugo Kornelis, Freelance Database Developer/Consultant
In this session, we will look at why UDFs traditionally are such a performance bottleneck. We will then look at what exactly changes with FROID, and how all of this works under the covers. more
Thomas LaRock, Manager, Data Engineering, BlackLine
Attend this session and learn about the options available to help you fix database performance issues without touching code more
Jeffery Hicks, PowerShell Author, Teacher, Mentor
In this lightning-quick session PowerShell expert Jeff Hicks will share a number of tricks and tools for getting more done with PowerShell faster. more
Erwin Derksen, Founder, Blue-Identity and DerkIT
In this session, you will learn to design, create and deliver a good presentation. more
See this hands-on demo and follow along to build a bot to deliver simple Q&A answers to your employees by using Microsoft Azure services. more
In this workshop, we'll start from zero, with a little TypeScript, then start working with React: its core constructs and how it works with components, modules, and of course the ubiquitous model/view/controller approach. more
Allan Hirt, Founder, SQLHA, LLC
No matter where you are on your journey to the cloud, this day will modernize your SQL Server skills to be able to deploy successfully regardless of your public cloud provider of choice. more
In this session one of the world leading security and Windows experts, Sami Laiho, will teach you how to build and configure a Privilege Access Workstation (PAW). more
JEA provides the tools necessary to focus Windows Admin center on a specific technology, without exposing unnecessary capability. more
April Rains, Senior Consultant , responsiveX
Joey Farruggio , Designer & Developer, responsiveX
In this workshop, you will walk through building a modern web app using platform as a service (PaaS), software as a service (SaaS), serverless capabilities, containers, and microservices architectures in Azure. more
This session covers convention over configuration, implementing Controllers and Action methods, Views (including partial views and layouts), Routing, and much more. more
In this session I take you through the new features in ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core that are coming with the .NET Core 3 release more
In this talk, you'll see how the synergy of these two technologies merge to make otherwise difficult tasks, a push over. more
In this session we will take a look at an AngularJS application and see the steps involved in migrating our application to the current version of TypeScript using Angular. more
In this session, we will go beyond the basic language features and dig into new territory like advanced types, decorators, mixins, symbols, generics, iterators, and declaration merging to further your understanding of the wide variety of TypeScript features. more
Cody Owens, Software Engineer III, Accusoft
In this talk, we discuss what integrators want next from your API in the browser and beyond. more
This session will walk you through implementing this Identity manually. more
Chris Klug, Developer , Active Solution
In this session, you will get a basic introduction to how webpack works, the concepts behind it, and how to get started playing around with it. more
Robert Boedigheimer, Principal Systems Developer, Schwan's Home Delivery
Go beyond the basics and learn the full capabilities of the tool and how it can improve your web development and debugging techniques today! more
Learn the techniques that can have the largest impact on web performance with the least amount of work. more
In this workshop, be prepared for a day of ASP.NET Core, node, npm, webpack, Sass, TypeScript, and more! more
Agnes Molnar, Founder, Managing Consultant, Search Explained
This session provides you with deep understanding and tips and tricks to apply immediately: what to do and what not to do with your content, taxonomy, information architecture to get the best from Microsoft Search. more
Agnes overviews and demonstrates new features, including the latest announcements as well. more
Learn about the value, capabilities and benefits of using Flow with OneDrive for Business.. more
In this session, Agnes is de-mystifying Search in SharePoint and Office 365. She'll explain how it works behind the scenes in a way that makes sense not only for the Search Pros but also for the end users. more
Learn how to provide your users with an incredible productivity boost with almost no development effort. more
During this Workshop attendees will learn about Dave's proven methodology for Zero Downtime Windows Server Migrations and Upgrades. more
If you want to demystify IoT, cut through the hype, and get to practical scenarios and applications, you will not want to miss this session. more
Nicholas McCollum, Senior Azure FastTrack Engineer, Microsoft
In this session we will examine how to build IoT Edge solutions using Visual Studio Code and deploy an IoT Edge solution to a Raspberry Pi edge device. more
In this talk, we go over all the steps you need to link Google and Amazon customers to your voice skill and match them to existing users in your database. more
Harry Pierson, Chief Architect, NEO Global Development
In this session you will learn how to program Smart Contracts in the languages that you already know, including C#, TypeScript, Python, et al on the NEO blockchain platform. more
Rony Chatterjee, Senior Program Manager on Azure Data, Microsoft
SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters is one of the biggest releases since the birth of SQL Server. more
Stephen L. Rose, Consultant, stephenlrose.com
Hear from change management professionals and real customers on how they achieved roll-out success and usage, as well as learn about the many free tools and services available to help make your next roll out a success. more
Anup Shirgaonkar, Principal Data and Applied Scientist, Azure Cloud and AI , Microsoft
With Azure Machine Learning's automated machine learning capability, given a dataset and a few configuration parameters, you will get a trained high quality Machine Learning model for the dataset that you can use for Predictions. more
We'll cover the paradigm shift of cloud native, to empower your development teams and users to respond quickly to the changes of the business. more
Learn more about what’s new and how you should be approaching development in Microsoft 365 with SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams and Graph. more
Jessica Deen, Azure Avenger, Microsoft
Abel Wang, Senior Cloud Developer Advocate, Microsoft
In this session, we change all of that. We will explore the why's and the how. Why is DevOps important? Why do we care? How do we implement DevOps best practices? And finally, we will do a real world deep dive. more
Chloe Condon, Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
Hear advice and insight on how humor combined with technology helps with the humans you interact with at stand-ups, during on-boarding, recruiting, and more! more
Adam Furmanek, Software Developer, Amazon
Diana Rodriguez , Chief DevOps Architect, Voicethread
Moriah Maney, Software Engineer (Webflow) and Founder/CEO (healthsome)
Come to this panel discussion to hear our speakers’ thoughts and ask your questions about being a multi-talented master or a deep subject matter expert. more
Joseph D'Antoni, Principal Consultant, Denny Cherry and Associates Consulting
Attend this panel discussion and learn more about how, and why, SQL Server has changed over the years. more
Peter Daalmans, Principal Consultant and Trainer, Daalmans Consulting
Hear from the industry experts on what is actually important to focus on and how to deal with this rapid change in real life. more
Join this panel of experts to hear their views and ask what they think is coming next. more
Join our panel of expert speakers in a discussion around cloud-native infrastructure, DevOps, and software development and what it means to you. more
Matthew McDermott, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer, Spanning Cloud Apps
Ben Curry, Managing Partner, Summit 7
Join us for a lively discussion to debate who is ultimately responsible and who needs to be held accountable for securing the enterprise. more
Part Q&A with speakers and conference chairs and part peer exchange, you can use this time to network with your fellow Live! 360 attendees and select speakers to discuss the best ways to move your projects to the next level. more
Kill the chaos, then reap the benefits of an engaged organization. more
In this session, you’ll learn the proven practices, behaviors, and etiquette to make your Teams experience the best it can be. more
At the end of this workshop, you'll have a solid understanding of Visual Studio to quickly develop reliable, maintainable solutions. more
We'll review new features and APIs that you can use wherever .NET Core goes. more
In this session, we'll cover the latest features that have been added to C#8 and how they work in detail so you'll know when to use them effectively in your new .NET projects. more
In this session, you'll learn how to get started using EF Core and how to handle the changes in this version. more
Jeremy Clark, Developer Educator, JeremyBytes.com
We'll create a self-hosted web service and then write an application to use that service. more
Learn new ASP.NET Core features such as tag helpers and view components more
Join me as we use parallel programming to make full use of our multi-core systems. more
In this talk I show internals of async and await. more
In this presentation I show internal mechanisms used by Windows for handling exceptions. more
This session will focus on migrating your .NET Framework based solutions to .NET Core and designed to run in the cloud. more
In this session you will learn how you have to build your evolving Web APIs using .NET Core and the Microsoft platform and run in a robust, hyper-scale production environment. more
During this session you will learn, via 10 practical tips, how to allow users to bring their devices in your company and allow access to corporate data securely. more
After this session, you will approach your next Office migration much more confidently. more
During this session you will learn options that can bring Intune to secure your data in the cloud and on-prem while minimizing usability impact for the end user. more
Learn what's new in Intune for Windows 10 app support more
Conditional Access is the basis of protecting your corporate data; join Peter to learn all different ways of configuring Conditional Access. more
In this session, Ben will guide you through the preparation of a baseline Office 365 security plan. more
This session will walk you through all of the layers of data governance and help you design for features such as Azure Information Protection, Unified Labeling, Retention Labels, Encryption, sensitive information types, and custom data loss prevention (DLP) rules! more
In this session, you will learn the phases of a search project and how to break the project up into meaningful “bites” that can have a positive impact on your end users search experience. more
This full-day workshop, led by PowerShell author and expert Jeff Hicks, will guide into the depths of PowerShell remoting in both the Windows PowerShell and Core worlds. more
This session will cover numerous PowerShell tools, techniques, tips, and tricks that make short work of the most common IT Pro admin tasks! more
Koenraad Haedens , Cloud Architect
Deploy and scale your Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes, and get built-in security and compliance features more
Join this session to learn about Azure offerings to build your infrastructure in a cloud like a professional. more
This session is intended to introduce JEA concepts and tools and demonstrate how you can get started today. more
Michael Wiley, Senior Customer Engineer, Microsoft
Come explore how PowerShell works in conjunction with Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) to enable the creation of highly parallelizable, scalable and robust long-running tasks using the familiar syntax of a PowerShell function. more
Kirk Munro, Owner and Founder, Kamtanix Ltd.
Come to this session to unleash your inner PowerShell debugging ninja. more
In this session I'll share the lessons I've learned from working with PowerShell over the past 12 years, explain the capabilities you should care about when creating modules, and identify those you should otherwise ignore, and talk about the tools available to you that allow you to make the most of your time. more
Learn to write functions in PowerShell that will operate exactly like core cmdlets including access to common and risk mitigation parameters more
Learn the latest and greatest updates to the Azure Platform IaaS and PaaS services, bringing you all the required knowledge to start architecting and deploying Azure resources with confidence as soon as you are back in the office. more
Omar Valerio , CIO / CTO / IT Director, Westminster Christian School
Learn why Azure is probably more secure than your own datacenter more
Ricky Pullen, Program Manager, Identity Engineering, Microsoft
Swetha Rai, Program Manager II - Azure Active Directory, Microsoft
This session is designed for identity and security admins that want to improve the security posture of their organization more
Roger Grimes, Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, KnowBe4, Inc.
This presentation is an inclusive look at all the methods and tools, both technical and non-technical, which can help your organization significantly reduce phishing risk. more
Attendees will be surprised and wowed by the innovative attacks and just how easy they are to accomplish. more
This session is a great opportunity to learn from others' mistakes, and ensure you're taking the right steps to protect your important data. more
In this session, I share my personal story on what worked and what didn't, what was easy and what was hard, and how I really did it – one step at a time. more
Learn how to configure the proactive security in a modern way using modern tools. more
Stacy Deere-Strole, Solutions Architect, Focal Point Solutions LLC
In this workshop we are going to explore and build out different features within your SharePoint (O365 & OnPrem) environment that will make your SharePoint implementation the Rock Star of all projects ever implemented. more
In this session, we will explore navigation best practices, how to clean up your existing navigation to make it more relevant, easy to use and turn it into the wow factor of your site. more
Learn all the things that a User Profile can do and how the functionality can improve meeting preparation, company bonding, and getting to know more about the organization you work for. more
Learn how to plan, design, and implement a highly availability farm architecture based upon proven techniques and practical guidance. more
Learn 5 things that you can apply to your projects to improve your results that are based on 20 years of experience in IT-Projects. more
Cristal Kawula, President, TriCon Elite Consulting
In this session, John O'Neill Sr. and Cristal Kawula share the tools gained through 50 plus years combined experience in IT. more
Learn what it actually means to "fake it until you make it" more
During this session, Cristal will show you how the process works and how to up your speaking game. more
If you're responsible for SQL Server, this session is one you cannot miss. more
Denny Cherry, Owner and Principal Consultant, Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting
During this session, we will explore the in-memory database tables which are known as the In-Memory OLTP features as well as reviewing the ColumnStore features more
Chris Bell, WaterOx Consulting, Inc.
In this session, we will go over some scripts that are used for compliance audits that make it easy to collect the information required. more
In this session, we will go over the concepts of containers, their general capabilities, and then build, connect and configure a SQL 2017 Dev edition server in a Docker for WIndows container for use as a private lab. more
Learn about integration with Azure Active Directory, virtual networks, and data flows. more
Learn the fundamentals of creating containers, learning about Kubernetes for management, and how to further your learning in this new and emerging space. more
In this advanced workshop, we cover data security and privacy protection for SQL Server and Azure SQL Database more
Attend this session and leave with a better understanding of how to architect your enterprise to use these public cloud providers. more
This demo-heavy session will showcase the great capabilities of SQL Server 2019 including data integration and insights, performance, and security more
Mindy Curnutt, Mindy Curnutt & Associates Consulting
You'll leave this session with an understanding of what the tool is, what it can do for you and how to use it. more
Learn about the two elusive data types (geography and geometry) more
In this demo-laden session we will use Data Flows to port existing ETL logic to a native Azure Data Factory solution, helping to make the migration from Earthed to Cloud painless. more
If you are happy to spend your time knee-deep in execution plan internals, come to this session! more
In this session we will examine available tools and methods to protect data at rest, in use, and in motion. more
In this session we will cover some basic items, run through some R scripts, and then review how to operationalize these scripts. more
We will review how to data model, build the architecture to support ingestion, and then dive into a demo of the New York Taxi data set and figure out Seasonal ARIMA, Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average, with R. more
Join members of the Microsoft Azure SQL DW & Azure FastTrack Engineering PG as we review some amazing new NDA features have been released that drastically change and simplify the recommended best practices and architectural guidance for deploying and using Azure SQL Data Warehouse more
You'll learn a ton of new SQL Server features in this information-packed day! more
We will look at current offerings for blockchain features in Azure and in database and data stores. more
For SQL DB and Azure Data Warehouse, we'll look at Advanced Data Security to classify and record data classifications. more
This session will help demystify where to look when you have a problem, as well as cover some of the more common issues you will see when implementing AGs and FCIs, whether you have them deployed on Windows Server or Linux. more
You will leave the session with a better understanding on how to approach solving any technical issues you experience at work. more
This session will give a short introduction to the Query Store feature in SQL 2016 and then dive into the Open Query Store (OQS) solution. more
This session is a story telling session about what people have done which have gone very, very wrong, usually with predictably horrible results. more
This session will show you seven simple things, that might alleviate most of your database related performance problems. more
In this all-day session, you will learn about best practices for SQL Server development, tips and techniques for high performance and high concurrency applications. more