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Orlando
November 12-17, 2017
Royal Pacific Resort at Universal, Orlando, FL
For Developers
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Web Client
Full Day Hands-On Labs
Native Client
SQL Server for Developers
Security
Developing for Office, Office 365, and SharePoint
Cloud Computing
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ALM / DevOps
Web Server
BI, Big Data, Data Analytics, and Data Visualization
The Real Cloud
Modern App Development
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Visual Studio / .NET Framework
SQL Server in the Cloud
SQL Server Administration and Maintenance
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Sunday, November 12, 2017
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Full Day Hands-On Lab: Busy Developer's HOL on Angular
Ted Neward
9:00am - 6:00pm
Full Day Hands-On Lab: From 0-60 in a Day with Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms
Roy Cornelissen
9:00am - 6:00pm
Full Day Hands-On Lab: Developer Dive into SQL Server 2016
Leonard Lobel
9:00am - 6:00pm
Full Day Hands-On Lab: Ethical Hacking with Kali Linux
Mike Danseglio
Avril Salter
9:00am - 6:00pm
Full Day Hands-On Lab: Developing Extensions for Microsoft Teams
Paul Schaeflein
Monday, November 13, 2017
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Workshop: Distributed Cross-Platform Application Architecture
Rockford Lhotka
Jason Bock
8:30am - 5:30pm
Workshop: Add Intelligence to your Solutions with AI, Bots, and More
Brian Randell
8:30am - 5:30pm
Workshop: Service Oriented Technologies: Designing, Developing, & Implementing WCF and the Web API
Miguel Castro
8:30am - 5:30pm
Workshop: The Modern Data Warehouse
Bradley Ball
Joshua Luedeman
8:30am - 5:30pm
Workshop: Learn the latest and Greatest Updates to the Azure Platform IaaS and PaaS Services
Peter De Tender
8:30am - 5:30pm
Workshop: Windows Security - How I Do It!
Sami Laiho
8:30am - 5:30pm
Workshop: Mastering the SharePoint Framework
Andrew Connell
8:30am - 5:30pm
Workshop: Building Modern Mobile Apps
Brent Edwards
Kevin Ford
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
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Visual Studio Live! Keynote: Optimizing and Deploying Angular and Node.js Web Apps to the Cloud
John Papa
8:00am - 9:00am
Office & SharePoint Live! Keynote: Office 365 Intelligence Transforming Productivity
Yina Arenas
8:00am - 9:00am
Modern Apps Live! Keynote: Optimizing and Deploying Angular and Node.js Web Apps to the Cloud
John Papa
9:15am - 10:30am
Front-end Web Development in 2017 for the Front-endally Challenged Microsoft Developer
Chris Klug
9:15am - 10:30am
Go Mobile with C#, Visual Studio, and Xamarin
Matthew Soucoup
9:15am - 10:30am
Microservices with Azure Container Service & Service Fabric
Vishwas Lele
9:15am - 10:30am
What's New in Visual Studio 2017
Nick Landry
9:15am - 10:30am
Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB
Leonard Lobel
9:15am - 10:30am
Is SQL Server Making You Wait? Discover the Top 10 Wait Types Every DBA Should Know
Janis Griffin
9:15am - 10:30am
Learn What It Takes to Build a Cockpit Alike View for Monitoring all of Your Azure Resources
Peter De Tender
9:15am - 10:30am
TypeScript for SharePoint Developers
Rob Windsor
9:15am - 10:30am
Modern App Development: Transform How You Build Web and Mobile Software
Rockford Lhotka
11:00am - 12:00pm
Live! 360 Keynote: Lessons Learned Doing DevOps at Microsoft at Scale
Buck Hodges
1:30pm - 2:45pm
ASP.NET Core MVC: What You Need to Know
Philip Japikse
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Optimizing and Extending Xamarin.Forms Mobile Apps
Matthew Soucoup
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Tactical DevOps with Visual Studio Team Services
Brian Randell
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Building ASP.NET Apps on Google Cloud
Mete Atamel
1:30pm - 2:45pm
What's New for Developers in SQL Server 2016
Leonard Lobel
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Loading a Data Warehouse Using SSIS
Tim Mitchell
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Turbo Boost - SQL Tricks Everybody MUST Know
Pinal Dave
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Architecture: The Key to Modern App Success
Brent Edwards
3:15pm - 4:30pm
Angular(2) - The 75-Minute Crash Course
Chris Klug
3:15pm - 4:30pm
Building a Cross-Platform Mobile App Backend in the Cloud
Nick Landry
3:15pm - 4:30pm
Database Lifecycle Management and the SQL Server Database
Brian Randell
3:15pm - 4:30pm
Top 10 Entity Framework Core Features Every Developer Should Know
Philip Japikse
3:15pm - 4:30pm
Advanced SSIS Package Authoring with Biml
Tim Mitchell
3:15pm - 4:30pm
Hardware, Camtasia, and a Storyline: Creating Your Own User Training
Greg Shields
3:15pm - 4:30pm
Microsoft Graph - All You Need to Know to Get Started and Become a Rockstar Office 365 Dev
Yina Arenas
3:15pm - 4:30pm
Focus on the User Experience #FTW
Jim Barrett
4:40pm - 5:00pm
Fast Focus: Aurelia vs. Just Angular
Chris Klug
4:40pm - 5:00pm
Fast Focus: Tips & Tricks for Xamarin Development
Matthew Soucoup
4:40pm - 5:00pm
Fast Focus on Azure Functions
Brian Clark
4:40pm - 5:00pm
Fast Focus: Busting .NET Myths
Jason Bock
4:40pm - 5:00pm
Fast Focus: Using Polybase to Analyze Data from Other Data Sources, Including Hadoop Data
Ginger Grant
4:40pm - 5:00pm
Fast Focus: A Brave New World - SQL Server on Linux
Joey D'Antoni
4:40pm - 5:00pm
Fast Focus: Azure SQL Data Warehouse - Fast and Furious
Karen Lopez
4:40pm - 5:00pm
Fast Focus: Preparing for the Windows Server 2016 MCSA - The Expert Tips
Greg Shields
4:40pm - 5:00pm
Fast Focus Mythbusters Windows Pagefile Settings
Sami Laiho
4:40pm - 5:00pm
Fast Focus: Using Features to Provision Assets in SharePoint Framework Solutions
Rob Windsor
4:40pm - 5:00pm
Fast Focus: Hybrid Web Frameworks
Allen Conway
5:10pm - 5:30pm
Fast Focus: Web Security 101
Brock Allen
5:10pm - 5:30pm
Fast Focus: Cross-Platform Code Reuse
Rockford Lhotka
5:10pm - 5:30pm
Fast Focus: Exploring Microservices in a Microsoft Landscape
Marcel de Vries
5:10pm - 5:30pm
Fast Focus: Dependency Injection in 20 Minutes
Miguel Castro
5:10pm - 5:30pm
Fast Focus: Introduction to Data Science with Azure ML
Bradley Ball
5:10pm - 5:30pm
Fast Focus: Python Essentials for C# Devs
Jen Stirrup
5:10pm - 5:30pm
Fast Focus: Azure SQL Database - A Quick Introduction
Tim Mitchell
5:10pm - 5:30pm
Fast Focus: Recovering Your On-Premises Workloads to Azure in 20 Minutes with Nothing But Demos
Peter De Tender
5:10pm - 5:30pm
Fast Focus: Mythbusters - Tweaking Windows Performance
Sami Laiho
5:10pm - 5:30pm
Fast Focus: SharePoint Developers Sound Off
Andrew Connell
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
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User Authentication for ASP.NET Core MVC Applications
Brock Allen
8:00am - 9:15am
Cloud Oriented Programming
Vishwas Lele
8:00am - 9:15am
Overcoming the Challenges of Mobile Development in the Enterprise
Roy Cornelissen
8:00am - 9:15am
Building Mixed Reality Experiences for HoloLens & Immersive Headsets in Unity
Nick Landry
8:00am - 9:15am
Getting Started with Query Tuning
Joey D'Antoni
8:00am - 9:15am
Azure SQL Database and the DBA
Grant Fritchey
8:00am - 9:15am
Configuring Active Directory Certificate Services for DSC Credential Encryption
Melissa Januszko
8:00am - 9:15am
Bypass Every Security Technology with Social Hacking: A Beginner's Toolkit
Dale Meredith
8:00am - 9:15am
Building Office Add-ins for Outlook with Angular
Andrew Connell
8:00am - 9:15am
Manage Distributed Teams with Visual Studio Team Services and Git
Brian Randell
9:30am - 10:45am
Building AngularJS Component-Based Applications
Miguel Castro
9:30am - 10:45am
Building Modern Web Apps with Azure
Eric D. Boyd
9:30am - 10:45am
Dockerize Your .NET Development Environment
Lee Brandt
9:30am - 10:45am
Bots are the New Apps: Building Bots with ASP.NET Web API & Language Understanding
Nick Landry
9:30am - 10:45am
Graph DB Support in SQL Server 2017
Karen Lopez
9:30am - 10:45am
HA and DR in the Cloud--Building Robust SQL Server Solutions on Azure
Joey D'Antoni
9:30am - 10:45am
Cardinality Estimates in Microsoft SQL Server
Thomas LaRock
9:30am - 10:45am
Make Your PowerShell Scripts Bulletproof with Pester
Melissa Januszko
9:30am - 10:45am
Introduction to the SharePoint Client Object Model and REST API
Rob Windsor
11:30am - 12:30pm
Live! 360 Panel: Industry Trends, Technology, and Your Career
Martin Leifker
Francois Charette
Matt Lockhart
Rockford Lhotka
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Securing Web APIs in ASP.NET Core
Brock Allen
2:00pm - 3:15pm
A/B Testing, Canary Releases and Dark Launching, Implementing Continuous Delivery on Azure
Marcel de Vries
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Creating a Release Pipeline with Team Services
Esteban Garcia
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Azure Functions Webhook Interface
Nick Zimmerman
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Big Data Technologies: What, Where and How to Run Them on Azure
Andrew Brust
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Introduction to R
Bradley Ball
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Developing with the SharePoint Framework: Web Parts & Customizing the UI
Andrew Connell
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Security with Speed for Modern Developers
Michael Lester
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Build Object-Oriented Enterprise Apps in JavaScript with TypeScript
John Papa
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Lock the Doors, Secure the Valuables, and Set the Alarm
Eric D. Boyd
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Unit Testing Test-Driven Development (TDD) for Mere Mortals
Benjamin Day
4:00pm - 5:15pm
PowerApps, Flow, and Common Data Service: Empowering Businesses with the Microsoft Business Application Platform
Charles Sterling
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Data Lake Analytics with U-SQL
Ginger Grant
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Big Data Smorgasbord with R in Hadoop and SQL Server
Jen Stirrup
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Exploring Execution Plans
Grant Fritchey
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Controlling Your Azure Spend
Timothy Warner
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Developing SharePoint Framework Components Using Visual Studio
Paul Schaeflein
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Coding for Quality and Maintainability
Jason Bock
Thursday, November 16, 2017
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HTTP/2: What You Need to Know
Robert Boedigheimer
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PowerApps and Flow Part II: Package, Embed, and Extend Your Applications
Manas Maheshwari
Pratap Ladhani
8:00am - 9:15am
Exploring C# 7 New Features
Adam Tuliper
8:00am - 9:15am
Top 10 Ways to Go from Good to Great Scrum Master
Benjamin Day
8:00am - 9:15am
Top Five SQL Server Query Tuning Tips
Janis Griffin
8:00am - 9:15am
Windows PowerShell Jumpstart for the SQL Server DBA
Edwin Sarmiento
8:00am - 9:15am
Introduction to Azure Data Factory
Tim Mitchell
8:00am - 9:15am
Fully Integrated Azure Resource Manager Deployments
Neil Peterson
8:00am - 9:15am
Keep Up with NOW! Automate Rebuilding Your (Home) Lab On Steroids
Sven van Rijen
8:00am - 9:15am
Regular Expressions Jump Start
Timothy Warner
8:00am - 9:15am
What Every Developer Needs to Know about SharePoint Development Online or On-Prem
Robert Bogue
8:00am - 9:15am
Feel the Flow - Adding your Custom API to Microsoft Flow
Paul Schaeflein
8:00am - 9:15am
Modern Web Development: Building Server Side Using ASP.NET Core, MVC, Web API, and Azure
Allen Conway
9:30am - 10:45am
ASP.NET Tag Helpers
Robert Boedigheimer
9:30am - 10:45am
Storyboarding 101
Billy Hollis
9:30am - 10:45am
.NET Standard From Noob to Ninja
Adam Tuliper
9:30am - 10:45am
Devs vs. Ops: Making Friends with the Enemy
Damian Brady
9:30am - 10:45am
Upgrading to SQL Server 2016
Thomas LaRock
9:30am - 10:45am
A Database Designer's Favorite SQL Server Security & Privacy Features
Karen Lopez
9:30am - 10:45am
Manage Your Azure Databases Using PowerShell
Grant Fritchey
9:30am - 10:45am
Automating Azure with PowerShell - Beyond the Azure PowerShell Module
Neil Peterson
9:30am - 10:45am
Git and GitHub Jump Start
Timothy Warner
9:30am - 10:45am
BI for the Cobbler's Children: JavaScript Charting and Graphing
Julie Turner
9:30am - 10:45am
Modern Web Development: Building Client Side Using TypeScript and Angular
Allen Conway
11:00am - 12:00pm
Visual Studio Live! Panel: Native or Web - Does it Matter?
Brian Randell
Damian Brady
Jeremy Clark
Esteban Garcia
Billy Hollis
Deborah Kurata
11:00am - 12:00pm
SQL Server Live! Panel: In with The New, And The Old Too: The Database New World Order
Ginger Grant
Thomas LaRock
Leonard Lobel
Karen Lopez
Jen Stirrup
Andrew Brust
11:00am - 12:00pm
Office & SharePoint Panel: Adapting to & Embracing the Cloud First Office World
Andrew Connell
Brian Pendergrass
Scott Hoag
Paul Schaeflein
Julie Turner
Rob Windsor
11:00am - 12:00pm
Modern Apps Live! Panel: Mobile Development Technologies
Rockford Lhotka
Kevin Ford
Matthew Soucoup
1:00pm - 2:15pm
I See You: Watching the User with Reactive Forms
Deborah Kurata
1:00pm - 2:15pm
Continuous Integration and Delivery for Mobile Applications using VSTS
Kevin Ford
1:00pm - 2:15pm
Deploying Straight to Production: A Guide to the Holy Grail
Damian Brady
1:00pm - 2:15pm
Design Patterns: Not Just for Architects
Jeremy Clark
1:00pm - 2:15pm
T-SQL User-Defined Functions, or: How to Kill Performance in One Easy Step
Hugo Kornelis
1:00pm - 2:15pm
SQL Server 2016 Database Administration for the Non-DBA
Denny Cherry
1:00pm - 2:15pm
Lighting Up Big Data Analytics with Apache Spark in Azure
Jen Stirrup
1:00pm - 2:15pm
PowerShell Scripting Secrets
Jeffery Hicks
1:00pm - 2:15pm
Introduction to the Office Dev PnP Core Libraries
Rob Windsor
1:00pm - 2:15pm
Using All That Data: Power BI to the Rescue
Scott Diehl
2:30pm - 3:45pm
Angular Routing
Deborah Kurata
2:30pm - 3:45pm
XAML Inception - Deep Composition for Better UI
Billy Hollis
2:30pm - 3:45pm
Application Insights: Measure Your Way to Success
Esteban Garcia
2:30pm - 3:45pm
DI Why? Getting a Grip on Dependency Injection
Jeremy Clark
2:30pm - 3:45pm
Adaptive Query Processing
Hugo Kornelis
2:30pm - 3:45pm
Using SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups
Denny Cherry
2:30pm - 3:45pm
Operational Analytics in SQL Server 2016
Edwin Sarmiento
2:30pm - 3:45pm
Deep Dive on SaaS Apps with Azure Active Directory
Tarek Dawoud
Mark Morowczynski
2:30pm - 3:45pm
Starting Your Own Gig: Three Steps to Launching Your Own Business
Nick Cavalancia
2:30pm - 3:45pm
In-Depth Introduction to Docker
Neil Peterson
2:30pm - 3:45pm
Build a Complete Business Solution Using Microsoft Graph API through Client Side Web Parts
Julie Turner
2:30pm - 3:45pm
Modern Mobile Development: Build a Single App For iOS, Android, and Windows with Xamarin Forms
Kevin Ford
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Next? Visual Studio Live! Networking Event
Brian Randell
Damian Brady
Jeremy Clark
Esteban Garcia
Billy Hollis
Adam Tuliper
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Next? SQL Server Live Networking Event
Andrew Brust
Thomas LaRock
Karen Lopez
Bradley Ball
Denny Cherry
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Next? Office & SharePoint Live! Networking Event
Andrew Connell
Scott Hoag
Brian Pendergrass
Paul Schaeflein
Julie Turner
Rob Windsor
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Next? Modern Apps Live! Networking Event
Rockford Lhotka
Friday, November 17, 2017
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Workshop: Angular Fundamentals
John Papa
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Building, Running, & Continuously Deploying Microservices with Docker Containers on Azure
Marcel de Vries
René van Osnabrugge
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Big Data, BI, and Analytics on The Microsoft Stack
Andrew Brust
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Database Administration for the Non Database Administrator
Denny Cherry
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Modern App Deep Dive - Xamarin, Responsive Web, UWP
Allen Conway
Brent Edwards
Kevin Ford