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Orlando
December 2-7, 2018
Royal Pacific Resort at Universal, Orlando, FL
For Developers
Track Key:
NET and More
Full Day Hands-On Labs
Developing New Experiences
Full Stack Web Development
SQL Server for Developers
Infrastructure
PowerShell and DevOps
Bots
High-Value SharePoint Workloads: Search, Flow, and PowerApps
Workshops
DevOps in the SpotLight
Business Intelligence
Client and Endpoint Management
Cloud Public Hybrid Private
Data Science and Machine Learning
Developing for Office, Office 365, and SharePoint
Modern App Development
Keynotes, General Sessions & Panels
Cloud Containers and Microservices
SQL Server Features & Components
AI Application Development
Analytics
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Delivery and Deployment
Soft Skills for ITPros
SQL Server Performance Tuning and Optimization
SQL Server Administration & Maintenance
Security
Internet of Things
App Dev Data
Deep Learning
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Sunday, December 2, 2018
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Hands-On Lab: Develop an ASP.NET Core 2 and EF Core 2 App in a Day
Philip Japikse
9:00am - 6:00pm
Hands-On Lab: From 0-60 in a Day with Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms
Roy Cornelissen
Marcel de Vries
9:00am - 6:00pm
Hands-On Lab: Busy Developer’s Workshop on VueJS
Ted Neward
9:00am - 6:00pm
Hands-On Lab: Developer Dive into SQL Server
Leonard Lobel
9:00am - 6:00pm
Hands-On Lab: Advanced Troubleshooting for IT/Ops Pros
Bruce Mackenzie-Low
9:00am - 6:00pm
Hands-On Lab: Windows PowerShell Jump Start HOL
Jeffery Hicks
9:00am - 6:00pm
Hands-On Lab: Build a Bot in a Day Using the Microsoft Bot Framework, Cognitive Services and Azure
Brian A. Randell
9:00am - 6:00pm
Hands-On Lab: Your Search is Broken - Let's Fix It!
Matthew McDermott
Agnes Molnar
Monday, December 3, 2018
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Workshop: Web Development in 2018
Chris Klug
8:30am - 5:30pm
Workshop: Architect and Build a Modern ASP.NET App in the Azure Cloud with a Full CI/CD Pipeline with VSTS
Brian A. Randell
8:30am - 5:30pm
Workshop: Cross-Platform C# Using .NET Core and WebAssembly
Jason Bock
Rockford Lhotka
8:30am - 5:30pm
Workshop: How Data Science Makes Your Data Warehouse Relevant
Josh Luedeman
Jorge Segarra
Bradley Ball
8:30am - 5:30pm
Workshop: Mastering the Sysinternals Toolkit
Sami Laiho
8:30am - 5:30pm
Workshop: How to Successfully Manage a Fabric Using System Center 2016/2019
Mikael Nystrom
8:30am - 5:30pm
Workshop: So You Want to do Data Science, What Now?
Parashar Shah
8:30am - 5:30pm
Workshop: Moving from BI to AI: Artificial Intelligence Skills for Business Intelligence Professionals
Jen Stirrup
8:30am - 5:30pm
Workshop: Modern Application Development with Office, SharePoint and Azure
Eric Shupps
8:30am - 5:30pm
Workshop: Application Cloud Modernization and Migration
Stuart Williams
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
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Visual Studio Live! & Modern Apps Live! Keynote: .NET Everywhere and for Everyone
James Montemagno
8:00am - 9:00am
Artificial Intelligence Live! & SQL Server Live! Keynote: Enabling Enterprise Developers in AI - How Microsoft is Doing It
Pranav Rastogi
9:15am - 10:30am
ASP.NET Core 2 for Mere Mortals
Philip Japikse
9:15am - 10:30am
Busy Developer's Guide to Kotlin –
Ted Neward
9:15am - 10:30am
Azure 101
Laurent Bugnion
9:15am - 10:30am
Modernizing Your Source Control: Migrating to Git from Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC)
Colin Dembovsky
9:15am - 10:30am
What's New with Azure Data Factory
Josh Luedeman
9:15am - 10:30am
Azure Cosmos DB Part I - Introduction to Cosmos DB
Leonard Lobel
9:15am - 10:30am
Everything You're Doing Wrong in PowerShell
Don Jones
9:15am - 10:30am
Image Factory: Automation Grand Deluxe
Mikael Nystrom
9:15am - 10:30am
Make Your App See, Hear and Think with Cognitive Services
Roy Cornelissen
9:15am - 10:30am
Introduction to Azure Databricks
Andrew Brust
9:15am - 10:30am
An Overview of the Microsoft 365 Development Platform
Bill Ayers
9:15am - 10:30am
Distributed Architecture: Microservices, N-Tier, Messaging, and More
Rockford Lhotka
1:30pm - 1:50pm
Fast Focus: Serverless Computing - Azure Functions and Xamarin in 20 Minutes
Laurent Bugnion
1:30pm - 1:50pm
Fast Focus: Getting Git
Jason Bock
1:30pm - 1:50pm
Fast Focus: Xamarin.Essentials - Cross-Platform APIs for Your Mobile Apps
James Montemagno
1:30pm - 1:50pm
Fast Focus: SQL Server Data Security and Privacy Features
Thomas LaRock
1:30pm - 1:50pm
Fast Focus: Common T-SQL Coding Mistakes and How to Fix Them
Amy Herold
1:30pm - 1:50pm
Fast Focus: Microsoft, Linux, Open Source, Cloud + DevOps
Jessica Deen
1:30pm - 1:50pm
Fast Focus: Externalizing Conversational Context
Heather Downing
2:00pm - 2:20pm
Fast Focus: Getting Started with ASP.NET Core 2.0 Razor Pages
Walt Ritscher
2:00pm - 2:20pm
Fast Focus: Get Your Full .NET Code into .NET Standard
Rockford Lhotka
2:00pm - 2:20pm
Fast Focus: Graph DB Support in SQL Server
Karen Lopez
2:00pm - 2:20pm
Fast Focus: SQL Server Execution Plans
Grant Fritchey
2:00pm - 2:20pm
Fast Focus: Career Planning for the Next Era of Analytics
Jen Underwood
2:00pm - 2:20pm
Fast Focus: 5 More Query Rules Every SharePoint Pro Should Know
Matthew McDermott
2:00pm - 2:20pm
Fast Focus: What is this GDPR Thing?
Michael Lester
2:45pm - 4:00pm
Introduction to Webpack
Chris Klug
2:45pm - 4:00pm
Xamarin.Forms Takes You Places!
Sam Basu
2:45pm - 4:00pm
Azure, Windows and Xamarin: Using the Cloud to Power Your Cross-Platform Applications
Laurent Bugnion
2:45pm - 4:00pm
DI Why? Getting a Grip on Dependency Injection
Jeremy Clark
2:45pm - 4:00pm
Data Protection and Privacy in the Database World
Grant Fritchey
2:45pm - 4:00pm
Introduction to SQL Server Essential Concepts
Bradley Ball
2:45pm - 4:00pm
Parameterization and Performance in SQL Server
Mindy Curnutt
2:45pm - 4:00pm
How I Would Audit Your Windows Security
Sami Laiho
2:45pm - 4:00pm
DevOps with Azure, Kubernetes, and Helm
Jessica Deen
2:45pm - 4:00pm
Speak to Me: Voice App Conversation Practices
Heather Downing
2:45pm - 4:00pm
Deliver More Value with Smart Assistants Built with the Microsoft Bot Framework
Brian A. Randell
2:45pm - 4:00pm
Developing SharePoint Framework Solutions for the Enterprise
Eric Shupps
2:45pm - 4:00pm
Principles and Patterns for Resilient Code
Jason Bock
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Angular Application Testing Outside the Church of TDD
Chris Klug
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Busy .NET Developer's Guide to Python
Ted Neward
4:15pm - 5:30pm
HoloLens, Mixed Reality & VR Development with the Cloud
Nick Landry
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Testing in Production Using Azure And Azure DevOps
Colin Dembovsky
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Exploring Execution Plans
Grant Fritchey
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Everything You Need to Know About SQL Server Indexes
Janis Griffin
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Secure Access to Office 365, SaaS and On-Premises Applications with Azure Active Directory
Holly Lockhart
Oana Enache
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Practical Internet of Things for the Microsoft Developer
Eric D. Boyd
4:15pm - 5:30pm
An Introduction to Development with the SharePoint Framework SPFx
Rob Windsor
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Security with Speed
Michael Lester
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
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The Whirlwind Tour of Authentication and Authorization with ASP.NET Core
Chris Klug
8:00am - 9:15am
Essential Tools for Xamarin Developers!
Sam Basu
8:00am - 9:15am
Introduction to Windows Containers and Docker
Marcel de Vries
8:00am - 9:15am
OWASP DevSlop: DevSecOps with Azure DevOps Pipelines
Tanya Janca
8:00am - 9:15am
SQL Server Database Administration for the Non-DBA
Denny Cherry
8:00am - 9:15am
Azure Cosmos DB Part II - Building Cosmos DB Applications
Leonard Lobel
8:00am - 9:15am
No More Passwords! An Introduction to Windows Hello for Business
Richard Hicks
8:00am - 9:15am
DevOps Making Snowflakes into Cattle
Don Jones
8:00am - 9:15am
Building for Alexa with Web API
Heather Downing
8:00am - 9:15am
Introduction to Azure Web Applications for Office and SharePoint Developers
Eric Shupps
8:00am - 9:15am
Application Cloud Migrations: Lessons Learned from the Field
Stuart Williams
9:30am - 10:45am
Assembling the Web - A Tour of WebAssembly
Jason Bock
9:30am - 10:45am
Cross‐Platform App Dev with Xamarin and CSLA .NET
Rockford Lhotka
9:30am - 10:45am
Microservices with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Vishwas Lele
Brent Wodicka
9:30am - 10:45am
The Future of .NET and Visual Studio
James Montemagno
9:30am - 10:45am
Table Indexing
Denny Cherry
9:30am - 10:45am
Redundant Devs & DBAs: Adaptive Query Processing and Automatic Tuning
Pinal Dave
9:30am - 10:45am
PowerShell: Under the Hood
Don Jones
9:30am - 10:45am
Techie Got Talent - Run Your Own Podcast / Webcast
Harjit Dhaliwal
Nick Brattoli
9:30am - 10:45am
Taking IoT to the Edge
Eric D. Boyd
9:30am - 10:45am
The Case for R in AI - Statistical Perspective to Data, Inference and Prediction as Used by AI Applications
Jen Stirrup
9:30am - 10:45am
Enterprise JavaScript Development Patterns for SharePoint Developers
Rob Windsor
9:30am - 10:45am
The Language of UX: Effectively Communicating Your Experience Across Multiple Platforms
Jim Barrett
11:30am - 12:30pm
Live! 360 Keynote: Enterprise Transformation (And You Can Too)
Donovan Brown
2:00pm - 3:15pm
No Strings Attached: JavaScript Without Webpack, Transpilers or Frameworks
Ashley Grant
2:00pm - 3:15pm
DevOps for the SQL Server Database
Brian A. Randell
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Programming with PowerApps and Microsoft Flow
Walt Ritscher
2:00pm - 3:15pm
What's New in C# 7
Philip Japikse
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Leveraging Data Value with Azure Data Catalog
Karen Lopez
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Conceptualizing Desired State Configuration Using Your Own Scripts
Will Anderson
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Securely Scripting PowerShell
Jeffery Hicks
2:00pm - 3:15pm
How to Use PowerShell to Become a Windows Management SuperHero
Petri Paavola
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Building a Holographic Assistant with Bot Framework, LUIS & Mixed Reality
Nick Landry
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Data Visualization Super Power
Jen Stirrup
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Microsoft Graph: The Toolkit for Building Modern Business Solutions
Bill Ayers
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Next-Gen Enterprise User Experiences: Voice, AR, Bots
Kevin Ford
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Electron: Desktop Development for Web
Chris Woodruff
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Entity Framework for Enterprise Applications
Benjamin Day
4:00pm - 5:15pm
The Mystical World of I/O Bindings in Azure Functions
Ashley Grant
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Signing Your Code the Easy Way
Claire Novotny
Moderated By:
Claire Novotny
4:00pm - 5:15pm
The Zen of PowerShell Scripting
Jeffery Hicks
4:00pm - 5:15pm
ML for the .NET Developer
Pranav Rastogi
4:00pm - 5:15pm
AI Power…in Power BI
Andrew Brust
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Smart UI with Adaptive Cards - Reducing Friction and Improve Productivity
Paul Schaeflein
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Web Client UI: Frameworks, Testing, and Design
Allen Conway
Thursday, December 6, 2018
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Encrypting the Web
Robert Boedigheimer
8:00am - 9:15am
Learning the Language of HTTP for a Better Data Experience in Your Mobile Apps
Chris Woodruff
8:00am - 9:15am
How to Interview a Developer
Billy Hollis
8:00am - 9:15am
Automated Deployments with Azure Pipelines
Esteban Garcia
8:00am - 9:15am
Cosmos DB for SQL Server Pros
David Klee
8:00am - 9:15am
Performance in 60 Seconds: SQL Tricks Everybody MUST Know
Pinal Dave
8:00am - 9:15am
The PowerShell Core Tutorial
Don Jones
8:00am - 9:15am
What's New in Windows Server 2019
Dave Kawula
8:00am - 9:15am
Managing the Conversation Flow within a Bot
Rabeb Othmani
8:00am - 9:15am
Introduction to the SharePoint Developer PnP Core Libraries
Rob Windsor
8:00am - 9:15am
Smart Mobile Clients: Which Tech Is Right for Me?
Brent Edwards
9:30am - 10:45am
Advanced Fiddler Techniques
Robert Boedigheimer
9:30am - 10:45am
Making XAML Do Things You Didn't Realize It Could
Billy Hollis
9:30am - 10:45am
What Developers Want
Rabeb Othmani
9:30am - 10:45am
Machine Learning and the Death of Old School Classifiers
John Reynolds
Isaac Yousuf
9:30am - 10:45am
Hi Ho! Hi Ho! SQL Server on Linux, We Go!
Janis Griffin
9:30am - 10:45am
Level Up Your SQL Server Cloud Skills
David Klee
9:30am - 10:45am
Where Does R Fit into Your SQL Server Stack?
Stacia Varga
9:30am - 10:45am
Machine Learning the Easy Way: Azure Cognitive Services
Eric Potter
9:30am - 10:45am
PowerApps - Beyond the Basics
Paul Schaeflein
9:30am - 10:45am
Code-First vs. Database-First: Where Are You on the Spectrum, and Why?
Tony Sellars
11:00am - 12:00pm
Visual Studio Live! Panel Discussion: What Matters Most for the Future of Your Applications: AI, Data, Security, or UX?
Brian A. Randell
Billy Hollis
Tanya Janca
Claire Novotny
Rabeb Othmani
11:00am - 12:00pm
SQL Server Live! & Artificial Intelligence Live! Panel Discussion: Keeping Pace with AI and Machine Learning While Maintaining Your Day Job
Andrew Brust
Thomas LaRock
Stacia Varga
Jen Stirrup
Jen Underwood
11:00am - 12:00pm
Modern Apps Live! Panel Discussion: Open Q&A on Modern App Architecture, Design, and Implementation
Rockford Lhotka
Allen Conway
Scott Diehl
Brent Edwards
Kevin Ford
1:00pm - 2:15pm
Get Func-y: Understanding Delegates in .NET
Jeremy Clark
1:00pm - 2:15pm
Non-Useless Unit Testing Entity Framework & ASP.NET MVC
Benjamin Day
1:00pm - 2:15pm
Modernizing the Enterprise Desktop Application
Claire Novotny
1:00pm - 2:15pm
DevOps: A Catalyst for Enterprise Agility
Heidi Araya
Esteban Garcia
1:00pm - 2:15pm
SQL Server Design Features Contentious Issues
Karen Lopez
1:00pm - 2:15pm
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: Common T-SQL Coding Mistakes and How to Fix Them
Amy Herold
1:00pm - 2:15pm
DevOps for AI
Jordan Edwards
1:00pm - 2:15pm
TypeScript for SharePoint Developers
Rob Windsor
1:00pm - 2:15pm
Machine Learning: Client vs. Server Models
Kevin Ford
2:30pm - 3:45pm
IEnumerable, ISaveable, IDontGetIt: Understanding .NET Interfaces
Jeremy Clark
2:30pm - 3:45pm
Finding Your Place in the Cosmos: When & Why You Should Consider Azure Cosmos DB
Eric Potter
2:30pm - 3:45pm
Pushing Left Like a Boss: Application Security Foundation
Tanya Janca
2:30pm - 3:45pm
Scrum, Kanban or Scrumban?
Heidi Araya
2:30pm - 3:45pm
SQL Server Audit
Thomas LaRock
2:30pm - 3:45pm
Secrets of SQL Server: Database Worst Practices
Pinal Dave
2:30pm - 3:45pm
Cloud Managed Windows 10 - The whole story
Petri Paavola
2:30pm - 3:45pm
The Weakest Link of Office 365 Security
Nestori Syynimaa
2:30pm - 3:45pm
How to Become a Community Rockstar - Learn How to Showcase Your Skills
Cristal Kawula
2:30pm - 3:45pm
Getting Started with Deep Learning
David Smith
2:30pm - 3:45pm
Innovations in Automating Analytics and Machine Learning
Jen Underwood
2:30pm - 3:45pm
Reach for the Cloud: Extend Your SharePoint Framework Solutions with the Power of Microsoft Graph
Bill Ayers
2:30pm - 3:45pm
Data Visualization: Where Does Tech End and UX Begin?
Scott Diehl
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Next? Live! 360 Networking Event
Ben Curry
Matthew McDermott
Rob Windsor
Brian A. Randell
Heidi Araya
Jeremy Clark
Benjamin Day
Esteban Garcia
Sami Laiho
Dave Kawula
Cristal Kawula
Peter De Tender
Andrew Brust
Grant Fritchey
Thomas LaRock
Karen Lopez
Kevin Ford
Brent Edwards
Rockford Lhotka
Paul Schaeflein
Friday, December 7, 2018
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Workshop: UX Design for Developers: Basics of Principles and Process
Billy Hollis
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Kubernetes on Azure
Vishwas Lele
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Migrating Data and Databases to Microsoft Azure
Karen Lopez
Thomas LaRock
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Data Due Diligence – Developing a Strategy for BI, Analytics, and Beyond
Stacia Varga
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Hacking and Hardening Office 365 and Azure AD
Nestori Syynimaa
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Practical Artificial Intelligence for the Working Software Engineer
David Smith
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Developing Components for SharePoint and Teams
Paul Schaeflein
8:00am - 5:00pm
Modern App User Experiences: Mobile, Web, AR, Voice, and Bots
Moderated By:
Allen Conway
Moderated By:
Brent Edwards
Moderated By:
Kevin Ford