Steve Green, Managing Member, Wirestream, LLC

The success of a team can only happen when good processes and practices are established that unite the group. more

Steve Green, Managing Member, Wirestream, LLC

This presentation demonstrates that technical debt isn't always something to be avoided. more

Steve Green, Managing Member, Wirestream, LLC

This session will introduce the Object Oriented techniques identified by Robert Martin as the SOLID principles of software design. more

Steve Green, Managing Member, Wirestream, LLC

This session will present new techniques for building a culture of innovation, including: how to curate ideas, inspire teams, build innovative mindsets, create better processes and deal with change. more

Melissa Green, CEO & President, Wirestream

This session will explore how business and functional requirements can still be valuable in an agile-based process and how you can write and perpetuate them throughout the project work. more

Steve Green, Managing Member, Wirestream, LLC

This session will cover using Agile constructs within your software architecture. more

Philip Japikse Microsoft MVP, MCSD, CSM, and CSP, Developer, Coach, Author, Teacher

In this 8-hour workshop you will get the ABC's of agile and what it really means. more

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

In this workshop, you'll learn how you can define a DevOps practice in your organization from end-to-end, regardless of which tools you use. more

Benjamin Day, Consultant & Trainer, Benjamin Day Consulting, Inc.

In this session, you'll run through four of the main pieces of running a Scrum project using TFS2015: Stakeholder Interaction, Planning & Execution, Testing, and streamlining the Definition of Done (DoD). more

Benjamin Day, Consultant & Trainer, Benjamin Day Consulting, Inc.

In this session, you'll learn why you should care about Feature Flags, what they let you do, how they'll help your Scrum teams, and how to actually implement them in your applications. more

Steve Jones Data Platform MVP, MCSE, BA, Editor, SQLServerCentral

This session will examine how the concepts and principles of DevOps can be applied to database development by looking at both automated comparison analysis as well as migration script management. more

Marcel de Vries, CTO, Xpirit

This session will look at different technologies available to separate feature deployments from feature exposure, making it possible to make releasing a feature to the end user nothing more than the flip of a switch. more

Esteban Garcia, Chief Technologist, Nebbia Technology

This session will introduce you to Application Insights, how to get started using it in your new and existing applications, and how to harness its power by adding instrumentation with your own metrics. more

Adam Tuliper, Principal Software Engineer, DX, Microsoft

You'll look at using Docker as a developer, not only its architecture and commands from the ground up, but why you would use it and common use cases. more

James Montemagno, Principal Program Manager – Xamarin, Microsoft

Xamarin.UITest is a freely available testing framework that lets you create user interface tests to programmatically interact with native and hybrid apps. more

Marcel de Vries, CTO, Xpirit

In this session you'll learn to build test suites in such a way that they are maintainable by default. more

Ido Flatow MRD, MVP, Senior Architect and Trainer, SELA Group

In this session, you'll learn how to use Fiddler from bottom to top to monitor, debug, test, and improve web applications. more

Andrew Brust, Senior Director, Market Strategy and Intelligence, Datameer

This session will provide full up-to-date coverage of what Power BI has to offer. more

William E. Pearson III, Business Intelligence Architect and Founder, Island Technologies Inc.®

Explore the construction of organizational BI solutions. more

William E. Pearson III, Business Intelligence Architect and Founder, Island Technologies Inc.®

Explore many commonly used DAX functions in meeting requirements that are regularly encountered in the business environment. more

Andrew Brust, Senior Director, Market Strategy and Intelligence, Datameer

Learn what Hadoop and Spark are, how they work, how to get them running on the Azure cloud and how to integrate them with SQL Server, Power BI and Excel. more

Edwin Sarmiento, Managing Director, 15C

This session will introduce you to PolyBase more

Jen Stirrup, Industry Analyst / Author

Look at a mix of technologies for visualizing big data sources more

Thomas LeBlanc, Data Warehouse Independent Consultant , Data on the Geaux

We will demonstrate a Multidimensional Cube and the Tabular Model to help you make the decision of which installation to use. more

Jen Stirrup, Industry Analyst / Author

Explore how companies are using self-service and data discovery techniques to deliver more agile analytics more

Jen Stirrup, Industry Analyst / Author

Learn "what to use, and when" so you have a blueprint for your Business Intelligence strategy more

Tim Mitchell Data Platform MVP, Principal, Tyleris Data Solutions

Walk through the essential changes in SSRS more

Tim Mitchell Data Platform MVP, Principal, Tyleris Data Solutions

This session will walk you through design patterns for testing SSIS packages during and after the development process. more

Joey D'Antoni

Learn about the challenges of implementing your BI environments in a virtual environment more

Andrew Brust, Senior Director, Market Strategy and Intelligence, Datameer

Working with data isn't just about relational databases and data access anymore. It's a much bigger, more exciting world than that now. There are new challenges too, but they're not insurmountable. Take in this workshop to get past them and see the cool stuff that awaits. more

Richard Hicks Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter MVP , Founder and Principal Consultant, Richard M Hicks Consulting

DirectAccess, a remote access technology included with Windows Server 2016, is a paradigm shift in the way you deliver remote access. more

Richard Hicks Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter MVP , Founder and Principal Consultant, Richard M Hicks Consulting

Come to this session, and you'll learn valuable troubleshooting strategies and lessons learned from deploying DirectAccess and troubleshooting client connectivity issues for some of the largest organizations in the world. more

Mark Minasi, IT Consultant, Author, Speaker, MR&D

Veteran Windows expert and bestselling author Mark Minasi has assembled a concise, entertaining session to explain Windows as a Service from start to finish. more

Timothy Warner, Author/Evangelist, Pluralsight

This session is for you systems administrators who need to understand the traffic that moves across your network. more

Steven Rachui, Premier Field Engineer, Microsoft

With current versions of Configuration Manager, you can manage Windows 10 devices using just the built-in MDM capabilities. more

Steven Rachui, Premier Field Engineer, Microsoft

The ConfigMgr application model is a great tool to help structure application deployments in an environment and manage product lifecycles. more

Sami Laiho MVP, MCITP, MCT, Senior Technical Fellow, Adminize

Process Explorer and Process Monitor are the most important tools for troubleshooting Windows. more

Ido Flatow MRD, MVP, Senior Architect and Trainer, SELA Group

These are not general best practices; these are actual lessons learned from the field. more

Ido Flatow MRD, MVP, Senior Architect and Trainer, SELA Group

During this session, you'll construct a scalable, distributed, secured web application with Microsoft Azure. more

Fabian Williams, Architect, Adotob, LLC

Get started with learning about the RESTful endpoints and all you can gain from the Microsoft Graph more

Ido Flatow MRD, MVP, Senior Architect and Trainer, SELA Group

This session will talk about PaaS offerings like Event Hubs, Stream Analytics, Data Factory, DocumentDB and HDInsight that can save time and money, implementing your data driven system. more

Fabian Williams, Architect, Adotob, LLC

Get a better understanding of what DocumentDb is, its best use cases, how to provision and configure it in the Azure Portal and how to consume data via a Web App and Web API more

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

Come to this session to learn what's new in Azure IaaS v2, from the new service architecture and new resources and capabilities to the Azure Resource Manager. more

Nick Pinheiro, Azure Applications CoE Architect, Microsoft

This session will give you an overview of PowerApps and showcase end-to-end demos. more

Vishwas Lele, Chief Technology Officer , AIS

This session will cover programming models available in Service Fabric to build highly available, low latency micro-services you can deploy on Microsoft Azure or Windows Server. more

Vishwas Lele, Chief Technology Officer , AIS

This session will give you tips and tricks designed to help you make more effective use of the cloud. more

Nick Pinheiro, Azure Applications CoE Architect, Microsoft

In this session, you'll compare and contrast Azure Active Directory, Azure Active Directory Premium and Azure B2C from the developer's perspective. more

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

This session will give you a practical view of the IoT; starting by defining what IoT is, and the various components that are required and optional components that can enhance IoT solutions. more

Esteban Garcia, Chief Technologist, Nebbia Technology

This session will show you how to create ARM templates to define your Azure environments, use VSTS as a version control system for your templates, and use VSTS's build and release management functionality to deploy changes to your environments along with code changes. more

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

This workshop will walk you through building a modern web app using services in Azure like App Service Web and API apps. more

Ido Flatow MRD, MVP, Senior Architect and Trainer, SELA Group

In this session, you'll learn about Docker and the core concepts of containers. more

David Hoerster, Owner, AgileWays

The concepts of CQRS are alive and well and probably more widely accepted and considered today than a few years ago. more

Reza Rahman, Speaker, Author, Consultant

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David Hoerster, Owner, AgileWays

This session will cover some problems mutable state introduces, and how introducing some immutability concepts into your systems can address these issues. more

Arthur Hicken , Chief Evangelist, Parasoft

As you increasingly rely on technology to improve the quality and efficiency of your personal and professional lives, software has become the key business differentiator. more

Mark Rackley, Chief Strategy Officer , PAIT Group

Learn about client side development in SharePoint, essential skills you can use immediately and the building blocks necessary to tackle the new SharePoint Framework. more

Andrew Connell MVP, Consultant, Instructor, Developer, & Author, Andrew Connell Inc.

Learn about this new development option, how it works and the scenarios for which it's suitable more

Bill Ayers, Technical Director, Flow Simulation Ltd.

Learn how you can make use of libraries to make your job easier and avoid embarrassing security gaffes more

Rob Windsor, Lead Consultant, PAIT Group / eXtaCloud

Learn how to get started using the Office 365 Developer PnP Core libraries more

Bill Ayers, Technical Director, Flow Simulation Ltd.

Learn how to deliver a huge amount of business value with surprisingly little effort more

Mark Rackley, Chief Strategy Officer , PAIT Group

Gain a new appreciate for jQuery more

Mark Rackley, Chief Strategy Officer , PAIT Group

Learn how to use jQuery to make your forms look highly styled and professional more

Paul Schaeflein Microsoft MVP - Office Development, Enterprise Architect, DMI (Digital Management, LLC)

This session will cover the steps necessary to add the Fabric to your application. more

Rob Windsor, Lead Consultant, PAIT Group / eXtaCloud

Discover that client-side coding does not have to feel foreign to server-side developers more

Bill Ayers, Technical Director, Flow Simulation Ltd.

This session will cover the options for building Office 365 solutions for client devices. more

Rob Windsor, Lead Consultant, PAIT Group / eXtaCloud

This session will introduce these two APIs and show you how to get started using them through a series of demonstrations. more

Andrew Connell MVP, Consultant, Instructor, Developer, & Author, Andrew Connell Inc.

Walk away learning two things: building apps using Angular2 and building Office Add-ins. more

Paul Schaeflein Microsoft MVP - Office Development, Enterprise Architect, DMI (Digital Management, LLC)

Learn about Webhooks and HTTP callbacks more

Handoyo Sutanto, Senior Enterprise Software Engineer , HyperGrid

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Michael Wiley, Premier Field Engineer, Microsoft

Have you ever wanted to write your own cmdlets without having to learn coding in Visual Studio? more

Jeffery Hicks PowerShell MVP, Senior Technology Fellow, JDH IT Solutions

One of the primary reasons classes were introduced into PowerShell 5.0 was to support custom Desired State Configuration (DSC) resources. more

Jeffery Hicks PowerShell MVP, Senior Technology Fellow, JDH IT Solutions

PowerShell expert trainer Jeff Hicks will guide you through the ABCs of WPF and demonstrate how easy it is to create a graphical PowerShell solution. more

Mark Minasi, IT Consultant, Author, Speaker, MR&D

Attend this session and you too can be The Master of Web Automation. more

Michael Wiley, Premier Field Engineer, Microsoft

Come learn how PowerShell layers on top of Windows Workflow Foundation to enable the creation of highly parallelizable, scalable and robust long-running tasks using the familiar syntax of a PowerShell function. more

Don Jones MVP, Curriculum Director for IT Pro Content , Pluralsight

Join Don Jones, co-author of Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches, for a hard look at the rights and wrongs of advanced functions and scripting in PowerShell. more

Jason Helmick, Author, Pluralsight

Learn PowerShell while you also learn PowerShell DSC and get control of your servers while preventing drift. more

Don Jones MVP, Curriculum Director for IT Pro Content , Pluralsight

Don Jones, PowerShell MVP and President of PowerShell.org, will share some of his best tips, "gotchas," and secrets about PowerShell. more

Jason Helmick, Author, Pluralsight

Let Windows PowerShell MVP Jason Helmick take you through complexities of building a secured and load balanced IIS Pull server for all your DSC needs. more

Agnes Molnar, CEO, Managing Consultant, Search Explained

Gain knowledge and experiences from a business perspective more

Agnes Molnar, CEO, Managing Consultant, Search Explained

This thought-provoking breakout session provides business insight to the state of search, discovery and findability more

Agnes Molnar, CEO, Managing Consultant, Search Explained

Learn proven steps toward being successful with Search, as well as common mistakes which you can avoid more

Greg Shields MVP, vExpert, Author Evangelist, Pluralsight

Recording tools like Camtasia make video training easy, if you're willing to struggle through some of its initial idiosyncrasies. more

J. Peter Bruzzese, ClipTraining/Conversational Geek/InfoWorld/Mimecast

In this session, you'll discuss what it takes to evolve into the kind of IT professional who continues to be relevant (and work). more

Michael Remijan, System Architect, Federal Reserve Bank St. Louis

This presentation will be a code-intensive look into how Java has incorporated these features into the language more

Kito D. Mann, Principal Consultant, Virtua

This session covers the core PrimeFaces components as well as the key new features in PrimeFaces 5 more

Reza Rahman, Speaker, Author, Consultant

This session takes an in-depth look into the Java Community Process including its purpose, structure, governance, operations as well as how you can participate, observe or comment more

Kito D. Mann, Principal Consultant, Virtua

See what Java on the client and server looks like, without any additional browser plugins or hacks. more

Kito D. Mann, Principal Consultant, Virtua

Gain a deeper understanding of how garbage collection works in the JVM more

Reza Rahman, Speaker, Author, Consultant

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Reza Rahman, Speaker, Author, Consultant

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David Foote, Co-founder, Chief Analyst and Chief Research Officer, Foote Partners

Learn the importance of choosing a set of IT skills in line with what organizations are seeking to protect and move their businesses forward. more

Reza Rahman, Speaker, Author, Consultant

This keynote tells that unique story, focusing on what’s inside Java EE 8 and how it got there. more

Tim Sneath, Principal Lead Program Manager, Visual Studio Platform, Microsoft

In this demo-packed keynote, we’ll take the newly-upgraded Visual Studio out for a spin and show you how it will turbocharge your development. more

Chris Bortlik, Collaboration Solution Architect, Microsoft

Get a peek at the exciting new capabilities in SharePoint Server 2016, SharePoint Online with Office 365, OneDrive for Business, and hybrid. more

Buck Woody, Senior Technical Specialist, Machine Learning and Data Science Team, Microsoft

Come join Buck Woody, Microsoft’s “Real world DBA” and explore the history - and future - of the RDBMS. more

Mark Minasi, IT Consultant, Author, Speaker, MR&D

Come see Mark Minasi, author of the bestselling 23-year series of Mastering Windows Server books, and hear his answer in this quick and entertaining look at Server 2016. more

Tim Sneath, Principal Lead Program Manager, Visual Studio Platform, Microsoft

In this demo-packed keynote, we’ll take the newly-upgraded Visual Studio out for a spin and show you how it will turbocharge your development. more

John Papa, Principal Developer Advocate , Microsoft

Before solving the problems of the ever changing mobile world, we must first understand our own environment and the challenges we face. more

Andrew Connell MVP, Consultant, Instructor, Developer, & Author, Andrew Connell Inc.

Don Jones MVP, Curriculum Director for IT Pro Content , Pluralsight

Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

Matthew McDermott, Founder and Director, Aptillon, Inc.

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

John K. Waters

Andrew Brust, Senior Director, Market Strategy and Intelligence, Datameer

Moderated By: Andrew Brust, Senior Director, Market Strategy and Intelligence, Datameer

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Fabian Williams, Architect, Adotob, LLC

This full day workshop will look at Xamarin as a technology for Mobile App development. more

Jordan Matthiesen, Program Manager, Microsoft

This session will explore the state of hybrid app development using real-world data to understand the role web technologies play in the app store. more

Roy Cornelissen, Lead Consultant , Xpirit

Learn to leverage a combination of the Xamarin platform, Visual Studio Team Services and HockeyApp to implement a DevOps Continuous Delivery pipeline for mobile apps on all platforms. more

Fabian Williams, Architect, Adotob, LLC

Learn how to use PowerApps and create intuitive and real world solutions for your business. more

Roy Cornelissen, Lead Consultant , Xpirit

Learn some of the pitfalls after building platform applications with Xamarin in combination with Enterprise Mobility Management platforms more

Ted Neward, Director, Developer Relations, Smartsheet.com

After this session, which assumes you know Java, Visual Basic, or C#; you'll walk away with a working knowledge of Swift. more

Ted Neward, Director, Developer Relations, Smartsheet.com

In this session, using Swift as the language, you'll go from zero to working iOS app using nothing more than the tools that Apple gave you: XCode, Swift, and a working iPhone. more

Kevin Ford, Mobile Practice Lead, Magenic

In this session, you'll look at the CardView, RecyclerView, styles and even Marshmallow concepts like the text selection, and look at examples in Xamarin and Java. more

Kevin Ford, Mobile Practice Lead, Magenic

Explore how to create an application using Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova in Visual Studio 2015 and Ionic with Angular 2 to make hybrid mobile applications with a native looking UI. more

James Montemagno, Principal Program Manager – Xamarin, Microsoft

This session will explore all the search options provided by both Apple and Google for iOS and Android. more

James Montemagno, Principal Program Manager – Xamarin, Microsoft

Creating a great connected experience across multiple platforms is an essential element of great mobile applications. more

Brent Edwards, Principal Lead Consultant, Magenic

Kevin Ford, Mobile Practice Lead, Magenic

Look at how a mobile backend is created using Azure more

Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

This session will demonstrate how all these concepts fit together to drive what we call "modern app development." more

Brent Edwards, Principal Lead Consultant, Magenic

This session will show you several options for modern app architecture with discussion about the pros and cons of each more

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

Understand how to properly handle branching, pull requests, code revisions, and tagging. more

Anthony Handley, UX Practice Lead, Magenic

Learn some new ways of thinking that will help you reimagine application development. more

Dan Nordquist, Director of Technology, Bluespire Marketing

Learn how .NET Core helps you use Docker more

James Montemagno, Principal Program Manager – Xamarin, Microsoft

Kevin Ford, Mobile Practice Lead, Magenic

Jordan Matthiesen, Program Manager, Microsoft

Moderated By: Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

Bring your questions and get answers from this top-notch panel of experts on mobile technologies and platforms. more

Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

Learn how to leverage the open source CSLA .NET framework to reuse nearly 100 percent of the business logic more

Jason Bock MVP (C#), Practice Lead, Magenic

Learn how to implement effective strategies using mocking and unit testing for your modern app code more

Kevin Ford, Mobile Practice Lead, Magenic

This session will focus entirely on iOS and Android, showing how you can reuse nearly all of your code across both platforms more

Brent Edwards, Principal Lead Consultant, Magenic

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Allen Conway, Lead Consultant , Magenic

Learn how to make the most of .NET Core, ASP.NET, and Web API services to support the rich AngularJS client app. more

Allen Conway, Lead Consultant , Magenic

Learn how to use Angular (1 and 2) and TypeScript to build a rich and compelling user experience more

Scott Diehl, Practice Lead, Magenic

Learn how to use PowerBI to analyze data stored in SQL Server to help users and decision makers do their jobs more efficiently more

Jason Bock MVP (C#), Practice Lead, Magenic

Allen Conway, Lead Consultant , Magenic

Brent Edwards, Principal Lead Consultant, Magenic

Kevin Ford, Mobile Practice Lead, Magenic

This is a no-holds barred deep dive into use of Xamarin, Angular (1 and 2), TypeScript, .NET Core, Web API, UWP, and CSLA .NET. more

Dale Meredith, Owner, My Mentored Learning, Inc.

A host of sources, both expected and potentially unexpected, threaten computer networks. more

Dale Meredith, Owner, My Mentored Learning, Inc.

The purpose of this session is to give you a brief and basic overview of what to look for when starting out in penetration testing and to build up an internal penetration test kit. more

Dale Meredith, Owner, My Mentored Learning, Inc.

Security is now more than ever being called into question, as so many mobile apps collect huge quantities of data and store them on the cloud. more

Mark Minasi, IT Consultant, Author, Speaker, MR&D

Attend this talk and be the first person on your block to get VSM running. more

Yung Chou, Technology Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation

IT needs a fresh look on how to better and effectively protect corporate assets. more

Sami Laiho MVP, MCITP, MCT, Senior Technical Fellow, Adminize

In this session one of the world's leading Operating System Security experts Sami Laiho will take you through a real life penetration test. more

Sami Laiho MVP, MCITP, MCT, Senior Technical Fellow, Adminize

To build a secure Windows implementation and infrastructure, you need to know how the security subsystem really works. more

Greg Shields MVP, vExpert, Author Evangelist, Pluralsight

Kick off your TechMentor on Monday morning with eight hours of awesome info that might just pay for your entire week. more

Bruce Mackenzie-Low MCSE/MCSA, Systems Software Engineer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Seize this opportunity to enhance your troubleshooting skills by learning how to tackle the toughest problems Windows can dish out. more

Greg Shields MVP, vExpert, Author Evangelist, Pluralsight

These days, AD CS is becoming as important a network service as AD DS. more

Jeffery Hicks PowerShell MVP, Senior Technology Fellow, JDH IT Solutions

In this demo-packed session, you will learn how to deploy and configure a Nano server using PowerShell. more

Bruce Mackenzie-Low MCSE/MCSA, Systems Software Engineer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

This session will provide you with the fundamentals for implementing Hyper-V in both physical host clusters and virtual guest clusters. more

Mark Minasi, IT Consultant, Author, Speaker, MR&D

Join Mark Minasi and this award-winning fun, fast-paced and clear introduction of Windows clusters. more

J. Peter Bruzzese, ClipTraining/Conversational Geek/InfoWorld/Mimecast

Staying Put, Moving Forward, Moving Up or Moving Over: those are the four options before you regarding your Exchange environment. more

Yung Chou, Technology Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation

From concepts, architecture, construction, to deployment, maintenance and DR, you will learn how to employ IoT as a solution platform for business problems. more

Don Jones MVP, Curriculum Director for IT Pro Content , Pluralsight

Jason Helmick, Author, Pluralsight

Don and Jason are back with an all-new show, sharing their hard-earned life lessons from decades in IT, solid technologies you didn't get during the main tracks, and much more. more

Matthew McDermott, Founder and Director, Aptillon, Inc.

This is a technical course with specific guidance for those implementing SharePoint more

Matthew McDermott, Founder and Director, Aptillon, Inc.

This session focuses on how you can simplify the process of caring for SharePoint Search more

Vlad Catrinescu, President | Senior Consultant, vNext Solutions

This session will show you how to use PowerShell for Office 365, and focus on SharePoint online. more

Ben Stegink, Owner and SharePoint Architect, Intelligink, LLC

This session will include lots of demos and "playing" with PowerShell to show what's possible. more

Chris Bortlik, Collaboration Solution Architect, Microsoft

Learn how to manage your Microsoft SharePoint Online (SPO) and Microsoft OneDrive for Business environments in the browser. more

Ben Stegink, Owner and SharePoint Architect, Intelligink, LLC

This session will provide an overview of setting up and managing Office 365 more

Dan Usher MCT, MCITP, MCP, MCTS, Lead Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton

Scott Hoag MCITP/MCPD, Office 365 Solutions Architect, Crowley Maritime

This session will demonstrate to how to setup and configure Office 365 with Azure Active Directory more

Vlad Catrinescu, President | Senior Consultant, vNext Solutions

You'll learn everything you need to know to install a stable and high-performing SharePoint Server 2016 farm the next day. more

Vlad Catrinescu, President | Senior Consultant, vNext Solutions

This session will examine all the great features that come with SharePoint Server 2016. more

Brian Alderman Microsoft MVP, MCT, Consultant, Speaker, Author, MicroTechPoint

Learn the Best Practices framework that will help you configure SharePoint and SQL Server to provide optimal performance for your SharePoint more

Brian Alderman Microsoft MVP, MCT, Consultant, Speaker, Author, MicroTechPoint

This session will discuss how and why you will want to implement the Office Online and the many benefits of doing so. more

Brian Alderman Microsoft MVP, MCT, Consultant, Speaker, Author, MicroTechPoint

This session will introduce the Best Practices framework that will help you configure SharePoint and SQL Server for quick content recovery more

Scott Hoag MCITP/MCPD, Office 365 Solutions Architect, Crowley Maritime

Dan Usher MCT, MCITP, MCP, MCTS, Lead Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton

This session will provide a brief overview of a few of the premier Infrastructure as a Service hosting providers for SharePoint. more

Scott Allen, Founder, OdeToCode LLC

Discuss design guidelines you can apply to your C# code with a focus on writing readable, maintainable code. more

Marcel de Vries, CTO, Xpirit

During this session, you'll learn to create a Microservices architecture (MSA) using the latest Microsoft technologies. more

Jeremy Clark, Developer Educator, JeremyBytes.com

This session will look at specific examples of how unit tests save time in the development process, whether you're creating UI-based applications or server-side libraries. more

Billy Hollis, XAML Slinger

This session looks at a range of applications and real-world products that exemplify good and bad design. more

Thomas LaRock, Head Geek, SolarWinds

Learn about the security encryption features available in SQL Server 2016 more

Thomas LeBlanc, Data Warehouse Independent Consultant , Data on the Geaux

This session will jump into SQL Server 2016 with DQS and MDS more

Janis Griffin, Database Performance Evangelist, Solarwinds

This session will look into the Query Store, how it works, the type information it holds and how you can use it to analyze performance issues. more

Edwin Sarmiento, Managing Director, 15C

Learn the five things you need to consider when you implement SQL Server Failover Clustered Instances and Availability Group for disaster recovery. more

Pinal Dave MS Computer Science , SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert

You'll walk out with scripts and knowledge you can apply to your servers immediately after the session. more

Edwin Sarmiento, Managing Director, 15C

Look at features like Always Encrypted, Dynamic Data Masking and Row-Level Security and how we can implement them in our databases. more

Pinal Dave MS Computer Science , SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert

You'll walk out with scripts and knowledge you can apply to your own servers. more

Chris Bell Data Platform MVP, Consultant and Speaker, WaterOx Consulting, Inc

You'll assume the role of a hacker and using a simple technique, you'll sniff packets on a network to reveal what data is being sent. more

Edwin Sarmiento, Managing Director, 15C

Learn how to provide hybrid high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) solutions for your SQL Server databases. more

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

This full-day workshop will get you up to speed on powerful developer features in SQL Server. more

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

SQL Server 2016 adds many powerful features you'll learn about in this demo-packed session. more

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

This session presents an overview of Azure DocumentDB, a new massively-scalable and fully managed NoSQL database platform that is designed specifically for modern web and mobile applications. more

Hugo Kornelis MVP, Database Consultant, PerFact B.V.

Attend this session to boldly take SQL Server where it has never gone before. more

Hugo Kornelis MVP, Database Consultant, PerFact B.V.

User-defined functions in SQL Server are very much like custom methods and properties in .NET languages. more

Steve Jones Data Platform MVP, MCSE, BA, Editor, SQLServerCentral

This session will examine how the new Always Encrypted feature protects communications between client and server more

Bradley Ball, Sr. Consultant – Premier Support for Developers, Microsoft

This session will cover Elastic Azure SQL Database from start to finish. more

Bradley Ball, Sr. Consultant – Premier Support for Developers, Microsoft

You will learn how to diagnose and troubleshoot your SQL Database using a set of scripts and techniques to determine your best options for improving performance. more

Thomas LaRock, Head Geek, SolarWinds

Successfully virtualizing database platforms such as SQL Server requires a different approach than other servers in your enterprise. more

Michael Rys, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

This session will discuss the tools and practices to monitor, tune and improve U-SQL script performance. more

Thomas LeBlanc, Data Warehouse Independent Consultant , Data on the Geaux

This session will discuss the tools and practices to monitor, tune and improve U-SQL script performance. more

Bradley Ball, Sr. Consultant – Premier Support for Developers, Microsoft

This session will clearly define differences in performance tuning techniques, review concepts and draw comparisons to the regular SQL world you know and love. more

Bradley Ball, Sr. Consultant – Premier Support for Developers, Microsoft

In SQL Server, there are big changes to the Query Optimizer. more

Janis Griffin, Database Performance Evangelist, Solarwinds

Database Performance Evangelist Janis Griffin will detail 12 steps to quickly identify performance issues and resolve them. more

Thomas LaRock, Head Geek, SolarWinds

The best DBAs tune SQL Server for performance at the server, instance and database layers. more

Pinal Dave MS Computer Science , SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert

This session is for all the Developers who want their server to perform at blazing fast speed, but want to invest very little time to make it happen. more

Joey D'Antoni

In this session, you will learn practical lessons learned supporting SQL Server 2016 in early production environments. more

Chris Bell Data Platform MVP, Consultant and Speaker, WaterOx Consulting, Inc

This session will show you a simple method to load data via SSIS and identify, remove, and record those bad records, allowing you to maximize the amount of data loaded while ensuring data integrity. more

Chris Bell Data Platform MVP, Consultant and Speaker, WaterOx Consulting, Inc

This session will cover why statistics matter, how they are generated, how they impact performance, and even how to maintain them. more

Timothy Warner, Author/Evangelist, Pluralsight

Many of you Windows systems administrators consider yourselves "allergic" to Linux because Windows is all you've known, professionally. more

Neil Peterson, Senior Content Developer, Microsoft

This session will take an in-depth look at container technology as it pertains to Microsoft platforms and services. more

Richard Hicks Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter MVP , Founder and Principal Consultant, Richard M Hicks Consulting

In this session you'll learn how to implement an alternative client-based remote access solution for access to Microsoft Azure-based infrastructure servers using Windows Server 2016 VPN. more

Timothy Warner, Author/Evangelist, Pluralsight

Attend this session and get a solid handle on Azure Active Directory and hybrid identity. more

Neil Peterson, Senior Content Developer, Microsoft

This session will cover a range of Azure topics such as Azure Virtual Machine, Azure Virtual Machine Extensions, Azure Automation, and the Operations Management Suite, and will show how to integrate these services through ARM deployments. more

Neil Peterson, Senior Content Developer, Microsoft

This session will cover and demonstrate Docker, and related technology, from A to Z. more

J. Peter Bruzzese, ClipTraining/Conversational Geek/InfoWorld/Mimecast

This session will clear away the rhetoric and focus on the reality of a move to Office 365 and Exchange Online. more

Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

Jason Bock MVP (C#), Practice Lead, Magenic

This workshop will cover the fundamentals of distributed computing along with tools and frameworks you can use to build and deploy your application. more

Rick Almeida, Development Team Lead - Collaborator, SmartBear Software

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Jason Bock MVP (C#), Practice Lead, Magenic

This session will cover what you as a .NET developer needs to know to improve the performance of your applications. more

Jeremy Clark, Developer Educator, JeremyBytes.com

This session will start with the basics and look at how you can consume asynchronous methods more

Iqbal Khan, President & Technology Evangelist, Alachisoft

Learn how to remove bottlenecks and scale your .NET applications using distributed caching. more

Jeremy Clark, Developer Educator, JeremyBytes.com

Look at what lambda expressions are, how they work, and how easy they are to use more

Ido Flatow MRD, MVP, Senior Architect and Trainer, SELA Group

Examine the new debugging features of Visual Studio 2015 more

Justin Clareburt, Senior Program Manager, Visual Studio Extensibility, Microsoft

This workshop will focus on the changes in the new extensibility model in Visual Studio 2017. more

Ted Neward, Director, Developer Relations, Smartsheet.com

Examine the tools and APIs you can use to build a Chrome extension more

Ben Dewey MVP, Mobile Practice Lead, Windows Division, Tallan, Inc

This session will present all the new features and vast performance improvements to Angular 2.0. more

Brian Noyes, CTO and Co-founder, Solliance

A quick introduction to the capabilities of Aurelia more

Brian Noyes, CTO and Co-founder, Solliance

Learn what you can and can't do with security in Angular and Aurelia more

Rachel Appel, Senior Developer Evangelist, Microsoft

Learn what you need to know to build a SignalR app that connects multiple clients instantaneously. more

John Papa, Principal Developer Advocate , Microsoft

Learn how you can leverage these languages in new and existing applications. more

Rachel Appel, Senior Developer Evangelist, Microsoft

Learn everything you need to know about how to properly test ASP.NET MVC Applications. more

Robert Boedigheimer, Principal Systems Developer, Schwans Shared Services, LLC

Learn how to leverage CSS to separate your content and presentation. more

John Papa, Principal Developer Advocate , Microsoft

A ground-up approach to learning Angular 2 concepts. more

Miguel Castro MRD, President, Melvicorp LLC

Learn what a Service Oriented Architecture is and how to use WCF and Web API from the ground up more

Scott Allen, Founder, OdeToCode LLC

Learn everything you need to work with the new ASP.NET framework more

Miguel Castro MRD, President, Melvicorp LLC

Learn how to integrate Knockout into existing or new MVC apps more

Miguel Castro MRD, President, Melvicorp LLC

This session will give you a full comparison of those strengths and weaknesses which each technology carries, and how to make them work side-by-side in your SO-applications more

Ben Dewey MVP, Mobile Practice Lead, Windows Division, Tallan, Inc

Learn how to use all of these new tools, in the context of Visual Studio 2015 using the new xproj type. more

Robert Boedigheimer, Principal Systems Developer, Schwans Shared Services, LLC

This session will review the basics of what is being changed and how to best utilize the new protocol. more

Brian Noyes, CTO and Co-founder, Solliance

This session aims to arm you with the knowledge to make the right choice for your current and emerging client application requirements more

Billy Hollis, XAML Slinger

This can be your entry point for Windows 10 XAML. more

Nick Landry, Senior Technical Evangelist , Microsoft

Get started writing smart applications that can understand what your users are saying. more

Billy Hollis, XAML Slinger

Get an entry point to key XAML technologies more

Billy Hollis, XAML Slinger

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

You'll see how you can develop for HoloLens even if you don't have a device. more

Adam Tuliper, Principal Software Engineer, DX, Microsoft

Learn some simple but powerful 2D/3D application techniques to quickly get up and running with Unity. more

Nick Landry, Senior Technical Evangelist , Microsoft

Come learn how to get started and build experiences beyond anything you ever imagined. more

Steve Green, Managing Member, Wirestream, LLC

The success of a team can only happen when good processes and practices are established that unite the group. more

Fabian Williams, Architect, Adotob, LLC

This full day workshop will look at Xamarin as a technology for Mobile App development. more

Brent Edwards, Principal Lead Consultant, Magenic

Kevin Ford, Mobile Practice Lead, Magenic

Look at how a mobile backend is created using Azure more

Vlad Catrinescu, President | Senior Consultant, vNext Solutions

You'll learn everything you need to know to install a stable and high-performing SharePoint Server 2016 farm the next day. more

Mark Rackley, Chief Strategy Officer , PAIT Group

Learn about client side development in SharePoint, essential skills you can use immediately and the building blocks necessary to tackle the new SharePoint Framework. more

Matthew McDermott, Founder and Director, Aptillon, Inc.

This is a technical course with specific guidance for those implementing SharePoint more

Andrew Connell MVP, Consultant, Instructor, Developer, & Author, Andrew Connell Inc.

Learn about this new development option, how it works and the scenarios for which it's suitable more

Bradley Ball, Sr. Consultant – Premier Support for Developers, Microsoft

You will learn how to diagnose and troubleshoot your SQL Database using a set of scripts and techniques to determine your best options for improving performance. more

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

This full-day workshop will get you up to speed on powerful developer features in SQL Server. more

Greg Shields MVP, vExpert, Author Evangelist, Pluralsight

Kick off your TechMentor on Monday morning with eight hours of awesome info that might just pay for your entire week. more

Bruce Mackenzie-Low MCSE/MCSA, Systems Software Engineer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Seize this opportunity to enhance your troubleshooting skills by learning how to tackle the toughest problems Windows can dish out. more

Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

Jason Bock MVP (C#), Practice Lead, Magenic

This workshop will cover the fundamentals of distributed computing along with tools and frameworks you can use to build and deploy your application. more

Miguel Castro MRD, President, Melvicorp LLC

Learn what a Service Oriented Architecture is and how to use WCF and Web API from the ground up more

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

In this workshop, you'll learn how you can define a DevOps practice in your organization from end-to-end, regardless of which tools you use. more

Philip Japikse Microsoft MVP, MCSD, CSM, and CSP, Developer, Coach, Author, Teacher

In this 8-hour workshop you will get the ABC's of agile and what it really means. more

Jason Bock MVP (C#), Practice Lead, Magenic

Allen Conway, Lead Consultant , Magenic

Brent Edwards, Principal Lead Consultant, Magenic

Kevin Ford, Mobile Practice Lead, Magenic

This is a no-holds barred deep dive into use of Xamarin, Angular (1 and 2), TypeScript, .NET Core, Web API, UWP, and CSLA .NET. more

Agnes Molnar, CEO, Managing Consultant, Search Explained

Learn proven steps toward being successful with Search, as well as common mistakes which you can avoid more

Edwin Sarmiento, Managing Director, 15C

Learn how to provide hybrid high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) solutions for your SQL Server databases. more

Andrew Brust, Senior Director, Market Strategy and Intelligence, Datameer

Working with data isn't just about relational databases and data access anymore. It's a much bigger, more exciting world than that now. There are new challenges too, but they're not insurmountable. Take in this workshop to get past them and see the cool stuff that awaits. more

Don Jones MVP, Curriculum Director for IT Pro Content , Pluralsight

Jason Helmick, Author, Pluralsight

Don and Jason are back with an all-new show, sharing their hard-earned life lessons from decades in IT, solid technologies you didn't get during the main tracks, and much more. more

Sami Laiho MVP, MCITP, MCT, Senior Technical Fellow, Adminize

To build a secure Windows implementation and infrastructure, you need to know how the security subsystem really works. more

John Papa, Principal Developer Advocate , Microsoft

A ground-up approach to learning Angular 2 concepts. more

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

This workshop will walk you through building a modern web app using services in Azure like App Service Web and API apps. more

Justin Clareburt, Senior Program Manager, Visual Studio Extensibility, Microsoft

This workshop will focus on the changes in the new extensibility model in Visual Studio 2017. more