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

Get a sense of where these technologies fit in and complement the database products you've been working with. more

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

Learn what Hadoop is, how it works, what to do to get it running more

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

Learn the fundamentals of predictive analytics and see how to make it real in Azure ML more

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

Walk through the process of importing data from various data sources with new features like the Change Data Capture component for incremental loads. more

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

Learn to update your skill set for transition from DBA to BI Developer/Architect. more

Kevin Goff Microsoft SQL Server MVP, Practice Manager, SetFocus, LLC

This session will take several of the key concepts in Data Warehousing and demonstrate implementations using SQL Server Integration Services and Analysis Services. more

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

An introduction to Microsoft Business Intelligence 2012 and the Business Intelligence Semantic Model ("BISM"). more

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

This session will explore Forensic Analytics more

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

Get up to speed quickly on what Power BI has done since version 1 more

Jen Stirrup, Industry Analyst / Author

Examine data visualization tools in order to craft and blend them to serve your data customers better. more

Jen Stirrup, Industry Analyst / Author

This session will look at data visualization theory and practice of hot data visualization topics more

John O'Neill Sr. MVP, MCSA, Chief Technologist, AWS Solutions

Learn how to deploy a Windows application through Azure RemoteApp more

John O'Neill Sr. MVP, MCSA, Chief Technologist, AWS Solutions

Prepare for the first steps in an Office 365 deployment. more

Simon May, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft

Learn how the cloud can help with Identity and Access Management, with new controls built for just these challenges more

Bring your laptop and follow along as we take a trip into App Containers and the world of Docker! more

John O'Neill Sr. MVP, MCSA, Chief Technologist, AWS Solutions

Learn what it takes to backup in-house data to Microsoft Azure quickly and easily more

Jeff Stokes, Senior Premier Field Engineer, Microsoft

Join Jeff Stokes for a discussion on why real time monitoring of the User Experience is very important to the success of a VDI project. more

Justin Harris, Senior Solutions Architect, Binary Tree

Learn how to leverage the cloud to increase automation and drive end user productivity. more

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

Learn how to make that move to Office 365 and to avoid the "gotcha" feeling afterward by planning ahead. more

Jeff Stokes, Senior Premier Field Engineer, Microsoft

Jeff Stokes will walk you through best practices on image creation and optimization for your VDI implementation. more

Justin Harris, Senior Solutions Architect, Binary Tree

Lawrence Novak , Premier Field Engineer, Microsoft

Learn how to secure Android, iOS, and Windows Phone devices using Microsoft Intune. more

Justin Harris, Senior Solutions Architect, Binary Tree

Lawrence Novak , Premier Field Engineer, Microsoft

An overview of the Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite. more

Michael O'Neill, Senior Premier Field Engineer, Microsoft

Learn to use PowerShell commandlets to help you save time and money, and be more productive. more

Michael O'Neill, Senior Premier Field Engineer, Microsoft

Learn how to manage both O365 and On Premises Exchange servers, AAD Sync, and the new AAD Connect tool. more

Miguel Castro MRD, President, Melvicorp LLC

Come learn about WPF and the Web API and how to properly use them, apart and together. more

Adam Tuliper, Principal Software Engineer, DX, Microsoft

This session will take you through a journey of Azure's services as it relates to developers. 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 that can be deployed on Microsoft Azure or Windows Server. more

Vishwas Lele, Chief Technology Officer , AIS

This session will look at the 10 reasons (backed by code walkthrough, of course) why you as a Web developer need to be up to speed with "Web sites." more

Adam Tuliper, Principal Software Engineer, DX, Microsoft

This session will cover how to set up ASP.NET to run cross platform, but also install and configure Docker and bring over your ASP.NET applications. more

Matt Milner, Chief Architect, M3 Technology Partners Inc.

Learn how to use Notification Hubs to simplify your application development experience and quickly start sending notifications to your users on many different platforms. more

Ted Neward, Director, Developer Relations, Smartsheet.com

This session will survey the variety of different cloud providers, many with wildly varying different approaches to "what developers need." more

Ted Neward, Director, Developer Relations, Smartsheet.com

This session will examine the NoSQL ecosystem, look at the major players, how they compare and contrast, and what sort of architectural implications they have for software systems in general. more

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

This session will teach you how to really use SSDT to make your coding and deployment life better. more

Rob Windsor, Lead Consultant, PAIT Group / eXtaCloud

This session will explore the Add-in model and look at how to develop Add-ins using Visual Studio and a new Web-based tool code-named "Napa." more

Bill Ayers, Technical Director, Flow Simulation Ltd.

Look at the exciting new options available to SharePoint developers that let us write the software our business users want. more

Rob Windsor, Lead Consultant, PAIT Group / eXtaCloud

Explore how to use the SharePoint’s built-in Web Parts and JavaScript to simulate custom Web Part functionality including custom Web Part Properties and Connected Web Parts more

Robert Bogue, SharePoint Shepherd, Thor Projects, LLC

Learn some practical approaches, techniques, and tools for building solutions built on SharePoint more

Bill Ayers, Technical Director, Flow Simulation Ltd.

Learn how to build solutions that will give your Office users tools that can take advantage of the Office 365 APIs more

Mark Rackley, Chief Strategy Officer , PAIT Group

Gain a new appreciation for jQuery. more

Mark Rackley, Chief Strategy Officer , PAIT Group

Learn how to use jQuery to transform SharePoint's out-of-the-box forms more

Bill Ayers, Technical Director, Flow Simulation Ltd.

Learn how to use existing JavaScript and .NET libraries to make your job easier and review some of the best practices more

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

This session will show some examples of using Azure and client-side code to meet your business needs more

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

Learn about the Office UI Fabric that you can use to make your applications look and behave just like Office 365, Office and SharePoint. more

Rob Windsor, Lead Consultant, PAIT Group / eXtaCloud

Learn how to get started using these two APIs through a series of demonstrations. more

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

Discuss the new capabilities and approaches to development for those who consider themselves "SharePoint" developers more

Darrin Bishop, Director, Aptillon, Inc.

Get the background you need to understand how Access Services is setup and configured and how to program using macros and external code. more

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

This full day workshop will take your PowerShell skills to the next level more

Dig into the Intune world along with deeper insights into the patch management and mobile management features more

Bring your laptop and follow along as we take a trip into App Containers and the world of Docker! more

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

Leave this workshop with the knowledge, tools and confidence you'll need to tackle the toughest outages for years to come. more

Jeff Fried, CTO, BA-Insight

Learn how unified search works and how to use it to make hybrid SharePoint effective. more

Matthew McDermott, Founder and Director, Aptillon, Inc.

Learn how to use the many features of Search to solve business problems. more

Kim Frehe, Senior Consultant, Avanade

Learn when you should use which Web part and how to make minor modifications in order to make each more effective. more

Matthew McDermott, Founder and Director, Aptillon, Inc.

This demo-filled session will review the latest advances in SharePoint and Office 365 Hybrid Search. more

Kim Frehe, Senior Consultant, Avanade

This session introduces Business Users to SharePoint 2013 Workflow using SharePoint Designer (SPD). more

Darrin Bishop, Director, Aptillon, Inc.

This session will provide an overview of the many BI features and services provided by SharePoint 2013. more

Jeff Fried, CTO, BA-Insight

This demo-packed session will explain how Office Graph works behind the scenes more

Vlad Catrinescu, President | Senior Consultant, vNext Solutions

This session will look at three must-have workflows for SharePoint by using SharePoint Designer more

Kim Frehe, Senior Consultant, Avanade

This session will show you examples of collaboration solutions based on 2013 Content by Search and Search Results Web Parts. more

Martina Grom, CEO, atwork information technology GmbH

This session will demonstrate the different tools and show the differences between them. more

Robert Bogue, SharePoint Shepherd, Thor Projects, LLC

Get practical advice for moving your governance forward—even without 100 percent buy-in more

Erica Toelle, Business Architect and Consultant

Learn about the features of OneDrive for Business and best practices for including it in your information management toolbox. more

Mary Jo Foley, Journalist and Author

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

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

Matthew McDermott, Founder and Director, Aptillon, Inc.

In this keynote you'll not only get an overview of the sessions that you'll find at the conference, but also get an update on where we are today. more

David Crook, Developer Evangelist , Microsoft

This keynote session will look at Microsoft's data platform landscape. more

Greg Shields MVP, vExpert, Author Evangelist, Pluralsight

Jason Helmick, Author, Pluralsight

Participate and ask questions in this interactive forum as Greg and Jason share key points in talking with your business stakeholders and sharing their own experiences in the field. more

Jay Schmelzer, Director of Program Management, Visual Studio Team, Microsoft

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

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

Learn what DevOps actually means, and what you and your organization will need to change if you’re going to embrace the approach. more

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

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

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

Matthew McDermott, Founder and Director, Aptillon, Inc.

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

Greg Shields MVP, vExpert, Author Evangelist, Pluralsight

Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

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Sandra Mahan, SharePoint Team Lead, Cambia Health Solutions

Learn the details of how we built this program using out-of-the box functionality and real world examples more

David McNamee , Productivity Technology Specialist , Microsoft

Check out the latest SharePoint has to offer for cloud, on-premises, and (especially!) hybrid deployments more

Jeff Fried, CTO, BA-Insight

See how Office 365 and hybrid factor into information management strategy more

Sandra Mahan, SharePoint Team Lead, Cambia Health Solutions

Learn to take inefficient manual processes and automate them using out-of-the-box functionality available within SharePoint. more

Erica Toelle, Business Architect and Consultant

Take a close look at the End User Adoption work stream on a SharePoint project and the associated roles, responsibilities, deliverables and tasks for the project plan. more

Miguel Castro MRD, President, Melvicorp LLC

I'll share a few good recruiter stories and my views on how our two worlds can work together a little better. more

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

The session starts with a refresher on Scrum, and then uses real experiences from large enterprise development projects to teach you how to effectively work with non-agile teams. more

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

Attendees will jointly create a user map, clearly defining order, minimal marketable features and release plans. more

Sasha Goldshtein, CTO, SELA Group

This session will experiment with the various performance and debugging tools Visual Studio offers. more

Marcel de Vries, CTO, Xpirit

Topics in this session will include micro-architecture, enabling continuous delivery in your app architecture and applying solutions for bad things that can happen in cloud scenarios. more

Sasha Goldshtein, CTO, SELA Group

In this session, you'll learn how to take advantage of vector instructions in .NET applications using the newly released Microsoft.Bcl.Simd library and the upcoming RyuJIT compiler. more

Jordan Matthiesen, Program Manager, Microsoft

This session will provide you with an inventory and coding strategy for packaging your existing ASP.NET web assets for mobile devices via Apache Cordova. more

Nick Landry, Senior Technical Evangelist , Microsoft

Join us for this overview session and explore new features for developers in Windows 10, including code sharing, targeting specific devices and API contracts, Visual Studio 2015 tooling, new APIs, and our favorite virtual assistant: Cortana. more

Nick Landry, Senior Technical Evangelist , Microsoft

In this session, you'll build a live, working mobile app for both Windows Phone and Windows Store on the fly, exploring the various options of App Studio. more

Rachel Reese, Sr. Software Engineer, Jet.com

This session will concentrate on the features of F# that make it uniquely suited for iOS development, while covering both iOS basics and F# basics. more

James Montemagno, Principal Program Manager – Xamarin, Microsoft

This session will explore how to create a test in Xamarin.UITest to run locally and then upload an app to Test Cloud. more

Matt Milner, Chief Architect, M3 Technology Partners Inc.

Come to this session to learn how to define a single user interface in XAML that will render on Windows Phone, Android and iOS using native controls. more

James Montemagno, Principal Program Manager – Xamarin, Microsoft

This session will cover the Xamarin platform and how to create native iOS, Android, and Windows apps in C#. more

Marcel de Vries, CTO, Xpirit

Roy Cornelissen, Lead Consultant , Xpirit

In this full day workshop, Marcel and Roy will walk you through the process of building one app for multiple platforms. more

Nick Landry, Senior Technical Evangelist , Microsoft

Kevin Ford, Mobile Practice Lead, Magenic

Steve Hughes, Business Intelligence Architect, Pragmatic Works

Gain an understanding of the development options and core techniques for each platform so you'll be ready to build compelling modern apps. more

Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

See how and why Modern Apps are so important to you and your users more

Brent Edwards, Principal Lead Consultant, Magenic

Learn about several options for modern app architecture with discussion about the pros and cons of each. more

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

Walk through the process of setting up a project in Visual Studio Online more

Kevin Ford, Mobile Practice Lead, Magenic

Examine how code linking, universal shared projects and PCLs can help write logic once and run on different platforms more

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

Learn how to implement effective strategies using unit testing and code analysis more

Anthony Handley, UX Practice Lead, Magenic

Start to reimagine your own approach to modern application development more

Anthony Handley, UX Practice Lead, Magenic

Learn how and when to reuse UX concepts across platforms more

Kevin Ford, Mobile Practice Lead, Magenic

Learn how to take advantage of several Azure services more

Allen Conway, Lead Consultant , Magenic

Learn about Modern Web Applications using a JavaScript framework as an implantation choice more

Nick Landry, Senior Technical Evangelist , Microsoft

Learn how to build an Android client app that uses the same business logic as a WinRT client app more

Brent Edwards, Principal Lead Consultant, Magenic

Learn how to approach the development effort with the goal of maximizing code re-use more

Dan Nordquist, Director of Technology, Bluespire Marketing

Leave with a working understanding of tools frequently used in DevOps more

Steve Hughes, Business Intelligence Architect, Pragmatic Works

Learn the basic thinking behind design and implementation of a data mart or data warehouse more

Brent Edwards, Principal Lead Consultant, Magenic

Anthony Handley, UX Practice Lead, Magenic

Allen Conway, Lead Consultant , Magenic

This is a no-holds barred deep dive into the design and implementation of modern apps more

Simon May, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft

Learn how to build the infrastructure to do what the top brass wants without sacrificing what the users want. more

Mike Danseglio, Principal Technologist, Next Direction Technologies

Avril Salter Ph.D., Principal Technologist, Next Direction Technologies

See how hackers work and how they begin their attacks through careful planning more

Mike Danseglio, Principal Technologist, Next Direction Technologies

Avril Salter Ph.D., Principal Technologist, Next Direction Technologies

This session will include demonstrations of live hacking including social media scanning and external network footprinting more

Mike Danseglio, Principal Technologist, Next Direction Technologies

Avril Salter Ph.D., Principal Technologist, Next Direction Technologies

You'll see real-time wireless sniffing and network penetration attacks using current hacker tools more

Mike Danseglio, Principal Technologist, Next Direction Technologies

Avril Salter Ph.D., Principal Technologist, Next Direction Technologies

See live examples of some of the most effective Social Engineering attacks in use today more

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

Discuss how and why you will want to implement the new Office Web Apps and the many benefits of doing so more

Vlad Catrinescu, President | Senior Consultant, vNext Solutions

This session will introduce you to the concept AlwaysOn Availability Groups and how you can configure it with SharePoint Server 2013. more

Ben Stegink, Owner and SharePoint Architect, Intelligink, LLC

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

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

Learn the tools available for SharePoint data recovery more

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

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

Learn the complexities of what is involved with implementing SharePoint in a cloud hosted environment more

Ben Stegink, Owner and SharePoint Architect, Intelligink, LLC

Learn how to get started writing PowerShell for SharePoint in Office 365 more

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

Explore why you should care about the Office 365 APIs and what you can do with them. more

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

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

Work through the basics of Office 365, how it's operated, how to provision an Office 365 tenant, setup directory synchronization and demonstrate federated identity. more

Martina Grom, CEO, atwork information technology GmbH

Find all you need to start your cloud conversation more

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

Learn what Node.js is, how to create a simple site and walk away with some resources on where to go from there. more

Erica Toelle, Business Architect and Consultant

This session will cover a large scale SharePoint migration to 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 take you through the basics of identity in addition to how to set up and configure Office 365 more

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

This workshop will cover the security standards and discuss how they relate. more

Greg Shields MVP, vExpert, Author Evangelist, Pluralsight

Join your fellow conference attendees in this open discussion and Q&A on career strategies for IT professionals. more

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

Dive into the SQL Server Internals spanning from the Query Processor, through the Storage Engine, the Plan Cache and everything in between more

Chad Churchwell, Premier Field Engineer , Microsoft

This session is focused on design and architectural decisions when choosing replication technology for your organization more

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

Assume the role of a hacker and using a simple technique, sniff packets on a network to reveal what data is being sent. more

Chad Churchwell, Premier Field Engineer , Microsoft

This session will introduce you to clustering SQL Server for high availability. more

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

Review security features in SQL Server, learn what each does, and determine which work best for your situation. more

Thomas LaRock, Head Geek, SolarWinds

Look at the characteristics and considerations for tuning, optimizing, and the key indicators for monitoring performance. more

Chad Churchwell, Premier Field Engineer , Microsoft

Review methods used to make SQL Server highly available and to protect your SQL Server instance in the event of a disaster. more

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

A concise tour that shows you exactly what, when and where you need to do to keep SQL Server happy—and shows you how. more

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

Learn what execution plans are trying to tell you, and the problems at which they may be hinting. more

Joey D'Antoni

Learn techniques employed by a large enterprise to simplify deployments and manage performance more

Edwin Sarmiento, Managing Director, 15C

Learn to properly design a multi-subnet WSFC stretched across multiple data centers that meet your overall recovery objectives. more

Kevin Goff Microsoft SQL Server MVP, Practice Manager, SetFocus, LLC

This session covers Change Data Capture (CDC) terminology and configuring a database for Change Data Capture. more

Janis Griffin, Database Performance Evangelist, Solarwinds

An in-depth tour of the data provided in the system_health event session and how to use it to troubleshoot performance issues. more

Joey D'Antoni

Learn best practices for system settings, file system layout and scheduling maintenance tasks. more

Edwin Sarmiento, Managing Director, 15C

Learn how to identify and detect database corruption. more

Edwin Sarmiento, Managing Director, 15C

Learn the underlying infrastructure that is Windows Server Failover Clustering more

David Dye, Sergeant, Cape Coral Police Department

This session will focus on the technologies native to SQL Server that help you protect your data "at rest." more

Kevin Goff Microsoft SQL Server MVP, Practice Manager, SetFocus, LLC

Since no presentation can cover all the topics, the audience will decide which to cover. more

David Dye, Sergeant, Cape Coral Police Department

Much of this session will be spent examining SQL Audit and looking into the internal workings of this technology. more

David Dye, Sergeant, Cape Coral Police Department

This session will focus on advanced techniques used in SSIS and what it means for the experienced SSIS developer more

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

In this session, Lenni Lobel describes the various difficulties you'll face, and demonstrates how SSDT can be used to remedy those pain points. more

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

Learn to program the latest T-SQL enhancements in SQL Server more

Jen Stirrup, Industry Analyst / Author

Learn how to use these open source power tools to rock your data world in SQL Server. more

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

Lenni Lobel pulls no punches as he rips through the most important SQL Server programmability points in this intensive demo-packed tour. more

Pinal Dave MS Computer Science , SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert

This session will give you a jump start with SQL Server 2014 and its new features more

Thomas LaRock, Head Geek, SolarWinds

Get a clear understanding of virtualization architecture more

Pinal Dave MS Computer Science , SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert

Walk out of this session with scripts and knowledge that can immediately be applied to your servers. more

Thomas LaRock, Head Geek, SolarWinds

Attend this session and learn which options are right for which workloads. more

Pinal Dave MS Computer Science , SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert

The session will focus on the ways of identifying problems that slow down SQL Server and Indexing tricks to fix them more

Joey D'Antoni

Learn how to profile your workloads and keep your users and applications happy more

Janis Griffin, Database Performance Evangelist, Solarwinds

This presentation will focus on the top 10 most frequently seen Wait Types. more

Edwin Sarmiento, Managing Director, 15C

This session will uncover your SQL Server's performance issues by learning about wait statistics. more

Jason Helmick, Author, Pluralsight

Learn the ins and outs of going beyond the basics and turning SMA into your cloud automation solution. more

Dig into the Intune world along with deeper insights into the patch management and mobile management features more

Dave Kawula, Principal Consultant , TriCon Elite Consulting

Kelly Murphy, Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Gridstore

Join this session for live demos on how to guarantee performance for any and all your applications in a Windows Server/Hyper-V environment. more

Steven Rachui, Premier Field Engineer, Microsoft

This session will provide a complete review of the software update mechanism in Configuration Manager 2012. more

Billy Hollis, XAML Slinger

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

Come and see veterans Brian A. Randell and Billy Hollis present a lively day of useful concepts and techniques for developers facing overwhelming complexity and change. more

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

Get a current “State of the Union” regarding Microsoft’s tooling and make sure you know what’s ready for prime time and what might need a little more time to mature. more

Tiago Pascoal, Visual Studio ALM MVP

Learn not only how to define your builds, but also extend the TFS/VSO build process to add your own tooling and requirements not covered out of the box. more

Deborah Kurata, Microsoft MVP and Google Developer Expert

Come and learn how to shore up your code's defenses to protect it from bugs, other developers and your future self. more

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

In this session, Ben will demonstrate Git from the perspective of a Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server user. more

Rachel Appel, Senior Developer Evangelist, Microsoft

Rachel Reese, Sr. Software Engineer, Jet.com

Rachel and Rachel will review several common coding practices you do in C# every day, and their functional F# equivalent. more

Sandeep Adwankar, Product Manager, Sencha

Learn how Sencha can help organizations to build modern cross-platform web applications with Sencha Ext JS and our Visual Studio plugin. more

Jeremy Clark, Developer Educator, JeremyBytes.com

In this session, you'll 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

Norm Johanson, Senior Software Development Engineer, Amazon Web Services

This session will teach you how to use AWS services from C#, PowerShell and Visual Studio. more

Marcel de Vries, CTO, Xpirit

If you want to learn what has improved in Visual Studio 2015 this is the session for you. more

Jeremy Clark, Developer Educator, JeremyBytes.com

What is Dependency Injection? Why would we want to use it? Those are the questions you'll have answered. more

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

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

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

In this session, you'll get a number of tips to make asynchronous coding easier and you'll see how you can use tools in Visual Studio that help you find issues in your code. more

Scott Allen, Founder, OdeToCode LLC

Expect equal levels of entertainment and education in this whirlwind tour of C# code. more

Tiago Pascoal, Visual Studio ALM MVP

In this session, you will learn how to customize Visual Studio Online to make it fit to your process. more

John Papa, Principal Developer Advocate , Microsoft

Learn how to make Readable Code by using some of the techniques such as separation of concerns, above the fold, the LIFT principles, commenting, encapsulation and many more. more

Ted Neward, Director, Developer Relations, Smartsheet.com

This workshop will embrace your inner JavaScript and build a simple application from scratch using the MEANJS package, including tests against the server-side API and the client-side UI. more

Deborah Kurata, Microsoft MVP and Google Developer Expert

During this session, you'll build a simple Angular application starting from an empty Web site in Visual Studio. more

Rachel Appel, Senior Developer Evangelist, Microsoft

This session blends comedy and learning and discusses common JavaScript headaches and mistakes and fun ways to avoid them. more

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

Ben will clarify the difference between "unit” and "integration” tests, and demonstrate how using dependency injection, mock objects and stubs can help break dependencies and simplify your tests. more

Scott Allen, Founder, OdeToCode LLC

This session will look at the new project structure and compilation model, the unification of ASP.NET MVC and the ASP.NET Web API, and the new Node.js tools that integrate with Visual Studio. more

Rachel Appel, Senior Developer Evangelist, Microsoft

In this session, you'll learn how to build a data-driven Web application in Visual Studio with ASP.NET MVC. more

Marcel de Vries, CTO, Xpirit

In this session, Marcel will teach you how to build cross browser automated test suites using Visual Studio CodedUI and integrate it with Microsoft Test Manager. more

Ben Hoelting, Senior Technologist, Aspenware

This session will discuss some of the tooling advancements in Visual Studio related to JavaScript development. more

Ben Hoelting, Senior Technologist, Aspenware

This session will dive into Bower, Grunt, Gulp, Yeoman, and other modern Web development tools for your tool belt. more

John Papa, Principal Developer Advocate , Microsoft

Throughout this workshop, you'll learn how to build robust SPA applications with Angular. more

Billy Hollis, XAML Slinger

Billy will set out the most important conceptual differences to writing Windows 10 apps with XAML by writing a simple data-oriented app from scratch. more

Billy Hollis, XAML Slinger

Your biggest single opportunity when moving to XAML applications is being able to help users find the information they need faster and more intuitively. more

Adam Tuliper, Principal Software Engineer, DX, Microsoft

Come learn the basics of Unity, the UI, assets, code, ways to develop, and some simple but powerful game techniques to get up and running fast with Unity and start creating amazing experiences you didn't think were possible. more

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

This session will show you how to build great modern user experiences—including touch, voice, and motion—using C# and .NET. more

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

Windows 10 introduces new features and guidance to creating apps and UIs that work across all devices and screen sizes. more

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

In this session, Ben Dewey will help you navigate the myriad options available when laying out your application design. more

Brian Noyes, CTO and Co-founder, Solliance

In this session, you'll get a quick review of the fundamentals of the MVVM pattern and how to apply it with WPF. more

Brian Noyes, CTO and Co-founder, Solliance

This session will review Prism's key features and how to use them, including modularity, UI composition, navigation and loosely-coupled events. more

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

DirectAccess provides always-on, seamless and transparent remote access any time a client is connected to the Internet more

Michael Wiley, Premier Field Engineer, Microsoft

Overview of these Sysinternals tools, focusing on how they deal with viruses, worms, adware and other unwanted intrusions more

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

See the features of Windows 10 you should really be excited about. more

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

MVP Don Jones walks you through what we know: new features, major changes and how this'll affect your business more

Greg Shields MVP, vExpert, Author Evangelist, Pluralsight

Deep dive exploration of virtual networking with System Center Virtual Machine Manager. more

Michael Wiley, Premier Field Engineer, Microsoft

In-depth analysis using the Sysinternals tools and how they can help troubleshoot issues with applications and Windows more

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

Every troubleshooter benefits from knowing how Windows is actually built! more

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

Learn how Windows memory management works more

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

Learn how you can implement virtual guest clusters in your environment with Windows Hyper-V. more

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

Learn how Windows security subsystem is actually built more

Steven Rachui, Premier Field Engineer, Microsoft

Learn about the requirements for Windows 10 deployments using OSD more

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

Leave this workshop with the knowledge, tools and confidence you'll need to tackle the toughest outages for years to come. more

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

This full day workshop will take your PowerShell skills to the next level more

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

Look at what's required to securely use PowerShell remoting more

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

Learn the regular expression basics and how to use them in your PowerShell work. more

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

Don Jones demonstrates some of the most vexing trapdoors in the shell. more

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

Learn the tricks, tips, and pitfalls of Desired State Configuration design and planning. more

Jason Helmick, Author, Pluralsight

Learn how to build a secured HTTPS DSC Pull server and manage the certificates necessary to ensure a secure configuration environment more

Jason Helmick, Author, Pluralsight

If you're an IT Pro new to the concept of "classes" come get started on the right path more

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

Bring your PowerShell questions and have them answered in a lively, informal environment filled with demos and insider knowledge. more

Nick Landry, Senior Technical Evangelist , Microsoft

Kevin Ford, Mobile Practice Lead, Magenic

Steve Hughes, Business Intelligence Architect, Pragmatic Works

Gain an understanding of the development options and core techniques for each platform so you'll be ready to build compelling modern apps. more

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

Explore why you should care about the Office 365 APIs and what you can do with them. more

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

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

Work through the basics of Office 365, how it's operated, how to provision an Office 365 tenant, setup directory synchronization and demonstrate federated identity. more

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

Dive into the SQL Server Internals spanning from the Query Processor, through the Storage Engine, the Plan Cache and everything in between more

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

Get a sense of where these technologies fit in and complement the database products you've been working with. more

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

This full day workshop will take your PowerShell skills to the next level more

Jason Helmick, Author, Pluralsight

Learn the ins and outs of going beyond the basics and turning SMA into your cloud automation solution. more

Miguel Castro MRD, President, Melvicorp LLC

Come learn about WPF and the Web API and how to properly use them, apart and together. more

Billy Hollis, XAML Slinger

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

Come and see veterans Brian A. Randell and Billy Hollis present a lively day of useful concepts and techniques for developers facing overwhelming complexity and change. more

Ted Neward, Director, Developer Relations, Smartsheet.com

This workshop will embrace your inner JavaScript and build a simple application from scratch using the MEANJS package, including tests against the server-side API and the client-side UI. more

Brent Edwards, Principal Lead Consultant, Magenic

Anthony Handley, UX Practice Lead, Magenic

Allen Conway, Lead Consultant , Magenic

This is a no-holds barred deep dive into the design and implementation of modern apps more

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

This workshop will cover the security standards and discuss how they relate. more

Erica Toelle, Business Architect and Consultant

Take a close look at the End User Adoption work stream on a SharePoint project and the associated roles, responsibilities, deliverables and tasks for the project plan. more

Edwin Sarmiento, Managing Director, 15C

Learn the underlying infrastructure that is Windows Server Failover Clustering more

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

Lenni Lobel pulls no punches as he rips through the most important SQL Server programmability points in this intensive demo-packed tour. more

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

Leave this workshop with the knowledge, tools and confidence you'll need to tackle the toughest outages for years to come. more

Steven Rachui, Premier Field Engineer, Microsoft

This session will provide a complete review of the software update mechanism in Configuration Manager 2012. more

John Papa, Principal Developer Advocate , Microsoft

Throughout this workshop, you'll learn how to build robust SPA applications with Angular. more

Marcel de Vries, CTO, Xpirit

Roy Cornelissen, Lead Consultant , Xpirit

In this full day workshop, Marcel and Roy will walk you through the process of building one app for multiple platforms. more