Sessions -- Live! 360 Events

6:45am - 7:15am Lace Up & Link Up!

Philip Japikse

7:00am - 8:00am Registration • Coffee and Morning Pastries

8:00am - 9:00am Visual Studio Live! Keynote: You, Visual Studio, and AI: Building What Comes Next

Mads Kristensen

8:00am - 9:00am Data Platform Live! Keynote: Microsoft Fabric - The Foundation for Enterprise AI and Data

Bradley Schacht

8:00am - 9:00am TechMentor & Cybersecurity & Ransomware Live! Keynote: I Teach Security—and Then My Account Was Compromised

John O'Neill, Sr.

8:00am - 9:00am Artificial Intelligence Live! & AI Enterprise Architecture Live! Keynote: Death by Tool Calls - Solving the #1 Problem in Agentic AI

Jeff Prosise

9:15am - 10:30am VST01 Building Web Applications with ASP.NET Core

Philip Japikse

9:15am - 10:30am VST02 A Structured Technique for Observing and Learning from Users

Billy Hollis

9:15am - 10:30am VST03 Branches That Don’t Suck: Smarter Strategies for Modern Dev Teams

Benjamin Day

9:15am - 10:30am VST04 Busy Developer's Guide to Python

Ted Neward

9:15am - 10:30am DPT01 From Ingestion to Consumption: Preparing Data for Seamless AI

Matt Nunn

9:15am - 10:30am DPT02 Cloud Cost Optimization for Dev & Database Professionals

9:15am - 10:30am TMT01 A Passwordless Reality Check: What Actually Happens When You Kill Passwords

John O'Neill, Sr.

9:15am - 10:30am TMT02 Beyond Azure: Extending Defender for Cloud to Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Workloads

Aidan Finn

9:15am - 10:30am TMT03 From Chaotic Nightmare to Enterprise Governance: Building an IGA Foundation with Active Directory

9:15am - 10:30am AIT01 State of the AI Developer Nation

Brian A. Randell

9:15am - 10:30am AIT02 Practical AI Integration: From API Call to Production Feature

Kevin Feasel

9:15am - 10:30am EAT01 The Architecture of Agents

Rockford Lhotka

9:15am - 10:30am CRT01 What's New in Defender XDR - with Defender Boys

9:15am - 10:30am CRT02 The Day the Hacker Stood Still – Microsoft Entra ID Security Deep Dive

Andy Malone

10:30am - 11:00am Networking Break • Visit the EXPO Hall

10:35am - 10:50am ThreatLocker Demo Theater: Zero Trust Controls at the Endpoint

Tyler Tomlinson

11:00am - 12:15pm Live! 360 Keynotes: Anybody Can Use Agents & AI to Build Anything & The Last Mile: From Idea to Usable App

12:15pm - 1:00pm Lunch • Visit the EXPO Lounge

1:00pm - 1:45pm Dessert Break • Visit the EXPO Hall

1:00pm - 1:15pm Progress Demo Theater - From Livestream Chaos to Production Ready AI: RAG + Observability with CHARLIE

Jeffrey T. Fritz

1:20pm - 1:35pm Rubrik Demo Theater -Operational Trust in AI — Control, Integrity, Recovery at Machine Speed

Ben Welton

1:45pm - 2:05pm VST05 Fast Focus: Git Tips & Tricks in 20 Minutes

Mickey Gousset

1:45pm - 2:05pm VST06 Fast Focus: API Documentation

Philip Japikse

1:45pm - 2:05pm VST07 Fast Focus: What's New in EF Core

Jim Wooley

1:45pm - 2:05pm VST08 Fast Focus: Mocking with Moq: A Quick Guide to Smarter Unit Tests

Benjamin Day

1:45pm - 2:05pm DPT03 Fast Focus: A DBA's Guide to LLM's

Bradley Ball

1:45pm - 2:05pm DPT04 Fast Focus: Fabric Mirroring for SQL Server 2025 - What You Need to Know

Meagan Longoria

1:45pm - 2:05pm TMT04 Fast Focus: Intune App Deployment Methods and When to Use Them

Émile Cabot

1:45pm - 2:05pm TMT05 Fast Focus: Windows Admin Center Virtualization Mode: Simplifying VM Management

Greg Altman

1:45pm - 2:05pm AIT03 Fast Focus: Microsoft Foundry Agent Service 101

Prashant G Bhoyar

1:45pm - 2:35pm EAT02 An Interactive Whiteboard Session — Three Real-World AI Scenarios

1:45pm - 2:05pm CRT03 Fast Focus: Five Checks in Five Minutes - A PKI Health Assessment You Can Run Monday Morning

John O'Neill, Sr.

1:45pm - 2:05pm CRT04 Fast Focus: Cyber Security Awareness for Executives and C-Suite

Dave Kawula

2:15pm - 2:35pm VST09 Fast Focus: Azure DevOps vs. GitHub - Which Do You Choose

Brian A. Randell

2:15pm - 2:35pm VST10 Fast Focus: Modern Web UI Showdown

Allen Conway

2:15pm - 2:35pm VST11 Fast Focus: Visibility Is a Technical Skill

Tony Champion

2:15pm - 2:35pm VST12 Fast Focus: Doing Fun Things with Unsafe Code

Jason Bock

2:15pm - 2:35pm DPT05 Fast Focus: Time Traveling Data - SQL Server Temporal Tables

Leonard Lobel

2:15pm - 2:35pm DPT06 Fast Focus: Making SQL Server use Multiple Indexes per Table

Denny Cherry

2:15pm - 2:35pm TMT06 Fast Focus: 10 Tips for Better Task Management with Microsoft 365

Heather Severino

2:15pm - 2:35pm TMT07 Fast Focus: Step into Azure Storage on Secure Footing

Karinne Bessette

2:15pm - 2:35pm AIT04 Fast Focus: AI Prompting and Context Engineering

Buck Woody

2:15pm - 2:35pm CRT05 Fast Focus: Feel the Burn: Staying Sane in a 24/7 IT World

Derek Michals

2:15pm - 2:35pm CRT06 Fast Focus: Configuring Cross-Tenant Access for Secure Collaboration

Myron Helgering

2:35pm - 3:00pm Networking Break • Visit the EXPO Hall

3:00pm - 4:15pm VST13 Agentic DevOps with GitHub and Azure DevOps: What Actually Works in 2026

Brian A. Randell

3:00pm - 4:15pm VST14 Build a UI for Your AI Chat Bot

Rockford Lhotka

3:00pm - 4:15pm VST15 Visual Studio Tips & Tricks

Mads Kristensen

3:00pm - 4:15pm VST16 Busy Developer's Guide to Go

Ted Neward

3:00pm - 4:15pm DPT07 What's New for Developers in SQL Server 2025

Leonard Lobel

3:00pm - 4:15pm DPT08 Governance Without the Gridlock: A Lean Data Operating Model for AI-Ready Mid-Sized Companies

Buck Woody

3:00pm - 4:15pm TMT08 What's New with Microsoft 365 (and M365 Copilot)?

Heather Severino

3:00pm - 4:15pm TMT09 From the Trenches: A Real-world Approach to Transitioning Domain Controllers to Windows Server 2025

Sander Berkouwer

3:00pm - 4:15pm TMT10 Modernizing Hyper-V for Resilience in 2027

Tony Joy

3:00pm - 4:15pm AIT05 What Happens Between Pressing Enter and Getting a Response from GitHub Copilot

3:00pm - 4:15pm AIT06 Don’t Panic: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Changing Universe of Software Development

Matt Nunn

3:00pm - 4:15pm EAT03 AI, Data, Automation, and Digital Transformation in Manufacturing Industries

3:00pm - 4:15pm CRT07 Agents in 2026 - Security Copilot with Defender Boys

3:00pm - 4:15pm CRT08 Protecting Critical ICS & SCADA Infrastructure with Microsoft Defender

Maarten Goet

4:30pm - 5:45pm VST17 What's New in C#

Jason Bock

4:30pm - 5:45pm VST18 Fear and (Self) Loathing in IT – A Healthy Discussion on Imposter Syndrome

Angela Dugan

4:30pm - 5:45pm VST19 Too Late for TDD? Start Test Eventually Development Now

Jim Wooley

4:30pm - 5:45pm VST20 Advanced UI in the Browser with the Uno Platform

Billy Hollis

4:30pm - 5:45pm DPT09 Enhancing Power BI with Copilot

Thomas LeBlanc

4:30pm - 5:45pm DPT10 Mastering Fabric Security: Safeguarding Your Analytics

4:30pm - 5:45pm TMT11 Securing Active Directory: Examples from the Field

Derek Melber

4:30pm - 5:45pm TMT12 Avoiding Sticker Shock in Azure

Aidan Finn

4:30pm - 5:45pm TMT13 What's New in New Outlook

Heather Severino

4:30pm - 5:45pm AIT07 Microsoft Foundry for the Skeptical Developer

Kevin Feasel

4:30pm - 5:45pm AIT08 Talk to AI Better: Advanced Prompt Engineering in Action

Mayuri Lahane

4:30pm - 5:45pm EAT04 Designing Data and AI Systems That Leadership Can Trust

Ashley Rivera

4:30pm - 5:45pm CRT09 AD is NOT the Problem: Security and Incident Response for Active Directory

Michael Van Horenbeeck

4:30pm - 5:45pm CRT10 Forward to the Past and Back to the Future - Cybercrime in 2025 and Beyond

Sami Laiho

5:45pm - 7:00pm Live! 360 Welcome Reception

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Tuesday, November 17, 2026