Conferences / Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!) / Live! 360
Visual Studio Live! @ Microsoft HQ 2024
Aug 5–9, 2024 · Microsoft Conference Center, Redmond, WA, United States
- Conference
- Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!) / Live! 360 Software engineering
- Dates
- Aug 5, 2024 – Aug 9, 2024
- Venue
- Microsoft Conference Center
- Place
- Redmond, WA, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- vslive.com
- Recorded
- 4 sponsors · 79 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Speakers: full list from the speaker list page (60 sessions incl. workshops and hands-on labs), one row per speaker per session; track = first track tag shown. Affiliation is the company line of each speaker entry (null where only a job title is shown). Prices: main conference packages at the earliest listed and the Standard rate (hotel packages excluded). Pages read live via the same 1105 Media CMS at live360events.com/ECG/vslive/... because vslive.com blocks automated fetches; URLs cited are the canonical vslive.com paths.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Day Conference Package (Super Early Bird) | $1,775 | Jun 7, 2024 | vslive.com | |
| 5 Day Conference Package (Super Early Bird) | $2,775 | Jun 7, 2024 | vslive.com | |
| 3 Day Conference Package (Standard) | $2,175 | Aug 5, 2024 | vslive.com | |
| 5 Day Conference Package (Standard) | $3,175 | Aug 5, 2024 | vslive.com | |
| Basic Exhibitor Package | $2,995 | — | Per space. Orlando: 10x10 booth; other cities: 6' table space. 1 Best Value pass + 2 expo-only passes. | download.1105media.com |
| Silver Sponsorship | $5,000 | — | Per conference. Booth, 1 pass, full-page program ad, table-topic lunch table. | download.1105media.com |
| Gold Sponsorship | $8,000 | — | Per conference. Booth, 15-min product demo session, 2 passes, full-page program ad, opening acknowledgement. | download.1105media.com |
| Platinum Sponsorship | $9,995 | — | Per conference. Booth, one breakout session, focus-group lunch (15 attendees), 3 Best Value passes, opt-in list access, full-page program ad. | download.1105media.com |
| Conference Coverage Sponsorship | $12,500 | — | Exclusive. Booth, 3 passes, eNewsletter ads and event coverage mini-site, opt-in list access. | download.1105media.com |
| Special Event Sponsorship | $15,000 | — | Exclusive party sponsorship with booth, 3 passes, program ad, opt-in list access. | download.1105media.com |
Sponsors 4
Title / headline 1
- Microsoft · Event Partner
Gold 1
- Progress · Gold Sponsor
Silver 2
- Centers of Excellence for Information Technology (COE for ICT) · Silver Sponsor
- Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting · Silver Sponsor
Speakers and talks 79
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asad Khan | Microsoft | Keynote | Keynote: Building Applications with the Modern SQL Using AI and Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Bob Ward | Microsoft | Keynote | Keynote: Building Applications with the Modern SQL Using AI and Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Muazma Zahid | Microsoft | Keynote | Keynote: Building Applications with the Modern SQL Using AI and Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Allen Conway | Xebia | Speaker | Building a Progressive Web App (PWA) Using Angular | — |
| Allen Conway | Xebia | Workshop | Workshop: Microsoft Blazor Top to Bottom | — |
| Allen Conway | Xebia | Speaker | Navigating Your Career as a Software Engineer | — |
| Alvin Ashcraft | Microsoft | Speaker | Fast Focus: Learn, Share, and Grow: How to Become a Microsoft Learn Contributor | — |
| Alvin Ashcraft | Microsoft | Speaker | Building a Modern, Native Application for Windows: Which UI Framework Should You Choose? | — |
| Anagha Todalbagi | Microsoft | Workshop | Hands-on Workshop: Build Modern Applications with Azure SQL Database and SQL Server | — |
| Andreas Erben | daenet | Speaker | Fast Focus: Red-Teaming and Generative AI - Practical Observations | — |
| Andreas Erben | daenet | Speaker | Development with Azure OpenAI: Copilots and Beyond | — |
| Andreas Erben | daenet | Speaker | AI's Next Frontier: Agents, Multi-Modality, and Personal AI | — |
| Bob Ward | Microsoft | Speaker | How to Build Secure and Scalable Applications with Microsoft SQL | — |
| Brian A. Randell | MCW Technologies | Speaker | Build Your First 'copilot' with .NET and the Semantic Kernel | — |
| Brian A. Randell | MCW Technologies | Speaker | Do More with GitHub Copilot | — |
| Brian A. Randell | MCW Technologies | Speaker | AI Bingo: What are Today's Buzzwords? | — |
| Brian A. Randell | MCW Technologies | Workshop | Workshop: Copilot Engineering Everywhere | — |
| Brian Spendolini | Microsoft | Workshop | Hands-on Workshop: Build Modern Applications with Azure SQL Database and SQL Server | — |
| Dalia Abo Sheasha | Microsoft | Speaker | Lessons Learned Building AI-powered Features in VS | — |
| Damian Edwards | Microsoft | Workshop | Hands-On Lab: Application Building with .NET Aspire & ASP.NET Core 8 | — |
| Damian Edwards | Microsoft | Workshop | Continued: Hands-On Lab: Application Building with .NET Aspire & ASP.NET Core 8 | — |
| Daniel Roth | Microsoft | Speaker | What's Next for ASP.NET Core & Blazor | — |
| Dante Gagne | Microsoft | Speaker | Visual Studio Toolbox Live | — |
| David Fowler | Microsoft | Workshop | Hands-On Lab: Application Building with .NET Aspire & ASP.NET Core 8 | — |
| David Fowler | Microsoft | Workshop | Continued: Hands-On Lab: Application Building with .NET Aspire & ASP.NET Core 8 | — |
| Davide Mauri | Microsoft | Speaker | Azure SQL ❤️ Open AI | — |
| Deborah Kurata | — | Speaker | Angular RxJS and Signals: Better Together | — |
| Deborah Kurata | — | Speaker | Useful New-ish Features in .NET/C# | — |
| Drew Skwiers-Koballa | Microsoft | Speaker | How to Choose Your Local Database Development Setup | — |
| Eric D. Boyd | responsiveX | Workshop | 2-Day Hands-On Lab: Elevate Your Career with Python and AI - Day 2 – Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Using Python | — |
| Eric D. Boyd | responsiveX | Workshop | 2-Day Hands-On Lab: Elevate Your Career with Python and AI - Day 1 – Getting Started with Python | — |
| Eric D. Boyd | responsiveX | Speaker | Continued: Day 1 – Getting Started with Python | — |
| Erin Stellato | Microsoft | Speaker | How to Choose Your Local Database Development Setup | — |
| Harshada Hole | Microsoft | Speaker | Visual Studio Toolbox Live | — |
| Harshada Hole | Microsoft | Speaker | Fast Focus: Visual Studio Debugging & Diagnostics: Tips & Tricks | — |
| James Montemagno | Microsoft | Speaker | What's New & Next for .NET MAUI | — |
| Jason Bock | Rocket Mortgage | Speaker | Busting .NET Myths | — |
| Jason Bock | Rocket Mortgage | Speaker | Creating Reactive Applications in .NET | — |
| Jason Bock | Rocket Mortgage | Workshop | Workshop: Microsoft Blazor Top to Bottom | — |
| Jeremy Clark | JeremyBytes.com | Workshop | Continued: Hands-on Lab: Asynchronous and Parallel Programming in C# | — |
| Jeremy Clark | JeremyBytes.com | Speaker | DI Why? Getting a Grip on Dependency Injection | — |
| Jeremy Clark | JeremyBytes.com | Speaker | Fast Focus: Safer Code - Nullabilty and Null Operators in C# | — |
| Jeremy Clark | JeremyBytes.com | Workshop | Hands-on Lab: Asynchronous and Parallel Programming in C# | — |
| Jeremy Clark | JeremyBytes.com | Speaker | Design Patterns: Not Just for Architects | — |
| Jerry Nixon | Microsoft | Workshop | Hands-on Workshop: Build Modern Applications with Azure SQL Database and SQL Server | — |
| Jerry Nixon | Microsoft | Speaker | Getting Started with GraphQL | — |
| Jessie Houghton | Microsoft | Speaker | Fast Focus: Upgrade Your Git Game in Visual Studio 2022 | — |
| Jim Wooley | Slalom | Speaker | Entity Framework Performance Monitoring and Tuning | — |
| Jim Wooley | Slalom | Speaker | Improving Code Quality with Roslyn Code Analyzers | — |
| Jordan Matthiesen | Microsoft | Speaker | Visual Studio Toolbox Live | — |
| Justine Cocchi | Microsoft | Speaker | Building Planet Scale .NET Apps with Azure Cosmos DB | — |
| Kevin Feasel | Catallaxy Services, LLC | Speaker | Data Virtualization in SQL Server 2022 | — |
| Kevin Feasel | Catallaxy Services, LLC | Speaker | Analyzing Business Data with T-SQL | — |
| Klaus Loeffelman | Microsoft | Speaker | Developing Modern WinForms Applications | — |
| Leslie Richardson | Microsoft | Speaker | Visual Studio Toolbox Live | — |
| Mads Kristensen | Microsoft | Speaker | Visual Studio Tips & Tricks | — |
| Mads Kristensen | Microsoft | Speaker | Your Future is Bright with Visual Studio and AI | — |
| Marcel de Vries | Xebia | Speaker | The Future of IT | — |
| Marcel de Vries | Xebia | Speaker | Microservices Made Easy with DAPR | — |
| Marcel de Vries | Xebia | Speaker | Writing Maintainable Test Automation | — |
| Matthew Soucoup | Microsoft | Speaker | Intro to AI with .NET, Azure OpenAI, and Semantic Kernel | — |
| Merrie McGaw | Microsoft | Speaker | Developing Modern WinForms Applications | — |
| Nik Karpinsky | Microsoft | Speaker | Get Better App Performance with this One Weird Trick | — |
| Philip Japikse | Pintas & Mullins | Speaker | Building RESTful Services with ASP.NET Core | — |
| Philip Japikse | Pintas & Mullins | Speaker | Building Websites with ASP.NET Core Razor Pages | — |
| Rachel Kang | Microsoft | Speaker | What's New & Next for .NET MAUI | — |
| Rockford Lhotka | Xebia | Speaker | Building Enterprise Blazor Apps Using CSLA .NET | — |
| Rockford Lhotka | Xebia | Workshop | Workshop: Microsoft Blazor Top to Bottom | — |
| Rockford Lhotka | Xebia | Speaker | Deep Dive: Blazor | — |
| Sam Basu | Uno Platform | Speaker | Lessons Learned from 10 Years of Developer Advocacy | — |
| Sam Basu | Uno Platform | Speaker | Build Hybrid Apps with .NET MAUI 🏖 | — |
| Sayed Hashimi | Microsoft | Speaker | Visual Studio Toolbox Live | — |
| Scott Hunter | Microsoft | Speaker | Introducing .NET Aspire – Cloud Native Development for .NET | — |
| Ted Neward | Neward and Associates | Speaker | Busy Manager's Guide to Interviewing | — |
| Ted Neward | Neward and Associates | Speaker | Busy Developer's Guide to Next-Generation Languages | — |
| Ted Neward | Neward and Associates | Speaker | Fast Focus: Busy Developer's Guide to Esoteric Programming Languages | — |
| Thiago Almeida | Microsoft | Speaker | Flex Consumption: The Best Way to Build Serverless Apps with High-Throughput and Virtual Networking | — |
| Thomas LeBlanc | SHI International Corp | Speaker | What is Fabric? | — |
| Thomas LeBlanc | SHI International Corp | Speaker | The End Game: Lakehouse in Fabric | — |
Sources
- https://vslive.com/events/microsofthq-2024/home.aspx
- https://vslive.com/events/microsofthq-2024/speakers/speaker-list.aspx
- https://vslive.com/events/microsofthq-2024/sessions/session-list.aspx
- https://vslive.com/events/microsofthq-2024/information/sponsors.aspx
- https://vslive.com/events/microsofthq-2024/information/pricing.aspx
- https://download.1105media.com/pub/101communications/Files/VSLive24_Prospectus.pdf