Conferences / Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!) / Live! 360
Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2025
Mar 10–14, 2025 · Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, NV, United States
- Conference
- Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!) / Live! 360 Software engineering
- Dates
- Mar 10, 2025 – Mar 14, 2025
- Venue
- Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino
- Place
- Las Vegas, NV, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —No per-event count. Series-wide, the sponsorship page (Dec 2025) says 'Over 1,600 total attendees joined us at a Visual Studio Live! conference in 2025'; the 2026 prospectus says 'over 1,500 total attendees' last year.
- Website
- vslive.com
- Recorded
- 6 sponsors · 75 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Speakers: full list from the speaker list page (67 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 (Cyber Savings) | $1,825 | Dec 13, 2024 | vslive.com | |
| 5 Day Conference Package (Cyber Savings) | $2,725 | Dec 13, 2024 | vslive.com | |
| 3 Day Conference Package (Standard) | $2,125 | Mar 9, 2025 | vslive.com | |
| 5 Day Conference Package (Standard) | $3,225 | Mar 9, 2025 | vslive.com |
Sponsors 6
Title / headline 1
- Microsoft · Event Partner
Gold 2
- Progress · Gold Sponsor
- Twilio Segment · Gold Sponsor
Other 1
- PedalPoint · Exhibitor
Speakers and talks 75
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bob Ward | Microsoft | Keynote | Keynote: Developing AI Applications with SQL AI: Ground to Cloud to Fabric | — |
| Davide Mauri | Microsoft | Keynote | Keynote: Developing AI Applications with SQL AI: Ground to Cloud to Fabric | — |
| James Montemagno | Microsoft | Keynote | Keynote: The AI, Cloud-Native, Run Anywhere Future of .NET | — |
| Jon Galloway | Microsoft | Keynote | Keynote: The AI, Cloud-Native, Run Anywhere Future of .NET | — |
| Allen Conway | Xebia | Speaker | Navigating Your Career as a Software Engineer | — |
| Allen Conway | Xebia | Speaker | TypeScript: Moving Beyond the Basic | — |
| Allen Conway | Xebia | Workshop | Workshop: Building Blazor Applications | — |
| Allen Conway | Xebia | Speaker | Fast Focus: JavaScript Framework / Library Showdown | — |
| Alvin Ashcraft | Microsoft | Speaker | Building a Modern, Native Application for Windows: Which UI Framework Should You Choose? | — |
| Alvin Ashcraft | Microsoft | Speaker | Get Started Building Windows Apps with WinUI and the Windows App SDK | — |
| Alvin Ashcraft | Microsoft | Speaker | Fast Focus: Learn, Share, and Grow: How to Become a Microsoft Learn Contributor | — |
| Andrew Brust | Blue Badge Insights | Speaker | Fast Focus: Data Lakehouses, Data Warehouses and Datamarts - When to Use Which in Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Andrew Brust | Blue Badge Insights | Speaker | Data Science in Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Andrew Brust | Blue Badge Insights | Speaker | Microsoft Fabric: Defragmenting the Analytics Stack | — |
| Angela Dugan | Red Foundry | Speaker | Fear and (Self) Loathing in IT - A Healthy Discussion on Imposter Syndrome | — |
| Benjamin Day | — | Speaker | Implementing Scrum with GitHub Projects | — |
| Benjamin Day | — | Speaker | Angular for .NET Developers: Getting Productive with Angular & WebAPI | — |
| Billy Hollis | — | Speaker | Improving Legacy Applications with UX Design | — |
| Billy Hollis | — | Speaker | The Extreme Risk of Generational Turnover | — |
| Billy Hollis | — | Speaker | What Do Your Users Really See: The Science Behind User Interface Design | — |
| Bob Ward | Microsoft | Speaker | Power AI Applications with SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Bob Ward | Microsoft | Speaker | SQL Server 2025: The Enterprise AI Ready Database | — |
| Brian A. Randell | MCW Technologies | Workshop | Workshop: Copilot Engineering in the Cloud with Azure & GitHub | — |
| Brian A. Randell | MCW Technologies | Speaker | State of the AI World for Developers | — |
| Brian A. Randell | MCW Technologies | Speaker | GitHub Copilot More Than You Know | — |
| Catherine Wang | Microsoft | Speaker | Making Your Azure Applications Performant and Intelligent with Redis | — |
| Chris Ayers | Microsoft | Speaker | .NET Configuration In Depth | — |
| Chris Ayers | Microsoft | Speaker | Ensuring Azure Resiliency | — |
| Craig Loewen | Microsoft | Speaker | Fast Focus: Build Your First AI Applications with Local AI | — |
| Craig Loewen | Microsoft | Speaker | Fast Focus: What's new in the Windows Subsystem for Linux! | — |
| Davide Mauri | Microsoft | Speaker | Get Started Using .NET Aspire with SQL Server & Azure SQL Database | — |
| Davide Mauri | Microsoft | Speaker | Workflows of Highly Functional App & Data Engineering Teams | — |
| Davide Mauri | Microsoft | Speaker | Build a RAG Solution on Azure SQL | — |
| Deborah Kurata | — | Speaker | Fast Focus: Introduction to Angular Signals | — |
| Deborah Kurata | — | Speaker | Useful New-ish Features in .NET/C# | — |
| Elena Marquetti-Ali | Marquetti Consulting | Speaker | Alone Together: Team-building for Remote Teams | — |
| Elena Marquetti-Ali | Marquetti Consulting | Speaker | Fast Focus: Magnetic Leadership: Pulling the Best Out of Everyone | — |
| 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 | 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 | Speaker | Enrich Your Apps and AI Assistants with Vector Databases and Search | — |
| Isaac Levin | Red Door Collaborative | Speaker | Navigating the World of Cloud Developer Environments with GitHub Codespaces and Microsoft Dev Box | — |
| James McCaffrey | — | Speaker | Introduction to Neural Networks Using C# | — |
| James Montemagno | Microsoft | Speaker | Building Native & Hybrid Mobile & Desktop Apps with .NET MAUI & Blazor | — |
| James Montemagno | Microsoft | Workshop | Hands-On Lab: Get Started with .NET Aspire & ASP.NET Core for Distributed Application Building | — |
| James Montemagno | Microsoft | Speaker | Introduction to .NET Aspire | — |
| James Montemagno | Microsoft | Speaker | Fast Focus: .NET Aspireify Your Apps in Minutes to Boost Productivity & Insights | — |
| Jason Bock | Rocket Mortgage | Workshop | Workshop: Building Blazor Applications | — |
| Jason Bock | Rocket Mortgage | Speaker | Busting .NET Myths | — |
| Jason Bock | Rocket Mortgage | Speaker | What's New in Modern .NET Library APIs | — |
| Jeremy Clark | JeremyBytes.com | Speaker | I'll Get Back to You: Task, Await, and Asynchronous Methods in C# | — |
| Jeremy Clark | JeremyBytes.com | Speaker | DI Why? Getting a Grip on Dependency Injection | — |
| Jon Galloway | Microsoft | Workshop | Hands-On Lab: Get Started with .NET Aspire & ASP.NET Core for Distributed Application Building | — |
| Jon Galloway | Microsoft | Speaker | Introduction to .NET Aspire | — |
| Jon Galloway | Microsoft | Speaker | Updating Legacy Apps to Modern .NET | — |
| Justine Cocchi | Microsoft | Speaker | Building AI Copilots: Integrate Semantic Kernel, Azure OpenAI, and Azure Cosmos DB with .NET Aspire | — |
| Ken Muse | GitHub | Speaker | Navigating the Project Storm: A Guide to Overcoming 10 Development Project Pitfalls | — |
| Ken Muse | GitHub | Speaker | Developer Security: Safeguarding Your Code and Projects | — |
| Ken Muse | GitHub | Workshop | Workshop: Copilot Engineering in the Cloud with Azure & GitHub | — |
| Ken Muse | GitHub | Speaker | GitHub Copilot - Measure What Matters | — |
| Leonard Lobel | Sleek Technologies, Inc | Speaker | Empowering AI Applications with Vector Search in SQL Server and Azure Cosmos DB | — |
| Leonard Lobel | Sleek Technologies, Inc | Workshop | Hands-On Lab: SQL Server for Developers | — |
| Leonard Lobel | Sleek Technologies, Inc | Speaker | What's New for Developers in SQL Server 2022 | — |
| Marcel de Vries | Xebia | Speaker | Integrating AI into Your Existing Applications Using Semantic Kernel & C# | — |
| Marcel de Vries | Xebia | Speaker | Microservices Made Easy with DAPR | — |
| Marcel de Vries | Xebia | Speaker | GitHub Actions in Action | — |
| Mitchel Sellers | IowaComputerGurus, Inc | Speaker | Creating Effective Distributed-Team Development Environment | — |
| Norman Chow | Tallan | Workshop | Hands-On Lab: SQL Server for Developers | — |
| Philip Japikse | Pintas & Mullins | Speaker | Building Websites with ASP.NET Core Razor Pages | — |
| Philip Japikse | Pintas & Mullins | Speaker | Versioning and Documenting ASP.NET Core Services | — |
| Philip Japikse | Pintas & Mullins | Workshop | Hands-On Lab: Build an ASP.NET Core Razor Pages App with EF Core in a Day | — |
| Robert Bogue | Thor Projects LLC | Speaker | The Software Developer as an Agent of Corporate Change | — |
| Robert Bogue | Thor Projects LLC | Speaker | Burnout in Software for Development | — |
| Rockford Lhotka | Xebia | Speaker | Deep Dive: Microsoft Blazor Zero to Success | — |
| Rockford Lhotka | Xebia | Workshop | Workshop: Building Blazor Applications | — |
| Sam Basu | Uno Platform | Speaker | Deep Dive in MAUI | — |
Sources
- https://vslive.com/events/las-vegas-2025/home.aspx
- https://vslive.com/events/las-vegas-2025/speakers/speaker-list.aspx
- https://vslive.com/events/las-vegas-2025/sessions/session-list.aspx
- https://vslive.com/events/las-vegas-2025/information/sponsors.aspx
- https://vslive.com/events/las-vegas-2025/information/pricing.aspx
- https://web.archive.org/web/20251211010849/https://vslive.com/pages/sponsorship.aspx