Conferences / Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!) / Live! 360
Live! 360 Tech Con Orlando 2025 (incl. Visual Studio Live!)
Nov 16–21, 2025 · Loews Royal Pacific Resort at Universal Orlando, Orlando, FL, United States
- Conference
- Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!) / Live! 360 Software engineering
- Dates
- Nov 16, 2025 – Nov 21, 2025
- Venue
- Loews Royal Pacific Resort at Universal Orlando
- Place
- Orlando, FL, 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
- live360events.com
- Recorded
- 28 sponsors · 57 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Speakers: 224 sessions in the full Live! 360 programme (all co-located events), so only keynotes plus data-related sessions are recorded (tracks matching SQL/database/data/BI/analytics/Fabric/ML/streaming, plus data/SQL panels): 47 sessions, one row per speaker per session. Prices: main conference packages at the earliest listed and the Standard rate (hotel packages excluded).
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Day Conference Package (Summer Savings) | $1,825 | Aug 15, 2025 | live360events.com | |
| 5 Day Conference Package (Summer Savings) | $2,725 | Aug 15, 2025 | live360events.com | |
| 6 Day Conference Package (Summer Savings) | $3,225 | Aug 15, 2025 | live360events.com | |
| 3 Day Conference Package (Standard) | $2,125 | Nov 16, 2025 | live360events.com | |
| 5 Day Conference Package (Standard) | $3,225 | Nov 16, 2025 | live360events.com | |
| 6 Day Conference Package (Standard) | $3,725 | Nov 16, 2025 | live360events.com |
Sponsors 28
Title / headline 1
- Microsoft · Event Partner
Platinum 7
- Akamai · Platinum Sponsor
- CodeLogic · Platinum Sponsor
- CompuNet · Platinum Sponsor
- Copilot4DevOps · Platinum Sponsor
- Recast · Platinum Sponsor
- SolarWinds · Platinum Sponsor
- Wai Technologies · Platinum Sponsor
Gold 7
- Aiden Technologies · Gold Sponsor
- Exclaimer · GOLD SPONSOR
- JetBrains · Gold Sponsor
- Progress · Gold Sponsor
- ThreatLocker · Gold Sponsor
- Uno Platform · Gold Sponsor
- Vonage · Gold Sponsor
Silver 7
- /n software · Silver Sponsor
- Aikido Security · Silver Sponsor
- CoreSite · Silver Sponsor
- Duende Software · Silver Sponsor
- Text Control · Silver Sponsor
- Usio · Silver Sponsor
- Wisej.NET · Silver Sponsor
Other 6
- GeoBlazor · Exhibitor
- MESCIUS · Exhibitor
- MyWorkDrive · Exhibitor
- Scaleout · Exhibitor
- Solvo Global · Exhibitor
- TierPoint · Exhibitor
Speakers and talks 57
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andy Malone | — | Keynote | TechMentor Keynote: Through the Looking Glass – A Glimpse Ahead of What Could Be | — |
| Brian A. Randell | MCW Technologies | Keynote | Live! 360 Keynote: Agentic DevOps in Real Life - Build Faster, Ship Safer, Keep Humans in the Loop | — |
| Buck Woody | Straight Path Solutions | Keynote | Data Platform Live! Keynote: When All you Have is a Nail, Everything is a Hammer | — |
| Eric D. Boyd | responsiveX | Keynote | Live! 360 Keynote: Azure at 15: What’s Next for the Cloud, AI, and You | — |
| Mads Kristensen | Microsoft | Keynote | Visual Studio Live! & Cloud & Containers Live! Keynote: The Road to Visual Studio 2026: Building a Faster, Smarter IDE | — |
| Marcel de Vries | Xebia | Keynote | Artificial Intelligence Live! Keynote: Rethinking the Possible - Breaking Free with AI | — |
| Mickey Gousset | GitHub | Keynote | Live! 360 Keynote: Agentic DevOps in Real Life - Build Faster, Ship Safer, Keep Humans in the Loop | — |
| Nik Karpinsky | Microsoft | Keynote | Visual Studio Live! & Cloud & Containers Live! Keynote: The Road to Visual Studio 2026: Building a Faster, Smarter IDE | — |
| Sami Laiho | Adminize | Keynote | Cybersecurity & Ransomware Live! Keynote: 2026 Ransomware State of the Union | — |
| Santeri Anttila | NetNordic | Keynote | Cybersecurity & Ransomware Live! Keynote: 2026 Ransomware State of the Union | — |
| Abdullah Mamun | Microsoft | Speaker | SQL Server 2025: Mastering High Availability, Disaster Recovery, and Business Continuity | — |
| Andreas Erben | daenet | Speaker | Model Behavior and Explainability - What Can You Do? | — |
| Bradley Ball | Microsoft | Speaker | Indexing Internals for Developers & DBAs | — |
| Bradley Ball | Microsoft | Speaker | Microsoft Fabric: Defragmenting the Analytics Stack | — |
| Bradley Ball | Microsoft | Workshop | Workshop: Maximizing Performance in SQL Server & Azure SQL | — |
| Buck Woody | Straight Path Solutions | Speaker | Understanding Vector Databases | — |
| Buck Woody | Straight Path Solutions | Speaker | Fast Focus on the Data Landscape | — |
| Buck Woody | Straight Path Solutions | Speaker | Becoming a Data Architect | — |
| Carlos Robles | Microsoft | Speaker | SQL ❤️ JSON: The Best of Both Worlds | — |
| Christopher Schmidt | Microsoft | Workshop | Workshop: ETL, KQL, and RTI - Harnessing Data in Motion with Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Christopher Schmidt | Microsoft | Speaker | Introduction to Real-Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric: A Dive into Event-Driven Architectures | — |
| Daniel Taylor | Microsoft | Speaker | Real Time Monitoring with Real-life Use Cases using Database Watcher | — |
| Daniel Taylor | Microsoft | Workshop | Workshop: Maximizing Performance in SQL Server & Azure SQL | — |
| David Pless | Microsoft | Speaker | SQL Server 2025: Mastering High Availability, Disaster Recovery, and Business Continuity | — |
| David Pless | Microsoft | Speaker | Tame the Beast: Scaling Azure SQL Virtual Machine with Premium Storage | — |
| Eric D. Boyd | responsiveX | Speaker | Fast Focus: Jupyter Notebooks in VS Code | — |
| Gilda Alvarez | — | Speaker | Fast Focus: Migrating SQL Server from On-premises to Azure MI using DMS | — |
| Gilda Alvarez | — | Speaker | Implementing Azure Arc for SQL Server | — |
| Jean Joseph | — | Speaker | Transforming Data Workflows with Agentics AI: The Future of Engineering and Analytics | — |
| Jean Joseph | — | Speaker | Building AI-Powered Applications with Azure Database for PostgreSQL | — |
| Jim Wooley | Slalom | Speaker | Fast Focus: What’s New in EF Core | — |
| Jim Wooley | Slalom | Speaker | Entity Framework Performance Monitoring and Tuning | — |
| Kendal Van Dyke | Microsoft | Speaker | SQL Server 2025: The Enterprise AI-Ready Database | — |
| Kendal Van Dyke | Microsoft | Speaker | Fast Focus: Choosing the Right Azure PaaS Offering for Your SQL Server Workload | — |
| Kendal Van Dyke | Microsoft | Speaker | Work Smarter, Not Harder: A Guide to Using Copilot in SSMS | — |
| Kendal Van Dyke | Microsoft | Panelist | Data Platform Live! Panel Discussion: Data Quality in the Age of AI: Challenges and Opportunities | — |
| Kevin Kline | SolarWinds | Speaker | PostgreSQL Fundamentals and Tooling | — |
| 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: Building Modern Applications with SQL Server 2025: AI and New Developer Features | — |
| Leonard Lobel | Sleek Technologies, Inc | Speaker | All the New Features for Developers in SQL Server 2025 | — |
| Leonard Lobel | Sleek Technologies, Inc | Speaker | Fast Focus: Time Travelling Data: SQL Server Temporal Tables | — |
| Leonard Lobel | Sleek Technologies, Inc | Speaker | Creating REST and GraphQL Database Endpoints with Data API Builder | — |
| Matt Gordon | Apps Associates | Workshop | Workshop: ETL, KQL, and RTI - Harnessing Data in Motion with Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Meagan Longoria | ProcureSQL | Speaker | Data Visualization in Fabric Notebooks for the Power BI Pro | — |
| Meagan Longoria | ProcureSQL | Panelist | Data Platform Live! Panel Discussion: Data Quality in the Age of AI: Challenges and Opportunities | — |
| Meagan Longoria | ProcureSQL | Speaker | Four Things You Can Do with Semantic Link Labs and Power BI Reports | — |
| Meagan Longoria | ProcureSQL | Speaker | Fast Focus: Parameterizing Pipeline Connections in Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Prashant G Bhoyar | AIS | Speaker | Build Multimodal Agents to Talk with Your Data & Take Actions Using Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Azure AI | — |
| Reza Rad | RADACAD | Speaker | AI in Fabric with Data Agents, Notebooks, and More | — |
| Reza Rad | RADACAD | Panelist | Data Platform Live! Panel Discussion: Data Quality in the Age of AI: Challenges and Opportunities | — |
| Reza Rad | RADACAD | Speaker | Fast and Furious: Power BI Direct Lake in Fabric | — |
| Reza Rad | RADACAD | Speaker | Built to Last; the Right Power BI Architecture | — |
| Reza Rad | RADACAD | Workshop | Workshop: Microsoft Fabric for the Power BI Professional | — |
| Thomas LaRock | — | Speaker | Locking, Blocking, and Deadlocks | — |
| Thomas LaRock | — | Speaker | Performance Tuning SQL Server Using Wait Statistics | — |
| Thomas LaRock | — | Workshop | Workshop: Maximizing Performance in SQL Server & Azure SQL | — |
| Thomas LaRock | — | Panelist | Data Platform Live! Panel Discussion: Data Quality in the Age of AI: Challenges and Opportunities | — |
Sources
- https://live360events.com/events/orlando-2025/home.aspx
- https://live360events.com/events/orlando-2025/speakers/speaker-list.aspx
- https://live360events.com/events/orlando-2025/sessions/session-list.aspx
- https://live360events.com/events/orlando-2025/information/sponsors.aspx
- https://live360events.com/events/orlando-2025/information/pricing.aspx
- https://web.archive.org/web/20251211010849/https://vslive.com/pages/sponsorship.aspx