Conferences / Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!) / Live! 360
Visual Studio Live! @ Microsoft HQ 2025
Aug 4–8, 2025 · Microsoft Conference Center, Redmond, WA, United States
- Conference
- Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!) / Live! 360 Software engineering
- Dates
- Aug 4, 2025 – Aug 8, 2025
- Venue
- Microsoft Conference Center
- Place
- Redmond, WA, 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
- 9 sponsors · 108 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Speakers: full list from the speaker list page (81 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) | $1,825 | Jun 6, 2025 | vslive.com | |
| 5 Day Conference Package (Super Early Bird) | $2,825 | Jun 6, 2025 | vslive.com | |
| 3 Day Conference Package (Standard) | $2,125 | Aug 4, 2025 | vslive.com | |
| 5 Day Conference Package (Standard) | $3,225 | Aug 4, 2025 | vslive.com |
Sponsors 9
Title / headline 1
- Microsoft · Event Partner
Gold 1
- Progress · Gold Sponsor
Silver 2
- /n software · Silver Sponsor
- Usio · Silver Sponsor
Other 3
- Aikido Security · Exhibitor
- Callback Technologies · Exhibitor
- GeoBlazor · Exhibitor
Speakers and talks 108
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bob Ward | Microsoft | Keynote | Wednesday Keynote: Developing AI Applications with SQL AI: Ground to Cloud to Fabric | — |
| Mads Kristensen | Microsoft | Keynote | Tuesday Keynote: The Future of Visual Studio | — |
| Muazma Zahid | Microsoft | Keynote | Wednesday Keynote: Developing AI Applications with SQL AI: Ground to Cloud to Fabric | — |
| Adam Tornhill | CodeScene | Speaker | Code Rot at Machine Speed: Preventing AI-Induced Technical Debt | — |
| Allen Conway | Xebia | Speaker | Building a Progressive Web App (PWA) Using Angular | — |
| Allen Conway | Xebia | Speaker | Fast Focus: JavaScript Framework/Library Showdown | — |
| Allen Conway | Xebia | Workshop | Workshop: Building Blazor Applications | — |
| Allen Conway | Xebia | Speaker | Navigating your Career as a Software Engineer | — |
| Allie Barry | Microsoft | Speaker | Getting the Most Out of .NET Development with Visual Studio | — |
| Alvin Ashcraft | Microsoft | Speaker | Get Started Building Windows Apps with WinUI and the Windows App SDK | — |
| Andrew Brust | Blue Badge Insights | Speaker | Microsoft Fabric: Defragmenting the Analytics Stack | — |
| Andrew Brust | Blue Badge Insights | Speaker | Data Science in Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Andrew Wang | Microsoft | Speaker | The Forgotten Features of Visual Studio You NEED In Your Life! | — |
| Andy Sterland | Microsoft | Panelist | Panel: Ask the Visual Studio Team Anything | — |
| Angela Dugan | Red Foundry | Speaker | Fear and (Self) Loathing in IT – A Healthy Discussion on Imposter Syndrome | — |
| Anson Horton | Microsoft | Panelist | Panel: Ask the Visual Studio Team Anything | — |
| Billy Hollis | — | Speaker | Design Thinking for Software Development Teams - Getting Started | — |
| Billy Hollis | — | Speaker | Improving Legacy Applications with UX Design | — |
| Bob Ward | Microsoft | Speaker | SQL Server 2025: The Enterprise AI-Ready Database | — |
| Brady Gaster | Microsoft | Speaker | Harness the Power of Azure with Visual Studio | — |
| Brandon Tylke | CodeLogic | Speaker | CodeLogic: The Road to Automated Software Development | — |
| Brian A. Randell | MCW Technologies | Workshop | Workshop: Engineering AI into Your Apps with GitHub | — |
| Brian A. Randell | MCW Technologies | Workshop | Continued: Hands-On Lab: GitHub Copilot | — |
| Brian A. Randell | MCW Technologies | Speaker | Fast Focus: GitHub Models in 20 Minutes | — |
| Brian A. Randell | MCW Technologies | Workshop | Hands-On Lab: Getting the Most out of GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2022 | — |
| Brian A. Randell | MCW Technologies | Speaker | GitHub Copilot Agent Mode & MCP: Autonomous Development in Action | — |
| Cagri (Charlie) Aslan | Microsoft | Speaker | Fuel Your Fixes: Visual Studio Debugging, Powered by Copilot | — |
| Cathy Sullivan | Microsoft | Speaker | What's New & Next in Testing & Code Coverage in Visual Studio | — |
| Chris Anderson | Microsoft | Speaker | Unlocking the Power of VS Code for Building Solutions in Fabric | — |
| Dan Hellum | Microsoft | Speaker | How the Azure DevOps Teams Use Azure DevOps | — |
| Daniel Roth | Microsoft | Speaker | The Future of Web Development with ASP.NET Core & Blazor in .NET 10 | — |
| David Ortinau | Microsoft | Speaker | Building Mobile and Desktop Apps with VS and .NET MAUI | — |
| Davide Mauri | Microsoft | Speaker | SQL ❤️ JSON: The Best of Both Worlds | — |
| Davide Mauri | Microsoft | Workshop | Workshop: Developer Dive into SQL Server 2025 | — |
| Davide Mauri | Microsoft | Speaker | AI Meets Data: Unlocking Insights with a Database-First Approach | — |
| Deborah Kurata | — | Speaker | Angular Signals Demystified! | — |
| Deborah Kurata | — | Speaker | Fast Focus: Reactively Retrieve Data with Angular's Resource API | — |
| Den Delimarsky | Microsoft | Speaker | Fast Focus - Introduction to Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers | — |
| Den Delimarsky | Microsoft | Speaker | Unlocking AI Interoperability: A Deep Dive into the Model Context Protocol | — |
| Divya Swarnkar | Microsoft | Speaker | Orchestrating Agentic Workflows using Azure Logic Apps and Azure AI Foundry | — |
| Drew Skwiers-Koballa | Microsoft | Speaker | Next-gen SQL Projects with Microsoft.Build.Sql | — |
| Drew Skwiers-Koballa | Microsoft | Speaker | Fast Focus: Don't wait until 30,000ft to Find a Therapist | — |
| Eamon O'Reilly | Microsoft | Speaker | Serverless Functions and AI - Your Next Wave of Innovation | — |
| Edwin "Ned" Gnichtel | CodeLogic | Speaker | CodeLogic: The Road to Automated Software Development | — |
| 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 | Predicting the Future using Azure Machine Learning | — |
| Eric D. Boyd | responsiveX | Speaker | Create Intelligent Bots with Copilot Studio and Azure | — |
| 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 | Continued: 2-Day Hands-On Lab: Elevate Your Career with Python and AI - Day 1: Getting Started with Python | — |
| Etienne Baudoux | Microsoft | Speaker | The Next Generation of Developer Productivity with GitHub Copilot & Visual Studio | — |
| Etienne Baudoux | Microsoft | Speaker | Fast Focus: Sneak Peek at How Visual Studio's Code Editor Works Under the Hood | — |
| Harshada Hole | Microsoft | Speaker | Fuel Your Fixes: Visual Studio Debugging, Powered by Copilot | — |
| Harshada Hole | Microsoft | Speaker | Getting the Most out of the Latest in Visual Studio | — |
| J.D. Meier | — | Speaker | What's the Problem?!? How to Resolve Conflict | — |
| J.D. Meier | — | Speaker | Burnout in Software Development | — |
| Jason Bock | Rocket Mortgage | Speaker | Fast Focus: Caching Options in .NET | — |
| Jason Bock | Rocket Mortgage | Speaker | Improving Performance in .NET Applications | — |
| Jason Bock | Rocket Mortgage | Speaker | What's New in Modern .NET Library APIs | — |
| Jason Bock | Rocket Mortgage | Workshop | Workshop: Building Blazor Applications | — |
| Jean Joseph | — | Speaker | From Novice to Expert: A Comprehensive Guide to Regression and Classification Model Training | — |
| Jean Joseph | — | Workshop | Hands-On Workshop: Empowering Data Engineers and Analysts with Agentic AI: From Theory to Practice | — |
| Jeffrey T. Fritz | Progress | Workshop | Continued: Hands-On Lab: Get Started with .NET Aspire & ASP.NET Core for Distributed Application Building | — |
| Jeffrey T. Fritz | Progress | Workshop | Hands-On Lab: Get Started with .NET Aspire & ASP.NET Core for Distributed Application Building | — |
| Jeffrey T. Fritz | Progress | Speaker | Building Confident Application Systems with .NET Aspire: From Dev to Deployment | — |
| Jerry Nixon | Microsoft | Speaker | Not your Father's SQL Server: Developer Innovations in Data Storage | — |
| Jessie Houghton | Microsoft | Speaker | Getting the Most out of the Latest in Visual Studio | — |
| Jon Galloway | Microsoft | Speaker | Modernizing and Upgrading your .NET Apps with Visual Studio | — |
| Jon Galloway | Microsoft | Workshop | Continued: Hands-on Lab: Building Real-world AI Applications with .NET & Microsoft.Extensions.AI | — |
| Jon Galloway | Microsoft | Speaker | Fast Focus: Chatting with Your Data in AI, Using .NET | — |
| Jon Galloway | Microsoft | Speaker | Build Next-Gen AI Apps with .NET and Azure | — |
| Jon Galloway | Microsoft | Workshop | Hands-On Lab: Building Real-world AI Applications with .NET & Microsoft.Extensions.AI | — |
| Julia Kasper | Microsoft | Speaker | Unlock AI Agent Workflows with Azure API Management and MCP | — |
| Justine Cocchi | Microsoft | Speaker | Building AI Apps: Integrate Semantic Kernal, Azure OpenAI, and Azure Cosmos DB with ASP.NET Aspire | — |
| Kenan Sun | Microsoft | Speaker | Elevating Developer Experience with AI-Powered Microsoft Dev Box | — |
| Leonard Lobel | Sleek Technologies, Inc | Speaker | Change Event Streaming in SQL Server 2025: Real-Time Data Has Finally Arrived | — |
| 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 | Workshop: Developer Dive into SQL Server 2025 | — |
| Mads Kristensen | Microsoft | Panelist | Panel: Ask the Visual Studio Team Anything | — |
| Mads Torgersen | Microsoft | Speaker | Everything You Need to Know About the Latest in C# | — |
| Marco Peyrot Carrion | Microsoft | Speaker | The Forgotten Features of Visual Studio You NEED In Your Life! | — |
| Matthew Soucoup | Microsoft | Workshop | Hands-On Lab: Building Real-world AI Applications with .NET & Microsoft.Extensions.AI | — |
| Matthew Soucoup | Microsoft | Speaker | What's New & Next in Testing & Code Coverage in Visual Studio | — |
| Matthew Soucoup | Microsoft | Workshop | Workshop: Modernize Your Monolith: From .NET Framework to Microservices in Azure | — |
| Matthew Soucoup | Microsoft | Workshop | Continued: Hands-on Lab: Building Real-world AI Applications with .NET & Microsoft.Extensions.AI | — |
| Merrie McGaw | Microsoft | Speaker | Developing Modern WinForms Applications | — |
| Merrie McGaw | Microsoft | Speaker | How Visual Studio is AWESOME for WinForms, WPF, .NET MAUI and All Your Favorite Frameworks | — |
| Michael Washington | — | Speaker | Creating Business Applications Using Blazor | — |
| Michael Washington | — | Speaker | Using Blazor to Manage Data in SQL Server and Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Mike Kistler | Microsoft | Speaker | The Future of Web Development with ASP.NET Core & Blazor in .NET 10 | — |
| Nik Karpinsky | Microsoft | Speaker | Measure Twice, Optimize Once: Real-World .NET Profiling with Visual Studio | — |
| Philip Japikse | Pintas & Mullins | Speaker | Building Websites with ASP.NET Core 9 Razor Pages | — |
| Philip Japikse | Pintas & Mullins | Speaker | Building RESTful Services with ASP.NET Core 9 | — |
| Rhea Patel | Microsoft | Speaker | The Next Generation of Developer Productivity with GitHub Copilot & Visual Studio | — |
| Rockford Lhotka | Xebia | Speaker | Fast Focus - DIY - Make A Kubernetes Cluster with Inexpensive Devices | — |
| Rockford Lhotka | Xebia | Speaker | Blazor Authentication and Authorization | — |
| Rockford Lhotka | Xebia | Workshop | Workshop: Building Blazor Applications | — |
| Simon Jakesch | Microsoft | Speaker | Scaling Azure Container Apps: Maximize Performance and Minimize Costs | — |
| Simon Jakesch | Microsoft | Speaker | Fast Focus: Run Untrusted Code Safely with Azure Container Apps Dynamic Sessions | — |
| Simona Liao | Microsoft | Speaker | The Next Generation of Developer Productivity with GitHub Copilot & Visual Studio | — |
| Ted Neward | Neward and Associates | Speaker | Busy .NET Developer's Guide to Python | — |
| Ted Neward | Neward and Associates | Speaker | The Role of an Architect | — |
| Thiago Almeida | Microsoft | Speaker | Ensuring Scalability and Security for Serverless Functions on Azure | — |
| Vedha Ranganathan | Microsoft | Speaker | Elevating Developer Experience with AI-Powered Microsoft Dev Box | — |
| Visual Studio Team | Microsoft | Workshop | Workshop: Engineering AI into Your Apps with GitHub | — |
| Visual Studio Team | Microsoft | Workshop | Hands-On Lab: Getting the Most out of GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2022 | — |
| Visual Studio Team | Microsoft | Panelist | Panel: Ask the Visual Studio Team Anything | — |
| Wendy Breiding | Microsoft | Speaker | Getting the Most Out of .NET Development with Visual Studio | — |
| Yao Wang | Microsoft | Speaker | Elevating Developer Experience with AI-Powered Microsoft Dev Box | — |
Sources
- https://vslive.com/events/microsofthq-2025/home.aspx
- https://vslive.com/events/microsofthq-2025/speakers/speaker-list.aspx
- https://vslive.com/events/microsofthq-2025/sessions/session-list.aspx
- https://vslive.com/events/microsofthq-2025/information/sponsors.aspx
- https://vslive.com/events/microsofthq-2025/information/pricing.aspx
- https://web.archive.org/web/20251211010849/https://vslive.com/pages/sponsorship.aspx