Conferences / Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!) / Live! 360
Visual Studio Live! San Diego 2025
Sep 8–12, 2025 · Bahia Resort Hotel, San Diego, CA, United States
- Conference
- Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!) / Live! 360 Software engineering
- Dates
- Sep 8, 2025 – Sep 12, 2025
- Venue
- Bahia Resort Hotel
- Place
- San Diego, CA, 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
- 5 sponsors · 67 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Speakers: full list from the speaker list page (64 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 | Jul 18, 2025 | vslive.com | |
| 5 Day Conference Package (Super Early Bird) | $2,825 | Jul 18, 2025 | vslive.com | |
| 3 Day Conference Package (Standard) | $2,125 | Sep 8, 2025 | vslive.com | |
| 5 Day Conference Package (Standard) | $3,225 | Sep 8, 2025 | vslive.com |
Sponsors 5
Title / headline 1
- Microsoft · Event Partner
Platinum 1
- Particular Software · Platinum Sponsor
Silver 1
- /n software · Silver Sponsor
Other 2
- GeoBlazor · Exhibitor
- MyWorkDrive · Exhibitor
Speakers and talks 67
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eric D. Boyd | responsiveX | Keynote | Keynote: Future-Proof - Embracing AI to Level Up Your Dev Career | — |
| Jon Galloway | Microsoft | Keynote | Keynote: The AI, Cloud-Native, Run Anywhere Future of .NET | — |
| Allen Conway | Xebia | Speaker | TypeScript: Moving Beyond the Basics | — |
| Allen Conway | Xebia | Speaker | Building Reusable Components in Blazor | — |
| Allen Conway | Xebia | Speaker | Fast Focus: Deploying Web Apps to Azure Using CI/CD | — |
| Allen Conway | Xebia | Workshop | Workshop: Building Blazor Applications | — |
| Amber Vanderburg | Pathwayz Group | Speaker | How to Ask Better Questions | — |
| Amber Vanderburg | Pathwayz Group | Speaker | Leadership for Developers: Influencing without Authority | — |
| Andrew Brust | Blue Badge Insights | Speaker | Fast Focus: Data Lakehouses, Data Warehouses and SQL Databases - When to Use Which in Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Andrew Brust | Blue Badge Insights | Speaker | Doing AI in Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Andrew Brust | Blue Badge Insights | Speaker | Microsoft Fabric: Defragmenting the Analytics Stack | — |
| Benjamin Day | — | Speaker | Fast Focus: Words for Leaders | — |
| Benjamin Day | — | Speaker | I Love YAML: Using Azure DevOps to Build and Release to Azure | — |
| Benjamin Day | — | Speaker | Implementing Scrum with GitHub Projects | — |
| Brian A. Randell | MCW Technologies | Speaker | Visual Studio Code for Everyone | — |
| Brian A. Randell | MCW Technologies | Speaker | Agentic & Agent - You Keep Saying Those Words | — |
| Brian A. Randell | MCW Technologies | Speaker | Database DevOps with Next-gen SQL Projects | — |
| Brian A. Randell | MCW Technologies | Workshop | Hands-On Lab: Build a Copilot Agent Now with C# and Modern DevOps | — |
| Brian A. Randell | MCW Technologies | Speaker | Fast Focus: GitHub Models in 20 Minutes | — |
| Chad Green | Jasper Engines & Transmissions | Speaker | Secrets of Conflict Resolution | — |
| Chad Green | Jasper Engines & Transmissions | Speaker | Technical Debt Is Not Free | — |
| Dan Wahlin | Microsoft | Speaker | Kubernetes for Developers | — |
| Dan Wahlin | Microsoft | Speaker | Real-Time AI: Take Your Apps to the Next Level with Cutting-Edge AI Features | — |
| Dan Wahlin | Microsoft | Speaker | Take Your Apps to the Next Level: Azure OpenAI, Communication, and Organizational Data Features | — |
| Davide Mauri | Microsoft | Speaker | AI Meets Data: Unlocking Insights with a Database-First Approach | — |
| Davide Mauri | Microsoft | Speaker | Unleashing the Power of Semantic Kernel with Azure SQL | — |
| 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 | — |
| Ginger Grant | Desert Isle Group | Speaker | Why Architecting a Microsoft Fabric Environment May Include a Fabric SQL DB | — |
| Ginger Grant | Desert Isle Group | Speaker | Creating Simple Chat Bots with Microsoft Fabric Datastores | — |
| Hazel Bohon | Particular Software | Speaker | Boiling The Frog: Implementing a Modern Message-Based Architecture Without Anyone Noticing | — |
| Jason Bock | Rocket Mortgage | Workshop | Workshop: Building Blazor Applications | — |
| Jason Bock | Rocket Mortgage | Speaker | Fast Focus: Caching Options in .NET | — |
| Jason Bock | Rocket Mortgage | Speaker | Writing Modern C# | — |
| Jason Bock | Rocket Mortgage | Speaker | Analyzing Code in .NET | — |
| Jeremy Clark | JeremyBytes.com | Speaker | Catching Up with C# Interfaces: What You Know May Be Wrong | — |
| Jeremy Clark | JeremyBytes.com | Speaker | Introduction to XAML - Don't Fear the Markup | — |
| Jon Galloway | Microsoft | Speaker | Build Next-Gen AI Apps with .NET, GitHub and Azure | — |
| Jon Galloway | Microsoft | Workshop | Hands-On Lab: Get Started with .NET Aspire & ASP.NET Core for Distributed Application Building | — |
| Jon Galloway | Microsoft | Speaker | Updating Legacy Apps to Modern .NET | — |
| Karen Lopez | — | Speaker | A Database Designer's Favorite New SQL Server Features | — |
| Karen Lopez | — | Speaker | Database Design Contentious Issues | — |
| Karen Lopez | — | Speaker | Fast Focus: Responsible AI Frameworks: An Introduction | — |
| Leonard Lobel | Sleek Technologies, Inc | Speaker | Change Event Streaming in SQL Server 2025: Real-Time Data Has Finally Arrived | — |
| Leonard Lobel | Sleek Technologies, Inc | Workshop | Workshop: Developer Dive into SQL Server 2025 | — |
| Leonard Lobel | Sleek Technologies, Inc | Speaker | Empowering AI Applications with Vector Search in SQL Server and Azure Cosmos DB | — |
| Lino Tadros | The Training Boss | Speaker | Generative AI in the Enterprise | — |
| Lino Tadros | The Training Boss | Speaker | Semantic Kernel Fundamentals | — |
| Marcel de Vries | Xebia | Speaker | Github Actions in Action | — |
| Marcel de Vries | Xebia | Speaker | Microservices Made Easy with DAPR | — |
| Marcel de Vries | Xebia | Speaker | Integrating AI into Your Existing Applications Using Semantic Kernel & C# | — |
| Mike Benkovich | — | Speaker | Choose Your Identity Wisely | — |
| Mike Benkovich | — | Speaker | IaC Forged in Code: ARM/Bicep vs Terraform vs Pulumi | — |
| Philip Japikse | Pintas & Mullins | Speaker | Versioning and Documenting ASP.NET Core 9 RESTful Services | — |
| Philip Japikse | Pintas & Mullins | Workshop | Hands-On Lab: Build an ASP.NET Core Razor Pages App with EF Core in a Day | — |
| Philip Japikse | Pintas & Mullins | Speaker | Building Websites with ASP.NET Core 9 Razor Pages | — |
| Randy Pagels | Xebia | Speaker | The Power of Playwright: Scaling UI Testing for Robust Application Delivery | — |
| Randy Pagels | Xebia | Speaker | Mission Copilot Autofix: Securing the World’s Software with GitHub Advanced Security | — |
| Rockford Lhotka | Xebia | Speaker | Deep Dive: Microsoft Blazor Zero to Success | — |
| Rockford Lhotka | Xebia | Speaker | Build an AI-enabled Blazor App Using AI | — |
| Rockford Lhotka | Xebia | Workshop | Workshop: Building Blazor Applications | — |
| Rockford Lhotka | Xebia | Speaker | Building Enterprise Blazor Apps Using CSLA .NET | — |
| Sam Basu | Uno Platform | Speaker | Deep Dive into .NET Cross-platform Dev | — |
| Sara Caldwell | — | Speaker | Mapping the Story – Make Your Flat Backlog More Dynamic to Build Better Products | — |
| Sara Caldwell | — | Speaker | Cracking the Code of Team Empowerment: Unraveling the Mystery of Learned Helplessness | — |
| Tony Champion | Champion DS | Speaker | Building Secure and Scalable APIs in .NET 9 | — |
| Tony Champion | Champion DS | Speaker | Cross Platform Development with UNO | — |
Sources
- https://vslive.com/events/san-diego-2025/home.aspx
- https://vslive.com/events/san-diego-2025/speakers/speaker-list.aspx
- https://vslive.com/events/san-diego-2025/sessions/session-list.aspx
- https://vslive.com/events/san-diego-2025/information/sponsors.aspx
- https://vslive.com/events/san-diego-2025/information/pricing.aspx
- https://web.archive.org/web/20251211010849/https://vslive.com/pages/sponsorship.aspx