Conferences / Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!) / Live! 360
Visual Studio Live! @ Microsoft HQ 2026
Jul 27–31, 2026 · Microsoft Headquarters, Redmond, WA, United States
- Conference
- Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!) / Live! 360 Software engineering
- Dates
- Jul 27, 2026 – Jul 31, 2026
- Venue
- Microsoft Headquarters
- Place
- Redmond, WA, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- vslive.com
- Recorded
- 9 sponsors · 91 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Speakers: full list from the speaker list page (75 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 | May 15, 2026 | vslive.com | |
| 5 Day Conference Package (Super Early Bird) | $2,825 | May 15, 2026 | vslive.com | |
| 3 Day Conference Package (Standard) | $2,125 | Jul 27, 2026 | vslive.com | |
| 5 Day Conference Package (Standard) | $3,225 | Jul 27, 2026 | vslive.com | |
| Basic Exhibitor | $2,995 | — | Per conference. Orlando 10x10 booth; Las Vegas/Microsoft HQ/San Diego 6' table space; 1 conference pass + 2 exhibit-hall badges. | vslive.com |
| Silver Sponsorship | $5,000 | — | Per conference. Booth, table-topic lunch table, 1 conference pass. | vslive.com |
| Gold Sponsorship | $8,000 | — | Per conference. Booth, 15-min product demo session, opening acknowledgement, 2 conference passes. | vslive.com |
| Platinum Sponsorship | $9,995 | — | Per conference. Booth, 75-min breakout session, focus-group lunch (15 attendees), 1 eBlast, 3 conference passes. | vslive.com |
| Exclusive Dinner Sponsorship | $12,500 | — | Exclusive dinner sponsorship. | vslive.com |
| Mix & Mingle | $15,000 | — | First-night networking reception sponsorship. | vslive.com |
| Special Event | $20,000 | — | Food/drinks/music event for all attendees; includes full Platinum benefits. | vslive.com |
Sponsors 9
Title / headline 1
- Microsoft · Event Partner
Platinum 2
- Infragistics · Platinum Sponsor
- Particular Software · Platinum Sponsor
Gold 1
- Progress · Gold Sponsor
Silver 4
- Aikido Security · Silver Sponsor
- DevExpress · Silver Sponsor
- Uno Platform · Silver Sponsor
- Usio · Silver Sponsor
Other 1
- Scaleout · Exhibitor
Speakers and talks 91
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anna Hoffman | Microsoft | Keynote | Keynote - SQL and AI for Developers in Action | — |
| Bob Ward | Microsoft | Keynote | Keynote - SQL and AI for Developers in Action | — |
| Mads Kristensen | Microsoft | Keynote | Tuesday Keynote: You and AI -- Building The Future Together | — |
| Allen Conway | Xebia | Speaker | Fast Focus: JavaScript Framework/Library Showdown | — |
| Allen Conway | Xebia | Speaker | TypeScript: Moving Beyond the Basics | — |
| Allen Conway | Xebia | Workshop | Workshop: Building Blazor Applications | — |
| Amber Vanderburg | Pathwayz Group | Speaker | Debugging Like a Coach: Fixing Team Bugs Before They Crash the Game | — |
| Amber Vanderburg | Pathwayz Group | Speaker | VAR, AI Referees, and the Future of Code Reviews | — |
| Andy Sterland | Microsoft | Panelist | The Future of Visual Studio: Interactive Expert Panel | — |
| Angela Dugan | Red Foundry | Speaker | Fear and (Self) Loathing in IT – A Healthy Discussion on Imposter Syndrome | — |
| Angela Dugan | Red Foundry | Speaker | Human Skills in an AI World: How Technologists Stay Essential | — |
| Anna Hoffman | Microsoft | Speaker | Fast Focus: What’s New Across Microsoft SQL and Developer Tooling in 2026 | — |
| Anna Hoffman | Microsoft | Speaker | Beyond Embeddings: Practical Vector Search with DiskANN in SQL Server | — |
| Anson Horton | Microsoft | Panelist | The Future of Visual Studio: Interactive Expert Panel | — |
| Billy Hollis | — | Speaker | Advanced UI in the Browser with the Uno Platform | — |
| Billy Hollis | — | Speaker | Injecting Innovation Into Applications Through Design | — |
| Bob Ward | Microsoft | Speaker | SQL MCP Server: Bringing AI Agents to Your SQL Data | — |
| Bob Ward | Microsoft | Speaker | The Developers Guide to Azure SQL Hyperscale | — |
| Brian A. Randell | MCW Technologies | Speaker | Agentic DevOps with GitHub and Azure DevOps: What Actually Works in 2026 | — |
| Brian A. Randell | MCW Technologies | Speaker | Be A More Productive .NET Dev with VS Code, Visual Studio, and the CLI | — |
| Brian A. Randell | MCW Technologies | Workshop | Workshop: Secure AI Engineering with C#, GitHub, and Azure | — |
| Christian Wenz | Actition GmbH | Speaker | Fast Focus: Bulletproof in 20 Minutes | — |
| Christian Wenz | Actition GmbH | Speaker | BFF and SPAs: Best Friends Forever | — |
| Christian Wenz | Actition GmbH | Speaker | Security APIs with OWASP | — |
| Dalia Abo Sheasha | Microsoft | Speaker | The Enterprise Developer in 2026: An Interactive Session with the Visual Studio PM Team | — |
| Dalia Abo Sheasha | Microsoft | Speaker | The New Brain Behind Copilot in Visual Studio | — |
| Daniel Roth | Microsoft | Speaker | Explore the Future of ASP.NET Core & Blazor in .NET 11 | — |
| Drew Skwiers-Koballa | Microsoft | Speaker | SQL Projects in SSMS and Visual Studio | — |
| Dustin Campbell | Microsoft | Speaker | Everything You Need to Know About the Latest in C# | — |
| Eric D. Boyd | responsiveX | Speaker | Using API Gateways for Flexibility and Governance of Your APIs | — |
| Eric D. Boyd | responsiveX | Speaker | Building MCP Servers with C# and .NET | — |
| Esteban Garcia | Lantern | Speaker | Deploy Like a Pro: Get to Azure with GitHub Actions and GitHub Copilot - Esteban Garcia | — |
| Esteban Garcia | Lantern | Speaker | Orchestrating the Modern Software Factory: GitHub as the Intelligent Control Plane | — |
| Hazel Bohon | Particular Software | Speaker | Microservices for Pragmatists | — |
| James Montemagno | Microsoft | Speaker | .NET MAUI in 2026 - How AI has Transformed App Development Forever | — |
| James Montemagno | Microsoft | Speaker | Turn Every Idea into an AI App with the GitHub Copilot SDK | — |
| James Montemagno | Microsoft | Workshop | Workshop: Mastering AI Development & Building AI Apps with GitHub Copilot | — |
| Jason Beres | Infragistics | Speaker | Create Enterprise Apps with AI, MCP, and Embedded Analytics | — |
| Jason Bock | Rocket Mortgage | Speaker | Improving Performance in .NET Applications | — |
| 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 | Building Packages and Tools Using the Compiler API | — |
| Jason Bock | Rocket Mortgage | Speaker | Fast Focus: Using Copilot to Build Migration Tools | — |
| Jim Wooley | Slalom | Speaker | What's New in EF Core 10 | — |
| Jim Wooley | Slalom | Speaker | Too Late for TTD? | — |
| John Baluka | — | Speaker | The World of Microsoft Office Programming, Integration, and Automation | — |
| John Baluka | — | Speaker | How to Think in Blazor | — |
| Jon Galloway | Microsoft | Workshop | Continued: Hands-On Lab: Building Intelligent .NET Applications | — |
| Jon Galloway | Microsoft | Workshop | Hands-On Lab: Building Intelligent .NET Applications with AI, MCP, GitHub Copilot SDK, and Agents | — |
| Jon Galloway | Microsoft | Speaker | Building Intelligent .NET Applications: From AI Features to Agentic System | — |
| Jon Galloway | Microsoft | Speaker | Modernizing .NET Applications | — |
| Kayla Cinnamon | Microsoft | Speaker | Fast Focus: Dream a Little Dream: Dev with the CLI | — |
| Kayla Cinnamon | Microsoft | Workshop | Workshop: Mastering AI Development & Building AI Apps with GitHub Copilot | — |
| Kayla Cinnamon | Microsoft | Speaker | Turn Every Idea into an AI App with the GitHub Copilot SDK | — |
| Klaus Loeffelman | Microsoft | Speaker | Modern WinForms Development: How AI is Reshaping Your Approach | — |
| Leah Tran | Microsoft | Speaker | The Next Generation of Developer Productivity with GitHub Copilot & Visual Studio | — |
| Leonard Lobel | Sleek Technologies, Inc | Speaker | Creating REST, GraphQL, and AI Database Endpoints with Data API Builder | — |
| Leonard Lobel | Sleek Technologies, Inc | Speaker | What's New for Developers in SQL Server 2025 | — |
| Leonard Lobel | Sleek Technologies, Inc | Workshop | Continued: Hands-on Lab: Building Modern Applications with SQL Server 2025: AI and New Developer Features | — |
| Leonard Lobel | Sleek Technologies, Inc | Workshop | Hands-on Lab: Building Modern Applications with SQL Server 2025: AI and New Developer Features | — |
| Leslie Richardson | Microsoft | Speaker | Building and Using MCP Servers in Visual Studio | — |
| Mads Kristensen | Microsoft | Panelist | The Future of Visual Studio: Interactive Expert Panel | — |
| Mads Kristensen | Microsoft | Speaker | The Forgotten Features of Visual Studio You NEED In Your Life! | — |
| Mads Torgersen | Microsoft | Speaker | Everything You Need to Know About the Latest in C# | — |
| Marco Peyrot Carrion | Microsoft | Speaker | Get the Most Out of VS - Tips/Tricks | — |
| Mark Downie | Microsoft | Speaker | Master Debugging and Performance Optimization in Visual Studio | — |
| McKenna Barlow | Microsoft | Speaker | Unit Testing on Steroids Using VS | — |
| Mike Benkovich | — | Speaker | YAML Pipelines for Modern Compute | — |
| Mike Benkovich | — | Speaker | Choose Your Identity Wisely | — |
| Philip Japikse | Pintas & Mullins | Workshop | Hands-On Lab: Build an ASP.NET Core Razor Pages App and EF Core with Copilot in a Day | — |
| Philip Japikse | Pintas & Mullins | Workshop | Continued: Hands-On Lab: Build an ASP.NET Core Razor Pages App and EF Core with Copilot in a Day | — |
| Philip Japikse | Pintas & Mullins | Speaker | Building Web Applications with ASP.NET Core | — |
| Philip Japikse | Pintas & Mullins | Speaker | Building RESTful Services with ASP.NET Core | — |
| Robert Bogue | Thor Projects LLC | Speaker | From Business Problems to AI Success: Closing the Gap Between Promise and Reality | — |
| Robert Bogue | Thor Projects LLC | Speaker | Burnout in Software Development | — |
| Sebastian Hernandez | Microsoft | Speaker | How the Visual Studio Team Uses AI Internally | — |
| Simona Liao | Microsoft | Speaker | The Next Generation of Developer Productivity with GitHub Copilot & Visual Studio | — |
| Sireesha Pisipati | Microsoft | Speaker | Master Debugging and Performance Optimization in Visual Studio | — |
| Spencer Schneidenbach | Aviron Labs | Speaker | Running Background Tasks in .NET Core - In App, The Cloud, and Beyond | — |
| Spencer Schneidenbach | Aviron Labs | Speaker | Threat Modeling for AI Agents: From Prompt Injection to Tool Abuse | — |
| Stephen Halter | Microsoft | Speaker | Building and Using MCP Servers in Visual Studio | — |
| Tanmayee Prakash Kamath | Microsoft | Speaker | The Enterprise Developer in 2026: An Interactive Session with the Visual Studio PM Team | — |
| Taysser Gherfal | Microsoft | Speaker | The Enterprise Developer in 2026: An Interactive Session with the Visual Studio PM Team | — |
| Ted Neward | Neward and Associates | Speaker | Busy Developer's Guide to Web Assembly | — |
| Ted Neward | Neward and Associates | Speaker | Busy Developer’s Guide to Python | — |
| Tony Champion | Champion DS | Speaker | Getting Started with Cross-Platform Development Using UNO | — |
| Tony Champion | Champion DS | Speaker | Fast Focus: Visibility Is a Technical Skill | — |
| Tony Champion | Champion DS | Speaker | You’re Not Paid to Write Code | — |
| Wendy Breiding | Microsoft | Speaker | How the Visual Studio Team Uses AI Internally | — |
| Yeojun Han | Microsoft | Speaker | Fast Focus: 20 Minute Speed Round - AI in Visual Studio | — |
| Yo-Lei Chen | Microsoft | Speaker | Build Modern and AI-Ready Apps with SQL and GitHub Copilot in VS Code | — |
Sources
- https://vslive.com/events/microsofthq-2026/home.aspx
- https://vslive.com/events/microsofthq-2026/speakers/speaker-list.aspx
- https://vslive.com/events/microsofthq-2026/sessions/session-list.aspx
- https://vslive.com/events/microsofthq-2026/information/sponsors.aspx
- https://vslive.com/events/microsofthq-2026/information/pricing.aspx
- https://vslive.com/~/media/ECG/VSLive/2026/VSLive2026_Sales_Prospectus_S.pdf