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Visual Studio Live! San Diego 2026

Sep 14–18, 2026 · Bahia Resort Hotel, San Diego, CA, United States

Conference
Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!) / Live! 360 Software engineering
Dates
Sep 14, 2026 – Sep 18, 2026
Venue
Bahia Resort Hotel
Place
San Diego, CA, United States
Format
In person
Status
Past
Attendance
—
Website
vslive.com
Recorded
4 sponsors · 72 speaker appearances
Notes
Speakers: full list from the speaker list page (66 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

TicketPriceValid untilNotesSource
3 Day Conference Package (Super Early Bird)$1,825Jul 17, 2026vslive.com
5 Day Conference Package (Super Early Bird)$2,825Jul 17, 2026vslive.com
3 Day Conference Package (Standard)$2,125Sep 14, 2026vslive.com
5 Day Conference Package (Standard)$3,225Sep 14, 2026vslive.com

Sponsorship packages

PackagePriceValid untilNotesSource
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 4

Title / headline 1

Platinum 1

Silver 1

Speakers and talks 72

SpeakerCompanyRoleTalkLinks
Bob WardMicrosoftKeynoteWednesday Keynote: Microsoft Databases: Architecting Cloud Native and AI Driven Applications—
Mads KristensenMicrosoftKeynoteKeynote: You, Visual Studio, and AI: Rethinking the Inner Loop—
Allen ConwayXebiaSpeakerNavigating Your Career as a Software Engineer—
Allen ConwayXebiaSpeakerTypeScript: Moving Beyond the Basics—
Allen ConwayXebiaWorkshopWorkshop: Building Blazor Applications—
Alon FliessZioNetSpeakerDeveloping Agentic Systems in .NET: From Concept to Code—
Alon FliessZioNetSpeakerThe Agentic Revolution: From Code Builders to System Rulers—
Alvin AshcraftMicrosoftSpeakerCreate Multi-platform Apps with .NET MAUI and the MAUI Community Toolkit—
Alvin AshcraftMicrosoftSpeakerBuild Intelligent Apps with WinUI, Phi Silica and Foundry on Windows—
Alvin AshcraftMicrosoftSpeakerFast Focus: Explore Windows AI Dev Options with the AI Dev Gallery—
Amber VanderburgPathwayz GroupSpeakerVAR, AI Referees, and the Future of Code Reviews—
Amber VanderburgPathwayz GroupSpeakerDebugging Like a Coach: Fixing Team Bugs Before They Crash the Game—
Benjamin Day—SpeakerMonte Carlo & Throughput: Putting Estimation Theater to Bed—
Benjamin Day—SpeakerGitHub Projects: Project Management for Devs Who Hate Project Management—
Bob WardMicrosoftSpeakerThe Developers Guide to Azure SQL Hyperscale—
Bob WardMicrosoftSpeakerArchitecting Data Driven AI Applications with Azure HorizonDB—
Brian A. RandellMCW TechnologiesSpeakerFast Focus: Why YOU Should Use a CLI as a .NET Dev—
Brian A. RandellMCW TechnologiesSpeakerBe A More Productive .NET Dev with VS Code, Visual Studio, and the CLI—
Brian A. RandellMCW TechnologiesWorkshopWorkshop: Secure AI Engineering and DevOps for .NET Developers on Azure—
Chris AyersMicrosoftSpeakerEnsuring Azure Resiliency—
Chris AyersMicrosoftSpeakerAspire 13: One AppHost, Many Languages, Fewer Headaches?—
Dan WahlinMicrosoftSpeakerKubernetes for Developers—
Dan WahlinMicrosoftSpeakerIntegrate OpenAI, Communication, and Organizational Data Features into Line of Business Apps—
Deborah Kurata—SpeakerAngular’s Signal Forms and Model-first Validation—
Deborah Kurata—SpeakerFast Focus: Mastering Angular Signals and the Resource API—
Denny CherryDenny Cherry & Associates ConsultingSpeakerChoosing the Right Data Store—
Denny CherryDenny Cherry & Associates ConsultingSpeakerWhere Should I Be Encrypting My Data—
Derek WaderesponsiveXSpeakerDeveloper’s Guide to Fabric Pipelines & Data Engineering Workflows—
Derek WaderesponsiveXSpeakerLakehouses, Warehouses, and OneLake Explained: Architecting with Microsoft Fabric—
Eric D. BoydresponsiveXSpeakerFast Focus: Jupyter Notebooks in VS Code—
Eric D. BoydresponsiveXWorkshop2-Day Hands-On Lab: Elevate Your Career with Python and AI - Day 2: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Using Python—
Eric D. BoydresponsiveXSpeakerDeveloper’s Guide to Fabric Pipelines & Data Engineering Workflows—
Eric D. BoydresponsiveXSpeakerLakehouses, Warehouses, and OneLake Explained: Architecting with Microsoft Fabric—
Eric D. BoydresponsiveXWorkshop2-Day Hands-On Lab: Elevate Your Career with Python and AI - Day 1: Getting Started with Python—
Esteban GarciaLanternSpeakerOrchestrating the Modern Software Factory: GitHub as the Intelligent Control Plane—
Esteban GarciaLanternSpeakerFull-Stack with a Side of Copilot: Building and Deploying an App the AI-Accelerated Way—
Hazel BohonParticular SoftwareSpeakerMicroservices for Pragmatists—
Jason BockRocket MortgageSpeakerWhat's New in C#—
Jason BockRocket MortgageSpeakerImproving Performance in .NET—
Jon GallowayMicrosoftWorkshopHands-On Lab: Building Intelligent .NET Applications with AI, MCP, GitHub Copilot SDK, and Agents—
Manpreet SinghCognizantSpeakerBuilding Intelligent Agents with Azure AI Foundry: From Idea to Enterprise-Ready Solutions—
Manpreet SinghCognizantSpeakerBuild Your Own Copilot (Jarvis) 🤖 with Copilot Studio—
Marcel de VriesXebiaWorkshopHands-On Lab: Unlock the Potential of AI in Your Applications with Microsoft Agent Framework—
Marcel de VriesXebiaSpeakerGitHub Actions in Action—
Marcel de VriesXebiaSpeakerMaintainable and Scalable Test Automation with Playwright Cloud Services—
Mayuri Lahane—SpeakerTalk to AI Better: Advanced Prompt Engineering in Action—
Mayuri Lahane—SpeakerGetting Started with GitHub Copilot in VS Code—
Philip JapiksePintas & MullinsWorkshopHands-On Lab: Build an ASP.NET Core MVC App and EF Core with Copilot in a Day—
Philip JapiksePintas & MullinsSpeakerBuilding Web Applications with ASP.NET Core—
Philip JapiksePintas & MullinsSpeakerFast Focus: API Versioning—
Philip JapiksePintas & MullinsSpeakerBuilding RESTful Services with ASP.NET Core—
Prashant G BhoyarAISSpeakerMulti-Agent AI Systems with Microsoft Foundry, Copilot Studio, Fabric, Microsoft Agent Framework—
Prashant G BhoyarAISSpeakerBuild Multimodal Agents to Talk with your Data & Take Actions using Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Azure AI—
René van OsnabruggeXebiaSpeakerThe AI-Powered Software Development Lifecycle—
René van OsnabruggeXebiaSpeakerThe Silent Question: What If Technology Disrupts My Role?—
René van OsnabruggeXebiaWorkshopHands-On Lab: Unlock the Potential of AI in Your Applications with Microsoft Agent Framework—
Rockford LhotkaXebiaSpeakerMCP Magic—
Rockford LhotkaXebiaSpeakerMicrosoft Blazor Zero to Success Part 2—
Rockford LhotkaXebiaWorkshopWorkshop: Building Blazor Applications—
Rockford LhotkaXebiaSpeakerMicrosoft Blazor Zero to Success Part 1—
Roy CornelissenXebiaSpeakerGit Storytelling: Crafting a Git Commit History your Future Self will Thank You For—
Roy CornelissenXebiaSpeakerBuilding Practical Zero Trust APIs with .NET 10 and Azure—
Roy CornelissenXebiaWorkshopHands-On Lab: Unlock the Potential of AI in Your Applications with Microsoft Agent Framework—
Sam BasuUno PlatformSpeakerDesign to Code for .NET Developers—
Sam BasuUno PlatformSpeakerDesign & Develop True Cross-Platform .NET Apps with Uno Platform—
Steve Jones—SpeakerUsing Data API Builder to Speed Up Application Development—
Steve Jones—SpeakerRunning a Local GenAI Model on Your Laptop—
Ted NewardNeward and AssociatesSpeakerBusy .NET Developer's Guide to Python—
Ted NewardNeward and AssociatesSpeakerBusy Developer's Guide to Web Assembly—
Tony ChampionChampion DSSpeakerVisibility is a Technical Skill—
Tony ChampionChampion DSSpeakerYou’re Not Paid to Write Code—
Tony ChampionChampion DSSpeakerFast Focus: Messaging Patterns for Distributed Systems on Azure—

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