Public cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure are an important part of the future. Becoming a major player in this area is essential to Microsoft’s long-term survival. Yet there are plenty of…

Windows 10 and the Universal Windows Platform offer a lot of productivity and flexibility around targeting the broad set of devices that run Windows. As a developer, you have a lot of choice - from…

If you're coming to the Universal Windows Platform for the first time then your first reaction might be 'PANIC!' - the platform has come towards unification over quite a few years and there are lot of…

Windows 10 runs on a broader set of devices than ever before. From the ARM-A7 based Raspberry PI 2 all the way to an XBOX One or a HoloLens, it's the same underlying core Windows operating system on…

Microsoft is preparing to release Windows Server 2016 into the market and there are significant changes to the way that the product will manage virtualisation, containers and clustering. Aidan Finn…

Nano server promises to bring the greatest change to the Microsoft Server infrastructure in many years, arguably ever. This session will dig deeper into the management, control and usage of the new…

Microsoft’s Enterprise Mobility Suite has taken the industry by storm and with the introduction of the latest and greatest version of Windows, there are a number of new built in features that allow…

Highlighting how services are subject to feedback and how they are modified by having the dev and ops teams work together.

Using VSO/Azure to build a delivery pipeline and create CD to the dev environment and on to production based on quality.

Azure Resource Manager and Azure Resource Templates provide a powerful tool to reliably deploy entire services. See how to build them.

ASP.NET 5 is a lean and composable framework for building web and cloud applications. ASP.NET 5 is fully open source and available on GitHub. In this technical talk Jon will put it all into context.…

JavaScript is one of the most powerful things of the web. It is not only a language to write functionality in, but it also has been a way to bring upcoming technology to browsers of now without…

With just 5 years to go until The Future™ officially starts in 2020, it's time to pull on your lycra-and-tinfoil onesie, pick out the colour of your hovercar, and consider the technologies you'll use…

How can an aging language become more relevant over the years, not less? C#’s answer is to be in more places, be more open, and evolve aggressively. Let’s look at where C# is today and where it’s…

Born in a lab, matured in the enterprise, F# is now a fully-baked open-source, cross-platform, professionally-supported language. Come along to see how F# is simplifying scale-out compute and data…

We've rewritten (and open sourced!) the C# and Visual Basic compilers, and exposed their functionality through APIs as the .NET Compiler Platform. Come along and find out what that means for you

Perfect storm, increasing populations and decreasing agricultural land. Explore what’s possible now, combined with science in near future to look at a solution

How to transform your business using real world IoT solutions via Azure IoT suite and Cortana Analytics.

As we propose to bring connectivity to everyday objects, we also propose to change the way we live, work and play. But not only. Much of the promise of the internet of things lies in using everyday…

In this talk, Martin Woodward will share some of the lessons learned as Microsoft made the historic step of taking .NET open source. He will explain the history and motivations behind the move,…

Technical debt slows down the ability of development teams to make changes in code, whether it’s adding new features, or fixing issues. DevOps aims to remove hurdles from getting features deployed to…

Discover new features and capabilities in Office 2016 for end users and IT professionals that will boost productivity in your workplace.

Discover new, cloud-enabled Office 365 ProPlus management capabilities using “Click-to-Run” and learn practical tips to automate client deployment.

Learn how Microsoft Fast Track can help customers using Office 365 and Enterprise Mobility suite to evaluate, onboard and drive user adoption.

Hear options and recommendations for deploying the latest Windows and Office desktop experience and suggestions on how to minimize user issues.

NativeScript is a free and open source JavaScript framework for building native iOS, Android, and Windows Phone apps, which you can use from the comfort zone of Visual Studio. But I know what you’re…

The session will focus on creating complex, modern user interfaces while retaining the code reuse and developer productivity that Xamarin Forms offer.

In this fast paced session, we’ll explore how people are using web and native technologies to build hybrid apps using real-world data.

Scott Guthrie will take an in depth look at IoT in action and show how linking IoT, Data Analytics, and Machine Learning can innovate and accelerate business in both traditional and non-traditional…

The creation of machines with human-level, or even super-human, intelligence has long been seen as the ultimate ambition of computer science. New developments in machine learning, coupled with…

Lots of people are talking about the Internet of Things, but do they know what they are talking about? Is it just the latest buzzword, or does it actually mean something? And, if it does mean…

We put trust in technology every day – from a simple start-the-day appliance like the coffee machine through to the car, the train, the plane that take us to our destinations and the underlying…

The success of cloud computing, the emergence of IoT, and the growing popularity of machine learning all lead to an inescapable conclusion: We’re seeing the rise of a new default platform for IT. In…

Scott Guthrie will discuss how Microsoft’s intelligent cloud platform is helping enterprises and their customers accelerate their businesses. With an enterprise-grade experience, rich infrastructure…