Techorama Belgium 2019: Full Schedule

08:45 CEST

Opening keynote: Solving Diabetes in 2019 with an Open Source Artificial Pancreas

Scott has been a Type 1 diabetic for over 20 years. When he first became diabetic he did what every engineer would do...he wrote an app to solve his problem. Fast forward to 2018 and Scott lives 24 hours a day connected to an open source artificial pancreas. After years of waiting, the diabetes community online creating solutions. Scott will go through the history of diabetes online, the components (both hardware and software) needed for an artificial pancreas, and discuss the architectural design of two popular systems (LoopKit and OpenAPS). Plus, you'll see Scott *not die* live on stage as he's been "looping" for over a year!

Speakers

Scott Hanselman

Microsoft

Tuesday May 21, 2019 10:00 - 11:00 CEST
Room 1

Web & Frontend

10:00 CEST

Modernizing a Manufacturing Control System with Angular, SVG, and WebSockets

The Swiss company Ammann has a long history in building asphalt mixing plants. The software control systems is an important part of Ammann's mixing plants. In the last months, Ammann has been rebuilding the visualization layer of this product from scratch. The existing C++ base UI is replaced with a browser-based front end built with Angular and SVG. Rainer Stropek has been working as an external consultant in the project from the early days on. In his talk, he presents the chosen architecture and showcases how the project makes use of Angular's great SVG support. Rainer describes how WebSockets is used to connect the real-time control backend with the new Angular UI.

Speakers

Rainer Stropek

Rainer Stropek is co-founder and CEO of the company software architects and has been serving this role since 2008. At software architects Rainer and his team are developing the award-winning SaaS time tracking solution “time cockpit”. Previously, Rainer founded and led two IT... Read More →

Tuesday May 21, 2019 10:00 - 11:00 CEST
Room 13

Web & Frontend

11:00 CEST

Break & Partner Expo

Tuesday May 21, 2019 11:00 - 11:30 CEST
Hollywood

11:05 CEST

Airplanes - not over my house? Analyzing flight data with Databricks and PowerBI (by Pieterjan Geens of Business & Decision)

Cédric is a technical software engineer at the enabling technologies department of Cegeka. He has done a lot of pet projects in the past, ranging from mobile development to utilizing distributed ledger technology (blockchain). For the last few years however, deep learning has been... Read More →

Nicky Eichmann

Nicky started his carrier in 2003 in a research environment where he did applied research for companies. After several years of developing distributed systems, custom domotics and drones, he made the switch to work in an enterprise where he was responsible for Microsoft Dynamics CRM... Read More →

Tuesday May 21, 2019 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Room 10

AI & IOT & ML

11:30 CEST

SQL Server Tuning: Is It a Server Problem or a Code Problem?

Your users are complaining that your SQL Server is slow - but is it a database problem, or not enough hardware? It's confusing because the developers always blame the sysadmins, and the sysadmins always blame the developers.

In one hour, you'll learn:

* The 3 metrics to monitor on every SQL Server: Batch Req/Sec, Data Size, and Wait Time Ratio
* Common hardware sizes for different ranges of metrics
* Whether more hardware can pay off for certain kinds of metrics
* Easy-to-read signs that there really is a code problem that hardware won't fix

The session will be relevant for SQL Server in virtualization, bare metal, cloud VMs, and even Azure SQL DB.

Speakers

Peter is a Principal Consultant and Trainer at Daalmans Consulting with a primary focus on the System Center Configuration Manager and Enterprise Mobility. Peter is awarded every year as a Microsoft Enterprise Mobility MVP (Configuration Manager/Microsoft Intune/Enterprise Mobility... Read More →

Tuesday May 21, 2019 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Room 1

Modern Workplace

11:30 CEST

Container Deployment Made Easy: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

With over 15 years of experience in the industry, Els Putzeys has knowledge on Windows Server, Exchange Server, SharePoint, Azure and Office 365.
As a trainer, Els brings her real-world experience to the classroom.
At U2U, she is responsible for the training material for all IT Pro courses.

Speakers

Els Putzeys

U2U

With over 15 years of experience in the industry, Els Putzeys has knowledge on Windows Server, Exchange Server, SharePoint, Azure and Office 365. As a trainer, Els brings her real-world experience to the classroom. At U2U, she is responsible for the training material for all IT... Read More →

Tuesday May 21, 2019 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Room 4

Modern Workplace

11:30 CEST

How to Create and Nurture Innovative Teams

Building off of my recent Pluralsight courses, we'll dive into actionable ideas and suggestions on how to be more innovative in a team environment. This is for leaders (whether you have a leadership title or are a natural leader) who want to foster innovation from their team and create a culture where innovation can thrive. The session will focus on what you can do as opposed to talk about what innovation is.

Speakers

Jason Alba

Jason Alba started his career in software development in 1998. Since then he started his own company, providing a software tool for job seekers to organize and manage their job search (JibberJobber.com). Jason has also authored over 30 soft skills and professional development courses... Read More →

Tuesday May 21, 2019 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Room 12

Motivational & self-improvement

11:30 CEST

Concerning Modules

Our systems are bloated, buggy, unmaintainable, and all too often too slow. It is well understood that the solution is modularity, but modularity itself is not well understood.

What is modularity? How can we recognize it? How can a better understanding of modularity help us to make better programs?

The answers to these questions can be found in The Lost Wisdom of the Seventies.

Speakers

Douglas Crockford

Douglas Crockford is the author of _How JavaScript Works_ and _JavaScript: The Good Parts_. He was born in Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, but left when he was only six months old because it was just too damn cold. He turned his back on a promising career in television when he discovered... Read More →

Tuesday May 21, 2019 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Room 8

Web & Frontend

11:30 CEST

Web Development Revolution with WebAssembly and ASP.NET Blazor

WebAssembly (WASM) is challenging JavaScript's monopoly in the browser. Many higher-level languages are currently evaluating whether WASM is a way for them to conquer the web client. .NET is spearheading this movement. In 2017, we saw the first .NET prototypes running on WASM. Based on that, Blazor, the new .NET- and WASM-based Single-Page-App (SPA) framework has appeared. The .NET community is thrilled but Blazor could be interesting for developers new to .NET, too. Rainer Stropek engaged early in the Blazor open source project. Join him in this fast-paced, demo-heavy session and see what's behind this new contender in the world of browser development.

Speakers

Rainer Stropek

Tuesday May 21, 2019 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Room 13

Web & Frontend

12:30 CEST

Lunch

Tuesday May 21, 2019 12:30 - 13:45 CEST
Hollywood

12:35 CEST

The 17 best tips and tricks for JetBrains Rider by Matt Ellis of Jetbrains

There are many many features in Rider but I've only got 20 minutes, so let's concentrate on the best 17. Why 17? Well, that's 1 tip a minute, with 3 minutes to say hello and thank you. Come and find out the most useful ways of working with JetBrains' lovely .NET IDE.

Tuesday May 21, 2019 12:35 - 12:55 CEST
Partner stage

Partner

12:55 CEST

Moving the web forward: Progressive and Serverless by Dick van Straaten and Timmy Kokke of Centric

Nowadays we don’t need an advanced infrastructure to publish an application on the internet. During this session we will build a high available serverless backend for a Progressive Web Application with Azure Static Website Hosting and Azure Functions. Our web application will demonstrate the use of native functionalities in an offline scenario. New technologies that will move the web forward to Modern Web.

Tuesday May 21, 2019 12:55 - 13:15 CEST
Partner stage

Partner

13:15 CEST

Microservices and DDD: made for each other by Dierick Yves of Aprico

The microservices architectural style has drawn a lot of traction lately and is about to become mainstream. On the other side Domain-Driven Design already exists for many years but is not being used as widely as it could, even for complex systems design where it really shines. However, with microservices on the rise, DDD has found a new road companion. Indeed, many DDD ideas and principles, like domain events, bounded contexts or strategic design have direct applicability in microservices architectures. This codeless session will give an overview of the principles that can be leveraged to combine the two approaches for their mutual benefits.

This session targets architects, senior system analysts and senior software engineers. Being familiar with both microservices and DDD is recommended, though theoretical knowledge may be enough.

Tuesday May 21, 2019 13:15 - 13:35 CEST
Partner stage

Partner

13:45 CEST

Managing the conversation flow within a Bot

If there's one challenge with conversational interfaces and bots, that has to be how effortless and smooth the interaction between
the user and the bot has to be.

The user shouldn't even feel like they're conversing with a program.

That's why thinking about how to handle the conversation flow when building bots is an essential task for developers.

In this talk, we will go through how to manage the conversation flow with Microsoft Bot Framework and dialogs.

We will see some demos on how to handle multiple dialogs, context, user interruptions and validate input etc...

Speakers

Rabeb Othmani

Nexmo

Rabeb is a developer advocate at Nexmo focusing on cloud communication APIs and conversational AI. Other than writing code for a living, Rabeb advocates to bring more women and minorities into tech. She is leading the Women Who Code Network in Bristol.

Tuesday May 21, 2019 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Room 1

AI & IOT & ML

13:45 CEST

Azure Security Center unleashed

In cloud environments, management is increasingly distributed, attackers continue to innovate, and thus, cloud security management looks like mission impossible.

Join this session for a deep-dive into Azure Security Center, witness on-stage live attacks against an Azure environment and learn what you need to know in order to secure an Azure environment.

Speakers

Tom Janetscheck

Alegri

Dr. Nico Jacobs is a Microsoft Business Intelligence and SQL Server trainer and consultant at U2U since 2004. Before that, he was a machine learning (data mining) researcher at the computer science department of the University of Leuven where he obtained a PhD in machine learning.At... Read More →

Tuesday May 21, 2019 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Room 11

Data Platform & BI

13:45 CEST

.NET everywhere - is it possible and is it awesome?

.NET went open source (really really open source) a few years back...but what's been made newly possible? How flexible is it? How open is it? How big can it scale and how small can it get? How do we reconcile .NET Core, .NET Framework, and Mono? Where does WebAssembly fit in? What about WinForms and WPF? Cross platform UI? Join Scott Hanselman as we tour the last 10 years and explore the next 10 years of .NET in this demo-filled session.

Speakers

Johan Dahlbom is a working as a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft focusing on making enterprise customers successful on Azure. Johan has extensive experience with large-scale deployments and transformations in both public and private sectors. He is a former Microsoft Most Valuable... Read More →

Stefan Schörling

Stefan Schörling started with Security in the mid 90th’s, He is very passionate about IT Security, back in the 90th’s he started with Linux and Networking and has over the years worked holistically with all aspects of Security, For the last 10 years he has been awarded as a Microsoft... Read More →

Tuesday May 21, 2019 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Room 10

Modern Workplace

13:45 CEST

Migrating and Upgrading to Windows Server 2019 like the Pro's

During this session attendees will learn about Dave's proven methodology for Zero Downtime Windows Server Migrations and Upgrades. Attendees will learn how to Migrate Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, File, Print, IIS to Microsoft latest flagship operating system Windows Server 2019 LTSC.

Speakers

Dave Kawula

Dave Kawula is an Enterprise Consultant, Technology Evangelist, Best Selling Author and all around geek. He loves Microsoft Technology and is considered one of the best in his field. He holds over 50 + Microsoft Certifications and is also a Microsoft MVP. Dave is also a Senior Technical... Read More →

Tuesday May 21, 2019 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Room 3

Modern Workplace

14:45 CEST

Break & Room Switch

Tuesday May 21, 2019 14:45 - 15:00 CEST
Hollywood

15:00 CEST

Architectural Design Patterns for Computer Vision Services accessible by Cloud and/or Edge

Design and implementation of outstanding enterprise software architecture which manifests services in both local and cloud computing is difficult. Historically, computer vision services ran in cloud or edge modalities but, because of huge advances in machine learning there are many use cases for a hybrid approach.
Join Tim Huckaby in elaborating his two-year journey (the successes, the failures, the lessons learned) in building an enterprise suite of software with distributed dev teams. And what the future holds for real time computer vision systems.
Typically, computer vision services that run on the edge offer incredible performance at the cost of precision, scale and flexible management. Additionally, in the current state of Machine Learning (ML) computer vision services that run on the edge can take significant expertise to build.
Computer Vision Services that run in the cloud are cost effective, easy to implement, “canned” solutions that are built by the world’s computer vision machine learning experts so all the “hard stuff” is already done for you. But, by running in a cloud modality, you sacrifice performance and require a network connection with bandwidth.
When you add the complications of providing services both in the cloud and on the edge the complexity is almost overwhelming.
Compounding the complication of this type of software architecture are containers, different types of machine learning models, different edge models, distributed computing models,
Another challenge is that managing systems like these in the cloud can get expensive quickly; especially when developers make mistakes, so a tactical plan is required to keep cloud solutions cost effective; which makes this type of cloud architecture even more challenging.
The session is designed for broad audience appeal with goals to get you smart on:

The current state of the machine learning revolution and where it’s headed in the future
designing, building and delivering real time machine learning based systems
cloud / edge modalities in including the concepts of Edge, Light Edge, Heavy Edge
software architecture for systems that use cloud and/or edge real time services.

Speakers

Tim Huckaby

Tim Huckaby is an industry luminary focused on AI, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, AR/MR, & Emerging User Experiences.Mr. Huckaby has over 35 years of technology experience including serving on a server product team as a development lead on an architecture team at Microsoft. Mr... Read More →

Tuesday May 21, 2019 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 8

AI & IOT & ML

15:00 CEST

Language models: how do they work and when do they work for you?

Language models are a crucial part of many Natural Language Processing pipelines. They are used in Speech-to-Text, Part-of-Speech tagging, Machine Translation, Optical Character Recognition, Intent Classification in chatbots etc. I will explain the overall idea behind language models, how they work and what the differences between them are. A special focus will lie on word embeddings. In the last few years, several novel approaches to word embeddings have been developed: word2vec, character embeddings such as FastText, GloVe embeddings, BERT and ELMO embeddings. Although the core idea behind these types of embeddings is the same, they each have their strengths and weaknesses, making them more or less appropriate for a certain use case. Through illustration with concrete examples and linguistic fun facts, you will gain insight in the (im)possibilities that come with language models, and learn how to pick the right one for your NLP problem.

Speakers

Aleksandra Vercauteren

Faktion

After spending six years doing research in theoretical linguistics, Aleksandra decided to make a radical career move. During one year, she extensively studied everything she needed to know to start a career as a data scientist, with a special focus on Natural Language Processing... Read More →

Tuesday May 21, 2019 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 12

AI & IOT & ML

15:00 CEST

The path to Machine Learning: A developer’s journey

Most people are fascinated by the numerous news items about all the changes AI will bring about. The recent AI explosion was ignited by the advances in Machine learning, a branch of AI focused on building mathematical models to make predictions or decisions. A lot of developers are reluctant to explore Machine Learning because of the mathematical roots and the academical background that goes with it.
This session will prove you do not have to be a math wizard, or have a science degree to get started with Machine Learning. We will discuss the basic mathematics, the key concepts of machine learning and go through some hands-on Python code. As a bonus we will explore the current ML landscape and help you pick the right technologies to invest in.

Speakers

Marc Wouters

Marc is a Software Engineer at Ordina Belgium. At Ordina he is a full stack .Net developer working with both front-end and back-end technologies. Passionate about finding the right "cure" he is always searching for new ways to develop his skills. Marc is constantly searching to improve... Read More →

Tuesday May 21, 2019 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 13

AI & IOT & ML

15:00 CEST

Developing with .NET Core on AWS

In this demonstration-heavy session, we illustrate our latest techniques, tools, and libraries for developing end-to-end applications with .NET Core. We focus on serverless applications, but the techniques are broadly relevant. We start by showing you some useful features and best practices for authoring your serverless application, including debugging locally from the IDE and in production. From there, we demonstrate some helpful tools that make it easy to set up your CI/CD workflow from the start. Finally, we deploy our application with AWS Lambda.

Speakers

Martin Beeby

AWS

As a principle evangelist for Amazon Web Services, Martin travels the world showcasing the transformational capabilities of AWS. In his time as an evangelist, Martin has spoken at over 200 events and meetups as well as producing, blogs, tutorials and broadcasts.Martin has been developing... Read More →

Tuesday May 21, 2019 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 7

Cloud Services

15:00 CEST

Infrastructure as Code: Terraform

Instead of using Azure Resource Manager templates to provision your Azure resources, you can use HashiCorp Terraform to provision and manage Azure infrastructure directly.
Terraform is an open source tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be used to create, manage, and update infrastructure resources such as virtual machines (VMs), networks, and containers.
Terraform is installed and immediately available for you to use in Cloud Shell. Or you can install the Terraform extension in Visual Studio Code to develop and test Terraform files faster.
Because Terraform supports multiple providers, you’re free to use the same tool and process across multiple on-premises and cloud environments.

Speakers

Els Putzeys

U2U

With over 15 years of experience in the industry, Els Putzeys has knowledge on Windows Server, Exchange Server, SharePoint, Azure and Office 365. As a trainer, Els brings her real-world experience to the classroom. At U2U, she is responsible for the training material for all IT... Read More →

Tuesday May 21, 2019 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 1

Cloud Services

15:00 CEST

A Business and Technical Roadmap for Getting Started with Artificial Intelligence

Organisations need to know how to get started with Artificial Intelligence. This practical session offers organizations, small and large, with a helping hand in practical advice and demos using Microsoft Azure with Open Source technologies. For organizations who have no clue what they'd use AI for, the session will offer a practical framework: the Five 'C's of Artificial Intelligence, which is a framework to help you get started.
In order to provide a technical focus in getting started, R and Python will be shown in AzureML and Microsoft ML Server.

Speakers

Jennifer Stirrup

Jen Stirrup is a data strategist and technologist, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and Microsoft Regional Director, founder of Data Relish Ltd, SQLFamily and community advocate, public speaker and blogger, published author and keynote speaker. Jen is the founder of a boutique... Read More →

Tuesday May 21, 2019 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 4

Data Platform & BI

15:00 CEST

Beyond Copy + Paste: Interactive documentation

We have all copy + pasted code from somewhere on the internet. We have all seen that really good blog post, online developer documentation that consists of several code snippets that we are just itching to try out. Then we are reminded that we have to have everything installed on our machines just to try it out.
In this talk, I am going to show you how we pushed our .NET documentation beyond copy + paste with Try .NET. Try .NET is an inline code runner and playground that enables people to experiment and learn about C# in the browser.
I will also be sharing the tools and APIs you can use to get started.

Speakers

Maria Naggaga

Microsoft

Maria Naggaga is a developer and an artist. She is a Senior Program Manager on the Visual Studio and .NET team where she explores ways to engage and teach new developers about .NET OSS.

Tuesday May 21, 2019 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 6

Developer Trends

15:00 CEST

Practical and performant .Net data access with (No)SQL

Learn when to use SQL or NoSQL technologies and learn to use them efficiently as a developer.
Expect an essential theoretical overview and caching strategies as well.

Speakers

Stijn De Vos

Stijn is a .NET lead expert at delaware. Working as a consultant, he builds and deploys customer specific e-commerce websites with custom back-end integrations. His main software stack includes C#, T-SQL, Sitecore CMS, Elasticsearch and Azure Cosmos DB, all hosted on Azure and managed... Read More →

Wim Vergouwe

Tuesday May 21, 2019 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 9

Developer Trends

15:00 CEST

Demystifying Microservice Architecture

Here we go again, another cool buzz phrase. And like many other buzz phrases, it’s often misunderstood. In fact, many developers or even full organizations don’t really have a clear understanding of what Microservices are. The reason is twofold. First, may are too hung up on the technology to use. It’s gotta be REST, they have to be small (it’s micro remember), you gotta use Docker, etc. I’m being sarcastic in case you didn’t notice. The second reason is that devs are not thinking of their systems in a more holistic fashion when trying to fit what they think are microservices into the mix. And no, this way of thinking about a system does not imply a tightly coupled system, don’t worry. This session will not be about code, but more about architecture and design. I’ll tell you what microservices are and what a microservice architecture is and we’ll discuss the characteristics at the service level and with everything that surrounds them in the architecture. We’ll talk about the concept of “design for failure” while covering topics like hosting, discoverability, failover, and the often-confusing API Gateway. These are some of the things you will need to understand before you embark on the adventure that is a microservice architecture and if it’s even something that will work for you.

Speakers

Miguel Castro

Whether playing on the local Radio Shack’s TRS-80 or designing systems for clients around the globe, Miguel has been writing software since he was 12 years old. He insists on staying heavily involved and up-to-date on all aspects of software application design & development, and... Read More →

Tuesday May 21, 2019 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 3

DevOps & Architecture

15:00 CEST

Windows Autopilot, don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the better

Microsoft undoubtedly positions Windows Autopilot as the new full self-service deployment mechanism of Windows 10. Windows Autopilot is a collection of technologies used to set up and pre-configure new devices, getting them ready for productive use. In addition, you can use Windows Autopilot to reset, repurpose and recover devices. This solution enables an IT department to achieve the above with little to no infrastructure to manage, with a process that's easy and simple. Too good to be true? In this session we reveals not only the advantages and use cases of Windows Autopilot but also reflects the real life challenges from practice.

Speakers

Ronny de Jong

InSpark

As lead consultant & Microsoft MVP Ronny is working for InSpark, #1 Dutch Microsoft Cloud Integrator specialized in datacenter & apps, modern workplace, security & managed services. Ronny’s primary focus is on Microsoft 365: Enterprise Mobility, Identity-, Information- & Threat... Read More →

Ronni Pedersen

Ronni is working as a Freelance Cloud Architect in Denmark. He has been working as a consultant since 1997 with a primary focus on Enterprise Client Management solutions, based on technologies like System Center Configuration Manager, Microsoft Intune and Enterprise Mobility + Security... Read More →

Tuesday May 21, 2019 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 10

Modern Workplace

15:00 CEST

8 things you didn't know about the Angular Router, you won't believe #6!

Deep dive into the Angular Router for client-side navigation, exploring Lazy Loading, Preloading Modules, Router events, Diagnostic with traces, Auxiliary routes, Routes Transitions (Animations), Guards, Resolver.

Speakers

Laurent Duveau

Serial Workshop Trainer, passionate about web and mobile dev with Angular, TypeScript, Azure and ASP.NET Core.Helping front-end developers getting the most out of the Web since 2000!

Tuesday May 21, 2019 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 11

Web & Frontend

16:00 CEST

Break & Partner Expo

Tuesday May 21, 2019 16:00 - 16:30 CEST
Hollywood

16:05 CEST

Conversational UI for ChatBots

Insight

Oren is Chief Architect, DevOps & Modern Software at Insight, and a Microsoft Regional Director. He is passionate about reducing friction in the development process and creating modern software solutions to solve complex business challenges. Named a Microsoft MVP for Windows Platform... Read More →

Tuesday May 21, 2019 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
Room 8

Developer Trends

Martin Hinshelwood

Martin Hinshelwood is the Founder/CEO of naked Agility Limited and has been their Principal Consultant and Trainer on DevOps & Agility for four years. Martin is a Professional Scrum Trainer, Microsoft MVP: Visual Studio and Development Technologies, and has been Consulting, Coaching... Read More →

Tuesday May 21, 2019 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
Room 13

DevOps & Architecture

16:30 CEST

Supercharging your DevOps pipelines with Docker Containers

One of the earliest use cases for Docker Containers was to provide consistent builds and distribution of applications across organizations. In this session we will see how integrating containers with tools such as Jenkins and Azure DevOps can help you build, test, and ship applications faster through continuous integration and delivery.

Speakers

Steven Follis

Docker Inc

Steven is a Solutions Engineer at Docker Inc. leveraging container technology to foster greater agility, efficiency, and security for enterprise organizations. Leveraging years of experience in the Microsoft ecosystem, he bridges the gap between traditional Windows shops and the emerging... Read More →

Tuesday May 21, 2019 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
Room 6

DevOps & Architecture

16:30 CEST

Enemy past the gates – an introduction to post breach security

In today's online world cyberattacks are evolving faster than ever. Using sophisticated and ever evolving techniques attackers are targeting organizations in every industry and vertical. Every organization should assume breach. Is your organization ready to detect, respond and remediate in case of a security breach? This session gives an overview on Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics and Microsoft Advanced Threat Protection and shows how these solutions can help protecting your business and avoid harm.

Speakers

Tim De Keukelaere

Tim is a consultant with over 15 years of experience in the field, mainly in Wintel environments. He has a broad technical knowledge and a strong focus on workplace and mobility. His main area of expertise is designing and implementing management tools and processes.

Tuesday May 21, 2019 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
Room 11

Modern Workplace

16:30 CEST

Managing Client Deployments and Updates for Microsoft Teams

If you want to use Microsoft Teams, you must handle the Clients from Windows or Mac Desktop to iOS or Android. In this Session Raphael Köllner speaks about Managing Client deployments for Microsoft Teams and the Client update process. He is talking about the Microsoft Ignite announcements. With these new admin Tools the IT administrator can handle the Deployment and update process of the Microsoft Teams clients from mobile to desktop.

Speakers

Raphael Koellner

Alegri

Raphael Koellner combining the law and the information technology in particular the cloud computing. He worked for universities, Microsoft Germany (DX), Microsoft Partner as consultant. As a Lead consultant for Alegri International Service GmbH he worked for huge international companies... Read More →

Tuesday May 21, 2019 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
Room 10

Modern Workplace

16:30 CEST

Power BI server and Office Online server, modernize your on-premises BI approach

Your company is not-yet- ready for the cloud ?
How to refresh your BI solution by providing the beauty of Power BI reports on premises and the ability from the same place to consume your legacy reports or to share efficiently your data model through a unique place. Demo based session with a strong architecture introduction and a "from the field" real project feedback.

Speakers

Isabelle Van Campenhoudt

Isabelle Van Campenhoudt is a MVP DataPlatform who has been working for more than 20 years in the world of databases; she lives in Belgium and has strong experience in Business Intelligence and Database Administration. Trainer (Microsoft Certified Trainer), speaker and consultant... Read More →

Tuesday May 21, 2019 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
Room 12

Modern Workplace

16:30 CEST

Starting over

Adversity. A necessary component of life. Inevitably, we all reach professional and personal moments that require us to take a deep breath and a giant step back. Moving forward again often feels difficult, even impossible. We suffer, immobilized by fear.

But fear is more than some pesky roadblock. It is a rational response to adversity. Whether facing a major code refactoring, the changing technology landscape, a new role, or even a fresh career, we can learn to leverage fear and uncertainty to move beyond our hurdles and get the job done! Key life skills exist that can be developed to conquer adversity. Learn to assess risks, build relationships, and recognize opportunities for growth.

Starting over may seem insurmountable. Armed with the right skills, perspective, and a little patience, nothing truly is.

Speakers

Jeff Strauss

Jeff is a software developer, an entrepreneur, and an attorney. As a consultant at WWT Asynchrony Labs, with unique experiences that combine technology and law, he maintains a passion for solving problems with inspired solutions, improving life through technology.A dedicated member... Read More →

Tuesday May 21, 2019 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
Room 3

Motivational & self-improvement

17:30 CEST

Break & Room Switch

Tuesday May 21, 2019 17:30 - 17:45 CEST
Hollywood

17:45 CEST

Azure Cloud Shell: The easiest way to manage Azure with command-line tools

Azure Cloud Shell has changed a lot in the last year. It offers PowerShell and Bash experience--both now running on Linux. Cloud Shell comes with even more pre-installed and pre-configured CLI tools and programming languages. Just start Azure Cloud Shell and tools like Terraform and Ansible are ready to use. Cloud Shell integration with Visual Studio Code is so smooth, you will be constantly amazed. Join us to learn about one of the best ways to interact with Azure resources.

Speakers

Aleksandar Nikolic

Aleksandar Nikolic is a Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, a Microsoft Azure MVP, a co-founder of PowerShellMagazine.com, and a community manager of PowerShell.com. Aleksandar is also a Microsoft Azure Advisor.He has more than 18 years of experience as a system administrator. He... Read More →

Tuesday May 21, 2019 17:45 - 18:45 CEST
Room 13

Cloud Services

17:45 CEST

Artificial Intelligence: The Future of Software

Whether you realize it or not, we are currently entering the era of artificial intelligence. AI technologies will radically transform our economy, our society, and our lives. As a result, the software industry is preparing for a major transition as well. However, most developers do not yet possess the skills necessary to remain relevant in our new data-driven economy.

In this session, we will learn about modern artificial intelligence. We'll learn why it’s important and how it will impact you, your career, and our future. We’ll also learn how a series of modern technologies including The Internet of Things, Big Data, and machine learning are combining to create fully autonomous intelligent systems.

Speakers

Timothy Warner is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Cloud and Datacenter Management who is based in Nashville, TN. His professional specialties include Microsoft Azure, cross-platform PowerShell, and all things Windows Server-related. You can reach Tim via Twitter (@TechTrainerTim... Read More →

Tuesday May 21, 2019 17:45 - 18:45 CEST
Room 1

DevOps & Architecture

17:45 CEST

Go from zero to hero using Azure Site Recovery: Surviving a ransomware attack

In a real-world scenario your primary data center has just been hit with a ransomware attack and the only option is to failover to DR. Luckily you came to our session last year and opted to setup Azure Site Recovery (ASR). During this session, learn everything you need to know to recover using Azure Site Recovery. You also have a chance to ask questions from the expert MVPs presenting the session.

Speakers

Dave Kawula

Tuesday May 21, 2019 17:45 - 18:45 CEST
Room 11

Modern Workplace

17:45 CEST

Windows Defender - How ramp up your security posture!

Windows Defender is more than just a free Anti-Virus software it is much more. In this deep-dive we will sort out how to configure and use ASR, Controlled folder access and the rest of the features both using traditional management and using Intune. What does Windows Defeder ATP bring for additional features and what can we use without.

Speakers

Jörgen Nilsson

Onevinn

Stefan Schörling

Tuesday May 21, 2019 17:45 - 18:45 CEST
Room 10

Modern Workplace

17:45 CEST

Leadership Guide for the Reluctant Leader

Regardless of the technology you know, regardless of the job title you have, you have amazing potential to impact your workplace, community, and beyond.

In this talk, I’ll share a few candid stories of my career failures… I mean… learning opportunities. We’ll start by debunking the myth that leadership == management. Next, we’ll talk about some the attributes, behaviors and skills of good leaders. Last, we’ll cover some practical steps and resources to accelerate your journey.

You’ll walk away with some essential leadership skills I believe anyone can develop, and a good dose of encouragement to be more awesome!

Speakers

David Neal

Okta

David is a family man, software developer, musician, illustrator, and Microsoft MVP living in North Georgia, USA. He is currently a Senior Developer Advocate for Okta. David runs on a high-octane mixture of caffeine and JavaScript, and is made entirely of bacon.

Tuesday May 21, 2019 17:45 - 18:45 CEST
Room 12

Motivational & self-improvement

17:45 CEST

A Skeptic's Guide to Functional Style Javascript

With modern JavaScript, we have seen a rise in ‘functional style’ javascript popularity. This style introduces a whole slew of terms and patterns that have different connotations depending on who you are talking to. Phrases like purity, higher order functions, and currying are thrown around all over the place. What does ‘no side effects’ mean, and what about when you need to get something done? And what in the world is a ‘monad’? In this talk, Jon will walk through the world of the functional programmer and show how these phrases and patterns fit into modern JavaScript development. Jon will work through functions as first class objects in JS, and show how we can use that feature to write clean, maintainable, and reusable code. You will also walk away armed with the information you need to see through all they hype. You’ll have a firm grasp of where these patterns are useful, and as importantly, where they are not.

Speakers

Jonathan Mills

Jon is a Pluralsight author, Microsoft MVP, and international speaker focusing on JavaScript both in the browser and on the server. Jonathan Mills is a JavaScript and Node.js expert working in the mean stack with individuals and companies to help build their technical skills to cope... Read More →

Tuesday May 21, 2019 17:45 - 18:45 CEST
Room 4

Web & Frontend

08:45 CEST

Computer Vision: Machine Learned Systems with Sight in Action

How is AI, Computer vision, machine learning, and mixed reality designed into innovative software built on the latest and greatest emerging technical experiences?
Join Tim Huckaby in a session focused on the power of Computer Vision: Designing, developing, and putting interactive vision-based software systems into production.
This demo-heavy session will demonstrate and explain the components of computer vision like machine learning and demonstrate the use cases where computer vision solutions are happening. In addition, those coming in the immediate future. Moreover, speculate on the computer vision solutions of the future.
This session will explain how computer vision sits in a wide-ranging area of Artificial intelligence absorbed in Ambient Intelligence - Tracking people and objects in a physical space. In many ways this is using AI to both map a physical space and activity to a digital space, and then allowing actions on top of the digital graph
This demo-heavy session will show you:

a number of real interactive computer vision solutions in the realm of sensors & cameras and how they are built
mixed reality devices that produce interactive holographic experiences.
The latest breakthroughs in Machine Learning models for computer vision

Speakers

Tim Huckaby

Wednesday May 22, 2019 08:45 - 09:45 CEST
Room 8

AI & IOT & ML

08:45 CEST

Connecting your IoT devices to Azure

Azure offers multiple different ways to connect your IoT devices to Azure and even more options regarding data transfer. This sessions covers them and gives you ideas how to choose the right one.

Speakers

Teemu Tapanila

Teemu Tapanila is a solution-oriented technical professional with focus Azure and mobile. He's Microsoft Azure MVP for 5 years running and believes that cloud technologies combined with great user experience are the keys to successful digital transformation. He applies his passion... Read More →

Wednesday May 22, 2019 08:45 - 09:45 CEST
Room 1

AI & IOT & ML

08:45 CEST

Building an Azure Governance model for the Enterprise

In this session Karl will walk you through the fundamentals of building a comprehensive Azure Governance model, based on real-life experiences with working on multi-vendor hybrid IaaS / PaaS projects in the enterprise. When proper governance model is followed, you can ensure your teams are operating in a secure and compliant Azure environment during design, development and operations.

After this session, you should have a better understanding of Azure governance best practices and in-house team roles & responsibilities. You should also have an overview of the technical implementation of governance controls.

Speakers

Karl Ots

Zure

Wednesday May 22, 2019 08:45 - 09:45 CEST
Room 3

Cloud Services

08:45 CEST

Azure Cosmos DB Part I - Introduction to Cosmos DB

This session presents an overview of Azure Cosmos DB, a globally distributed, massively scalable, low (single-digit millisecond) latency, fully managed NoSQL database service that is designed specifically for modern web and mobile applications. Like other NoSQL platforms, Cosmos DB supports a schema-free data model, built-in partitioning for sustained heavy-write ingestion, and replication for high availability. But only Cosmos DB offers turnkey global distribution, automatic indexing, and SLAs for guarantees on 99.99% availability, throughput, latency, and consistency.

We begin by explaining NoSQL databases in general, and how they compare with traditional relational database platforms. Then we tour the many features of Cosmos DB, including its multi-model capabilities which allow you to store and query schema-free JSON documents (using either SQL or MongoDB APIs), graphs (Gremlin API), and key/value entities (table API). You’ll learn about global distribution, scale-out partitioning, tunable consistency, custom indexing, and more. We’ll also discuss client development using the many available SDKs. Attend this session, and get up to speed on Cosmos DB today!

Speakers

Leonard Lobel

Sleek Technologies, Inc.

Leonard Lobel (Microsoft MVP, Data Platform) is the chief technology officer and co-founder of Sleek Technologies, Inc., a New York-based development shop with an early adopter philosophy toward new technologies. He is also a principal consultant at Tallan, Inc., a Microsoft National... Read More →

Wednesday May 22, 2019 08:45 - 09:45 CEST
Room 11

Data Platform & BI

08:45 CEST

Don't get blamed for your choices.

As developers, we make choices all the time: architecture, frameworks, libraries, cloud providers, etc. And if you’ve been around for a while, you probably ended up regretting at least some of your choices.
In this session, we'll explore the typical pitfalls of making development choices and how to avoid them. By the end of this session, you will be armed to take any decision they will throw at you.
Now, if only there was a way to prove to your peers and superiors that you acquired this skill...
Well, there is! RAD Certification! I'll end my talk by telling you about this awesome certification program!

Speakers

Hannes Lowette

Axxes

Wednesday May 22, 2019 08:45 - 09:45 CEST
Room 12

DevOps & Architecture

08:45 CEST

Let's take a look at Azure Monitor!

You have a lot of workloads running in Azure but are they properly monitored? Connecting them to your onprem monitoring tool is most of the time a hassle so why not use Azure monitor to keep an eye on those workloads? Join this session to witness how far Microsoft have come to deliver monitoring as a service with full control to tailor to your needs.

Speakers

Dieter Wijckmans

Ob-V-us

Dieter is an MVP for System Center Cloud and Data management.He 's been active in the IT industry for over 15 years. Recently he co-founded OB-V-US focusing on delivering high end consultancy to a wide variety of customers.He's an active member in his local Sysctr community and a... Read More →

Wednesday May 22, 2019 08:45 - 09:45 CEST
Room 6

Modern Workplace

08:45 CEST

The Care and Feeding of Software Engineers

After years of excellence as a developer who gets things done, you are rewarded with a leadership title and more responsibility. Only now you are expected to manage people and not just code. What motivated you to improve doesn't seem to always work on your team. So what do you do? We will explore the art of managing talented people and learning what the human needs for guidance and support from their leader.

Speakers

Heather Downing

Wednesday May 22, 2019 08:45 - 09:45 CEST
Room 10

Motivational & self-improvement

08:45 CEST

Multithreaded JavaScript—Web Workers and Atomics

For better or worse, JavaScript is single-threaded by design. For over 50 years Moore’s Law has described persistent exponential growth in computational power, but physical limitations have slowed that trend. Advancement now comes through the use of multiple CPUs and cores. This is fine for languages featuring threads and task-based architectures. But what about JavaScript?

Thankfully, new paradigms handle parallelism over the web. Web Worker constructs allow long-running code to execute in the background without blocking the UI. Shared Memory and Atomic operations allow true sharing of data among worker processes. Learn to leverage these exciting features to responsibly improve the performance and responsiveness of your web applications!

Speakers

Jeff Strauss

Wednesday May 22, 2019 08:45 - 09:45 CEST
Room 9

Web & Frontend

09:45 CEST

Break & Room Switch

Wednesday May 22, 2019 09:45 - 10:00 CEST
Hollywood

10:00 CEST

Security controls in Azure, practical implementation

Governance & Security in Azure are key to a successful Cloud adoption. Numerous tools are available to provide decision makers peace of mind, ranging from Azure Security Center to Azure Policies and AzSK, Come and see how to practically implement Security in Azure. We will tackle IaaS, PaaS and Serverless offerings and see which specific security controls may be put in place in order to fulfill security requirements. Security may be applied two ways: in a proactive and/or in a reactive way and you will learn how to implement both ways.

Speakers

Stephane Eyskens

For many years, Stephane works as a pure DevOps Architect since he works hand in hand with both infrastructure & development teams. Having a background of .NET & SharePoint architect, Stephane naturally embrassed Azure which has become his main focus. Stephane holds a Bachelor Degree... Read More →

Wednesday May 22, 2019 10:00 - 11:00 CEST
Room 1

Cloud Services

10:00 CEST

Azure Cosmos DB Part II – Building Cosmos DB Applications

In this intensive demo-packed session, you’ll learn how to write applications for Cosmos DB, and see how to work with the various Cosmos DB APIs. These APIs support a variety of data models, including the SQL API (for JSON documents), Table API for (key-value entities), Gremlin API (for graphs) and Cassandra (for columnar). Regardless what you choose as a data model of choice, you’ll learn how to provision throughput, and how to partition and globally distribute your data to deliver massive scale.

You’ll see how to migrate data from SQL Server to Cosmos DB, and how to write queries using Cosmos DB SQL. Then we’ll write data access code that creates and queries databases, collections, and documents, manages custom indexing policies, and defines users and permissions for resource-level access. We’ll also create, deploy, and execute server-side stored procedures, triggers and user-defined functions, using the Cosmos DB server-side programming model. Attend this session, and prepare to build Cosmos DB applications today!

Speakers

Leonard Lobel

Sleek Technologies, Inc.

Wednesday May 22, 2019 10:00 - 11:00 CEST
Room 11

Data Platform & BI

10:00 CEST

Auth0: the convenience of the cloud without giving up the flexibility of your code

Coding authentication features in your apps from scratch is a thing of the past: it’s far too easy to get things wrong, and with the ever growing list of identity providers, client types, development stack… who has the time to keep up?
Usually you have two choices: you either rely on a cloud identity service, or on some building blocks to create and run your own service. Neither options are perfect: cloud services are usually convenient, but limited in their ability to customize things; in-app components give you complete control, but you are responsible for running your own identity service.
What if you could combine the advantages of the two approaches, with none of the drawbacks? Attend this past paced session to hear from Vittorio how Auth0 gives you all the knobs and levers you can hope to find in a world-class identity cloud service, and how you can still run your own code in it if your scenario calls for special logic.

Speakers

Vittorio Bertocci

Auth0

Vittorio Bertocci is a Principal Architect for Auth0. Before Auth0, he had a lengthy career with Microsoft, where Vittorio worked with Fortune 100 and Global 100 companies, including working on Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory team as principal program manager focusing on the... Read More →

Wednesday May 22, 2019 10:00 - 11:00 CEST
Room 3

Developer Trends

10:00 CEST

Modernizing .NET Applications with Docker Containers

Docker has rapidly become the industry standard for containerizing applications, and are a terrific option for both greenfield .NET Core and legacy .NET Framework workloads. Come see how moving your applications to Docker containers provides greater agility, efficiency, and the ability to migrate to modern infrastructure.

Speakers

Steven Follis

Docker Inc

Wednesday May 22, 2019 10:00 - 11:00 CEST
Room 9

Developer Trends

10:00 CEST

Agile is dead! Or Is it?

Agile is dead! Long live DevOps! Um.. ALM… um…

There has been a plethora of "agile is dead" of late posts yet the long list of failed agile that has caused it smell very little like agile. What was missing? Come and find out how to make a success of your agile project, and what will immediately spell disaster…

Paying lip service to a lexicon is no longer enough…

Speakers

Martin Hinshelwood

Wednesday May 22, 2019 10:00 - 11:00 CEST
Room 7

DevOps & Architecture

10:00 CEST

Communication in a Microservices World

Micro services solve many problems and is the right way to go for many large systems. But they also introduce new problems. A notorious one is communication. Praised be the simple days of the monolith where everything was a simple function call. But now that function lives in a different process, floating somewhere. So, how do they reach each other? What about performance? What about transactions? Which protocol should be used? Many questions that deserve an answer, and only one hour to do so. See you there.

Speakers

Lander Verhack

U2U

Lander Verhack works as a software expert, trainer and strategist at U2U. He focusses on Front-End development in .NET, Web and Mobile Apps. Lander is author of the U2U training material on Windows 10, Android and Angular. Lander has a strong passion for technology and enjoys playing... Read More →

Diedrik De Mits

Diedrik De Mits is a highly enthusiastic trainer, with enough energy to get you through an intense day of training.Diedrik has a wide interest in software development including web, Windows and mobile applications. Diedrik has trained thousands of developers and is involved in many... Read More →

Wednesday May 22, 2019 10:00 - 11:00 CEST
Room 10

DevOps & Architecture

10:00 CEST

Master Windows 10 peer-to-peer

One of the biggest challenges today is increasing size of updates, Windows 10 Servicing, Office 365. During this session we sort out the different technologies, LedBAT, BranchCache, Delivery Optimization, Peer Cache(SCCM) when and how to use them! We will also cover how to handle peer-to-peer technologies and Intune.

Speakers

Jörgen Nilsson

Onevinn

Wednesday May 22, 2019 10:00 - 11:00 CEST
Room 12

Modern Workplace

10:00 CEST

Windows Virtual Desktop deep dive

Microsoft announced at Ignite the new name and model for RDmi: Windows Virtual Desktop (or shortened to WVD).
In this session, we dive even deeper into the world of Windows Virtual Desktop.
We will look at Deployment, Monitoring, Troubleshooting, Management and much more

Speakers

Micha Wets

ASPEX

As a Microsoft MVP, Micha enjoys talking about all things IT and has already spoken at various conferences. Most recently, ITProud, Microsoft Inspire 2018 in Las Vegas, Cloudbrew, a recent Technine event and a Microsoft hosted webinar. He has over 10 years of experience as a DevOps... Read More →

Wednesday May 22, 2019 10:00 - 11:00 CEST
Room 4

Modern Workplace

10:00 CEST

PWA: Progress With Awesomeness

Nowadays, mobile and web technologies pop up like mushrooms. Because of the role mobile plays in modern IT, every company and application wants to be "mobile proof". There is a major pool of available technologies to achieve that, but companies and developers often don't know which one to choose.
Native development brings huge costs, so companies who can't afford this are searching for alternatives. Hybrid technologies like Cordova, React-Native and Phonegap are often good alternatives. Another solution can be Progressive Web Apps. If an application doesn't need those fancy native mobile features, PWA's can be a great solution. Most companies already have a regular Web App, so upgrading to a PWA can be a quick win!
This session will be an introduction to the possibilities and features of Progressive Web Apps. Try not to see this technology as the holy grail, but as a valid possibility in the variety of mobile and web solutions.

Speakers

Joey Comhaire

Joey Comhaire is currently working for Axxes IT Consultancy, a company located in Belgium.Joey started programming by learning Java and C#, but quickly started to grow an interest in Frontend technology. While trying to expand his knowledge, PWA became one of the new items under the... Read More →

Wednesday May 22, 2019 10:00 - 11:00 CEST
Room 13

Web & Frontend

10:00 CEST

Shit happens… debugging an Angular app.

Let's explore all the techniques that will turn you into a ninja to track every mistakes until your app becomes bug free!

Speakers

Laurent Duveau

Serial Workshop Trainer, passionate about web and mobile dev with Angular, TypeScript, Azure and ASP.NET Core.Helping front-end developers getting the most out of the Web since 2000!

Wednesday May 22, 2019 10:00 - 11:00 CEST
Room 6

Web & Frontend

10:00 CEST

SOLID JavaScript

Many .Net and Java developers live by the SOLID principles to make their software designs more understandable, flexible, and maintainable. As more business logic moves to the front end with frameworks like React and Angular, developers often lose touch with these principles and resort to more reactionary code. It doesn’t have to be that way. In this session, you will learn how to apply all five of the SOLID principles to your front-end JavaScript applications.

Speakers

Jonathan Mills

Wednesday May 22, 2019 10:00 - 11:00 CEST
Room 8

Web & Frontend

11:00 CEST

Break & Partner Expo

Wednesday May 22, 2019 11:00 - 11:30 CEST
Hollywood

11:05 CEST

SharePoint Integration with NodeJS by Danny Foncke of Smals

‘Extending’ and connecting SharePoint using node.js.
Yet another way of adding server-side functionality to SharePoint, without touching the farm.
Scheduled jobs (timer jobs), offloading complex or resource intensive operations from workflows to a service, email service, document generation, integrating SharePoint with other applications,…. In this short session you will see just how easy it is using just javascript.

Wednesday May 22, 2019 11:05 - 11:25 CEST
Partner stage

Partner

11:30 CEST

Data Science for Developers

Data science is revolutionizing the world around us. We’re incorporating artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data-driven decision making into all aspects of our business. However, many software developers have yet to learn how to leverage these practices to create better software.

In this presentation, we’ll learn how expert developers are using data science to create better software. We’ll learn how to use data analytics, machine learning, and anticipatory design to create more intelligent software. In addition, we’ll learn how to use data from our dev-ops pipeline to improve our software development practices.

Speakers

Matthew Renze

DevOps & Architecture

11:30 CEST

Mobile DevOps with App Center

Hold on to your hats! This will be the fastest setup you will see for continuous integration and continuous delivery you have ever seen. With the use of App Center, you can now build and distribute your apps as never before. With a very easy to use and good-looking design, it is a joy to work with.

In this session, I will show you what App Center is and what it can do for you. Besides building and distributing we will have a look at analytics, crash reporting and the Azure features that it holds. After this session, you will be an App Center guru yourself and there is nothing stopping you from getting your wonderful apps out into the world.

Speakers

Gerald Versluis

DotControl

Gerald Versluis (@jfversluis) is an all-round software developer, Microsoft MVP and two-time author from The Netherlands. After years of experience working with Xamarin, Azure and .NET technologies, he has been involved in a number of different projects and has been building several... Read More →

Wednesday May 22, 2019 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Room 1

DevOps & Architecture

11:30 CEST

Educate your employees, but wait; how and why?

In the Modern world, we heard we must have a look in to Windows as a Service and Implementing it, we have heard about an Application strategy and so on. In the End we always have our End-Users, in so many Companies the Admins call them funny titles, trust me they are smarter then you guess! Use this knowledge and tell them how to use Computers / Tablets etc. If they buy a Smartphone for private Use, they also can set it up and run, think about this. I will help you in this session with some ideas, tips and tricks to create the Bridge for your End-Users to IT and to Devs. Become an IT Translator for Humans!

Speakers

Mirko Colemberg

Mirko is MCT, MVP and computer scientist with diploma. In his activity as a computer scientist, he has over 20 years of experience. He has followed a classic path in the IT industry: Developing from the helpdesk to field engineer and finally consultant. This has given him a great... Read More →

Wednesday May 22, 2019 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Room 13

Modern Workplace

11:30 CEST

Getting Started with Developing Apps for Microsoft Teams

Are you a developer interested in learning more about developing apps for Microsoft Teams? If so, this session is for you! In this session, we will dive through the key concepts and guidance for building custom apps for Teams. As well as what's required in preparing your O365 tenant for developing Teams apps as well as demonstrate how to build an app using App Studio in Microsoft Teams.

Speakers

Christina Wheeler

Wednesday May 22, 2019 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Room 11

Modern Workplace

11:30 CEST

Shift to a modern desktop? Configuration Manager is your best friend!

Are you ready to deploy Windows 10, Office 365 ProPlus using your preferred deployment tools? In this session we'll give you real-world and proven deployment recommendations for how to shift to a modern desktop.
Find out what's new, what's changed, and learn the best practices. We'll focus on System Center Configuration Manager for OS Deployment, Windows Analytics for device and app readiness, Office 365 ProPlus Click-to-Run, OneDrive Known Folder Move as a new option to sync user files, Windows Autopilot for new PC acquisition and we'll cover the Windows as a Service model along with Upgrade Task Sequences for scale.

Speakers

Ronny de Jong

InSpark

Ronni Pedersen

Wednesday May 22, 2019 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Room 10

Modern Workplace

11:30 CEST

Hacking your work life __ balance to take over the world

Everyone has the same 24 hours in a day, so how do some people seem accomplish so much more? It’s time to learn to hack your work life __ balance to have more time to pursue your passion projects, spend more time with those you love, while keeping your work ethic strong. Let’s take over the world!

Speakers

Jennifer Wadella

Wednesday May 22, 2019 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Room 12

Motivational & self-improvement

11:30 CEST

Cross-Platform Desktop Apps with Electron

Would you like to leverage your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills to build cross-platform desktop applications? Electron is an open source application shell created by GitHub, designed to make building great desktop applications easy. You may have already experienced Electron using applications such as Atom, Slack, or Visual Studio Code. In this talk, you will learn its features, how to quickly get started, and tips from my experience building Electron applications.

Speakers

David Neal

Okta

Wednesday May 22, 2019 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Room 7

Web & Frontend

12:30 CEST

Lunch

Wednesday May 22, 2019 12:30 - 13:45 CEST
Hollywood

12:40 CEST

Industry 4.0: Standalone smartwatches, are we there yet? by Arne De Cock of Infosupport

What seemed like a nice gizmo from James Bond movies is now part of everyday life. Smartwatches are seeing major adoption on the streets and they do not seem to be “just a fad”. But… are they ready to be used in industrial environments? Will the factory-worker of the future have this companion on his/her wrist or will it be stuck in the consumer-only market forever?

To jump with both feet into the future, we challenged ourselves to build a stand-alone smartwatch app for both WearOS and Tizen to support factory workers in a construction plant.

During this talk we will show you our setup and architecture for the project and give you our view on the future of “smartwatches for the industry 4.0”.

Wednesday May 22, 2019 12:40 - 13:00 CEST
Partner stage

Partner

13:10 CEST

Coding with the speed of Thought in VisualStudio and CodeRush by Don Wibier of DevExpress

Join technical evangelist Don Wibier on this quest on how to become more productive with VisualStudio.

Be prepared to have your mind blown with some of the coolest features in the latest release of CodeRush to accomplish your coding with the least keystrokes possible.

Discover extended debugging features with code-evaluation, expression branching and more to make sure your code does what it should do.

Wednesday May 22, 2019 13:10 - 13:30 CEST
Partner stage

Partner

13:45 CEST

Adding Machine Learning to the Mix(ed Reality)

Mixed Reality is when you mix the real world with a computer generated world.
What if we can throw in AI into the mix?
In this session we will explore how you can use Azure Cognitive services together with Mixed Reality (HoloLens) and even how you can bring Machine learning to the device with WinML.

Speakers

Jimmy Engstrom

Ever since Jimmy got his first ZX Spectrum at the age of 7 he hasn’t stopped programming. During the day he is an .NET developer and he does all the fun stuff during his spare time. Together with his wife he also runs a company ”azm dev” which is focused on HoloLens and windows... Read More →

Jessica Engström

Being a geek shows in all parts of her life, whether it be organizing hackathons, running a user group and a podcast with her husband, game nights (retro or VR/MR) with friends, just catching the latest superhero movie or speaking internationally at conferences. Her favorite topics... Read More →

Wednesday May 22, 2019 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Room 10

AI & IOT & ML

13:45 CEST

Artificial Intelligence infused apps with Azure Cognitive Services

Today, like never before, developers have more power on their fingertips than entire generations that came before them. We can turn inspiring ideas into amazing applications and we can create intelligent software with the power of Azure Cognitive Services. in this session I plan to show how I did exactly this with the AI Visual Provision app, a "whiteboard compiler" that transforms architecture diagrams into real life resources on Azure. This demo heavy session will show you how to create your own AI-infused apps by leveraging Azure Cognitive Services and a number of other cool services such as Azure Functions, Web Apps and SignalR

Speakers

Christos Matskas

Microsoft

Wednesday May 22, 2019 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Room 3

Cloud Services

13:45 CEST

Microsoft Power BI Premium: Building enterprise-grade models

Power BI Premium enables you to build comprehensive, enterprise-scale analytic solutions that deliver actionable insights through familiar data visualization tools such as Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft Excel. This session will dive deep into exciting, new and upcoming features including aggregations for big data to unlock petabyte-scale datasets that was not possible before! We will uncover how the trillion-row demo was built in Power BI on top of HDI Spark. The session will focus on performance, scalability, and application lifecycle management (ALM). Learn how to use Power BI Premium to create semantic models that are reused throughout large, enterprise organizations

Speakers

Kasper De Jonge

Microsoft

Kasper de Jonge is a Principal Program Manager on the BI team at Microsoft, where he has worked on developing features for Power BI, Power Pivot and other Analysis Services products such as the Tabular model and Multidimensional cubes. He is a frequent speaker at conferences such... Read More →

Wednesday May 22, 2019 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Room 6

Data Platform & BI

13:45 CEST

A revisit of the Azure App Service

Nowadays all sessions seem to be about either containers or serverless. So, it's time to revisit the trusted Azure App Services and how it can help your day to day work. It offers high availability, autoscaling, automated deployments from various environments and a slew of other cool features.

Speakers

Kris Van Der Mast

As a freelance Microsoft technologies expert Kris helps his clients to reach their goals. Actively involved in the global community he is a Microsoft MVP since 2007. First for ASP.NET and since 2016 achieving in 2 disciplines: Azure and Visual Studio and Development Technologies... Read More →

Wednesday May 22, 2019 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Room 13

Developer Trends

13:45 CEST

Building an educational game with .NET Core and Unity3D

If you are waiting for a deep dive into .NET Core, the Microsoft Compiler Platform and Unity3D, this talk is for you! No high level tech demos, but a real life application that is used in schools. We will build an educational game, with robots fighting to the death, from scratch. This will including backend web services, a frontend Unity 3D client to visualize the battle and middleware processing services using the Microsoft Compiler Platform (Roslyn). The point of this session is to show you how technology is evolved to make development easy and create useful applications in only one hour of hardcore coding!

Speakers

Johnny Hooyberghs

Johnny Hooyberghs is a consultant for Involved since 2014 focusing on .NET architecture and backend development. Prior to joining Involved, he has had experience developing software for Corilus since 2008. He has been passionate about .NET ever since it was released and his areas... Read More →

Wednesday May 22, 2019 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Room 4

Developer Trends

13:45 CEST

C# Language Internals

Come and have a peek under the hood of your favorite C# language features. In this 100% demo session, we'll browse the Roslyn compiler source code, use ILDASM and ILSpy, and may even jump in WinDbg and SOS to show how language features come alive.

If you've seen this session before, don't worry! There's plenty of new content with the new C# 7.x language features and the upcoming proposed C# 8.0 features.

Speakers

Bart De Smet

Microsoft

Wednesday May 22, 2019 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Room 8

Developer Trends

13:45 CEST

Security panel

Bring your toughest security related questions for our panel of experts!

Speakers

Kyle Marsh

Microsoft

Stephane Eyskens

Vittorio Bertocci

Auth0

Wednesday May 22, 2019 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Room 9

Developer Trends

13:45 CEST

Continuous Delivery to the PowerShell Gallery with AzureDevOps

Come and join Cloud and DataCenter MVP Rob Sewell and learn how to publish your PowerShell module to the PowerShell Gallery continuously for free using AzureDevOps enabling you to easily share your code with all of the community or colleagues

We will have plenty of demos and scripts and discuss
From Scripts to Modules and why
Using VS Code
Using Plaster to create the customised framework for your modules
How to use Script Analyser to help you to code better
Why you should use Test Driven Development and how to do that for your PowerShell modules with Pester
The importance of Get-Help and why you need write good help
The PowerShell Gallery and how to create your own private PowerShell Gallery
Signing your code
How to continuously deliver changes to your PowerShell Module in the gallery using GitHub and AzureDevOps
We will have a lot of fun along the way and you will return to work with a lot of ideas, samples and better habits

Speakers

Rob Sewell

Rob is a SQL Server DBA with a passion for Powershell, Azure, Automation, and SQL (PaaS geddit?). He is a Cloud and Data Center MVP, an officer for the PASS PowerShell Virtual Chapter, co-leader of SQL South West and has spoken at and volunteered at many SQL and PowerShell events... Read More →

Wednesday May 22, 2019 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Room 12

DevOps & Architecture

13:45 CEST

Writing Maintainable Test Automation

How well do you test your application or Web site? Are you still testing your applications or sites manually and does that take a lot of time? Do you find it hard to create and maintain automated tests for your applications? Have you created automated tests but do you find them hard to maintain? This session will teach you how to build maintainable automated test suites using various technologies like Selenium or Appium and integrate it with Microsoft Azure DevOps to give you a holistic view of your current sprint in terms of test completion and coverage.
In this session you'll learn to build test suites in such a way that they are maintainable by default. This session will introduce the concepts like: Page Objects, DRY and DAMP tests.

Speakers

Marcel de Vries

Xpirit

Marcel is the co-founder and CTO of Xpirit, a high-end consulting firm based in Hilversum, Netherlands. Marcel co-founded Xpirit in 2014 as a spin off from Xebia Netherlands. Together with Xebia they help customers with Digital Transformation, Agile Consulting, and Full Stack development... Read More →

Wednesday May 22, 2019 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Room 7

DevOps & Architecture

13:45 CEST

Microsoft Flow advanced: tips, pitfalls, best practices with Doctor Flow

You have started using Microsoft flow, you have attended a Flow presentation, but you feel that before doing real projects you need to know more. Much more. Specially if you want to create enterprise flows that compete with third party products.
After working with Microsoft Flow almost every day since the beginning of the product, we faced some situations and traps that require more advanced skills.
And we have defined patterns and best practices that have been demonstrated at Ignite Orlando 2018 but have evolved since then. This is what this session is all about. We will illustrate different real problems and how we solved them.
This will be a demo-heavy session and its targets both developers and citizen developers should
You must have used Flow before attending this session.

Speakers

Serge Luca

Serge Luca (aka "Doctor Flow") has been 12 times MVP and is now an Office Apps and Services (Office 365) MVP and a Business Apps MVP (Flow); he is based in Brussels (Belgium) where he works as an Office 365 Architect; he has designed more than 7 Enterprise Flow projects. He is an... Read More →

Wednesday May 22, 2019 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Room 11

Modern Workplace

13:45 CEST

Patching using Azure services you say?

Most of your patching today is probably done through SCCM or WSUS but have you considered your Azure workloads? Are they properly patched and maintained? Join this session to get a clear overview of the patching alternative Azure patch management and leave with another awesome patching tool in your toolkit.

Speakers

Dieter Wijckmans

Ob-V-us

Wednesday May 22, 2019 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Room 1

Modern Workplace

14:45 CEST

Break & Room Switch

Wednesday May 22, 2019 14:45 - 15:00 CEST
Hollywood

15:00 CEST

Session cancelled

TBA

Wednesday May 22, 2019 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 7

Cloud Services

15:00 CEST

Why is the Same Query Sometimes Slow?

You swear nothing has changed, but all of a sudden, out of nowhere, queries that used to be fast are suddenly slow. Even weirder, you take the slow query from the application, run it in SSMS, and it's totally fast! What's going on? You restart SQL Server or update statistics, and the problem seems to go away - but only for a few days or weeks, and then it comes right back. You're familiar enough with execution plans to realize that you're getting different plans, but...why? And how do you fix it long term?

In this session, you'll see live demos of the most common culprit: parameter sniffing. You'll learn how to recognize parameter sniffing when it strikes, understand what causes it, see how to fix it short term with the lowest impact possible, and learn 7 ways to fix it long term.

Speakers

Brent Ozar

Wednesday May 22, 2019 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 8

Data Platform & BI

15:00 CEST

An In Depth Look at HttpClient

Applications, ranging from ASP.NET Core web apps over mobile Xamarin apps and Windows apps to Console apps often integrate with an API. For that, HttpClient is the default and best option. But there’s a lot more to using it than just sending a request and reading out the response. In this session you’ll get an in depth look at using HttpClient, from the internals over improving basic CRUD interaction with streams to working with compression. You'll also learn how and why to cancel requests that are no longer needed.

Additionally, you’ll learn how to improve the reliability of your application with custom HttpMessageHandlers, and you'll learn how (and why) to use the new HttpClientFactory for HttpClient instance management.

Speakers

Kevin Dockx

Kevin is a freelance solution architect, Pluralsight author & consultant, living in Antwerp (Belgium). These days he's mainly focused on RESTful architectures & security for web applications and mobile applications. He's a Microsoft MVP, and a keen proponent of open-source software. Also... Read More →

Wednesday May 22, 2019 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 12

Developer Trends

15:00 CEST

Don't Just Sit There. Listen to your audience.

When building new products it easy for developer teams to get caught up with what we think as "cool." Over the next 45 mins, I want to share how our group started listening to potential users throughout the development of Try .NET.
In the talk, I am going to share some of the techniques we used to create a more inclusive product, the mistakes we made along the way, and the changes we made to develop Try .NET 2.0. I will also be sharing how our customer conversations helped us make some significant decisions and changes in our technology stack.

Speakers

Maria Naggaga

Microsoft

Maria Naggaga is a developer and an artist. She is a Senior Program Manager on the Visual Studio and .NET team where she explores ways to engage and teach new developers about .NET OSS.

Wednesday May 22, 2019 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 6

Developer Trends

15:00 CEST

How future-ready organizations build future-ready apps

The way we work is rapidly changing. Just like the industrial revolutions of the past, emerging technologies are maturing and becoming mainstream, affecting how organizations operationally function and deliver on customer expectations. Our workplaces are becoming more efficient, more decentralized, and are achieving more with less. While the fourth industrial revolution is being spearheaded by a surge in focus on artificial intelligence, it’s the technological infrastructure surrounding this shift which is truly future-proofing those who embrace it.

In this session, TED-speaker Tomer Garzberg, Chief Executive Officer of GRONADE (a Salesforce Partner) will discuss why the Future of Work is already here and the adaptations required of the workplace being caused by rapid technology adoption and labour shifts in how work is done. He will then be joined by Dima Galat, Chief Computing Officer of GRONADE, to walk through how Heroku can enable remote team collaboration with minimum effort where a diversity in skillsets is required.

We no longer need to be all in one place to build software, and while the benefits of an enabled, co-located developer team are plentiful, it’s the setup and maintenance required to facilitate this which is often the challenge. We want developers to take ownership of their tasks for the greater project, to understand how they fit with the overall vision, and for this we need a platform to help us spin projects up fast with remote teams, and to manage this delivery end to end.

Whether it’s a data solution, a machine learning deployment, or a fully-fledged software project, Heroku makes the processes of deploying, configuring, scaling, tuning, and managing apps as simple and straightforward as possible, so that developers can focus on what’s most important: building great apps that delight and engage customers.

Speakers

Tomer Garzberg

Tomer helps leaders envisage the future, connect that with what they do today, and understand how their businesses must evolve to remain relevant in the data driven economy.His unique talent is in engaging with the executive, communicating the potential of today's technology and connecting... Read More →

Dima Galat

Dima leverages his background in computer vision, data engineering, a decade of data mining and analytics experience, at clients ranging from financial institutions to the United Nations, to deliver game changing insights and data driven decision making tools. Dima sees programming... Read More →

Wednesday May 22, 2019 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 9

Developer Trends

15:00 CEST

Knock. Knock. Who's there? A message from the future

Traditionally we look at time-based business rules like invoice reminders or making a customer preferred as batch jobs. We've always done it that way so why bother changing it? Simply put: the more customers and orders that are added to this system, the longer it will take the batch job to run. Your company's success can be your batch job's undoing. With messaging at hand we can start predicting the future by sending a message to our future selves.

In this talk, I show you how to leverage durable timeouts with messaging and the saga pattern to become the TimeLord in your business domains. You can finally get rid of your batch jobs. To satisfy the Doc Brown in all of us we'll dive into mad scientist implementations of durable timeouts in RabbitMQ and AmazonSQS. Knock. Knock. When's there?

Speakers

Alegri

Wednesday May 22, 2019 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 1

Modern Workplace

15:00 CEST

The Moon Rocket Plan : Migrating a large DSL network with Microsoft Cloud Technology, zero-touch!

In this session our Moon Rocket Plan will be unreveiled about a the automation steps to a zero-touch large scale DSL network migration with Microsoft Cloud technology.

Technologies covered:
- Azure Kubernetes
- Load Balancing
- RADIUS
- Azure DevOps
- Azure ServiceBus
- Sharepoint - Teams - PowerBI

Speakers

Erik Loef

PROXSYS

Erik Loef (Msc. / MVP / CEH), CTO and owner of PROXSYS, a private cloud company founded in 2001. Always had a great personal interest and passion for security. Especially breaking the security with very simple approaches, which is always an eye-opener. Working in the industry for... Read More →

Wednesday May 22, 2019 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 10

Modern Workplace

15:00 CEST

Seven Soft Skills At Least As Important As Technical Skills

A few years ago some Google employees did a study to learn what made their best employees successful. Surprisingly, the top skills were soft skills. In this session we'll talk about the top soft skills from that study, and how you can improve your own, and your team's soft skills. You'll walk away with concrete ideas and a plan moving forward as you work on really enhancing soft skills.

Speakers

Jason Alba

Wednesday May 22, 2019 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 11

Motivational & self-improvement

16:00 CEST

Break & Partner Expo

Wednesday May 22, 2019 16:00 - 16:30 CEST
Hollywood

16:05 CEST

Flight of the Raven: Doing NoSQL The Easy Way by Michael Yarichuk of RavenDB

Databases are fickle beasts. For developers, they provide many unforgettable moments of bad performance, strange query results and long discussions with DBAs,
all the while happily devouring system resources.
But, does it have to be this way? No!
Enter RavenDB, a NoSQL document database built to address inherent complexities and plumbing needed to make databases work.
In this session, I will showcase how RavenDB can be used to write database related code fast and without headache.

Wednesday May 22, 2019 16:05 - 16:25 CEST
Partner stage

Partner

16:30 CEST

Convince Your DBA to Support DevOps

You know that using DevOps methodologies successfully can lead to massive improvements in your ability to quickly and safely deliver more and better functionality to your business. However, you have an old-school DBA who refuses to get on board with automation and a shift-left mentality. This session is specifically designed to give you the tools and the language you need to talk to your DBA in a language they'll understand. You'll be able to convince them that not only is implementing DevOps good for the organization, it will lead to a safer database environment. Get your DBA into the modern age using the knowledge from this session.

Speakers

Grant Fritchey

Redgate Software

Wednesday May 22, 2019 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
Room 3

Data Platform & BI

16:30 CEST

Kick Start! SQL Server 2017 / 2019 Performance Tips and Tricks

Every new release of SQL Server brings a whole load of new features that an administrator can add to their arsenal of efficiency. SQL Server 2017 / 2019 has introduced many new features. In this 60 minute session, we will be learning quite a few of the new features of SQL Server 2017 / 2019. Here is the glimpse of the features we will cover in this session.
• Adaptive Query Plans
• Batch Mode Adaptive Join
• New cardinality estimate for optimal performance
• Adaptive Query Processing
• Indexing Improvements
• Introduction to Automatic Tuning
This 75 minutes will be the most productive time for any DBA and Developer, who wants to quickly jump start with SQL Server 2017 / 2019 and its new features.

Speakers

Pinal Dave

Wednesday May 22, 2019 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
Room 8

Data Platform & BI

16:30 CEST

A lap around Visual Studio 2019 for Mac, and beyond

Visual Studio for Mac is the Microsoft IDE of choice for .NET developers working on macOS. Whether you’re a web, mobile or games developer Visual Studio for Mac can help you be a more productive and efficient developer. Come and see why you should be excited as I give you a tips and tricks session using the 2019 version of Visual Studio for Mac and I will give you a sneak peek into early design ideas for future releases.

Speakers

Christos Matskas

Microsoft

Wednesday May 22, 2019 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
Room 4

Developer Trends

16:30 CEST

Back to the 90's: Revenge of the static website

Back in the early days of the web, late 90's, just about all sites were static. Over time the web required more dynamic content and interaction, so these web sites evolved into web applications based on databases, server side rendering and a little bit of javascript sprinkled on top. The result is a complex and often costly architecture. Today however, the combination of Javascript, serverless API's and HTML5 Markup, the JAMStack, has become so powerful that you can consider it an application platform on it's own with a much simpler architecture and cost model. In this session I will introduce you to the JAMStack, and how to implement it on Azure.

Speakers

Yves Goeleven

Particular Software

Yves has been shipping enterprise and cloud software since 2001. He is specialized in the design of distributed software systems using messaging. He works as a Solution Architect for Particular Software (NServiceBus), where he is working on support for the Azure platform. He is one... Read More →

Wednesday May 22, 2019 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
Room 7

Developer Trends

16:30 CEST

The Future is Lazy

Predicting the future is all about knowing your past. All through time we have invented things to make our life easier, to remove pain points or out of pure laziness. By automating tasks we made our lives easier. Today we have robots that vacuums and fold our laundry, we have fridges that tells us when to buy milk and can look up recipes. The gaming industry is one of the most popular right now, innovations about Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Realities. What is the next step for these products? Can history tell us something?

Speakers

Jessica Engström

Wednesday May 22, 2019 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
Room 1

Developer Trends

16:30 CEST

Writing Allocation Free Code in C#

Performance is a feature. We all want our code to run faster, and there are plenty of ways to do this - caching, using a smarter algorithm or simply doing less stuff. In this session, we’re not going to look at any of that. Instead, we’re going to focus on a recent trend in the C# world - improving performance by reducing memory allocations. We’ll see how recent versions of C# allow using structs without creating lots of copies, and we’ll have a timely reminder on exactly what is the difference between a class and a struct. We’ll also spend some time with the new Span<T> runtime type and find out how that can help work with slices of existing memory, and how it’s already into the types we know and love in the framework. And of course, we’ll take a look at when you should and (more importantly) shouldn’t use these new techniques.

Speakers

Matt Ellis

JetBrains

SCCT

Sander Berkouwer is a Dutch IT Professional and has been a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Directory Services for the past ten years. He works as senior identity consultant at SCCT in the Netherlands, where he helps colleagues and customers make the most out of Microsoft... Read More →

Wednesday May 22, 2019 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
Room 10

Modern Workplace

16:30 CEST

Teaching the IT Pro how to Dev - PowerShell, Source Control & Unit Testing

In this session we will look at how IT Pros (and developers) *could* be completing their day to day tasks in a more efficient manner with effective Unit Testing and Source Control of their Scripts.

This is a session where there will be chance to follow along (if you bring your own laptop) and learn in real time from the co-ordinator of the UK PowerShell User Groups - however you will also be lead to further community resources if you require further time after the session to get this built into your current day to day workflow.

Speakers

Ryan Yates

BlackMarble

Ryan is a Cloud and Datacentre Management MVP and has a background with most Microsoft technologies. He was a community developer of the SharePoint PowerShell (SPPS) module on Codeplex.Since moving from SharePoint based work Ryan has since focused mainly on the underlying PowerShell... Read More →

Wednesday May 22, 2019 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
Room 12

Modern Workplace

16:30 CEST

Who's In Charge Of your Container Image

During this session we will dive a bit deeper into the role of IT operations in a cloud container world.
Who's role and responsibility is it to ensure container image integrity and how can we leverage existing Azure tooling to help
us in keeping base images up to date.
Let's shift patching and security 'left' as it becomes a shared responsibility.

Speakers

Stijn Callebaut

itnetX

Stijn is an experienced IT professional, focusing on Microsoft technologies, specializing in Azure and automation with a love for PowerShell and containers.

Wednesday May 22, 2019 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
Room 11

Modern Workplace

17:30 CEST

Break & Room Switch

Wednesday May 22, 2019 17:30 - 17:45 CEST
Hollywood

17:45 CEST

Closing keynote: Technology and Innovation

In space you can find an outstanding multinational: the International Space Station (ISS), realized by the United States of America, Europe, Russia, Canada and Japan. André Kuipers was given the great privilege to work in the ISS twice and be a part of this international enterprise.

The ISS is the largest, most complex, international technological structure ever made by mankind. Working on groundbreaking technology which can exist in an extraterrestrial environment enables us to come to scientific insights about our place in the universe, we gather enormous amounts of information about our own Earth and the life our planet sustains. In space technology is everywhere: when it comes to medical issues, communications, transport, energy and even when it comes to exercising!

Speakers

André Kuipers

André Kuipers is the first Dutchman with two space missions to his name. His second mission is one of the longest spaceflights in European history. In total the ESA astronaut and medical doctor spent 204 days in space: 11 days during mission DELTA in 2004 and 193 days during mission... Read More →