.NET Day Switzerland

Non Profit. Community. From Developers. For Developers.

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27 August 2024
Arena Cinemas AG, Kalanderplatz 8, Sihlcity, 8045 Zürich

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.NET Day Switzerland

.NET Day Switzerland takes place on Tuesday, the 27.08.2024 at the Arena Cinemas at Sihlcity in Zürich and is an independent technology conference for developers, architects and experts to discuss about and get to know .NET technologies all around .NET, .NET Core, C#, ASP.NET Core, Azure and more. Experienced speakers share their knowledge on the latest topics and give you deep insights into the new world of Microsoft software development and beyond. In addition to the technical talks, the .NET Day provides a space for discussions with the speakers and other attendees.

The .NET Day is your place for networking, discussions and questions!

.NET Day Switzerland is a non-profit community conference. All the speakers and staff engage on a voluntary basis because they are good people and want to support the Swiss .NET Community. Any positive financial balance from the ticket sales will be used to support non-profit organizations either involved in charity projects or the Swiss software developer community.

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.NET Day 2022

What do you get from .NET Day Switzerland?

Quality

Top quality sessions from international subject experts

Networking

Network with other participants

Food & Snacks

Food, snacks and beverages during the breaks, lunch and Apéro

Career

Interact with the event sponsors and discuss career opportunities

Discussions

The possibility to interact and engage in personal discussions with the speakers during the breaks

Tickets

Very Early Bird

01.04.2024 until 30.04.2024 Max 100 tickets

249.00CHF

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Early Bird

01.05.2024 until 30.05.2024 Max 100 tickets

299.00CHF

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Regular

399.00CHF

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Speakers

Speakers and Sessions can change at anytime and without notice

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Jose Luis Latorre Millas

Developer at Swiss Life AG | LinkedIn Learning instructor | Microsoft AI MVP

Jose Luis Latorre Millas

Jose is a Microsoft MVP & International Speaker who works as a .NET engineer/architect developing Azure Cloud solutions, with a focus on Performance, Profiling, performance testing & Software Architecture.

Taylor Poindexter

Spotify - Engineering Manager II

Taylor Poindexter

Taylor Poindexter is an Engineering Manager II at Spotify, a cofounder of Black Code Collective, and an expert at building psychologically safe teams. In her spare time you can find her helping those around her receive equitable pay and build their perfect careers.

Marc Rufer

Senior Software Engineer @isolutions | Microsoft MVP

Marc Rufer

I am a passionate software engineer, living in Switzerland and interested in DevOps, DevSecOps, application security, web development and Azure. My favorite tools, technologies and standards are GitHub, Azure DevOps, ASP.NET Core, Git, Terraform, PowerShell, OIDC, SQL, EF Core, REST.

Marc Sallin

Solution Architect at Swiss Post

Marc Sallin

Marc Sallin has been in software development for more than a decade. He became convinced that high speed, quality, and low costs do not compete but form a symbiosis. To tackle the challenges, he takes the definition of software engineering to heart and applies a systematic, disciplined, and quantifiable approach to software development, operation, and maintenance. While fascinated by computer science and technology, he learned the importance of team dynamics and psychology in software development. With his ideas, he has been shaping the future of parcel sorting at Swiss Post as a solution architect for five years.

Safia Abdalla

Microsoft - Software Engineer on the ASP.NET Core team

Safia Abdalla

Safia is a software engineer on the ASP.NET Core team at Microsoft working on building open source web frameworks.

Christian Giesswein

CEO

Christian Giesswein

Christian Giesswein has studied Business Informatics in Vienna and is developing with .NET since he has been a child. He is speaking for years in the German area about .NET, the CLR and in special about WPF. In Austria he has founded his company "Giesswein Software-Solutions" (www.software.tirol) and is developing software in the Austrian Alps.

Roland Guijt

Microsoft MVP, Pluralsight author, ASP.NET insider

Roland Guijt

Roland is a Microsoft MVP, ASP.NET Insider and Pluralsight author enjoying a constant curiosity around new techniques in software development. His focus is on all things .NET and browser technologies. As a long-time trainer and speaker, he led many courses on these topics and spoke about these topics at manyinternational conferences.

Mark Allibone

Lead Mobile Developer Rey Technology, Microsoft MVP

Mark Allibone

Mark Allibone is a Lead Mobile Engineer and a Microsoft MVP working at Rey Technology. He supports many well-known companies with their mobile ambitions in various domains. With a passion for efficient cross-platform solutions and a heart for the user, Mark does not solely aim to build functionally complete apps but apps that enable the user. He is the co-host of the Null Pointers. You can find him on Twitter as @mallibone

Maciej "MJ" Jedrzejewski

Fractional architect, consultant, advisor

Maciej "MJ" Jedrzejewski

Author of Mastering Strategic Domain-Driven Design book (https://www.fractionalarchitect.io/book) and Evolutionary Architecture repository (https://github.com/evolutionary-architecture/evolutionary-architecture-by-example).

Daniel Murrmann

.NET Developer, fancy Development

Daniel Murrmann

Daniel Murrmann has been involved in software engineering and the architecture and implementation of complex distributed software systems in corporate environment for years. In doing so, the computer scientist and certified software architect relies on Angular in the frontend, .NET for the Backend and Azure to host implemented systems. With his own company fancy Development which is focused on full stack software engineering he supports various customers in their challenge to implement state of the art, scalable and cloud native web applications. As a trainer he provides up to date knowledge, ...

Laurent Bugnion

Microsoft Cloud Developer Advocate

Laurent Bugnion

Laurent is a Principal Cloud Advocate for Microsoft, expert in .NET, Visual Studio and is interested in Azure services such as Serverless, App Services, SignalR, Blazor, Data storage, AI and more. He works from home (Zurich, CH) for Microsoft. His site is at http://www.galasoft.ch. He is also the author of the well-known open source toolkit MVVM Light for XAML and Xamarin

Adam Ralph

Distributed systems expert at Particular Software

Adam Ralph

Adam is a distributed systems enthusiast and digital nomad. He works for Particular Software, the makers of NServiceBus. Adam has designed and maintained complex software systems at several companies in the finance industry. He's seen both the good and the bad that can come from applying techniques like SOA, DDD, and microservices. He also likes to speak, maintain open source projects, and fix white space rule violations.

Jörg Neumann

NeoGeeks GmbH

Jörg Neumann

Jörg Neumann is founder and CEO at NeoGeeks and specialist for AI and frontend technologies. In addition to the technical aspects, he has an eye for design and usability. He has over 25 years of experience in conception and development of enterprise applications. He shares his knowledge in various books and magazines and as speaker on developer conferences. Jörg is also a Microsoft MVP in the areas Azure OpenAI Service and Azure Machine Learning Platform.

Dennis van der Stelt

Distributed Systems addict

Dennis van der Stelt

Dennis is a Software Architect who loves building distributed systems and the challenges they bring. To always be better than the day before, he continuously searches for new ways to improve his knowledge on architecture and software development. He shares what he learns in numerous articles, presentations, and blog posts.

Rachel Appel

Developer Advocate at JetBrains

Rachel Appel

Rachel currently works for JetBrains as a Developer Advocate. She has been in the business of creating software for over 25 years, as an author, mentor, and speaker at top industry conferences such as Techorama, //build, Øredev, NDC and SDD...

Steven Giesel

Microsoft MVP / Giesel Engineering

Steven Giesel

As an experienced .NET Engineer and a Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies in the heart of Zurich, Steven Giesel bring a substantial breadth of knowledge and expertise to each project. His enthusiasm for technology goes beyond his professional endeavors - he actively maintains various open-source libraries (for example as co-maintainer for bUnit - a unit testing library for Blazor) and frequently speaks at user groups and conferences. Furthermore, he has authored concise e-Books in .NET related topics, and peer-reviewed a book focused on building applications with Blazor WebAssembly.

Gerald Versluis

Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

Gerald Versluis

Meet Gerald Versluis, software engineer at Microsoft, who wields the power of .NET MAUI to conquer any project that comes his way. With a career spanning over a decade, he's tackled it all, from frontend to backend and everything in between, using Azure, ASP.NET, and all the other .NET goodies. But it wasn't until he discovered the magic of Xamarin that he truly fell in love with mobile and cross-platform development, becoming an active community member and sharing his knowledge through writing, tweeting, and presentations. When he's not saving the world of software, you can find him on Twitter @jfversluis, blogging at https://blog.verslu.is, or making videos on his YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/GeraldVersluis.

Urs Enzler

Software Architect @ Calitime AG

Urs Enzler

Urs Enzler is a .Net developer since .Net was born. As a software architect, he builds flexible, reliable and maintainable software together with his team.

Dennis Dietrich

Manager Software Development ICS, Phoenix Contact

Dennis Dietrich

Dennis Dietrich is a manager at Phoenix Contact's Industrial Cabinet Solutions (ICS) business unit where he leads a software development team. He holds a master’s degree in Advanced Software Engineering from the University of Leicester and has over 20 years of industry experience in various roles including testing, development, and technical leadership.

Maddy Montaquila

Senior Product Manager, .NET MAUI at Microsoft

Maddy Montaquila

Maddy Montaquila (formerly Leger) is a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft on the .NET team. She has been with the team since 2018 working on Xamarin and now .NET MAUI tooling. She first worked with the Xamarin team as a Microsoft intern and realized the impact she could have creating amazing developer tools and frameworks. Maddy’s current focus is on making .NET MAUI developers more productive than ever. Find Maddy on Twitter and Github @maddymontaquila!

Alexander Kayed

Senior Software Engineer, Noser Engineering AG

Alexander Kayed

Passionate on all .net things: From machine learning to game development to language design, currently working at Noser Engineering AG as a Senior Software Engineer in a wide range of projects.

Schedule

Schedule can change at anytime and without notice

Registration and Coffee

07:30 - 08:30

It's not your dad's .NET anymore

08:30 - 09:40 CINEMA 3
Maddy Montaquila
Senior Product Manager, .NET MAUI at Microsoft

Coffee break

09:40 - 10:10

Agentic AI: Unleash Your AI Potential with AutoGen

10:10 - 10:55 Intermediate CINEMA 3
Jose Luis Latorre Millas
Developer at Swiss Life AG | LinkedIn Learning instructor | Microsoft AI MVP

Be Sharp with New Features in C#

10:10 - 10:55 Intermediate CINEMA 2
Roland Guijt
Microsoft MVP, Pluralsight author, ASP.NET insider

Let's turn your website into a hybrid .NET MAUI app

10:10 - 10:55 Intermediate CINEMA 6
Mark Allibone
Technical Lead at Rey Technology, Microsoft MVP

Evolutionary Architecture: The What. The Why. The How.

10:10 - 10:55 Intermediate CINEMA 8
Maciej "MJ" Jedrzejewski
Fractional architect, consultant, advisor

Making the best out of AI in your daily working life

11:05 - 11:50 Intermediate CINEMA 3
Laurent Bugnion
Microsoft Cloud Developer Advocate

100% Unit Test Coverage and beyond

11:05 - 11:50 Advanced CINEMA 2
Marc Sallin
Solution Architect at Swiss Post

Web/App/Desktop mit Blazor – One to rule them all!

11:05 - 11:50 Intermediate CINEMA 6
Christian Giesswein
CEO

Five common mistakes with distributed systems

11:05 - 11:50 Intermediate CINEMA 8
Adam Ralph
Distributed systems expert at Particular Software, Microsoft MVP

Flying Lunch

11:50 - 12:50

AI-driven Software Development with Azure AI

12:50 - 13:35 Introductory CINEMA 2
Jörg Neumann
NeoGeeks GmbH

Building minimal APIs from scratch

12:50 - 13:35 Intermediate CINEMA 6
Safia Abdalla
Software Engineer on the ASP.NET Core team

Backend for Frontend (BFF) as a Gateway to the World of Microservices

12:50 - 13:35 Intermediate CINEMA 8
Daniel Murrmann
.NET Developer, fancy Development

Implementing the planet's largest e-commerce site using service boundaries

12:50 - 13:35 Expert CINEMA 3
Dennis van der Stelt
Distributed Systems addict

Experience new ways to code with C# and AI

13:45 - 14:30 Intermediate CINEMA 3
Rachel Appel
Developer Advocate at JetBrains

From Task.Run to Task.WhenAll: The Good, The Bad, and The Async

13:45 - 14:30 Intermediate CINEMA 2
Steven Giesel
Microsoft MVP / .NET Software Engineer

Real-Time Connected Apps with .NET MAUI, Blazor and SignalR

13:45 - 14:30 Intermediate CINEMA 6
Gerald Versluis
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

Onion, Hexagonal, Clean or Fractal Architecture? All of them, and more!!

13:45 - 14:30 Intermediate CINEMA 8
Urs Enzler
Software Architect @ Calitime AG

Coffee break

14:30 - 15:00

Sitting in meetings all day long: My first 180 days as a new Software Engineering Manager

15:00 - 15:45 Introductory CINEMA 3
Dennis Dietrich
Manager Software Development ICS, Phoenix Contact

Mastering Integration Testing for .NET Web APIs with WebApplicationFactory and TestContainers

15:00 - 15:45 Advanced CINEMA 2
Marc Rufer
Senior Software Engineer @isolutions | Microsoft MVP

Demystify cloud-native development with .NET Aspire

15:00 - 15:45 Intermediate CINEMA 6
Maddy Montaquila
Senior Product Manager, .NET MAUI at Microsoft

Curious Code and where to find it

15:00 - 15:45 Introductory CINEMA 8
Alexander Kayed
Senior Software Engineer, Noser Engineering AG

Growing and Thriving as an Engineering Manager

15:55 - 17:05 CINEMA 3
Taylor Poindexter
Spotify - Engineering Manager II

Networking, Drinks, Meet & Greet

17:05 - 18:30
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