.NET Day Switzerland 2023

Non Profit. Community. From Developers. For Developers.

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29 August 2023
Arena Cinemas AG, Kalanderplatz 8, Sihlcity, 8045 Zürich

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.NET Day Switzerland 2023

.NET Day Switzerland 2023 takes place on Tuesday, the 29.08.2023 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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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

100 tickets or until 31.05.2023

299.00CHF

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Early Bird

100 tickets or until 30.06.2023

399.00CHF

SOLD OUT

Regular

450.00CHF

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Speakers

Speakers and Sessions can change at anytime and without notice

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Christian Weyer

CTO of Thinktecture AG. Microsoft MVP, RD and Google GDE

Christian Weyer

Christian Weyer is co-founder and CTO of Thinktecture AG. As a Microsoft MVP, RD and Google GDE, he has been speaking at a wide variety of software conferences and events worldwide for more than 25 years - with passion and commitment, especially for distributed application architectures and cross-platform solutions. A deeply technical as well as realistic assessment of technologies is one of his trademarks.

Jon Galloway

Microsoft Program Manager, .NET Community Team

Jon Galloway

Jon is a Program Manager on the .NET team. He’s been developing software professionally since the late 1990’s, and over the years has written several books, popular .NET tutorials and samples, a top speaker on Microsoft Virtual Academy, and worked behind the scenes on large Microsoft keynote demonstrations. He’s helped run the Herding Code podcast for 10 years, and tweets as @jongalloway.

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...

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

Marc Müller

Principal Consultant @ 4tecture GmbH

Marc Müller

Marc Müller is a principal consultant for DevOps and .NET / Azure solutions at 4tecture GmbH and has been recognized by Microsoft as a Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Developer Technologies (Azure DevOps). He has been able to bring his DevOps expertise and know-how for enterprise architectures and component-based distributed systems to many projects over the past few years. As a trainer and speaker, he focuses on the training and coaching of DevOps and .NET project teams.

Alexander Kayed

Noser Engineering

Alexander Kayed

Alex is a Senior Software Engineer & Architect at Noser Engineering AG. He started as a hobbyist developer and turned his hobby into profession by obtaining an MSc in Computer Science with a focus on Computer Vision and Machine Learning. Through the years, he worked with different stacks, but .NET and C# were and are always the focus. In his free-time, Alex is climbing, hiking, or coding on open-source.

Daniel Marbach

Software Engineer, Microsoft MVP

Daniel Marbach

Daniel is a software engineer at Particular Software and a Microsoft MVP. In his free-time, he enjoys weightlifting, dark-roasted coffee, playing with his son, and contributing performance improvements to open source .NET packages. At least until midnight, when his self-imposed router hack kicks in.

Laila Bougria

Software Engineer at Particular Software and knitting addict.

Laila Bougria

Laila Bougria is a software engineer at Particular Software, makers of NServiceBus. She's passionate about software and always looking for patterns, both in code and in yarn. In her free time she loves to knit or crochet and spend time with her kids playing whatever the day brings!

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

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.

Miroslav Popovic

Technical Lead at Seavus

Miroslav is senior software architect for .NET and JavaScript, employed at Seavus at the position of a technical lead. He uses .NET from version 1.0. From Windows Forms, through WPF and Silverlight, all the way to ASP.NET Core. Currently, he is focused on ASP.NET Core, client-side JavaScript development and software craftsmanship. During his career, he worked on a lot of small and big projects, including a couple of local startups.

Dona Sarkar

Director Of Technology - Microsoft Accessibility

Dona Sarkar

Hi! I’m Dona Sarkar and I believe you are one experiment away from realizing how powerful you truly are. By day, I lead the Accessibility tech program at Microsoft, my latest focus is using AI inclusively in our work so the thousands of products we ship are usable by people with disabilities, neurodiversity and mental health concerns. By night, I run my own fashion business, Prima Dona Studios,. By weekend, I coach professionals how to build non-boring corporate careers, write both fiction and non-fiction and – as of this year -- I am also a restauranteur! I love making new friends so please come and say hi at donasarkar.com

Dennis Dietrich

Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

Dennis Dietrich

Dennis Dietrich is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft working on Azure Storage and holds a master’s degree in Advanced Software Engineering from the University of Leicester. He has over 20 years of industry experience in various roles including testing, development, and technical leadership.

Andrei Epure

Software Developer at Sonar

Andrei Epure

Andrei is part of the Languages Team at Sonar in Geneva, developing the code analyzers for the .NET offering (Code Quality and Security for C# and VB.NET using the Roslyn compiler framework). Formerly at Microsoft Ireland, Almetis France, and Bitdefender Romania.

Damien Bowden

Application security consultant

Damien Bowden

Damien is a web developer, architect and a Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio Development Technologies who loves to learn. He contributes regularly to open-source projects on GitHub. He runs a very popular blog which focuses on Azure, ASP.NET Core, application security and cloud security.

Steven Giesel

Zühlke Engineering

Steven Giesel

Backend Software Engineer with a passion for new technologies! Originated from Germany, where I studied computer science in Leipzig, now based in Zurich. I like collaborating and also spread knowledge. Currently working at Zühlke Engineering AG.

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.

Annie Talvasto

CNCF Ambassador & Azure MVP

Annie Talvasto

Annie Talvasto is an international technology speaker, CNCF Ambassador, Azure MVP and specialist in Kubernetes & cloud native ecosystem. Annie hosts & produces the Cloud Gossip podcast and has been a co-organizer of Kubernetes & CNCF Finland meetup since 2017.

Filip Wojcieszyn

Cloud Architect

Filip Wojcieszyn

Filip is an active open source contributor, a Microsoft Quantum MVP and author of the academic textbook "Introduction to Quantum Computing with Q# and QDK". He specializes in language tools, compilers and quantum computing. Filip is based in Zürich where he works in a medical industry.

Devlin Duldulao

Microsoft MVP, Tech Lead at Inmeta

Devlin Duldulao

Devlin Duldulao is a Filipino full-stack cloud engineer based in Norway. He is a Microsoft MVP, a trainer, a conference speaker, a published book author, and a chief consultant at Inmeta. He loves going to universities and user groups to share his expertise.

Marc Sallin

Solution Architect at Swiss Post

Marc Sallin

During his ten years in software development, Marc Sallin became convinced that high speed, quality, and low costs are not in competition but form a symbiosis. Guided by this idea, he has been shaping the future of parcel sorting at Swiss Post as a solution architect for five years.

Damian Brady

Senior Manager of Developer Advocacy at GitHub

Damian Brady

Damian leads the Developer Advocacy team at GitHub and loves all things DevOps. Formerly a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft for 4 years, and prior to that a dev at Octopus Deploy (octopus.com) and a Microsoft MVP, Damian has a 20+ year background in software development and consulting in a broad range of industries. Damian regularly speak sat conferences, User Groups, and other events around the world. Most of the time you'll find Damian talking to developers, IT Pros, and data scientists to help them get the most out of their DevOps and MLOps strategies.

Schedule

Speaker, Sessions and times can change at anytime and without notice!

Registration and Coffee

07:30 - 08:30

What's new and coming soon in .NET

08:30 - 09:40 CINEMA 3
Jon Galloway
Microsoft Program Manager, .NET Community Team

Coffee break

09:40 - 10:10

LLMs, Data & APIs: Integrating AI power into your .NET applications with Semantic Kernel

10:10 - 10:55 Intermediate CINEMA 3
Christian Weyer
Thinktecture AG

Refactor your code to use modern C# language features

10:10 - 10:55 Introductory and overview CINEMA 2
Rachel Appel
JetBrains

Quantum computing and the future of cryptography

10:10 - 10:55 Introductory and overview CINEMA 6
Filip Wojcieszyn
Cloud Architect

Event-driven applications with SignalR and Blazor

10:10 - 10:55 Intermediate CINEMA 8
Laurent Bugnion
Microsoft Cloud Developer Advocate

Bringing the Power of Deep Learning to .NET with ONNX and ML.NET

11:05 - 11:50 Intermediate CINEMA 3
Alexander Kayed
Senior Software Engineer, Noser Engineering AG

Clean as you Code: use Roslyn analyzers to focus on the code you modify

11:05 - 11:50 Introductory and overview CINEMA 2
Andrei Epure
Software Developer at Sonar

Minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core

11:05 - 11:50 Intermediate CINEMA 6
Miroslav Popovic
Technical Lead at Seavus

Let's get Func⟨Y⟩: Adding functional programming to your OOP codebase

11:05 - 11:50 Intermediate CINEMA 8
Dennis Dietrich
Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

Flying Lunch

11:50 - 12:50

Supercharge Your Business and Career with AI

12:50 - 13:35 Intermediate CINEMA 3
Dona Sarkar
Microsoft

Beyond simple benchmarks—A practical guide to optimizing code with BenchmarkDotNet

12:50 - 13:35 Advanced CINEMA 2
Daniel Marbach
Software Engineer, Microsoft MVP

Continuous Deployment Showdown: Traditional CI/CD vs. GitOps

12:50 - 13:35 Intermediate CINEMA 6
Marc Müller
Principal Consultant @ 4tecture GmbH

Messaging: The fine line between awesome and awful (and how to stay on the right side of it)

12:50 - 13:35 Intermediate CINEMA 8
Laila Bougria
Software Engineer at Particular Software, speaker and knitting addict.

The state of the .NET Auth, Cloud Security

13:45 - 14:30 Intermediate CINEMA 3
Damien Bowden
Microsoft MVP, Application security consultant

Fault Handling with retry and circuit breaker design patterns

13:45 - 14:30 Intermediate CINEMA 2
Devlin Duldulao
Microsoft MVP, Tech Lead at Inmeta

C# Lowering - What is it and why should I care?

13:45 - 14:30 Intermediate CINEMA 6
Steven Giesel
Zühlke Engineering AG - Software Engineer

Writing hybrid .NET MAUI Blazor apps

13:45 - 14:30 Intermediate CINEMA 8
Mark Allibone
Lead Mobile Developer Rey Technology, Microsoft MVP

Coffee break

14:30 - 15:00

Don't Trust the Browser: Secure SPAs with BFF

15:00 - 15:45 Advanced CINEMA 3
Roland Guijt
Microsoft MVP, Pluralsight author, ASP.NET insider

Architecture aspects - evolutionary architecture development

15:00 - 15:45 Intermediate CINEMA 2
Urs Enzler
Calitime AG

Hitchhiker's Guide to Developing Sustainable Code

15:00 - 15:45 Introductory and overview CINEMA 6
Annie Talvasto
CNCF Ambassador & Azure MVP

The symbiosis of Continuous Deployment and Stability

15:00 - 15:45 Advanced CINEMA 8
Marc Sallin
Solution Architect at Swiss Post

Your code is just a detail

15:55 - 17:05 CINEMA 3
Damian Brady
Senior Manager of Developer Advocacy at GitHub

Networking, Drinks, Meet & Greet

17:05 - 18:30
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