Techorama Netherlands 2018: Full Schedule

07:30 CEST

Registration and breakfast

Tuesday October 2, 2018 07:30 - 08:45 CEST
All of Cinemec

08:45 CEST

The Intelligent Cloud

Designed for developers, this talk features Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of Microsoft's Cloud + AI Group, who will show how Azure and the intelligent cloud can help you solve your most complex business and developer problems. Whether you're a seasoned expert or new to the Cloud, you will learn how to better develop, deploy and manage cloud applications during this talk. You’ll catch the newest Azure technologies in action, featuring cool demos, with topics ranging from serverless to hybrid to security to app modernization and more – it’s an overview of Microsoft’s intelligent cloud that you won’t want to miss!

Speakers

Scott Guthrie

Microsoft

EVP of Cloud + Enterprise, Microsoft Corporation

Tuesday October 2, 2018 08:45 - 09:45 CEST
Expo-theater (Room 9)

Keynote

09:45 CEST

Break and room switch

Tuesday October 2, 2018 09:45 - 10:00 CEST
All of Cinemec

10:00 CEST

Chris Klug is a developer badass-as-a-service that either creates or solves problems depending on who you ask. He loves creating and building things. Whether it be a new application, a new kitchen or a new RC helicopter, you will see him building things all the time. Most of the time... Read More →

Tuesday October 2, 2018 10:00 - 11:00 CEST
Room 7

Web

11:00 CEST

Break and partner expo

Tuesday October 2, 2018 11:00 - 11:30 CEST
All of Cinemec

11:30 CEST

Automating car body shops with ancient devices all around the global

The repair process of damaged cars used to be a lot of manual work. Old equipment is used to match the color of a car and come to the right paint recipe. Old computers were provided with new paint recipe’s all around the globe via CD’s. We’ve automated this process and build a cloud application in Azure that synchronizes new paint formula’s worldwide within seconds. In this session we will show our solution including our global DevOps release pipeline, IoT strategy to leverage old devices, our paint recipe synchronization system between on-premise LoB systems and Azure and finally our worldwide application build on Azure PaaS and SaaS technology.

Speakers

Mulder Dibran

Caesar Experts

I’m a Solutions Architect with focus on new technologies. I’m all into building high performance cloud solutions using serverless and PaaS technology. I’ve become intrigued with the Intelligent Edge principle and the possibilities for our customers. Because of that I have a... Read More →

Jeroen Meijer

Caesar Experts

Microsoft

Kevin has worked on Developer Tools at Microsoft for more than 15 years. During that time he has worked on the C# and VB IDE experience, including features like IntelliSense, formatting, refactoring, colorization and more. Most recently he has been the manager of the project system... Read More →

Tuesday October 2, 2018 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Room 8

Languages and Tools

11:30 CEST

The Essential Guide to Machine Learning, Cat Recognition, and Azure Custom Vision Service

In 2012 Google created a cat categorizer that could identify pictures of cats. At the time this was the state of the art in machine learning. Today Custom Vision Service allows consumers to train their own categorizer using machine learning to identify anything they want: cats, dogs, flowers, hot dogs through an easy to use web interface.

Azure Custom Vision Services provides a path to learning what machine learning is in a way anyone can understand. It is part of a wider Microsoft Cognitive Services platform that takes complex algorithms and makes them accessible to regular people and bright children. It's AI for the rest of us.

Speakers

James Ashley

James is an MR & AI Architect at VIMaec. He works at the intersection of AI and spatial computing platforms like the Magic Leap and HoloLens. He co-authored the LinkedIn Learning video course HoloLens App Development and wrote the Apress title Beginning Kinect Programming with the... Read More →

Tuesday October 2, 2018 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Room 3

New technologies

11:30 CEST

Escape game by Microsoft

Christian Weyer is founder and CTO of Thinktecture AG, as well as Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) and Google GDE (Developer Expert). He is an engaged and passionated speaker on several software conferences and events all over the world. His heart has always been with distributed... Read More →

Tuesday October 2, 2018 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Expo-theater (Room 9)

Alex is an application development enthusiast since the late nineties and works as an architect, lead developer and mentor at large enterprises and small companies. He spends his time teaching other developers the details of the Microsoft development platform and frameworks, and coaches... Read More →

Tuesday October 2, 2018 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Room 7

Languages and Tools

13:45 CEST

A practical guide to deep learning

Machine Learning is one of the fastest growing areas of computer science, and Deep Learning (neural networks) is growing even faster, with lots of data and computing power at our fingertips.
This talk is a practical (no math) guide to computer vision and deep learning.
We will look at a deep learning project from start to finish, look at how to program and train a neural network and gradually refine it using some tips and tricks that you can steal for your future deep learning projects.

Speakers

Tess Ferrandez-Norlander

developer, Microsoft

Tess is a developer working at Microsoft. She is equally happy debugging nasty back-end issues as she is developing web front-ends, apps or designing super nice User Interfaces. She has been blogging at http://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/Tess for the better part of her career, and spoken... Read More →

Tuesday October 2, 2018 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Room 3

New technologies

13:45 CEST

From Custom Vision to WinML on HoloLens - an end-to-end demo

In this session you will see an end-to-end workflow and demo combining applied Deep Learning from training in the cloud using Microsoft Cognitive Services Custom Vision to deploying and running it on a Mixed Reality devices such as Microsoft HoloLens.
You will see the required tools and APIs in action.
This makes deep learning quite accessible.
After this session most developers will have an understanding on how to enrich their apps.

Speakers

Andreas Erben

Andreas spent most of his professional life and a career of over 20 years integrating "backend" applications. First inside or between Enterprises and Startups directly, then - "in the cloud".Before he did that, Andreas dabbled with Virtual Reality in the 90s. In 2013, Andreas started... Read More →

Tuesday October 2, 2018 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Room 5

New technologies

13:45 CEST

Escape game by Microsoft

Make your way to the Microsoft booth and get access to the exclusive escape room at Techorama!

Tuesday October 2, 2018 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Secret room

Other

13:45 CEST

Enhancing Web Pages with VueJS: When You Don’t Need a full SPA

Creating large, monolithic SPAs is all the rage, not all solutions need a single page application. I found that improving parts of my web projects with islands of functionality was better in many cases, but the complexity of Angular and my hatred of .jsx made me yearn for a modern framework that is simple and straightforward. That’s where VueJS came in and saved the day. In this talk I’ll build a simple page using VueJS and then talk about using it is larger projects without having to use bundling and transpilers if you don’t want to.

Speakers

Shawn Wildermuth

Microsoft MVP, Speaker and Pluralsight Author

Shawn Wildermuth has been tinkering with computers and software since he got a Vic-20 back in the early ‘80s. As a Microsoft MVP since 2003, he’s also involved with Microsoft as an ASP.NET Insider and ClientDev Insider. You may have taken one of his more than twenty courses on... Read More →

Tuesday October 2, 2018 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Expo-theater (Room 9)

Web

14:45 CEST

Break and room switch

Tuesday October 2, 2018 14:45 - 15:00 CEST
All of Cinemec

15:00 CEST

An intro to Azure Data Lake

This session shows you the basics on Azure Data Lake, and then some… This technical session includes demo’s on how to store information in Data Lake Store and how to use PowerBI to create reports based on data from Azure Data Lake.

Speakers

Rick Van Den Bosch

Betabit

Active in software development since 1999, I have been working with Microsoft Azure since it was introduced. I've performed numerous Azure projects and have drafted cloud migration advises and migration strategies for customers. Next to that I also design system architectures, coach... Read More →

Tuesday October 2, 2018 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 7

Azure

15:00 CEST

Eventing, Serverless, and the Extensible Enterprise

“Serverless” computing describes the latest wave of (cloud-) application platform technologies, where the complete responsibility for running and scaling the platform infrastructure hosting the application code is taken on by a cloud provider. The greatest upside of “serverless” platforms is that they provide an architectural harness that enables more developers to build highly scalable applications, and ready-made tooling to operate them. Serverless apps are increasingly interconnected with eventing and messaging infrastructures that take care of robust, high-scale data flows into and between app services and functions. In this talk, Clemens Vasters, Messaging Architect at Microsoft and standards architect working on OASIS AMQP and CNCF CloudEvents, will discuss the role of events and messaging in “serverless” and how the combination enables “the extensible enterprise” – enabling businesses to rapidly build and run extensions to their core application portfolios with minimal complexity

Speakers

Clemens Vasters

Clemens Vasters is Lead Architect in Microsoft’s Azure Messaging team that builds and operates a fleet of hyper-scale messaging services, including Event Grid, Service Bus, and Event Hubs. Clemens represents Microsoft in messaging standardisation in OASIS (AMQP) and CNCF (CloudEvents... Read More →

Tuesday October 2, 2018 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 4

Azure

15:00 CEST

How Far Can ‘Serverless’ Actually Go?

Azure Functions is getting a lot of traction, which is completely understandable in the fast-paced world of applications developed under agile methodologies. Comparing the world of IT and software development today with the one 10 years ago, when we knew not only what operating system our application was going to run on but also the exact part number of the server that was running the workload, we can only conclude that PaaS infrastructures have gone a far way! 
But how far? How much can you and is advisable that you externalize your infrastructure, anyway?  
Throughout this fast-paced advanced talk we will go the real micro-services way and develop a full application, top-to-bottom using Azure Functions. Seatbelt buckled yet?

Cofounder, Wintellect

Jeff Prosise is cofounder of Wintellect (www.wintellect.com), a developer consulting and education firm that provides services to companies all over the world. He has written nine books and hundreds of articles on software development, and today spends most of his time doing mobile... Read More →

Tuesday October 2, 2018 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 1

New technologies

15:00 CEST

Escape game by Microsoft

Make your way to the Microsoft booth and get access to the exclusive escape room at Techorama!

Tuesday October 2, 2018 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Secret room

Other

15:00 CEST

Designing the Future with Science Fiction. Will Future Technology Empower People With Disabilities?

It’s more than 30 years since the movie ‘Back to the Future’ was released. This and other sci-Fi classics all had weird and wonderful Technology that was the stuff of dreams but so much is now actually available and the future will quickly bring even more Technology that is today the stuff of sci-fi movies.
The presentation is not going to focus on what Sci-Fi movies have predicted. It will instead focus on how the predicted technology has empowered people with visible and hidden or cognitive disabilities.

Science fiction is more than a distraction from reality; it actually tells us a lot about the world we want to live in. Pay close attention to the futuristic technology envisioned in popular culture, and you will see glimpses of the changes that people want to see.

But what drives these innovations and advancements in Tech?
Technologists and futurists have dreamed visions of how Technology might make our lives easier in the future, for example the idea of a Smart Kitchen can be seen in the 60’s animated kids show, The Jetsons.

Interestingly though, these visions have been seen primarily from a convenience perspective – the idea of mass market products designed for the family of the future.

Since the technology boom of the 50’s, technology has been seen as freeing us from the domestic chores and allowing us the freedom of leisure and time.

So, are we missing the main opportunity of such innovations – the chance to improve the lives of many individuals for whom access is a big issue?

In recent years many research activities have focused on designs that aim to produce universally accessible systems that can be used by everyone, regardless of their physical or cognitive skills.

Just as the Industrial revolution gave birth to consumerism and mass market appeal, should we not be on the verge of an Accessible Revolution, which will enable and empower our civilisation – to Create a society whose sum is greater than its parts?

As Einstein said “Concern for man himself and his fate must always constitute the chief objective of all technological endeavours…in order that the creations of our minds shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind.”

So what is disability? Is it the person or the environment?
We believe that often, the negative perception around Disability is because it is seen as part of an identity, when actually Disability is more a consequence of our designed environment and societies attitudes.

MIT bionics designer Hugh Herr, who lost both his legs in a mountain climbing accident, recently said in a TED Talk on disability, “A person can never be broken. Our built environment, our technologies, are broken and disabled. We the people need not accept our limitation, but can transcend disability through technological innovation.”

We will all have an impairment at some stage in our lives and as we age these impairments increasingly become permanent. – affecting things such as Vision, Hearing, mobility & Cognitive. But impairment may also be temporary, caused by things such as surgery, fatigue and even drugs, such as alcohol.

So, how we can change attitudes and adapt environments which can inadvertently disable an individual? We think the answer is in Science Fiction, inspiring new technology which can be the bridge to help us cross this divide in attitudes and environment.

We don’t necessarily see disability in Science Fiction movies, but it does exist and we have identified our very own Access League of fictional superheroes from Science Fiction.

We will reveal our access heroes and explore how we, as the audience reflect on these characters. They will help to inspire us in our quest to evolve the current attitudes of disability through technological innovations, from something which is limiting to instead being empowering and aspirational.
It seems that with Technology in Sci-Fi, our attitudes towards disability are changed. In science fiction, disability is not a barrier to achievement or success as technology has removed these barriers. Instead of disabled characters, all we see is ability and their super-powers. Characters who are empowered and enabled by tech. We will then provide a glimpse into existing technology and areas of innovation, to explore how close we are to this science fiction future and discuss how we feel this might change our perceptions of disability.

Speakers

Sean Gilroy

Head of Cognitive Design & Neurodiversity Lead, BBC

I am the Head of Cognitive Design for BBC UX&D and the BBC’s formative Neurodiversity lead, based at MediaCityUK in Salford, England.In 2014 I co-created and led a small team researching the challenges facing Neurodivergent individuals in employment. This research delivered a series... Read More →

Leena Haque

Senior UX Designer and Neurodiversity Lead, BBC

Leena is currently a Senior UX Designer and also Neurodiversity Lead for the BBC initiative called BBC Cape (Creating A Positive Environment) aimed at researching interactive design through the lens of cognition and neurodiversity. Autism & ADHD are Leena’s super power. She is passionate... Read More →

Tuesday October 2, 2018 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 6

Softskills

15:00 CEST

Best Practices for Building Async APIs with ASP.NET Core

Did you know the main driver for async isn't performance but scalability? Ever wondered why it makes sense to async I/O-bound tasks, but why doing the same with a long-running algorithm can actually hurt scalability? Or why using .Result on a Task in ASP.NET can result in a deadlock but perfectly works in ASP.NET Core - yet you still shouldn't use it? For answers to all of that and more, join this session on async best practices for ASP.NET Core.

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... Read More →

Tuesday October 2, 2018 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 2

Web

15:00 CEST

JavaScript Futures—ES2018 and Beyond

JavaScript keeps on expanding. As adoption of the extensive new features from ES6 has spread and projects have adapted, the language has continued to evolve under the guidance of Ecma TC39. Over the past two years, another handful of constructs entered the ECMAScript specification. And there are nearly two dozen more proposals on the cusp of being added.

One thing is certain: the JavaScript community is not slowing down! How can we determine when it is “safe” to use a new feature? Investigate the new and proposed features of JavaScript. Understand the TC39 review process. And most of all, become empowered to prepare for what lies ahead.

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 October 2, 2018 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 3

Break and room switch

Tuesday October 2, 2018 17:30 - 17:45 CEST
All of Cinemec

17:45 CEST

Azure - Plug & Play Architecture

Microsoft Azure Platform offers a wide range of services, predominantly PaaS services. And building a solution architecture you will use various of these pluggable services. In this session a few real world Azure solution architectures will be discussed with 'plug & play' view. Why, how the solution where designed that way, pitfalls, alternatives, constraints and lessons learned.

Speakers

Steef-Jan Wiggers

Senior Consultant, CoditNL

Steef-Jan is a Microsoft Azure MVP, blogger, author and frequent public speaker. He has over 15 years of experience as a technical lead developer and application architect, specializing in custom applications, enterprise application integration (BizTalk), Web services and Microsoft... Read More →

Tuesday October 2, 2018 17:45 - 18:45 CEST
Room 7

Azure

17:45 CEST

Introduction to Azure 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 DocumentDB or MongoDB APIs), graphs (Gremlin API), and key/value entities (tables API). You’ll learn about global distribution, scale-out partitioning, tunable consistency, custom indexing, attachments, and more. We’ll also explore client development using the many available SDKs and APIs. Attend this session, and get up to speed on Cosmos DB today!
"

Speakers

Leonard Lobel

CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

Microsoft

I am a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate working for Microsoft, and my area of speciality is Xamarin apps. Prior to working for Microsoft I was a Xamarin and Microsoft MVP, and worked all around the world building desktop and mobile apps using .NET with C# and F#. I am also the author... Read More →

Tuesday October 2, 2018 17:45 - 18:45 CEST
Room 3

Mobile

17:45 CEST

Applying ML to Software Development

Machine Learning (ML) has proven to be quite effective in a variety of application domains, including speech recognition, object recognition, image retrieval etc. In each of these aforementioned application domains, ML based “programs” must adapt to changing conditions, handle large data sets often with irregularities, and come up with algorithms with little / incomplete knowledge. Sounds similar to software development? Turns out that ML is being applied to the field of software development including reverse engineering legacy code, software fault detection, and requirement analysis. In this session we will look at various examples of ML being applied to software development.

Speakers

Vishwas Lele

CTO, Applied Information Sciences

Vishwas Lele serves as CTO at Applied Information Sciences, Inc. Mr Lele is responsible for assisting organizations in envisioning, designing and implementing enterprise solutions related cloud and mobility. Mr Lele brings close to 28 years of experience and thought leadership to... Read More →

Tuesday October 2, 2018 17:45 - 18:45 CEST
Expo-theater (Room 9)

New technologies

17:45 CEST

The Connected Vessel - The worlds largest IoT Device

Imagine that you have you have the power of the cloud at your hands.... Imagine that you have one of the worlds largest IoT devices.... in the middle of the ocean.... Now try to connect them.

Join us for a session about architectural challenges, bending best practices and fun anecdotes from Maersk´s Connected Vessel journey. We will walk though how Maersk is building rich cloud capabilities by connecting the very physical world of a container vessel to Azure using IoT, Service Fabric, Edge Computing, VSTS and a lot more.

Speakers

Rasmus Hald

I build awesome cloud stuff for Maersk using modern DevOps practices, cloud tools and hands-free automation.

Tuesday October 2, 2018 17:45 - 18:45 CEST
Room 6

New technologies

17:45 CEST

Escape game by Microsoft

Make your way to the Microsoft booth and get access to the exclusive escape room at Techorama!

Tuesday October 2, 2018 17:45 - 18:45 CEST
Secret room

Other

17:45 CEST

Blockchain Internals : A Developers View of How Blockchain Works

The blockchain is described as the next revolution in computing as it solves the problem of distributed trust when there is no trust on the internet (Byzantine Generals Problem). Blockchain technology is generating an enormous amount of interest and is a current hot topic with financial institutions, insurance companies or any industry that works with transactional data that could benefit from the distributed trust it gives. The blockchain is also generating lots of investment from Venture Capital funds, so learning about this technology could certainly be career changing.

In this talk, we will explore what blockchain is in some detail from the conceptual use cases for it through to looking under the covers at how it works in detail. As the talk progresses, we will build up a sample implementation that will help developers form their mental model of what a blockchain is and how it works.

In this talk, I will cover

• Blockchain quick overview
• Cryptographic principles used by blockchain
• How transactions are stored in a block
• How transactions are hashed in Merkle trees
• Authorising transactions
• Verifying transactions in a block
• Solving the Byzantine Generals Problem
• Proof of work vs Proof of stake
• Maintaining consistency and consensus

You will leave this talk with a very good understanding of how the blockchain technology works and how it helps you solve the problem of trust on a trust-less internet. I will be demonstrating code written in C# and .NET Core 2 (Standard 2) specifically.

Speakers

Stephen Haunts

CTO, LadderPay

Tuesday October 2, 2018 17:45 - 18:45 CEST
Room 2

Security

17:45 CEST

Building Progressive Web Apps with React

Progressive web apps are a happy middle ground between a responsive web app and a native app. They are lightweight apps designed to conform to any device, work offline, and when appropriate, feel like a native app. But all this is made possible with JavaScript frameworks you already know. Come learn how to use your existing React knowledge to build the next generation of web applications.

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 October 2, 2018 17:45 - 18:45 CEST
Room 1

Web

07:30 CEST

Registration and breakfast

Wednesday October 3, 2018 07:30 - 08:45 CEST
All of Cinemec

08:45 CEST

Azure Stack: Lessons learned from use in the real world

Azure Stack is unique in offering a truly cloud consistent experience for users and developers. But just how consistent is that experience, and what do you need to know if you are developing on and for Stack?
In this session we’ll talk about what Stack has to offer and the two flavours it comes in: production MAS and development ASDK. We’ll focus on managing the ASDK and how key deployment decisions for MAS have implications for ASDK. We’ll cover running an ASDK within your network and how to configure it to give your development teams the best experience, and how to connect Stack within your DevOps pipeline.
Knowing where Stack and Azure are the same and where they diverge is critical to effective use. During the session we’ll see where those differences are, how some are dependent upon your deployment model and how to avoid issues in production by thinking ahead during development and planning.
The learnings I will cover all come from my own involvement in software development project targeted at Azure Stack. I will share my experiences and learnings and talk about where I believe Stack can be a good fit for your hybrid cloud project, and where not. Come to this session to learn about how you can use Azure-consistent services with and without an internet connection and what I believe are the current strengths and weaknesses of Azure Stack.

Speakers

Rik Hepworth

Consultant, Azure MVP and Evangelist, Black Marble

René van Osnabrugge

DevOps Consultant, Xpirit

René is always looking for improvements on all fronts. By using modern technology, implementing Continuous Delivery, DevOps practices and coaching in the domain of Scrum and Agile, he helps companies improve their software delivery process. René is an active blogger and speaker... Read More →

Wednesday October 3, 2018 08:45 - 09:45 CEST
Room 1

DevOps

08:45 CEST

Do or don’t. There’s no try. Or is there? The power of monads explained. Sort of.

One of the great things about being a programmer is that you never stop learning. Even after having programmed for almost 35 years, I still improve on the way I write code. Recently the way I write code changed once again when I started to apply monads and especially the Try class.

During a recent project, my team created a small library that ports the behavior of the Scala Try monad. Although at first this new monad didn't appeal to me, I soon really started to appreciate this style of programming, where we concatenate series of Map() and FlatMap() methods, using lambda’s, and avoiding abundant try-catch blocks, and many if statements and null checks.

In the meantime, I have contaminated many programmers with this style. Developers make it a sport to always start every method with e return statement. During this talk I’ll demonstrate the power of this simple monad, using many code examples (in Java, C# and TypeScript). Don't hesitate to join in.

Speakers

Sander Hoogendoorn

Sander Hoogendoorn is a dad, an independent consultant, software craftsman, coach, speaker, trainer and writer. He is seasoned in agile, Scrum, Kanban, continuous delivery, (no) software estimation, agile requirements, design patterns, domain driven design, UML, software architecture... Read More →

08:45 CEST

The Myth of a Normal Brain: Rewiring conventional thinking &the benefits of embracing Neurodiversity

Ever considered how hard it is to concentrate in classrooms or in meetings because the patterns on the walls are alive? Why do the words in an email begin to dance and whirl the closer you get to a deadline? What if you couldn’t find the words to properly explain why you do things differently to everyone else? What if you preferred to explain things using pictures instead Neurodiversity is a relatively new term and focuses on the positive attributes associated with hidden disabilities, such as autism spectrum conditions (ASC), AD(H)D, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Dyscalculia, Tourette’s and Learning Disabilities to name just a few. The future of workplace diversity is not what you think but how you think. Neurodiversity allows for new perspectives and ways of thinking that spur more creative solutions and innovations. This talk offers the opportunity for people from diverse backgrounds to connect and learn about these differences in a unique way and understand that there is a huge amount of untapped potential being overlooked by society in general. Come and be part of a Neurodiverse mind and discover how differently wired brains interact with their environment and the world around us.

Speakers

Sean Gilroy

Head of Cognitive Design & Neurodiversity Lead, BBC

Leena Haque

Senior UX Designer and Neurodiversity Lead, BBC

Wednesday October 3, 2018 08:45 - 09:45 CEST
Room 2

Softskills

08:45 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 October 3, 2018 08:45 - 09:45 CEST
Expo-theater (Room 9)

Web

Wednesday October 3, 2018 10:00 - 11:00 CEST
Room 5

Data

10:00 CEST

CI/CD for the Database - Powered by Containers

It’s difficult to fit SQL databases into a continuous delivery platform using standard techniques, but with containers it becomes easy.

In this session I’ll show you to run SQL Server in containers on Linux and Windows, and how to package your own database schema in a Docker image. That gives you a versioned, portable unit for your database. In non-production environments, you can run any version of the database in a container in seconds, without needing SQL Server installed.

In production you can run a container from the tried and tested Docker image to upgrade your existing database - in the datacenter or the cloud. I’ll show you how to automate the whole process in a CI/CD pipeline, which tests and promoted changes to production from every push to source control.

Speakers

Elton Stoneman

Microsoft MVP | Pluralsight Author | Dev Advocate @ Docker

Wednesday October 3, 2018 10:00 - 11:00 CEST
Room 8

DevOps

10:00 CEST

Improving design and code quality with Property-based testing

A suite of traditional unit tests will only be as strong as the possible arguments or parameters tested against your code. Quoting Romeu Moura: If you take a String as an argument, then the works of Shakespeare in Japanese & Korean are ONE valid input. Obviously, this can be achieved with parameterized testing. However, this makes the unit tests so big that it is harder to understand which behaviour it is validating. We want our unit tests to also serve as living documentation so they should be comprehensible and to the point.

Enter Property-Based Testing. In Property-Based Testing, we randomly generate data points within the boundary of a property to verify the property’s behaviour. This not only lets us test edge cases that could expose unwanted and unexpected errors in the code but also enables us to make small tests that are readable and clear. Making these tests will also force you to think harder about the problem at hand and improve your design and code quality.

In this technical session, Kenny & João demonstrates and explains what property-based testing is, and how to implement it in C# with FsCheck and Java with JUnit-Quickcheck. If you are interested in improving your unit testing, so you don’t have to worry much about test data anymore, but more about the problem your code is solving, this talk is for you!

Speakers

Kenny Baas

Kenny Baas is a Software Engineer and Consultant focusing on software quality at Xebia. He mentors teams by using practices and techniques from Domain Driven Design, Behaviour Driven Development, Test Driven Development and Continuous Delivery.He is an advocate for collaborating in... Read More →

João Rosa

João Rosa is a Software Developer, focused on delivering quality software that matters. Believes in the software crafts to provide software in sustainable peace; he is a DDD, BDD and TDD practitioner. Can't live without his CI/CD pipelineDuring his career he always pushed the teams... Read More →

Wednesday October 3, 2018 10:00 - 11:00 CEST
Room 3

Languages and Tools

10:00 CEST

Join me on my TDD journey

In the last couple of years, I've come to master TDD in an extraordinary way. Let me take you on a trip to find some beautiful places where TDD proved to be very powerful and let me show you the souvenirs I brought with me.

Most of my work is in C#/.NET but I'm convinced the experiences I had do apply everywhere. We'll take some side paths along NodeJS, GoLang, vue.js, and PowerShell. Promise.

Speakers

Jesse Houwing

MVP, Scrum trainer, Tech enthusiast, Tinkerer and depending on the topic sometimes called walking encyclopedia. Jesse helps team organize their tools and the way to work together.

Manuel Riezebosch

I come as an entertainer not a salesman. I want you to enjoy these ideas because I enjoy them.Manuel likes to be on the ball. You won’t find him busy with e-mailing or writing extensive documents or powerpoints. You’ll find him in an editor instead where he teaches by example... Read More →

Wednesday October 3, 2018 10:00 - 11:00 CEST
Room 6

Languages and Tools

10:00 CEST

Xamarin: All the Latest and Greatest

Xamarin continues our mission at Microsoft to delight developers and empower you to do more! Come learn about all the latest advancements from Microsoft made just for you in Visual Studio, Xamarin, and Xamarin.Forms.

Speakers

David Ortinau

Speaker, Techorama

Wednesday October 3, 2018 10:00 - 11:00 CEST
Expo-theater (Room 9)

Mobile

10:00 CEST

Speakers

Leonard Lobel

CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

Wednesday October 3, 2018 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Room 5

Data

11:30 CEST

From 100 to 1,000+ deployments a day!

With more than 1,000 deployments a day, Coolblue takes CI/CD seriously.
Pat will dive into what is required to enable development teams to deliver so quickly.
What tooling, guidance, and mindset is required, in order for us to deliver with such a rapid pace, at scale.

Speakers

Pat Hermens

Coolblue

Pat is a loud Australian that’s been living in the Netherlands for a few years – and still trying his best to learn Dutch... He's a skilled .Net developer, experienced public speaker, husband and father, but most of all, a geek that loves to solve real-world problems. Pat is currently... Read More →

Wednesday October 3, 2018 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Room 6

DevOps

11:30 CEST

Ship-it with Microsoft Azure, VSTS, and GitHub

Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) provides powerful Azure hosted services to build, deploy, and release to any platform. With VSTS public projects you can even use a single Azure service to build your open source applications from GitHub on hosted Windows, Linux, or Mac machines and share with the world. In this demo-packed session we show you how to get started for free and deploy to the world for any language, on any platform, using Microsoft Azure.

Speakers

Edward Thomson

Edward Thomson is a Program Manager for Git in Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services. Previously, he was a software engineer, building version control tools at Microsoft, GitHub and SourceGear. He is the co-maintainer of the libgit2 project, an author of books and video training about... Read More →

Wednesday October 3, 2018 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Room 2

DevOps

11:30 CEST

Learnings in Obsessive Experimentation

Customer obsession and experimentation are at the core of the way we develop our tools. In this session, you'll hear how the Visual Studio team researches customer needs and translates those into testable solutions. You'll get to hear some of the pitfalls we encountered along our journey, as well as best practices we've learned.

Speakers

Allison Buchholtz-Au

Program Manager, Microsoft

Wednesday October 3, 2018 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Room 4

Languages and Tools

11:30 CEST

Programming Quantum Computers in .Net using Q#

In the news quantum computers are all the latest rage. While the quantum computers we have today are still research topics and limited to toy examples, it's still a clear vision of what our future will hold. To aid in the development and understanding of quantum protocols, quantum algorithms, quantum error correction, and quantum devices, Quantum Architectures and Computation Group (QuArC) has developed new language Q#. Q# extends .Net framework with the necessary implementations and structures to specify quantum circuits which allow developers to emulate or can run a quantum computer as a virtual coprocessor.

Speakers

Rolf Huisman

Rolf works as an application lifecycle management (ALM), DevOps, and Continuous Delivery (CD) consultant at Info Support. His main focus is using the Microsoft Technologies (e.g. Visual Studio, TFS, Release Management, Azure, Azure Stack, MTM) to improve and accelerate software development... Read More →

Wednesday October 3, 2018 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Room 7

Languages and Tools

11:30 CEST

Understanding Redux By Building Your Own

Why does Redux work the way it does? And why would you want to use it anyway. In this session I'll create my own Redux implementation based on the needs of my example application. The session will be in C# but basically applies to any language. Some basic knowledge of Observables is advisable.

Speakers

Lander Verhack

trainer, 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 →

Wednesday October 3, 2018 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Expo-theater (Room 9)

Languages and Tools

11:30 CEST

Mixed Reality - It's all about that space, not pixels

Most coverage of Mixed Reality, especially about Microsoft HoloLens is all about great looking applications with pretty looking pixels.
I hate to break it to you: But it's all about that space, not pixels.
In this session we will talk about scenarios you can implement when utilizing spatial information.
It can be all about you, as the user: Where are you? What are you looking at? How do you roam around?
But it can also be about making smart use of the space around you.
We will discuss various ways to make use of spatial information in solutions. Comfortably leave your safe space and dive into Mixed Reality.

Speakers

Andreas Erben

Wednesday October 3, 2018 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Room 3

New technologies

11:30 CEST

Escape game by Microsoft

Make your way to the Microsoft booth and get access to the exclusive escape room at Techorama!

Wednesday October 3, 2018 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Secret room

Other

11:30 CEST

Beyond Bower: Strategies for ASP.NET Core Developers

Now that Bower has been depreciated, we need another approach that is easy for development and powerful for deployment of your ASP.NET Core project’s need for client-side dependency management. In this talk, Shawn Wildermuth will show you NPM, Yarn, LibMan, and discuss Gulp approaches to be ready to deploy your client-side dependencies in your ASP.NET Core project.

Speakers

Shawn Wildermuth

Microsoft MVP, Speaker and Pluralsight Author

Wednesday October 3, 2018 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Room 1

Web

12:30 CEST

Lunch and partner expo

Wednesday October 3, 2018 12:30 - 13:45 CEST
All of Cinemec

13:45 CEST

Cool sh*t you can build with the latest Windows

Want to know what kinds of cool things developers can do with the next version of Windows? If so, come to this session to see a train of demos that will excite and inspire. This will be super fresh, covering the very latest Windows developments. Demos may include Machine Learning, Mixed Reality, IoT, [redacted], and much more.

Speakers

Pete Brown

Microsoft

Pete works in the Windows and Devices group at Microsoft, covering desktop development, apps and tech for musicians, and cool stuff with blinky LEDs. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2009, Pete was a Silverlight and WPF MVP. Pete adores his C64, and especially the SID chip.

Giorgio Sardo

Microsoft

Giorgio leads a team of amazing engineers and evangelists at the forefront of the latest platform innovations in Microsoft. He influences product strategy by channeling feedback from developer ecosystem. He coordinates the technical messaging and keynotes at top Microsoft events like... Read More →

Wednesday October 3, 2018 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Expo-theater (Room 9)

Keynote

13:45 CEST

Enterprise transformation (and you can too)

“That would never work here.” You’ve likely heard this sentiment (or maybe you’ve even said it yourself). Good news: change is possible. Donovan Brown explains how Microsoft's Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) went from a three-year waterfall delivery cycle to three-week iterations and open sourced the VSTS task library and the Git Virtual File System.

Speakers

Donovan Brown

Microsoft

Meet The Man in the Black Shirt. Donovan Brown is a Principal DevOps Program Manager on Microsoft's US Developer Division team. Why is DevOps one of the hottest topics? Because it hurts the most. Luckily, Donovan's unofficial tag line is #RubDevOpsOnIt and he's here to make it all... Read More →

Wednesday October 3, 2018 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Room 1

Keynote

14:45 CEST

Break and room switch

Wednesday October 3, 2018 14:45 - 15:00 CEST
All of Cinemec

15:00 CEST

The strengths and weaknesses of dependency injection

"Concepts like the Dependency Inversion Principle, Inversion of Control containers and Dependency Injection libraries are often mixed up, but they are not the same. You shouldn’t use a DI library until you understand the problems your solving, nor is it always the best solution.

Since I’ve felt this pain many times myself, I’d like to use this session to create some clarity. First, I’ll demonstrate the reason why people typically use libraries like Unity and Autofac in their code bases. Then I’ll show you that those same people often use the Dependency Inversion Principle in the wrong way (and need to revert to mocking libraries to compensate). Then I’ll show you how to apply the principles properly by carefully designing the seams in your architecture. And finally, I’ll show you how an advanced library can connect the dots in a very elegant way."

Speakers

Dennis Doomen

Aviva Solutions

Dennis is an agile .NET architect with a broad interest in modern software development, Domain Driven Design, CQRS, Event Sourcing and everything agile. He specializes in designing enterprise solutions based on the .NET technologies as well as providing coaching on all aspects of... Read More →

Wednesday October 3, 2018 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 3

Architecture

15:00 CEST

Inside the Microsoft Azure Storage Service

The Microsoft Azure Storage Platform is probably one of the largest scale services you can imagine, running at a dazzling 30M transactions per second and keeping trillions of objects under management at Exabyte scale.

In this session, we will walk you through the internals of the architecture, the different layers of the implementation and explain how this service achieves its amazing uptime, combined with automagic geo-replication. We will go in depth on blob storage and talk you through the newest tier called Archive as well as the innovations by Microsoft Research to build sustainable low cost storage mechanisms that you never thought possible. As a take away, we will learn you the different ways to access the storage platform and share an overview of both simple and very complex mechanisms to get the best throughput.

Get ready for a brain meltdown, as this session will be 666

Speakers

Yves Goeleven

Solution Architect, 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 →

Kristof Rennen

Program Manager, Microsoft

Kristof Rennen is Program Manager Azure Storage at Microsoft, with over 12 years of experience in software development, architecture and design. Being in Cloud and Microsoft Azure for the past 6 years, his passion is building high quality, scalable and maintainable solutions, both... Read More →

Wednesday October 3, 2018 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 2

Azure

15:00 CEST

Taking a dip in the Azure Data Lake

Where to store large amounts of data, and how to turn it into useful information? Azure Data Lake can be the answer to these questions! It consists of two components: Data Lake Storage and Data Lake Analytics. In this session you will learn more on these two services: how to get started with it, what is the U-SQL language and how does it fit into the storage, and how to manage all this?

Speakers

Nico Jacobs

SQL server and BI trainer, U2U

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 →

Wednesday October 3, 2018 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 5

Data

15:00 CEST

Azure DevOps with VSTS, Docker, and K8

Have you heard? Containers are where it's at and where you want to run your ASP.NET Core apps on .NET Core. But what's this K8S thing all about? Will Azure make it easier? In this session, Brian will give you a crash course in taking an ASP.NET Core app and get it running up in a container on Azure managed with Kubernetes and all driven from a CI/CD pipeline in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS).

Speakers

Brian Randell

Partner, MCW Technologies LLC

Wednesday October 3, 2018 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 7

DevOps

15:00 CEST

PowerShell Core: What every developer should know

What You Need to Know About Open Source—Trust Me, I'm a Lawyer

Open source tools. We all use them. Whether an entire framework, a focused toolkit, or a simple custom component from GitHub, npm, or NuGet, the opportunity to improve our development speed while learning new things from open source projects is enticing.

But what does “open source” truly mean? What are our rights and limitations as open source consumers to use, modify, and redistribute these tools in a professional environment? The answer depends upon the OSS author's own decisions regarding project licensing. Come investigate the core principles of open source development and consumption while comparing and contrasting some of the more popular licenses in use today. Learn to make better decisions for your organization by becoming informed of how best to leverage the open source works of others and also how to properly license your own.

Speakers

Jeff Strauss

Wednesday October 3, 2018 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 8

Languages and Tools

15:00 CEST

Adding platform specific magic to cross-platform Xamarin Forms apps

Xamarin Forms is a fantastic abstraction on top of iOS, Android, Windows and Mac. It allows you to write one UI that is shared between platforms using the underlying UI controls native to each OS. The downside to this is the lowest-common-denominator model - only the features that are available on all platforms are provided out of the box. Luckily Xamarin provides a swathe of techniques to allow you to add platform specific tweaks.

In this session we will look at some of these techniques, from the small number of platform specifics provided out of the box by Xamarin, to writing effects and implementing your own custom renderers. Each technique will be demonstrated with a live coded example showing just how easy they are to get working.

By the end of this session you will have an understanding of the different tools you can use to make platform-specific tweaks to the UI, and be able to write your own effects and custom renderers.

Speakers

Jim Bennett

Microsoft

Wednesday October 3, 2018 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 6

Mobile

15:00 CEST

Escape game by Microsoft

Make your way to the Microsoft booth and get access to the exclusive escape room at Techorama!

Wednesday October 3, 2018 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Secret room

Other

16:00 CEST

Break and partner expo

Wednesday October 3, 2018 16:00 - 16:45 CEST
All of Cinemec

16:45 CEST

Building real world production-ready Web API's with .NET Core

You might have started building your microservices-based Web APIs using .NET Core. And you are ready to go into production. Did you think about hosting, scaling, monitoring, versioning, documentation, resiliency and logging? Because going into production with just your business logic is not enough. In this session you will learn how you have to build your evolving Web APIs using .NET Core and the Microsoft platform and run in a robust, hyper-scale production environment.

Speakers

Wednesday October 3, 2018 16:45 - 17:45 CEST
Room 3

DevOps

16:45 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

Principal Software Development Engineer, Microsoft

Wednesday October 3, 2018 16:45 - 17:45 CEST
Expo-theater (Room 9)

Languages and Tools

16:45 CEST

HyperLINQ - take your LINQ skills to the next level

LINQ is an essential part of every C# developer's toolbox, but are you getting the most out of it? Working with collections of data is a core part of pretty much every application you'll ever write, so becoming more effective at wielding the power of LINQ, has the potential to make a big impact on the quality of your code.

In this talk Mark will introduce several tips and tricks that will take your LINQ code to the next level. We'll look at using pipelines, thinking in patterns, being lazy as well as how to avoid performance pitfalls and extend LINQ.

Speakers

Mark Heath

Microsoft MVP, Pluralsight Author

Mark is a Microsoft MVP, Pluralsight author and open source developer. He currently works as .NET developer and software architect, building digital evidence management systems in Azure for the police. You can keep up with what he's doing on his blog at markheath.net or on Twitter... Read More →

Wednesday October 3, 2018 16:45 - 17:45 CEST
Room 6

Languages and Tools

16:45 CEST

Introduction to PowerApps

PowerApps is an O365 service that lets you build business apps that can run in the browser, tablet, or phone. To build PowerApps, no coding experience is required since PowerApps combines visual drag-and-drop concepts with Excel-like expressions for building the logic and working with data. You can build PowerApps against a modern SharePoint list or other types of data such as SQL and Excel. PowerApps also provides templates and sample data you can use to quickly build an app that you can customize to better suit your needs. In this session, you will learn the basics to building a PowerApp using PowerApps Studio.

Speakers

Christina Wheeler

SharePoint/O365 Trainer & Consultant, MVP

Wednesday October 3, 2018 16:45 - 17:45 CEST
Room 8

Languages and Tools

16:45 CEST

Escape game by Microsoft

Make your way to the Microsoft booth and get access to the exclusive escape room at Techorama!

Wednesday October 3, 2018 16:45 - 17:45 CEST
Secret room

Other

16:45 CEST

What you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask: Blockchain, Smart Contracts, and Ethereum

One of the hottest technologies of late is no doubt Blockchain. But what is a blockchain? Put simply, a blockchain is a digital transaction of records that’s arranged in chunks of data called blocks. These blocks then link with one another through a cryptographic validation known as a hashing function. Linked together, these blocks form an unbroken chain — a blockchain. A blockchain is programmed to record not just financial transactions but virtually everything of value.

Still confused about what can a blockchain really do? In this session, you will learn the fundamentals of blockchain, as well as learn how to implement Smart Contracts using Ethereum.

Speakers

Wei-Meng Lee

Founder, Developer Learning Solutions

Wednesday October 3, 2018 16:45 - 17:45 CEST
Room 7

Security

17:45 CEST

Closing reception

Wednesday October 3, 2018 17:45 - 20:00 CEST
All of Cinemec