.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

Early Bird

01.05.2024 until 30.05.2024 Max 100 tickets

299.00CHF

Regular

399.00CHF

Speakers

Speakers and Sessions can change at anytime and without notice

Christian Weyer

Thinktecture AG, CTO, Microsoft MVP & RD

Christian Weyer

Christian Weyer is co-founder and CTO of Thinktecture AG. As a Microsoft MVP, Google GDE, and Microsoft RD, he is an engaged and passionate speaker at various software conferences and events worldwide. For more than 25 years, his heart has always been with the latest technologies and how to apply them reasonably to ISV and enterprise solutions.

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

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).

Poornima Nayar

.NET Developer, Microsoft MVP, Umbraco MVP

Poornima Nayar

Poornima is a .Net developer with over 10 years of experience in .Net and Umbraco. She is passionate about learning new technologies and keeping herself up-to-date with the latest developments in technology. Outside her work, Poornima enjoys music and is undergoing training in Indian Classical music. Based in Langley, UK she mothers a little girl and spends her spare time reading, cooking and watching movies.

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

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.

Patrick Jahr

qupaya technologies GmbH, Senior Software Engineer & Consultant, Microsoft MVP

Patrick Jahr

As a passionate web developer with over a decade of experience, I bring comprehensive knowledge in both front-end and back-end areas. Since my beginnings in web development, I have continuously evolved and am now skilled in using various technologies and frameworks such as Angular with TypeScript or Blazor with C# and .NET. My expertise spans the entire spectrum of development, from designing engaging user interfaces to implementing back-end systems. Additionally, one of my passions is sharing my knowledge and experiences with the community through talks, articles, or code sharing.

Schedule

TBD

Registration and Coffee

07:30 - 08:30

TBD

08:30 - 09:40 CINEMA 3

TBD

Coffee break

09:40 - 10:10

AutoGen: Building AI agents for autonomous task solving

10:10 - 10:55 Intermediate CINEMA 3

Christian Weyer

Thinktecture AG, MVP & RD

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

REST, gRPC, GraphQL or Asynchronous Messaging

12:50 - 13:35 Intermediate CINEMA 8

Poornima Nayar

.NET Developer, Microsoft MVP, Umbraco MVP

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

gRPC Code-First with ASP.NET Core 8 & Blazor WebAssembly

15:00 - 15:45 Intermediate CINEMA 6

Patrick Jahr

Microsoft MVP

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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