Modernizing Your Apps to .NET Core / .NET 5

With Microsoft's announcement about .NET 5, it's clear that .NET Core is the future, and a migration strategy is important for businesses and developers. In this workshop, we'll review some of the conceptual differences of .NET Core, and outline strategies for migrating a codebase with minimal pain. From there, we'll get into specific strategies and tactics for migrating .NET Framework applications, along with pitfalls along the way. This specific session will focus on web-based and services based applications, but many of the strategies will apply to desktop applications as well. Attendees will leave with .NET Core demystified, and a playbook for how to modernize their applications over time while providing value along the way.

Sean Killeen

.NET Specialty Lead, Excella

Originally from the Philadelphia area, Sean has 15 years of experience solving problems as an IT professional and developer for commercial, non-profit, and federal clients. He's currently the .NET Specialty Lead at Excella Consulting -- he *highly* recommends you check them out. He recently served on a modernization project that industry analysts called "more complex than the moon landing". He also servers as a co-trainer for Excella's Agile Testing & Automation and Agile Engineering courses. Aside from loving his work way too much, there's a good chance he's enjoying/stressing about being a new homeowner, sipping great beer, exploring the Arlington area, or singing somewhere. You can find him on Twitter at @sjkilleen or blogging not nearly often enough at SeanKilleen.com. He doesn't bite; say hi!

From Zero to Hero with Azure DevOps

The workshop is all about DevOps integration with Microsoft Azure, so it targets an Architect, Developer and IT Pro audience. This provides an excellent resource for getting up to speed on the latest features offered by Azure DevOps and Microsoft Azure for building better automation and DevOps integration. Paul Hacker and Dan Redman will provide a deep dive into topics covering how to manage, automate, and transform applications and workloads within Microsoft Azure.

Paul Hacker

DevOps Architect at Microsoft

Paul Hacker, a DevOps Architect with Microsoft, has over 15 years of application architecture, design, development, and management expertise in Microsoft technologies. Paul has a depth of experience in DevOps, ALM, Process Improvement, and Team Foundation Server and VSTS. Having distinguished himself as a leader in the IT industry he has been awarded the distinction of Microsoft MVP in the ALM category every year between 2006 - 2017. Paul is based in Zionsville Indiana, near Indianapolis.

Daniel Redman

DevOps Architect at Microsoft

Bio coming soon...

Intro to Web Components

Web Components are a set of web platform APIs that allow you to create new custom, reusable, encapsulated HTML tags to use in web pages and web apps. With libraries like lit-html built by the Polymer Project to extend Web Components, it is now possible to easily create fast Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) without the overhead of a framework.

This workshop deep dives into Web Components and the latest from the Google Polymer team: lit-html & LitElement. You'll learn how to build your own components with both vanilla JavaScript and LitElement and style them with Custom Properties (CSS Variables). To truly demonstrate their power, we’ll show how to create a library of shared components and integrate them into existing web applications, including one built with React.

John Riviello

Distinguished Engineer at Comcast

John Riviello created his first hypertext document on the Internet in 1996 and has been obsessed with building for the web ever since. He spends his days as Distinguished Engineer and Lead Frontend Developer at Comcast, where he works on the XFINITY customer websites and web applications. He is also the author of the Lynda.com course "CSS to Sass: Converting an Existing Site." In his free time, he prefers surfing waves over surfing the Internet.

Chris Lorenzo

Distinguished Engineer

Chris has worked at Comcast since 2007 -- currently as a Distinguished Engineer. He enjoys building/motivating teams and ramping up new projects using the latest patterns and web primitives. Besides coding in Javascript, he loves spending time with his family and helping out in the community. He streams regularly on twitch and is a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies.

Doing More with Serverless on Azure

In this workshop, we will review serverless based architectures and get hands-on with creating your own event-based solution using Azure Event Grid, Azure Functions, and Azure CosmosDb.

Attendees need to bring their own laptop, Visual Studio and/or Visual Studio Code, Azure Subscription (owner permission) and Azure DevOps

Rich Ross

MTC Technology Architect and amateur live-streamer.

Rich Ross is Technology Architect at the Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) in Philadelphia. He spends much of his time talking to customers about their challenges, architecting Azure solutions and building innovative applications to showcase technologies. Rich has more than 25 years of business and IT experience in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry. He is a contributor to many local user groups including Philly.net and TriState SharePoint. Rich also helps to organize and run Philly .net Code Camp, a bi-annual event for developers and businesses in the Mid-Atlantic area.