The full TechBash 2024 schedule is now available on our website, including six workshops, two huge keynotes and 70+ kick-ass sessions. Check it out, register today, and plan your week!

TechBash 2024 Developer Conference at a Glance:

• Where: Kalahari Resort & Convention Center, Pocono Manor, PA
• When: September 24-27 (workshops on Tuesday, sessions Wed/Thu/Fri)
• How much: Standard registration before discounts - 3-day ($799); 4-day ($999) - Save 10% with EventBrite code DOTNET10
• Hotel rate: $184/night Monday thru Friday night (rates available until Aug 24th)

Tuesday Workshops

Every 4-day ticket holder will join the workshop of their choice on Tuesday, September 24th. This year, we have in-depth workshops on Blazor, accessibility testing, public speaking, parallel programming in C#, web development with Astro, and Kubernetes. Join us and learn the real-world skills you need for today's hottest developer technologies.

This year's workshop speakers are:

• Jeffrey T. Fritz - Microsoft's .NET Community Guy and Live Streamer
• Erissa Duvall - Accessibility Ally and Engineer
• Jeremy Clark - Microsoft MVP; Developer Betterer
• Nicole Tibaldi - Senior Engineering Manager at The New York Times
• Jason van Brackel - Lead Associate @ Booz Allen Hamilton
• Nick Hodges - Writer. Presenter. Nerd.

Wednesday

Our Wednesday highlights include AWS Dev Advocate Brandon Minnick's opening keynote, a full day of world-class sessions, the opening of our sponsor exhibits, great meals, and our always-popular evening Welcome Reception in the River Rooms.

Thursday

We kick off Thursday with a .NET-focused keynote from Microsoft's Maddy Montaquila, continue with another full day of world-class sessions, plus an amazing breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack. Thursday is the second and final day to meet with our sponsors too! They'll have some great giveaways later in the day. We'll reconvene Thursday evening for Game Night, featuring board games, card games, snacks and more!

Friday

In addition to being another awesome day of sessions, Friday is Family Day! Bring the kids for our Family Day sessions. The family sessions are still being finalized. Check out the schedule so far! We'll also have a full day of developer-focused sessions, plus delicious coffee, meals, and snacks.

Join our TechBash 2024 sponsor lineup!

We still have some great opportunities to sponsor TechBash 2024. Join us at the Kalahari Resort in September and meet our attendees. We always have a great mix of talented developers join us at TechBash, and they love to learn how our sponsors can help them solve problems and build great solutions.

Can't make it to TechBash? You can become a Silver Sponsor and we'll provide your materials to our attendees or keep an unstaffed table refreshed with your materials. Contact us to learn how we can partner with you!

Welcome to 2024! We're so excited to get this rolling for TechBash 2024. We have a few announcements and reminders for attendees, speakers, and sponsor today.

First a reminder to save the dates for TechBash 2024. We'll be back at the Kalahari Resort and Convention Center in the Poconos this fall. It's a little earlier in the fall this year... September 24th through 27th. Here's the projected high-level schedule:

• Tuesday 9/24: Full day & half-day workshops
• Wednesday 9/25: Sessions and Welcome Reception
• Thursday 9/26: Sessions and Game Night (families welcome for games of all kinds)
• Friday 9/27: Sessions and Family Day (bring your kids)

Early bird ticket sales will be opening before you know it. Subscribe to our email newsletter to be the first to get notified.

Next, we're announcing the dates for our TechBash 2024 Call for Speakers. It will be back on Sessionize and will be open January 29th through March 8th. More info and links coming soon!

Finally, if you're interested in sponsoring TechBash this year, our 2024 Sponsor Prospectus is now available on our site. Download it and reach out to sponsor@techbash.com with any questions or ideas of your own.

That's all for today. We hope that everyone attending CodeMash this week has an amazing time!

Due to speaker travel and scheduling conflicts, there have been several changes to the TechBash schedule. We had some speakers with conflicts over the last few weeks, and others have graciously stepped in to fill those spots on the schedule. You can always view the latest schedule on our website or in the TechBash mobile app (see below).

We are excited to have an amazing new workshop on cross-platform .NET apps to replace the OpenTelemetry half-day workshop which was removed due to speaker travel issues. You can still register for 1-day, 3-days, or 4-days and save 10% with EventBrite discount code DOTNET10. This year we have 1-day registration for the Tuesday workshops available for the first time!

Updated Workshop Duo: Azure MLOps & Building beautiful, performant, single-codebase Web, Mobile & Desktop apps with .NET

Steve Bilogan will now be presenting the afternoon workshop in this Workshop Duo track. This is a hands-on, semi-guided workshop in which attendees will be asked to complete a series of exercises to build a complete cross-platform YouTube-like application using the open-source Uno Platform.

Get the TechBash app to stay up-to-date and build your schedule

The TechBash app is available again this year. Use the app to build your schedule, get session and room info, and submit your speaker evaluations. We have great prizes for random eval submitters from Packt Publishing and CodeSmith Tools.

• Get it on iOS
• Get it for Android

New Sponsor too

We're excited to welcome Uno Platform back as a TechBash 2023 Gold Sponsor! Come meet them in the Poconos next week.

In case you missed it, we've announced the lineup of sessions, speakers, and workshops for TechBash 2023. The full schedule will be coming soon, as well as some big keynote announcements. Early bird registration will be our lowest prices of the year, and the time to register at those rates ends on July 4th. Email us at groups@techbash.com for information about discounts for teams of five or more.

All 4-day registrants will select a full-day or pair of half-day workshops to attend on Tuesday, November 7th. We have some great options to choose from this year.

It's time to register for TechBash 2023. 3-day and 4-day early bird tickets are now available on EventBrite. We're back at the Kalahari Resort and Convention Center in Pocono Manor, PA this fall. Join us November 7-10 for great keynotes, workshops, sessions, food, swag, and the best water slides in the Northeast U.S. Register soon because early bird rates are valid only through July 4th.

Get more information about our workshops, sponsorship opportunities, hotel rooms, and more on techbash.com. Want to send your dev team? Email us to ask about discounts for groups of five or more.

Workshop options for 4-day registrations

- Design and Develop a Serverless Event-Driven Microservice-Based Solution (Chad Green)

During this full-day workshop, you will start by designing a solution using serverless and event-driven cloud services using microservice patterns. Then you will build that solution using .NET, Azure services, and other best-practice tools. Finally, you will deploy that solution to the cloud so your customers can reap the rewards of a well-architected, reliable, and scalable solution that meets their needs today and provides for growth in the future.

- Test-Driven Development (TDD) Workshop Duo (Brendan Enrick & Sarah Dutkiewicz)

Establishing Good TDD Habits In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn fundamental techniques to improving your code through TDD and Pair Programming. You’ll sharpen your skills working with your peers on programming exercises designed to instill good techniques that you’ll be ready to apply on your current and future code. -and- Mastering TDD in Legacy Code In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn to effectively use the principles and practices of increasing the reliability and maintainability of your code through testing and pair programming. You’ll sharpen your skills working with your peers on programming exercises designed to instill good practices that you’ll be ready to apply to non-trivial codebases.

- Securely Developing Infrastructure as Code & CI/CD with GitHub Actions (Chris Ayers)

During the first session we will examine how to leverage open source tools to: Scan for security and configuration issues using tools like tfsec, terrascan, and checkov Securely configure Terraform backends like AzureRM Securely pass variables and input into Terraform Securely deploy Terraform to clouds like Azure -and- In the second session, we will learn about building and deploying applications using Github Actions. We will learn diverse ways to trigger our builds and build different types of applications. We will work up from basics and fully understand how workflows run, how to select and call different actions, and how to handle configuration and secrets. After this session you'll be able to build and deploy your software from GitHub.

- Azure MLOps Workshop (Carey Payette) & Troubleshooting and Monitoring Production Apps w/ OpenTelemetry (Yosef Arbiv)

Many organizations are looking to train and deploy custom-trained machine learning models. MLOps provides environments, compute, data organization, versioning, and end-to-end pipelines that bring your models to fruition. The first workshop provides an overview of MLOps in Azure and then proposes a series of challenges for you to solve alone or in a group. -and- The second workshop will introduce the fundamentals of OpenTelemetry and how to use it to get traces from your app. We will build an application, instrument it with OpenTelemetry, and analyze it on a UI backend. After this workshop, you will be able to understand how to add auto instrumentation to get distributed traces from your code. How to collect and present them on a backend UI and analyze them to debug your application.

- Workshop 5 - To Be Confirmed Soon (TBD)

Announcing our first TechBash 2023 sponsors!

Can't get away from work for 3 or 4 days? We've got you covered. TechBash now has a limited number of single day tickets* available for purchase for only $299. Check out the full schedule**, decide which day(s) have the best content for you, and register today!

The meals and activities provided to attendees on any given day are also available to single-day ticket holders on the day they attend (breakfast and lunch are provided daily).

• Buy a 1-day ticket for Thursday and come out for game night after dinner!
• Buy a 1-day ticket for Friday and take advantage of our Family Day sessions for kids (schedule and details coming soon)!
• Our sponsors will be available to attendees all day Wednesday and Thursday!
• We have great keynotes lined up for Wed/Thu mornings too!

You can still stay overnight at the Kalahari and get full access to the water park. Reservation details here.

*Single day tickets are available for Wednesday (11/9), Thursday (11/10), and Friday (11/11) only.
**Schedule subject to change at the discretion of conference organizers.

We're excited to announce our second keynote. Crux Conception will be joining us from Indiana to present Is there #Stress in the world of #Tech? Here is some more about Crux:

Crux resides in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and has over 20 years of Law Enforcement (Now-Retired), Criminal Profiling and teaching experience (Adjunct Professor). Crux has now taken his years of experience, education research and training; to incorporate novel methods of teaching/learning. Crux has utilized his background in Psychology, Team Building and Behavioral Profiling to implement said methods to take out the law-enforcement aspect and make these skills people/civilian practical.

His keynote will cover how to manage your work life and cope with the demands of being an employee in today's world. No matter what profession you're employed by, there is always some form of stress that comes alongside it, and this training will expose new coping skills for success!

This keynote offers solutions to support individuals afflicted by stress within the IT community:

• Employee input
• Better task content
• Amplified job control
• Equal production values
• Career expansion
• Enhanced peer socialization
• More workplace ergonomics

Key takeaways include:

• Overall alertness- regarding the onset of stress
• Stress at one's place of employment
• Mentally supporting yourself
• Recognize the best method in a tense setting

There are only four more days remaining in the TechBash 2022 early bird registration period. Talk to your boss and register today! If your company will be sending more than five people to the event, email groups@techbash.com to get more information about our group discounts.

Sponsor Spotlight

We would like to thank Speaker Sponsor, The New York Times, for sponsoring the travel of one of our speakers. Want to sponsor TechBash? Email sponsor@techbash.com for more information or download our sponsor prospectus.

This week we are highlighting our two keynote presentations. First up is Jeff Blankenburg. For those of you who don't know Jeff, he is a Chief Technical Evangelist at Amazon Alexa. Here is a little more about him:

Jeff Blankenburg spent the early part of his career in digital advertising, building websites for Victoria's Secret, Abercrombie & Fitch, and Ford Motor Company, among others. He also spent 8 years at Microsoft, primarily as an evangelist for any recent technology he could get his hands on. Today, he works on the Amazon Alexa team helping developers make Alexa even smarter. Jeff has also spoken at conferences all over the world, including London, Munich, Sydney, Tokyo, and New York, covering topics ranging from software development technologies to soft skill techniques. He also serves as an organizer for the Stir Trek conference.

Jeff's keynote at TechBash is titled 'The Future of People'. We are so excited to hear from him this November:

As we continue to embrace artificial intelligence, we will see a new future for how people live their lives. We will take a quick look at how AI can impact humanity for the better, and some of the advancements we can look forward to.

Join us November 8-11 at the Kalahari Resort and enjoy the amazing keynotes, workshops, and sessions at TechBash 2022. The Early Bird registration period is nearly over. Buy your tickets by July 6th to get our lowest prices. If you're bringing a group of five or more, email groups@techbash.com for information about group discounts.

It's time to register for TechBash 2022. 3-day and 4-day early bird tickets are now available on EventBrite. We're back this fall, in-person, at the Kalahari Resort and Convention Center in Pocono Manor, PA. Join us November 8-11 for great keynotes, workshops, sessions, food, swag, and the best water slides in the Northeast U.S. Register soon because early bird rates are valid only through July 6th.

Get more information about our speakers, sponsors, hotel rooms, and more on techbash.com.

Want to send your dev team? Email us to ask about discounts for groups of five or more.

Greetings, speakers!

We're thrilled to inform you that our call for speakers for TechBash 2022 is now open here.

We are hosting our CFP on Sessionize once again this year, and you can submit proposals for standard sessions or workshops through April 13th.

TechBash 2022 will be happening on November 8-11 at the Kalahari Resort and Convention Center in the Poconos. This location is the second largest indoor waterpark in the U.S. Tuesday, Nov 8th will be our optional day of full-day workshops for attendees.

Head over to our home page for more information about TechBash or email our speaker committee (speaker@techbash.com) with any questions.

Please tell your friends! We want to make this the biggest, most diverse TechBash developer conference yet. We hope to see you this fall!

- Your TechBash Organizers