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Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2026

Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!) Las Vegas 2026 is the premier developer conference for .NET and Microsoft ecosystem professionals. The conference offers five immersive days of cutting-edge training, covering the latest advancements in Visual Studio, .NET 9, ASP.NET Core, Generative AI, GitHub Copilot, Azure, Blazor, C#, and modern data solutions. Led by indust…

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63Speakers
4Sponsors
47On the bill · sessions
18Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at Visual, in alphabetical order.
Allen Conway
Principal Consultant · Xebia
Allie Barry
Product Manager · Microsoft
Alvin Ashcraft
Senior Content Developer · Microsoft
Amber Vanderburg
Founder · Pathwayz Group
Andrew Wang
Senior Software Engineer · Microsoft
Andy Sterland
Principal PM Manager · Microsoft
Angela Dugan
Vice President, Product Delivery · Red Foundry
Anson Horton
Partner Architect for Visual Studio · Microsoft
Bob Ward
Principal Architect, Microsoft Azure Data · Microsoft
Brady Gaster
Product Manager · Microsoft
Brian A. Randell
Partner · MCW Technologies
Cagri (Charlie) Aslan
Principal Software Engineering Manager · Microsoft
Cathy Sullivan
Product Leader · Microsoft
Chad Green
Senior Systems Architect · Jasper Engines & Transmissions
Chris Anderson
PM lead for the Fabric team · Microsoft
Dan Hellum
Program Manager · Microsoft
Daniel Roth
Principal Product Manager, ASP.NET · Microsoft
Davide Mauri
Principal Product Manager · Microsoft
David Ortinau
Principal Product Manager · Microsoft
Den Delimarsky
Principal Product Engineer · Microsoft
Divya Swarnkar
Product Manager · Microsoft
Drew Skwiers-Koballa
Principal Program Manager · Microsoft
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
CodeLogicPlatinum
Wai TechnologiesPlatinum
AikidoSilver
MicrosoftEvent Partner
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Agenda

Selected from 47 sessions on the bill.
  • Friday August 8 8:00am - 5:00pm

    Hands-On Workshop: Empowering Data Engineers and Analysts with Agentic AI: From Theory to Practice

    Microsoft Sessions
  • Friday August 8 8:00am - 5:00pm

    Workshop: Developer Dive into SQL Server 2025

    Microsoft Sessions
  • Friday August 8 8:00am - 5:00pm

    Workshop: Modernize Your Monolith: From .NET Framework to Microservices in Azure

    Microsoft Sessions
  • Monday August 4 2:00pm - 5:30pm

    Continued: Hands-on Lab: Building Real-world AI Applications with .NET & Microsoft.Extensions.AI

    Microsoft Sessions
  • Monday August 4 8:30am - 12:30pm

    Hands-On Lab: Building Real-world AI Applications with .NET & Microsoft.Extensions.AI

    Microsoft Sessions
  • Monday August 4 8:30am - 12:30pm

    Hands-On Lab: Get Started with .NET Aspire & ASP.NET Core for Distributed Application Building

    Microsoft Sessions
  • Thursday August 7 11:00am - 11:20am

    Fast Focus: Run Untrusted Code Safely with Azure Container Apps Dynamic Sessions

    Microsoft Sessions
  • Thursday August 7 11:00am - 11:20am

    Fast Focus: Sneak Peek at How Visual Studio's Code Editor Works Under the Hood

    Microsoft Sessions
  • Thursday August 7 11:30am - 11:50am

    Fast Focus: Chatting with Your Data in AI, Using .NET

    Microsoft Sessions
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 18 companies show up — and 1 bet on three roles at once?

Eighteen companies. one are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
1All threespeak · spons · exh
3Sponsoringsponsor only
14Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Microsoft

Speakers by seniority

17% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite46%
  • Founder / Owner58%
  • VP-level23%
  • Manager / Lead1930%
  • Product2133%
  • Engineer · IC1016%
  • Other roles23%

Of 63 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01MicrosoftSp·E44V
  2. 02Xebia4V
  3. 03AikidoSp·S
  4. 04CodeLogic, Inc.Sp·P
  5. 05Wai TechnologiesSp·P
  6. 06GitHub2V
  7. 07Jasper Engines & Transmissions1V
  8. 08MCW Technologies1V
  9. 09Neward and Associates1V
  10. 10NexArc Solutions LLC1V
  11. 11Pathwayz Group1V
  12. 12Pintas & Mullins1V
  13. 13Red Foundry1V
  14. 14responsiveX1V
Sponsors by tier
platinum2
50% of 4
silver1
25% of 4
event partner1
25% of 4