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Visual Studio Live! @ Microsoft HQ 2025

Visual Studio Live! @ Microsoft HQ 2025 is a five-day conference at Microsoft Headquarters in Redmond, WA, focused on deep, hands-on learning for experienced developers. Attendees will master the Microsoft stack, including .NET 8/9, ASP.NET Core, Visual Studio 2022, Blazor, TypeScript, and Azure, with sessions led by Microsoft insiders and industry experts.…

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60Speakers
6Sponsors
3Exhibitors
47Sessions
18Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at Visual, in alphabetical order.

Allen Conway
Principal Consultant · Xebia
Allie Barry
Product Manager · Microsoft
Alvin Ashcraft
Senior Content Developer · Microsoft
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
Billy Hollis
Developer. Designer. Speaker. Author.
Bob Ward
Principal Architect, Microsoft Azure Data · Microsoft
Brady Gaster
Product Manager · Microsoft
Brandon Tylke
Chief Technology Officer · CodeLogic
Brian A. Randell
Partner · MCW Technologies
Cagri (Charlie) Aslan
Principal Software Engineering Manager · Microsoft
Cathy Sullivan
Product Leader · Microsoft
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
Deborah Kurata
Consultant, Speaker, Author
Den Delimarsky
Principal Product Engineer · Microsoft
Divya Swarnkar
Product Manager · Microsoft

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

CodeLogicPlatinum
CodeScenePlatinum
ProgressGold
/n softwareSilver
UsioSilver
MicrosoftEvent Partner

Agenda

Selected from 47 sessions.

  • 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
Company intelligence

What does it mean when 18 companies show up, and 2 bet on three roles at once?

Eighteen companies. two 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
2All threespeak · spons · exh
4Sponsoringsponsor only
3Exhibitingexhibitor only
9Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

Microsoft·CodeLogic

Speakers by seniority

15% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite58%
  • Founder / Owner23%
  • VP-level23%
  • Manager / Lead1728%
  • Product2033%
  • Engineer · IC1118%
  • Other roles35%

Of 60 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1MicrosoftSponsor · Event Partner43
2CodeLogicSponsor · Platinum2
3CodeSceneSponsor · Platinum-
4/n softwareSponsor · Silver-
5ProgressSponsor · Gold-
6UsioSponsor · Silver-
7AikidoExhibitor-
8Callback TechnologiesExhibitor-
9GeoBlazorExhibitor-
10Xebia2
11MCW Technologies1
12Neward and Associates1
13Pintas & Mullins1
14Red Foundry1
Sponsors by tier
platinum2
33% of 6
gold1
17% of 6
silver2
33% of 6
event partner1
17% of 6
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

Related events · by shared sponsors
ConferenceDateCityShared sponsors
Live! 360 Tech Con 2026November 15, 2026Orlando3
NRF Big Show 2027January 10, 2027New York2

In the same series

Prior and forthcoming editions