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Visual Studio Live! @ Microsoft HQ 2026

Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!®) @ Microsoft HQ 2026 is a five-day developer conference hosted at Microsoft Headquarters in Redmond, WA. The event delivers deep technical training for developers working with Microsoft technologies, featuring multiple focused tracks covering modern software engineering, full stack development, cloud & microservices, AI, data an…

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51Speakers
8Sponsors
1Exhibitors
47Sessions
14Companies · 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
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
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
Eamon O'Reilly
Lead PM on Azure Functions · Microsoft
Etienne Baudoux
Software Engineer · Microsoft
Harshada Hole
Sr. Product Manager · Microsoft

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

InfragisticsPlatinum
Particular SoftwarePlatinum
ProgressGold
Aikido SecuritySilver
DevExpressSilver
Uno PlatformSilver
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 14 companies show up, and 1 bet on three roles at once?

Fourteen 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
7Sponsoringsponsor only
1Exhibitingexhibitor only
5Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

Microsoft

Speakers by seniority

6% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite12%
  • Founder / Owner24%
  • Manager / Lead1733%
  • Product2039%
  • Engineer · IC918%
  • Other roles24%

Of 51 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1MicrosoftSponsor · Event Partner45
2Aikido SecuritySponsor · Silver-
3DevExpressSponsor · Silver-
4InfragisticsSponsor · Platinum-
5Particular SoftwareSponsor · Platinum-
6ProgressSponsor · Gold-
7Uno PlatformSponsor · Silver-
8UsioSponsor · Silver-
9ScaleOut SoftwareExhibitor-
10MCW Technologies1
11Rocket Mortgage1
12Slalom Consulting1
13Sleek Technologies, Inc.1
14Xebia1
Sponsors by tier
platinum2
25% of 8
gold1
13% of 8
silver4
50% of 8
event partner1
13% of 8
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, 2026Orlando4
NRF Big Show 2027January 10, 2027New York2

In the same series

Prior and forthcoming editions