Techorama 2017: Full Schedule

07:30 CEST

Registration & breakfast

Tuesday May 23, 2017 07:30 - 08:30 CEST
Hollywood

08:30 CEST

Azure: The Intelligent Cloud

Experience the newest technologies in Azure by joining Scott Guthrie for a session on how you can do more on the intelligent cloud. Scott will present a deep dive into Microsoft’s cloud services, advanced workloads and capabilities. He’ll do a number of demonstrations first-hand to show how these solutions can enable you to achieve more using the best of the Linux ecosystem and the best of the Windows ecosystem, together. Demos will include the latest in infrastructure, enterprise mobility + security, Xamarin/mobile development, SQL, Data Lake, Cognitive Services, open source capabilities, Hybrid cloud, Azure Stack, Logic Apps, developer tools and services, containers and more.

Speakers

Scott Guthrie

EVP of Cloud + Enterprise, Microsoft Corporation

Tuesday May 23, 2017 08:30 - 09:45 CEST
Room 9

Keynote, Level 200

09:45 CEST

Break & Room Switch

Tuesday May 23, 2017 09:45 - 10:00 CEST
Hollywood

10:00 CEST

Trump vs Clinton: Data Visualisation Lies & how to spot them

During the acrimonious US election, both sides used a combination of cherry-picked polls and misleading data visualization to paint different pictures with data. In this session, we will use a range of Microsoft Power BI and SSRS technologies in order to examine how people can mislead with data and how to fix it. We will also look at best practices with data visualisation. We will examine the data with Microsoft SSRS and Power BI so that you can see the differences and similarities in these reporting tools when selecting your own Data Visualisation toolkit. Whether you are a Trump supporter, a Clinton supporter or you don't really care, join this session to spot data lies better in order to make up your own mind.

Speakers

Jen Stirrup

Speaker, Techorama

Speaker, Techorama

René is always looking for improvements on all fronts. By using modern technology, implementing Continuous Delivery, DevOps practices and coaching in the domain of Scrum and Agile, he helps companies improve their software delivery process. René is an active blogger and speaker... Read More →

Tuesday May 23, 2017 10:00 - 11:00 CEST
Room 13

Dev

10:00 CEST

Look, holograms! - Real-World HoloLens Development with Unity

2016 is the year for VR developers. 2017 could become the AR and Mixed Reality Revolution. Devices like the Microsoft HoloLens are turning science fiction movie technology into reality. Through live code demos, you will leave this session understanding the building blocks needed to create a compelling HoloLens application. Rene will demonstrate some of the apps he's worked on, and share how he was able to overcome challenges. His best practices and recommendations will help you avoid pit falls, and show you how to get started on your own mixed reality apps.

Speakers

Rene Schulte

René Schulte is Director of Immersive Experiences at IdentityMine / Valorem leading teams across the globe.He has more than 10 years experience with VR, AR/MR technology and 3D programming, developing for the Microsoft HoloLens since 2015.He is a frequent speaker at conferences like... Read More →

Tuesday May 23, 2017 10:00 - 11:00 CEST
Room 4

Dev

10:00 CEST

Typescript- Beginner to Advanced

In this one hour session of intense code and concepts, Chander will take you from a beginner level in Typescript to an advanced one. If you’ve been in his sessions, you know he’s authentic and has a lot of fun.

Speakers

Chander Dhall

President, Cazton

Man, married, father, co-founder eMenKa, co-founder eFenKa, co-organizer of Hack Belgium, startup coach, public speaker, incurable optimist and part-time nerd.

Tuesday May 23, 2017 10:00 - 11:00 CEST
Room 12

Soft skills

11:00 CEST

Break & Partner Expo

Tuesday May 23, 2017 11:00 - 11:30 CEST
Hollywood

11:05 CEST

WTF#? - Look! Rider supports F#! (by Matt Ellis of JetBrains)

Rider isn’t just a new, cross platform C# (VB, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, XAML) .NET IDE from JetBrains. Oh no. It’s now also an F# IDE.
Come and see how we’ve added F# to Rider, and how it can help you work with F# projects as well as mixed solutions of C# and F#.

Tuesday May 23, 2017 11:05 - 11:25 CEST
Partner stage

Partner

11:30 CEST

Cardinality Estimates in SQL Server

SQL Server 2014 introduced a new cardinality estimator (CE). This feature allows for statistics to be calculated differently than previous versions of SQL Server, often (but not always) resulting in better query performance.

Attend this session and understand how, why, and when SQL Server uses statistics and how this new feature will help improve performance. We will discuss the differences between the legacy and new CE, discuss examples, see the CE in action, and discuss tips and tricks for you to deploy in order to make certain your queries are getting the best execution plans.

Speakers

Thomas LaRock

Thomas LaRock is a Head Geek at SolarWinds and a Microsoft Certified Master, SQL Server MVP, VMware vExpert, and a Microsoft Certified Trainer. He has over 15 years’ experience in the IT industry in roles including programmer, developer, analyst, and database administrator. LaRock... Read More →

Tuesday May 23, 2017 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Room 11

Data

11:30 CEST

PowerShell ❤️ SQL Server: Modern Database Administration with dbatools and dbareports

Join PowerShell MVP & DBA Chrissy LeMaire and PowerShell Expert & DBA Rob Sewell to learn how you can take advantage of some amazing community modules to improve your work/bacon life balance.

We will show you how to perform many DBA tasks easily and simply using PowerShell. Need to properly configure tempdb? We've got you covered. Not sure if all of the SQL Servers in your estate are set to the proper power plan? A single PowerShell command can help. Want to alter the schedule for an Agent Job on dozens, hundreds or even thousands of servers? We will teach you how easy that is, along with many other solutions as well as showing you how to easily gather information about your estate and display it in SSRS or PowerBI.

Our session is aimed at DBAs, from junior to senior, who want to embrace the latest methods and increase their toolset.

Speakers

Join me in discovering the top features that were introduced with Windows Server 2016. The session will cover a variety of topics, including security, storage, virtualization, automation, …

Speakers

David De Vos

Synergics

David De Vos - architect and technology geek - is well-known for the rock solid and secure solution designs. He’s a Microsoft certified solutions expert since 2000, Microsoft virtual academy founder and early adopter of new technologies. David successfully led and participated... Read More →

Tuesday May 23, 2017 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Room 14

IT Pro

11:30 CEST

API Management in Azure - Part I

Nowadays, APIs are everywhere. They became so prominent that Azure created the API Management. In short, it allows you to expose custom APIs to subscribers with a high level of control over caching, throttling and the HTTP traffic in general. In this session, we will see how to expose and consume back-end APIs through the API Management and how to restrict the access to our backend only to the API Management VIP. We will discuss the roles (publisher, developer) and the use-cases where API Management comes in handy.

Speakers

Stephane Eyskens

Stephane Eyskens is a freelance consultant, specializing in Office 365 and Azure PaaS. He is also a nine-times MVP award recipient.

Tuesday May 23, 2017 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Room 3

SharePoint

11:30 CEST

Office 365 Data and Security

Office 365 is such a large platform with multiple entry points depending o the application you are accessing. Knowing how to secure Office 365 for your employees should be a number one priority. In this session we will look at authentication protections and how to protect your end users and their data within Office 365

Speakers

Liam Cleary

Associated Director, Protiviti

Liam began his career as a Trainer of all things computer related. He quickly realized that programming, breaking and hacking was a lot more fun. He spent the next few years working within core infrastructure and security services, until he found SharePoint. He now works as a Solution... Read More →

Tuesday May 23, 2017 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Room 6

SharePoint

11:30 CEST

Using LinkedIn To Get Results

Focusing on actionable, tactical things to do on LinkedIn. This is not a "what is LinkedIn," nor is it a "here's how to do all the things on LinkedIn." Rather, it's a session on the things to do that bring the highest value to you (or, to your company). The focus is on individuals and career management (networking or personal branding).

Speakers

Jason Alba

Speaker, Techorama

Pluralsight author, author of 3 books, CEO of JibberJobber.com

Tuesday May 23, 2017 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Room 2

Soft skills

12:30 CEST

Lunch & Partner Expo

Tuesday May 23, 2017 12:30 - 13:45 CEST
Hollywood

12:35 CEST

DevOps is coming for you (by Hannes Lowette of Axxes)

The IT world is a rather young industry, and as a consequence, things are evolving rapidly. More than once, 'the way things are done' have changed. And they will change again during the rest of your career. One of the next big changes that no of us will be able to escape is 'DevOps'. There are many definitions for that word. If you look at job openings, it might mean 'system engineering by automating everything', if you talk to recruiters, it might be a guy that has the combined skills of a developer and a sysadmin, but to me, DevOps is a mentality. And one we won't be able to escape...

Tuesday May 23, 2017 12:35 - 12:55 CEST
Partner stage

Partner

12:55 CEST

Help, my boss hates me! (by David Stroobants of Kenze)

First, let me be clear. I don't hate you! (Really, I don't!) But that doesn't mean I always like the things you do ;-)

I used to be an employee for many many years before I turned over to the dark side and became "a manager" myself. Maybe now is a good time to share with you some of the things that I experience being a manager and working with employees from a different perspective.

What are the things that I like? What is behaviour that I expect? What can you expect from me? What is your role and my role within the company? What can you do to get promoted and maybe become a manager yourself?

Hopefully, this session will give you some fresh insights into the head of "a manager" that doesn't hate you, at all ;-)

Tuesday May 23, 2017 12:55 - 13:15 CEST
Partner stage

Partner

13:15 CEST

HoloLens techniques, tips and tricks (by Stijn Michiels of Cronos)

HoloLens is by far one of the most exciting Microsoft products at this moment. It showcases today what the future of computing will look like. Come and listen to our best practices, tips and tricks to get started with HoloLens development.
The Cronos Group is investing a lot of time and resources in bringing holographic solutions to the market and we will share how we are managing our customers’ expectations. We recently founded the first Belgian Usergroup for HoloLens developers (HOLUG) and would like to show you why that’s important for the future of development.

Tuesday May 23, 2017 13:15 - 13:35 CEST
Partner stage

Partner

13:45 CEST

Democratizing Data Science

In times past, Data Science was only for those elite few with a rare combination of skills including advanced knowledge of statistics.
Microsoft has been making sure that everyone can participate in the data revolution by giving people access to predictive API’s, in-database advanced analytics and drag-and-drop predictive experiments. All thanks to SQL Server 2016 and the Cortana Intelligence Suite in Azure.
These advances have given people with less knowledge of statistics and programming the ability to become what Gartner calls citizen data scientists. Should we be worried about creating fools-with-tools or should we embrace the democratization of data science as the golden age of data? Using a combination of theory and demo’s, we explore Microsoft’s solutions to ensure democratization of data science and the possible dangers that lurk below the surface.

Speakers

Stephane Eyskens is a freelance consultant, specializing in Office 365 and Azure PaaS. He is also a nine-times MVP award recipient.

Tuesday May 23, 2017 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Room 3

SharePoint

13:45 CEST

O365 Groups

O365 is the most revolutionary new feature of O365. It brings together the best of breed functionality of many O365 services like e-mail and calendars from Outlook, files and OneNote from SharePoint, and tasks from Planner. The session gives an overview of what O365 Groups are, how you can manage them in the UI, with PowerShell and with Graph. I will also highlight the roadmap of O365 groups.

Speakers

Karine Bosch

I’m a Premier Field Engineer for SharePoint @ Microsoft Belgium. Before joining Microsoft, I was a SharePoint Server MVP for 5 successive years for my contribution to the SharePoint community: I developed the U2U CAML Query Builder and its successor the CAML Designer, which I developed... Read More →

An Lenders

An is working as Technology Advisor Office 365 at Microsoft Belgium. She has been working with SharePoint since version 2007 and is now mainly focusing on the whole Office 365 platform (especially from a productivity point of view) She mainly focus on the functional and business... Read More →

Tuesday May 23, 2017 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Room 10

SharePoint

14:45 CEST

Break & Room Switch

Tuesday May 23, 2017 14:45 - 15:00 CEST
Hollywood

15:00 CEST

From Zero to Power BI Superhero

In this session you will learn about Power BI, starting from zero. By the end of the session you’ll have a clear understanding on how to ingest, visualize data, build dashboards, share and collaborate and understand how to integrate Power BI with SQL Server Reporting Services, Embed in applications, and websites and analyze data on any device.

Speakers

Speakers

Thomas Vochten

Thomas is a Microsoft MVP focusing on SharePoint and Office 365. As a platform architect, he supports his customers in planning, deploying and maintaining their SharePoint infrastructures, whether on-premises or in the cloud. Thomas is also a trainer and a frequent speaker at various... Read More →

Tuesday May 23, 2017 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 2

SharePoint

16:00 CEST

Break & Partner Expo

Tuesday May 23, 2017 16:00 - 16:30 CEST
Hollywood

16:05 CEST

The making of the RøllerKöster (by Jonathan Van Beneden of Realdolmen)

In this session Jonathan Van Beneden will give an in depth look into the Virtual Reality Rollercoaster called the “RøllerKöster”. By giving a walkthrough of the developing process he will explain the technical challenges and how they solved problems like connectivity between devices, Virtual Reality support, delivering natural experiences by vibration and wind effects.

Tuesday May 23, 2017 16:05 - 16:25 CEST
Partner stage

Partner

16:30 CEST

Big Data technology choices

The "Big Data Technology Landscape" looks like a typical century old but modern metropolis: chaos and hectic movement. New trendy districts are being build while other are degrading into slums. As an independent applied research lab ("Sizing Servers"), we participated in many innovative big data projects of several Flemish small businesses. So while the big data landscape is still a chaotic mess to us, we have learned the advantages and disadvantages of quite a few big data technologies the hard way. Join us as we discuss building a data pipeline for different use cases, using open source technology within the budget constraints of a typical SME.

Speakers

Johan De Gelas

Johan started his career at the Fortis Bank in 1995, first as an IT-analyst, later as member of the SAP ERP-implementation team. Since 1998 he was active as a technical writer about server technology for ZDNet, ITProfessional and Anandtech.com. Since 2001, he has been combining this... Read More →

Tuesday May 23, 2017 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
Room 4

Data

16:30 CEST

Performance Tuning and Monitoring for Virtualized Database Servers

Successful virtualization of database platforms such as SQL Server requires a different approach than other servers in your enterprise. Maintaining reliable database performance after the database has been virtualized is dependent upon providing a clear view of performance metrics beyond traditional SQL Server metrics. DBAs need insight into these performance metrics at the virtual layer in order to apply effective performance tuning methods.
Attend this session to discover key virtual performance tips and tricks, which metrics matter the most, and the architectural design choices that will help you prepare and validate your VMware environment for your database workloads.

Speakers

Thomas LaRock

Tuesday May 23, 2017 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
Room 12

Data

16:30 CEST

Conquer the network - making resilient and responsive connected mobile C# apps

Almost every mobile app you will build will be driven by data. In a lot of cases, this data lives on a server or somewhere in the cloud. Crossing the network from a mobile device brings more challenges than you might think at first hand.

In this session, we will look at these challenges and how we can leverage some existing patterns and components to create a smooth and delightful experience for your end user. The technology will be based on Visual Studio, C# and the Xamarin platform to tackle the problems for all three major platforms at once.

Objectives/Outcomes: You will learn:

- What challenges you’ll face when your app fetches data from a network resource

- How you can stand on the shoulder of giants to tackle these challenges

- How you can make the experience for the end user more delightful

Speakers

Roy Cornelissen

Consultant, Xpirit

IT Director, Black Marble

Rik is a Microsoft MVP for Azure and IT Director at Black Marble, an award-winning company in the north of England. His role includes delivering robust IT solutions to both his own organisation and its customers, which can take in a broad spectrum of technologies. An enthusiastic... Read More →

Chief Course Artisan, Voitanos

Andrew Connell is a full stack web developer with a focus on Microsoft Azure & Office 365, specifically the Office 365 APIs, SharePoint, Microsoft's .NET Framework / .NET Core, Angular, Node.js and Docker that enjoys development, writing & teaching… if it’s cutting edge web you’ll... Read More →

Tuesday May 23, 2017 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
Room 13

SharePoint

16:30 CEST

Change Is Not a Four-Letter Word

Kimberly Blessing, a long-time web professional and change agent, has facilitated massive change in organizations of all sizes and in the web community at large. She'll explain why your efforts to change people may not be working, and she'll help you embrace your inner change agent by giving you the tools to lead the charge.

Speakers

Kimberly Blessing

Kimberly Blessing is the vice president of technology at Think Brownstone, an experience design consultancy based in Philadelphia, USA. In her 20+ year career on the Web, Kimberly has evangelized design, code, and accessibility best practices while holding senior engineering and management... Read More →

Tuesday May 23, 2017 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
Room 10

Soft skills

Kevin is a Principial Java consultant at Ordina, passionate about all Java and JavaScript related technologies. In his roll as Competence Leader Internet of Things he uses his knowledge of building custom software to build innovative solutions using new technologies. Currently focussing... Read More →

Frederick Bousson

Solution Expert Smart Technologies at Ordina. Currently active as an IoT expert at Proximus

Tuesday May 23, 2017 17:45 - 18:45 CEST
Room 10

Dev

17:45 CEST

Freeze The Pond Versus Take The Hill; Two Metaphors For Enterprise Agile Transformation

It is ironic, but perhaps not unexpected, that many organizations who want the benefits of using an Agile approach to deliver software use a waterfall approach to adopting Agile practices: they form plans, they set milestones, and they measure progress by how many teams they have engaged. Old habits die hard, but like most waterfall software projects, most waterfall-style Agile adoption efforts fail to produce the results desired. The problem is that to get the results they want, they have to change their culture and cultures are very hard to change. To paraphrase Peter Drucker, "culture eats Agile for breakfast." Successful approaches are opportunistic and leverage the power of self-organization to achieve lasting change. This talk will share stories of success and failure and will talk about why different approaches succeed and fail.

Speakers

Kurt Bittner

VP Enterprise Solutions, Scrum.org

@Tim_DK, Microsoft MVP

Tim is a freelance consultant with 20 years of experience in the field.He has a broad technical knowledge and a strong focus on workplace and mobility. Based in Belgium, he is a Microsoft MVP, a community leader, and speaker at local and global events.

Tuesday May 23, 2017 17:45 - 18:45 CEST
Room 2

IT Pro

17:45 CEST

Maximise your tracing skills and become a real geek!

Got a problem accessing the network? How many times have you heard “All you’ve got to do is…” Hours later after searching the Internet (so many gurus!) and changing all the wrong settings the problem is still persisting. If only you had traced the network traffic, your problem could have been fixed in minutes. Come to this session and learn how to perform network traces using Wireshark and Fiddler to maximise your troubleshooting capabilities.

Speakers

John Craddock

Identity and security architect, XTSeminars Ltd

John has designed and implemented computing systems ranging from high-speed industrial controllers through to distributed IT systems with a focus on security and high-availability. A key player in many IT projects for industry leaders including Microsoft, the UK Government and multi-nationals... Read More →

Tuesday May 23, 2017 17:45 - 18:45 CEST
Room 4

IT Pro

17:45 CEST

Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business

Microsoft Teams brings together an amazing amount of functionality into one client, it's built on Groups in Office 365 and integrates almost into any Office 365 feature.

How does Microsoft Teams fit into the Communication Tools for Unified Communications.

Speakers

Johan Delimon

MVP #Teams #Skype4B, idelimon BVBA

Johan runs his own company “idelimon BVBA” where he is working for large international System Integrators and Hosting Companies. His primary work is centered around Skype for Business, Enterprise Architecture, Business Development and Technical Leadership.Johan joined the... Read More →

Tuesday May 23, 2017 17:45 - 18:45 CEST
Room 13

IT Pro

17:45 CEST

Set up your devops process for Office/Office 365/SharePoint

As developers, we’ve all been dreaming of a fully automated QA process for our developments. Imagine that!!! Stressful days and good sleeping nights! Historically it always has been difficult with SharePoint developments because complicated, costly etc…

Will discover together a set of tools and solutions with Visual Studio Team Services proving you it is possible with nod headaches! After this session, you won’t have any more excuses not to automate the QA process.

Agenda:

Branches management

Automated build for SharePoint Apps/Solutions

Automated deployments

Automated tests

Code quality

Lots of demos!

Speakers

Vincent Biret

Microsoft Office Servers and Services MVP, Vincent is passionned about software and web development. He has been speaking to numerous events around the world and is based in Montréal, Canada.

Tuesday May 23, 2017 17:45 - 18:45 CEST
Room 11

SharePoint

07:30 CEST

Breakfast

Wednesday May 24, 2017 07:30 - 08:45 CEST
Hollywood

08:45 CEST

Azure Data Warehouse: Why, What and How

If your regular SQL Server becomes too slow for running your data warehouse queries, or uploading the new data takes too long, you might benefit from the Azure Data Warehouse. Via its divide and conquer approach it provides significant performance improvements, yet most client applications can connect to it as if it is a regular SQL Server.

But to benefit from these performance improvements we need to implement our Azure Data Warehouse in the right way. In this session - through a lot of demos - you will learn how to setup your Azure Data Warehouse (ADW), review indexing in the context of ADW and see that monitoring is done slightly different from what you are used to.

Speakers

Nico Jacobs

Speaker, Techorama

Dr. Nico Jacobs is a Microsoft Business Intelligence and SQL Server trainer and consultant at U2U since 2004. Before that, he was a machine learning (data mining) researcher at the computer science department of the University of Leuven where he obtained a PhD in machine learning... Read More →

Developer, DotControl

Gerald Versluis (@jfversluis) is a full-stack software developer and Microsoft MVP from Holland. After years of experience working with Xamarin and .NET technologies, he has been involved in a number of different projects and has been building several apps. He has also authored his... Read More →

Wednesday May 24, 2017 08:45 - 09:45 CEST
Room 3

Dev

08:45 CEST

Reactive Programming By Example

You might be one of the many people intrigued by Reactive Programming. But how does it work, and more importantly what can you use it for?
This session will try to demystify Reactive Programming through a series of examples in both C# and JavaScript. We’ll skip the theory and steep learning curve and jump right in.

Speakers

Peter Himschoot

Peter Himschoot works as a lead trainer, architect and strategist at U2U. Peter is a Microsoft Regional Director, a worldwide group of independent technology thought-leaders known for their national and international speaking tours and their business acumen. Peter has a wide interest... Read More →

Lander Verhack

Lander Verhack works as a software expert, trainer and strategist at U2U. He focusses on Front-End development in .NET, HTML5 and Mobile Apps. Lander is author of the U2U training material on Windows 10, Android and Angular. Lander has a strong passion for technology and enjoys playing... Read More →

Wednesday May 24, 2017 08:45 - 09:45 CEST
Room 10

Dev

08:45 CEST

Testing the Essential with AutoFixture

Imagine this: you've just been assigned maintenance of a system. You're eager to understand what the system does so the first thing you do is to look for tests. You're in luck, there are hundreds of them. After having opened up a few of them, you start seeing objects being constructed left and right, filled with values like 123, "Test" and "Foo". What do all those values mean? Are they relevant for the outcome of the tests? What is really going on here? In this session I'll show you how to get rid of those questions by leveraging anonymous test data. By using a library such as AutoFixture to runtime-generate test data that meets your requirements, you can free yourself from having to write a lot of boilerplate setup code in your tests, leaving them to contain just the essence of what is being tested. It'll also make them more robust, since they no longer rely on hard coded constants to determine their outcome. Like with my other things in life, less is more. Learn how to apply this powerful principle to your tests.

Speakers

Enrico Campidoglio

Programmer, tretton37

Director, TKP Labs

Wednesday May 24, 2017 08:45 - 09:45 CEST
Room 4

Soft skills

09:45 CEST

Break & Room Switch

Wednesday May 24, 2017 09:45 - 10:00 CEST
Hollywood

10:00 CEST

No Schema, No Problem! Introduction to Azure DocumentDB

This session presents an overview of Azure DocumentDB, a new massively-scalable and fully managed NoSQL database platform that is designed specifically for modern web and mobile applications. Like other NoSQL platforms, DocumentDB supports a schema-free data model, utilizes replicas for fast write performance, and scales easily. But DocumentDB also offers several unique features that make it a compelling candidate for NoSQL scenarios.

We begin by explaining NoSQL and document databases in general, and how they compare with traditional relational database platforms. Then we tour the many features of DocumentDB, including rich querying with SQL (that’s right, you query this NoSQL database using SQL!), and client development using the REST API and the many available DocumentDB SDKs. You will also learn about the server-side programming model that lets you write fully transactional stored procedures, triggers, and user-defined functions. We’ll also explore tunable consistency, scale-out partitioning, custom indexing, attachments, and more. Attend this session, and get up to speed on DocumentDB today!

Speakers

Leonard Lobel

Wednesday May 24, 2017 10:00 - 11:00 CEST
Room 4

Data

10:00 CEST

Secrets of SQL Server - Database Worst Practices

“Oh my God! What did I do?” Chances are you have heard, or even uttered, this expression. This demo-oriented session will show many examples where database professionals were dumbfounded by their own mistakes, and could even bring back memories of your own early DBA days. The goal of this session is to expose the small details that can be dangerous to the production environment and SQL Server as a whole, as well as talk about worst practices and how to avoid them. In this session we will focus on some of the common errors and their resolution. Developers will walk out with scripts and knowledge that can be applied to their servers, immediately post the session.

Speakers

Pinal Dave

Speaker, Techorama

Wednesday May 24, 2017 10:00 - 11:00 CEST
Room 6

Data

10:00 CEST

ALM Discussion panel

Speakers

Donovan Brown

Microsoft

Meet The Man in the Black Shirt. Donovan Brown is a Principal DevOps Program Manager on Microsoft's US Developer Division team. Why is DevOps one of the hottest topics? Because it hurts the most. Luckily, Donovan's unofficial tag line is #RubDevOpsOnIt and he's here to make it all... Read More →

Marcel De Vries

Martin Woodward

Martin is the Executive Director of the .NET Foundation and a Principal Program Manager on the .NET team. Before that Martin looked after the Linux and Mac tooling for Visual Studio Team Services and helped introduce Git into Microsoft. You can find him on twitter @MartinWoodward... Read More →

Wednesday May 24, 2017 10:00 - 11:00 CEST
Room 10

Dev

10:00 CEST

Exposing an Extensibility API for your Applications

Writing software that can be maintained is and always has been crucial. But so is writing software that can be enhanced and extended. It’s become quite commonplace for many apps today to expose APIs so externally written apps can have access to their data or their services. But imagine how cool it is to expose an API for changing or extending an application’s functionality. I’m talking about the ability to use the architecture of an application in order to enhance that system. This is the power of the patterns and techniques I’m going to show you in this session. They’re very useful and very geeky so bring your propeller hat.

Speakers

Chief Course Artisan, Voitanos

Wednesday May 24, 2017 10:00 - 11:00 CEST
Room 11

SharePoint

10:00 CEST

Working Distributed - How Does It Work?

I've been fortunate to work for a distributed team for the past 3 years. But for developers or teams who are considering this option, what does this actually involve? How can you maximise your chances of success? How can you actually be productive and happy no matter where you are?

And for companies who want to understand more about this sort of work, what are the tradeoffs?

In this talk I'll cover many topics which are near and dear to my heart, which are:

- Working From Home - how to be happy and productive

- Supporting Remote Work - tools, advice and guidance for making your workplace more flexible

- Distributed Teams - how teams scattered across different timezones can function and be productive

Speakers

Brendan Forster

Wednesday May 24, 2017 10:00 - 11:00 CEST
Room 14

Soft skills

11:00 CEST

Break & Partner Expo

Wednesday May 24, 2017 11:00 - 11:30 CEST
Hollywood

11:05 CEST

Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse with Adaptable IoT (by Geert Baeke of Xylos)

You never know what is going to happen next. When starting with IoT, there are a lot of choices to be made with respect to devices, sensors and backend systems. In a rapidly changing world with continuously evolving requirements, it is important that you roll out a solution that can quickly adapt to changing circumstances, such as the zombie apocalypse. That requires constructing a flexible end-to-end approach for your IoT solution, both on the device and backend side; for example to easily add or change sensors at the device and deal with that new type of data in the backend.

This session discusses what choices we think you should make at the device side and Microsoft Azure IoT side, to avoid having to restart from scratch every time your business comes back with a new requirement. The goal is to create an adaptable IoT solution, to handle even the toughest & weirdest situations.

Wednesday May 24, 2017 11:05 - 11:25 CEST
Partner stage

Partner

11:30 CEST

Operational Analytics: Doing an OLAP workload on your OLTP system

This session will be a deepdive into the Operational Analytics for SQL Server 2016. We will show you how it became possible and what possible problems you might face implementing it yourself.

Operational analytics is based on the allready existing Columnstore Indexes for (2012 & 2014), this means we will also be handling some of the Columnstore internals in order to understand how Operational Analytics works.

Speakers

Stijn Wynants

A SQL Server DBA Consultant & Belgian SQL User Group core member. My SQL Server career started with some work I did with the SQL Server DWH ferrari aka the APS (formerly known as the PDW), and after this I got bitten by the SQL Server bug. I then started working on various SQL Server... Read More →

Wednesday May 24, 2017 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Room 11

Data

11:30 CEST

ASP.NET Core Logging: How to Instrument Your Code

If you’re building an ASP.NET Core application, you’ll want to understand how to get information about how your application is running. In this talk, Shawn Wildermuth will show you how logging works in ASP.NET Core and how it is a better way to instrument your code in .NET Core.

Speakers

Shawn Wildermuth

Wednesday May 24, 2017 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Room 6

Dev

11:30 CEST

Build libraries, not frameworks

Frameworks are supposed to help you build things more quicker and hide a lot of complexity around cross-cutting and infrastructural concerns. They are supposed to make it easier for inexperienced developers to join a running projection. But frameworks also introduce a lot of magic, and that magic is going to backfire at some point. At least, that's my experience. And when it backfires, your code is so entangled with that framework, that you can't get rid of it anymore.

So, instead of building and using frameworks, build and use libraries. That's easier said then done, and I'll can talk about many great and not so great examples. So let me share some of the practices I use to build compostable libraries myself. I'll talk about principles of package design and scoping, keeping your NuGet package dependencies in check, and how to use layered APIs to increase usability without hiding the magic.

Speakers

Dennis Doomen

Speaker, Techorama

Dennis is an experienced .NET architect with a broad interest in Application Lifecycle Management, SOA, OO and Design Patterns. He is specialized in designing enterprise solutions based on the .NET technologies as well as providing coaching on all aspects of designing, building and... Read More →

Wednesday May 24, 2017 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Room 7

Dev

11:30 CEST

NBench - Automated Performance Testing for .NET

NBench is a Cross-platform performance benchmarking and testing framework for .NET applications. It's designed for .NET developers who need to care about performance and want the ability to "unit test" their application's performance just like XUnit or NUnit tests their application code.

In this presentation, Aaron Stannard will highlight core features of NBench and how you can utilize the tool to measure and improve your applications performance.

Speakers

Aaron Stannard

Wednesday May 24, 2017 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Room 3

Dev

11:30 CEST

The not-an-idiot’s guide to the .NET Standard

After the initial excitement of .NET Core wore off (Cross platform! Open source!), we realised there were a few things missing. APIs, mostly. Oh, and compatibility with a lot of your favourite libraries and packages. Fortunately, the .NET Standard is here to fix all of this, adding back APIs, restoring compatibility and even replacing PCLs. This talk is all about the How and the Why, mixed in with a healthy dose of Why Should I Care. We’ll even have a little geek out over the technical details. If type forwarding can’t restore your excitement levels to fever pitch, I don’t know what will!

Speakers

Synerigics

Tom Van Gramberen landed at Synergics in 2007 and is lately fulfilling the role as Cloud Solutions Architect. In addition to his work supporting Sales with technical experience, Tom also designs Azure (Pack) based Private, Public and Hybrid Cloud solutions to optimize on premise infrastructures... Read More →

Christophe Lams

aka CloudCrusader MCT – MCSE – MCSA – MCP Freelance Consultant (cloud solution architect @ Synergics) Technical Presales for Microsoft (Azure / Enterprise Mobility and Security /O365) Technology geek, eternal student and subject matter expert in Windows Server and Private/Hybrid/Public... Read More →

Wednesday May 24, 2017 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Room 10

IT Pro

11:30 CEST

Journey to the Cloud – True stories

The current 4th industrial revolution is a fast paced, ever changing mix of being “always connected”, cloud-born MSP’s, hyperscale cloud-providers,data lakes, Analytics, IoT, etc..

Excellent news for those companies that have already adopted the cloud and are ready to go for a cloud-first strategy.

Even better news for ISVs that suddenly see opportunities to provide SAAS-alternatives for their software and as such can sell outside the traditional regional boundaries to markets they couldn’t reach before.

The hurdles these organizations meet while transforming their way of doing business are however equally challenging: new skillsets (cloud architects, Cloud tuning, hybrid architectures, devops, networking), different go2market, the need for service management, productization of their solutions, etc…

Lunch & Partner Expo

Wednesday May 24, 2017 12:30 - 13:45 CEST
Hollywood

12:35 CEST

Developing robotics with .NET, a small example (by Bart Verhoeven of Datacore)

Everybody knows how to develop websites or WPF applications in .NET and Visual Studio.

We at Datacore are going to show that there are other thing you can program with .NET. Join us in a small introduction into programming with robotics.

Wednesday May 24, 2017 12:35 - 12:55 CEST
Partner stage

Partner

12:55 CEST

Installing the Veeam Agent over Powershell (by Timothy Dewin of Veeam)

Take a look at how you can copy data over powershell, do a silent install and use the API for the upcoming Veeam Agent for Windows

Wednesday May 24, 2017 12:55 - 13:15 CEST
Partner stage

Partner

13:45 CEST

Build cool and amazing stuff with Microsoft

At Build 2017, we introduced a lot of new technology for developers. We were directly involved in those announcements and the demos you saw, and now we want to bring it to you, in person.

In this demo-focused keynote, Pete Brown and Giorgio Sardo will use the latest bits to run you through a bunch of the exciting technology we’re working with, including bots and intelligent services, web technology for building apps, building for new devices and modes of interaction, the Windows Subsystem for Linux, Visual Studio, and much more. You'll get the latest and greatest stuff, using the freshest bits, including a bunch of things we can't even talk about until after Build.

Speakers

Pete Brown

Principal Software Engineer, Windows, Microsoft

Giorgio Sardo

Giorgio leads a team of amazing engineers and evangelists at the forefront of the latest platform innovations in Microsoft. He influences product strategy by channeling feedback from developer ecosystem. He coordinates the technical messaging and keynotes at top Microsoft events like... Read More →

Wednesday May 24, 2017 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Room 9

Keynote

13:45 CEST

Building the intelligent cloud, from transactional data to Artificial Intelligence at the speed of light

Microsoft is building the Intelligent Cloud Platform to help enterprises and their customers accelerate their businesses, provide data insights and enable machine learning and artificial intelligence at the speed of light.
Join this session and discover the journey and innovation going from transactional data, to machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Speakers

Dandy Weyn

Wednesday May 24, 2017 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Room 4

Keynote

13:45 CEST

DevOps on the Microsoft stack with Donovan Brown

The complete session description will only be announced closer to Techorama.

Speakers

Donovan Brown

Microsoft

Wednesday May 24, 2017 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Room 7

Keynote

13:45 CEST

Digital Transformation and the role of the IT Professional

The word Digital Transformation seems to be something that you can’t stop hearing in the corridors of business around the world. In this session we’ll explore what Digital Transformation is and the role of the IT Professional. With some surprising examples of companies that have tackled digital transformation, to exploring how the IT Professional can be ready for Digital Transformation, we want to take you on a journey so you’ll leave feeling inspired and ready to drive Digital Transformation in your company.

Speakers

Erik Kerkhofs

Microsoft

As a member of the Microsoft Belux senior leadership team, Erik heads up the DX division, responsible for inspiring and recruiting startup and software businesses for a cloud first, mobile first world, from ideation over business development all the way to go-to-market strategies. He... Read More →

Wednesday May 24, 2017 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Room 13

Keynote

13:45 CEST

The Vision of Computer Vision: The bold promise of teaching computers to understand the visual world

How is Computer vision, machine learning, and mixed reality designed into innovative software built on the latest and greatest emerging experiences?
Join Tim Huckaby in a keynote focused on the power of Computer Vision: Designing, developing, and putting interactive vision based software systems into production.
This keynote will explain the components of computer vision like machine learning and demonstrate the use cases where computer vision solutions are happening. In addition, those coming in the immediate future. Moreover, speculate on the computer vision solutions of the future.
This demo-heavy keynote will show you a number of real interactive solutions in the realm of 2D & 3D cameras in addition to mixed reality devices that produce interactive holographic experiences.

Speakers

Tim Huckaby

Wednesday May 24, 2017 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Room 6

Keynote

14:45 CEST

Break & Room Switch

Wednesday May 24, 2017 14:45 - 15:00 CEST
Hollywood

15:00 CEST

BigchainDB: Big Data meets Blockchain

The Internet of Value allows people take control over their assets and personal data. Decentralized technologies such as blockchain enable peer-to-peer trust but they still miss out on scale.

Rather than trying to scale up blockchain technology, BigchainDB starts with a big data distributed database and then adds blockchain characteristics - decentralized control, immutability and the transfer of digital assets.

BigchainDB is also the driving technology behind IPDB - the InterPlanetary DataBase - a decentralized database to serve creators and public commons at planetary scale.

Speakers

Dimitri De Jonghe

Co-Founder, Head of Research, BigchainDB and Ocean Protocol

Dr. Dimitri De Jonghe is a cross-domain protocol researcher. After finishing his PhD on micro-electronics and machine learning, he co-founded a series of blockchain startups: ascribe [power to creators] and BigchainDB [a blockchain database], and Ocean Protocol [a public network for... Read More →

Wednesday May 24, 2017 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 11

Data

15:00 CEST

Hands on Power BI - Creating our own demo

There are lots of flashy Power BI demos everywhere. But most of the time, you don't see the internal mechanics. In this session, we're going to build a Power BI demo from scratch. If you have a laptop with an Internet connection, you can follow along using Power BI Desktop (free download). You'll find out how easy it is to mash-up data and to create stunning visualizations.

Speakers

Koen Verbeeck

Senior Consultant & MVP, AE

Koen Verbeeck is a Business Intelligence professional working at AE. He helps client to get insight in their data and to improve their business intelligence solutions. Koen has over 9 years of experience in developing data warehouses, cubes and reports using the Microsoft data platform... Read More →

HandsOnPowerBI pptx

Wednesday May 24, 2017 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 4

Data

15:00 CEST

5 Must-have patterns for your web-scale Microservice

Netflix is actually a log generating application that just happens to stream movies"

Building a service/Microservice is itself easy. Scaling it on the cloud is not that hard either but operating, maintaining and iterating a production large scale service is not just about linearisation. As Cockcroft points out, telemetry and monitoring is the most important aspect of building Microservices

We discuss 5 patterns that any serious Microservice should have:

- Canary (an endpoint reporting health of underlying dependencies)

- IO monitor (measuring all calls from Microservice to external dependencies)

- A circuit breaker

- An ActivityId-Propagator

- An exception and short timeout retry policy

Apart from the Microservice buzzword, there is a saddening lack of understanding of what a successful Microservice architecture requires in terms of monitoring and telemetry. MTR in case of a Microservice can be much more than a monolith if these 5 patterns are not in place.

Speakers

Wednesday May 24, 2017 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 12

IT Pro

15:00 CEST

Deep-Dive with Azure Monitoring

One of the hidden gems in Azure is the built-in Monitoring and Alerting capabilities that comes with almost every Azure resource. These capabilities are evolving fast and with the latest updates to the features, we now have even more to offer.

Join me for this technical and demo-heavy session where I will take you on a tour of how you can leverage Azure Insights to monitor your IaaS and PaaS workloads in Azure. You will learn how to use and deploy these features to make your customers Azure solution even more complete.

Warning: High risk of PowerShell with a chance of ARM Templates!

Speakers

Rasmus Hald

As a Cloud Technical Evangelist working with Microsoft Azure, Rasmus Hald is recognized for his ability to address real world dilemmas and clearly communicate great solutions. Rasmus has more than 15 years' experience with the Windows platform and IT Operations. Rasmus has delivered... Read More →

Wednesday May 24, 2017 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 3

IT Pro

15:00 CEST

“Pwning” Yourself with PowerShell

We all know that PowerShell is the latest and greatest when it comes to managing your systems, but the real power comes from understanding how “attackers” can and are taking this framework to create amazing tools and then using these tools against your infrastructure. From discovering and inventorying all your systems to totally pwning your systems, yes we can even bypass your “remote execution policies”. We’ll talk about how to implement your own penetration test against yourself using PowerShell so that you can start to see the new techniques and tools being using against your networks.

You'll learn and understand how “attackers” are using this built-in framework against you to

o Discovery systems

o See what hardware and software they’re running

o Map out the domain(s)

o Pwn a system and then the domain

Speakers

Dale Meredith

Wednesday May 24, 2017 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 10

IT Pro

15:00 CEST

User Profile Synchronization with Identity Manager and SharePoint Server 2016

Learn about the changes to the User Profile Service in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016 and best practices to implementing native sync or external sync with Microsoft Identity Manager 2016.

Speakers

Spencer Harbar

Wednesday May 24, 2017 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Room 2

SharePoint

16:00 CEST

Break & Partner Expo

Wednesday May 24, 2017 16:00 - 16:30 CEST
Hollywood

16:05 CEST

Medical Prescriptions on a Public Blockchain (by Kristof Verslype of Smals)

Electronic prescriptions offer numerous advantages over their physical counterpart, but also pose new challenges. We present a novel approach, based on smart contracts on a public blockchain. Despite this public character, the privacy of the involved persons, such as the patient, as well as the confidentiality of business information of the involved organisations, such as the mutuality, is guaranteed.

Wednesday May 24, 2017 16:05 - 16:25 CEST
Partner stage

Partner

16:30 CEST

Hybrid Configurations with SQL Server 2016

SQL Server 2016 has several new integration points with Microsoft Azure. Are you curious about how this might give your organization benefits? In this session, you will learn how you can use SQL Server 2016 to create a hybrid environment. We will see an overview of all the new Microsoft Azure features that are available in SQL Server 2016, like Striped Backups to Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, Stretchdb, Replication to SQL Azure DB and many more. The session is bulk loaded with demos and it will give you a good idea what features can be helpful in your environment.

Speakers

Pieter Vanhove

Pieter Vanhove is a SQL Server Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft Belgium and has been working with SQL Server since 2000. Performance tuning, SQL audits, migrations and training are part of the job. Pieter has also a profound knowledge in implementing high availability and disaster... Read More →

Wednesday May 24, 2017 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
Room 14

Data

16:30 CEST

.NET Code Style: Code your way in Visual Studio 2017

Visual Studio 2017 allows teams and individuals to enforce and configure their own coding conventions. Come learn how you can help make your codebases consistent and readable and how you can control live code analysis to give you feedback when you want it. For those perfectionists out there, come learn how you can prevent people from checking-in code that doesn’t adhere to your team rules!

Speakers

Wednesday May 24, 2017 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
Room 12

Dev

16:30 CEST

A cloud secure enough for a bank - how we designed their Azure environment

A large Swedish bank has gone from "cloud? no!" to "cloud? hell yeah!". With no previous implementations in Microsoft Azure we had the opportunity to greenfield their solution and met with IT security, information security, network, management and IT people. Using all the building blocks available in Azure we then came up with solutions for securing their identites, securing their assets in Azure and making sure their information is kept secure.

Today they are hosting three different workloads and applications in Azure and more are on their way.

Leaving this session you'll know more about securing identities in Azure Active Directory, giving and revoking access to resources in Azure using RBAC, creating / version controlling / deploying templates using Azure Resource Manager and Visual Studio. We'll take a look at the most common arguments against using cloud services and how we got around them. I'll throw in some Azure Security Center, OMS and encrypted virtual machines too just for fun!

Speakers

Joachim Nasslander

Joachim Nässlander has been in the IT-industry since NT 4.0 was considered modern. Working in various roles from support to CTO he has seen multiple perspectives on IT. For five years he was awarded the Microsoft MVP award for his knowledge and will to share it in Failover Clustering... Read More →

Wednesday May 24, 2017 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
Room 13

IT Pro

16:30 CEST

When did you last authenticate your authentication knowledge?

So, you have just figured-out how Kerberos works and now you’re hearing that authentication and authorization is all about OpenID Connect, OAuth 2 and claims. Time to give up? NO. Come to this deep-dive, hold onto your hats, session on these modern protocols and learn from John how they work and where they fit in your environments. If you are not interested in the technical details this session is not for you.

Speakers

John Craddock

Identity and security architect, XTSeminars Ltd

Wednesday May 24, 2017 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
Room 3

IT Pro

16:30 CEST

Getting started with SharePoint development for the reluctant IT Pro

You have been blaming developers for bringing down your farm, wrestling with them over configuration changes or just laughing at them because they wear stupid T-shirts. Making fun of developers is a great way to pass the time, I'm sure we all agree on that. However, you have been secretly watching Build keynotes, sitting in on developer sessions at a conference or reading developer blogs behind closed doors, because… well - it seems so cool! Fear not, you're not alone. If this is you and you don't know where to start, this session is for you. We’ll cover the essential tools you need to know to get started, and go from Hello World to your first real client side webpart in 60 minutes. No farm solutions involved or you get your money back.

Speakers

Elio Struyf

Thomas Vochten

Wednesday May 24, 2017 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
Room 10

SharePoint

16:30 CEST

Migrate your custom components to the SharePoint Framework

It’s the 3rd model Microsoft has come with to customize SharePoint in less than 5 years. You may still have add-ins/apps or even solutions running in production and you’re asking yourself what to do about all that?

Do you have to start all over again? And for how long that new model will last?

We’ll see together what could be the reasons pushing you to chose one model or another. Do you need to migrate everything now. How to build applications that will be easy to migrate to the framework if you’re on “old versions” of SharePoint. And how to leverage existing components you’ve developed.

This session is primarily meant for developers and deciders.

Speakers

Vincent Biret

Microsoft Office Servers and Services MVP, Vincent is passionned about software and web development. He has been speaking to numerous events around the world and is based in Montréal, Canada.

Wednesday May 24, 2017 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
Room 2

SharePoint

16:30 CEST

Personal Branding for Geeks

Strategies and tactics for developing and communicating your personal brand, specifically for an audience of technologists.

Speakers

Jason Alba

Speaker, Techorama

Pluralsight author, author of 3 books, CEO of JibberJobber.com

Wednesday May 24, 2017 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
Room 11

Soft skills

17:30 CEST

Break & Room Switch

Wednesday May 24, 2017 17:30 - 17:45 CEST
Hollywood

17:45 CEST

An overview of the Cortana Intelligence Suite

In this session you will learn how to use Cortana Intelligence Suite to build advanced analytics and machine learning based solutions. You’ll learn about Machine Learning and IoT scenarios, as well as Cognitive Service such as text / speech integration, image recognition and how to leverage APIs to build out solutions at the speed of light.

Speakers

Dandy Weyn

Wednesday May 24, 2017 17:45 - 18:45 CEST
Room 12

Data

17:45 CEST

Securing PAAS Databases

One of the most prominent questions when working with PAAS databases is how to secure them. Let’s talk about limiting access to objects, protecting your data and auditing. Also, I’ll add some extra resources for people looking for a complete overview of the available security features on an Azure SQL Database.

Speakers

Karel Coenye

Karel Coenye a senior Database trainer and Consultant at Kohera, has been working with SQL Server in different roles since 1999. Currently working on different database projects as SQL architect while coaching and training other DBAs and developers. Experienced in both cloud-environments... Read More →

Wednesday May 24, 2017 17:45 - 18:45 CEST
Room 2

Data

17:45 CEST

.NET Core Internals

Learn about cutting edge optimizations (e.g. ValueTask, RyuJIT enhancements, LINQ optimizations) and new features, illustrated with code from GitHub.

Speakers

Bart De Smet

Wednesday May 24, 2017 17:45 - 18:45 CEST
Room 9

Dev

17:45 CEST

An Outcome-oriented Approach to Funding Agile Projects and Products

Speakers

Kurt Bittner

VP Enterprise Solutions, Scrum.org

Wednesday May 24, 2017 17:45 - 18:45 CEST
Room 14

Dev

17:45 CEST

Azure Functions

Functions have been the basic building blocks of software since the first lines of code were written and the need for code organization and reuse became a necessity. Azure Functions expand on these concepts by allowing developers to create "serverless" event-driven functions that run in the cloud and can be shared across a wide variety of services and systems, uniformly managed, and easily scaled based on demand.

In this presentation, we will create an Azure Function that monitors a blob container in Azure Storage for new images, and then uses Microsoft Cognitive Services’ computer vision API to perform automated analysis of the images, scanning and evaluating them for adult content, and then storing the scores returned by the Computer Vision API in blob metadata.

Speakers

Todd Fine

CEO, Wintellect

Technical Evangelist, Microsoft

Nick Trogh is a technical evangelist at Microsoft Belux where he’s helping developers, startups and software companies realize their software dreams on the Microsoft platform. You can find him presenting about cloud and mobile at Microsoft and non-Microsoft events, socializing... Read More →

Wednesday May 24, 2017 17:45 - 18:45 CEST
Room 4

Dev

17:45 CEST

User Experience in IoT, from hardware to UI

We will present some best practices for developers working with IoT: How to create the best user experience for your solution. We will show some real life examples, good and bad, to illustrate what works and which effect it has on the project. The examples can include smart home, temperature sensor, mouse trap, EV charging point, heat pump, ... We will explain the tech stack we used for some solutions to illustrate how UX affects the choice of tech. Taking some best practices into the very foundation of the application will boost the usage and lower the support.

Speakers

Pieter-Paulus Vertongen

I'm a project manager and software architect, passionate about getting things to work. I love to listen to complex problems that need an easy solution. By using the power of visual language, we demonstrate how we will tackle the problem before we execute it. Our customers like GDF... Read More →

Wednesday May 24, 2017 17:45 - 18:45 CEST
Room 6

Dev

17:45 CEST

Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird. It's a plane. It's Nanoman!

Nano Server is small. Nano Server is fast. And secure. Nano Server is the future of Windows Server. In this session we will show you different management techniques, the power of running Nano Server as a container, and how to deploy and use the Azure-based Server Management Tools (SMT) for remote management. The best part of the story is that demonstrated management tools are applicable to any Windows Server installation.

Speakers

Aleksandar Nikolic

Wednesday May 24, 2017 17:45 - 18:45 CEST
Room 3

IT Pro

17:45 CEST

Creating Cross Platform Mobile Services with Office 365 and Xamarin

Xamarin powers developers to write native applications for iOS, Android, and Microsoft Windows Phone using C#. This session shows you how to use the Microsoft Office 365 APIs in mobile device applications built in these project types to take advantage of the many services in Office 365.

Speakers

Fabian Williams

Wednesday May 24, 2017 17:45 - 18:45 CEST
Room 11

SharePoint

19:00 CEST

Closing reception and prize draw and… Party!

Wednesday May 24, 2017 19:00 - 21:00 CEST
Hollywood